Alcor v0.14-alpha

Release Summary

This release focuses on enabling new workflow, fundamental improvement and code stabilization. Some highlight of the v0.14-alpha release:

• Deliver 2 new microservices & refactor 1 existing microservice for performance gain
• Proof of concept for new on-demand workflow with Network Configuration manager and ACA on-demand engine
• Introduce SDN gateway manager and finish E2E integration with Cloud Zeta gateway
• Onboard new Goal State V2 for messaging performance improvement with various refined protobuf message changes
• Streamline build, test and deployment pipeline and support integrated testing for both control and data plane
• Code stabilization with 20+ bug fix

Features Added

New Features Development

• New MicroService design & development
  • Network Configuration Manager (Controller PRs #562, #546, #566, #584, #607)
  • Gateway Manager (Controller PRs #517, #526, #541)
  • Data Plane Manager v2.0 (Controller PRs #512, #549, #571, #573)
• Alcor Control Agent Design & Development
  • On-demand engine (Agent PRs #226, #241)
  • On-demand ARP responder (Agent PR #167)
  • Refactor packet parser (Agent PR #225)
• Feature E2E Integration
  • On-demand workflow with test controller (Controller PR #560)
  • Alcor integration with Zeta Gateway (Controller PRs #543, #545, #547, and Agent PRs #158, #172, #179, #184, #191, #192, #193, #196, #198, #199, #202, #204, #206, #207, #208)
  • Node and NCM registration APIs (Controller PRs #563, #572, #574, #581, #582, #586, #596, #598)

Alcor Performance & Scalability

• Scalability Design & Improvement
  • Private IP Manager improvement with IP address replacement support (Controller PR #520)
  • Agent performance improvement with massive L2 neighbor handling (Agent PR #176)
  • Leverage ovs_control function (Agent PR #186)
• Messaging performance improvement
  • Onboard Goal State V2 (Controller PR #551 and Agent PR #221)
  • Refine protobuf message format (Controller PRs #539, #554, #559, #602, #603)
• Performance report on Apache ignite 2.9.1 vs Postgres 13.1 for Alcor (Perf PR #3)
• Message Queue scale path design improvement (Controller PRs #532, #544, #550, #594)

Alcor Fundamental

• Transaction atomicity mode change (Controller PR #604)
• Alcor DevOps and CI/CD enhancement
  • One-box development environment setup scripts (Controller PR #558)
  • Alcor busybox pingtest with OVS (Controller PRs #575, #585, #606, #609, #610)
  • Alcor Jenkins CI workflows (Integration PR #44)
• K8s deployment process improvement (Controller PRs #528, #529, #538, #581)
• Travis test ova fix (Agent PR #215)
• MIT license update (Controller PRs #591, #592, #595, #597, and Agent PRs #234, #235, #236)

Stabilization and Bug fix

• Controller bug fix (Controller PRs #514, #515, #519, #521, #525, #530, #534, #536, #537, #511, #552, #555, #576, #593, #605)
• Agent bug fix (Agent PRs #218, #220, #227, #231)
• OpenStack compatibility issue fix (Controller PRs #587, #599)