22.08

Reference Architecture 22.08

New Components/Features: 
- Inclusion of the Cloud RA in the distribution 
- Inclusion of OpenTelemetry 
- Inclusion of Jaeger 
- Inclusion of Linkerd Service Mesh (version 2.12.0) 
- Inclusion of standalone cAdvisor 
- Inclusion of Scalable I/O Virtualization (SIOV) for 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor 
- Inclusion of Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA) for 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor 
- Inclusion of Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel® DLB) for 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor 
- Inclusion of 5G Core support in the Regional Data Center Configuration Profile 
- Inclusion of post-deployment hook for additional automation 
- Scale up/down cluster nodes after initial deployment 
- Support for Load Balancing on additional interfaces when using Multus CNI 
- Support for upgrade/downgrade of network adaptor drivers post deployment 
- Support binding of QAT to new Virtual Function (VF) 
- Support for 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor platforms for FlexRAN 
- Support for xRAN Test Mode for FlexRAN 
- Support for RHEL 8.6 Realtime as base operating system for FlexRAN 
- Support for Rocky Linux 9.0 
- Support for RHEL 9.0 
- Tech Preview: Support for Application Device Queues (ADQ) 

New Platforms/CPUs: 
- Intel Coyote Pass with 8360Y 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor CPUs 
- Intel Fox Creek Pass with XCC E3-QS 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor CPUs 
- Intel Ruby Pass platform 
- 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor CPU SKUs: 8470N, 8471N, 8490H 

Updates/Changes: 
- Updated Ansible to 5.7.1 and ansible-core to 2.12.5 
- Updated Kubernetes to 1.24.3 (min supported 1.22) 
- Updated Key Management Reference Application (KMRA) support to 2.2.1 
- Updated FlexRAN support to 22.07 
- Updated TADK to 22.3 Docker image 
- Updated Intel device plugins (DPs) to release-0.24 
- Updated NGINX image to 1.23.1 
- Updated Vector Packet Processing (VPP) to version 22.10 
- Updated Trusted Attestation Controller (TAC) to version 0.2.0 
- Updated Trusted Certificate Issuer (TCS) to version 0.2.0 
- Updated Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) version to 22.07 
- Updated Platform Aware Scheduling (PAS) version to 0.8 
- Updated Grafana to 8.5.11 
- Updated Prometheus to 2.37.1 
- Updated Intel® Ethernet firmware and drivers 
- Updated Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) drivers 
- Replaced Barometer Collectd with Containerized Collectd 
- Enhanced automatic CPU pinning and isolation for Virtual Machine Reference System Architecture (VMRA) 
- VM Cluster expansion with new nodes and/or hosts in VMRA 

Removed Support: 
- RHEL and Rocky Linux 8 series as base operating systems 

Known Limitations/Restrictions: 
- Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) and KMRA are NOT supported on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These features are automatically disabled on all operating systems 
- 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor Intel DSA and Intel DLB features are NOT supported on Ubuntu 20.04 
- Enabling support of Intel QAT on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor requires an NDA (see Access to NDA Software Components) 
- CRI-O runtime is not supported on RHEL and Rocky Linux 9.0