22.11

Reference Architecture 22.11

New Components/Features:
- Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) support on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (SPR)
- Enabled select features (SGX and QAT) to be deployed through Ansible tags to facilitate interoperability with Intel’s Workload
Services Framework (WSF)
- Support deployment via hostname or FQDN
- Support for clean-up /re-deploy of the ‘Basic’ profile
- Support for the Content Delivery Network (CDN) use case
- New observability stack including Opentelemetry and Kibana (and expanding Jaeger support to VMRA)
- Intel’s CPU Control Plane Management
- Support for Local Volume Provisioner
- Support for Cilium
- Cloud RA: Support for Azure AKS deployments on top of previous support for AWS EKS
- Cloud RA: Support for generating and deploying configuration profiles and using the generated host/group_vars during
deployment
- Cloud RA: Support for Cilium with kube-proxy and eBPF CNI on Azure
- Cloud RA: Proximity Placement Groups for Azure

Updates/Changes:
- Version updates for the vast majority of RA components (See User Guide for complete list and versions)
- Autodetection of the QAT and FEC ACC devices
- Extended Linkerd as a service mesh option for VMRA
- Support for Cluster Flow Config with the updated Intel Ethernet Operator (IEO)
- Enhanced discovery mechanism for Cloud RA

New Hardware (Platforms/CPUs/GPUs/Accelerators):
- Intel® Data Center GPU, code named Arctic Sound-M (ATS-M)
- FEC Accelerator (ACC200) embedded into 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) with vRAN Boost
- 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor CPU (Icelake) SKU: 6348
- 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor CPU (Sapphire Rapids) SKUs: 6421N, 6438N, 8480+, 8487C

Removed Support:
- SG1 Graphics card
- Visual Cloud Accelerator Card for Analytics (VCAC-A)

Known Limitations/Restrictions:
- Key Management Reference Application (KMRA) is NOT supported on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (SPR)
- KMRA is NOT supported on CRI-O runtime with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (ICX)
- CRI-O runtime is NOT supported on Ubuntu 20.04
- NIC Firmware update is NOT supported through Intel Ethernet Operator (IEO)
- VMRA support with containerd runtime environment is limited (unstable) and might exhibit failures of some pods