Alcor v0.14 Release Plan - futurewei-cloud/alcor-int GitHub Wiki

Open-Source Plan for v0.14 Release

Tentative date: 04/30/2021

Release: Alcor v0.14

Release link: https://github.com/futurewei-cloud/alcor/releases/tag/v0.14-alpha

New Features Development

• New MicroService design & development
  • Network Configuration Manager
  • Gateway Manager
  • Data Plane Manager v2.0 (on port creation)
• Alcor Control Agent Design & Development
  • On-demand engine
  • Refactor packet parser
• Feature E2E Integration
  • On-demand workflow with test controller
  • Alcor integration with Zeta Gateway
  • Node and NCM registration APIs

Alcor Performance & Scalability

• Scalability Design & Improvement
  • Private IP Manager improvement with IP address replacement support
• Message Queue scale path design
• Compatibility and Integration with OpenStack
  • Rally test framework enhancement with OSProfiler

Alcor Fundamental

• Alcor DevOps and CI/CD enhancement
  • One-box development environment setup scripts
  • Alcor busybox pingtest
  • Alcor Jenkins CI workflows
• Fix bugs (20+)

Move to 7/30 release

New Features Development

• New MicroService design & development
  • Data Plane Manager for GS v2.0

Alcor Fundamental

• Performance & scalability comparison with Neutron
• Deployment enhancement
  • Enable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) for Alcor deployment
  • Enable Cluster Autoscaler (CA) for Alcor deployment
  • Alcor scale out/in performance by K-Bench
  • Alcor inter-services communication performance by K-Bench