Intel Device Plugins for Kubernetes v0.18.0

Release Notes

Generic

• Added the first version of the device Operator. The operator watches plugin/device specific CRDs and controls the plugins' daemonset deployments. Initially, only GpuDevicePlugin and QatDevicePlugin are implemented with other devices to follow
  in the following releases.
• Upgraded Kubernetes API to v1.18 level (#317)
• Moved to Kubernetes klog based logging (#323)
• Improved Go unit test coverage to 80+% in all plugins
• Moved golangci-lint linter checks

FPGA

• Refactored FPGA admission webhook to be "modeless" to serve heterogeneous FPGA plugins mode (af/region) configuration. Previously, the webhook's mode needed to match to the mode the FPGA plugin was running in (#301)
• Modified AcceleratedFunction CRDs (v2 API) to contain info on the hardware the accelerated function is intended to run on (interface ID) and the required mode of the FPGA plugin.
• Finalized kustomization changes for FPGA deployments. With the changes, it is possible to deploy FPGA using kubectl apply directly without needing to clone the repository to run setup scripts.
• Implemented e2e tests for FPGA.

QAT

• Added a kustomization overlay to deploy QAT plugin without Apparmor profile (#381)
• Fixed UIO mounts (#351)

GPU

• no changes

VPU

• no changes

Known issues

• crypto-perf image fails on kernels with CVE-2020-12888 (#415)
• FPGA SRIO-V is not supportted by the FPGA device plugin (#372)

Intel Device Plugins for Kubernetes v0.17.0

Release Notes

Generic

• Added Kubernetes Topology Manager hints from all plugins (#250)
• Added automated testing based on Kubernetes e2e framework (#253)
• Added Kustomization to all plugin deployments (#254)
• Upgraded Kubernetes API to v1.17 level
• Updated container images in Intel DockerHub (0.17.0 tag)
• Revisited all documentation to improve user experience

GPU

• Fixed error handling in cases where i915 hardware was not present or the driver was not available (#230, #260)

FPGA

• Updated to OPAE 1.4.0 release (#252)

VPU

• Added new VPU device plugin to support Intel VCAC-A and Mustang V-100 devices
• Added an OpenVINO sample application that runs inference jobs using VPU plugin resources

Intel Device Plugins for Kubernetes v0.15.0

Release Notes

Generic

• Switched to "go mod" and Go 1.12+
• Upgraded Kubernetes API to v1.15 level
• Device plugin components and some of the demos with corresponding container images are now published to Intel DockerHub

GPU

• Inform user that plugin is running on the host without Intel GPUs

FPGA

• Support for upstream DFL FPGA drivers (Linux 5.2+) and out-of-tree Intel FPGA kernel drivers
• Dropped dependency on OPAE tools for bitstream and FPGA handling
• Dropped dependency on RTE tarball in FPGA OCI hook init container: simplified deployments
• Fixed support for multiple FPGA cards on the same node
• OPAE demo upgraded to OPAE SDK 1.3.2-1
• Updated example mappings with firmware IDs for Intel PAC with Intel Arria® 10 GX FPGA and Intel FPGA PAC D5005

QAT

• Validated on Linux upstream (Linux 5.x) QAT/VFIO-PCI drivers
• DPDK crypto-perf/compress-perf test cases with kustomize based deployments
• Improved documentation