Alcor Roadmap

Release 0.1 for Mizar-MP Open Source

Target date: 01/31/2020

Release: 0.1

Release link: https://github.com/futurewei-cloud/mizar-mp

List of Released Components:

1. Controller v0.1 Apha Release
2. Control Agent v0.1 Apha Release
3. Kubernetes Plugin for Mizar-MP v0.3.1 Release

Features:

• MVP VPC features to manage Mizar data plane
• Controller Batch API for throughput optimization
• Novel goal state data model for controller-agent communication
• Preliminary implmentation of Fast Path
• Onebox development setup for control plane E2E
• Integration with Kubernetes for container network provisioning

Open-Source Plan for Alcor 1.0

Tentative date: 12/31/2020

Release: 1.0

Release link: TBD

• Controller services break-down
  • Management services (VPC manager, mac allocator, ip allocator, dns manager etc.)
  • Infrastructure services (node manager, switch/router manager, gs programming manager etc.)
  • Cache/Database services
• Controller onboarded to Istio/Envoy
• Architecture design
  • Key innovation on host agent (compared to Neutron L2/L3 Agents)
  • Multipass control logic
  • Rescue path (more details)
  • Network monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana)
• Feature design & development
  • Deletion of VPC/Subnet/Endpoints
  • Security group
  • ACL
  • Routing table
  • QoS
  • Load balancer
  • Resource tagging framework
  • IP Tagging
  • Service Tagging
  • Dual stack for IPv4/v6
• Monitoring
  • NetData + Prometheus + Grafana
• Integration and Deployment
  • Refactor deployment pipeline + ACA on physical host
  • Update deployment
  • Controller grey release
  • Integration with Alkaid
• Compatibility
  • OVS support
  • OpenStack plugin