This document provides Clover project’s release notes for the OPNFV Gambia release.

Version history

Date Ver. Author Comment
2018-03-14 Gambia 1.0 Stephen Wong First draft

Important notes

The Clover project for OPNFV Gambia is tested on Kubernetes version 1.9 and 1.11. It is only tested on Istio 1.0.

Summary

Clover Gambia release further enhances the Fraser release by providing various tools to help operators deploy cloud native network functions. These tools include

  1. Collector: gathers and collects metrics and traces from Prometheus and Jaeger, respectively, and provides a single access point for such data
  2. Visibility: utilizes an analytic engine to correlate and organize data gathered by the collector
  3. CLI: comprehensive Clover CLI called cloverctl, offering a single management tool for operating Clover toolset
  4. Network Tracing: CNI plugin agnostic network tracing tool
  5. Extended HTTP Security: integrate modsecurity (Web Application Firewall) and Snort with Istio gateway via Istio newly added mechanisms to redirect and mirror traffic to the network functions
  6. HTTP Test Client: bundle JMeter as test client for testing
  7. UI: developmental / sample UI to offer single pane view of Clover system
  8. Spinnaker Integration: provides automated / programmable cloud provider add/update/delete; sample pipeline and installation scripts

Release Data

Version change

Module version changes

Clover Gambia release will no longer support Istio 0.6, the version of Istio supported by Clover Gambia release

Document version changes

Clover Gambia has updated the config guide and user guide accordingly, including new documents for the new features

Reason for version

Feature additions

See Summary above

Bug corrections

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