Container Experience Kits
Intel has been working with partners and with open source communities to address barriers to commercial containers-networking adoption and to deliver consumable capabilities concerning configuration, manageability, performance, service-assurance, and resilience. The container bare metal experience kits are a set of collateral introducing the newly developed open sourced consumable capabilities. The collection of all the container bare metal experience kits creates a library of best practice guidelines to address containers-bare-metal networking development and deployability gaps. It includes a variety of documents and demonstrations targeting developers, product leads, and a sales and marketing audience.

Container Reference Architecture
The container bare metal reference architecture release represents...

Acceleration
Open platforms provide the scalability and flexibility needed for almost any network usage....

Telemetry
Ensure platform and container metrics and events are accessible though industry standard...

Training and Demo Links
Watch the following training and demo videos to understand the newly developed...
Container Reference Architecture
The container bare metal reference architecture release represents a baseline configuration of components that are optimized to achieve maximum system performance mainly for NFV use cases when running on platforms based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
- Network and Cloud Edge Reference System Architectures Portfolio User ManualNEW!
- Container Bare Metal for 2nd Generation and 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and Intel® Xeon® D Processor Reference Architecture User GuideNEW!
- Virtual Machine for 2nd Generation and 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Reference Architecture User GuideNEW!
- 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Technology - Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Installation - Part 3 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Overview - Part 1 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Technology - Part 2 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Verification - Part 4 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Walk Through - Training Video
- Intel® Xeon® D Processor Technology - Training VideoNEW!
- Kubernetes* Operators – Automated Lifecycle Management Technology Guide
- Multi-Cloud Services - High Performance Computation Modernization in Financial Services Industries Technology Guide
- Multi-Cloud Services on Kubernetes with Cloudify Orchestration and F5 Networks Functions Technology Guide
- NFV Demonstration Framework - Application Guide
- Packet pROcessing eXecution Engine (PROX) - Performance Characterization for NFVI User Guide
- QCT Validated Kubernetes Platform with Enhanced Platform Awareness Technical Brief
- QCT Validated Red Hat OpenShift Platform with Enhanced Platform Awareness and Optimized Base Frequency Technical Brief
- Telecom Workload Placement and Affinity Model Solution Brief
Kubernetes Networking
Kubernetes support for network functionality required in NFV use cases.
Acceleration
Open platforms provide the scalability and flexibility needed for almost any network usage. In some cases, this includes using standards-based acceleration technologies to deliver the required efficiency or performance. Intel offers a large range of technologies and capabilities to meet the broad range of throughput and reliability of network workloads.
- Intel Technologies for Resource Tuning Energy Efficient Network Slices Technology Guide
- Intel® Ethernet 700/800 Series - Dynamic Device Personalization Support for CNF with Kubernetes Technology Guide
- Intel® Speed Select Technology – Base Frequency (Intel® SST-BF) with Kubernetes* Application Note
- Intel® Speed Select Technology (Intel® SST) – Performance Enhancements for 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Technology GuideNEW!
- Intel® Speed Select Technology – Performance Profile (Intel® SST-PP) Overview User GuideNEW!
- Power Manager - Kubernetes Operator Technology GuideUPDATED!
- SR-IOV with Kubernetes - Networking and Observability Technology Guide
Resource Management
Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) represents a methodology targeting intelligent platform capability, configuration and capacity consumption. EPA delivers improved and deterministic application performance, and input/output throughput.
Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration technology, can now support Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) including CPU Pinning, SR-IOV and Huge Page support.
- CPU Management - CPU Pinning and Isolation in Kubernetes Training Video
- CPU Management - CPU Pinning and Isolation in Kubernetes* Technology Guide
- CRI Resource Manager – Topology-Aware Resource Assignment in Kubernetes Technology Guide
- Enabling New Features with Kubernetes White Paper
- Enhanced Platform Awareness in Kubernetes Application Note
- Enhanced Platform Awareness in Kubernetes Demo
- Enhanced Platform Awareness in Kubernetes Feature Brief
- Enhanced Platform Awareness in Kubernetes Performance Benchmark Report
- Intel Device Plugins for Kubernetes Application Note
- Node Feature Discovery - Orchestrating Intelligent Workload Scheduling Technology GuideUPDATED!
- Topology Management - Implementation in Kubernetes* Technology Guide
- Topology Management in Kubernetes - Training Video
Telemetry
Ensure platform and container metrics and events are accessible though industry standard interfaces to allow capacity planning, trending and operational status.
- Collecting and Monitoring Platform and Container Telemetry Application Note
- Intel® Network Builders - Network Functions Virtualization Service Assurance
- Monitoring Platform and Container Telemetry using Grafana Demo
- Monitoring Platform and Container Telemetry with Corrective Action Demo
- Observability - Network Telemetry Reporting Solution Brief
- Telemetry Aware Scheduler - Enhancement Utilization with Platform Aware Scheduling (PAS)
- Telemetry Aware Scheduling - Automated Workload Optimization with Kubernetes* (K8s*) Technology Guide
- Telemetry Aware Scheduling - Automated Workload Optimization with Kubernetes* (K8s*) Training Video
Training and Demo Links
Watch the following training and demo videos to understand the newly developed networking capabilities in Kubernetes and how you can apply them to your networking environments.
- 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Technology - Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Installation - Part 3 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Overview - Part 1 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Technology - Part 2 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Verification - Part 4 Training Video
- Container Bare Metal Reference Architecture Walk Through - Training Video
- Corrective Action with Nagios Demo
- CPU Management - CPU Pinning and Isolation in Kubernetes Training Video
- Enhanced Platform Awareness in Kubernetes Demo
- Intel® Xeon® D Processor Technology - Training VideoNEW!
- Monitoring Platform and Container Telemetry using Grafana Demo
- Multiple Network Interfaces in Kubernetes Demo
- Multiple Network Interfaces in Kubernetes Overview - Training Video
- Predictable and scalable architecture using Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for a Cable Use Case
- Telemetry Aware Scheduling - Automated Workload Optimization with Kubernetes* (K8s*) Training Video
- Topology Management in Kubernetes - Training Video
- vCMTS Demo
Cable Use Case
Intel optimizes virtualized, cable modem termination system (vCMTS) architecture using Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512, Intel® AES New Instructions, DPDK, and Intel® QuickAssist Technology.
- Maximizing the Performance of DOCSIS 3 0/3 1 Processing on Intel® Xeon® Processors
- Maximizing vCMTS Data Plane Performance with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Architecture White Paper*
- Predictable and scalable architecture using Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for a Cable Use Case
- vCMTS Demo
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