Kubernetes
Kubernetes support for network functionality required in NFV use cases.
Kubernetes Networking
Application Device Queues (ADQ) - Plugins for Kubernetes Solution Brief
Last Updated: January 19, 2023
Application Device Queues (ADQ) is a workload optimization feature that provides access to hardware Quality-of-Service (QoS) in terms of queuing and steering for traffic flows belonging to containerized applications in a cloud orchestration environment...
CPU Management - CPU Pinning and Isolation in Kubernetes* Technology Guide
Last Updated: January 20, 2021
This guide discusses recent implementation updates that address challenges in delivering CPU management and isolation in Kubernetes*, using Intel CMK and native Kubernetes CPU Management technologies...
CRI Resource Manager – Topology-Aware Resource Assignment in Kubernetes Technology Guide
Last Updated: April 06, 2021
This document provides instructions for the installation and configuration of CRI Resource Manager, describes its functionality, and discusses possible usage scenarios...
Intel® Ethernet 700/800 Series - Dynamic Device Personalization Support for CNF with Kubernetes Technology Guide
Last Updated: February 13, 2021
A document that describes how you can use Kubernetes to place latency sensitive and/or high throughput workloads on an interface configured with Dynamic Device Personalization, which optimizes the packet processing pipeline...
Multiple Network Interfaces in Kubernetes Overview - Training Video
Last Updated: September 07, 2022
Node Feature Discovery - Orchestrating Intelligent Workload Scheduling
Last Updated: March 01, 2022
This document discusses Node Feature Discovery (NFD), which is a Kubernetes add-on that detects and advertises hardware and software capabilities of a platform to facilitate intelligent scheduling of a workload...
Packet pROcessing eXecution Engine (PROX) - Performance Characterization for NFVI User Guide
Last Updated: April 24, 2020
The User Guide provides step by step instructions on how to prepare, onboard, and run tests with the OPNFV open source PROX tool...
Secure the Network Infrastructure - Secure Cloud Native Network Platforms Solution Brief
Last Updated: April 24, 2020
The document explains the security requirements and provides guidance for 5G Infrastructure Security, including implementation of Secure Boot/Platform Attestation and technologies such as Secure Boot and Intel® Security Libraries for Data Center (Intel® SecL - DC) and is integrated for Kubernetes clusters...
Secure the Network Infrastructure - Secure Cloud Native Network Platforms User Guide
Last Updated: April 24, 2020
The User Guide provides step by step instructions on how to deliver an end-to-end security solution for network and edge platforms...
SR-IOV with Kubernetes - Networking and Observability Technology Guide
Last Updated: January 27, 2021
This guide describes implementations of SR-IOV with Kubernetes* that enable new advance networking and observability functionalities in cloud deployments...
Operators
Kubernetes Operator - Intel® Ethernet Operator Technology Guide
Last Updated: February 09, 2023
This document describes the Intel® Ethernet Operator, a Kubernetes Operator developed using the Operator SDK, designed to enable the network resource management of the advanced Ethernet technology features introduced by the Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters...
Power Manager - Kubernetes Operator Technology Guide
Last Updated: February 24, 2022
This document describes the Power Manager, a Kubernetes operator developed using the Operator SDK, designed to expose and utilize Intel-specific power management technologies in a Kubernetes environment...
Platform Aware Scheduling
Closed Loop Automation - Telemetry Aware Scheduler for Service Healing and Platform Resilience Demo
Last Updated: September 07, 2022
Telemetry Aware Scheduler - Enhancement Utilization with Platform Aware Scheduling Technology Guide
Last Updated: October 18, 2022
This document describes Platform Aware Scheduling (PAS), which is a paradigm that restructures the existing Telemetry Aware Scheduler (TAS) project to be a more generic model that allows various Intel Kubernetes scheduler extenders to be hosted...
Telemetry Aware Scheduling - Automated Workload Optimization with Kubernetes* (K8s*) Technology Guide
Last Updated: April 24, 2020
This guide presents a methodology for enhancing scheduling capabilities in K8s...
Telemetry Aware Scheduling - Automated Workload Optimization with Kubernetes* (K8s*) Training Video
Last Updated: September 07, 2022
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.
CPU Management - CPU Pinning and Isolation in Kubernetes* Technology Guide
Last Updated: January 20, 2021
This guide discusses recent implementation updates that address challenges in delivering CPU management and isolation in Kubernetes*, using Intel CMK and native Kubernetes CPU Management technologies...
CRI Resource Manager – Topology-Aware Resource Assignment in Kubernetes Technology Guide
Last Updated: April 06, 2021
This document provides instructions for the installation and configuration of CRI Resource Manager, describes its functionality, and discusses possible usage scenarios...
Kubernetes - Cloud Native Orchestration Solution Brief
Last Updated: January 24, 2023
This document describes the various types of capabilities, features, and tools Intel provides to enhance the performance of workloads and how Intel makes those capabilities available for easy consumption by cloud native applications...
Kubernetes - Cloud Native Resource Orchestration Technology Guide
Last Updated: January 12, 2023
This paper introduces many different technologies that give users and system administrators fine grained control on placing workloads to achieve peak workload performance, optimize power consumption, optimize memory throughput, optimize block I/O, and optimize cache sharing so that cloud native applications run faster, more efficiently, and with more consistent predictability...
