Release Date 02/28/2022
Major Changes
This is a major update to 1.0 capabilities. The enhancements include:
- The portal includes a graphical slice viewer that helps you display your slices created e.g. in Jupyter Notebooks
- Bastion hosts are fully integrated into the infrastructure including the Portal (and required to be used to access VMs)
- Two brand new L3 network services – an IPv4 and IPv6, to which you can attach your VMs. Unlike on-demand L2 services available before (and in GENI), routing is automatically pre-configured within those and any VM attached to a L3 service at any site can communicate with any VM at any other site – these are are own two private Internets.
- New FABlib user-facing Python library to help manage your experiment resources. FABlib is more intuitive and easier to use than FABRIC native low-level APIs and abstractions.
- New VM images for different flavors of operating systems
- Updated Jupyter Hub notebooks that integrate new enhancements and help you learn how to use them
Packages and Components
Control Framework
| Control Framework Core | Multiple bug fixes and usability improvements. |
| Orchestrator | – Multiple Shared NICs can be attached to VMs – Network service behavior for L2 services more stable – Ability to attach VM interfaces to FABRIC IPv4 and IPv6 dataplanes |
| Broker | – Multiple bug fixes – Added ability to update ARM models without a clean restart |
| Site Aggregate Manager | – Support for rebooting user VMs without losing attachments of individual devices – Added ability to update ARM models without a clean restart |
| Network Aggregate Manager | – Support for L3 services (IPv4 and IPv6) – Added ability to update ARM models without a clean restart |
FIM (FABRIC Information Model) and User APIs
| Basic resource descriptions | Multiple fixes and enhancements to support L3 services, Facility Ports | |
| FABlib | Initial release of FABlib covering the current capabilities of the testbed (ability to create slices with VMs and attached components [NVMEs, GPUs, Network Cards]) and attached to available network services. |
JupyterHub
| Federated Identity | Stability improvements |
| Storage | N/A |
Portal and System Services
| Portal | Integration of slice viewer, SSH key management |
| Project Registry | Bug fixes and usability improvements |
| User Information Service | Implemented SSH key management |
| Credential Manager | Bug fixes and usability improvements |
Future enhancements
We expect all/most of the following features or limitations to be addressed in upcoming releases (expected release and date indicated):
| New features or known limitations | Expected in release |
| Facility ports, enabling to create cross-testbed experiments | 1.2, Spring 2022 |
| Mirror ports, enabling to snoop on slice traffic | 1.2, Spring 2022 |
| Ability to attach rotating storage volumes to VMs | 1.2, Spring 2022 |
| FABlib ehnancements to support latest features | 1.2, Spring 2022 |
| Per-project authorization for fine-grained authorization control over different types of resources and their allocation | 1.2, Spring 2022 |
| Graphical slice builder for the Portal | 1.2, Spring 2022 |
| Initial support for personal, project and experiment profiles | 1.2, Spring 2022 |
| Advance reservation support | 1.3 or 1.4, Summer/Fall 2022 |
| Ability to modify slices after creation | 1.3, Summer 2022 |
| Ability to manage available compute images | 1.3, Summer 2022 |
| Ability to define/save an image | 1.3, Summer 2022 |
| Ability to configure compute sliver behavior (post-boot scripts, interface configuration etc) | 1.2, Spring 2022 |
| Support for FPGAs | TBD |
Bugs
Please see Forums for discussions of known bugs.