IPDK v24.01 Release

Kubernetes Infrastructure Offload Recipe

Features and enhancements

• Service Load Balancing: Support for K8s Service of type ClusterIP.
  Kubeproxy implementation is now offloaded to hardware.
  TCP and UDP services can be created and are dynamically distributed to
  endpoints. The first packet of each flow goes through load balancing logic,
  and the result is cached in hardware auto-add table for treatment of
  subsequent packets, resulting in increased efficiency.
• Support for Go version 1.21.4
• Support for log level configuration from config files for infraagent
• SRIOV support for Intel IPU E2100
• Bug fixes

Limitations

• The setup_infra.sh automation script, works with the default configuration
  for certificate paths and artifact paths. Any changes in these paths will
  render the script unusable.
  User may need to manually configure and execute instructions mentioned in
  the script.
• SRIOV is an experimental feature. The setup_infra_sriov.sh script doesn't
  support the -r option for remote IP for host IP on ACC. Host mode is
  supported for this release as an engineering preview.
• Max supported CDQ interfaces are 254 as max vport for host. The default
  max vport in the cdq use case cp_init file has been provided as 50 which
  can be configured.
• RSS configuration in P4 isn't present and hence SRIOV throughput is seen
  slightly lower.
• Service Load Balancing for TCP has few random session resets. Known issue
  and bugfix to be available in a future minor release.