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Meeting minutes through March 23, 2022

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+# Platform/PoC/Reference Architecture Meeting Minutes
+
+
+## 10/5/2021:
+Talk about goals:
+Define a PoC
+
+PoC ideas:
+* Nginx already runs on BF2 (but slowly)
+* Nginx on Phantom Lake?
+* Mt Evans, Oak Springs Canyon complex, likely not MVP
+
+Actions:
+* Set up meeting with Marvell: Octeon <- Kris
+* Talk to Intel Phantom Lake people about Diamond Bluff <- Tim
+
+Definition of MVP:
+* OS - free
+* Free app in container: eg Squid Proxy
+* Ability to swap out container
+* Freely downloadable
+* Blog or other publishing
+
+
+## 11/1/2021:
+Agenda:
+* Refresh on previous discussion
+* Follow up on card availability: Tim and Kris
+   * F5 has Intel Phantom Lake cards incoming
+      * Nginx dpdk support provided by vendor (Silicom?)
+   * Intel Big Springs Canyon suggested, available now, Xeon, with IPDK
+      * FPGA works out of the box
+      * Runtime programming all open source, P4 compiler backend closed
+      * ACTION: Tom to investigate hardware
+      * ACTION: Tim to verify nginx dpdk support can be made available
+   * Intel Mt Evans early access possible as well
+      * Requires 5.10 and 5.14 for the two cores
+* Get input from new members
+* Discuss direction and next steps
+   * ACTION: Steve to create github repo for PoC working group
+   * OS Selection discussion
+      * RHEL with dev sub for initial PoC
+      * Figure out OS strategy later
+* Meeting cadence and date/time
+   * Weekly Wed 1-3pm slot
+
+
+## 11/12/2021:
+* Dan: Building cluster
+   * Big Springs Canyon on Broadwell with 2x25GbE
+   * Mt Evans on Sapphire Rapids with 2x100GbE
+   * What OS to deploy?  Start with RHEL 8.5, but Red Hat to investigate OCP options.
+
+
+## 12/1/2021:
+* Introductions to Kyle Mestery and Maxime Coquelin
+* Brief review of the goals of the working group and prior discussions
+
+
+## 12/15/2021:
+Merging with the dev platform group
+* OS requirements on device
+   * Looked at Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS Stream, and RHEL
+   * CentOS Stream 9 with help from the community sounding possible
+   * https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup
+* Canceling 12/22/2021 meeting
+
+
+## 1/5/2022:
+Light discussion today
+* Brief discussion about the Dell presentation, touching on SONiC and whether that applies to DB or not (not general purpose OS)
+* Kyle mentioned attempting to get IPDK environment working, will present the process next week.
+
+
+## 1/12/2022:
+* CentOS SIG discussion
+* Meeting recorded: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gPSXwK7xHvFcfWUL3vay7zEaMkjBJQPU/view?usp=sharing
+
+
+## 1/19/2022:
+* CentOS SIG discussion continuation
+
+
+## 1/26/2022:
+Dan Daly and Tim Worsley attended
+* Dan update on lab: all parts are in
+   * Putting CentOS 8.2 on Mt Evans
+   * Putting CentOS 7.x? on Big Springs Canyon
+* Tim update on PoC workload
+   * Simple learning switch based on nginx
+   * Pure software, no acceleration
+* How do we generate test load in the Intel lab?
+
+
+For next session:
+* Expecting to not have made progress with hardware, so focus on the test
+* Create document describing scenarios, test network, traffic generation, traffic targets
+* Goal is to be able to limit test the solution, which F5 hasn’t done yet
+* Also look into open source tools or languages for describing the test, so diamond bluff doesn’t have to invent something.  Example would be the open ddos (proposed) standard
+
+
+## 2/1/2022:
+Attendees: Tim Worsley, Tom Rix, Mark Sanders, Steven Royer
+* Discussion on virtual development environment:
+   * Similar to the ipdk virtual environment
+   * Need volunteers to define and implement virtual development environment
+      * Tom Rix volunteered!
+   * Prefer to start with arm64
+   * Start with RHEL for developer (free)
+* OS Image requirements
+   * DPDK
+   * docker/podman
+* App requirements
+   * Looking to start with open source nginx in a container
+   * Use pure CPU cores initially
+   * Tim Worsley has agreed to provide this once a platform exists
+* Deliveries:
+   * General agreement that DPUs aren’t build systems
+   * Go into github: recipes, etc
+   * Artifactory???  For container images: Prefer quay.io.
+
+
+## 2/9/2022:
+Attendees: Tim Worsley, Steven Royer
+* PoC idea
+   * Open source nginx with modules like modsec in a container
+   * Generate data streams where at least one is “malicious”
+      * Container for generating traffic
+      * Container as traffic target
+
+
+## 2/16/2022:
+Attendees: Kyle Mestery, Maxime Coquelin, Mark Sanders, Michal Kalderon, Laura JH, Steven Royer
+* Review
+* Michal Kalderon to look at providing access to Marvell hardware
+* Artifacts: look at integrating with github actions + github docker registry
+
+
+## 2/23/2022:
+Attendees: Kyle Mestery, Maxime Coquelin, Mark Sanders, Tom Rix, Dan Daly, Steven Royer, Michal Kalderon
+* Dev environment:
+   * Provide VM image with some OS (CentOS Stream 9, consider future Debian 11)
+      * Tom to talk to Steve about this
+* Steve to find out if Red Hat could host some vendor hardware for Diamond Bluff
+* Michal to see if something like https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/optimizing-server-utilization-datacenters-offloading-network-functions-nvidia-bluefield-2-dpus can be done on Marvell hardware
+
+
+## 3/2/2022:
+Attendees: Tim Worsely, Michal Kalderon, Laura JH, Steven Royer
+* Dev environment follow up: concerns around will adapter vendors support CentOS Stream 9 and Debian 11 (drivers etc…)
+   * Marvell: yes, drivers are upstream
+   * Intel: ??? no attendees
+* Hosting vendor hardware by Red Hat:
+   * Answer is no, the plan should be to work this through the foundation when that is set up.
+* Action:
+   * Tim: put up PR for current PoC plan
+
+
+## 3/9/2022:
+Attendees: Steven Royer, Ted Streete, Michal Kalderon, Mark Sanders, Dan Daly
+* Ted leaving the subgroup to focus on other areas
+* Tim Worsely out sick
+* Kyle on vacation
+* Actions:
+   * Steve: start OS discussion in slack
+   * Steve: update working group description
+   * Steve: migrate minutes to github
+   * Dan: create document about hardware hosting requirements/options
+* Dan: hardware update
+   * Big Springs Canyon and Mt Evans in place
+   * Access control in place
+   * Targeting two weeks for schedule
+
+## 3/23/2022:
+Attendees: Steven Royer, Gene Bagwell, Shafiq Abedin, Tim Worsley, Michal Kalderon, Lionel P
+* Follow-ups:
+   * Steve: Started OS discussion in slack: https://opi-project.slack.com/archives/C033E418VCK/p1648048161645019
+   * Steve: Update working group description: in progress
+   * Steve: Migrate minutes to github: https://github.com/Diamond-Bluff/dbluff-poc/pull/1
+   * Tim: Still working on providing firewall PoC documentation
+* What's the difference between this group and the use cases group?
+   * Uses cases group to define use cases
+   * PoC group to implement them
+* New actions:
+   * Tim to provide Dockerfiles for firewall PoC application and tests
+   * Tim to publish containers to dockerhub or equivalent
+   * Michal to investigate defining VM emulating DPU
+   * Steve to add people to the github org for access to private repos
+* Task list to be managed via github issues in the poc repo
+* Suggestion to move to meeting every other week instead of weekly