23.10

Reference Architecture 23.10

New Components/Features:
- Extended support for 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to VMRA, which requires the NDA version of Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) drivers
- Support for Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) on 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with limitations
- Support for 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processor for IoT Edge 
- Support for Edge AI Box 3.1 on 12th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors, 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processor for IoT Edge
- Extended support for Software Defined Factory use-case on Intel® Core™ and Intel Atom® platforms to include an additional platform to manage the deployment of controller node via Kubernetes
- Support deployment of a Machine Controller use case via VMRA 
- Support ECDSA keys for 5G O-RAN security with NETCONF server/client authentication (Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)) 
- Added boot guard and secure boot to 5G O-RAN security
- Use of Vector Packet Processing (VPP) (23.06) dataplane within Calico
- Integrated Intent-Driven Orchestration Release v0.2 with BMRA
- Support for Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) ASIC E2000 card and Infrastructure Programmer Development Kit (IPDK) Networking Recipe
- Support for virtual machine and bare metal mixed Kubernetes deployment 
- Support for generic virtual machine type 
- Integrated Intel® Media Transport Library library
- Integrated Intel® XPU Manager (Intel® XPUM) for GPU health and telemetry monitoring 
- Extend telemetry stack support to container only environment for AIBox 
- Initial support of Collection, other consumers can directly import and use just roles from this collection 
- Added Rocky Linux 9.2 as base OS

Updates/Changes:
- Version upgraded for the vast majority of RA components
- Notable updates:
    FlexRAN™ to v23.07
    Kubernetes* to v1.27.1
    Intel® Containerized Telegraf to 1.3
    Service Mesh Istio to v1.19.0
    Intel® Managed Distribution of Istio* Service Mesh to v1.19.0-intel.0
    Open vSwitch with DPDK to 3.2
    Intel Multi-Buffer Crypto for IPsec library to v1.4
    Intel® QAT Engine for OpenSSL to v1.3.1
    Intel® Power Manager to v2.3.1
    Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) to v23.07
    Intel® Ethernet Operator v23.08
    SR-IOV FEC Operator to v2.7.1
    OpenVINO™ v2023.1
    Key Management Reference Application (KMRA) v2.4
    Kubernetes to v1.27 for Cloud RA on Microsoft* Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service* (Amazon EKS)

New Hardware (Platforms/CPUs/GPUs/Accelerators):
- 12th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors with Intel® Arc™ Discrete Graphics GPU A380 
- 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processor for IoT Edge with Intel® Iris® Xe Integrated Graphics
- 13th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processor with Intel® Iris® Xe Integrated Graphics

Removed Support:
- Discontinued support for Rocky 9.1 as base OS

Known Limitations/Restrictions:
- Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series, CPU Control Plane Plugin for Kubernetes*, Intel® Media SDK (only Docker runtime) are only supported on Ubuntu OS
- MinIO* is supported only with CRI-O runtime 
- Only in-tree Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) drivers supported on RHEL 9.2 and Rocky 9.2 
- Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA) may not work on some older (earlier stepping) CPUs on RHEL 9.2 and Rocky Linux 9.2 
- Work-around applied to fix default Intel® QAT driver 4.23.0 install fail in VMRA mode on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- UserSpace CNI with VPP is not supported 
- Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) on VMRA does not support Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel® DLB), Intel® DSA, Intel QAT, or network adapter device passthrough due to Intel® TDX driver security concerns 
- Intel Ethernet Operator DDP update feature might not work in rare cases; use legacy DDP update feature instead
- Mixed deployment on_prem_sw_defined_factory profile with 12th Gen Intel® Core™ or later CPU should disable hyper thread 
- Power Manager fail to set target frequency with frequency_scaling_driver set as "acpi_cpufreq"