1. Patches of vineperf container, CNIs (pawan), and deployment tool (Shreya) are merged.
2. Reference pod-deployment for vineperf is submitted.
3. Currently working on this tool/application
   1. Deploy vineperf as a pod in k8s cluster along with nodeport service.
   2. then deploy traffic-generator (DPPD-Prox and T-Rex) and any l2fwd/loopback pods.
   3. Then run test with vineperf (clean, results-only mode).
   4. Collect the results from vineperf pod and write to file.
4. Started working on Documentation ***

CNIs: networking technology installation is not covered here.  CNIs expectation w.r.t paths or any other configuration of the underlying networking technology.

FD.io: terrabit speed with T-Rex.

Links: 

https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls2106/report/vpp_performance_tests/test_environment.html

https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls2106/report/introduction/physical_testbeds.html#tested-physical-topologies, 

Inter-Pod Communications - Testing

• Status of reproducing results from existing works.
• Plan

1. Daniele's Initial Experiment: https://github.com/kubernetes/perf-tests/tree/master/network/benchmarks/netperf reproduce this in our pods. This is also by Functest/Xtesting as of today.
2. Manually run the steps shown in point 3 (3a-3d) above, for ovsdpdk, vpp and sriov cni.
3. Commercial TGens (Spirent) pod and run for all CNIs (including non-dpdk cnis)

Pending:

1. XTesting Integration.
2. Documentation.