Intel® Technology Enabling for OpenShift*

Overview

The Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift project focuses on Intel’s enterprise AI and cloud native foundation for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) solution enablement and innovation including Intel data center hardware features, Intel technology enhanced AI platform and the referenced AI workloads provisioning for OpenShift.

These Intel Data Center hardware features include:

• Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series

• Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series

• Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)

• Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT)

• Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA)

Intel AI hardware and optimized software solutions are integrated into Red Hat OpenShift AI for ease of provisioning and configuration. The Habana AI Operator is used to provision Intel® Gaudi® accelerators and released on the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.

Red Hat Distributed CI* (DCI) based CI/CD pipeline is leveraged to enable and test this E2E solution with each RHOCP release to ensure new features and improvements can be promptly available.

The Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workloads are used to validate and optimize Intel enterprise AI foundation for OpenShift.

Figure-1 Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift Architecture

Releases and Supported Platforms

• Supported Intel hardware features

• Release details

Getting started

See reference BIOS Configuration required for each feature.

Provisioning RHOCP cluster

Use one of these two options to provision an RHOCP cluster:

• Use the methods introduced in RHOCP documentation.

• Use Distributed CI as we do in this project.

In this project, we provisioned RHOCP 4.16 on a bare-metal multi-node cluster. For details about the supported RHOCP infrastructure, see the Supported Platforms page.

Provisioning Intel hardware features on RHOCP

If you are familiar with the steps mentioned below to provision the accelerators, you can use One-Click solution as a reference to provision the accelerator automatically.

Follow Setting up HabanaAI Operator to provision Intel Gaudi AI accelerator.

Please follow the steps below to provision the hardware features

1. Setting up Node Feature Discovery

2. Setting up Machine Configuration

3. Setting up Out of Tree Drivers

4. Setting up Device Plugins

Verifying hardware feature provisioning

You can use the instructions in the link to verify the hardware features provisioning.

Upgrade (To be added)

Reference end-to-end solution

The reference end-to-end solution is based on Intel hardware feature provisioning provided by this project.

Intel AI Inferencing Solution with OpenVINO and RHOAI

Reference workloads

Here are the reference workloads built on the end-to-end solution and Intel hardware feature provisioning in this project.

• OPEA Workloads

Advanced Guide

This section discusses architecture and other technical details that go beyond getting started.

• Architecture and Working Scope

Release Notes

Check the link for the Release Notes.

Support

If users encounter any issues or have questions regarding Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift, we recommend them to seek support through the following channels:

Commercial support from Red Hat

This project relies on features developed and released with the latest RHOCP release. Commercial RHOCP release support is outlined in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy and Intel collaborates with Red Hat to address specific requirements from our users.

Open-Source Community Support

Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift is run as an open-source project on GitHub. Project GitHub issues can be used as the primary support interface for users to submit feature requests and report issues to the community when using Intel technology provided by this project. Please provide detailed information about your issue and steps to reproduce it, if possible.

Contribute

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

Security

To report a potential security vulnerability, please refer to security.md file.

License

Distributed under the open source license. See LICENSE for more information.

Code of Conduct

Intel has adopted the Contributor Covenant as the Code of Conduct for all of its open source projects. See CODE_OF_CONDUCT file.