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We are pleased to announce the release of Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift version 1.0.1.

The Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift project provides Intel Data Center hardware features provisioning technologies with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP). The technology to deploy and manage the End-to-End (E2E) solutions as well as the related reference workloads for these features are also included in the project.

The project source code is maintained in the Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift Repo

The 1.0.1 document is published at Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift Repo Readme

The related certified images for RHOCP are published at Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog:

What’s in Version 1.0.1

Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift version 1.0.1 release provides the following solutions with RHOCP-4.12.26. The new feature in the release is highlighted in bold.

  • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series provisioning
  • Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) provisioning
  • Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) provisioning
  • Intel AI inference E2E solution based on
    • Intel® OpenVINO™ technology
    • Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS)
    • Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series provisioning

Users can use the Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift version 1.0.1 readme to setup these solutions with the following images:

  • Intel Device Plugin Operator certified with RHOCP-4.12
  • Intel SGX device plugin images certified with RHOCP-4.12
  • Intel GPU device plugin images certified with RHOCP-4.12
  • Intel QAT device plugin images certified with RHOCP-4.12
  • Intel Data Center GPU Driver Container Image certified with OCP-4.12

New Features Description

  • Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) provisioning
    Intel QuickAssist Technology can be used to accelerate data encryption and compression for applications from networking to enterprise, cloud to storage, and content delivery to database.
    In this release, the QAT provisioning is verified and supported for QAT 4xxx devices on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and verified on 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. The qatlib based workload has been used to verify QAT provisioning. The qatlib based workload can claim and consume the QAT resource provided from QAT provisioning on RHOCP.

Release contacts

Intel Business Contact:
[email protected]

Engineering Manager:
[email protected]
Release Support Contact:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Known Issues and Planned Enhancements