OCP Demo: F5 NGINX container running on Arm Neoverse-based Marvell OCTEON 10 DPU

Marvell, F5 Networks, and Arm have collaborated to develop the first real-world use case example built on the OPI framework. The demo to be displayed at Arm booth at the OCP Global Summit event this week. The demo use case is an F5 NGINX container acting as a proxy for traffic destined to a workload running on either the DPU host or on separate hosts. The NGINX container is running in a single node OpenShift installation on the Arm Neoverse-based Marvell OCTEON 10 DPU. The idea is to transfer the cloud infrastructure management services such as security, load balancing, and API gateways from the host CPU to the DPU with an aim to lower cloud and data center operator's total cost of ownership and use the general compute capacity of CPU cores for more user applications. Linux Foundation's OPI founded in 2022 is developing community-driven, standards-based open ecosystem for next-generation architectures and frameworks based on DPU technologies. OPI helping in simplifying network, storage and security APIs within applications to enable more portable and performant applications in the cloud and data center across DevOps, SecOps and NetOps. "The Open Programmable Infrastructure project is excited to showcase its first real-world use case for an OPI-enabled DPU, with a demonstration running on an Arm-based Marvell OCTEON 10 DPU," said Paul Pindell, chair of the OPI Outreach...