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> Hey all,
>
> tl;dr Humbly requesting a handful of nodes to run NFV tests in CI
>
> Intel has their NFV tests tempest plugin [1] and manages a third party
> CI for Nova. Two of the cores on that project (Stephen Finucane and
> Sean Mooney) have now moved to Red Hat, but the point still stands
> that there's a need and a use case for testing things like NUMA
> topologies, CPU pinning and hugepages.
>
> At Red Hat, we also have a similar tempest plugin project [2] that we
> use for downstream whitebox testing. The scope is a bit bigger than
> just NFV, but the main use case is still testing NFV code in an
> automated way.
>
> Given that there's a clear need for this sort of whitebox testing, I
> would like to humbly request a handful of nodes (in the 3 to 5 range)
> from infra to run an "official" Nova NFV CI. The code doing the
> testing would initially be the current Intel plugin, bug we could have
> a separate discussion about keeping "Intel" in the name or forking
> and/or renaming it to something more vendor-neutral.
>
> I won't be at PTG (conflict with personal travel), so I'm kindly
> asking Stephen and Sean to represent this idea in Denver.
>
> Cheers!
>
> [1] https://github.com/openstack/intel-nfv-ci-tests
> [2] https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/admin/projects/openstack/whitebox-tempest-plugin

Forgot to actually include openstack-infra, apologies.