Building containerized workflows with virtio/vDPA

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Shows end-to-end integration that provisions a virtio/vDPA device on the pod primary interface using Kubernetes + Multus + OVN-k8s + SR-IOV network-operator and OVS with HW offload; implements device-plugin discovery, resource pools, and NetworkAttachmentDefinition mapping; demo runs on two bare-metal ports with NVIDIA Mellanox cards, creates 2 VFs and 2 vDPA devices, and pings containers successfully; next steps target secondary interfaces, user-space vDPA (VDUSE), and SubFunction scalability. virtio/vDPA device on the pod primary interface OVS hardware offload SR-IOV network-operator

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:03Problem statement and virtio/vDPA
3. 3:14What is vDPA
4. 5:22Integrating vDPA into Kubernetes
5. 8:17Kubernetes components for vDPA
6. 10:26Resource pools and CNI workflow
7. 14:01Demo setup and hybrid cluster
8. 15:36Live demo of vDPA pod communication
9. 22:03Current status and future steps
10. 23:29Q&A

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