Add support for Intel’s NetSec Accelerator (code-named Phantom Lake, or PTL) to be enabled in OpenShift, allowing customers to offload and accelerate security functions such as IPsec and TLS on compatible Intel infrastructure. This integration ensures OpenShift can detect, configure, and utilize Phantom Lake devices through enhanced hardware enablement and container-aware acceleration support.

The outcome includes:

• Node-level detection and registration of NetSec Accelerator hardware.

• Integration with the OpenShift Node Feature Discovery (NFD) and Special Resource Operator (SRO) to surface and provision device-specific drivers and configurations.

• Container interfaces (via Device Plugins or Resource Classes) that expose NetSec offload capabilities to workloads, including CNFs and security-focused applications.

• Validation with OpenShift Networking and performance-sensitive workloads to ensure functional and scalable offload of cryptographic operations.

This work improves OpenShift’s support for next-generation Intel network acceleration technologies and aligns with hardware-aware workload scheduling and performance optimization strategies.