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• configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang. (Wikipedia) (Chef site)

CI/CD: Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

• continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day (Wikipedia)
• continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time (Wikipedia)

CMA: Change Management Application (within OpenECOMP)

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EELF: Event and Error-Logging Framework (common service within OpenECOMP)EMS: Element Management System)

EMS: Element Management System (Wikipedia)

• systems and applications for managing network elements (NE) on the network element-management layer (NEL) of the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) model.

ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute

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• Nonprofit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society.

Offer:

•  in OpenECOMP, a bundling of Products with specific Marketing configurations

OMF: Operational Management Framework (of OpenECOMP)

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• OpenECOMP user interface; provides access to design, analytics and operational control/administration via a common role-based menu or dashboard. Includes SDK to drive UI consistency.

Product:

• in OpenECOMP, a composition of Services

RCA: Root Cause Analysis

Resource:

• in OpenECOMP, a fundamental capability

REST: REpresentational State Transfer (Wikipedia)

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• proprietary (non-OpenECOMP) network definition service
• its operators accept Comma Separated Value files describing networksnetworks

Service:

• in OpenECOMP, a composition of Resources

SLA: Service Level Agreement

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VFC: Virtualized Function Component (draft_OpenECOMP_0_1 p. 45)

• the smallest granularity of function visible to OpenECOMP users (designers or operators)
• component of a VSP
• examples: Hypervisor, virtual machine recovery details, and cloning

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VM: Virtual Machine

VNF = NFV: Virtual Network FunctionsFunction

• a virtualized task formerly carried out by proprietary, dedicated network hardware
• in OpenECOMP, a VNF is a Resource
• a VNF is a specific kind of Vendor Software Product

VNFC: Virtual Network Function Component

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VSP: Vendor Software Product (from SDC Demo Guide)

• example: a VNF

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