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A Virtual Network Function can be developed in a stand-alone development environment without most of the tools – or even API libraries – used or furnished by OpenECOMP. The completed VNF is submitted to the Certification Group (see Mailing Lists) as a collection of executable and text files, and must meet the set of requirements described in Creating a Virtual Network Function (VNF)in the Reference Documents for VNF Providers, below.
The primary audiences for this documentation are
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Figure 1. VNF complete life cycle stages
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The following are the reference documents contain guidelines and requirements for VNF Providers.
VNF Guidelines for Network Cloud and OpenECOMP
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- provides recommendations and standards for building Heat templates compatible with OpenECOMP
Related Document: the Network Cloud
The following document describes how a network cloud should be configured to run the OpenECOMP platform. This is the kind of hosting environment assumed by a VNF.
<<DocRef: VNF Network Cloud Specification for OpenECOMP (Example)>>
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Example VNFs Included with OpenECOMP
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