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This release of OOF addresses a core ONAP requirement, which is Homing/placement Placement of VNFs and Services (VNF Homing Capability). Homing/placement Placement and allocation of resources is one of the fundamental requirements of provisioning a service over the cloud (or even non-cloud) infrastructure. OF-HAS is an a policy-driven placement optimizing service (or homing service) that allows ONAP to deploy services automatically across multiple sites and multiple clouds. It enables placement based on a wide variety of policy constraints including capacity, location, platform capabilities, and other service specific requirements.
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While homing is critical to almost all use cases, we primarily focus on the Residential vCPE and VoLTE and VOLTE use casecases. Homing would be called during the Generic Service Instantiation Flow (Generic Service.png), where the SO would call HAS for homing right after the service decomposition block. More details on how HAS provides homing for the vCPE use case (including the API interactions) can be found here: vCPE Homing Use Case.
We are currently working on defining similar requirements and workflows for the VOLTE use case. Some initial discussions on where and how homing would be integrated in the instantiation workflow can be found in the comments section here: Use Case: VoLTE(approved).
Minimum Viable Product
Describe the MVP for this release.
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