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  • Proposed name for the project: VNF Guidelines and SDK
  • Proposed name for the repository: vnfsdk


Project description:

    • VNF onboarding is a challenge across the industry because of the lack of a standard format for VNFs.
    • This project will
  • address the problem for the ecosystem
    • build an ecosystem for ONAP compatible VNFs by:
      • publishing guidelines and requirements for VNF vendors
      • developing a packaging model
      • developing tools for vendor CI/CD toolchains
      • developing validation and testing tools
      • defining & establishing a compliance program allowing VNF providers to obtain an ONAP Compatible label.


    • This project will deliver a unified set of VNF guidelines 
    • It will deliver automation tools for VNF product specification, packaging, publication and ingestion
    • This project will also deliver a
  • portal and
    • tool
  • for 
    • for: 
      • package validation,
      • lifecycle test (framework)
      • functional test (framework)
  • Marketplace
      • Reference Repository for VNFs to enable CI/CD without dependency on service provider ingestion [Note: business model out of scope]
    • This project will also develop an ONAP Compatible compliance program
      • Program governance
      • Vendor self-testing guidelines
      • Third-party lab guidelines
    • The functionality supplied by this project is intended for use by NFV operators, VNF product developers and VNF product DevOps teams.


Scope:

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  • Unified set of VNF Guidelines incorporating those from OPEN-O and ECOMP
  • Data model for VNFs
    • TOSCA, Yang, and HEAT
  • NFV operator tools and SDK for ingestion (download) of VNF products from the VNF marketplaceproducts 
  • VNF Supplier DevOps tools and SDK for automated packaging and publication of VNF product releases
  • A Network Function Marketplace Repository (NF-MPRP) for publication, upload and download of VNF products and offerings
  • APIs for external interactions with VNF providers 
  • Tooling necessary to support VNF coherence, environment and dependency checking during packaging, upload and download

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  • How does this project fit into the rest of the ONAP Architecture?
    • VNF SDK is one of the functional blocks in the ONAP Architecture supporting VNF packaging
  • What other ONAP projects does this project depend on?
    • This project depends on SDC, SOIt also interacts with ICE, Modeling, DCAE
  • How does this align with external standards/specifications?
    • This project aligns with TOSCA and ETSI NFV VNF models
    • HEAT will follow OpenStack specification
  • Are there dependencies with other open source projects?
    • OPEN-O (mercury Mercury release)
    • Robot
    • ARIA (parser)
    • OpenStack

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  • org.onap.vnfsdk/guidelines
  • org.onap.vnfsdk/model
  • org.onap.vnfsdk/pkgtools
  • org.onap.vnfsdk/validation
  • org.onap.vnfsdk/lctest
  • org.onap.vnfsdk/functest
  • org.onap.vnfsdk/refrepo
  • org.onap.vnfsdk/mktplacecompliance

Lifecycle State: incubation
Primary Contact: Chris Donley
Project Lead: Chris Donley
mailing list tag [vnfsdk] 
Committers:

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