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- VNF onboarding is a challenge across the industry because of the lack of a standard format for VNFs.
- This project will build an ecosystem for ONAP compatible VNFs by:
- developing tools for vendor CI/CD toolchains
- developing validation and testing tools
- It will deliver automation tools for VNF product specification, packaging, publication and ingestion
- This project will also deliver a tool for:
- package validation,
- lifecycle test (framework)
- functional test (framework)
- Reference Repository for VNFs to enable CI/CD without dependency on service provider ingestion [Note: business model out of scope]
- The functionality supplied by this project is intended for use by NFV operators, VNF product developers and VNF product DevOps teams.
Scope:
yellow dotted lines = VNF SDK scope
green dotted lines = VNF Requirements project [out of scope for VNF SDK]
blue dotted lines = ONAP VNF Validation project [validation project out of scope; tools will be informed by validation requirements]
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