Jan 7th, 2021 at 3.30pm UTC
- Review our Calendar - Decision to setup CNF Task Force call every Tuesday at 2pm UTC until Daylight saving time will end in March
- Review (and refine if necessary) this taskforce goals. Other than the on-going work, what is the next big thing we want to tackle as a taskforce?
#1 Define/Implement CNF Release Requirements
#2 Promote what we have developed
#3 Define new use cases considering latest Industry/Vendor/Open Source solutions i.e. XGVela, Anuket
- Continue discussion between Aarna and SO team to figure out if some of the Aarna work can be re-used by SO
- Any topic we want to submit for the February DDF event?
- What will be ONAP priorities to remain in alignment with Industry/Standards?
- What would be our ONAP 2021 CNF Task Force priorities (after Honolulu) - brainstorming?
- Video Guilin CNF?
- CNF Task Force Office Hours
- Have the leaders of this activity (Seshu Kumar Mudiganti Lukasz Rajewski Fernando Oliveira Byung-Woo Jun) and other members of the Taskforce available for Q&A from the community.
- The priorities brainstorming (suggested above) can be part of this session.
Jan 12th, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- Recap what was discussed last week
- Review CNF Event submission
- One single ONAP CNF Session at DDF (1h) but open to cross-community sessions
- (20 mins) - Where we are - covered through demo or video? Lukasz Rajewski, Seshu Kumar Mudiganti
- (10 mins) - Recap Honolulu requirements (ETSI ) Fernando Oliveira, Byung-Woo Jun + (CNF Orchestration) Seshu Kumar Mudiganti, Lukasz Rajewski
- (30 mins) - Open discussions - Ranny Haiby
- Collecting feedback from the ONAP Community or external Communities/SDOs about 2021 CNF priorities
- Call for new requirements?
- Call for developers
- One single ONAP CNF Session at DDF (1h) but open to cross-community sessions
- EAUG - is there any CNF requirement in their 2021 wish list?
- Reconnect with the CNF Sub-tasks (ETSI & CNF modeling/AAI)
- New CNCF principles - probably to check in February 2021
- OVP - Badging for the infrastructure - anything we should consider for ONAP this year?
- Review Satoshi Fujii- Presentation - CNF Control Loop
Jan 19th, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- Reconnect with ETSI CNF Team and CNF Modeling/AAI
- VNF/CNF Data Model Based on ETSI v3.3.1 SOL001 plus CNF Enhancements
- ETSI IFA011 v3.3.1 & v4.1.1 Changes to ONAP Resource Model.
- Additional feedback from Fernando Oliveira about Honolulu release:
- SDC focus, SO work will be kicked-off but will be finalized in Istanbul
- AAI model change - not yet fully developed, AAI model finalized in Istanbul
- Creation of the CSAR
- Presentations planned during the DDF event
- DDF Topic submitted by Timo Perala: ONAP MultiCloud k8s plugin enhancement for CNF deployment
- Nokia Team has been prototyping in this space and would like to share their findings during the DDF event
- Timo will contact the team and will ask them to provide some preview material on 1/26
- Lukasz Rajewski - Use of EMCO instead of k8splugin
- The Edge Multi-Cluster Orchestrator (EMCO) is a software framework for intent-based deployment of cloud-native applications to a set of Kubernetes clusters, spanning enterprise data centers, multiple cloud service providers and numerous edge locations. It is architected to be flexible, modular and highly scalable. It is aimed at various verticals, including telecommunication service providers.
- Discussion about GitHub - open-ness/EMCO
- Shall we continue to use it even if it is not part of ONAP umbrella?
- No control of the code, it is not a library neither a docker - dependency on open-ness release cycle
- EMCO License is Apache 2.0
- Need to check if security requirements are aligned with ONAP SECCOM (i.e. test coverage, critical vulnerability, ONAP global requirements, ONAP approved best practices, S3P, etc.) => We might need to fix any concern ourselves directly to open-ness repositories
- EMCO Architecture & Design
- DDF Event:
Jan 26th, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- Review ONAP MultiCloud k8s plugin enhancement for CNF deployment DDF topic witht the CNF Task Force
- Review CNF Closed Loop proposal (Satoshi Fujii) with PTLs (SO, AAI, DCAE and Policy)
- Consider EMCO as part of the CNF Closed loop
- Great Feedback provided by AAI/DCAE/Policy/SO Project Team members (listen to the recording
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No CNF meeting on Feb 2nd, 2021 (DDF event)
Feb 9th, 2021 at 2pm UTC
#1 Invite Open-Ness representatives to discuss about EMCO : Ritu Soodand Todd Malsbary to provide update on the helm charts. Guidance to address few comments. How to treat EMCOv2 (Multi Cloud K8s plugin). Some options:
- Use binary images from external repositories (Similar to databases, Vault and others) where docker images of EMCOv2 is used from Public docker repositories
- Treat it as external upstream project, but build and publish the docker images in ONAP registry.
- Go with the approach adopted for ODL (where source code is replicated in ONAP repos and constantly synchronize with upstream).
- Let the deployment admin deploy EMCOv2 before deploying rest of ONAP.
<Will be re-discussed as soon as Green light received from LFN>
#2 Upcoming ETSI NFV Workshop on April 12 - Thinh Nguyenphu
Event link not yet available
Fernando Oliveira, Byung-Woo Jun will represent the ONAP Community (ETSI & CNF Task Forces) at this event - Thank you !
#3 Discussion between ETSI NFV team and Direct path team presented by Fernando Oliveira and Byung-Woo Jun
- Common CNF packaging
Challenge: Find vendors willing to submit their commercial NF to the ONAP Community
Suggestion to use: https://www.open5gcore.org/ and https://free5gc.org/
Reference CNF: https://github.com/electrocucaracha/gw-tester
- VNF-D needed?
- Other artifacts needed?
Feb 16th, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- - Interested in pursuing badging for ONAP CNF workloads in 2021?
- OVP: Roadmap 2021
- Q1: Infrastructure, in alignment with Reference Architecture 2 (Anuket)
- Q2-Q3:
- #1 Reference Architecture 2 Interoperability (Anuket);
- #2 Compliance in alignment with ONAP CNF On-boarding/Instantiation capabilities
- #3 Cloud Native workload
- Badging will also evolve based on requirements, testing
- OPV NFVI portal: https://nfvi-verified.lfnetworking.org/#/
- Initial ONAP Community Request(s)
- Validate if Common CNF packages are in alignment with ETSI including providing information to OVP team about outcomes from our ONAP VNF-D solution; split k8s vs CNF packages, etc.
- Requirements related to k8S ? Maybe provided based on CNCF
- Any request from OVP To ONAP Community to support OVP Badging?
- Any VNFSDK requirement?
- Any SDC requirement (onboarding)?
- ONAP should remain "Cloud Agnostic", not tight to any RA2 requirement (Infrastructure perspective)
- OVP is gathering requirements from the different communities; acting as "Bridge" Lead for CNF activities
- CNCF: Focus on CNF for Telcos, best practices
- OVP: Roadmap 2021
Feb 23rd, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- Thinh Nguyenphu - Share an alternative Common CNF Packaging - postponed to March 9th - work on CNF packaging is running a bit behind schedule.
- Nokia is exploring on "CNFD", similar to the existing "VNFD" and "PNFD". A CNFD may be treated similarly to a PNFD, which is sort of a black-box, and handed over to another entity like K8S to orchestrate.
- Marian Darula commented - introducing a CNFD in addition to a VNFD creates a challenge for xNF vendors. Why not re-use the VNFD? Thinh Nguyenphu - CNFD orchestration is based on Helm charts and not TOSCA, hence a VNFD is not very useful for CNF orchestration.
- Nokia aims to separate resource orchestration (in the Helm chart) from application orchestration (in the CNFD).
- Marian Darula - There is urgency in finalizing the packaging - vendors need to deliver CNFs.
- ESTI Workshop updates - Thinh Nguyenphu - New dates: April 21st and 22nd, 2021 - Registration link to be shared as soon as available
- EMCO
- Next steps discussed on TSC 2021-02-18
- Update from Victor Morales : CNF Reference (Core Network)
- https://github.com/electrocucaracha/gw-tester/
- https://github.com/gw-tester/pgw
- Request from Lukasz Rajewskito have additional follow-ups (deployment, modelling, etc.)
March 2nd, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- CNF Reference deep-dive
- Walkthrough of the Core Network reference CNF (https://github.com/gw-tester) by Victor Morales
- The project was recently moved to new Github organization.
- Supports DANM, Multus or NSM
- Question: What kind of K8S deployment is assumed? IS it KUD/KRD? Answer: No. There is no assumption of specific K8S deployment.
- Question: What kind of K8S cluster is assumed? Is it just a single node? Answer: No assumption on number of nodes.
- Question: Is there support for a cluster running on OpenStack? Answer: Currently packaged in Vagrant. May work on OpenStack, but may require some extra work.
- Question: Are there any parameters that can be configured (Day2)? Is there any telemetry provided by the CNF? A: Not yet, but it could be added.
- Question: Which components could be scaled out using a replica set? Answer: eNodeB may be a candidate for that.
- Question: Can the CNF be used without a multiplexing CNI plugin (Using Calico or Flannel for example) Answer: In theory it might be possible with some minor modifications, but it was never tested.
- Next Step: Fernando Oliveira will work on better understanding parameterization and will work on creating an ETSI based package and VNFD.
- Walkthrough of the Core Network reference CNF (https://github.com/gw-tester) by Victor Morales
- Clock Changes: in US on March 14th, 2021; in Europe on March 28th, 2021; No change in India/China - Shall we change our CNF Task Force schedule as previously discussed?
- One hour before TSC - AI - Ranny to send a mail to the workgroup and get confirmation.
March 9th, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- ONAP/OVP - Inputs from/to ONAP/OVP Community in addition to what was discussed on 2/16. What are the other functionalities, test coverage are available with OVP today? What other communities (in addition to Anuket, CNCF, ONAP) collaborate with OVP?
- Update from Olivier Smith - Change of chair in the OVP program. OVP 2.0 is being rebranded as "Anuket Assured". First badge will be released this summer, aligned with Anuket RA2. Working with the CNCF on cloud-native behavior for network functions. That will take some time to mature. OVP 2.0 is not writing requirements. It is coordinating the tests and requirements between the various communities. Expectations from ONAP is to have well-defined CNF modeling and a set of tests for verification. Validation tests in ONAP may exist in VVP or VNFSDK. No preference from the "Anuket Assured" side.
- Update from user-67d6f - During Frankfurt, The "CNF Conformance" tool from the CNCF was integrated into VNFSDK. Based on the CNF modeling approach chosen by ONAP, VNFSDK may need to be updated. This was part of the CNTP effort. REQ335- REQ338 . https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Guilin+Release+Requirements
- user-67d6f may continue serving as the main ONAP contact point, representing the VNFSDK.
- VVP contact point - steven stark
- What kind of validation should ONAP require for CNFs? Packaging and on-boarding only?
- On-boarding=SDC. SDC can now ingest and distribute Helm charts. In future releases it will also be validated. In Honolulu there is work to support ETSI packaging (SOL004).
- Do we want to cover more (E.g. the application layer functionality of the CNF)?
- We should probably not go into the application layer. This means we will follow the same approach we used for VNFs.
- There will probably be different badges for different levels of conformance.
- ETSI Event - April 21st - https://www.etsi.org/events/upcoming-events/1892-nfvevolution
March 18th, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- Satoshi Fujii - proposal update from Fujitsu: k8s network design and config draft rev2.pptx
- Proposal deals with the challenge of migrating workloads between K8S clusters
- The approach is separating network design and CNI configuration
- According to the proposal the user will create virtual networks and ONAP will generate the CNI configuration and inject it into the Helm charts at deployment time.
- The proposal leverages EMCO (from OpenNESS). There were questions of the exact functionality provided by ONAP.
- AI for Satoshi Fujii - prepare a follow-up presentation about the use of EMCO and the value it brings.
- Update from Thinh Nguyenphuon ETSI event
- There are only 15 minutes for the entire presentation
- There is a need to submit an abstract by 3/22
- user-67d6f - ONAP CNF compliance badging
- VTP enhancements to support CNFs
- VTP needs to get the requirements for CNF packaging from ONAP
- user-67d6f - Are there ETSI SOL004 specifications? Fernando Oliveira - This is work in progress in Honolulu
- VTP test development is planned for the Istanbul release. Need to have the requirements table ready by the start of the release. Fernando Oliveira volunteered to work on that.
- Catherine Lefevre - Some of the VNF requirements might be applicable for CNFs
- The VNF requirements are at VNF TOSCA Requirements . Catherine Lefevre suggested Taskforce members take a look and provide feedback.
March 25th, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- Thinh Nguyenphu - Share an alternative Common CNF Packaging - We will wait for Thinh Nguyenphu to indicate his readiness to present
- Quick review of VNF TOSCA Requirements and VNF HEAT Requirements indicate that they are very VNF and OpenStack specific
- We need to look at the ONAP CNF artifact specifications (Helm charts, etc.), and try to derive the requirements.
- Marian Darula - AFAIK the draft for CNF artifacts has been presented by Fernando Oliveira , but not approved and accepted.
- Olivier Smith - There is no intention to rush the ONAP project to provide requirements if they are not ready yet.
April 1st, 2021 at 2pm UTC
- Thinh Nguyenphu Fernando Oliveira Byung-Woo Jun - Share:
- what is going to be presented to ETSI-NFV on April 21st.
- What is planned for Istanbul? - In the context of modeling
Action Items (In Progress)
- (Modeling/Requirements): Need to determine what ETSI CNF package solution we want to move forward (Fernando Oliveira, Byung-Woo Jun vs Thinh Nguyenphu)
- (Thinh): Share an alternative (Common CNF Packaging) to what was proposed by Fernando Oliveira , Byung-Woo Jun
- (Olivier): Check with CNCF if any cross-meeting with ONAP could be scheduled
- (All): Collect feedback about our current CNF onboarding capabilities from 3rd party vendors
- (All): Build an ONAP proposition value to collaborate with XGVela Community
- (Seshu): Questions for XGVela
- It would be great to highlight more clearly the purpose of XGVela as a platform to build CNFs and get feedback from 3rd party vendors, who are today already creating CNFS for carriers, to assess the value proposition
- After the CNF is created via XGVela – can we then deploy the CNF on any Cloud environment without using XGVela at run-time?
- If we need XGVela then have we performed an analysis to demonstrate the value proposition vs K8S and its ecosystem?
- Build a slide to highlight how XGVela (i.e. create CNF) is complementary to ONAP (onboard CNF/orchestrate CNF, etc.) and how it will fit to the CNCF Landscape
- (All) Try to identify where we are on the CNCF Trail Journey - Needs clarification to comment, need to dig into the details of the actual ask.
Action Items (Closed in 2021)
- (Timo): Ask the Nokia team to present preview material on 1/26
- (Catherine): Contact Policy/DCAE/AAI/SO PTLs to attend January 26th CNF Task Force call to review Satoshi FujiiCNF Closed Loop proposal
- (Catherine): Send Calendar invite - every Tuesday @2pm UTC
- (Catherine): Reconnect with the CNF sub-Task force: Modeling/AAI (Andy Mayer) and ETSI (Byung-Woo Jun and Fernando Oliveira ) to understand their 2021 goals on January 19th
- (Kenny): Follow up with EUAG in order to determine if any particular CNF reqs (or 2021 ONAP requirements including an update to the ONAP TSC)
- (Seshu/Lukasz): Invite EMCO representatives
- (Olivier): Organise a call with Trevor Lovettand any interested CNF team members to determine how ONAP could contribute to the OVP 2021 activities
- (Ranny): Post the topic for the event
- (Catherine) Check with Olivier Smithif we can postpone OVP/ONAP discussion to another week so CNF PDN Gateway discussions can be scheduled on March 2nd, 2021
- (Victor Morales/ Ranny Haiby): Setup additional follow-ups about CNF PDN Gateway
- (Timo/Catherine): Promote 2021 goals from OVP program and collect any particular requirement through ONAP Requirement and TSC meetings
- (Kenny): Contact EUAG about any CNF badging requirement (OVP)
- (Seshu): Check if user-67d6f , Lei Huang , Yan Yang can join March 9th, 2021 to discuss about OVP/ONAP & VNFSDK
- (Thinh): Share the ETSI event link when it will be available