Ranny Haiby,

The concept of elevating ONAP modules to semi-standalone entities was presented to the board and got positive feedback. One request that did come up was to clarify the evolution of the integration tests that are currently part of the ONAP-wide release process (will they still exist in some form to ensure interoperability between the independent modules?). The next step would be executing the necessary changes in the ONAP CI/CD system. I see that @Byung-Woo Jun already has a sessions planned for the ONAP DTF Day (https://lf-onap.atlassian.net/wiki/x/mICKBg) to discuss the next level of details. @LJ Illuzzi and and I will of course support from the LF side.  

Also, credits go to Ciaran Johnston and Christian Olrog

Byung-Woo Jun,

At the ONAP DTF days, I plan to present the ONAP TSC roadmap and Architecture evolution, covering this concept. Working with DT and other ONAP participating companies, I have outlined how ONAP will enable the individual build and deployment of ONAP components under the ONAP Streamlining evolution; i.e., ONAP already supports these capabilities.

The current OOM enhancements led by Andreas Geissler for ONAP CI/CD and ONAP architecture, leveraging Argo CD were tested during the Oslo release by DT and ARCCOM. Now, DT plans to contribute to ONAP CI/CD further by using both Argo CD and Flux during the Paris release. Additionally, China Telecom, China Mobile and DT have integrated several core ONAP components, referred to as Lightweight ONAP solutions, for their 5G and upcoming 6G.

Over the past couple of years, under the ONAP Streamlining evolution led by me (Byung), we have established a solid foundation, which has proven to be valuable.  

Furthermore, ONAP TSC and ARCCOM have already discussed the possible integration solutions by leveraging individually built ONAP components. We are currently in the process of formalizing integration procedures and developing use cases for higher-level solutions.  Additionally, I proposed the Runtime CI/CD for ONAP, and it will be part of my ONAP DTF Days presentations.

I am fully agree with this direction, and we are proud of the foundational work achieved through this evolution. More to come…  We have seen the future 😊

I plan to present the evolution to the ONAP DTF Days, and I look forward to collaborating with you all.

Kudos to all ONAP contributors!!! Thanks!

• Keguang He, prepares ONAP's status report to ETSI NFV on March 10th  NFV(25)000021_ONAP_LS_Report_to_ETSI_NFV_49.pptx
• Byung-Woo Jun, prepares Nephio and GenAI Liaison report, NFV(24)000303_NephioGenAI_LS_Report_to_ETSI_NFV_49.pdf

From the Paris release, TSC needs to discuss ONAP focus areas and strategies / roadmaps

• •  TSC members to add thoughts

Let's discuss more this year for Paris +

Any questions or feedback? 

Byung-Woo Jun presented the brainstorm at the TSC meeting this week.

Brainstorm:

• Ensure ONAP core components are focused and operate independently, from build to runtime
  • DT finishes Argo-CD and Flux based component independent deployment
    • optimizing code for Flux 
    • DT is productizing some of the selected ONAP core components early next year in their TNAP production environment
  • Declarative and Intent-based component operations by the Repository-based Network Automation : see the ideas from ONAP Architecture Evolution - 2025.pdf
• Make ONAP core components more autonomous and ready for use by both ONAP, LF and other external users
  • • During New Delhi and Oslo releases, CPS and Policy achieved the OpenSSF Gold Badging status. Kudos to the team!
    • Continue to promote/facilitate other ONAP core components for the Gold Badging status (e.g., UUI, SDNC) - Ramesh, Toine, Byung will invite Fiete to give him a list of work items for gold badging.
• Incorporate more GenAI capabilities and use cases to the ONAP components, and promote the adoption of open-source LLM models and frameworks aligned with LF AI & Data and GenAI Commons
  • Collaborate with LF AI & Data GenAI Commons and Nephio GenAI for 5G and 6G
  • Open-source based models and controls
  • AI-Based Control Loop
  • AI Model-As-A-Service 
  • ETSI ISG NFV compliance for AI?
• Foster inter-community collaboration with other LF communities, such as O-RAN and Nephio
  • SDNC enhancements (which is used by O-RAN OAM as is)
  • Resource-based Orchestration Pattern (leveraging CD and Operator)
  • Energy saving / monitoring ; N.K. Shankaranarayanan, rAPP in SMO is monitoring energy; it is an industry trend. 
• Ensure the security of ONAP components and operations 
  • The latest security mechanism for communications (service mesh enhancements leveraging Istio and coming Ambient Mesh)
  • Deprecate unused sub-components and mitigate security vulnerabilities
• Define a secure LFN CI/CD pipeline by leveraging OpenSSF-associated reference tools

• The next Paris release schedule is TSC approved on 05 Dec 2024 , Release Planning: Paris 

  • TSC approved the current Paris release schedule on December 5th

  • An ArgoCD and Flux deployment to provide an alternative the helm deployment

  • RAN Simulator enhancement
  • Policy-OPA-PDP
  • MAAS
  • SDC Ruby upgrade - will be removed
  • Project package upgrade
  • SDNC/CCSDK - need to upgrade Java 21 and Maven ; PTL, SECCOM and ARCCOM will handle this
  • not only SDNC, may be other components too. SECCOM will discuss
  • Portal-NG upgrade?
• Release Planning: Paris
• Project Status in Paris Release
• Paris Release Key Updates

• Long Term Release Roadmap

• Software Package Upgrade

  SO-4130	SO PACKAGES UPGRADES IN DIRECT DEPENDENCIES FOR PARIS RELEASE	Seshu Kumar Mudiganti	Open	Unresolved
  SDC-4690	SDC PACKAGES UPGRADES IN DIRECT DEPENDENCIES FOR PARIS RELEASE	Fiete Ostkamp	Open	Unresolved
  MULTICLOUD-1507	MULTICLOUD PACKAGES UPGRADES IN DIRECT DEPENDENCIES FOR PARIS RELEASE	Andreas Geißler	Open	Unresolved
  DCAEGEN2-3414	DCAE PACKAGES UPGRADES IN DIRECT DEPENDENCIES FOR PARIS RELEASE	Andreas Geißler	Open	Unresolved

  Note: SO, SDC, MultiCloud and DCAE (without PTLs) are open; DT offered their help on  SDC, MultiCloud and DCAE. Thank you very much!!!
  Note: Seshu and Sanket will check the SO package upgrade.

• • Deena Mukundan, 
    • Last TSC meeting we discussed on kafka issue and it was updated that still work is in progress. All updates are mentioned in the ticket. Thanks, it seems to be working now (edited) 
  • IT-27801; Kevin Sandi, please take a look at this. 
  • murali parthasarathy k, NexusIQ license header issue - scanning; Paweł Pawlak, will take a look what kind of errors

    • Found licenses in the 'License not determined' license threat group ('Not Provided'); Paweł Pawlak, contact the code originator to add the license header

Byung-Woo Jun

• ARCCOM is working on the ONAP marketing catch points and architecture for the Paris release.
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MTqJDP8QyJwYUyxzDsCoxbUlJsb3Ec_S3xE4Q97HP4/edit?tab=t.0  
• PTLs, please plan for the ARCCOM reviews for your new features, requirements and enhancements for Paris.
• More ONAP Streamlining documentation, ONAP Streamlining Evolution and its sub-wiki pages. 
• Runtime CI/CD collaboration 

Paweł Pawlak

LJ Illuzzi

• • Gold badging consultation to AAI?? aiming for AAI Silver for now
  • Runtime CI/CD presentation by Lincoln Lavoie from UNH at the SECCOM meeting on March 4, 2025.
    • Byung-Woo Jun, This could be a good study/investigation for ONAP Runtime CI/CD
  • Byung-Woo Jun, Should we work on the secure ci/cd for LFN?

• • Andreas provided the list of the Java versions per project. versions_reporting.html ONAP-Component-Java-Versions_Reporting..pdf

    • AP: Dan Timoney, try it with SDNC to build basic image automatically regularly and update Docker file as needed. He will try it and let us know. 

      • Dan will share his testing results with us. 

  • Nexus-IQ scan for Node.js and Angular in ONAP: Paweł Pawlak, opened a LF IT ticket, https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2/IT-27757 

    • Kevin Sandi,  will check with Matt and estimate the effort; already provide info; github action can support; we can close this ticket.

    • Done
    • We need to check other ONAP components with GUI, such as UUI, SDC-FE, SO-FE.

    • @Paweł Pawlak , will look at Kevin’s comments

    • Matthew will take a look at the Maven job.

      • call-sonatype-lifecycle:

            needs: [notify]

            # yamllint disable-line rule:line-length

            uses: lfit/releng-reusable-workflows/.github/workflows/reuse-sonatype-lifecycle.yaml@98e376a377e4622da10ce286a618343c733e41c2 # 2024-10-24

            secrets:

              NEXUS_IQ_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.NEXUS_IQ_PASSWORD }}

      • gerrit-merge.yaml

      • releng-reusable-workflows/.github/actions/node-build-action/action.yaml at main · lfit/releng-reusable-workflows

  • Upcoming presentation proposal:
    • A new 5G SBP integration project- a joint LFN/LFEdge project aimed at creating a new distributed edge data cloud that service providers can offer to their customers. The community is looking for feedback from service providers about the technology and business opportunities it might create. Proposal to be present on the March 11 SECCOM meeting.

• working on support of Argo CD and Flux; it looks good
• Chart versions are being fixed
• TLS 1.3 support for internal and external secure communications, kiali, and argo connections are working now. Thanks Andreas Geißler !!!
• AAI and SDC package upgrades are in progress
• SDC reduce sdc-be log noise reduction
• Fixing/enhancing ONAP health check report

• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, and Open Networking & Edge Summit, next April 2025 in London
• Open Networking & Edge Summit Registration: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-edge-summit-europe/register/
  • There are no community sessions for this event. It’s a 100% curated agenda. There will be keynotes by LFN and LFE, and strategy sessions.

• LFN's KubeCon + CloudNative Con EU sponsorship that enables us to host Cloud Native Telco Day. LFN will have a booth onsite at the main KC + CNC show floor,  April 2-4. 

  Call to Action- LFN is looking for community members to help staff the booth, as well as project or collaborative demos that we can showcase in the booth.

Reach out to Jill Lovato if you want to volunteer at the LFN booth or have a project or

collaborative demo to showcase at the booth

jlovato@linuxfoundation.org

• The 2025 Networking & Open Source Survey ended. Thanks to all who participated and completed the survey. Survey results from LF Research will be made available once it is ready.

• 2025 LFN Events- as per the guidance of LFN Governing Board

  • All projects can have a virtual dev event (with LF help) to focus on upcoming releases and strategy

  • A series of virtual workshops around a specific topic (to be determined by the TAC) - eg Domain Specific AI, Security, etc

• LF Member Summit: March 18-20, Napa, California;

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