DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR COMMENTS
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- This project will deliver a unified set of VNF Guidelines and VNF Requirements.
- The VNF Guidelines and VNF Requirements must be versioned to enable evolution based on operational experience
- The VNF Guidelines and VNF Requirements will support the ONAP Architecture Principles.
- Update the VNF Requirements as prototype RFP text for the ONAP/Beijing release
- Update the VNF Guidelines as for the ONAP/Beijing release
- Identify a list of features and functionality will be developed.
- The VNF Guidelines and Requirements will support the Release 1 Use Cases.
- Use cases focused on VNF Requirements may be developed in this project, and they will need to be aligned with the ETE Platform use cases.
- Document the VNF Provider Guidelines for VNF Scaleout Use Case for the ONAP/Beijing release
- VNF Guidelines and Requirements are to be refined beyond prototype text (e.g. through EPIC statements, use cases) to deliver test cases and test procedures for us in VNF onboarding & validation. VNF Requirement level use cases to be aligned with ETE platform use cases
- Document the VNF Test Case Descriptions for VNF Package testing for the ONAP/Beijing release
- Identify what is in or out of scope. During the development phase, it helps reduce discussion.
- VNF Guidelines may be forward looking, or include best practices in VNF design and VNF lifecycle processes.
- VNF Requirements from ONAP APIs should be linked to the ONAP Release
- VNF Requirements may include:
- expected operational characteristics ( e.g. security, resilience, upgradeability)
- conditional requirements (e.g. When configured for deployment on High Availability Network Cloud Infrastructure, the VNF Shall …)
- Tool chain improvements
- Develop requirements structure/ metadata to support better linkage / tracking with other ONAP projects
- Develop templates for VNFs to demonstrate VNF Requirements conformance
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API Incoming Dependencies
List the API this release is expecting from other releases.
Prior to Release Planning review, Team Leads must agreed on the date by which the API will be fully defined. The API Delivery date must not be later than the release API Freeze date.
Prior to the delivery date, it is a good practice to organize an API review with the API consumers.The VNF Requirments does not produce code interfaciong with platform APIs. The VNF Requirments do consoliate requirements from ONAP platform compontents that impact the design and development of VNFs. These ONAP platform components in the table below generate APIs that impact VNFs and so these are generally reflected in the VNF Requirements.
| API Name | API Description | API Definition Date | API Delivery date | API Definition link (i.e.swagger) |
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| APPC | VNF configuration requirements | M2 | M3 | APPC Documentation |
| Authentication and authorization Framework | VNF Security Requirements | M2 | M3 | |
| DCAE | VNF reporting requirements | M2 | M3 | DCAE APIs documentation |
| Modeling | Tosca Data Modeling for VNF | N/A | ONAP Modelling Specifications | |
| Multi-VIM/ MultiCloud | network cloud infrastructure requirements | N/A | MultiCloud Documentation | |
| SDN-C | API requirements on VNFs | M2 | M3 | SDNC APIs documentation |
| Service Design & Creation | VNF onboarding | M2 | M3 | SDC documentation |
| VF-C | VNF life cycle management and configuration | M2 | M3 | VF-C APIs documentation |
API Outgoing Dependencies
API this release is delivering to other releasesThe VNF Requirements do not provide code with APIs, but the VNF Requirements are used as inputs by a number of other ONAP projects.
| API Name | API Description | API Definition Date | API Delivery date | API Definition link (i.e.swagger) |
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| To fill out | High level description of the API | Date for which the API is reviewed and agreed | To fill out | Link toward the detailed API description |
Third Party Products Dependencies
Third Party Products mean products that are mandatory to provide services for your components. Development of new functionality in third party product may or not be expected.
List the Third Party Products (OpenStack, ODL, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch,Crystal Reports, ...).
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| VNF SDK | VNF tooling should support the development and packaging of VNFs that are conformant to the VNF Requirements | N/A | ||
| VNF Validation program (ICE) | VNF Validation should be traceable against the VNF Requirements | N/A see the VNFRQTS <> VNF Validation project Workflowwiki page | ||
| Documentation | References to deliverables produced by this project may be included in various ONAP release documents maintained through the documentation project | N/A see the VNFRQTS <> Documentation Project Workflows wiki page | ||
Reference VNFs (now Integration Project) | Reference VNFs should be VNF Requirement compliant. The Integration Project maintaining those Reference VNFS would be dependent on the VNF Requirements for validating compliance. | N/A see the VNFRQTS <> Integration Project Workflow wiki page |
Third Party Products Dependencies
The VNF Requirements is documentation rather than code so there is no dependency on 3rd party products other than the documentation and development tool chains provided through the Linux Foundation.
Testing and Integration Plans
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| Gaps identified | Impact |
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| VNF Requirments linkage to testing | VNF RequirmentsRequirements are current provided for FPSRFP purposes, but the linkage to testing and validation of those requirments is not yet in place This release provides initial generic test plan descriptions for testing of VNFs based on the VNF Package. It does not provide test descriptions for design time or run time functional testing of VNFs. The testing linkage is also costrained by teh scope of the VNF Information model in teh VNF Package and the relationships identified between that information model and the VNF requirements. |
Known Defects and Issues
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