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AAF: Application Authorization Framework

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CDAP: Cask Data Application Platform

• open source framework to build and deploy data applications on Apache™ Hadoop® (CDAP.io site)

CDS: Controller Design Studio

• it is not the tool for the design of controllers instead it is common design tool to support both SDNC and generic L4-7 NF controllers integrated with SDC (e.g. APPC, VFC)
  
• part of CCSDK project,
• see vFW CDS Casablanca - using CDS in context of virtual Firewall use case
  

Chef:

• server configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang. (Wikipedia) (Chef site)

CI/CD: Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

• continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day (Wikipedia)
• continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time (Wikipedia)

CIA: Container Images - see Project Docker/OCI Images - Best Practices and Tools

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• a package defined by OASIS TOSCA. It is a ZIP file that includes a TOSCA template of a Network Service, and all the scripts or files that a VNF needs for the lifecycle from creation to termination.

DAO: Data Access Object (Wikipedia)

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EMS: Element Management System (Wikipedia)

• systems and applications for managing network elements (NE) on the network element-management layer (NEL) of the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) model.

ESR: External System Register

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GBP: Group-Based Policy (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GroupBasedPolicy)

GNFC: Genric Network Function Controller - A proposed unification of the APP-C and SDN-C for complete L0-L7 control. (ONAP_GNF_ControllersSOL003.pptx) 

HAS: Homing and Allocation Service - part of OOF

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• a free and open-source software platform for creating private and public clouds (compute, network, and storage facilities) (https://www.openstack.org/)
• mostly deployed as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). The software platform consists of interrelated components that control hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users either manage it through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through a RESTful API.

OOM: ONAP Operations Manager

OpenAPI Specification: "defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to RESTful APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection", quoted from https://swagger.io/specification/

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• a modular system and a service platform for the Java programming language that implements a complete and dynamic component model (OpenDaylight uses this) (Wikipedia)

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RCT: Reference Connection Tool

Recipe:

• within Chef, the most fundamental configuration element (see the Style Guide)

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SR-IOV: Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization (Wikipedia)

• a network interface that allows the isolation of the PCI Express resources for manageability and performance reasons

SSH: Secure Shell

SSL: Secure Sockets Layer (Wikipedia), precursor to TLS

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• a group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to a software instance on a server (Wikipedia). This terminology is used in OpenStack

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• a Portal GUI to trigger MSO instantiation of services and components

VID: Virtual Infrastructure Deployment (Project)

VIM: Virtualized Infrastructure Manager

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• a virtualized task formerly carried out by proprietary, dedicated network hardware. (Examples: virtual firewall, virtual DNS.)
• in ONAP, a VNF is a Resource
• a VNF is a specific kind of Vendor Software Product

VNFC: Virtual Network Function Component

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