Executive Summary - Improve security posture of ONAP without complicating each application container logic.

Business Impact - Lesser operational issues, centralized monitoring of ONAP

Business Markets - Applicable across compute continuum : On-prem edges, network edges, edge clouds and public clouds.

Funding/Financial Impacts - Reduces OPEX as the security, traffic management & observability is centralized.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies - There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this use case outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

Goal:

• Avoid node ports (use ingress gateways)
• Load balancer as it is done in public clouds (such as MetalLB)
• Secure communication to outside entities 
• Secure communication among the micro services
• User authentication via tokens 

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