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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

CDT: APPC Controller Design Tool

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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

• the abbreviation probably uses the letter A at the end to distinct from commonly used CI - Continuous Integration
  

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CLAMP: Closed Loop Automation Management Platform (project)

CLI: Command Line Interface (project)

CMA: Change Management Application (within ONAP)

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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.

CSMF: Communication Service Management Function

DAO: Data Access Object (Wikipedia)

• an object that provides an abstract interface to some type of database or other persistence mechanism

DCAE: Data Collection, Analytics and Events (component of ONAP runtime)

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• the OpenDaylight community GUI (DLUX documentation)
• typically not needed for ONAP development

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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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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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Helm: application package manager for kubernetes see https://docs.helm.sh/

Holmes: Holmes project provides alarm correlation and analysis for Telecom cloud infrastructure and services.

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• automates activities, tasks, rules and policies needed for on-demand creation, modification or removal of network, application or infrastructure services

MUSIC: Multi-site State Coordination Service (Project)

MVP: Minimum Viable Product

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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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S3P: Stability, Security, Scalability, Performance. See also Platform Maturity Requirements (S3P).

SDC: Service Design and Creation (component of ONAP for visual modeling and design)

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SDN-R: application of SDNC - see SDN-R objectives

SEBA: SDN-Enabled Broadband Access, see also:

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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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UEB: An event bus interface that has been replaced by DMaaP.

U-UI: Usecase UI = Usecase User Interface (Project)

vCE: virtual CE (Customer Edge) router (an example VNF)

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VDU: Virtualisation Deployment Unit - The Virtualisation Deployment Unit (VDU) is a construct supporting the description of the deployment and operational behaviour of a VNFC.

• see class Vdu

VES: Virtual function Event Stream

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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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VNO: Virtual Network Operator

VNFSDK: ONAP project

vPE: virtual PE (Provider Edge) router (an example of a VNF)

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• part of VNFSDK - see VNF Test Platform (VTP)

VVP: VNF Validation Program (Project)

WAR: Web application ARchive (Wikipedia)

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• https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6020 or https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6020
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7950