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- Cloud Environment Support: All components in ONAP should be virtualized, preferably with support for both virtual machines and containers. All components should be software-based with no requirement on a specific hardware platform.
- Scalability: ONAP must be able to manage a small set of PNF / VNFs to highly distributed, very large network and service environment deployed across the globe. It should be possible to deploy multiple instances of ONAP and create a network of inter-working ONAP instances.
- Availability & Resiliency: ONAP must support various deployment and configuration options to meet varying availability and resiliency needs of various service providers.
- Security: All ONAP components should keep security considerations at the fore-front of all architectural decisions. Security should be a pervasive underlying theme in all aspects of ONAP. The ONAP architecture should have a flexible security framework, allowing ONAP platform users to meet their security requirements.
- Platform Plumbing: Identifies areas of commonality and implements reusable solutions that can be used to support generic needs such as (a) resiliency and traffic control, (b) observability (e.g. logging), (c) security, and (d) data persistence, alleviating the burden of this on the module developers, and speeding up the process accordingly. This also helps optimize platform and component footprint.
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