DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR COMMENTS
The content of this template is expected to be fill out for M1 Release Planning Milestone.
Overview
| Project Name | VNFRQTS |
|---|---|
| Target Release Name | Beijing |
| Project Lifecycle State | Incubation . Refer to ONAP Charter, section 3.3 Project Lifecycle for further information |
| Participating Company | AT&T, China Mobile, Orange, Bell Canada, Amdocs, VMWare, Huawei, ZTE, Intel |
Scope
What is this release trying to address?
- 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 including:
- Hardware Platform Awareness (HPA) Requirements
- HEAT/TOSCA Information Model updates
- Update the VNF Guidelines as for the ONAP/Beijing release
- Update the VNF Requirements as prototype RFP text for the ONAP/Beijing release including:
- 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
Use Cases
Describe the use case this release is targeted for (better if reference to customer use case).
The TSC identified the following Use cases for Release A:
| Release first proposed | TSC Use Case | VNFs identified in TSC Use case |
|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | Use Case: Residential Broadband vCPE (Approved) | vBNG, vG_MUX, vG, vAAA, vDHCP, vDNS |
| Amsterdam | Use Case: vFW/vDNS (Approved) | vFW, vPacketGenerator, vDataSink, vDNS, vLoadBalancer, all VPP based. |
| Amsterdam | Use Case: VoLTE(approved) | vSBC, vPCSCF, vSPGW, vPCRF, VI/SCSCF, vTAS, VHSS, vMME |
| Beijing | 5G- RAN deployment, Slicing, SON | |
| Beijing | Enterprise vCPE --potential R1 use cases’ extension | vCPE, vAAA, vDHCP |
| Beijing | ONAP Change Management | |
| Beijing | SD-WAN | vBG |
| Beijing | Scale Out | |
| Beijing | Centralised Parser Distribution |
The VNF Requirements developed by this project are applicable to the VNFs identified in the TSC E2E use cases.
- a VNF Provider (developer) using VNF Requirements in designing, testing, and certifying a VNF for use on ONAP
- a Service Provider using VNF Requirements as prototype text for RFPs to acquire VNFs to run in an ONAP context see VNFRQTS-16
- VNF Validation Project uses VNF Test Descriptions developed by this project to implement VNF testing for validation purposes.
Minimum Viable Product
- A VNF Guidelines document summarizing VNF provider oriented deliverables and providing informative, forward lookiging guidance.
- A set of Integrated VNF Requirements for use as prototype RFP text.
- VNF Test Descriptions for use by VNF Validation project, traceable from the VNF Requirments
- VNF Use Case - VNF Provider Guidelines for VNF Scale Out Use Case
Functionalities
List the functionalities that this release is committing to deliver by providing a link to JIRA Epics and Stories. In the JIRA Priority field, specify the priority (either High, Medium, Low). The priority will be used in case de-scoping is required. Don't assign High priority to all functionalities.
Epics
Stories
Longer term roadmap
Amsterdam- deliver overview VNF Guidelines & prototype RFP text requirements.
Beijing - Update Amsterdam deliverable for new ONAP features, Test Descriptions for VNF Package Testing, VNF Scaling Use case, tooling improvements
Casablanca - Extend tracability of VNF testing ( VNF Requirments Database),additional VNF provider use cases, Update Bejing deliverable for new ONAP features
Dublin - Design time VNF testing description, additional VNF provider use cases, Update Casablancadeliverable for new ONAP features
El Alto - Run time VNF testing description, update Dublin deliverable for new ONAP features
Frankfurt - Update El Alto deliverable for new ONAP features
Release Deliverables
Indicate the outcome (Executable, Source Code, Library, API description, Tool, Documentation, Release Note...) of this release.
| Deliverable Name | Deliverable Description |
|---|---|
| VNF Guidelines | Documentation. Provides a high level informative overview of guidance towards VNF providers. (provided since Amsterdam release) |
| VNF Requirements | Documentation. Provides individually numbered requirements for VNFs (provided since Amsterdam release) |
| VNF Use Cases | Documentation. Provides guidelines for VNF providers on use cases on interest to VNF providers (new deliverable in Beijing release) |
| VNF Test Case | Documentation. Provides test case descriptions for how to test VNFs. (new deliverable in Beijing release) |
| VNF EPICs | documentation ( future) |
Sub-Components
| Deliverable | repo | Files Structure of repo |
| VNF Guidelines: | vnfrqts/guidelines | File per chapter |
| VNF Requirements: | vnfrqts/requirements | File per chapter |
| VNF Use Cases: | vnfrqts/usecases | File per Use Case |
| VNF Test Descriptions: | vnfrqts/testcases | File Per Test Case Dscription |
| VNF EPICs: | vnfrqts/epics | not used in Beijing Release |
Sub-components are repositories are consolidate in a single centralized place. Edit the Release Components name for your project in the centralized page.
Architecture
High level architecture diagram
The VNF Requirements Project is not delivering ONAP platform code, rather it delivers documentation targeted to VNF providers to enable thme to develop VNFS which can be more easily onboarded and operated by an Operator using an ONAP platform.
Platform Maturity
Refering to CII Badging Security Program and Platform Maturity Requirements, fill out the table below by indicating the actual level , the targeted level for the current release and the evidences on how you plan to achieve the targeted level.
Area | Actual Level | Targeted Level for current Release | How, Evidences | Comments |
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| Performance | NA | VNFRQTS is primarily a documentation project and does not deliver ONAP platform code |
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| Stability | NA | VNFRQTS is primarily a documentation project and does not deliver ONAP platform code |
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| Resiliency | NA | VNFRQTS is primarily a documentation project and does not deliver ONAP platform code |
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| Security | NA | VNFRQTS is primarily a documentation project and does not deliver ONAP platform code |
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| Scalability | NA | VNFRQTS is primarily a documentation project and does not deliver ONAP platform code |
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| Manageability | NA | VNFRQTS is primarily a documentation project and does not deliver ONAP platform code |
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| Usability | 1 | VNF Guidelines VNF Requirements VNF Use Cases (new) VNF Test Case Descriptions (new) | http://docs.onap.org/en/latest/guides/onap-user/vnfprovider.html additional types of documentation to move towards level 2 with: Use cases (tutorial/ usability) Test Case Descriptions (testing) |
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API Incoming Dependencies
Other ONAP projects that this VNF Requirements project depends on:
- SDN-C (for API requirements on VNFs)
- APPC (for VNF configuration requirements)
- VF-C (for VNF life cycle managment and configuration)
- Service Design & Creation (for VNF onboarding)
- DCAE (for VNF reporting requirements)
- Authentication and authorization Framework (for VNF Security Requirements)
- Modeling (for Tosca Data Modeling for VNF)
- Multi-VIM/ MultiCloud (for network cloud infrastructure requirements)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
The 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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| 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
Provide a description of the testing activities (unit test, functional test, automation,...) that will be performed by the team within the scope of this release.
Describe the plan to integrate and test the release deliverables within the overall ONAP system.
Confirm that resources have been allocated to perform such activities.
Gaps
This section is used to document a limitation on a functionality or platform support. We are currently aware of this limitation and it will be delivered in a future Release.
List identified release gaps (if any), and its impact.
| Gaps identified | Impact |
|---|---|
| VNF Requirments linkage to testing | VNF Requirements are current provided for RFP 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 the scope of the VNF Information model in the VNF Package and the relationships identified between that information model and the VNF requirements. |
Known Defects and Issues
Provide a link toward the list of all known project bugs.
Risks
List the risks identified for this release along with the plan to prevent the risk to occur (mitigation) and the plan of action in the case the risk would materialized (contingency).
| Risk identified | Mitigation Plan | Contingency Plan |
|---|---|---|
| ONAP supporting multiple onboarding formats | work with VNF SDK, VVP and SDC to minimize the risk. | Document the desired direction in the forward looking VNF Guidelines |
Resources
Fill out the Resources Committed to the Release centralized page.
Release Milestone
The milestones are defined at the Release Level and all the supporting project agreed to comply with these dates.
Team Internal Milestone
This section is optional and may be used to document internal milestones within a project team or multiple project teams. For instance, in the case the team has made agreement with other team to deliver some artifacts on a certain date that are not in the release milestone, it is erecommended to provide these agreements and dates in this section.
It is not expected to have a detailed project plan.
| Date | Project | Deliverable |
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| 1/8/18 | VNF Requirments | Draft M1 Project Plan available on VNFRQTS Project Wiki |
| 1/18/18 | VNF Requirments | ONAP Beijing M1 Milestone |
| 2/12/18 | VNF Requirments | ONAP Beijing M2 Milestone |
| 3/8/18 | VNF Requirments | ONAP Beijing M3 Milestone |
| 3/29/18 | VNF Requirments | ONAP Beijing M4 Milestone |
| 4/19/18 | VNF Requirments | ONAP Beijing RC0 Milestone |
| 5/3/18 | VNF Requirments | ONAP Beijing RC1 Milestone |
| 5/17/18 | VNF Requirments | ONAP Beijing RC2 Milestone |
| 5/24/18 | VNF Requirments | ONAP Beijing Signoff Milestone |
Documentation, Training
- Highlight the team contributions to the specific document related to he project (Config guide, installation guide...).
- Highlight the team contributions to the overall Release Documentation and training asset
- High level list of documentation, training and tutorials necessary to understand the release capabilities, configuration and operation.
- Documentation includes items such as:
- Installation instructions
- Configuration instructions
- Developer guide
- End User guide
- Admin guide
- ...
Note
The Documentation project will provide the Documentation Tool Chain to edit, configure, store and publish all Documentation asset.
Other Information
Vendor Neutral
If this project is coming from an existing proprietary codebase, ensure that all proprietary trademarks, logos, product names, etc. have been removed. All ONAP deliverables must comply with this rule and be agnostic of any proprietary symbols.
Free and Open Source Software
FOSS activities are critical to the delivery of the whole ONAP initiative. The information may not be fully available at Release Planning, however to avoid late refactoring, it is critical to accomplish this task as early as possible.
List all third party Free and Open Source Software used within the release and provide License type (BSD, MIT, Apache, GNU GPL,... ).
In the case non Apache License are found inform immediately the TSC and the Release Manager and document your reasoning on why you believe we can use a non Apache version 2 license.
Each project must edit its project table available at Project FOSS.
Charter Compliance
The project team comply with the ONAP Charter.