Technical Debt

Automation of use cases using CLI (with and without HPA)

Challenges: Automation of use cases using ONAP as a blackbox had been a challenge.
Solution space
- vFW, vCPE-TOSCA use case automation is ongoing in R4
- Identified many gaps and fixing them in various projects.
- Fixing some gaps may be postponed to R5.
- Automation of other use cases in R4 such as vLB

Working on new use case vIPSEC as part of R4.
Why: To showcase an use case that leverages hardware accelerators based on PCIe.
Solution space:
- HEAT templates
- Configuration of IPSEC VNF for site-to-site tunnels
- To show case performance difference between IPSEC without Crypto accelerator and with Crypto accelerator
- Identify gaps in deploying IPSEC based connectivity among multiple locations of an Enterprise.
- This work may overflow to R5.
- Fix the gaps identified in deploying IPSEC VNF in multiple locations as a single operation.
- Ensure that IPSEC VNFs are also deployed using K8S in the cloud-regions in R5

Few details

Base line: NFD (Node feature discovery) from K8S CNCF project.
Discovery of hardware features, creation of profiles and populating in A&AI of compute flavors.
Identify any gaps in policy and OOF to do match making VNFs/Application to right compute flavors.

Understand the gaps in TOSCA definition of EPA and acceleration features and ensure that same is adopted.
Ensure that TOSCA to Policy conversion is generic.