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

Understand the gaps in TOSCA definition of EPA and acceleration features and ensure that same is adopted
- P2 : New TOSCA defined HPA representation
- P2: TOSCA defined HPA requirements as 'Mandatory' and "optional'. It needs to be considered in TOSCA to Policy HPA conversion logic.

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.