#opnfv-meeting: Weekly Technical Discussion

Meeting started by bh526r at 14:02:44 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Introduction of ABOT (bh526r, 14:03:33)
    1. This is for test automation (bh526r, 14:03:49)
    2. It provides support of onboarding VNFs on multiple cloud platforms using different NFV orchestrators (bh526r, 14:05:02)
    3. Architectural workflow is introduced, SUT->Configuration->ABOT Enginer, and Test Cases->Files->Engine, and Engine->Test Results (bh526r, 14:07:43)
    4. Technical Architecture is also introduced (bh526r, 14:08:06)
    5. including Glue Layer, Service Layer, Adapter Libraries and Report Generation Module (bh526r, 14:08:47)
    6. Then steps of VNF Deployment and Testing (bh526r, 14:10:45)
    7. Canonical and Juju as an example (bh526r, 14:10:56)
    8. Available test suites include IMS, EPC, etc., and architecture of IMS and EPC test suites are introduced (bh526r, 14:14:08)
    9. Prakash asked if this tool is tied with Joid or can support other platforms (bh526r, 14:14:45)
    10. Debayan said now it is implemented with Juju, and working on other installers/platforms (bh526r, 14:15:11)
    11. Prakash said in OPNFV, it is important to handle VNFs packaged by other tools (bh526r, 14:15:40)
    12. Debayan used IMS as an example, described the packaging. The objective is to extend it to support other packaging methods and installers (bh526r, 14:17:51)
    13. Dave N said cloud-init and charm are different, and not comparable (bh526r, 14:20:48)
    14. cloud-init for instance configuration, and charm for app definition. (bh526r, 14:21:14)
    15. Debayan said the test framework focus on application/VNF layer, and sits on any Linux platform (bh526r, 14:22:23)
    16. Debayan said the plan is to set up Cloudify, and in the process of supporting it (bh526r, 14:23:17)
    17. Debayan gave a demo (bh526r, 14:24:35)
    18. IMS (Debayan) and EPC (Samit) (bh526r, 14:50:15)

  2. Action update of Scenario Consolidation (bh526r, 14:59:27)
    1. Uli reported that there is not much traffic, and Ericsson gave very valuable information regarding ODL scenarios (bh526r, 15:00:01)
    2. Uli urged whole community and everyone to input more information of details of relationship of scenarios (bh526r, 15:01:53)
    3. Meeting adjourned (bh526r, 15:02:02)


Meeting ended at 15:02:05 UTC (full logs).

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