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#opnfv-meeting: Weekly Technical Discussion
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Meeting started by bh526r at 14:02:44 UTC.  The full logs are available
at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-meeting/2017/opnfv-meeting.2017-01-26-14.02.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Introduction of ABOT  (bh526r, 14:03:33)
  * This is for test automation  (bh526r, 14:03:49)
  * It provides support of onboarding VNFs on multiple cloud platforms
    using different NFV orchestrators  (bh526r, 14:05:02)
  * Architectural workflow is introduced, SUT->Configuration->ABOT
    Enginer, and  Test Cases->Files->Engine, and Engine->Test Results
    (bh526r, 14:07:43)
  * Technical Architecture is also introduced  (bh526r, 14:08:06)
  * including Glue Layer, Service Layer, Adapter Libraries and Report
    Generation Module  (bh526r, 14:08:47)
  * Then steps of VNF Deployment and Testing  (bh526r, 14:10:45)
  * Canonical and Juju as an example  (bh526r, 14:10:56)
  * Available test suites include IMS, EPC, etc., and architecture of
    IMS and EPC test suites are introduced  (bh526r, 14:14:08)
  * Prakash asked if this tool is tied with Joid or can support other
    platforms  (bh526r, 14:14:45)
  * Debayan said now it is implemented with Juju, and working on other
    installers/platforms  (bh526r, 14:15:11)
  * Prakash said in OPNFV, it is important to handle VNFs packaged by
    other tools  (bh526r, 14:15:40)
  * 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)
  * Dave N said cloud-init and charm are different, and not comparable
    (bh526r, 14:20:48)
  * cloud-init for instance configuration, and charm for app definition.
    (bh526r, 14:21:14)
  * Debayan said the test framework focus on application/VNF layer, and
    sits on any Linux platform  (bh526r, 14:22:23)
  * Debayan said the plan is to set up Cloudify, and in the process of
    supporting it  (bh526r, 14:23:17)
  * Debayan gave a demo  (bh526r, 14:24:35)
  * IMS (Debayan) and EPC (Samit)  (bh526r, 14:50:15)

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



Meeting ended at 15:02:05 UTC.



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