2023-11 - Anuket: What is the future of Anuket

Short Description

60m / Gergely Csatari 

In this session Gergely will report on the progress of the strategic planning work what the TSC Task Force is doing and discuss possible future strategies for Anuket with the audience.

Topic Overview

Anuket is slowly loosing contributors and also seemingly the interest of the LFN board itself. Couple of months ago the TSC decided to create a Task Force to investigate how the project can provide the most value for the industry. In this session we will discuss what did we learn in the task force meeting and brainstorm different future strategic directions for Anuket.

Assesment of sub-project status:

• Kubref - Target for Pieman is to deploy Kuberef with Sylva and compare with RA2 requirements.
• Barometer - Rohit Singh Rathaur takes over from Emma the PTL role
• Vineperf - There is no PTL
• Thoth – PTL (Rohit Singh Rathaur )
• RM - active, but heavily relies on Walter Kozlowski as a PTL, who is doing the work to move to GSMA docs repository and updates to add new technology
• RA1 - mature, only doc theme related changed in Orinoco
• RI1 - mature, only doc theme related changed in Orinoco
• RC1 - merged to RA1, no changes in Orinoco
• RA2 - Active, but limited on resources (3 active contributors)
• RI2 - Active, but limited on resources
• RC2 - Cedric Ollivier is now PTL and re-activated.  1 active contributor
• Functest, functest-kubernetes - active, relies on Cedric Ollivier alone

Possible merger with the CNF CNF* projects in 

• RA2 and CNF WG are dealing with similar problems but from a bit different angle. I think the most optimal would be to merge the CNF WG to RA2 to keep the GSMA publication
• RC2 selects a set of CNF Conformance cases for CNF testing. I think CNF Conformance should test also RA CaaS compliancy
• Functest is testing CNF compliance, but only via calling CNF Testbed. I would propose to use CNF Testsuite directly to test CNF conformance
• Functest is testing CaaS platform compliance, similarly to CNF Testbed, but the Testbed is not really a compliance test and not really maintained
• RI2 is investigating to use Sylva as a reference platform. I wold suggest to keep Sylva RA2 compliant and use it as RI2

Focus areas

• Generic architecture evolution (RM)
  • How to keep the focus here? Do we want to keep focus at all?
• Cloud native (RA2, RI2, RC2)
  • Where to focus here?
    • CNF cloud nativeness
    • CNF LCM and operability
    • CNF - CaaS platform compatibility
    • CaaS platform operability
• VNF (RA1, RI1, RC1)
  • Very stable
  • Mostly OpenStack version updates if any
• Implementation and research projects
  • Barometer
  • Thoth
• Testing projects
  • Vineperf
  • Functest
• Infra management
  • LaaS

Session Type

Slides & Recording

Session did not happen due to lack of participation.

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