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Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) is a project and community that facilitates a common NFVI, continuous integration (CI) with upstream projects, stand-alone testing toolsets, and a compliance and verification program for industry-wide testing and integration to accelerate the transformation of enterprise and service provider networks. Participation is open to anyone, whether you are an employee of a member company or just passionate about network transformation.

Question to all contributors: Shall we draw content from this existing OPNFV overview: https://docs.opnfv.org/en/stable-iruya/release/overview.html

  • Test tools

    • Functest and X-testing: The  Functest project provides comprehensive testing methodology, test suites and test cases to test and verify OPNFV Platform functionality that covers the VIM and NFVI components.This project uses a "top-down" approach that will start with chosen ETSI NFV use-case/s and open source VNFs for the functional testing. The approach taken will be to

      • break down the use-case into simple operations and functions required.
      • specify necessary network topologies
      • develop traffic profiles
      • develop necessary test traffic
      • Ideally VNFs will be Open Source however proprietary VNFs may also be used as needed.

      This project will develop test suites that cover detailed functional test cases, test methodologies and platform configurations which will be documented and maintained in a repository for use by other OPNFV testing projects and the community in general. Developing test suites will also help lay the foundation for a test automation framework that in future can be used by the continuation integration (CI) project (Octopus). Certain VNF deployment use-cases could be automatically tested as an optional step of the CI process.  The project targets testing of the OPNFV platform in a hosted test-bed environment (i.e. using the OPNFV test labs world wide).

      The X-testing aspect intends to integrate many test projects into a single, lightweight framework  for automation that leverages the existing test-api and testdb for publishing results.
    • VSPerf: Although originally named to emphasize data plane benchmarking and performance testing of vSwitch and NFV Infrastructure, VSPerf has expanded its scope to multiple types of networking technologies (Kernel Bypass and Cloud-Native) and allow deployment in multiple scenarios (such as containers). VSperf can utilize several different Traffic Generators and Receivers for testing, including several popular Hardware and Software-based systems. The VSPerf tool has many modes of operation, including the "traffic-generator-only" mode, where any virtual network manager sets up the path to be tested, and VSPerf automates the traffic generation and results reporting. VSperf is compliant with ETSI NFV TST009 and IETF RFC 2544.
    • StorPerf: A key challenge to measuring disk performance is to know when it is performing at a consistent and repeatable level of performance. Initial writes to a volume can perform poorly due to block allocation, and reads can appear instantaneous when reading empty blocks. The Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) has developed methods which enable manufacturers to set, and customers to compare, the performance specifications of Solid State Storage devices. StorPerf applies this methodology to virtual and physical storage services to provide a high level of confidence in the performance metrics in the shortest reasonable time.
    • NFVBench: NFVbench is a lightweight end-to-end dataplane benchmarking framework project. It includes traffic generator(s) and measures a number of packet performance related metrics.
  • Lab as a service
    • Lab as a Service (LaaS) is a “bare-metal cloud” hosting resource for the LFN community. We host compute and network resources that are installed and configured on demand for the developers through an online web portal. The highly configurable nature of LaaS means that users can reserve a Pharos compliant or CNTT compliant POD. Resources are booked are scheduled in blocks of time, ensuring individual projects and users do now monopolize resources.  By providing a lab environment to developers, we enable more testing, faster development, and better collaboration between LFN projects.
  • CI/CD for continuous deployment and testing of NFVI stacks
  • OPNFV Lab Infrastructure

    • OPNFV leverages globally distributed community labs provided by member organizations. These labs are used by both developers of OPNFV projects as well as the extensive CI/CD tooling to continuously deploy and test OPNFV reference stacks. In order to ensure a consistent environment across different labs, OPNFV community labs follow a lab specification (Pharos spec) defining a high-level hardware configuration and network topology. In the context of CNTT reference implementations, any updates will be added to the Pharos specification in future releases.

  • Feature projects working towards closing feature gaps in upstream open source communities providing the components for building full NFVI stacks
  • Deployment tools
    • Airship
    • Fuel / MCP

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