• Related Press Release 
  • CNCF and LF Networking Unite to Advance Open Source Telecom Cloud Native Networking 

CNCF’s Cloud Native Telco Assets

CNF Certification - CNF Certification program provides a way for open and closed source network functions (ie applications providing networking functionality) to demonstrate their adoption of cloud native best practices

• Certified CNFs: https://www.cncf.io/training/certification/cnf/#logos
• GitHub: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-certification
  • Landing Page: https://www.cncf.io/cnf
• Documentation:
  • Instructions: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-certification/blob/main/instructions.md
• PR / marketing material
  • Testimonials: https://www.cncf.io/training/certification/cnf/#testimonials 
  • Slide Deck: CNF Certification Program (last updated August 8, 2023)  
• Communication
  • Slack: http://slack.cncf.io/ #cnf-certification
  • Meetings: Every other Thursday at 8am PT (starting on Jan 25, 2024)

CNF Working Group - best practices for cloud native applications and infra

• GitHub: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-wg 
• Documentation:
  • https://github.com/cncf/cnf-wg/blob/main/doc/best_cnf_dev.md 
  • Use cases and User stories
  • Whitepaper: Accelerating Cloud Native in Telco whitepaper (v1) 
• Communication
  • Discussion forum: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-wg/discussions
  • Issues: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-wg/issues
  • Mailing List: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cnf-wg
  • Slack: http://slack.cncf.io/ #cnf-wg
  • Meetings: Mondays at 8am PT
• PR / marketing material
  • ONE Summit 2021 Presentation: [ONE Summit NA 2021] BoF: Cloud Native Best Practices for Networking Applications 

CNF Test Suite - CNF Test Suite is a tool to check for and provide feedback on using K8s + cloud native best practices in networking applications and platforms.

• GitHub: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite 
• Libraries, e2e tests, PoC, etc https://github.com/cnf-testsuite
• Documentation: 
  • Why this test? https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite/blob/main/RATIONALE.md 
  • Installation & Usage: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite/blob/main/README.md#installation-and-usage
    • Extended installation instructions: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite/blob/main/INSTALL.md
    • Extended usage: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite/blob/main/USAGE.md
    • Extended configuration information: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite/blob/main/CNF_TESTSUITE_YML_USAGE.md
  • FAQ https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite/blob/main/FAQ.md
  • Best practice category descriptions: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testsuite/blob/main/TEST-CATEGORIES.md 
• Communication:
  • Mailing List: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cnf-test-suite
  • Slack: http://slack.cncf.io/ #cnf-testsuite
  • Meetings: Tuesdays at 8 am PT

CNF Testbed (Currently inactive) - A framework and tools for deploying a K8s cluster to bare metal (Equinix) and a CNF workload to that cluster for different test cases/scenarios 

• Repo: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testbed
• Additional information:
  • Code exists for testing in CSIT, Equinix, and older code for OpenStack deployment and testing
  • Repeatable test cases
  • Vanilla K8s
  • Automated network configuration
• Test cases and examples include:
  • Base NF performance (CSIT + Equinix)
  • Chained CNF (CSIT + Equinix)
    • Multiple chains and node use cases
  • CNF examples: 5G core functions on K8s, VPP-based IP Forwarder
  • SRIOV, RDMA, Multus, NSM, CPU Manager, CPU pinning, NUMA alignment

Telecom User Group (Currently inactive) - a User Group created for operators and their vendors who are using or aiming to use cloud native technologies in their networks. May write up requirements, best practices, gap analysis, or similar documents. 

• GitHub: https://github.com/cncf/telecom-user-group 
• Slide Deck: CNCF Telecom User Group Kickoff 
• Whitepaper: Cloud Native Thinking for Telecommunications 
• Mailing list: https://lists.cncf.io/g/telecom-user-group 
• Slack: http://slack.cncf.io/ #tug
• Meetings: moved to CNF Working Group

Anuket Cloud Native Assets

RA2 - Reference Architecture for Kubernetes based cloud infrastructure

• GitHub: https://github.com/anuket-project/anuket-specifications/tree/master/doc/ref_arch/kubernetes
• RTD: https://cntt.readthedocs.io/projects/ra2/en/stable-orinoco/index.html
• GSMA: NG.139 

RC2 - Reference Conformance for RA2 based Implementations (RC2)

• GitHub: https://github.com/anuket-project/anuket-specifications/tree/master/doc/ref_cert/RC2
• RTD: https://cntt.readthedocs.io/projects/rc2/en/stable-orinoco/index.html
• Not published by GSMA

Functest Kubernetes

• GitHub: https://github.com/opnfv/functest-kubernetes

Anuket Assured

• https://lfnetworking.org/verification/