4.5. VNF Devops

This section includes guidelines for VNF providers to ensure that a Network Cloud Service Provider’s operations personnel have a common and consistent way to support VNFs and VNFCs.

NCSPs may elect to support standard images to enable compliance with security, audit, regulatory and other needs. As part of the overall VNF software bundle, VNF suppliers using standard images would typically provide the NCSP with an install package consistent with the default OS package manager (e.g. aptitude for Ubuntu, yum for Redhat/CentOS).

Section 4.5 DevOps in VNF Guidelines describes the DevOps guidelines for VNFs.

DevOps Requirements

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target: VNF
keyword: MAY

NCSPs MAY operate a limited set of Guest OS and CPU architectures and families, virtual machines, etc.

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target: VNF
keyword: SHOULD

VNFCs SHOULD be agnostic to the details of the Network Cloud (such as hardware, host OS, Hypervisor or container technology) and must run on the Network Cloud with acknowledgement to the paradigm that the Network Cloud will continue to rapidly evolve and the underlying components of the platform will change regularly.

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target: VNF
keyword: MUST

The VNF MUST install the NCSP required software on Guest OS images when not using the NCSP provided Guest OS images. 1

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target: VNF
keyword: MUST

The VNF MUST utilize only NCSP standard compute flavors. 1

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target: VNF
keyword: MUST

The VNF MUST preserve their persistent data. Running VMs will not be backed up in the Network Cloud infrastructure.

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target: VNF
keyword: MUST

The VNFC MUST be installed on non-root file systems, unless software is specifically included with the operating system distribution of the guest image.

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target: VNF
keyword: MUST

The VNF MUST be agnostic to the underlying infrastructure (such as hardware, host OS, Hypervisor), any requirements should be provided as specification to be fulfilled by any hardware.

Requirement: R-89800 ../_images/arrow-right-circle.svg
target: VNF
keyword: MUST NOT

The VNF MUST NOT require Hypervisor-level customization from the cloud provider.

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target: VNF
keyword: SHOULD

The VNF SHOULD provide an automated test suite to validate every new version of the software on the target environment(s). The tests should be of sufficient granularity to independently test various representative VNF use cases throughout its lifecycle. Operations might choose to invoke these tests either on a scheduled basis or on demand to support various operations functions including test, turn-up and troubleshooting.

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target: VNF
keyword: SHOULD

The VNF SHOULD provide the ability to test incremental growth of the VNF.

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target: VNF
keyword: MUST

The VNF MUST respond to a “move traffic” 2 command against a specific VNFC, moving all existing session elsewhere with minimal disruption if a VNF provides a load balancing function across multiple instances of its VNFCs.

Note: Individual VNF performance aspects (e.g., move duration or disruption scope) may require further constraints.

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target: VNF
keyword: MUST

The VNF MUST respond to a “drain VNFC” 2 command against a specific VNFC, preventing new session from reaching the targeted VNFC, with no disruption to active sessions on the impacted VNFC, if a VNF provides a load balancing function across multiple instances of its VNFCs. This is used to support scenarios such as proactive maintenance with no user impact.

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target: VNF
keyword: SHOULD

The VNF SHOULD support a software promotion methodology from dev/test -> pre-prod -> production in software, development & testing and operations.

1(1,2)

Refer to NCSP’s Network Cloud specification

2(1,2)

Not currently supported in ONAP release 1