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Pharos - Federated Labs to Face NFV challenges
Morgan Richomme (Orange) Trevor Cooper (Intel)
SLIDE 2 Agenda
- Pharos Today
- Pharos Tomorrow
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Pharos Yesterday
SLIDE 3 Labs provide …
- Development resources for developers
- CI Integration, deployment
- Testing capability
Key Features …
- Hosted by Linux Foundation and OPNFV Community companies across geos
- Diversity of implementations promotes a more robust platform
- Provides common view of configurations, tools and access methods
- Visible capability/resources
- Visible deployment/usage monitoring
- Visible test history
Pharos Today
Wiki https://wiki.opnfv.org/pharos Meetings https://wiki.opnfv.org/meetings Rls B Planning https://wiki.opnfv.org/pharos_rls_b_spec
SLIDE 4 Pharos Introduction
Specification
– Technical requirements for labs
Tooling
– Connectivity – Dashboards – Infrastructure tools
Management
– Community Lab SLAs – LF lab usage and support
Pooled Lab Resources for Development and Test
SLIDE 5 Linux Foundation OPNFV Lab
- Reference Labs for Arno
- Dedicated for CI, infra setup/configuration and troubleshooting
- Not for project development
- Usage and access process … https://wiki.opnfv.org/pharos/lf_lab
- Resource usage
– POD1 - build, virtual deploys, other CI-related activities – POD2 – CI, CI development / troubleshooting
SLIDE 6 OPNFV Community Labs
Provides community assets with a set of SLAs Fulfills the technical requirements (configured to meet OPNFV’s requirements) Accessible to the OPNFV community for Dev … and/or … Integrated with CI toolchain and used for CI and Test activities Possible to be monitored with the Pharos/LF tools Able to report back to LF infrastructure on test outputs etc. Supported by a Pharos project contributor with documented SLA
Labs are a Key Resources for Rls B
SLIDE 7 Community Lab Usage
CI Lab
- Dedicated or shared
- 24/7 SLA
Test Lab
- Planned upgrades
- Lab certified for release
Dev Lab
- Remote access for developers
- Capability and configuration documented
SLIDE 8 Definition of “Lab Ready”
Successfully deployed an OPNFV release (Arno, beta-Brahmaputra, …) Successfully run default test suite from Functest (used for Arno) Has remote access per recommended methods Lab specs/config documented per Pharos spec. At least one full (bare-metal) POD Test capabilities and history of activities supported (or planned to support) documented
SLIDE 9 OPNFV Labs – Snapshot
Linux Foundation Spirent China Mobile Dell Ericsson Huawei Intel Orange ZTE
CI Labs
- Today: Intel and Ericsson servers dedicated for CI build, virtual deployments
- 8 labs committed to CI dedicated PODs
- Other labs for CI activities once available/validated
Dev labs
- Most labs provide dev resources
- OPNFV Installers: Ericsson: Apex; Intel: Fuel, JOID; Huawei: Compass (TBD)
- Low bandwidth labs used for verification and platform validation
New labs welcome! New labs welcome!
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Pharos tomorrow…
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LaaS: Lab as a Service
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Great diversity of COTS, NICs, Network equipments ensuring interoperability
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Great diversity of configurations (installers, SDN controllers, orchestrators) ensuring interoperability
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High End Testing tooling
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“Tested on Pharos” : A way to certify and guarantee interoperability for third parties
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A collective intelligence dedicated to NFV testing including analytics capabilities
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