VNF Onboarding Guidelines

Note

This section is sourced from the OSM VNF Onboarding Task Force documentation. The original repository is no longer a primary reference; this user guide is the canonical location.

Introduction 

Overview of the VNF onboarding process and its lifecycle stages.

Onboarding Requirements 

Requirements for each lifecycle stage: Day-0 (instantiation), Day-1 (initialization), and Day-2 (runtime).

Day 0: VNF Instantiation & Management Setup 

How to model and package a VNF for successful instantiation with OSM.

Day 1: VNF Services Initialization 

How to configure VNF services automatically after instantiation using execution environments.

Day 2: VNF Runtime Operations 

How to implement runtime operations, monitoring primitives, and closed-loop actions.

Quickstarts 

Ready-to-run examples covering common VNF and CNF onboarding patterns.

VNF Onboarding Walkthrough 

End-to-end walkthrough of onboarding a multi-VDU VNF with OSM.

KNF Onboarding Walkthrough 

End-to-end walkthrough of onboarding a Containerized Network Function (CNF) with OSM.

Advanced Charms 

Advanced topics for Juju charm-based VNF configuration.

Helm-chart based Execution Environments 

Using Helm charts as execution environments for Day-1 and Day-2 VNF operations.

Additional References 

Known issues, migration tools, and supplementary resources.