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Deployment of OSM in reduced environments

Proposer

EUAG

Type

Feature

Target MDG/TF

UI, SO, RO, VCA

Description

Currently OSM requires 8 CPUs and 16GB RAM to run. This makes really complicated for observers and initial testers to use OSM for the first time. Being able to run OSM in a reduced environment with less required resources would ease the first time use.

As a reference, the target should be 2CPUs and 4GB RAM for running the whole OSM (RO, VCA, SO, UI). In that way, OSM could run in a laptop or in a Virtualbox VM without problems.

In addition, in order to test the deployment of the NS, it would be required to run a VIM and compute nodes in a reduced setup. The use of LXD containers as compute nodes fits well with this idea. A single host with LXD containers and Linux bridges could be used as datacenter for this testing purpose, being able to deploy simple NS on that single host. The reference target of CPU and memory resources for this single host running LXD containers could be 2CPUs and 4 GB RAM.

Demo or definition of done

N/A