New feature: euag_distribution_of_OSM_SW_as_Docker_container_images.md

Distribution of OSM SW as Docker container images

Proposer

EUAG

Type

Feature

Target MDG/TF

UI, SO, RO, VCA

Description

OSM SW distribution is currently done as source code, which is downloaded by an installer, which also creates several LXD containers for each component, and builds the SW on those containers.

Docker containers provide an appropriate framework to separate the different processes of a system in individual process containers so that the system becomes much more flexible in field (for instance, HA or scale-out strategies for an OSM system might be quickly aligned with the state of the art). With the Docker approach, you get freedom to deploy each process in a different place, scale them independently, design your own approach for High Availability, etc.

This feature proposes the separation of the different OSM processes in Docker container images. Here the use of the term ''process'' instead of ''component'' is intentional. '''Processes running on each component must be identified and Docker containers must be created per process and not per component'''.

Demo or definition of done

N/A