OSM sandbox

Proposers

• EUAG

Description

End users, SPs, VNF vendors, etc. that want to try OSM just to know how it looks like face the need to install OSM before giving it a try and getting familiar. An OSM sandbox (e.g. hosted in ETSI servers) that allowed several simultaneous accesses would fit the purpose for those users.

Such a sandbox could be implemented in very different ways, for instance, through a single common portal with several guest users accessing the same OSM instance (up to a maximum number of concurrent users). Some restrictions could be applied to the guest users; for instance, users could make use of previously onboarded VNFs and NS, but they would not be allowed to onboard VNFs or NSs. Access could be allowed both through the UI and through a web-based console, as long as isolation between users is uaranteed.

LXD sandbox in the following link can be used as a visual reference for the concept: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/

Demo or definition of done

N/A

added to epic &3

Imported from Gerrit https://osm.etsi.org/gerrit/#/c/osm/Features/+/637/

Imported from Trello https://trello.com/c/eMBZ5Hlf/141-637-osm-sandbox/

removed from epic &3

changed title from euag_OSM_sandbox.md to OSM sandbox

changed the description

We have some ETSI IT managed VMs that we used to use for hackfests, documented here: https://osm.etsi.org/wiki/index.php/OSM_Servers#Other

OSM Hackfest 1 and 2 could be set up as mutli-tenant OSM instances, and as they are in the IT domain, it might even be possible to use ETSI LDAP for authentication, meaning log in would occur via EOL.

Of course, this would need tenant or quota management for the ETSI VIM, or perhaps a different VIM could be used for the sandbox (ie: one VM for OSM, the second for a lightweight Openstack installation)