6th OSM Hackfest

Overview

ETSI's Centre for Testing and Interoperability and the OSM community organized the 6th OSM Hackfest on 13-17 May 2019.

The event was hosted by INTEL in Santa Clara (CA, USA), co-located with the OSM#7 plenary meeting, offering a great opportunity to share and learn with OSM developers and module leaders, and explore further opportunities for synergies and collaboration.

Participation to OSM Hackfests is free and open to all upon Registration

Venue

Intel Corporation

3600 Juliette Lane,

Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

Scope

This OSM Hackfest allowed new users to get familiar with OSM Release FIVE and exercise all the main functionalities, from basic operations (installation, setup, common operations, etc.) to most advanced activities, such as 5G network slicing and end-to end service orchestration, with a big focus on VNF on-boarding activities covering Day 0/1/2 operations.

In addition, experienced users and developers had the opportunity to hack into OSM, build complex examples, fine-tune, test and demonstrate Release SIX and experimental features on the OSM Remote Labs network.

Objectives

OSM Hackfest participants learnt to

• Install OSM and run some examples
• Get familiar with OSM's GUI and CLI
• Create own VNF and NS descriptors and build packages
• Model and deploy NS/VNF with EPA capabilities
• Model dynamic Life Cycle Management operations with Day-1 and Day-2 actions
• Model 5G Network Slices and complex NS with PNFs
• Perform basic troubleshooting
• Configure Fault and Performance management and close-loop operations
• Modify and experiment with OSM source code
• Build complex examples and run own experimental testing

Who attended

• VNF vendors, who want to onboard their VNF in OSM following best practices
• System Integrators, who want to get started with OSM
• Service providers, who want to get first hand operational experience with OSM
• Academia and Universities, who are using or considering OSM as platform for their research activities in networking
• Experimented developers and users that want to share and test with the community

Prerequisites

• Seats are limited, registration is mandatory
• Participants are expected to have user-level knowledge of Linux and be familiar with NFV and SDN concepts
• Laptop / VM in laptop
  • Linux installed (preferred, Ubuntu 16.04)
  • RECOMMENDED: 2 CPUs, 8 GB RAM, 20GB disk
• It is highly recommended that you download and install OSM Rel FIVE before the hackfest.
  • See how to download and install OSM from Vagrant on your computer.

Agenda

• Tentative: Please note the sessions' times and contents may be subject to change

OSM Hackfest Sessions

• Welcome to Intel
  • Eric Levander, General Manager, Communications Infrastructure, Global Sales (Intel)
• Logistics for the week
  • Nicolette Oki (Intel)
• Session 0: Introduction to NFV and OSM
  • Lead by: Jose Miguel Guzman (Whitestack)
• Session 1: OSM Installation and first use
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
  • OSM installation (Release FIVE)
  • OSM user experience from the GUI
  • OSM user experience from the CLI
• Session 2: Creating a basic VNF and NS
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
• Session 2.5: Guidelines for VNF providers to build their own packages
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
• Session 3: Modeling multi-VDU VNFs
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
• Session 3.5: Modeling PNFs and HNFs
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
• Session 4: Adding day-0 configuration to your VNF
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
• Session 5: Modeling EPA capabilities in your VNF descriptor
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
• Session 6: Adding day-1/day-2 configuration to your VNF.
  • Lead by: Dominik Fleischmann, David Garcia (Canonical)
  • 1- Introduction to Proxy Charms
  • 2- Building a Proxy charm
  • 3- Building a VNF with primitives
• Session 7: OSM Fault & Performance Management
  • Lead by: Benjamin Diaz (Whitestack)
  • Collecting and visualizing metrics from VNFs
  • Collecting, visualizing and reacting to events from VNFs
• Session 8: 5G Network Slicing with OSM
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
• Session 9: Service Function Chaining
  • Lead by: Guillermo Calvino, Adrian Candel (Altran)
  • Introduction to SFC by Davide Borsatti
• Session 10: How to Contribute to OSM
  • Lead by: Benjamin Diaz (Whitestack)
• OSM Demos
• Freestyle Experimental Sessions
  • Building your own VNF Packages

Hackfest Material

• Presentations
• Packages
• Images
• VNF Day
• Other

VNF Day

Thursday afternoon was dedicated to VNFs in the OSM Ecosystem willing to share their on-boarding and operation experience with OSM.

• VNF Day Keynote Kick-off: VNF On-boarding in OSM
  • Gianpietro Lavado, Whitestack - OSM VNF On-boarding Task Force Chair
• VNF Day Session 1: Virtualised and Containerized Network Functions in OSM
  • Marcin Bednarz, Canonical
• VNF Day Session 2: VNFs for Security
  • Ali Bidabadi, Cloud Architect, Fortinet
• VNF Day Session 3: Intel Network Builders - VNF Onboarding Initiative
  • George Ranallo, Intel
• VNF Day Session 4: High Performance VNF
  • Saurabh Sureka, Director, Product Management, A10 Networks
• VNF Day Session 5: The Road to Cloud Native VNFs
  • Vanessa Little, VMware - OSM TSC Chair
• VNF Day Closing Panel: VNF Development, integration and optimisation for virtualised, containerized and cloud-native networks
  • Vanessa Little, VMware - OSM TSC Chair
  • Gianpietro Lavado, Whitestack - OSM VNF On-boarding Task Force Chair
  • Marcin Bednarz, Canonical
  • Saurabh Sureka, A10 Networks
  • Apoorva Jain, Palo Alto Networks
  • Moderated by Mona Hrapkowicz, Intel - OSM MARCOM Lead

VNF Day Presentations are available for download here

Participation is free and open to all. The VNF Day was followed by a social gathering for all groups at:

SP2 Communal Bar and Restaurant - 72 N Almaden Ave, San Jose CA 95110

Remote Labs

During OSM Hackfests participants build and try real examples of OSM interaction with different VIMs and NFV infrastructures that are kindly made available through the OSM Remote Labs network by our community members.

Big thanks to the ones supporting this hackfest :

• Intel
• VMware
• Whitestack
• Wind River

Previous Hackfests

• 5th OSM Hackfest Wiki
• 4th OSM Hackfest Wiki
• 3rd OSM Hackfest Wiki
• 2nd OSM Hackfest Wiki
• 1st OSM Hackfest Wiki

Get involved in OpenSourceMANO

• Join the OSM Community Slack Workspace
• If your organisation is already an OSM member, you can also:
  • Request an EOL account (if you don’t have one yet)
  • Subscribe OSM general and OSM TECH mailing lists
• If your organisation is not yet an OSM member:
  • Learn how to join, it is free and open to all
• Join the OSM Ecosystem

Contact

Please send your technical questions to OSM_TECH@list.etsi.org or join the OSM Community Slack Workspace

Questions about ETSI, joining OSM, this hackfest and future events can be sent to: OSMSupport@etsi.org