Overview

ETSI's Centre for Testing and Interoperability and the OSM community are organizing a new OSM Hackfest on 1-5 June 2020.

The event will be hosted by BT and Canonical in London, UK, co-located with the OSM#9 Plenary meeting, offering a great opportunity to share and learn with OSM developers and module leaders, and explore opportunities for synergies and collaboration.

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

If you need a VISA, download the VISA invitation Letter, fill in the details in yellow, and send it to Claire Newman _at_ Canonical.com for signature.

Note: we are closely monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and associated travel / hosting restrictions. If the situation is not significantly better by April 14th, the OSM#9 Hackfest will be run remotely (as it was done for the OSM-MR8 Hackfest. We recommend participants to wait until that date for their travel arrangements or to make flexible bookings. Registered participants will be informed of the event format by April 15th (latest).

Scope

This OSM Hackfest will allow new users to get familiar with OSM Release SEVEN and exercise all the new functionalities, such as:

OSM deployment on Kubernetes and self-monitoring of OSM Modules
End-to-end Orchestration and life cycle management of real Network Services
- packaging, on-boarding,
- day-0/day-1/day-2 configuration
- service assurance: monitoring and closed-loop operation
Running Cloud-Native Network Services
- modeling different types of Network Functions: Virtual, Physical, Cloud-native and Hybrid
- deploying a Kubernetes cluster
- deploying and orchestrating a cloud-native network service wit helm charts
- deploying and orchestrating a cloud-native network service with Juju bundles,
Automated placement of Network Services for optimized edge deployments

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

Who should attend

VNF vendors, who want to onboard their VNF in OSM following best practices
System Integrators, who want to develop their expertise 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

Registration is mandatory!
Participants are expected to have user-level knowledge of Linux and be familiar with NFV and SDN concepts
You will need your laptop, and a good internet connection.
A remote environment will be made available though VPN for participants to run the hands-on sessions
if you prefer to install OSM in your own laptop and orchestrate your own cloud, please follow the OSM Quick Start Guide
OSM Hack 0: Introduction to NFV and OSM (see below)

Previous Hackfests

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

OSM9 Hackfest

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