Orchestration and Deployment of ONAP Operations Manager on OpenStack with TOSCA and Kubernetes
Channel: Sniper Network
Date: 2019-08-27

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is an initiative created by the combination of the ECOMP (Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management & Policy) and Open-O (Open Orchestrator) projects into ONAP, to bring the capabilities for designing, creating, orchestrating and handling of the full lifecycle management of Virtual Network Functions, Software Defined Networks, and the services that all of these things entail.
In essence ONAP is the platform above the infrastructure layer that automates the network. ONAP allows the end users to connect products and services through the infrastructure, and allows deployments of VNFs and scaling of the network, in a fully automated manner. The high level architecture of ONAP contains different software subsystems that are part of a design-time environment, as well as an execution time environment to execute what the designed platforms.
The project is under the governance of the Linux Foundation, and founded by AT&T and China Mobile. This has brought together many of the key players in the industry, like Vodafone, Orange, Bell Canada, Ericsson, Reliance JIO, Nokia and more. These key players are now defining the next generation of Network Orchestration.
What’s all the fuss about ONAP?

As ONAP architecture enables VNFs, and other network functions and services to be interoperable in a automated, policy driven real time environment. This provides everyone (as ONAP is fully open sourced, and the code is free for everyone to see and consume) the ability to fully create, design and deploy for Automated Network Services. The ramifications of this are huge, as Chris Rice, the Senior VP Domain 2.0 Architecture at AT&T Labs puts it:

    We’re certainly going to get help from the rest of the ecosystem and the vendors, but this is something that’s really going to affect the way that we build networks going forward. This is a fundamental shift in the way we build networks, we’re going to build them in a software-defined way.

Or as Arpit Joshipura, the General Manager of Networking & Orchestration for the Linux Foundation puts it:

    ONAP is releasing the software from Linux Foundation to the community. ONAP gives them the platform and access to over 10 million lines of code; this is the single largest networking initiative, and I would say the largest open source networking project that exists today in the industry.




OpenStack Foundation 
Published on Nov 30, 2018
ONAP is the open source project created by the convergence of AT&Ts ECOMP and the Linux Foundations Open-O which was announced in February 2017. The purpose of ONAP is to be an open source software platform that delivers capabilities for the design, creation, orchestration, monitoring, and lifecycle management of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and network services. One of the key aspects of modeling for ONAP is the model-driven, declarative TOSCA language as well as other imperative languages.
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