the road to cloud native vnfs

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The Road to Cloud Native VNFs

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Introduction

• Open Source advocate for the past 10 years.• Actively involved with OpenStack since its

inception.• CTO & Founder GigaSpaces

The leading Hybrid Cloud Orchestration by OpenStack users

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About Cloudify

Member of Network Functions

Virtualisation ISG (NFV)

Standards Organizations Open Source Projects

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Traditional Network Function

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From Physical Appliance to Virtual Appliance

Mostly involved performance optimization and packaging

Physical Appliance

Virtual Appliance

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The Rise of Cloud Native NFV

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The Cloud Native Disruption

Physical Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Cloud Native

Mostly involved performance optimization and packaging

Disruption - Changes in the architecture, delivery model and biz model

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Cloud Native VNFs (Versa)

Self-Managed

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Cloud Native VNF Example (Ruckus)

SaaS Managed

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Recipe for Cloud Native VNF● Software Defined

• Including the management and provisioning● Design for DevOps

• Configuration as code• Built-in automation of the provisioning and configuration• Continuous deployment

● Monitoring • Avoid proprietary monitoring • Use best of breed open-source monitoring framework

● Containers• Package your software in containers • Support multiple containers

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Other Considerations● Multi Tenancy

○ Share the same VNF between multiple users

○ Have separate VNF per (IaaS) tenant ● Multi Cloud (VIM) Support

○ Operators have different cloud flavour and preferences

○ Be ready to support the common platform to maximize your market reach

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Generic VNF Orchestration (G-VNFM)

Provision

ConfigureMonitor

Manage

Orchestration EngineVNF Hybrid Cloud/Stack

- Self-healing - Auto-scaling - Monitoring- Policy Management- Security and Multi-Tenancy

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Cloud Native on High Performance Stack (Coming Soon)

Bare Metal Cloud

Intel EPA Enabled

Provision

ConfigureMonitor

Manage

- Self-healing - Auto-scaling - Monitoring- Policy Management- Security and Multi-Tenancy

Orchestration EngineVNF High Performance Containers

Canonical Clear Containers

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Generic (Operator) Orchestration

Virtual Appliance

Service Composition

Physical Appliance

Micro Services

Lifecycle Management

Consistent Infrastructure /Tenant Management

Multi Tenant Orchestrator

Cloud Native VNF

Embedded Orchestrator

Embedded VNFM / Operator Orchestration (NFVO)

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Characteristics of Embeddable Orchestration

● OEMable ● White Labeling ● Lightweight ● Open Source● Open Governance● Extensible/Customizable● Portable Between OSes & Clouds

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Cloudify Embeddable Orchestration

VNF providers should consider ARIA to gain TOSCA support, automation of deployment and configuration across multiple clouds such as OpenStack, VMware, (or any other cloud), as well as portability between different container-based architectures such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

Cloudify includes ARIA as its orchestration engine, so by definition, it inherits all of its capabilities in addition to the capabilities that are provided by Cloudify Manager.

VNF providers should consider Cloudify in cases where they would want to gain more advanced management, ongoing automation and security such as:

- Self-healing - Auto-scaling - Monitoring- Policy Management- Security and Multi-Tenancy

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Standardization EffortState of the Union Open-O/ OSM Common Modeling Effort

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Live Demos

KVM ESXI

Netconf/YANG

Heat

Netconf/YANG

Service Chaining in a World with No Standard Best of Breed vCPE

TOSCA

TOSCA

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Are You Ready to be Cloud Native?

Prerequisites

● Can you package your VNF as an Image/Container?

● Can your VNF be driven by API or external script? ● Can you boot/configure your VNF using Cloud-Init ● Does the setup of your VNF assume manual

intervention during the setup process?

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Where Do I Go From Here?

Academy● Free NFV Lab On Demand

Through the Cloudify Academy

● Special Consulting and Support Package for Cloud Native VNF

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