This presentation covers what's new about the El Alto release of the Linux Foundation Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project. We cover some community/business updates, functional feature updates, and non-function updates as well.

1. What’s New in ONAP
El Alto?
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Webinar — Nov 20, 2019

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Presenter
Currently
● Co-founder of Aarna Networks
● Author of “ONAP Demystified”
● NFV specialist with background in OpenStack, Ceph,
dataplane acceleration technologies
Previously
● Co-founder Aarohi Communications (acquired by
Emulex)
● Also at Mirantis, Seagate, Philips, HP
● MS EE from University of California, Berkeley

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Agenda
● Quick Facts
● ONAP Overview
● Release Highlights
● What’s Next
El Alto

4. El Alto Release Quick
Facts
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ONAP History
Nov’17 Jun’18 Dec’18 July’19 Oct’19
Amsterdam
—
Ik ben hier
Beijing—
用例
Casablanca—
‫معايير‬‫التعاون‬
Dublin—
Gníomhaíoch
t tráchtála
El Alto—
Mayor
estabilidad

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ONAP El Alto Release
Source onap.biterg.io
5th ONAP release
Oct 2019
Commits: 8.8K+
Developers: 354
Organizations: 26

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El Alto Summary
Purely non-functional release focused on improving
the overall quality (security, stability, usability, and
more) with a short ~3.5 months cycle

8. ONAP Introduction
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ONAP Overview
AT&T ECOMP + Linux Foundation Open-O merger in
Q2’2017
100% open source, part of Linux Foundation
Operators behind ONAP

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ONAP in a Nutshell
Easy-to-Use Design
Studio
Orchestration &
LifeCycle Mgmt.
Real-time Policy Driven
Closed Loop Automation
Architectural
Innovations
No vendor lock-in
Momentum & Network
Effect
Features Accelerators

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ONAP in ETSI Framework
Commodity Hardware
servers, storage, switches
Virtualization Software
Containers, VMs, virtual storage, overlay networking, dataplane acceleration
Workloads
Edge apps, analytics, network functions
Global Orchestrator
NFVO, MEAO
App
Manage
r
VNFM, MEPM-
V
Kubernetes/OpenStack
Global
DC
OSS / BSS / E-Services
/ Big Data
SDN Controller
...

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ONAP El Alto Release

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ONAP Differentiators
1. Real-time policy driven closed loop
automation
2. Simple to use design tool—does not
require engineers
3. Global SDN controller integrated that
allows for NFV and SDN services
4. NFVO/VNFM/MEAO/MEPM
functionality
5. k8s support
6. 5G use case
7. Open source

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Benefits of an Open Source ONAP
1. Reference implementation for
open standards
2. High probability of meeting
operator requirements
3. Assured interop
4. Faster innovation
5. Roadmap influence
6. Reduced lock-in
7. Transparency
8. Security

15. El Alto Release Highlights
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Themes
1. Security by design — Seeking to make
components free of vulnerabilities and
impervious to attack.
2. Document as You Code — Improving
documentation library, developing new
user guides, and integrating Swagger.
3. Don't Break the Build — Increasing test
coverage and E2E Test automation.
+
Other non-
functional
enhancements
Some feature
enhancements
Overall 2,500+ epics, user stories, tasks, defects addressed

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Security by Design
Exposed http ports Reduced to 21
Common vulnerabilities and
exposures (CVE)
12 addressed, 7 being addressed
ONAP security issues 44 resolved, 19 in progress

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Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII)
CII badges reflect open source secure development maturity model
Pass level Dublin El Alto
100% Silver -- 3% (1 project)
80-90% Silver 30% 47%
40-80% Silver 16% 23%
< 40% Silver 53% 27%
60%+ Gold -- 3% (1 project)
40-60% Gold 7% (2 projects) 10% (3 projects)
20-40% Gold 10% 27%
< 20% Gold 83% 60%

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Specific Project Security Updates
● Large number of issues addressed
○ e.g. Music 42, SDN-C 11, APP-C 5, OOF 4, several across VID, CLAMP, DMaaP, Portal,
and others
● Inclusion of more secure libraries
○ e.g. Springframework 4.3.24 in Portal, Bandit in VVP, more secure Django and Istio
in Multicloud, oParent 2.1.0 in SDC
● Secure communication
○ TLS for several DCAE platform components
○ https service registration for MSB
○ Increased use of AAF, e.g. in DMaaP
○ Increased certificate based authentication, e.g. MR in DMaaP, Music, SDC
○ New AAF capabilities, e.g. new auto-configuration, global location strategy,
dynamic certificate generation

21. El Alto Documentation &
Usability
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Document as You Code
● Documentation
○ Improved documentation library
○ New user guides
○ Swagger integration
○ Postman collections in user guide
● Usability
○ Lightweight profile of ONAP4K8s
○ Extension of CLI support for VF-C
○ API & GUI in Music project
○ Day 0 configuration (pre-load) automation in VVP; clearer error messages and
enhanced report readability

23. El Alto Stability
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Don’t Break the Build
● Increased test cases
○ e.g. 15 more in VF-C, 8% more in SDC, and increases in VID etc.
○ Activation of Javascript test coverage to increase the quality of GUI based user
interactions
● Large number of bug fixes
○ e.g. 156 in SO, 60 in SDC, 45 in CCSDK, 41 in SDN-C, 25 in OOM, 22 in Policy, and so
on
● Increased end-to-end CI automation

25. El Alto Addition Non-
Functional Items
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Additional Non-Functional Items 1/2
● Scalability: MSB, SDC scalability improvements
● Performance
○ VVP validation of complex VNFs 30% faster
○ Music project perf. enhancements through lightweight transaction for locking,
support for non-blocking reads, increase in database performance without
rewriting code
○ Benchmark project developing scripts to measure VNF performance (distinct from
ONAP performance) for vFW and vCPE use case blueprints
● Resilience: Music improvements allow better resilience across clouds
● Manageability: Increase logging in DMaaP, Music, and other projects
● Code footprint reduction
○ Project improvements, e.g. 40% reduction in CLAMP, 30% in DCAE, 20% in VF-C
○ Projects such as A&AI moved to Alpine OS for all microservices

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Additional Non-Functional Items 2/2
● Continuous integration
○ Release automation
○ Javascript test coverage
○ End-to-end integration/testing automation
○ Use case blueprint automation scripts
○ Updates Postman collections for testing
● Technical debt reduction
○ CLAMP GUI moved from Angular to React
○ Refactoring of CLAMP and VVP code
○ Separation of SDN-C and CDS Helm Charts
○ Automatic cleanup of DCAE microservices, image optimization
○ Kafka and Zookeeper cluster lookup improvements in DMaaP
○ Process improvement by the Documentation team

28. El Alto Addition Feature
Enhancements
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Not a Feature Release, Yet There are Some...
● Design time
○ Greater support for SOL004 VNF packages with security checks enabled
○ Package management and TOSCA parser as microservices
○ New models
● Run time
○ CDS provides greater support for vLB and vFW use case blueprints + ease-of-use
○ OpenDaylight Fluorine SR2 for APP-C and Neon for SDN-C
○ SDN-C includes a config DB and support for Netconf notifications
○ DCAE supports dynamic topic/feed support in DMaaP
○ Policy supports dynamic policy translation and CDS as an actor
● OVP
○ 30 new VNF Requirements around packaging, security, monitoring, mgmt.
○ VVP and VNF SDK project enhancements for compliance testing

30. Next Steps
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Next ONAP Releases
Frankfurt
2020
Guilin
2020
Honolulu
2021

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