onboarding slides at vancouver summit

1. Tacker
Project Onboarding
IRC: dkushwaha, dangtrinhnt, phuoc
May 2018

2. What is Tacker?

3. Tacker
• Tacker is an OpenStack based NFV Orchestration
framework used to deploy and operate Virtual
Network Functions (VNFs).
• Tacker is compatible with ETSI NFV Architectural
Framework and provides full functional stack to
manage VNFs and orchestrate end-to-end
Network Services on various VIMs.

4. Journey
Kilo
Liberty
Mitaka
Newton
Ocata
Pike
Queens
Rocky
Accepted in
OpenStack Big-Tent,
March 2016
VNF Scaling, VNF-
Forwarding Graph
Network Service
Descriptor, VNF-
Component
Tacker-Conductor for
Mistral actions, Attach
Cinder Volume,
Floating IP to VDU
Monitor applications inside
VNF(Zabbix-Plugin),
Kubernetes VIM, VNFFG
enhancements
First release with
initial VNF lifecycle

5. https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2018/summit-schedule/global-search?t=tacker

6. Mission

7. Roadmap
• SFC feature for hybrid container and VM based VNFs (with Kuryr-kubernetes and networking-sfc)
• Mistral workflow for VNF monitoring
• Resource reservation for VNFs (with Blazar)
• Clustering feature
• Multiple forwarding path in VNFFG
• VNFFG support in network service
• TOSCA template generator (Tacker Studio)
• Doc cleanup & bug fix

8. Future Plan
• Micro service Architecture
• Update VM based VNFs
• Focus on stability
• Focus on user scenarios
• Support different VNFs

9. keystone
horizon tacker-horizon
tacker-event
python-tackerclient
MySql
Restful
API
Restful
API
Restful
API
Lib invoke
Mysql API
client
GUI
workflows in
mistral
barbican
tacker-conductor
AMQP
tacker-conductor
workflows in
mistral
barbican
keystone（MSB）
tacker-NFVO
tacker-VNFM tacker-VIM
Tacker server into nfvo,
vnfm and vim service,
each having
independent API
service BUS

10. How to Step-in Tacker

11. Tacker Doc: https://docs.openstack.org/tacker/latest
Tacker Workflow:
Tacker
Target VIM
systems k8s clusterOpenstack
1:Register VIMs
Catalog
2: Create VNFDs
VNF1 VNF2
3: Deploy VNFs

12. Tacker Workflow:
Register VIM

13. Tacker Workflow:
Create VNFD

14. Tacker Workflow:
Deploy VNF

15. Pre-requisite for Contribution
• Basic knowledge about ETSI standard
• Basic knowledge about TOSCA
• Knowledge about Different VNFs. Like Firewall, Load balancer, etc.

16. Where we need help

17.  BPs: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tacker
 Around 25 BPs are supposed to be implemented.
 Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/tacker
 More than 100 open bugs.
 Testing:
 More functional/Unit Test cases
 Tempest Test
 More testing in Production environment
 ETSI Compliance:
 Needs to work in this direction
Blueprints & Bugs

18. Cross-Project
 OPNFV-Doctor:
 Fault management & self healing
 Integration with OpenStack projects:
 Mistral, Congress, Blazor etc..
 Management drivers for different VNF:
 Working with VNF apps

19. Use-Case Scenarios
 More use case scenarios will be helpful
 Work with industries for their real cases to test their VNFs on the
Tacker.

20. How you can help

21. How to contribute
Same as other OpenStack projects.
https://docs.openstack.org/tacker/latest/contributor/dev-process.html
• Reviews: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/tacker
• Contribute your ideas with blueprints: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tacker
• Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/tacker
• Discuss or help others on IRC #tacker
• Team meeting: Tuesday 08:00 UTC #openstack-meeting

22. Contact
Project IRC : #tacker
Weekly Meeting : #openstack-meeting
Meeting timing : Tuesday 08:00 UTC: 60 mins

23. @OpenStack
Q&A
Thank you!
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