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Tacker


Title: Tacker

Aim: To develop a fully functional ETSI MANO based general purpose NFV Orchestrator + VNF Manager for OpenStack

Repo: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/tacker/

IRC Channel: #tacker

Meetings: Thursdays 1600 UTC [Weekly] @ #openstack-meeting

Tags: [NFV] [Tacker]



Mission & Scope

Tacker is building an OpenStack based NFV Orchestrator with in-built general purpose VNF Manager to deploy and operate Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) on an OpenStack based NFV Platform. It is based on ETSI MANO Architectural Framework and provides full functional stack to Orchestrate VNFs end-to-end.

ETSI MANO TackerPhase1.JPG

High Level Functionality

  1. VNF Catalog
  2. Basic life-cycle of VNF (define/start/stop/undefine)
  3. Performance and Health monitoring of deployed VNFs
  4. Auto Healing VNFs based on Policy
  5. Facilitate initial configuration of VNF


Relation to Nova, Glance, Heat :

Tacker makes use of Nova and Glance for VM and image management. Tacker makes use of Heat as a subsystem to manage virtual devices.

Use Cases

vCE

Tacker API can be used by SP's OSS / BSS or a NFV Orchestrator to deploy VNFs in SP's network to deliver agile network services for remote Customer networks

vCPE

Tacker API can be used by SP's OSS / BSS or a NFV Orchestrator to manage OpenStack enabled remote CPE devices to deploy VNFs to locally provide network services at customer site.

vPE

Tacker API can be used by SP's OSS / BSS or a NFV Orchestrator to deploy VNFs within SP's network to virtualize existing network services into a Virtual Function.

Installation

Tacker/Installation

TOSCA for NFV

Tacker uses TOSCA for VNF meda-data definition. Within TOSCA Tacker used NFV profile schema,

Repos

Git
Tacker http://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/tacker/
Tacker Specs http://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/tacker-specs/
Tacker Python Client http://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/python-tackerclient/
Gerrit
Tacker https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:stackforge/tacker,n,z
Tacker Specs https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:stackforge/tacker-specs,n,z
Tacker Python client https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:stackforge/python-tackerclient,n,z


Reviews

Tacker Code and Spec reviews

Points of contact


Quick Links

Design & Documentation Tacker/Design
Resources Tacker/Resources
Action Items Tacker/ActionItems
Dependencies & Wish List Tacker/Dependencies
Spec/Patch Tracking Spec & Patch Tracking
Liberty Tacker Talk Sched Link
Juno Design Summit Tacker/JunoSummit
Team Team Members


Wiki Pages