Hi all,
We had two days session for discussing new proposals for Caracal and reamined items couldn't fixed in the previous release [1]. Here is a summary of the discussion in Tacker team.
# Revise FTs Gate tests, especially for functional tests, have been getting mess because of increasing amount of codes without active maintenance. For the issue, we have focused on reducing useless logs. And also re-design directory structure and testcase scenarios. We're going to continue the tasks and will fix it in this release.
# Legacy API deprecating/obsoleting It was proposed to drop Tacker's legacy implementation in antelope, and will be completed in this release as planed.
# Introducing Cilium CNI for high-performance network connectivity for VNF/CNF This proposal is for a new example app using Cilium CNI as a vRAN usecase in which VNF/CNF requires performance for network connectivity between VMs or containers. The first target is to confirm it's available to deploy with Tacker in a manner of VNF package.
# Update requirements for monitoring We have introduced Prometheus for implementing FM/PM interfaces defined in ETSI-NFV standards from Yoga. This proposal is for more advanced feature than monitoring, called as observability, by using OpenTelemetry for considering future requirements. We agreed to implement an additional plugin dedicating to interwork between Otel collector and Tacker.
# NFV Orchestration API v2.0 in Tacker Horizon Although many of v2 APIs in ETSI specifications have been implemented, tacker-horizon is not ready for the features. We'll update NFVO interfaces in Horizon to provide v2 features. Current legacy features are going to be dropped instead.
# Improving Tacker Document As legacy implementations have been deprecated, documents are also removed. In addition, there are some other sections should be updated such as incorrect usecase guides don'twork, unmaintained operator's guides or so.
# Tacker Tempest Plugin Tacker doesn't support tempest, but it's not good for considering if it leads to OpenStack vendors not including Tacker in their products, and also makes Tacker look unhealthy project. So, implement Tacker's tempest plugin and update our zuul jobs to use the plugin for.
# Fix vimConnectionID in ResouceHandle In the current implementation, vimConnectionID differs from ETSI specs mistakenly. So, it's should be fixed soon and expected to be small changes.
# Secure RBAC This item has been led by NEC team and development of UTs and FTs are under implemention as noted on the vPTG etherpad. However, we need to update ownership of the item for manpreetk moved to another organization. Confirm if NTT or NEC team own the item in caracal and share the result in IRC meeting.
# Fix issues which were encounter in compliance test execution In next release of tacker (2024.1), NEC team proposing to make 'tacker-compliance-devstack-multinode-sol' job testing mandatory and voting after some issues occured in the test are fixed.
# Maintain tosca-parser and heat-translator Assign team leaders for each projs temporarily for governance, Toshiaki Takahashi for tosca-parser and Ayumu Ueha heat-translator. Ask TC memebers anything requried to change the ownership.
[1] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-tacker
Thanks, Yasufumi