Service Provider DevOps network capabilities and tools
Rebecca Steinert, Wolfgang John, Pontus Sköldström, Bertrand Pechenot, András Gulyás, István Pelle, Tamás Lévai, Felicián Németh, Juhoon Kim, Cătălin Meiroşu, Xuejun Cai, Chunyan Fu, Kostas Pentikousis, Sachin Sharma, Ioanna Papafili, Guido Marchetto, Riccardo Sisto, Fulvio Risso, Per Kreuger, Ekman, Jan · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015
This report provides an understanding of how the UNIFY Service Provider (SP)-DevOps concept can be applied and integrated with a combined cloud and transport network NFV architecture. Specifically, the report contains technical descriptions of a set of novel SP-DevOps tools and support functions that facilitate observability, troubleshooting, verification, and VNF development processes. The tools and support functions are described in detail together with their architectural mapping, giving a wider understanding of the SP-DevOps concept as a whole, and how SP-DevOps tools can be used for supporting orchestration and programmability in the UNIFY NFV framework. The concept is further exemplified in a case study for deployment and scaling of an Elastic Firewall.