2023-11 - Plenary: LFN/CNCF CNF initiatives merge

Short Description

Topic Overview

Agenda

• Context - short recap of the work done so far and motivation

• Define what are the deliverables of this initiative (e.g. Requirements, Best practices, tests, certifications, etc.)

• Brainstorm the short term work items of the merged program. 

  • Identify "low hanging fruits" coming from the CNCF CNF Certification and Anuket Rx2

  • Start identifying what "sections" will the test catalog have

  • Discuss which Nephio specific tests will be included in the catalog

  • Integrate existing platform tests - what should they be integrated with?

• How to continue this conversation?

  • Workgroup(s)? 

• Brainstorm the longer term goals and roadmap

  • How will this program look in 1 year?

Notes

• What is happening?

  • The plan is to merge the assets of cloud native networking in CNCF and the LFN to decrease the fragmentation of the space and help the adoption

  • We had an initial workshop during KubeCon last week. Notes are stored here: https://github.com/cncf/cnf-wg/blob/main/events/LF-Cloud-Native-Networking-Program-Alignment-Workshop.md

  • Recording of the presentation in the Cloud Native Telco Day: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2ODwEuvLJLSaz4GppECN4MQ

• Deliverables

  • Written specifications and executable test cases

  • Tests against the CaaS platform and the CNF-s

  • Traceability of requirements to tests

  • Should the interaction between the CNF and Cloud Platform be in-scope for this program? Maybe not in the short term.

• Operator view on cloud native requirements

  • https://github.com/cncf/cnf-wg/pull/272

  • https://www.ngmn.org/highlight/ngmn-publishes-cloud-native-manifesto.html

• Existing assets

• Long term goals

  • "Full stack" compliance from core to edge

    • We should define what "full stack" is

  • Break down to subcomponents and start working on the different components

• What should we differently this time?

  • We should sit down and do some retrospective on previous activities.

  • Not make the same mistakes, but what those mistakes were?

• Where to continue the discussion?

  • Create the asset list somewhere - wiki: https://lf-networking.atlassian.net/wiki/x/Enjv

  • Current CNF WG meetings - See details in the cnf-wg Readme page - https://github.com/cncf/cnf-wg#readme

• Continue to support the already done and ongoing CNF certifications

Session Type

Slides & Recording

2023-11 - Plenary LFN CNCF CNF initiatives merge.mp4

Notes From Session (as appropriate)

Action Items (as appropriate)