OPNFV’s 6th Release Brings Testing Capabilities That Orange Is Already Using

The Linux Foundation’s OPNFV Project today issued its sixth platform release, named Fraser, adding more support for cloud native applications. And the release brings new testing capabilities that are already being used by ONAP and by Orange. “The coolest thing is the progress we made in cloud native in this release,” said Heather Kirksey, VP of community and ecosystem development at the Linux Foundation. “We did some initial Kubernetes integration in our last release, Euphrates. This time, we’ve definitely increased that. We’ve more than doubled the number of scenarios that support Kubernetes.” Fraser also deepens OPNFV’s testing capabilities around functional, performance, stress, and benchmark testing. Kirksey said that some of OPNFV’s testing frameworks are already being used by ONAP and by France-based service provider Orange. Even while OPNFV was working on the Fraser release, a member of ONAP who works for Orange ported some of OPNFV’s testing frameworks to ONAP. “Orange did a lot of work to port our frameworks to ONAP to use for their ONAP testing and deployment, so they didn’t have to build that from scratch,” said Kirksey. Tim Irnich of Ericsson, who is the current chair of OPNFV’s technical steering committee, added that ONAP had started to run tests for various components it was developing. But it wanted to store test results and run tests more often. “It happened that OPNFV had solved that problem already,” said Irnich. “In this case, it turned out to be easy to strip away the OPNFV specifics and bring it over to ONAP and have a ready-made solution in very little time. One colleague at Orange did it in less than two days.”