Cloudify and Orange Labs Will Demonstrate Lifecycle Management and Orchestration of OPNFV Deployments

Cloudify and Orange Labs will be demonstrating lifecycle management and orchestration of OPNFV deployments on OpenStack at the next OpenStack Summit. Orange Labs is using Cloudify as an orchestrator for a project focusing on functional testing of a virtual IMS VNF throughout its lifecycle. The virtual IMS system is based on Metaswitch’s Clearwater. Orange Labs uses Cloudify and Jenkins for lifecycle orchestration and management tasks such as monitoring, healing, scaling, and software upgrade.

Cloudify claims to be the only open source NFV MANO leveraging TOSCA’s native multi-VIM interoperability capabilities. Cloudify’s Telecom Edition is based on the telecom-friendly TOSCA standard and is delivered with the ARIA TOSCA orchestration engine at its core. Cloudify has built-in support and blueprints for OpenStack and the VMware stack.

TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) is a standard language to describe the topology of cloud-based web services, their components, relationships, and the processes that manage them.

ARIA (Agile Reference Implementation of Automation) is an implementation of the OASIS TOSCA specification. It offers a command line interface to develop and execute TOSCA templates, and an SDK for building TOSCA-enabled software. ARIA has IaaS plugins for OpenStack, VMware, AWS and Azure, Container plugins for Docker, Kubernetes and Mesos, SDN plugins for Tail-f, OpenDaylight and ONOS, and configuration management plugins for Puppet, Chef, Ansible and SaltStack.