Tacker Project Specifications

This page contains the approved Tacker specifications.

The specification template can be found at:

https://opendev.org/openstack/tacker-specs/src/branch/master/specs/template.rst

If you want to contribute to Tacker, please find the information at:

https://docs.openstack.org/tacker/

Specifications

• Tacker 2025.1 Specifications
  • (Placeholder Spec)
• Tacker 2024.2 Specifications
  • Performance Improvement of List APIs
  • (Placeholder Spec)
• Tacker 2024.1 Specifications
  • NFV Orchestration API v2.0 in Tacker Horizon
  • Cilium CNI for high-performance network connectivity for VNF/CNF
  • OpenTelemetry for monitoring VNF and CNF
• Tacker 2023.2 Specifications
  • Support Kubernetes Custom Resources for Cluster API Provider OpenStack
  • Terraform Infra-driver for VNF Instantiation and Termination
  • Support an external key manager for authentication credentials
• Tacker 2023.1 Specifications
  • Add sample coordinateVNF script for coordination IF
  • Enhancement of Tacker API Resource Access Control
  • Enhance Placement Process
  • Improvement of Error Message of Mgmt Driver
  • SRBAC: Implement Support Of Project Personas
  • Support Onboarding In Multiple Conductors Environment
  • Support PostgreSQL as Tacker DB backend
  • Support Thresholds resource in PM Interface
  • Support VNFM for AutoHeal and AutoScale with External Monitoring Tools
• Tacker Zed Specifications
  • Add CentOS Stream Testing in Zuul
  • Code refactoring for performance improvement
  • Database Synchronization between TackerDB and KubernetesDB
  • DB Migration Tool
  • Enhance CLI for handling large query results
  • Enhancement of CNF operations using Helm Chart
  • Enhance Multi-tenant policy in VNF Lifecycle Management
  • Enhance ChangeCurrentVNFPackage API
  • Enhancement of Container Update Function
  • Support VNF AutoHealing triggered by FaultNotification
  • Support individual VNFC management via Heat
  • Support AutoHeal and AutoScale with External Monitoring Tools via FM/PM Interfaces
  • Support OpenID for Kubernetes VIM Authentication
  • Support CNF Heal in v2 LCM API
  • Support CNF Rollback in v2 LCM API
  • Support CNF Scale in v2 LCM API
  • Support multi artifacts of ansible driver
• Tacker Yoga Specifications
  • Add sample ansible mgmt driver
  • Add VNF package sample for practical use cases
  • Support VNF update operations on changing VNF instances with MgmtDriver
  • Enhance NFV SOL_v3 LCM operation
  • Support Multi-tenant for Kubernetes VIM
  • Add multi-tenant policy on Lifecycle Management
  • Support handling large query results by ETSI NFV
  • Prometheus monitoring and AutoHeal support for Kubernetes Cluster VNF via FM Interface
  • Heal and scale method support of lcm_user_data
  • Support ETSI NFV-SOL_v3 error-handling operation
  • Support ChangeCurrentVNFPackage for VNF software modification
  • Add VIM monitoring feature
• Tacker Xena Specifications
  • Support Docker private registry for Kubernetes cluster with MgmtDriver
  • Support Helm chart for Kubernetes VIM
  • MgmtDriver with Kubernetes cluster management OSS
  • Multi-Version Design for ETSI NFV-SOL
  • Support persistent volumes for Kubernetes cluster with MgmtDriver
  • Enhance Heat input on the basis of NFV SOL014
  • Support NFV SOL_v3 getting LCM information
  • Support NFV SOL_v3 starting and terminating
  • Adopt Robot Framework to use ETSI NFV-TST API test code
• Tacker Wallaby Specifications
  • Support hardware-aware affinity for pods on k8s cluster
  • Support HA Kubernetes Master deployment with MgmtDriver
  • Support deploying Kubernetes cluster with MgmtDriver
  • Support Healing Kubernetes Master/Worker-nodes with Mgmtdriver
  • Support scaling Kubernetes Worker-nodes with Mgmtdriver
  • Support ETSI NFV-SOL based change external VNF connectivity operation
  • Support Heal operation for CNF
  • Support Scale Operation for CNF
  • Support ETSI NFV-SOL based error-handling operation
  • Support fundamental VNF lifecycle management in Tacker
• Tacker Victoria Specifications
  • VNF Workflows Customization by Action Driver
  • Add artifacts support for vnf package
  • Support event trigger alarm and vdu_autoheal by alarming type policy
  • Container Network Function (CNF) with VNFM and CISM
  • Enhance VNF lifecycle management in Tacker
  • Support ETSI NFV-SOL based error-handling
  • Support LCM notifications for VNF based on ETSI NFV-SOL specification
  • Support scaling operations for VNF based on ETSI NFV-SOL specification
  • Support ETSI NFV SOL003 to interoperate with 3rd-party NFVO
  • Support VNF update operations based on ETSI NFV-SOL specification
  • Adopt Robot Framework to use ETSI NFV-TST API test code
• Tacker Ussuri Specifications
  • Enhance VNF package (TOSCA CSAR) in Tacker
  • REST API for VNF based on ETSI NFV-SOL specification
  • LCM operation with user data
  • enable updating VNF parameters
• Tacker Train Specifications
  • Adding Multi-Interface for Containerized VNF in Tacker
  • Tacker Studio
  • Fenix plugin for rolling upgrades in Tacker
  • Support VNF package (TOSCA CSAR) in Tacker
• Tacker Stein Specifications
  • Enable using resources reserved by Blazar for VNF
  • Force Delete resources
  • VDU auto healing
• Tacker Rocky Specifications
  • Shared VIM for Policy Action Execution
  • Affinity/Anti-affinity policies for VDUs
  • VNF Forwarding Graph support in Network Service Descriptor
• Tacker Queens Specifications
  • Kubernetes as VIM in Tacker
  • Add Kubernetes type of containerized VNF to Tacker
  • Update VNFFG’s Chain and Classifier
  • Zabbix Plugin for Application Monitoring in Tacker VNF Manager
• Tacker Pike Specifications
  • Storing VIM credentials in barbican
  • Scalable VIM Monitor using Mistral
  • Scalable VNF monitor policies using Mistral
  • Support persistent block storage in Tacker TOSCA
  • Tacker support in python-openstackclient
  • Autoscaling-management-with-senlin-resource
  • Enable auto-healing function for VNFFG
  • Enable scaling function for VNFFG
• Tacker Ocata Specifications
  • Network Service Descriptor support
  • Tacker API Framework
  • Implement VNF Components Support in Tacker
  • Inline VNF Template
• Tacker Newton Specifications
  • Add alarm-based monitoring driver to Tacker
  • Tacker Resource life-cycle audit support
  • VNF manual and Auto-scaling
  • Tacker & networking-sfc Integration
  • Implement Tacker VNF Forwarding Graph
• Tacker Mitaka Specifications
  • Automatic openstack resource creation based on VNFD template
  • Enhanced VNF placements
  • Multisite VIM support in Tacker
  • TOSCA Parser and Heat Translator Integration
• Tacker Liberty Specifications
  • Monitoring Framework for VNF Manager
  • Implement Tacker API v1 based on NFV MANO

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