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This is an effort to setup a basic functional assessment platform (a learning "academy") based upon OPNFV, installed as a single node (e.g. a laptop with lots of memory) or multi-node environment. This will provide a means to learn, analyze, and further develop:

• the OPNFV install process, to find where/how we need to augment it for additional components (e.g. Congress)
• the basic mechanisms supported by OPNFV components for VNF and service configuration
• the mechanisms supported by the additional components for configuration policy management
• use cases, demos, and techniques supporting the Copper scope

Installer environments covered:

• Foreman (Arno): See Foreman install procedure, install verification procedure, and additional notes.
• Joid (Brahmaputra): Work in progress… see Joid install procedure

The hardware used in this includes:

• 6 Intel NUC i7 (NUC5i7RYH), each with 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 250MB SSD
  • Note: the single ethernet port on the NUCs can be augmented thru USB-NIC adapters using the 4 USB ports
  • The diagram below shows the initial layout in which three of the NUCs are used for a single non-HA "POD", i.e. jumphost, controller, and compute node hosts.
• a router/gateway that isolates the OPNFV private network (single subnet) from the other LAN segments or the Internet, and any pesky DHCP servers that might be there
  • the private network can use any subnet; 192.168.1.0/24 is used below and in the procedures linked above

(Link to Powerpoint source of the diagram above)

For the record, you can review the (mostly failed) earlier attempts …