In NFV, various templates (such as descriptors, records and so on) are utilized to describe the deployment requirements (such as basic VM requirements – vCPU, memory, storage, as well as the NFV acceleration management requirement such as Huge Pages support, SR-IOV, NUMA affinity, DPDK support etc.), the post-instaniation records (such as storage usage report, CPU performance report etc.) or other purposes. However in order to make these templates adaptable and feasible for purpose like deployment orchestration/automation, certain tooling mechanism that provides template translation is necessary.

Project Parser will help to provide such tooling mechanism, by parsing Telecom operators’ descriptors/records into TOSCA/CAMP templates and then further translate TOSCA/CAMP templates into certain common templates, which could be used in IaaS orchestration projects like OpenStack Heat.

The overall project plan for Parser is:

• During the time period of Release One, identify more use cases, and also the gap for the upstream project.

Related wiki pages:

• Parser Project Proposal
• Use Cases
• List of Candidate Work Items / Open Questions
• Meeting Calendar
• Meeting Minutes
• Parser Documentation

Project Creation Date: February 4, 2015
Project Category: Integration & Testing
Lifecycle State: Incubation
Primary Contact: Zhipeng (Howard) Huang
Project Lead: Zhipeng (Howard) Huang
Jira Project Name: Deployment Template Translation
Jira Project Prefix: PARSER
Mailing list tag [parser] Committers: * Ruifeng(Victor) Hu, Huawei (huruifeng@huawei.com) * Zhipeng(Howard) Huang, Huawei (huangzhipeng@huawei.com) * Qi Zhou, Huawei (zhouqi5@huawei.com) * Vinayak Ram, HP (vinayak.ram@hp.com) * Sarbajit Chatterjee, HP (sarbajit.chatterjee@hp.com) * Senthil Kumar Subramaniam, HP (senthil-kumar.subramaniam@hp.com) * Julien, ZTE (zhang.jun3g@zte.com.cn) Contributors: IRC : freenode.net #opnfv-parser
Trello : Parser Trello Board for coordination
Mailing List : no dedicated mailing list - use opnfv-tech-discuss and tag your emails with [parser] in the subject for easier filtering
Meetings : * Meeting Calendar Repository: ** parser