This wiki page is dedicated to planning the OPNFV community test-bed infrastructure. This includes labs hosted by community companies as well as the OPNFV Linux Foundation lab.

The Pharos project team needs to define deliverables and milestones for Brahmaputra. Please feel free to edit this page with comments and suggestions.

There are 3 sub-pages dedicated to:

• Pharos specification (requirements for Pharos compliance)
• Lab infrastructure (tools for management and testing)
• Lab management (process and support)

Below notes are suggestions for Brahmaputra scope and deliverables (details will be captured on dedicated pages) …

1. Pharos specification

  
- Expand Arno definition of Pharos
  - Naming conventions
  - Template for consistent view of each lab (Compute, Network, Storage specifications)
  - Requirements vs optional aspects
  - Define a uniform way to access with get-started / user guide
  - Actual specification (hardware, networks, ...)
- Define a sandbox environment/s for developers (vs. the full test-environment)
  - Can we define a virtual environment to get started?
  - Can we define a small scale bare-metal environment for community labs to host or for anybody who wants to setup a test-bed with minimum cost/effort?
- Create a formal definition of a "Pharos compliant" lab
  - Compliance checklist
  - Acceptance tests (tools, scripts)
  - Infrastructure access and user guides
  - json or yaml format to describe hardware, tooling related to testbed?
  - Deploy templates - specifies what is required in order to configure each deployment tool/method

2. Lab infrastructure (management and test tools)

- MAAS pilot
- User vs test environment (tools and configurations)
- Tenant vs bare metal (tools and configurations)
- Remote access infrastructure 
  - Open-VPN
  - Connection to Jenkins
- Dashboards for tracking community labs capability, availability, utilization

3. Lab management and support

- Community labs
  - One person for each lab to support (SLA ... availability, etc.) 
  - Lab teams
    - Understand other labs
    - Help other lab owners
    - Dedicated IRC channel
- Linux Foundation lab
  - Define how we will use the LF infra post Arno … compiling/building/packaging/testing?
  - Support plan
  - Capacity expansion plan?