Scope and Field of Application
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The report will study the potential enhancements of the NFV architecture for providing "PaaS"-type capabilities and supporting VNFs which follow "cloud-native" design principles, in particular the utilization of container technologies. It will describe the related use cases and provide recommendations on the enhancements of the NFV architecture for flexible choices for the designers of VNFs. Such platform features can include, but are not limited to, common platform services, dependency management, and accessing other VNFs. Management and orchestration of VNFs deployed in containers will be analyzed and resulting recommendations on the enhancements of the NFV architecture will be provided, including impacts on the NFV templates, considering dependencies on the hosting resources. An assumption is that some VNFs may be decomposed into small components (e.g., following a micro-services approach) and/or able to rely on common platfrom services. The study will take into account other initiatives in this space.
It is not the intention of this WI to define "cloud-native", nor to recommend how VNFs shall be decomposed and implemented. The report will include recommendations for requirements and if necessary enhancements on architecture and reference points.
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