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OPNFV, later CNTT and Anuket were formed with the idea in mind to decrease the integration costs of cloud applications and clouds. OPNFV had the approach of building an intended to build integrated cloud stackstacks, at that time only based on OpenStack, what which would become the de-facto cloud stack stacks of the telecom industry, so every VNF would know what to expect from it. OVP provided a verification program around it. The integrated OPNFV stack did not really become the de-facto cloud stack of telecom workloads and only a small number of NFVI or NFV vendors verified their solutions with OVP. Then CNTT was formed. The idea of CNTT was to specify the properties of the cloud stacks, this time both OpenStack and Kuberntes Kubernetes, and build a certification framework for clouds and their workloads. Then CNTT and OPNFV merged under the name of Anuket, . OPNFV stacks become became the Anuket reference implementations, the OPNFV test frameworks and tools used for the Anuket reference conformance program and OVP become became Anuket Assured. During this time, CNCF started to build the CNF Testbed to test infrastructure capabilities needed for networking applications. The Testbed later was renamed to CNT Testsuite and application capability tests were also added. CNCF created the CNF WG to define the characteristics of CNF and the CNF Testsuite implemented a set of CNF tests. In its Moselle release, the Kubernetes based reference architecture in Anuket adopted most of the application tests from the CNF Testsuite as application requirements. In KubeCon EU 2022 CNCF announced their CNF Conformance program based on the tests defined in the CNF Testsuite.
All of this sounds confusing? It is because it is. In their talk Georg and Gergely will uncover the details of this story and the current state of CNF conformance verification. They will do this from a very selfish CNF vendor perspective to draw the attention to the issues of the current situation. At the last part of the presentation, the presenters plan to invite a set of key actors from the Anuket and CNCF CNF communities to discuss possible solutions to the problems addressed.
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