OPNFV Installation Instruction¶

1. Abstract¶

The following document provides an overview of the instructions required for the installation of the Colorado release of OPNFV.

The Colorado release can be installed using a variety of technologies provided by the integration projects participating in OPNFV: Apex, Compass4Nfv, Fuel and JOID. Each installer provides the ability to install a common OPNFV platform as well as integrating additional features delivered through a variety of scenarios by the OPNFV community.

2. Introduction¶

The OPNFV platform is comprised of a variety of upstream components that may be deployed on your physical infrastructure. A composition of components, tools and configurations is identified in OPNFV as a deployment scenario. The various OPNFV scenarios provide unique features and capabilities that you may want to leverage, it is important to understand your required target platform capabilities before installing and configuring your target scenario.

An OPNFV installation requires either a physical, or virtual, infrastructure environment as defined in the Pharos specification. When configuring a physical infrastructure it is strongly advised to follow the Pharos configuration guidelines.

3. Scenarios¶

OPNFV scenarios are designed to host virtualised network functions (VNF’s) in a variety of deployment architectures and locations. Each scenario provides specific capabilities and/or components aimed to solve specific problems for the deployment of VNF’s. A scenario may, for instance, include components such as OpenStack, OpenDaylight, OVS, KVM etc... where each scenario will include different source components or configurations.

To learn more about the scenarios supported in the Colorado release refer to the scenario description documents provided:

Accelerated OVS os-nosdn-ovs
Layer 3 overlay using opendaylight os-odl-l2-bgpvpn
FD.io based forwarding using opendaylight SDN os-odl-12-fdio-noha
High availability service function chaining os-odl-l2-sfc-ha
Service function chaining os-odl-l2-sfc-noha
Accelerated KVM hypervisor os-nosdn-kvm-ha
LXD container hypervisor os-nosdn-lxd-noha
High Availability LXD container hypervisor os-nosdn-lxd-ha

4. Installation Procedure¶

Detailed step by step instructions for working with an installation toolchain and installing the required scenario are provided by each installation project. The four projects providing installation support for the OPNFV Colorado release are; Apex, Compass4nfv, Fuel and Joid.

The instructions for each toolchain can be found in these links:

5. OPNFV Test Frameworks¶

If you have elected to install the OPNFV platform using the deployment toolchain provided by OPNFV your system will have been validated once the installation is completed. The basic deployment validation only addresses a small component of the capability provided in the platform and you may desire to execute more exhaustive tests. Some investigation is required to select the right test suites to run on your platform from the available projects and suites.

Many of the OPNFV test project provide user-guide documentation and installation instructions as provided below:

6. Security Notes¶

The following patches were applied to fix security issues discovered in opnfv projects, during the c-release cycle.