GÉANT Infoshare - Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation in the NRENs. Ready, Steady, Go!

Description of the reasons behind the work in OAV: the survey among the NRENs showed a huge interest, but not all the NRENs are ready to start the journey into automation. The Consensus Building Group in GN4-3 WP6 T2 aims to help the NRENs offering them resources such as a common terminology, a blueprint architecture, mapping of their architectures to this blueprint and training for their teams, among others.

Explanation of the different commonalities and differences of several architectures, the principles that apply to an architecture, and the selection of the TMF Open Digital Architecture (ODA) as a blueprint.

Each organisation has a different structure and offers different services to their users. This diversity makes it difficult to find a single architecture to make their networks and services interoperable. Nevertheless, there are some principles and common ideas that can be used to find ways of understanding and pave the way for this interoperability. The TMF Open digital Architecture (ODA) defines a functional architecture that can help many NREN. In this presentation, the mapping of some NRENs architectures will be presented.

The internet is full of articles, videos and recommendations about automation, orchestration and virtualisation (OAV). However, it is difficult to find a training path that is adaptable to the needs of the research and education networks.

The GÉANT project has prepared a training for these institutions that want to start they OAV journey, but are not really sure on how to do it. Structured in different training paths, the training is intended for network engineers but also for managers who would like to know more about the reasons to go to automation. It's not just about automating the usual manual tasks. It's a mindset change involving the whole organisation.

This presentations introduces the Training, the fist phases learning units and the OAV Training wiki.