Companies or products are certified for Akraino blueprints if logs are pushed to Akraino Nexus servers, and passed any Akraino Release. Security Badges and System Badges are given through partnered certification program used by blueprints.

Akraino Apps can run on shared community lab, private lab, or cloud infrastructure like GCP, GMEC, AWS, Tencent Cloud, Equinix, etc, with or without Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) Blueprint Family.

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Purpose and Principles

Akraino Certification Program is intended to enable infrastructure and service providers certify their products and capabilities for running Akraino Blueprints while satisfying requirements of the Akraino Release qualification established by the Technical Steering Committee.

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1. Blueprint selection.
   1. Do certification program applicants select blueprints to be certified against?
   2. Will the certification program require applicants to certify against ALL approved blueprints?
2. Component certification.
   1. Would a certification program applicant have an option of offering individual components for certification, e.g. IoT device, servers, network, software?
   2. If yes, then whose responsibility to ensure that the complete solution is also certified?
3. Who initiates certification process.
   1. Will individual Blueprints decide to initiate the certification process and select the applicants?
4. Certification tracking and badge awards
   1. Will applicants perform self-certification?
   2. Will there be a need for an Akraino sub-committee?
5. Recertification and Release alignment.
   1. Will there be a recertification requirements?
   2. Will there be a requirement to re-run certification for new Releases?

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Example

VNF Certification Lifecycle

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