Introduction and Purpose of the SEBA Architecture

SEBA Blueprint is a member of the Telco Appliance blueprint family and provides an appliance tuned to support the ONF SDN-enabled Broadband Access (SEBA) platform.  The SEBA blueprint will utilize a reusable set of modules introduced by the first example of the Telco Appliance blueprint family, Radio Edge Cloud (REC).  The SEBA blueprint provides the following on designated servers:

• Installation of host OS
• Configuration of network
• Installation/setup of Kubernetes cluster
• Installation/testing/validation for SEBA components (VOLTHA, NEM, ONOS)
• Built from reusable components of the “Telco Appliance” blueprint family
• Automated Continuous Deployment pipeline testing the full software stack (bottom to top, from firmware up to and including application)
• Integration with Regional Controller (Akraino Feature Project) for “zero touch” deployment of SEBA to edge sites
• Deployability to multiple hardware models

High level architectural view: (NEED AN EDITABLE VERSION TO UPDATE)

Objectives

• Fully automated simultaneous deployment and testing on multiple hardware platforms
  • Blueprint defines exact hardware configurations
  • Each hardware variant is deployed into a Continuous Deployment system that runs the full test suite
• Appliance model automates the installation, configuration and testing of:
  • Firmware and/or BIOS/UEFI
  • Base Operating System
  • Components for management of containers, performance, fault, logging, networking, CPU
• Application:
  • RIC is the application running on the REC appliance
  • Other appliances will be created by combining other applications with the same underlying components to create additional blueprints
  • Fully automated testing includes running full application test suite

Components of Radio Edge Cloud