Deploy OSM MANO & Onboarding VNF in Openstack NFVi

M. Lutfi As syafii

Published in

btech-engineering

5 min readApr 18, 2023

Specification : OpenStack, OSM, NFV, MANO, VNF Onboarding

NFV-MANO Lab Architecture

Specification

OS : Ubuntu 20.04
vCPU : 4
RAM : 8GB
Storage : 40 GB

Requirements

Openstack environment (Check installation on https://luthfi.dev/posts/install-openstack-aio-with-kolla-ansible-in-ubuntu/)
Connectivity between Openstack & OSM

Summary Steps

Install OSM
Add Openstack (NFVi) to OSM MANO via VIM
Preparing images, network, keypair, security groups on openstack (day-0)
Creating & Onboarding VNF Packages
Verify & testing

This my VM for OSM

1. Add regular user

If your VM not have regular/ubuntu user, please add first because for installation later.

adduser ubuntu
usermod -aG sudo ubuntu
su ubuntu
cd ~

2. Download & Install OSM Packages

This steps all packages will installed automatically with 1 command, and OSM Component running as container/POD on top off Kubernetes.

wget https://osm-download.etsi.org/ftp/osm-12.0-twelve/install_osm.sh
chmod +x install_osm.sh
./install_osm.sh

To continue installation, please press Y This installation takes 15–20 minutes, let’s drink coffee first hehe.

For more detail about optional installation, you can from official document : https://osm.etsi.org/docs/user-guide/latest/03-installing-osm.html

3. Verification after installation

Installation success

Make sure your installation like bellow :

POD Status

kubectl get pod -A 
kubectl get svc -A

OSM Dashboard

Open your OSM Dashboard with External IP from SVC, above steps.

4. Open Your Openstack

Before add Openstack to MANO, we need understand VIM URL (Openstack URL), in this case openstack using keystone/identity services using port 5000

Our VIM URL : http://172.12.12.254:5000/v3/

5. Add Openstack NFVi to MANO (VIM)

VIM is one of MANO component, this function for handle nfvi like openstack, vmware, cloud, and others.

Add Openstack to VIM Accounts, like bellow:

Write about your openstack (NFVi) information

Name : your VIM Account name
Type : Your NFVi type
VIM URL : Your openstack keystone API, (check above)
VIM Username : Your openstack user
VIM Password : Your openstack password
VIM Project/Tenant : Your openstack project will use for VNF
Config : This section you need if you using HTTP for connection & use floating IP for VNF management later.

Make sure your NFVi connected to MANO

6. Preparing openstack environment (Day-0)

This section we prepared first images & network. Actually depends from your VNF Packages will use existing resources (network, keypair) or created new one.

A. Internal Network

In this case, we create new internal network named mgmt for network management VNF & use floating IP for external connection, need connect to external network with router.

B. Images

C. Security Groups

Understanding about VNF & NS Packages in this Lab

Create VNF & NS Packages is preety complex to understand, because here named of VM (Virtual Machines) not a VNF again but vDU (Deployment Unit) & others complex term.

So to simply this, we created simple VNF Packages with 1 vDU (VM), and create NS Packages (Network service) for connect eth0 to mgmt network & eth1 to inside network.