Sophia Antipolis, 15 January 2025

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release SEVENTEEN, a Standard non‑LTS release of OSM, meeting the established cadence of two releases per year and incorporating the innovations produced by the OSM Community.

OSM Release SEVENTEEN means the consolidation of the new architecture and scope introduced in the previous release, positioning OSM as a generalized cloud‑native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms and services. The full cloud-native management of Kubernetes clusters introduced in Release SIXTEEN for public clouds has been extended to private clouds based on Openstack, following the same intent‑based GitOps model where every operation related to the clusters or the applications running on them is done through Git repositories.

OSM Release SEVENTEEN includes significant improvements in the following key areas:

  • Management of Kubernetes clusters. This release includes the full life‑cycle management of Kubernetes clusters on Openstack-based private clouds using Cluster API. The capabilities of declarative management of Kubernetes clusters and their workloads introduced in Release SIXTEEN have been leveraged and extended to support clusters based on Cluster API in private clouds based on OpenStack, which paves the way of supporting additional types of private infrastructure in next releases.
  • OSM NF catalogue and testing. Release SEVENTEEN sets the foundation of an OSM catalogue of NF and NS packages, that will become the foundation to promote OSM use cases during 2025. Existing NF and NS packages in OSM repos have been published in a public NF catalogue. In addition, new tools have been developed to simplify the creation of new OSM blueprints for Kubernetes applications (OSM Kubernetes Applications, OKA), suitable for the new intent-based framework of OSM. In addition, the automatic generation of E2E Robot tests from a set of NF and NS packages is now possible, which enables the incorporation of relevant NF packages and use cases to OSM’s recurring validation tests at ETSI’s environment.
  • Enhanced capabilities for Network Services. This release allows to specify, as part of the instantiation parameters, the security groups or VIM flavours to be used by the different Virtualized Deployment Units (VDU) that are part of a VNF.
  • Improvements in CNF operation. Release SEVENTEEN supports the relocation of the different Kubernetes Deployment Units (KDU) of a CNF between Kubernetes nodes in a cluster. This would allow the migration of KDU instances between locations in Kubernetes clusters such as the ones used in Edge scenarios, with a centralized control plane and distributed workers.
  • OSM installation. This release introduces performance optimizations in Kafka, MongoDB and Airflow components, that are part of OSM installation, reducing the footprint of the OSM community installation.
  • OSM client improvements. Release SEVENTEEN incorporates support of Jsonpath output format for the new commands related to intent-based operations (clusters, profiles, OKA, KSU). This format allows to filter the fields in the objects, following the common practices in other CLI tools such as kubectl.

OSM Release SEVENTEEN will be demonstrated with a Webinar on Thursday 20 February at 3:00pm CET. Register here!

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