Great discussion and I agree this is an important topic and I hope we cover this in our F2F meeting in May.
As a long term goal, ONAP should have an architecture that helps to drive a predictable end to end service behavior, and at the same time, allows different components (open source or vendor solutions) to be plugged into the framework in a consistent way. When it comes to multi-cloud support (Openstack, Vmware, AWS, Azure) or container support, a pluggable framework, which not only defines the interface as point of integration, but also provides means for underline infrastructure to advertise its capability, is something we could discuss. As Helen indicated below, Open-O has a Multi-VIM project which incorporated some of these capabilities, and more needs to be done BTW, any interest in starting a discussion group on this topic, the current volume on this master email mailing list is killing the productivity ? Danny From: <onap-discuss-bounces at lists.onap.org> on behalf of "simer.singh at us.fujitsu.com" <simer.si...@us.fujitsu.com> Date: Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 9:56 AM To: Yunxia Chen <Helen.Chen at huawei.com>, "SPATSCHECK, OLIVER (OLIVER)" <spatsch at research.att.com>, Dhananjay Pavgi <DP00476350 at TechMahindra.com> Cc: "onap-discuss at lists.onap.org" <onap-discuss at lists.onap.org> Subject: Re: [onap-discuss] Support ONAP on multiple OS/Openstacks? Short term ? Intermediate layer is REQUIRED. Although longer term ? We shall define standard interfaces so that vendors (VMMs, Cloud etc?) can support this going forward. Thanks From: <onap-discuss-bounces at lists.onap.org> on behalf of Yunxia Chen <helen.c...@huawei.com> Date: Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 8:13 AM To: "SPATSCHECK, OLIVER (OLIVER)" <spatsch at research.att.com>, Dhananjay Pavgi <DP00476350 at TechMahindra.com> Cc: "onap-discuss at lists.onap.org" <onap-discuss at lists.onap.org> Subject: Re: [onap-discuss] Support ONAP on multiple OS/Openstacks?