Tacker is a generic VNF Manager and NFV Orchestrator that performs Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) life cycle management and configuration.
NSD templates mainly describe network elements as a relationship between different network element and their links to be instantiated in the NFV infrastructure. An NFV Orchestrator can use NSD to instantiate a network service which may have one or more VNFs, Virtual Links (VLs and VNF Forwarding Graphs (VNFFGs).
In this talk, we will present the Network Service Descriptors (NSDs) support within Tacker that enables dynamic composition of network services, allowing users to orchestrate a collection of VNFs and forwarding graphs. And Discuss:
- Aspect of NSD in NFV MANO
- NSDs walkthrough
- NSD workflow in Tacker
- How to leverage NSD templates for VNFFG
From this session, attendees are expected to learn NSD and understand how they can be use Tacker to deploy NSD templates to orchestrate network services.