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About this Series
Welcome to Nephio! We are glad you have joined us to learn about Nephio. This is the first in a series of tutorials designed to help you learn about Nephio - what is is, why it exists, and how it works. This series of short articles will include slides and often a video presentation as well, as well as exercises you can do in a Nephio demo environment. The idea is to allow you to get a basic understanding of Nephio and its concepts, and then provide additional material for deeper dives.
About Nephio
What exactly is Nephio, though? Perhaps the best place to start is with our mission statement:
| Nephio’s goal is to deliver carrier-grade, simple, open, Kubernetes-based cloud native intent automation and common automation templates that materially simplify the deployment and management of multi-vendor cloud infrastructure and network functions across large scale edge deployments. Nephio enables faster onboarding of network functions to production including provisioning of underlying cloud infrastructure with a true cloud native approach, and reduces costs of adoption of cloud and network infrastructure. |
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That's a lot to digest. To simplify it, let's break it down into the "What", the "How", and the "Why".
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Finally, the mission covers the "Why", including both "faster onboarding of network functions to production" and "reduces costs of adoption of cloud". It doesn't really qualify the "faster", but the goal is really a dramatic reduction. Rather than taking months, it should take hours or minutes. When the broader technology industry moved from manual provisioning of physical server to virtual machines, and eventually to cloud-based VMs, it changed the way people develop and build services. We expect similar benefits if network topologies can be more easily created, modified, and destroyed. These changes can lead to increased agility in delivering services to customers. The "Why" will be covered in much more depth in the next episode.
About the Nephio Community
Nephio is an open source project of the Linux Foundation. We do our best to be a friendly, welcoming community. We have several different "special interest groups" (SIGs) that meet regularly, as well as mailing lists and a Slack instance. Please join us!
- Learning page - https://nephio.org/learn
- Site - https://nephio.org/, https://nephio.org/about/
- Wiki - https://wiki.nephio.org/
- Docs - https://github.com/nephio-project/docs
- Blog Postings - https://nephio.org/blog/
- Slack - https://nephio.slack.com/ (join via this invitation)
- Project Github - https://github.com/nephio-project
- Project email distro - https://lists.nephio.org
- nephio-tsc (for TSC members and interested parties)
- nephio-dev (for all)
- SIG lists: sig-netarch, sig-automation, sig-release
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