Release 1 (May 2023)

Owned by Venkatesh Kumar Lakshmikanthan
Last updated: Jul 10, 2023 by Tal LironVersion comment
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The release covers the following use cases:

  • User Story 1: Deploy 5G core network functions (free5gc)

  • User Story 2: Upgrade user plane capacity

  • Upgrade the resources (vertical scaling) of an existing UPF

  • User Story 3: Upgrade control plane capacity

  • Upgrade the resources (vertical scaling) of an existing SMF

  • (Stretch) Provision all free5gc NFs 

  • (Stretch) Provision workload clusters and join them to Nephio management 

  • (Stretch) UI viewers and editors for PackageVariant(Set) resources

  • (Stretch) Make a call via UERANSIM

This functionality has been verified with a series of manual and automated end-to-end tests.

You can find the documentation, source code, and other artifacts here:

Project Board

https://github.com/orgs/nephio-project/projects/2/views/1

Functional Scope - Planned

  • Sprint 1

    • Nephio Up and Running

    • User Story 1: Deploy 5G core Network Functions (NFs) with CUPS (Control user-plane separation) architecture.

  • Sprint 2

  • Sprint 3

  • Sprint 4

    • User Story 4: Upgrade to user plane that automatically implies and upgrade to control plane.

  • Sprint 5

    • Bug Fixes

Execution Plan

Sprints

Duration

Date

Sprint Goal

Sprint Deliverables/Outcomes

Sprints

Duration

Date

Sprint Goal

Sprint Deliverables/Outcomes

Sprint 1

2 weeks

Mar 28, 2023Apr 10, 2023 

Setting stage & Bootstrap

  1. Setting up build pipelines with PROW including build, test, CLA validation . Setting up owners.

  2. Clarify requirements for further execution. These are in the areas of UI, end to end test bed, ultimate goal of  R1 ( like making end to end call etc)

  3. Define and understand  the process . Github boards, workflows and PR process.

  4. Design and implement common libraries that would make rest of R1 execution faster . Some are merged (eg: KPT File) and some are in the code review cycle.

  5. Design  and implementation of common function run time. We have a few iterations on this and made progress This will again make rest of the execution a bit simpler.

  6. Create initial CRDs and packages for free5gc functions.

  7. We have multiple PRs in progress which are in the review cycle.

Sprint 2

2 weeks

Apr 11, 2023 Apr 24, 2023 

  1. Complete the work on common libraries and other foundational work items such as function run time

  2. Have a version of free5gc controllers and operator running.

  3. Make progress in the creation of test bed for Nephio Deployment

  4. Be ready to start integration testing from  sprint 3.



Sprint 3

2 weeks

Apr 25, 2023 May 8, 2023 





Sprint 4

2 weeks

May 9, 2023 May 22, 2023 





Sprint 5

1 week

May 23, 2023 May 29, 2023