Ocata Series Release Notes

0.7.0

New Features

• Added parameter support for deploying VNF Forwarding Graph Descriptor templates. With this addition the user can deploy a VNFFG using an Onboarded parameterised template with different parameter values using parameter YAML file at each time without on-boarding new template.

• Add support to pass shell script to install VNF components in the Tosca template

• Network Service Descriptor support will allow Tacker to provide a end-to-end TOSCA based network service. For details please refer https://docs.openstack.org/developer/tacker/devref/nsd_usage_guide.html

• Support VNF create with direct VNFD template input via CLI/API without on-boarding VNFD.

Other Notes

• Only one VNFC is supported for one VDU. Multiple VNFC per VDU will be introduced in future.

• The shell script for vnfc has to be placed in the machine where Tacker server is running

0.6.0

New Features

• Add Guru Meditation support. Command “kill -s SIGUSR2 <tacker-server-pid>” will make Racker server emit running configuration.

• Add mac_address support in CP’s properties.

Upgrade Notes

• From Mitaka version, Tacker supports TOSCA based VNFD templates. Legacy templates described under Tacker/samples/legacy-templates are deprecated in Newton and removed in Ocata.