OpenSlice 2024Q2 Release Announcement

OpenSlice is an open source, service-based Operations Support System (OSS) prototype for delivering Network Slice as a Service (NSaaS) and more widely, Network as a Service (NaaS) following specifications from main Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), including ETSI, TM Forum, GSMA, and 3GPP.

Recently, ETSI Software Development Group OpenSlice (SDG OSL) announced the latest official release of OpenSlice!

“The latest OpenSlice 2024Q2 version is a manifest to our commitment to pave the way for modern telco-cloud requirements, seamless integration and reference implementations for 6G” - Christos Tranoris, Senior Research at University of Patras and Chair of ETSI SDG OSL.

Key Highlights of the Release

- Cloud native support: OpenSlice can be deployed via docker compose and HELM Chart.

- Native Kubernetes support: OpenSlice can now create and manage Custom Resources (CRs) and offer them as a Service. Also, it is able to deploy Services based on HELM Charts to target Kubernetes clusters.

- Enhanced NFVO primitive support: OpenSlice can now automatically extract and display a list of available (VNF-level) primitives. It also offers a dedicated UI that enables seamless primitive execution.

- Service characteristics’ exposure revision: The transition of service characteristics between related services underwent a major revision to properly reflect and isolate customer and resource facing aspects.

- Robustness and Performance enhancements: The latest release introduces several bugfixes, code testing extension, automated pipelines to validate the developed code and performance centric component enhancements.

How to run OpenSlice version 2024Q2

To get your hands onto the new OpenSlice 2024Q2 version in your own environment, you may read the detailed Deployment Guide, both for Docker and Kubernetes.

Read the full post to know more about OpenSlice 2024Q2 here.