As the first ONAP training provider that has trained around 60 participants on ONAP (and OPNFV) and created the LF online ONAP/OPNFV courses, we have definitely learned a few lessons!
Here are some observations:
- Covering the entire ONAP project in half-day of lectures is definitely packing in a lot. There is a lot to digest; however, participants seem to be able to keep up. Areas such as VNF onboarding, OSS/BSS interfaces, closed-loop automation seem to generate the most questions.
- Creating labs was challenging for us. ONAP + OPNFV require more resources that a laptop can provide. To make self-service labs possible for online LF courses, we had to install both these software stacks on one VM in a public cloud. This took multiple man-months of effort. Also, we had to create numerous workarounds for issues with the ONAP Amsterdam OOM release. I'm confident all of this will be a lot simpler with the Beijing release.
- We initially thought that the vFW demo -- from ONAP+OPNFV deployment to vFW network service deployment could be completed in 0.5 day. We were so wrong! The entire lab end-to-end is more like 1.5 days which would make the overall course a 2 day course instead of 1 (given 1/2 day of training). We had to cut the lab down twice to make everything fit in 1 day. And based on the ONS training experience, we will need to trim the lab a little more.
Being a pioneer around ONAP has been both challenging and fun! If you are interested in ONAP/OPNFV training or professional services, do not hesitate to contact us.
