ETSI OSM has opted to reorganize its Hackfest, originally planned as a physical event in Madrid from 9 to 12 March 2020, as a fully remote event.
What originally seemed a huge challenge due to the hands-on approach and the high level of interaction required in a Hackfest, proved possible in a record time thanks to the outstanding engagement of the OSM community and the means provided by ETSI, making this Hackfest one of the best attended ever. The 4 days of Hackfest were run in parallel with the OSM Mid-Release EIGHT meeting and the OSM Ecosystem Day, also held remotely.
With more than 20 hours of presentations, hands-on sessions and demos led by key contributors from the OSM community, the Hackfest gathered over 100 highly motivated participants, who were able to complete hands on sessions remotely on a shared lab environment provided by ETSI, through their Hub for Validation and Interoperability (HIVE).
The support of cloud-native network functions, one of the key features delivered in OSM Release SEVEN, was one of the most expected sessions of this Hackfest, and provided OSM users an excellent opportunity to experiment with cutting-edge cloud native scenarios and build network services leveraging on a huge ecosystem of over 20,000 pre-existing production-ready applications.
Overall, the Hackfest offered a wide range of sessions, including an overview of the OSM architecture, the installation of OSM in Kubernetes, system monitoring, network services instantiation, high performance and autoscaling, automation of VNF Day 1 and 2 operations, and the end-to-end onboarding in OSM of a cloud-native Evolved Packet Core (EPC).
