OpenSlice 2024Q4 Release Announcement

January 15, 2025

OpenSlice 2024Q4 Release Announcement OSL webpage blogpost

Release Date: 15 January 2024

We are excited to announce the 2024Q4 Release of OpenSlice, proudly delivered by the ETSI Software Development Group (SDG) for OpenSlice (SDG OSL).

OpenSlice continues to be at the forefront of addressing the evolving demands of the telecom industry, focusing on meeting contemporary telco challenges. This release includes optimized resource orchestration, enhanced integration with modern telco tools, and streamlined deployment and monitoring processes, ensuring that OpenSlice stays ahead of the curve in meeting the needs of both research and industry sectors.

We invite you to explore the new features and enhancements in this release, and we look forward to your continued feedback as we push the boundaries of what OpenSlice can achieve, shaping the future of the open-source, telco-cloud innovation.

Key Highlights of the Release

  • METRICO: OpenSlice now presents its inbuilt mechanism to integrate monitoring solutions within the service lifecycle, enabling efficient closed-loop management.
  • OpenSlice Addons: A newly launched and continuously updated Addons repository leverages Custom Resource (CR) orchestration support to enable modern telco features and use cases, such as LF Sylva and CAMARA integration.
  • Kubernetes support extension: The 2024Q4 release delivers major enhancements to CR orchestration logic, boosting stability, expanding Kubernetes resource exposure, and introducing intuitive resource mapping and lifecycle management.
  • TM Forum APIs extensions: This release incorporates Resource Activation and extends the Product layer APIs.
  • Robustness and Performance enhancements: The 2024Q4 release brings significant enhancements to concurrent, multi-tenant usage while optimizing key components, OSOM and CRIDGE, to minimize their footprint for sustainable long-term deployments.
  • End-to-end testing pipelines: OpenSlice now includes automated end-to-end testing pipelines, enabling seamless, repeatable validations of deployment and orchestration examples with every codebase update.

How to run OpenSlice version 2024Q4

To explore the latest OpenSlice 2024Q4 version in your own environment, dive into the detailed Deployment Guide for all the steps and insights!

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Aftermath: ETSI SNS4SNS Event

The OpenSlice community gathered from November 12-14 in Sophia Antipolis, France, alongside other ETSI SDGs, for the dynamic and collaborative Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services Conference & Hackfests (SNS4SNS). This event was a fantastic opportunity to connect, share insights, and explore ongoing implementations. Highlights of the demonstrations included:

  • Demonstrating synergies between ETSI SDG OpenSlice and LF Sylva (video)
  • Open Source for Telco-Cloud: An ETSI SDG-based solution to facilitate zero-touch, multi-slice 5G deployment across the cloud-edge continuum (video)

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the OSL community for the invaluable feedback shared during the OSL#1 Hackfest and in general. Your insights have been pivotal, inspiring significant improvements in the 2024Q4 Release. Our team has worked tirelessly to address your suggestions, ensuring this update measures up to the contemporary telco challenges and your expectations.

About ETSI

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