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An Overview of Cloud-Native Networks Design and Testing

Authors:
Zhaobo Zhang
Xinli Gu

Keywords: Cloud-native; Cloud-native network functions; container; Kubernetes; continuous testing; performance testing

Abstract:
Cloud-native patterns have reshaped application development over the past decade. With the benefits of agility, resiliency, and scalability, the network domain starts embracing the cloud-native patterns to accelerate its evolution. Containerization becomes another solution of network function virtualization. Leveraging existing network services and the mature container orchestration platform, cloud-native networks attract wide attention, however the performance and scalability challenges in design and testing arise as the architecture advances. This paper presents an overview of cloud-native networks, the design and testing challenges and the development activities from open-source communities towards overcoming those issues. Performance optimization and hardware and software co-design are critical for the future success of cloud-native networks.

Pages: 14 to 18

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: October 18, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4316

ISBN: 978-1-61208-830-3

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020