2.1. Pharos ComplianceΒΆ

The Pharos Specification defines a hardware environment for deployment and testing of the OPNFV platform release.

Pharos lab infrastructure has the following objectives:

  • Provides secure, scalable, standard and HA environments for feature development
  • Supports the full Euphrates deployment lifecycle (this requires a bare-metal environment)
  • Supports functional and performance testing of the Euphrates release
  • Provides mechanisms and procedures for secure remote access to Pharos compliant environments for OPNFV community

Deploying Euphrates in a Virtualized environment is possible and will be useful, however it does not provide a fully featured deployment and realistic test environment for the Euphrates release of OPNFV.

The high level architecture is outlined in the following diagram:

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