Network Apps Certification Tools and Marketplace development (final)

The main goal of the present deliverable is to outline the final release of those tools, initiatives, and methodologies that are implemented for the realization of the EVOLVED-5G Certification Process and Environment, with a focus on the architectural components' implementation, effectiveness, and security. These architectural components define the Network App Certification Process and the Marketplace, which are used to distribute the certified Network Apps.

This document presents the outcome of task “T3.4: Network App Certification Tools and Marketplace development” providing a final description of the selected tools for the design of the automated Certification Process, the Test engine for running certification tests, and the description of tests that are part of the Certification process.
The deliverable represents an upgrade on D3.2 “NetApp Certification Tools and Marketplace development” in the following sense:

• The CI/CD services supporting the implementation of the certification process has been revisited, including final versions of
  •  NEF, including token integration with CAPIF.
  • CAPIF, including new methods that are fundamental for certifying API usage during certification testing
  • TSN, for certifying the usage of deterministic communication in the Network Application
  • New tools, such as Helm for deployment automation
  •  Removal tools as Terraform, no longer necessary as K8s environments are static there is no need for K8s clusters re-deployment.
• Openshift, as container execution platform, has been upgraded to version 4.10.
• A new Kubernetes cluster has been created for EVOLVED-5G project in COSMOTE premises as part of the Athens certification environment with the purpose of hosting various applications.
• The conceptualization of the certification pipeline definition is now complete, ready for implementation in WP5
• Marketplace:
  • The two-step design process for the Marketplace is finalised as well as the final high-level architecture.
  • All components that were envisioned or intermediately released and reported in D3.2, are now completed and finalised, achieving the full implementation of Marketplace. It is worth highlighting the full implementation of the blockchain integration module, the full integration of the marketplace with the open repository (antifactory) as well as the full integration of the marketplace with OpenShift, and marketplace-ready upgrade for network app versioning