This post will focus on the certification test suites that Red Hat has created for cloud-native applications to verify their adherence to best practices. In particular, we will see how DCI can simplify the setup required for these suites by handling all of the work related to the preparation of the configuration for the test suites, execution of the suites and report of the results.

This post aims at specifying how DCI can help you in the road to achieve CNF Certification, understanding what configuration you should provide to DCI to correctly execute CNF Cert Suite and obtain the required (and desired) results.

The post highlights the benefits of Preflight certification, emphasizes security enhancements, and starts the discussion about cloud-native function (CNF) certification and CNF workloads at Keysight

This post continues providing useful information to address the CNF Certification process.

This post continues the journey of Keysight Technologies to achieve Red Hat OpenShift CNF Certification for Keysight Open RAN SIM CE, describing the changes and improvements made in the product to adapt to the certification requirements, as well as the workflow followed in collaboration with Red Hat’s Telco Partner CI team using Distributed-CI. Final certification results and conclusions are also shared.

In this blog post, we will share some recommendations and good practices followed by the Telco Partner CI team for partners and internal Red Hat teams working with these partners to prepare OpenShift workloads for certification. The suggested process or workflow can be easily replicated in the collaboration between partners and Red Hat teams. We will show you, as part of the implementation of this workflow, how you can automate the report and analysis of preflight and CNF Certification tests launched with Distributed-CI (DCI) using spreadsheets to gather all the results and to check the evolution of the tests results. These tools would be eventually useful for Red Hat teams to follow up the certification process with the partner and also to justify exception requests based on what is observed in the support tools.