CNF Testbed Energizes Kubernetes Advantage Over OpenStack

The open source ecosystem made another significant push into the traditional telecom market with the launch of a new Cloud native Network Function (CNF) Testbed that could speed the rise of Kubernetes as a test platform. That rise would come at the expense of OpenStack. The test bed was developed as a partnership between the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Linux Foundation’s LF Networking (LFN) group. Its purpose is to show the ability to run the same networking code running as virtual network functions (VNFs) on OpenStack and as CNF’s on Kubernetes. CNCF Executive Director Dan Kohn explained that the CNF path provides performance improvements due to a lower virtualization overhead.