This Training Portal is offering courses focused on the research and education community, with external references that can be useful for us and examples that can be closer to our use cases. It is training by the community for the community. We will be publishing new classes regularly; all classes are online courses that you can follow and complete at your own pace.

all upcoming and past events
New in Network Automation: Process Flow Orchestration, Hypervisor-based Virtualisation: KVM, XEN, Nagios

Meet us on the first Tuesday of every month
One hour for questions & answers
Just drop us an email at

network-eacademy@lists.geant.org

and we will send you the link.

Introduction

OAV - Introduction (30')
OAV Architecture Requirements for NRENS (10')
The OAV Architecture Blueprint (30')

DevOps

Introduction to CI/CD (15')
Version control: Gitlab (40')
Version control: GitHub (2h)
CI/CD: Jenkins (5h)
CI/CD: GitlabCI (40')

TM Forum Open Digital Architecture

Decoupling & Integration
Introduction to Data Modelling, Data Formats, and Protocols (30')
Data Modelling: YANG (10')
Formats: XML (60')
Formats: YAML (30')
Formats: JSON (45')
Protocols: NETCONF (4 h - including installation)
Introduction to API (45')
Protocols: RESTCONF (2h)
Process Flow Orchestration (45')

Engagement Management
Introduction to Engagement Management (15')

Party Management
Introduction to Party Management (15')

Core Commerce Management
Introduction to Core Commerce Management (15')

Production
Introduction to Production (30')
Introduction to Virtualisation (30')
Hypervisor-based Virtualisation: KVM (50')
New: Hypervisor-based Virtualisation: XEN (90')
Container-Based Virtualisation: Docker / Swarm (3h)
Container-Based Virtualisation: Kubernetes (4h - including lab)
Introduction to Automation (30')
Automation Tools: Ansible (60'+lab time)
Automation Tools: Python (90')
Introduction to Configuration Management (20')
New: Automated Configuration Management: NetBox (25')
Introduction to Orchestration (30')
Orchestration: NSO (6h - including lab)

Intelligence Management
Introduction to Intelligence Management (15')
Introduction to Automated Monitoring: Nagios (2h)
Big Data Storage (1.5h)
Elasticsearch (30')
New: Introduction to AI (50')

OAV Realisation

Towards Intelligent Networks (30')

ADDITIONAL READING

Architecture Mappings

NREN use cases
CARNET
CYNET
GÉANT
GRNET
HEAnet
PIONIER
SURFNET
other use cases
Argus
NMaaS
PMP
SPA

Architectures

Standards & Common Architectures
TM Forum ODA
MEF
ETSI-OSM
ETSI-ZSM
ONAP
OpenBaton
5G 3GPP
GVM
SENSE
TALENT
EOSC

External Collaborations

Automation tools: GNAT (GNOC)
Database (SoBigData Academy)
Data Analysis (SoBigData Academy)
Legal and Ethical aspects of Data Science (SoBigData Academy)
Information Retrieval (SoBigData Academy)
Data Mining & Machine Learning (SoBigData Academy)
Data Analysis with Spark (SoBigData Academy)
Data Theory and Society (SoBigData Academy)
Complex Network Analysis (SoBigData Academy)

Explore the training map

(click on areas of interest to select courses)

Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV) are broad topics with many tools, platforms, programming languages and concepts involved, and it is easy to get lost.

The interactive metro map is a visual way to help you follow your self-paced training, depending on your interests. These are some tips to follow the map:

A circle in a station means this is a Moodle course in the eAcademy.
A square means this is a document or an external website where you can get more information on a topic.
A station with the font highlighted is available.
A station with the font grayed out means it’s not published yet.
Some stations can belong to more than one line.
When you arrive to a big station after completing a line, you have gained the knowledge about the topic and mastered the area.
The green line gives a basic overview of OAV topics and the functional blocks in the TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA) in short learning units (between 5 minutes and 1 hour).
We recommend that you take at least the first three introductory courses before jumping to another line.
You can change the line and follow a technical line, or a more theoretical line, or search for use cases.