The 1st TFS Hackfest took place at NetworkX in Amsterdam on 20 OCtober 2022.
Overview
ETSI and the TeraFlowSDN community organized the first TFS Hackfest on 20 October 2022. The event was held during the Network X event in Amsterdam, Netherlands, following the ETSI OSM-MR#13 Hackfest on 18-19 October 2022.
Participation in ETSI Hackfests is free and open to all upon registration. Registration to the TFS Hackfest#1 grants a free NetworkX expo access.
Venue
RAI, Europaplein 24, 1078 GZ Amsterdam, Netherlands.
More details at: Venue & Accommodation
Scope
The event will take the form of a tutorial featuring TeraFlowSDN (pre-)Release 2 allowing participant to get hands on experience with TeraFlowSDN.
Who should attend
- Network Operators and Service providers, who want to get first-hand operational experience with TeraFlowSDN Controller
- System Integrators, who want to develop their expertise with TeraFlowSDN
- Academia and Universities, who are using or considering TeraFlowSDN as a platform for their research activities in networking
- TeraFlowSDN developers and users that want to share and test with the community
- Members of other research projects interested in using TeraFlowSDN Controller in their research and proof-of-concept activities.

Prerequisites
- Registration is mandatory!
- Participants are expected to have user-level knowledge of Linux.
- You will need your laptop, with Linux and a Kubernetes-based environment installed. Even if you have Linux on your laptop, to have a clean working environment.
IMPORTANT: We created a VM pre-packed with the Hackfest material and Graphical interface. Download it from TFS Hackfest VM (13 GB)
The VM has been created following the recommendations in the TFS tutorial:
- Create VirtualBox-based VM: https://labs.etsi.org/rep/tfs/controller/-/blob/develop/tutorial/1-1-1-create-vm-oracle-virtualbox.md
- Install MicroK8s on the VM: https://labs.etsi.org/rep/tfs/controller/-/blob/develop/tutorial/1-2-install-microk8s.md
If you have questions or trouble preparing your environment, join the TFS Slack workspace (see below) and drop your questions on channel #hackfest1-2022-oct-20
Agenda
Tuesday 18 - Wednesday 19 October 2022 - OSM Hackfest
- 11:00 am - 05:00 pm - ETSI OSM-MR#13 Hackfest
Thursday 20 October 2022 - TFS Hackfest
- 11:00 am - 01:00 pm - Session 1
- Welcome & Logistics, by Silvia Almagia (ETSI)
- Controlling and Monitoring Optical Networks, by Lluis Gifre and Ricard Vilalta (CTTC)
- 02:00 pm - 03:30 pm - Session 2
- Introduction ETSI TeraFlowSDN, Deployment, Onboarding Network Devices, Programmable L3 Routers, by Ricard Vilalta and Lluis Gifre (CTTC)
- 03:30 pm - 04:00 pm - Session 3
- Introduction to P4 and a mini P4 demo, by Georgios P. Katsikas and Panagiotis Famelis (UBITECH)
Material
Get involved in ETSI TeraFlowSDN
- Join the TFS Community Slack Workspace
- Subscribe TFS_INFO mailing list
- If your organization is already a TFS member or participant, you can also:
- Request an EOL account (if you don’t have one yet)
- Subscribe SDG TFS and TFS TECH mailing lists
- If your organization is not yet a TFS member:
- Learn how to join ETSI TFS
Contact
Please send your technical questions to TFS_TECH@list.etsi.org or join the TFS Community Slack Workspace
Questions about ETSI, joining TFS, this and future events can be sent to: SDGsupport@etsi.org