The TFS#5 Hackfest took place at ETSI Sophia Antipolis on 12 November 2024, during the ETSI SNS4SNS event.
Overview
This 5th TeraFlowSDN Hackfest at the SNS4SNS event, will be a beginner-friendly comprehensive hands-on tutorial dedicated to exploring the fundamental concepts, protocols, and standards needed to deploy, onboard, control, and monitor network devices like programmable routers and white boxes. This Hackfest provides participants with the opportunity to master the basics of TeraFlowSDN, enhancing their Smart Networks and Services projects through an industry-oriented, cutting-edge network automation framework. In addition, attendees will learn how to engage with the community to contribute code, new features and bug reports.
Participation in ETSI SNS4SNS Conference and Hackfests is free and open to all upon registration.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to all our participants for engaging in and sharing this amazing event with us and big thanks @gifrerenom for the amazing preparation and guidance through the sessions! :pray:

Venue
ETSI Headquarters
650 Route des Lucioles
06921 Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE
Tel: +33 4 92 94 42 00
For details see Venue & Travel
Prerequisites
- Registration is mandatory, seats are limited!
- Join the #hackfest5-sns4sns channel in the TFS Community Slack Workspace
- Bring your laptop with VirtualBox 7 and the standard VirtualBox Extension Pack installed if you want to engage in the hands-on activities. A VirtualBox-based Virtual Machine is provided with pre-installed material (see Hackfest Material), you just need to download it, uncompress it and install it.
Who should attend
- Network Operators and Service Providers to gain hands-on operational experience with TeraFlowSDN.
- Equipment Providers to learn how to integrate their solutions seamlessly with TeraFlowSDN.
- Academia and Universities aiming to utilize TeraFlowSDN as a platform for their advanced networking research.
- System Integrators to develop and expand their expertise with TeraFlowSDN.
- Research Project Members to Implement TeraFlowSDN in their research and proof-of-concept initiatives.
- Anyone interested in elevating their network automation skills with TeraFlowSDN and connecting with a community of innovators!
Agenda
Tuesday 12 November, 14:00-17:00
Tutorial: Getting Started with TeraFlowSDN and ContainerLab
- 14:00 14:10 Welcome & Logistics]
- 14:10 - 15:20 Part 1
- What are new SDN controllers?
- Introduction to control and management protocols and data models
- Introduction to ContainerLab
- TFS Deployment
- Onboarding devices
- 15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break & Group Picture (lobby)
- 15:40 - 17:00 Part 2
- What are L3VPNs?
- L3VPN Service Establishment (from NBI with L3SM)
- Network Monitoring
- What is hot on TFS community?
- Contributing & Joining TFS
- Wrap-up
- 17:00 Networking drink (lobby)
Hackfest Material
Virtual Machine
Slides
Hackfest Videos
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TFS#5 Hackfest - 1. Introduction to TeraFlowSDN by Ricard Vilalta
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TFS#5 Hackfest - 2. Part 1 by Lluis Gifre
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TFS#5 Hackfest - 3. Part 2 by Lluis Gifre
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, SDGs, joining TFS, this Hackfest and future events can be sent to: SDGsupport@etsi.org