OpenSAF was a milestone in accelerating adoption of Linux in Telecommunications and embedded systems.
OpenSAF's development and design are heavily influenced by Mission critical system requirements, including Carrier Grade Linux, SAF, ATCA and Hardware Platform Interface.
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GoAhead Software joined OpenSAF in 2010 before being acquired by Oracle. Membership evolved to include Emerson Network Power, SUN Microsystems, ENEA, Wind River, Huawei, IP Infusion, Tail-f, Aricent, GoAhead Software, and Rancore Technologies. The OpenSAF Foundation was officially launched on January 22, 2008. OpenSAF was founded by an Industry consortium, including Ericsson, HP, and Nokia Siemens Networks, and first announced by Motorola ECC, acquired by Emerson Network Power, on February 28, 2007. Service Availability, Principles and Practice, Textbook
While little formal research is published to improve high availability and fault tolerance techniques for containers and cloud, research groups are actively exploring these challenges with OpenSAF. OpenSAF is focused on Service Availability beyond High Availability (HA) requirements. OpenSAF originally interfaced with standard C Application Programming interfaces (APIs), but has added Java and Python bindings. It works across a range of virtualization tools and runs services in a cluster, often integrating with JVM, Vagrant, and/or Docker runtimes. OpenSAF is the most complete implementation of the SAF AIS specifications, providing a platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application services across clusters of hosts. It was originally designed by Motorola ECC, and is maintained by the OpenSAF Project. OpenSAF is consistent with, and expands upon, Service Availability Forum (SAF) and SCOPE Alliance standards.
OpenSAF (commonly styled SAF, the Service Availability Framework ) is an open-source service- orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.