Containerization is the key to the predictable, consistent environment telcos require to provide customers with ever more demanding services. To ensure telcos and their partners can have confidence in the Cloud-native Network Functions (CNFs) they deploy together, Red Hat has created a cloud-based onboarding service and testbed around a new standard for testing, certification and deployment of containers.

This checklist looks at key considerations for CNF vendors as they prepare their critical workloads for the future.