OCUDU Ecosystem Developer Summit

OCUDU gives you a working CU/DU. It does not give you something you can deploy, operate, and hand to someone else. Those are different problems, and the second is not solved by hardening the first.

This is a report from the integrator's side of that line. Building a downstream distribution, we found the missing pieces fall mostly into two classes: runtime configuration/management, and deployment/integration.

We will take examples from each and show what we changed in the codebase and why they are necessary for productizing OCUDU. Examples include runtime command surfaces for parameters that could only be set at startup, a cell-safe shutdown mechanism that is a necessity for operators when managing a live system, a v1 of an M-plane client to simplify RU integration, and a look at how CNS uses these new contributions to integrate AI-native intelligence with the OCUDU stack.