# Cloud Partner Information The OpenWiFi SDK is designed to enable Cloud Partners to consume basic southbound device management and device discovery. This is similar to augmenting a southbound device adapter for many orchestration or automation systems. ## OpenWiFi Microservices The OpenWiFi SDK also offers microservices for Cloud Partners including the following: * Firmware Management * Device Provisioning * Subscriber Portal * Analytics * User Interface This independent microservice approach has numerous advantages including ease of integration, ability to leverage more of the stack to accelerate product availability or support only device communication and discovery for partners who seek to maintain more functionality within their own application. ### Step 1 : Join If your organization is not already a TIP Open Converged Wireless Project Group (OCW PG) member, consider signing up. Joining the OCW PG is free as a Software Participation Tier in TIP. For more information please visit:[ Becoming a Member](https://telecominfraproject.com/apply-for-membership/) ### Step 2 : Slack, Keys & Atlassian Tools Introduce your organization to the Community on Slack. All Community members have access to Telecom Infra Project Slack. Send a message to the **#general** and **#open-wifi-ucentral** Slack channels. Send an email to to request onboarding as a supplier for OpenWiFi Cloud. All OpenWiFi Gateway services in the SDK require a signed key to terminate incoming device connections in the southbound interface. Ensure your GitHub account is linked in your Telecom Infra Project user profile. Linking your GitHub account to your TIP user account enables write access to OpenWiFi repositories. Also confirm that the Atlassian link is also present in your user profile. ### Step 3 : Integration The OpenWiFi SDK uses OpenAPI 3.0 compliant northbound Rest API and Kafka for message bus topics. Typical CRUD actions occur via the Rest API. Kafka presents topics for device discovery and all telemetry captured from the network edge. Please consult the [API topics](https://tip-1.gitbook.io/openwifi/2.11.0/developer-resources/api) to begin with integration work. ### Summary Integrations that use the published interfaces are the easiest approach to starting with OpenWiFi SDK. As a Cloud Partner who intends to contribute a new SDK microservice, please announce the idea on the **#general** and **#open-wifi-ucentral** Slack channels for the Community to provide feedback. There is a skeleton microservice example to help you build new services that inherit the SDK service discovery and security design. For more information about building a service, see the API section in the [Developer Resources](https://tip-1.gitbook.io/openwifi/2.11.0/developer-resources/api) section. An example used for building a service is located in [GitHub](https://github.com/Telecominfraproject/wlan-cloud-tools). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://tip-1.gitbook.io/openwifi/2.11.0/about/cloud-partner-information.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.