VNF Package Tool
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Provided tools
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* VNF Package Builder - creates a CSAR file based on inputs provided by the VNF product DevOps engineer
VNF Package Validator - validates the content of the VNF packages to ensure that everything has been built correctly
VNF Package Extractor - extracts VNF product model and executables from the CSAR file
VNF Package Parser - translates VNF product blueprint into a format consumable by OPEN-O components
VNF Package Dry Run - performs a "dry run" install to ensure that the package can be deployed during instantiation
 
The tools are provided in a form of a shared library (Python module) that can be used in other projects. A CLI is also provided out-of-the box for DevOps to use the library with their scripts and autoamtion framework.
Repository
Name: vnf-sdk-design-pkg
Clone command: git clone https://gerrit.open-o.org/r/vnf-sdk-design-pkg
Installation
Python module with CLI is installed by Python pip command. It is possible to install into a virtual environment (virtualenv).
The following commands are executed in the cloned repository directory
1. pip install -r requirements.txt
Install all required dependencies
2. pip install .
Install VNF SDK tools package 
Usage
* Create CSAR by specifying a directory
vnfsdk csar-create -d DESTINATION source entry
* Extract CSAR content
vnfsdk csar-open -d DESTINATION source
* Validate CSAR content
vnfsdk csar-validate source
 
All commands have -h switch which displays help and description of all paramaters.