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- manages the state of an Application, Infrastructure, or Network resource
- single service/network domain scope
CSAR: Cloud Service ARchive (link)
- a package defined by OASIS TOSCA. It is a ZIP file that includes a TOSCA template of a Network Service, and all the scripts or files that a VNF needs for the lifecycle from creation to termination.
DAO: Data Access Object (Wikipedia)
- an object that provides an abstract interface to some type of database or other persistence mechanism
DCAE: Data Collection, Analytics and Events (component of OpenECOMP runtime)
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