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Once VNFs are on-boarded, the information provided by the vendor is translated into SDC internal resource models. The service provider will use SDC to further enrich the resource model to meet the provider’s environment, and additionally compose resources into service models and product models. The model includes not only the description of the asset but also references to ECOMP functions needed for lifecycle management of the asset. The tested models will then be distributed to the ECOMP execution environment as Deployment Artifacts.
The Deployment Artifacts include the asset definition (a Resource or Service or Product model) with instructions to ECOMP OpenECOMP for creation and management of an instance of the asset in the network. SDC is evolving the support of various Deployment Artifacts – including Heat Templates for cloud infrastructure creation, YANG XML files for state data manipulated by the Network Configuration Protocol, TOSCA for specifying cloud infrastructure, vendor provided scripts, or BPMN/BPEL for specifying business processes and the interconnections in a service-oriented architecture.
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