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2.3.1 Credential State Diagram
In the implementation, some types of credentials have to be provisioned into ONAP components, e.g. certificate-based credentials or (user-ID,password) have to be added to VM images or containers before deployment. It is probably better to do this during the deployment rather than storing images with imbedded credentials. The Secrets Vault is used to store these credentials securely. The transition to the Credential_Provisioned state means the credential is stored in the Secrets Vault.
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2.3.2 Credential States
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