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VF vendors express policies such as SLA, Licenses, hardware placement, run-time metric suggestions, etc. These details are captured within the VNF SDK and uploaded into the SDC Catalog. The SDC Distribution APIs are used to interact with SDC. For example, SLA and placement policies may be captured via TOSCA specification. License policies can be captured via TOSCA or XACML specification (TBD). Run-time metric vendor recommendations can be captured via VES Standard specification.
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The SDC GUI supports several types of policies that can be captured during design time. DCAE micro service configuration policies can be onboarded via the DCAE-DS (DCAE Design Studio). Service policies such as Optimization, Placement policies can also be captured via TOSCA model during design time. The SDC Distribution APIs are used to interact with SDC.sequence diagram below is a high level view of SDC-triggered concrete policy generation.
(High level architectural sequence diagram on how this works)
Model Driven Policy Design via Policy Dashboard (exposed via ONAP Portal SDK)
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