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CBA

The Controller Blueprint Archived is the overall service design, fully model-driven, package needed to automate the instantiation and any config provisioning operation, such as day0 or day2 configuration.

The CBA is .zip file, comprised of the following structure:

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├── Definitions
│   ├── blueprint.json
│   ├── artifact_types.json
│   ├── data_types.json
│   ├── node_types.json
│   ├── policy_types.json
│   ├── relationship_types.json
│   ├── resources_definition_types.json
│   └── *-mapping.json
├── Plans
│   ├── ResourceAssignment.xml
│   ├── ConfigAssign.xml
│   └── ConfigDeploy.xml
├── Scripts
│   └── python
│

-------------------- Work in progress --------------------

This guide is geared to provide information regarding  how to do service design to automate instantiation and day0 configuration.

Installation

ONAP is meant to be deployed within a Kubernetes environment. Hence, the de-facto way to deploy CDS is through Kubernetes.

ONAP also package Kubernetes manifest as Chart, using Helm.

Prerequisite

https://docs.onap.org/en/latest/guides/onap-developer/settingup/index.html

Setup local Helm

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helm init --history-max 200 # To install tiller to target Kubernetes if not yet installed
helm serve &
helm repo add local http://127.0.0.1:8879

Get the chart

Make sure to checkout the release to use, by replacing $release-tag in bellow command

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git clone https://gerrit.onap.org/r/oom
git checkout tags/$release-tag
cd oom/kubernetes
make common
make cds

Install CDS

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titlehelm install
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helm install --name cds cds

Result

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    $ kubectl get all --selector=release=cds NAME
           ├── ConfigDeployExample.py
    │       ├── ResourceResolutionExample.py
    │       └── __init__.py
    ├── TOSCA-Metadata
    │   └── 
    READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE pod/cds-blueprints-processor-54f758d69f-p98c2
    TOSCA.meta
    └── Templates
        
    0/1 Running 1 2m pod/cds-cds-6bd674dc77-4gtdf 1/1 Running 0 2m pod/cds-cds-db-0 1/1 Running 0 2m pod/cds-controller-blueprints-545bbf98cf-zwjfc 1/1 Running 0 2m NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE service/blueprints-processor ClusterIP 10.43.139.9 <none> 8080/TCP,9111/TCP 2m service/cds NodePort 10.43.254.69 <none> 3000:30397/TCP 2m service/cds-db ClusterIP None <none> 3306/TCP 2m service/controller-blueprints ClusterIP 10.43.207.152 <none> 8080/TCP 2m NAME DESIRED CURRENT UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE deployment.apps/cds-blueprints-processor 1 1 1 0 2m deployment.apps/cds-cds 1 1 1 1 2m deployment.apps/cds-controller-blueprints 1 1 1 1 2m NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE replicaset.apps/cds-blueprints-processor-54f758d69f 1 1 0 2m replicaset.apps/cds-cds-6bd674dc77 1 1 1 2m replicaset.apps/cds-controller-blueprints-545bbf98cf 1 1 1 2m NAME DESIRED CURRENT AGE statefulset.apps/cds-cds-db 1 1 2m Card
    labelDesign Time

    Design time

    Bellow are the requirements to enable automation for a service within ONAP.

    For instantiation, the goal is to be able to automatically resolve all the HEAT/Helm variables, called cloud parameters.

    For post-instantiation, the goal is to configure the VNF with initial configuration.

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    Prerequisite

    Gather the cloud parameters:

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    Have the HEAT template along with the HEAT environment file.

    or

    Have the Helm chart along with the Values.yaml file

    (CDS supports, but whether SO → Multicloud support for Helm/K8S is different story)

    or

    ...

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    labelconfiguration

    Have the configuration template to apply on the VNF.

    XML for NETCONF

    1. JSON / XML for RESTCONF
    2. JSON for Ansible
    3. etc...
  • Identify which template parameters are static and dynamic
  • Create and fill-in the a table for all the dynamic values

    While doing so, identify the resources using the same process to be resolved; for instance, if two IPs has to be resolved through the same IPAM, the process the resolve the IP is the same.

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    Here are the information to capture for each dynamic cloud parameters

    Parameter NameData Dictionary Resource sourceData Dictionary Ingredients for resolutionOutput of resolutionEither the cloud parameters name or the placeholder given for the dynamic property. Deck of Cards
    idhow to resolve
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    labelInput

    Value will be given as input in the request.

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    Value will be defaulted in the model.

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    Value will be resolved by sending a query to the REST system

    AuthURLURIPayloadVERB

    Supported Auth type

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    idauth
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    labelToken

    Use token based authentication

    • token
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    labelBasic

    Use basic authentication

    • username
    • password
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    labelSSL

    Use SSL basic authentication

    • keystore type
    • truststore
    • truststore password
    • keystore
    • keystore password
    http(s)://<host>:<port>/xyzJSON formatted payloadHTTP method Card
    labelSQL

    Value will be resolved by sending a SQL statement to the DB system

    TypeURLQueryUsernamePasswordOnly maria-db supported for now

    jdbc:mysql://<host>:<port>/db

    SQL statement
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    labelCapability

    Value will be resolved through the execution of a script.

    These are all the required parameters to process the resolution of that particular resources.

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    idinput
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    labelREST

    List of placeholders used for

    • URI
    • Payload
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    List of placeholders used for

    • SQL statement

    This is the expected result from the system, and you should know what value out of the response is of interest for you.

    If it's a JSON payload, then you should think about the json path to access to value of interest.

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    Data dictionary

    What is a data dictionary?

    For each unique identified dynamic resource, along with all their ingredients, we need to create a data dictionary.

    Here are the modeling guideline: Modeling Concepts#resourceDefinition-modeling

    Bellow are examples of data dictionary

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    Value will be pass as input.

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    {
        "tags": "unit-number",
        "name": "unit-number",
        "property": {
          "description": "unit-number",
          "type": "string"
        },
        "updated-by": "adetalhouet",
        "sources": {
          "input": {
            "type": "source-input"
          }
        }
      }
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    Value will be defaulted.

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    {
      "tags": "prefix-id",
      "name": "prefix-id",
      "property" :{
        "description": "prefix-id",
        "type": "integer"
      },
      "updated-by": "adetalhouet",
      "sources": {
        "default": {
          "type": "source-default"
        }
      }
    }
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    labelrest

    Value will be resolved through REST.

    Modeling reference: Modeling Concepts#rest

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    titleprimary-config-data via rest source type

    In this example, we're making a POST request to an IPAM system with no payload.

    Some ingredients are required to perform the query, in this case, $prefixId. Hence It is provided as an input-key-mapping and defined as a key-dependencies. Please refer to the modeling guideline for more in depth understanding.

    As part of this request, the expected response will be as bellow. What is of interest is the address field, as this is what we're trying to resolve.

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    {
        "id": 4,
        "address": "192.168.10.2/32",
        "vrf": null,
        "tenant": null,
        "status": 1,
        "role": null,
        "interface": null,
        "description": "",
        "nat_inside": null,
        "created": "2018-08-30",
        "last_updated": "2018-08-30T14:59:05.277820Z"
    }

    To tell the resolution framework what is of interest in the response, the path property can be used, which uses JSON_PATH, to get the value.

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    {
        "tags" : "oam-local-ipv4-address",
        "name" : "create_netbox_ip",
        "property" : {
          "description" : "netbox ip",
          "type" : "string"
        },
        "updated-by" : "adetalhouet",
        "sources" : {
          "primary-config-data" : {
            "type" : "source-rest",
            "properties" : {
              "type" : "JSON",
              "verb" : "POST",
              "endpoint-selector" : "ipam-1",
              "url-path" : "/api/ipam/prefixes/$prefixId/available-ips/",
              "path" : "/address",
              "input-key-mapping" : {
                "prefixId" : "prefix-id"
              },
              "output-key-mapping" : {
                "address" : "address"
              },
              "key-dependencies" : [ "prefix-id" ]
            }
          }
        }
      }
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    primary-aai-data via type source-rest

    TBD

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    {
      "name" : "primary-aai-data",
      "tags" : "primary-aai-data",
      "updated-by" : "Steve, Siani <steve.djissitchi@bell.ca>",
      "property" : {
        "description" : "primary-aai-data",
        "type" : "string"
      },
      "sources" : {
        "default": {
          "type": "source-default",
          "properties": {
          }
        },
        "input": {
          "type": "source-input",
          "properties": {
          }
        },
        "primary-aai-data" : {
          "type" : "source-rest",
          "properties": {
            "type": "JSON",
            "url-path": "$aai-port/aai/v14/network/generic-vnfs/generic-vnf/$vnf-id",
            "path": "",
            "input-key-mapping": {
              "aai-port": "port",
              "vnf-id": "vnf-id"
            },
            "output-key-mapping": {
            },
            "key-dependencies": [
              "port",
              "vnf-id"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
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    Value will be resolved through a database.

    Modeling reference: Modeling Concepts#sql

    In this example, we're making a SQL to the primary database.

    Some ingredients are required to perform the query, in this case, $vfmoudleid. Hence It is provided as an input-key-mapping and defined as a key-dependencies. Please refer to the modeling guideline for more in depth understanding.

    As part of this request, the expected response will be as put in value. In the output-key-mapping section, that value will be mapped to the expected resource name to resolve.

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    {
      "name": "vf-module-type",
      "tags": "vf-module-type",
      "property": {
        "description": "vf-module-type",
        "type": "string"
      },
      "updated-by": "adetalhouet",
      "sources": {
        "primary-db": {
          "type": "source-primary-db",
          "properties": {
            "type": "SQL",
            "query": "select sdnctl.demo.value as value from sdnctl.demo where sdnctl.demo.id=:vfmoduleid",
            "input-key-mapping": {
              "vfmoduleid": "vf-module-number"
            },
            "output-key-mapping": {
              "vf-module-type": "value"
            },
            "key-dependencies": [
              "vf-module-number"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
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    Value will be resolved through the execution of a script.

    Modeling reference: Modeling Concepts#Capability

    In this example, we're making use of a Python script.

    Some ingredients are required to perform the query, in this case, $vf-module-type. Hence It is provided as a key-dependencies. Please refer to the modeling guideline for more in depth understanding.

    As part of this request, the expected response will set within the script itself.

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    {
      "tags": "interface-description",
      "name": "interface-description",
      "property": {
        "description": "interface-description",
        "type": "string"
      },
      "updated-by": "adetalhouet",
      "sources": {
        "capability": {
          "type": "source-capability",
          "properties": {
            "script-type": "jython",
            "script-class-reference": "Scripts/python/DescriptionExample.py",       
            "key-dependencies": [
              "vf-module-type"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }

    The script itself is as bellow.

    The key is to have the script class derived from the framework standards.

    In the case of resource resolution, the class to derive from is AbstractRAProcessor

    It will give the required methods to implement: process and recover, along with some utility functions, such as set_resource_data_value or addError.

    These functions either come from the AbstractRAProcessor class, or from the class it derived from.

    If the resolution fail, the recover method will get called with the exception as parameter.

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    #  Copyright (c) 2019 Bell Canada.
    #
    #  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    #  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
    #  You may obtain a copy of the License at
    #
    #      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
    #
    #  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
    #  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
    #  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
    #  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
    #  limitations under the License.
    
    from abstract_ra_processor import AbstractRAProcessor
    from blueprint_constants import *
    from java.lang import Exception as JavaException
    
    class DescriptionExample(AbstractRAProcessor):
    
        def process(self, resource_assignment):
            try:
                # get key-dependencies value
                value = self.raRuntimeService.getStringFromResolutionStore("vf-module-type")
                
                # logic based on key-dependency outcome
                result = ""
                if value == "vfw":
                    result = "This is the Virtual Firewall entity"
                elif value == "vsn":
                    result = "This is the Virtual Sink entity"
                elif value == "vpg":
                    result = "This is the Virtual Packet Generator"
    
                # set the value of resource getting currently resolved
                self.set_resource_data_value(resource_assignment, result)
    
            except JavaException, err:
              log.error("Java Exception in the script {}", err)
            except Exception, err:
              log.error("Python Exception in the script {}", err)
            return None
    
        def recover(self, runtime_exception, resource_assignment):
            print self.addError(runtime_exception.getMessage())
            return None
    
    
    
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    Value will be resolved through REST., and output will be a complex type.

    Modeling reference: Modeling Concepts#rest

    In this example, we're making a POST request to an IPAM system with no payload.

    Some ingredients are required to perform the query, in this case, $prefixId. Hence It is provided as an input-key-mapping and defined as a key-dependencies. Please refer to the modeling guideline for more in depth understanding.

    As part of this request, the expected response will be as bellow.

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    {
        "id": 4,
        "address": "192.168.10.2/32",
        "vrf": null,
        "tenant": null,
        "status": 1,
        "role": null,
        "interface": null,
        "description": "",
        "nat_inside": null,
        "created": "2018-08-30",
        "last_updated": "2018-08-30T14:59:05.277820Z"
    }

    What is of interest is the address and id fields. For the process to return these two values, we need to create a custom data-type, as bellow

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    {
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "description": "This is Netbox IP Data Type",
      "properties": {
        "address": {
          "required": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "id": {
          "required": true,
          "type": "integer"
        }
      },
      "derived_from": "tosca.datatypes.Root"
    }

    The type of the data dictionary will be dt-netbox-ip.

    To tell the resolution framework what is of interest in the response, the output-key-mapping section is used. The process will map the output-key-mapping to the defined data-type.

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    {
        "tags" : "oam-local-ipv4-address",
        "name" : "create_netbox_ip",
        "property" : {
          "description" : "netbox ip",
          "type" : "dt-netbox-ip"
        },
        "updated-by" : "adetalhouet",
        "sources" : {
          "primary-config-data" : {
            "type" : "source-rest",
            "properties" : {
              "type" : "JSON",
              "verb" : "POST",
              "endpoint-selector" : "ipam-1",
              "url-path" : "/api/ipam/prefixes/$prefixId/available-ips/",
              "path" : "",
              "input-key-mapping" : {
                "prefixId" : "prefix-id"
              },
              "output-key-mapping" : {
    			"address" : "address",
                "id" : "id"
              },
              "key-dependencies" : [ "prefix-id" ]
            }
          }
        }
      }
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    Workflows

    The following workflows are contracts established between SO, SDNC and CDS to cover the instantiation and the post-instantiation use cases.

    Please refer to the modeling guide to understand workflow concept: Modeling Concepts#workflow

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    resource-assignment

    This action is meant to assign resources needed to instantiate the service, e.g. to resolve all the cloud parameters.

    Also, this action has the ability to perform a dry-run, meaning that result from the resolution will be made visible to the user.

    If user is fine with the result, he can proceed, else, (TDB) he will have opportunity to re-trigger the resolution.

    Context

    This action is triggered by Generic-Resource-API (GR-API) within SDNC as part of the AssignBB orchestrated by SO.

    It will be triggered for the service, and each VNF(s) and VF-Module(s) (referred as entity bellow).

    See SO Building blocks Assignment.

    Steps

    This is a single action type of workflow, hence the target will refer to a node_template of type component-resource-resolution

    Inputs

    PropertyDescriptiontemplate-prefixThis action will require resource accumulator templates for each VNF and VF-Module; this will be covered during the User Guidecomponent explanation.

    These templates are identified using artifact prefix. See Modeling Concepts#template

    So in order to know for which entity the action is triggered, this is required as input is required.

    Output

    In order to perform dry-run, it is necessary to provide the meshed resolved template as output. To do so, the use of Modeling Concepts#getAttribute expression is required.

    Also, as mentioned here Modeling Concepts#resourceResolution, the resource resolution component node will populate an attribute named assignment-params with the result.

    Finally, the name of the ouput has to be meshed-template so SDNC GR-API knows how to properly parse the response.

    Example

    Here is an example of the resource-assignment workflow:

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    {
      "workflows": {
        "resource-assignment": {
          "steps": {
            "resource-assignment-process": {
              "description": "Resource Assign Workflow",
              "target": "resource-assignment-process"
            }
          },
          "inputs": {
            "template-prefix": {
              "required": true,
              "type": "string"
            },
            "resolution-key": {
              "required": true,
              "type": "string"
            },
            "resource-assignment-properties": {
              "description": "Dynamic PropertyDefinition for workflow(resource-assignment).",
              "required": true,
              "type": "dt-resource-assignment-properties"
            }
          },
          "outputs": {
            "meshed-template": {
              "type": "json",
              "value": {
                "get_attribute": [
                  "SELF",
                  "assignment-params"
                ]
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
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    config-assign

    This action is meant to assign all the resources and mesh the templates needed for the configuration to apply during post-instantiation (day0 config).

    If user is fine with the result, he can proceed, else, (TDB) he will have opportunity to re-trigger the resolution.

    Context

    This action is triggered by SO after the AssignBB has been executed for Service, VNF and VF-Module. It corresponds to the ConfigAssignBB.

    See SO Building blocks Assignment.

    Steps

    This is a single action type of workflow, hence the target will refer to a node_template of type component-resource-resolution

    Inputs

    PropertyDescriptionresolution-key

    The dry-run functionality requires the ability to retrieve the resolution that has been made later point in time in the process.

    The combination of the artifact-name and the resolution-key will be used to uniquely identify the result.

    Output

    In order to perform dry-run, it is necessary to provide the meshed resolved template as output. To do so, the use of Modeling Concepts#getAttribute expression is required.

    Also, as mentioned here Modeling Concepts#resourceResolution, the resource resolution component node will populate an attribute named assignment-params with the result.

    Example

    Here is an example of the config-assign workflow:

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    {
      "workflows": {
        "config-assign": {
          "steps": {
            "config-assign-process": {
              "description": "Config Assign Workflow",
              "target": "config-assign-process"
            }
          },
          "inputs": {
            "resolution-key": {
              "required": true,
              "type": "string"
            },
            "config-assign-properties": {
              "description": "Dynamic PropertyDefinition for workflow(config-assign).",
              "required": true,
              "type": "dt-config-assign-properties"
            }
          },
          "outputs": {
            "dry-run": {
              "type": "json",
              "value": {
                "get_attribute": [
                  "SELF",
                  "assignment-params"
                ]
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
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    config-deploy

    This action is meant to push the configuration templates defined during the config-assign step for the post-instantiation.

    This action is triggered by SO during after the CreateBB has been executed for all the VF-Modules.

    Context

    This action is triggered by SO after the CreateVnfBB has been executed. It corresponds to the ConfigDeployBB.

    See SO Building blocks Assignment.

    Steps

    This is a single action type of workflow, hence the target will refer to a node_template of type component-netconf-executor or component-jython-executor or component-restconf-executor.

    Inputs

    PropertyDescriptionresolution-key

    Needed to retrieve the resolution that has been made earlier point in time in the process.

    The combination of the artifact-name and the resolution-key will be used to uniquely identify the result.

    Output

    SUCCESS or FAILURE

    Example

    Here is an example of the config-deploy workflow:

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    {
      "workflow": {
        "config-deploy": {
          "steps": {
            "config-deploy": {
              "description": "Config Deploy using Python (Netconf) script",
              "target": "config-deploy-process"
            }
          },
          "inputs": {
            "resolution-key": {
              "required": true,
              "type": "string"
            },
            "config-deploy-properties": {
              "description": "Dynamic PropertyDefinition for workflow(config-deploy).",
              "required": true,
              "type": "dt-config-deploy-properties"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
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    resource-assignment-process

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    config-assign-process

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    config-deploy-process

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    labelDesign a new CBA
    titleHow to create a new CBA from scratch.

    Starting from Dublin release, CDS offers a new package configuration to design the services provisioning. This section describes step by step the procedure of designing a new CBA from scratch.

    The CBA package content is well described in CDS Modeling Concepts and also in Design Time section, it shows the structure of a CBA and the different definitions/artifacts. This section will be more focus on the creation of new CBA (The structure: required folder and files), and the enrichment procedure to generate the complete config file.

    CBA directory and structure

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    ├── CBA-archive-name                             # CBA Root Directory        
    |   └── Definitions/        
    │       └── CBA_configuration_file.json          # CBA configuration file (Mandatory)               
    |   └── Environments/                            # All environment files contained in this folder are loaded in Blueprint processor run-time       
    │       └── env-prod.properties                                             
    │       └── env-test.properties        
    |   └── Plans/        
    │       └── CONFIG_DirectedGraphExample.xml      # Directed graph artifact        
    |   └── Scripts/                                 # Script used for capability resource resolution
    │       └── kotlin/          
    │           └── script_kotlin.cba.kts
    │       └── ansible/          
    │           └── ansible_file.yaml
    │       └── python/          
    │           └── SamplePython.py                     
    |   └── TOSCA-Metadata/        
    │       └── TOSCA.meta                           # CBA entry point (Mandatory)                
    |   └── Templates/        
    │       └── example1-template.jinja              # Template file that will dynamic represent a payload in some execution node (Extensions supported: .vtl and .jinja)    
    │       └── example1-mapping.json                # List of variables that will be resolved to fulfill the jinja template
    │       └── example2-template.vtl                # Velocity Template file 
    │       └── example2-mapping.json                # Mapping file for velocity template
    

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                                                                                                                                             Fig. CBA config file structure

       

     A. CBA configuration file sections description

    The above diagram shows a simple CBA with one workflow and one node template. The following describes each section defined in CBA config file.

    • CBA Metadata:

    This section specify information about the CBA such as:

       - The Author: Name and email

       - User privileges for this self-service provisioning execution

       - CBA identifier: Template name and Version (Ex. Template name: My-self-service-name, Version: 1.0.0)

       - Template tags: Reference words that can be used to find this CBA.

    • DSL Definition:

    We define here all parameters, in JSON, needed in service provisioning.

    Ex. Endpoint selector to provide remote Ansible server parameters.

    Code Block
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    "ansible-remote-endpoint" : {
       "type" : "token-auth",
       "url" : "http://ANSIBLE_IP_ADDRESS",
       "token" : "Bearer J9gEtMDqf7P4YsJ74fioY9VAhLDIs1"
    }
    • Workflows execution:

                  - my-workflow1: This is a workflow to describe the action that will trigger the self-service provisioning in run-time. A workflow can take input and return output. It can also follow one or many steps. In this example, only one step is defined.

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    "my-workflow1" : {
       "steps" : {
          "execute-script" : {
             "description" : "some description",
             "target" : "my-workflow-target-node-node-template",
             "activities" : [ {
                "call_operation" : ""
             } ]
          }
       },
       "inputs" : {
          "my-input" : {
             "required" : false,
             "type" : "string"
          }
       }
    }

    Each step points to a target which is the corresponding node template, and the target specified here is: my-workflow-target-node-node-template.

    • Node templates: This section provide the self-service execution plan, usually DG is used here to describe complex workflow. But, the above CBA contains a simple node template (my-workflow-node-node-template) without DG:
    Code Block
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    "my-workflow-target-node-node-template" : {
       "type" : "node-template-execution-type",
       "interfaces" : {
          "NodeTemplateInterface" : {
             "operations" : {
                "process" : {
                   "implementation" : {
                      "primary" : "component-script"
                   },
                   "inputs" : {
                      "command" : "python SamplePython.py",
                      "packages" : [ {
                         "type" : "pip",
                         "package" : [ "pyaml" ]
                      } ],
                      "argument-properties" : "*remote-argument-properties",
                      "dynamic-properties" : "*remote-argument-properties"
                   }
                }
             }
          }
       },
       "artifacts" : {
          "component-script" : {
             "type" : "artifact-script-python",
             "file" : "Scripts/python/SamplePython.py"
          }
       }
    }

    The node template is defined by the node-template-execution-type. This type specifies the component function to use for this node template execution. The following shows the different components that can be executed as a node template:

    Code Block
    titleNode template types
    ├── component-resource-resolution                             # CBA Root Directory        
    |   └── Interface:        
    │       ├── ResourceResolutionComponent                       # Component to resolve resources               
    │           └── Resolution approaches:                        
    │       	    ├── rr-processor-source-capability             # Resolve using Capability scripts such as jython or kotlin
    │       		├── rr-processor-source-processor-db           # Resolve using database query
    │       		├── rr-processor-source-default                # resolve by getting default value provided
    │       		├── rr-processor-source-rest                   # Resolve using REST API request
    ├── component-jython-executor                                 # Component to execute Jython scripts
    |   └── Interface:        
    │       ├── ComponentJythonExecutor
    ├── component-remote-python-executor                          # Component to execute remote python scripts
    |   └── Interface:        
    │       ├── ComponentRemotePythonExecutor
    ├── component-restconf-executor                               # Component to execute Restconf operations 
    |   └── Interface:        
    │       ├── ComponentRestconfExecutor
    ├── component-netconf-executor                                # Component to execute netconf operations
    |   └── Interface:        
    │       ├── ComponentNetconfExecutor
    ├── component-cli-executor                                    # Cli component
    |   └── Interface:        
    │       ├── ComponentCliExecutor
    ├── component-remote-ansible-executor                         # Component to execute remote ansible playbook
    |   └── Interface:        
    │       ├── ComponentRemoteAnsibleExecutor
    

         In the case the workflow point to a DG node template, this DG will describe all the execution sequence to run for the corresponding workflow steps. In the following, the workflow point to a DG and execute two node templates:

    • Workflow with DG
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    titleWorkflow: my-workflow2
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    "my-workflow2" : {
       "steps" : {
          "execute-script" : {
             "description" : "some description here...",
             "target" : "my-workflow-target-node-template-with-DG",
             "activities" : [ {
                "call_operation" : ""
             } ]
          }
       },
       "inputs" : {
          "my-input" : {
             "required" : false,
             "type" : "string"
          }
       }
    }
    • Node templates with DG
    Code Block
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    titlemy-workflow-target-node-template-with-DG
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    "my-workflow-target-node-template-with-DG" : {
       "type" : "dg-generic",
       "properties" : {
          "content" : {
             "get_artifact" : [ "SELF", "dg-my-workflow1-target-node-template-with-DG" ]
          },
          "dependency-node-templates" : [ "target-node-template1", "target-node-template2" ]
       },   
       "artifacts" : {
           "dg-my-workflow1-target-node-template-with-DG" : {
              "type" : "artifact-directed-graph",
              "file" : "Plans/CONFIG_DirectedGraphExample.xml"
           }
       }
    }

    in the below DG, we define the following sequence: [target-node-template1] [target-node-template2]

    Code Block
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    titleCONFIG_DirectedGraphExample.xml
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    <service-logic
      xmlns='http://www.onap.org/sdnc/svclogic'
      xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
      xsi:schemaLocation='http://www.onap.org/sdnc/svclogic ./svclogic.xsd' module='CONFIG' version='1.0.0'>
        <method rpc='dg-operation' mode='sync'>
            <block atomic="true">
                <execute plugin="target-node-template1" method="process">
                    <outcome value='failure'>
                        <return status="failure">
                        </return>
                    </outcome>
                    <outcome value='success'>
                        <execute plugin="target-node-template2" method="process">
                            <outcome value='failure'>
                                <return status="failure">
                                </return>
                            </outcome>
                            <outcome value='success'>
                                <return status='success'>
                                </return>
                            </outcome>
                        </execute>
                    </outcome>
                </execute>
            </block>
        </method>
    </service-logic>

     B. Other artifacts in CBA

    This section describes the different parts of the CBA, artifacts needed to have a model-driven package for self-service provisioning:

    • CBA Entry point: TOSCA.meta file
    Code Block
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    titleTOSCA.meta
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    TOSCA-Meta-File-Version: 1.0.0
    CSAR-Version: 1.0
    Created-By: Steve Siani <alphonse.steve.siani.djissitchi@ibm.com>
    Entry-Definitions: Definitions/CBA_configuration_file_name.json
    Template-Name: baseconfiguration
    Template-version: 1.0.0
    Template-Tags: Steve Siani, remote_ansible
    • Environment files: Some parameters need to be resolved to fulfill the template. It is possible to provide in your CBA, additional variables in environment files. In this approach, the service will get some parameters from environment file. The designer could define many environments variables in files, and those environments files are loaded automatically in the running self-service:

                     Constraint: Save environment files in [CBA Root Folder]/Environments/

    Code Block
    titleEnvironment files in CBA
    ├── CBA-archive-name                             # CBA Root Directory        
    |   .
    |   .
    |   .               
    |   └── Environments/                            # All environment files contained in this folder are loaded in Blueprint processor run-time       
    │       └── env-prod.properties                                             
    │       └── env-test.properties   
    │       └── AdditionalApplications.properties      
    |   .
    |   .
    |   . 
    
    Code Block
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    env-prod.ansible_ssh_user=<username>
    env-prod.ansible_ssh_pass=<password>
    env-prod.evi_id=<id>
    env-prod.service_db_url=<service_db_url>
    env-prod.topology_url=<topology_url>
    env-prod.resource_allocator_url=<resource_allocator>
    ...
    Code Block
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    themeEmacs
    titleenv-test.properties
    linenumberstrue
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    env-test.ansible_ssh_user=<username>
    env-test.ansible_ssh_pass=<password>
    env-test.evi_id=<id>
    env-test.service_db_url=<service_db_url>
    env-test.topology_url=<topology_url>
    env-test.resource_allocator_url=<resource_allocator>
    ...

    Note:  When environment files are provided in CBA under Environments directory, the variables contained in those files are load in Blueprint run-time context as a node template "BPP". So, accessing those variables will be possible by calling the function getNodeTemplateAttributeValue("BPP", attribute) in Blueprint Runtime Service. Where "attribute" refers to the environment variable defined in environment file.

    Code Block
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    titleEx. Getting environment variables from run time
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    val username = blueprintRuntimeService.getNodeTemplateAttributeValue("BPP", "env-test.ansible_ssh_user").asText()
    • Template artifacts: Content the template file and the corresponding template mapping. This template provides a dynamic content to the self-service for configuration appliance.

    Ex. Jinja template sample

    Code Block
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    titleexample-template.jinja
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    site_id: {{ site_id }}
    tenant_name: {{ tenant_name }}
    Interfaces:
    {%- for interface in interfaces %}
        interface {{ interface.name }}
        description {{ interface.description }}
        ipv4 address {{ interface.ipv4 }}
        mtu {{ interface.mtu }}
    {%- endfor %}

    Ex. Velocity template sample

    Code Block
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    titleexample-template.vtl
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    site_id: ${site_id}
    tenant_name: ${tenant_name}
    Interfaces:
    #foreach( $interface in $interfaces )
        interface $interface.name
        description $interface.description
        ipv4 address $interface.ipv4
        mtu $interface.mtu
    #end

    Ex. Corresponding template mapping file sample

    Code Block
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    titleexample-mapping.json
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    [
    	{
    		"name": "environment",
    		"input-param": true,
    		"property": {
    			"type": "string"
    		},
    		"dictionary-name": "input-source",
    		"dictionary-source": "input",
    		"dependencies": []
    	},
    	{
    		"name": "site_id",
    		"input-param": true,
    		"property": {
    			"type": "string"
    		},
    		"dictionary-name": "input-source",
    		"dictionary-source": "input",
    		"dependencies": []
    	},
    	{
    		"name": "tenant_name",
    		"input-param": true,
    		"property": {
    		  "type": "string"
    		},
    		"dictionary-name": "input-source",
    		"dictionary-source": "input",
    		"dependencies": []
    	},
        {
    		"name": "interfaces",
    		"input-param": true,
    		"property": {
    		   "type": "list",
    		   "entry_schema": {
    		      "type": "string"
    		   }
    		},
    		"dictionary-name": "properties-capability-source",
    		"dictionary-source": "capability",
    		"dependencies": ["environment"]
    	}
    ]

    In this template, some parameters are resolved using the input source and some are resolved using properties-capability-source.

    • Script artifacts: You may need to resolve resources using a customized script (Kotlin or Python) or execute remote python script on a device. In this case, you will define scripts in your CBA under the Scripts directory.

                       - Resource resolution using python script 

    In the CBA, you may need to define and resolve variables. This is possible by declaring these variables as a data types and each data type belongs to a resource dictionary. Let's take the example of the variable declare above in template mapping.

    Code Block
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    titleVariable: interfaces
    linenumberstrue
        {
    		"name": "interfaces",
    		"input-param": true,
    		"property": {
    		   "type": "list",
    		   "entry_schema": {
    		      "type": "string"
    		   }
    		},
    		"dictionary-name": "properties-capability-source",
    		"dictionary-source": "capability",
    		"dependencies": ["environment"]
    	}

    This variable is declared as an array list resolved using a resource dictionary name "properties-capability-source", from the dictionary source "capability" and will depend on variable call "environment". Dependency variable means that the "environment" variable should be resolved before "interfaces" variable is resolved.

    The resource dictionary "properties-capability-source" must be load in CDS run time and will point to the python script to execute as Jython in order to resolve "interfaces" variable.

    Code Block
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    titleResource dictionary: properties-capability-source
    linenumberstrue
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        {
           "name": "properties-capability-source",
           "updated-by": "Steve Alphonse Siani, alphonse.steve.siani.djissitchi@ibm.com",
           "tags": "properties-capability-source",
           "property" :{
               "description": "Data dictionary used to read properties.",
               "type": "string"
           },
           "sources": {
               "input": {
                  "type": "source-input"
                },
               "default": {
                  "type": "source-default",
                  "properties": {}
               },
               "capability": {
                  "type": "source-capability",
                  "properties" : {
                     "script-type" : "jython",
                     "script-class-reference" : "Scripts/python/ResolvProperties.py"
                  }
               }
           }
        }
    Code Block
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    titleScripts/python/ResolvProperties.py
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    from abstract_ra_processor import AbstractRAProcessor
    from blueprint_constants import *
    
    class ResolvProperties(AbstractRAProcessor):
    
        def process(self, resource_assignment):
            result = ""
            env = ""
            attribute = ""
            # get dependencies result
            value = self.raRuntimeService.getStringFromResolutionStore("environment")
            
            #logic based on dependency outcome
            env = "env-" + value
    
            if resource_assignment.name == "ansible_ssh_user":
                attribute = env + ".ansible_ssh_user"
            if resource_assignment.name == "ansible_ssh_pass":
                attribute = env + ".ansible_ssh_pass"
            if resource_assignment.name == "evi_id":
                attribute = env + ".evi_id"
            if resource_assignment.name == "service_db_url":
                attribute = env + ".service_db_url"
            if resource_assignment.name == "topology_url":
                attribute = env + ".topology_url"
            if resource_assignment.name == "resource_allocator_url":
                attribute = env + ".resource_allocator_url"
    
            result = self.raRuntimeService.getNodeTemplateAttributeValue("BPP", attribute).asText()
    
            # set value for resource getting currently resolved
            self.set_resource_data_value(resource_assignment, result)
            return None
    
        def recover(self, runtime_exception, resource_assignment):
            log.error("Exception in the script {}", runtime_exception)
            print self.addError(runtime_exception.cause.message)
            return None

           

                       - Component execution on Netconf device with python script 

    In the following, we define a node template execution as a "component-netconf-executor" and in the input we specify the script to run into the Netconf device.

    Code Block
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    titleComponent Netconf executor
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    "node_templates": { "config-deploy": { "type": "component-netconf-executor", "requirements": { "netconf-connection": { "capability": "netconf", "node": "netconf-device", "relationship": "tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo" } }, "interfaces": { "ComponentScriptExecutor": { "operations": { "process": { "inputs": { "script-type": "jython",
    └── *-template.vtl


    Data Dictionary

    A data dictionary defines a specifc resource that can be resolved using the bellow the supported sources.

    A data dictionary can support multiple resources.

    The main goal of data dictionary is to define generic entity that could be shared accross the service catalog.

    Resolution sources

    Input

    Default

    SQL

    Default (SDNC DB)

    Generic

    REST

    Default (SDNC MDSAL)

    Generic

    Capability (scripts)

    Python

    Kotlin script

    Netconf (through Python)

    Workflow

    A workflow defines an overall action to be taken for the service; it can be composed of a set of node to execute. Currently, workflows are backed by Directed Graph engine.

    A CBA can have as many workflow as needed.

    Required workflows

    The following workflows are contracts being established between SO, SDNC and CDS to cover the instantiation and the post-instantiation use cases.

    resource-assignment

    This action is meant to assign resources needed to instantiate the service. The goal is to resolved all the HEAT environment variables.

    This action is triggered by Generic-Resource-API (GR-API) within SDNC as part of the AssignBB orchestrated by SO. Hence it will be triggered for each VNF(s) and VF-Module(s).

    In order to know what to resolved, one input is required, that is the artifact prefix (see bellow for explanation).

    artifacts

    For each VNF and VF-Module comprising the service, a combinaison of a template and mapping is needed.

    The requirement is as follow for VNF:

    ${vnf-name}-template
    ${vnf-name}-mapping

    and as follow for VF-Module, where the vf-module-label is actually the name of the HEAT template file.

    ${vf-module-label}-template
    ${vf-module-label}-mapping

    ${vnf-name} and ${vf-module-label} is what we call the artifact prefix, so the requirement could be seen as follow:

    ${artifact-prefix}-template
    ${artifact-prefix}-mapping
    template

    The template has to be a resource accumulator template; that be composed of the following sections:

    • resource-accumulator-resolved-data: defines all the resources that can be resolved directly from the context. It expresses a direct mapping between the name of the resource and its value.

      Code Block
      titleRA resolved data
      collapsetrue
        "resource-accumulator-resolved-data": [
          {
            "param-name": "service-instance-id",
            "param-value": "${service-instance-id}"
          },
          {
            "param-name": "vnf_id",
            "param-value": "${vnf-id}"
          }
        ]


    • capability-data: defines what capability to use to create a specific resource, along with the ingredients required to invoke the capability and the output mapping.

      Code Block
      titleRA capability payload
      collapsetrue
          {
            "capability-name": "netbox-ip-assign",
            "key-mapping": [
              {
                "

    ...

    • payload": 

    ...

    • [
                  

    ...

    • {
                    

    ...

    • "

    ...

    • param-

    ...

    • name": "

    ...

    • service-

    ...

    • instance-

    ...

    • id",
                    

    ...

    • "param-value": "${service-instance-id}"
                  

    ...

    • },
                  

    ...

    • {
                

    ...

    •     

    ...

    • "param-name": "prefix-id",
                    "

    ...

    • param-value": "

    ...

    • ${private-

    ...

    • prefix-

    ...

    • id}"

    ...

    • 
                

    ...

    •   },
                 

    ...

    •  {
                    "

    ...

    • param-name": 

    ...

    • "vf-module-id",
                    "

    ...

    • param-

    ...

    • value": "${vf-module-id}"
                  

    ...

    • },
                  

    ...

    • {
                    "

    ...

    • param-

    ...

    • name": 

    ...

    • "external_key",
                    "

    ...

    • param-value": "

    ...

    • ${vf-module-id}-vpg_private_ip_1"
                  

    ...

    • }

    ...

    • 
                

    ...

    • ],
                

    ...

    • "output-key-mapping": 

    ...

    • [
                  

    ...

    • {
                    "

    ...

    • resource-

    ...

    • name": 

    ...

    • "vpg_private_ip_1",
                    "

    ...

    • resource-

    ...

    • value": 

    ...

    • "${vpg_private_ip_1}"
                  }
                

    ...

    • ]
              }
       

    ...

     C. Enrich the CBA to have complete package

    ...

    •      ]
          }


    mapping

    Defines the contract of each resource to be resolved. Each placeholder in the template must have a corresponding mapping definition.

    A mapping is comprised of:

    • name
    • required / optional
    • type (support complex type)
    • dictionary-name
    • dictionary-source
    • dependencies: this allows to make sure given resources get resolved prior the resolution of the resources defining the dependency.

    The dictionary fields reference to a specific data dictionary.

    scripts

    If any of the mapping uses a source capabbility to resolve a parameters.

    config-assign

    This action is meant to assign all the resources and mesh the templates needed for the configuration to apply post-instantiation.

    This action is triggered by SO during after the AssignBB has been executed for Service, VNF and VF-Module.

    artifacts

    Combinaison of templates with respective mappings

    Scripts if needed

    config-deploy

    This action is meant to push the configuration templates defined during the config-assign step for the post-instantiation.

    This action is triggered by SO during after the CreateBB has been executed for all the VF-Modules.

    artifacts

    Combinaison of templates with respective mappings

    Scripts using Netconf or Restconf to push configure the network element.