WHY a flow matrix?
Numerous components are embedded in the ONAP architecture.
To enable a reliable and efficient security level of the deployed solution, the owner of the solution has to manage his IN/OUT flows of it. Then adapted access control rules can be activated to enable only authorized incoming and outcoming flows.
Without this information, it is impossible to deploy a real access control solution.
For more clarity reasons, 3 types of flows have been defined.
- External flows
It is by definition all flows out of ONAP platforms e.g. interconnection to a BSS.
The main objective is then to authorize only pre configured flows.
- Inter-components flows
All flows between components defined as project by ONAP.
For example it could concern a flow between the AAI and DCAE.
- Intra-component flows
The flows remain within the components.
This would