SDC is the OpenECOMP visual modeling and design tool. It creates internal metadata used by all OpenECOMP applications, both at design time and run time.
- Includes catalog of standard (resource) items
- Can read Yang, HEAT, TOSCA, YAML, BPMN/BPEL
- Four asset types: Resource, Service, Product, and Offer
- Resource: a fundamental capability, either hardware or software
- Infrastructure (the Cloud resources, e.g., Compute, Storage)
- Network (network connectivity functions & elements) Example: a Virtual Network Function (VNF)
- Application (features and capabilities of a software application)
- Service: a well formed object with one or more Resources
- Product: includes one or more Services packaged with commercialization attributes for customer ordering and billing of the underlying Service(s)
- Offer: bundling of Products with specific Marketing configurations for selling to customers
- Resource: a fundamental capability, either hardware or software