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.
SDC manages four types of assets:
- Resource: a fundamental capability, either hardware or software. There are three kinds of Resource:
- 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
The key output of SDC is a set of models containing descriptions of asset capabilities and instructions to manage them. These models are stored in the SDC Master Reference Catalog for the entire enterprise to use.
There are four major components of SDC:
- The Catalog is the repository for assets at the Resource, Service and Product levels. Assets are added to the Catalog using the Design Studio.
- The Design Studio is used to create, modify and add Resource, Service and Product definitions into the Catalog.
- The Certification Studio, available in 2017, is used to test new assets at all levels. It will be used for sandbox experimentation.
- The Distribution Studio is used to deploy certified assets. From the Distribution studio, new service artifacts including their underlying resources and products are deployed into lab environments for testing purposes, and into production after certification is complete.
SDC can read asset descriptions using Yang, HEAT, TOSCA, YAML, BPMN/BPEL.