Prerequisite

1. Gather what you need:

   Have the HEAT template along with the HEAT environment file.

   Have the configuration template to apply on the VNF.

   1. XML for NETCONF
   2. JSON / XML for RESTCONF
   3. not supported yet - CLI
2. Identify which resources are static and dynamic

3. 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.

   Here are the information to capture for each dynamic cloud parameters

   Resource name	Resource source, and how to resolve	Ingredients for resolution	Output of resolution
   Either the cloud parameters name or the placeholder given for the dynamic property.	Value will be given as input in the request. Value will be defaulted in the model. Value will be resolved by sending a query to the REST system Auth URL URI Payload VERB Supported Auth type Use token based authentication token Use basic authentication username password Use SSL basic authentication keystore type truststore truststore password keystore keystore password http(s)://<host>:<port> /xyz JSON formatted payload HTTP method Value will be resolved by sending a SQL statement to the DB system Type URL Query Username Password Only maria-db supported for now jdbc:mysql://<host>:<port>/db SQL statement	These are all the required parameters to process the resolution of that particular resources. List of placeholders used for URI Payload 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.

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: CDS Modeling Concepts

FIX ME - add generic DD model

Bellow are examples of data dictionary for each resource source

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

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

{
    "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"
}

{
    "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" : "/address",
          "input-key-mapping" : {
            "prefixId" : "prefix-id"
          },
          "output-key-mapping" : {
            "address" : "address"
          },
          "key-dependencies" : [ "prefix-id" ]
        }
      }
    }
  }

{
  "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"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "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",
        "instance-dependencies": [],
        "key-dependencies": [
          "vf-module-type"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

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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 dependencies result
            value = self.raRuntimeService.getStringFromResolutionStore("vf-module-type")
            
            # logic based on 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 value for 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

Workflows

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