Comment: This is a proposed modification to the original Self Serve Control Loop Project. This version is in support of the Acumos / DCAE integration. It modifies some of the original flows moving them away from SDC and putting more of an emphasis on DCAE. All DCAE microservice models and blueprint flows will now go through the Microservice Onboarding and Design process of DCAE. The models and blueprints will then be distributed directly from the BPG to Policy and CLAMP. CLAMP will be used to associate the Models to the Service. In this new flow there will be no(???) impact to SDC. Most of the work to implement this new flow will be done in DCAE which will be done by AT&T. This version of the project still needs to be accepted by ONAP Architecture SubCommittee.
Overview
In the Dublin Release the Control Loop team modified the basic control loop structure so that it was all based on Tosca Models. This made it much easier to manipulate policies. It also made it so new policies could be developed and deployed outside the Release Cycle. However were not enough resources to deliver the capability to build and distribute the new policies through SDC as part of Service Design and Creation.
In Frankfurt we will deliver the ability to create new policies and microservices within SDC. Add them to the CSAR file and then distribute those policies to the various control loop components (CLAMP, Policy, and DCAE)
Problem Statement
Adding the ability to create and distribute new models and blueprints from SDC will enable a fully capable Self Service model to the front end of the Model Driven Control Loops that were delivered in Dublin Release
Business Driver
Enable a Self Service capability to ONAP that allows for new policies to be developed and delivered to ONAP outside of the ONAP Development cycle.