ONAP Controller Core Components Installation

The ONAP Operations Manager and the next-generation ONAP DCAE system use Cloudify Manager, a third party open source product, as the core orchestration engine. They use Consul, another third party open source product, as a key-value store, a service discovery system, and a health monitoring tool.

This repository contains scripts and artifacts that are used to create a VM in an OpenStack environment and then install the Cloudify Manager software on it. Once the Cloudify Manager software is installed, the script uses Cloudify Manager to deploy a 3-VM cluster running Consul in a high-availability mode. When the deployment completes, the script registers Cloudify Manager as a service in Consul and puts Consul's address into a configuration file on the Cloudify Manager VM.

Eventually we expect that the ECOMP controller will launch the next-generation DCAE controller using a Cloudify blueprint that's executed by the ECOMP controller's Cloudify Manager system. Until that system is ready, the script and artifacts here can be used to deploy a Cloudify Manager and a Consul cluster for the DCAE controller.

Documentation in this repo:

• The installation instructions are in the install.md file.
• A description of how the installation process sets up Consul is in the consul.md file.

External documentation links:

• Information about Cloudify
• Information about Consul

Limitations

• The installation process does not set up TLS certificates for any of the host VMs and therefore does not configure Cloudify Manager and Consul to use HTTPS.
• The installation process does not set up authentication, authorization, and access control for Cloudify Manager and Consul.
• The installation process sets up one non-root user on each VM. The user is configured for access using the keypair provided at installation time.
• The Cloudify Manager is not set up for highly availability.
• While Consul is set up in a high-availability configuration, clients need to know the addresses of all three Consul VMs. In the event that a client cannot reach one of the VMs, the client must try another address.
• The installation process installs the Web-based user interfaces for both Cloudify Manager and Consul. This may not desirable for production environments.