docs/guides/onap-user/design/index.rst

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Design Service
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The goal of the design process is to create all artifacts (models)
that are required to instantiate and manage resources, services,
and products on the ONAP platform.

Design progresses logically through a series of phases. Each phase:

* is organized into steps that are completed in sequence

* generates artifacts that are used in other phases of design

* is performed by multiple Design components

The following figure show the different phases and tools involved in
Onboarding, Design and Distribution process.

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**The "Core" Design Process includes the following steps:**

**Pre-Onboarding**
    A VNF/PNF/CNF Provider delivers its descriptor, model and
    artefacts (e.g. HEAT template, Helm Chart), which will be validated
    and packaged for onboarding to ONAP

**(Resource)-Onboarding**
    In the SDC a License Model is created, the VNF/PNF/CNF package imported
    and a Vendor Software Product (VSP) is created

**VF Creation and Testing**
    A V(N)F, PNF or CR Model is created (a) import of a VSP or VFC
    (b) manual creation and import of artefacts created via external
    tools like the Controller Design Studio (CDS), responsible for the
    Controller Blueprint Design
    The created VF Model will be used in a Service Model

**Service Design**
    A Service Model is created as a composition of resources
    (e.g. V(N)Fs, PNFs,...), Policies, Workflows,...
    The created Service Model will be certified and handed over to
    the Service Distribution process

**Service Distribution**
    The Service Provider will distribute the Service Model to the
    Runtime Service Catalog

**The optional/additional Design steps are:**

**VNF parameter assignment templating**
    The objective is to automate the resolution of resources for instantiation
    and any config provisioning operation, such as day0, day1 or day2
    configuration.
    The Controller Blueprint archive (CBA) is a fully model-driven,
    intent based package needed to design self service
    provisioning and configuration management automation.
    ONAP CDS (Controller Design Studio) is the controller that will process
    the Controller Blueprint archive (CBA) at run-time.

**Policy Design**
    These are rules, conditions, requirements, constraints, attributes,
    or needs that must be provided, maintained, and/or enforced.
    At a lower level, Policy involves machine-readable rules enabling
    actions to be taken based on triggers or requests. ONAP Policy framework
    provides some policy models that are implemented and pre-loaded when
    installing ONAP.

**VNF LifeCycle Command templating**
    APPC Controller Design Tool (CDT) is used for self-service onboarding of
    VNFs. VNF owners can create templates and other artifacts for APPC
    Configure command (used to apply a post-instantiation configuration)
    as well as other life cycle commands.

**Workflow Design**
    The purpose of the Workflow Designer is to enable designers to define or
    modify workflows to support Service/Resource change management scenarios
    executed by the Service Orchestrator.

**DCAE Onboard/Design**
    This phase includes the Onboarding of DCAE Microservices and their
    Policy Models, the Service Assurance Design and Distribution to Policy
    and CLAMP for Closed Loop Automation Management.
    The DCAE Onboard/Design component contains an own Design Catalog, which is
    not yet integrated with the SDC Design Catalog to exchange models and
    artefacts.

The following sections focus on the different Design steps:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :titlesonly:

   Pre-Onboarding <./pre-onboarding/index.rst>
   Resource-Onboarding <./resource-onboarding/index.rst>
   VF Creation and Testing <./vfcreation/index.rst>
   Service Design <./service-design/index.rst>
   Service Distribution <./service-distribution/index.rst>
   VNF parameter resolution Design <./parameter_resolution/index.rst>
   Control Loop Design <./control-loop/index.rst>

The following section provide links to the projects:

- :ref:`Policy Design<onap-policy-parent:design-label>`
- :ref:`VNF LifeCycle Command templating<onap-appc:master_index>`
- :ref:`Workflow Design<onap-sdc:workflow>`
- :ref:`DCAE Onboard/Design<onap-dcaegen2:master_index>`
- :ref:`Control Loop Automation Management<onap-clamp:master_index>`

.. |image1| image:: media/Design-Overview.png