| Rene_Robert | fb17797 | 2019-07-09 14:39:47 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | .. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| 2 | .. International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| 3 | .. Copyright 2017 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. |
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| Rene_Robert | fb17797 | 2019-07-09 14:39:47 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| 6 | Instantiate |
| 7 | =========== |
| 8 | The following guides are provided to describe tasks that a user of |
| 9 | ONAP may need to perform when instantiating a service. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Instantiation includes the following topics: |
| 12 | |
| 13 | .. toctree:: |
| 14 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Pre-instantiation operations <./pre_instantiation/index.rst> |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Instantiation operation(s) <./instantiation/index.rst> |
| 19 | |
| 20 | |
| 21 | **e2eServiceInstance** method is a hard-coded approach with dedicated/specific |
| 22 | service BPMN workflow. That means it is linked to ONAP source code |
| 23 | and lifecycle. |
| 24 | |
| andreasgeissler | 7789a22 | 2019-07-16 18:44:23 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | **A La Carte** method requires the Operations actor to build and send |
| Rene_Robert | fb17797 | 2019-07-09 14:39:47 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | a lot of operations. To build those requests, Operator actor needs to |
| 27 | define/collect by himself all VNF parameters/values. |
| 28 | |
| andreasgeissler | 7789a22 | 2019-07-16 18:44:23 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | **Macro** method required the Operations actor to build and send only one |
| 30 | request and, thanks to CDS Blueprint templates, ONAP will collect and assign |
| 31 | all required parameters/values by itself. |