diff --git a/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/resources/appconfig/rule-data-dictionary.properties b/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/resources/appconfig/rule-data-dictionary.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d93f030
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/resources/appconfig/rule-data-dictionary.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+rule.datadictionary.hostport={{ .Values.config.dataDictHostPort }}
+rule.datadictionary.connect.timeout=1000
+rule.datadictionary.read.timeout=1000
+
+# basic authentication: base64 encoding of username:password
+rule.datadictionary.credentials={{ .Values.config.dataDictCredentials }}
+
+# ex: /commonModelElements/instance~nfValuesCatalog~1.0/
+rule.datadictionary.uri=/commonModelElements/{0}~{1}~1.0/validateInstance
diff --git a/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/resources/bundleconfig/etc/rules/poa-event/default-rules.groovy b/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/resources/bundleconfig/etc/rules/poa-event/default-rules.groovy
index 1dc97da..fd2385a 100644
--- a/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/resources/bundleconfig/etc/rules/poa-event/default-rules.groovy
+++ b/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/resources/bundleconfig/etc/rules/poa-event/default-rules.groovy
@@ -481,3 +481,36 @@
         return new Tuple2(result, details)
         '''
 }
+
+/*
+ * The data-dictionary rule below can be used with this useRule clause:
+ *   useRule {
+ *     name 'Data-Dictionary validate VF type'
+ *     attributes 'context-list.ndcb.vfList[*].vfModuleList[*].networkList[*].type'
+ *   }
+ */
+rule {
+    name        'Data-Dictionary validate VF type'
+    category    'INVALID_VALUE'
+    description 'Validate all VF type values against data-dictionary'
+    errorText   'VF type [{0}] failed data-dictionary validation: {1}'
+    severity    'ERROR'
+    attributes  'typeList'
+    validate    '''
+        boolean success = true
+        List<String> details = new ArrayList<>()
+        typeList.any {
+            if(!success) {
+                // break out of 'any' loop
+                return false
+            }
+            def result = org.onap.aai.validation.ruledriven.rule.builtin.DataDictionary.validate("instance", "vfModuleNetworkType", "type", "$it")
+            if(!result.isEmpty()) {
+                success = false
+                details.add("$it")
+                details.add("$result")
+            }
+        }
+        return new Tuple2(success, details)
+        '''
+}
diff --git a/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/templates/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/templates/deployment.yaml
index f802245..df62915 100644
--- a/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@
               path: validation-service-auth.properties
             - key: rule-indexing.properties
               path: rule-indexing.properties
+            - key: rule-data-dictionary.properties
+              path: rule-data-dictionary.properties
             - key: aai-environment.properties
               path: aai-environment.properties
             - key: schemaIngest.properties
diff --git a/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/values.yaml b/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/values.yaml
index bb513cf..2cb175a 100644
--- a/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/pomba/charts/pomba-validation-service/values.yaml
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 debugEnabled: false
 
 # application configuration
-# Example:
 config:
   appDir: /opt/app/validation-service
   configDir: /opt/app/validation-service/appconfig
@@ -45,8 +44,8 @@
   configTopicsDir: /opt/app/validation-service/appconfig/topics
   rulesDir: /opt/app/validation-service/bundleconfig/etc/rules/poa-event
   maxHeap: 1024
-#  username: myusername
-#  password: mypassword
+  dataDictHostPort: http://dummy-host:443
+  dataDictCredentials: cG9tYmE6cG9tYmE=
 
 # default number of instances
 replicaCount: 1