| VNF Package Tool | |
| ================ | |
| Provided tools | |
| -------------- | |
| * VNF Package Builder - creates a CSAR file based on inputs provided by the VNF product DevOps engineer | |
| * VNF Package Validator - validates the content of the VNF packages to ensure that everything has been built correctly | |
| * VNF Package Extractor - extracts VNF product model and executables from the CSAR file | |
| * VNF Package Parser - translates VNF product blueprint into a format consumable by ONAP components | |
| * VNF Package Dry Run - performs a "dry run" install to ensure that the package can be deployed during instantiation | |
| The tools are provided in a form of a shared library (Python module) that can be used in other projects. A CLI is also provided out-of-the box for DevOps to use the library with their scripts and autoamtion framework. | |
| Repository Name: vnfsdk/pkgtools | |
| Clone command: git clone http://gerrit.onap.org/r/vnfsdk/pkgtools | |
| Installation | |
| ------------ | |
| Python module with CLI is installed by Python pip command. It is possible to install into a virtual environment (virtualenv). | |
| The following commands are executed in the cloned repository directory: | |
| 1. pip install -r requirements.txt | |
| Install all required dependencies | |
| 2. pip install . | |
| Install VNF SDK tools package | |
| ----------------------------- | |
| Usage | |
| * Create CSAR by specifying a directory | |
| vnfsdk csar-create -d DESTINATION source entry | |
| * Extract CSAR content | |
| vnfsdk csar-open -d DESTINATION source | |
| * Validate CSAR content | |
| vnfsdk csar-validate source | |
| All commands have -h switch which displays help and description of all paramaters. |