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The definitions of assets include Information Artifacts and Deployment Artifacts. Information Artifacts provide all of the information that anyone viewing the Resource/Service/Product would need to understand what the asset does, how it works, how to create an instance of it in the network, and how to support it once it is deployed. Deployment Artifacts provide the information files, instruction files, templates, or executable files needed to create an instance of the asset in the network. Deployment Artifacts can include Heat Templates for cloud infrastructure creation, YANG XML files for state data manipulated by the Network Configuration Protocol, TOSCA for specifying cloud infrastructure, or BPMN/BPEL for specifying business processes and the interconnections in a service-oriented architecture).
The <<DocRef: OpenECOMP User Guide>>, under the section "Design", describes how to use the SDC.
See the <<DocRef: SDC Demo Guide >> for for a specific example of how to onboard a Virtual Network Function, using SDC.