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The definitions of assets include Information Artifacts and Deployment Artifacts. Information Artifacts can be provided by the vendor when an asset such as a VNF is on-boarded to SDC. The artifacts describe the characteristics of the asset and the companion supporting documents as to how it works, and how to manage it once it is deployed.
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The Deployment Artifacts include the asset definition (a Resource or Service or Product model) with instructions to OpenECOMP for creation and management of an instance of the asset in the network. SDC is evolving the support of various Deployment Artifacts – including Heat Templates for cloud infrastructure creation, YANG XML files for state data manipulated by the Network Configuration Protocol, TOSCA for specifying cloud infrastructure, vendor provided scripts, 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.
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