Lead Committer: Victor Gao
Difference between Catalog and Market place
Market Place:
- Farmer push their produce to market.Market Vendors check the quality and display in their stalls.
- Consumer/Operators select the product based on quality, price and other factors and bring it to their home.
Catalog:
- Consumers put their purchase in their fridge for consumption.
- Products in the fridge are consumed by variety of dishes (services). (Design tools)
Key Points:
1. Market place FE/BE will handle all the Pre-onboarding functionality and provides provides API and UI to VNF Vendors for package management.
2. Package can be a Heat file or CSAR package. Marketplace BE communicates with SDC to convert it to CSAR package.
3. Validation includes validating package structure, integrity and authenticity.
4. The functionality of managing license(atleast the user interface) should also be moved to market place as it logically fits there.(, Pre-Onboarding functionality).[This is a suggestion, please think about this] 5. 3. Lifecycle test and function test would be attempted in future releases.
64. Finally validated CSAR would be pushed to SDC catalogue.