In ONAP community, using ansible server to configure VNF is more popular now. As of Casablanca release, APPC has provided one single ansible server configuration functionality. In Dublin, APPC will allow multiple ansible server end points for routing life cycle command (see LCM API for more details). In order to support this new function. APPC will be enhancing in several adapators, database as well as CDT GUI. This page describes how to implement, how to use this feature, and some sample requests/response will be shown.
Design
Currently APP-C directs Life Cycle commands to one and only one ansible server. This feature will enhance APPC to allow multiple ansible server end points to be defined within APPC. This will allow APP-C to route life cycle commands to additional Ansible servers (active-active).
Database enhancement
A new table will be added for storing admin artifact:
- Asdc_artifacts_id <next_serial_number>
- Artifact_type <APPC-CONFIG>
- Artifact_version <0.1>
- Artifact_description <VNF Management Admin Artifact>
- Internal_version <start with 0 and increment upon new verion>
- Creation_date <system date and time>
- Artifact_name <ansible_admin_FQDN_Artifact_0.0.1V.json>
- Artifact_content <actual json refer to the sample below>
CDT will keep using the Design interface to retrieve and save Admin Artifact to the new table above. Admin artifact is VNF and action agnostic. Those attributes will have a null value as inputs of the API calls.
- User ID = “admin”
- Vnf-type = null
- Action = null
/operations/design-services:dbservice
{
"input": {
"design-request": {
"request-id":"704632839946",
"action": "uploadArtifact",
"payload":
"{\"userID\": \"admin\",\"vnf-type\" : \"NULL
\",\"action\" : \"NULL\",\"artifact-name\" :
\"reference_AllAction_vnfc2_0.0.1V.json\",\"artifact-type\"
: \"APPC-CONFIG\",\"artifact-version\" :
\"0.1\",\"artifact-contents\": "<content>”
}
}
}
{
"input": {
"design-request": {
"request-id": "704632839946",
"action": "getArtifact",
"payload":
"{\"vnf-type\":\"NULL\",\"vnfc-type\":\"null\",\"protocol\":\"\",\"incart\":\"N\",\"action\":\"NULL
\",\"artifact-name\":\"reference_AllAction_vnfc2_0.0.1V.json\",\"artifact-type\":\"APPC-CONFIG\",\"userID\":\"admin\"}"
}
}
}
CDT GUI enhancement
The following table lists screen objects is for the CDT GUI.
Data Fields | Required | Data Type | Field Size | Description |
Configuration Server FQDN | Yes | String |
| FQDN of the Ansible server |
Configuration Server Port | Yes | Integer | 0 – 65535 inclusive | TCP Port of the Ansible server |
Cloud-owner | Yes | String |
| Cloud-owner of the tenant ID |
Cloud-Region-ID | Yes | String |
| Cloud-Region of the tenant ID |
Tenant | Yes | String |
| Tenant ID that is associated with the Ansible server. Cloud-Owner, Cloud-Region, and Tenant ID uniquely identify a tenant. There should be at least one Tenant ID per Ansible server profile. |
Description | No | String |
| This a free text field for entering information identifying the Ansible server. |
Creator | Yes | String |
| Current session user ID for created the profile, source from cookie. Not user editable. |
Date Created | Yes | Date |
| Source from system clock at time of save artifact. Not user editable. |
Modifier | Required only when modifying an existing profile | String |
| Will not be populated when profile initially created. Required when modifying existing profile. Not user editable. |
Date Modified | Date |
|
(screen shot will come lately)
- CDT GUI will have a new tab – “ADMIN” tab for administering configuration server profiles.
- ADMIN main screen displays configuration server profiles. All (Admin) users have read and write access to all server profiles. User can select columns to be sorted. All columns are sortable.
- CDT provides a sorting capability similar to the VNF profile screen.
- User can select columns to be sorted by clicking on the arrow symbols next to the column headings.
- Repeated clicking on an arrow symbol toggles the sorting orders, ascending and descending.
- In the sorting results, all fields for a row should be populated with the correct values.
- All columns are sortable except Description
- new buttons under Admin tab:
- Create New Server button – opens the Server Data screen for adding new server profile
Clicking the CREATE NEW SERVER button on the default screen takes the user to this Server Data to enter data for a new server profiles.
These fields are not user editable.
- Creator – the user ID when the server profile was first created. Once it is set during initial server profile creation, this value will not be changed.
- Date Created – date the server profile was created. Once it is set during initial server profile creation, this value will not be changed.
- Modifier – Empty during initial profile creation
- Modified Date – Empty during initial profile creation
- View/Edit button – opens the Server Data screen for editing the existing server profile
The Configuration Server screen allows user to edit existing Ansible profiles. CDT retrieves the server profile data and display on in the appropriate fields.
These fields are not user editable.
- Creator – the user ID when the server profile was first created. Once it is set during initial server profile creation, this value will not be changed.
- Date Created – date the server profile was created. Once it is set during initial server profile creation, this value will not be changed.
- Modifier – user ID of the server profile was last modified and saved to APPC database.
- Modified Date – date of the server profile was last modified and saved to APPC database.
- Download All To PC button – saves the Admin artifact to an file on the local PC
- Save All To APPC button – save Admin artifact to APPC database in JSON format
Save Admin Artifact in APPC Database - Arrow symbols next to column heading – sort the data by the specific column
- Create New Server button – opens the Server Data screen for adding new server profile
Runtime enhancement
Payload example
Ref link:
- Ansible Playbook Examples in VNF Guide.
- Ansible Adaptor in APPC