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Page Status: Copied from R6 - Mar, 22, 2020
Component Status: Pending PTL Updates and ArchCom Review

High Level Component Definition and Architectural Relationships 



The etsicatalog project provides package management service and parser service by Micro Service. It can be used to store packages distributed by the SDC, and can be consumed by other projects or components, such as UUI, VF-C, etc. It also includes a TOSCA parser service.

2. API definitions

Modeling esticatalog provides the following interfaces:

Interface NameInterface Definition Interface Capabilities
etsicatalogAPIE-1Catalog API

Provides catalog management interface:

  • fetch VNF package from SDC
  • fetch NS package from SDC
  • fetch Service package from SDC
  • search VNF/NS/Service
etsicatalogAPIE-2NSD Management API

Provides NSD management interface (Align with ETSI SOL-005)

  • Create NSD Info
  • Upload NSD
  • Query NSD Info
  • Fetch NSD
  • Delete NSD
  • Create PNFD Info
  • Upload PNFD
  • Query PNFD Info
  • Fetch PNFD
  • Delete PNFD
  • Subscribe & Notify
etsicatalogAPIE-3VNF Management API

Provides VNF management interface (Align with ETSI SOL-003)

  • Create VNF Package Info
  • Upload VNF Package
  • QueryVNF Package Info, include obtaining the VNFD
  • Fetch VNF Package
  • Fetch VNF Package Artifacts
  • Delete VNF Package
  • Subscribe & Notify
etsicatalogAPIE-4Parser API

Provides Parse interface:

  • Parse VNF
  • Parse PNF
  • Parse NS
  • Parse Service

The current  esticatalog API documents can be found at:

https://wiki.onap.org/download/attachments/68550263/etsicatalog_API_v1.yaml?version=1&modificationDate=1568686293000&api=v2

Modeling esticatalog consumes the following interfaces:

Interface NameInterface Definition Interface Capabilities
SDCE-6SDC Interface

An interface to receive resource Templates from SDC design catalog

MSBE-1Micro Service Bus InterfaceAn interface for registration and discovery with the ONAP Micro Service Bus.


3. Component Description:

Etsicatalog is a web application based on python3 and Django framework. It is a  standalone microservice which provides:

  • Package Management Service
  • Parser Service

4. known system limitations

Now the component Redundancy and scaling depends on Kubernetes.

5. Used Models

Modeling etsicatalog use the following models:

  • TOSCA  - TOSCA  - VNF Descriptor/NS Descriptor  ETSI NFV SOL001  v2.4.1 & v2.5.1 

6. System Deployment Architecture

Modeling etsicatalog consists of 2 container:

  • etsicatalog - The Catalog & Parser microservice 

  • etsicatalog-db - The etsicatalog DB service


7. New Release Capabilities

  • Read VNFD
  • supports the ONBOARDING_PACKAGE directory for the original vendor ETSI package extraction 
  • VNF/NS package Subscribe & Notify
  • Support https for all external REST APIs

8. References

  1.  Modeling etsicatalog Installation & User Guide: Etsicatalog Documentation




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