Resource Lifecycle Management Interface

Provides a course grain VNF level LCM interface in a template driven and cloud agnostic way

 Provides:

• Infrastuture workload LCM (instantiate, query, Delete Infrastructure workloads)

 N/A Place holder for SDN interconnect interface

Envisaged Future Capability

Atomic Resource LCM

Provides a fine graned resource LCM interface at the VM level. This is an atomic resource level workload LCM (specific to openstack resources)

Provides:

• Image Management: (Create/Delete/Get Images)
• Network Management (Create/Delete/Query connectivity)
• Subnetwork Management ((Create/Delete/Query sub-networks)
• Virtual Point Management (Create/Delete/Query Virtual endpoints)
• Server Management (Create/Delete/Query Virtual Servers)
• Heal Server
• Flavour Management (Create/Delete/Query VM Flavors)
• Volume Management (Create/Delete/Query Storage Volumes)
• Tenant Management (Create/Delete/Query Infrastructure Tenants)

Placement Optimization Interface

Provides real time available capacity information

Provides:

• Query for real-time available capacity information

Cloud VIM Registration interface 

Expose Interface to trigger MultiCloud plugin to discover the infrastructure resource and register them to AAI

Provides:

• VIM Management (Update VIM info, unregister VIM info)

CNF Lifecycle Management Interface

Provides a course grain CNF level LCM interface for k8s workloads based on helm resource templating format.

The interface differs from MCE-2 because of the different modeling applied for CNFs in comparison to VNFs - RB (Resource Bundle) concept which represents helm package encapsulation.

Provides:

• RB Definition Management (Create/Delete/Get RB Definition)
• RB Definition Content Management (Update RB Definition Content)
• RB Profile Management (Create/Delete/Get RB Profile)
• RB Profile Content Management (Update RB Profile Content)
• RB Instance Management (Create/Delete/Get RB Instance)
• Connectivity Info Management (Create/Delete/Get k8s Connectivity Info)
• RB Configuration Template Management (Create/Delete/Get RB Configuration Template)
• RB Configuration Template Content Management (Update RB Configuration Template Content)
• RB Configuration Instance Management (Update RB Configuration Instance)
• Query API for cluster resources
• Helm 3 support
• Query API notifications (stretch)

Consume the services from the cloud provider.

It is specific to each cloud type (by plugin approach)