ARC Service Orchestrator Component Description -El Alto

Owned by Chaker Al-Hakim
Last updated: Apr 07, 2020
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Status: to be reviewed on Jan 21, 2019

Service Orchestrator:

1. High Level Component Definition and Architectural Relationships 





2. API Definitions

2a. Exposed APIs

Interface Name

Definition

Capabilities

Version

Status

Payload Model(s)

Interface Name

Definition

Capabilities

Version

Status

Payload Model(s)

SO-E-01

Service and Resource order requests

Service Instance management (Service, Volume Group, VF Module, VNF)

Health check, global and node.

Infrastructure provider management (Certificates, networks, sub-networks, security groups)

3.1.2

Production

Embedded in interface

2b. Consumed APIs

Interface Name

Description

Interface Name

Description

SDCE-6

Service/Resource model notification

POE-5

Delegation of decision to policy logic

OOF-HAS

Delegation of placement decision

AAIE-1

Ingest/update state of services and resources

MCE-2

Assign and configure infrastructure resources

CONE-3

Assign and configure network resources

APPC

Assign and configure resources
(Using APPC library hosted in BPMN)
[Yang, REST, DMaaP]

VFCE-2

Delegation ofNetwork Service LCM

SOL003

Delegation of orchestration to VNFM

SDCE-7

Service/Resource model query



3. Component Description

Orchestration is the execution of various modules capabilities in harmony as a consolidated process to accomplish the desired tasks. The Service Orchestrator (SO) component of ONAP provides orchestration at a very high level, with an end to end view of the infrastructure, network, and applications.

SO's primary function is the automation of end-to-end service instance provisioning activities. SO is responsible for the instantiation and configuration of VNFs in support of overall end-to-end service instantiation, operations and management. SO executes well-defined processes to complete its objectives and is typically triggered by the receipt of service requests generated by other ONAP components or by Order Lifecycle Management in the BSS layer. The orchestration procedure is either created manually or obtained from the Service Design and Creation (SDC) component of ONAP, where all service designs are created and exposed/distributed for consumption

Internally, SO is organized as a set of modules with well defined responsibility. External adapters (SDNC, OpenStack, VFC and SOL003) encapsulate most communication with external systems. Persistence is exposed to other SO modules – not externally, by DB adapters (Catalog and Request). The underlying workflow component resides in the BPMN Execution Engine. The BPMN Execution Engine also interacts with other ONAP systems such as App controllers, AAI and OOF-HAS. Interactions with SNC are hosted by the SDC Controller. Likewise the API Request Handler exposes SOs API for interaction with clients. Finally there is also a monitoring component that allows insight into the execution state of workflows.

4. Known System Limitations

https://docs.onap.org/en/dublin/submodules/so.git/docs/release-notes.html

5. System Deployment Architecture

https://docs.onap.org/en/casablanca/submodules/so.git/docs/developer_info/Working_with_SO_Docker.html

6. New Release Capabilities

Support CCVPN extension



SO ETSI (SOL003, SOL002 and SOL005) plugin support

Improve PNF orchestration

Support the 5G slicing orchestration





7. References

  1. Interfaces: https://docs.onap.org/en/dublin/submodules/so.git/docs/api/offered_consumed_apis.html

  2. Known system limitations: https://docs.onap.org/en/dublin/submodules/so.git/docs/release-notes.html

  3. Deployment information: https://docs.onap.org/en/casablanca/submodules/so.git/docs/developer_info/Working_with_SO_Docker.html