AAF Component Description - London-R12

Owned by Chaker Al-Hakim
Nov 21, 2022
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Page Status: updated for Istanbul - Mar 22, 2021 
Component Status: Pending PTL updates and ArchCom Review

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AAF (Application Authorization Framework):

1 High Level Component Definition and Architectural Relationships 



AAF (Application Authentication Framework) provides the services for authentication, authorization and certificate management for the ONAP components.  It provides the services to the ONAP components to manage the lifecycle of authentication and authorization elements such as Permissions, Roles and Credentials.  It supports:

  • Manage authentication and authorization elements such as: Perminssions, Roles, Credentials

  • Access to organizational entities

  • Manage the lifecycle of passwords and certificates

  • Access to external credential authorities (e.g. CA)

  • Autogenerate ONAP certificates





2. API definitions



AAF provides the following interfaces:

Interface Name

Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

Version

Status

Consumed Models

Interface Name

Interface Definition

 Interface Capabilities

Version

Status

Consumed Models

AAFE-1

Application Authorization Framework Management Interface

  A user interface for:

  • to be filled in







AAFE-2

Application Authorization Framework Authentication and Authorization Interface

 An interface for the ONAP components to:

  • to be filled in.







Note:   xxxI interface is a Component internal interface.  xxxxE interface is a component external interface

AAF Consumes no Interfaces:

Interface Name

Purpose Reason For Use

Interface Name

Purpose Reason For Use

AAFE-3: AAF External Credential Interface

An interface to retrieve and authenticate using credentials from a credential supplier external to ONAP.

The current API documents can be found at:

  • AAFE-1 (to be added)

  • AAFE2 (to be added)

  • AAFE3 (to be added)

3. Component Description:

Link to read the docs





4. known system limitations: (IN PROGRESS)

Runtime: None



5. Used Models: (N/A)



6. System Deployment Architecture:

FFS



7. New Capabilities in this Release



8. References

  1.  AAF Overview & User Guide: https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-aaf-authz/en/latest/sections/architecture/aaf_architecture.html?highlight=AAF%20overview#overview

  2. AAF Architecture doc: https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-aaf-authz/en/latest/sections/architecture/aaf_architecture.html?highlight=AAF