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diff --git a/docs/guides/onap-user/instantiate/instantiation/service_instance/index.rst b/docs/guides/onap-user/instantiate/instantiation/service_instance/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b23a90f33 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/guides/onap-user/instantiate/instantiation/service_instance/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 +.. International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 +.. Copyright 2019 ONAP Contributors. All rights reserved. + + +Service Instantiation +===================== + +**Pre-requisites** + +- the Service has been designed and distributed (see: Service Design) +- pre-instantiation operations have been performed + (see: pre instantiation section) + +**Possible Tools to perform Service Instantiation** + +- **via a Graphical User Interface tool** + using ONAP applications such as **ONAP VID** and **ONAP UUI** tools + +- **via any tool able to perform REST API requests** + (for example : Robot Framework, Postman, Curl...) connected + to **ONAP SO** legacy API or **ONAP extAPI/NBI** standard TMF641 API + to add/delete Service. + +**Possible methods with ONAP to instantiate a Service** + +- **A La Carte** + method requires the user to build and send + operations **for each object** to instantiate : Service, VNFs, + VFModules and Networks (in other words : once you have instantiated + the Service object, you still have to instantiate the various VNFs + or Networks that compose your Service). + To build those requests, the user needs to define/collect by himself + all necessary parameters/values. + +- **Macro** + method allows the user to build and send + **only one request to instantiate all objects** : Service, VNFs, + VFModules and Networks. Thanks to templates (see CDS Blueprint in + Design section), + ONAP will collect and assign all required parameters/values by itself. + + + Note: **Macro** method is not (yet) available via ONAP VID + nor via extAPI/NBI + +With "A La Carte" method +------------------------ + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + using ONAP VID Portal <../vid/index.rst> + using ONAP NBI REST API (TM Forum) <../nbi/index.rst> + using ONAP SO REST API <../so1/index.rst> + +With "Macro" method +------------------- + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + using ONAP SO REST API <../so2/index.rst> |