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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
+.. International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. Copyright 2018-2020 Amdocs, Bell Canada, Orange, Samsung
+.. Modification copyright (C) 2022 Nordix Foundation
+
+.. Links
+
+.. _oom_dev_config_management:
+
+
+Configuration Management
+########################
+
+ONAP is a large system composed of many components - each of which are complex
+systems in themselves - that needs to be deployed in a number of different
+ways. For example, within a single operator's network there may be R&D
+deployments under active development, pre-production versions undergoing system
+testing and production systems that are operating live networks. Each of these
+deployments will differ in significant ways, such as the version of the
+software images deployed. In addition, there may be a number of application
+specific configuration differences, such as operating system environment
+variables. The following describes how the Helm configuration management
+system is used within the OOM project to manage both ONAP infrastructure
+configuration as well as ONAP components configuration.
+
+One of the artifacts that OOM/Kubernetes uses to deploy ONAP components is the
+deployment specification, yet another yaml file. Within these deployment specs
+are a number of parameters as shown in the following example:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ apiVersion: apps/v1
+ kind: StatefulSet
+ metadata:
+ labels:
+ app.kubernetes.io/name: zookeeper
+ helm.sh/chart: zookeeper
+ app.kubernetes.io/component: server
+ app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Tiller
+ app.kubernetes.io/instance: onap-oof
+ name: onap-oof-zookeeper
+ namespace: onap
+ spec:
+ <...>
+ replicas: 3
+ selector:
+ matchLabels:
+ app.kubernetes.io/name: zookeeper
+ app.kubernetes.io/component: server
+ app.kubernetes.io/instance: onap-oof
+ serviceName: onap-oof-zookeeper-headless
+ template:
+ metadata:
+ labels:
+ app.kubernetes.io/name: zookeeper
+ helm.sh/chart: zookeeper
+ app.kubernetes.io/component: server
+ app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Tiller
+ app.kubernetes.io/instance: onap-oof
+ spec:
+ <...>
+ affinity:
+ containers:
+ - name: zookeeper
+ <...>
+ image: gcr.io/google_samples/k8szk:v3
+ imagePullPolicy: Always
+ <...>
+ ports:
+ - containerPort: 2181
+ name: client
+ protocol: TCP
+ - containerPort: 3888
+ name: election
+ protocol: TCP
+ - containerPort: 2888
+ name: server
+ protocol: TCP
+ <...>
+
+Note that within the statefulset specification, one of the container arguments
+is the key/value pair image: gcr.io/google_samples/k8szk:v3 which
+specifies the version of the zookeeper software to deploy. Although the
+statefulset specifications greatly simplify statefulset, maintenance of the
+statefulset specifications themselves become problematic as software versions
+change over time or as different versions are required for different
+statefulsets. For example, if the R&D team needs to deploy a newer version of
+mariadb than what is currently used in the production environment, they would
+need to clone the statefulset specification and change this value. Fortunately,
+this problem has been solved with the templating capabilities of Helm.
+
+The following example shows how the statefulset specifications are modified to
+incorporate Helm templates such that key/value pairs can be defined outside of
+the statefulset specifications and passed during instantiation of the component.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ apiVersion: apps/v1
+ kind: StatefulSet
+ metadata:
+ name: {{ include "common.fullname" . }}
+ namespace: {{ include "common.namespace" . }}
+ labels: {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+ spec:
+ replicas: {{ .Values.replicaCount }}
+ selector:
+ matchLabels: {{- include "common.matchLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
+ # serviceName is only needed for StatefulSet
+ # put the postfix part only if you have add a postfix on the service name
+ serviceName: {{ include "common.servicename" . }}-{{ .Values.service.postfix }}
+ <...>
+ template:
+ metadata:
+ labels: {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 8 }}
+ annotations: {{- include "common.tplValue" (dict "value" .Values.podAnnotations "context" $) | nindent 8 }}
+ name: {{ include "common.name" . }}
+ spec:
+ <...>
+ containers:
+ - name: {{ include "common.name" . }}
+ image: {{ .Values.image }}
+ imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.global.pullPolicy | default .Values.pullPolicy }}
+ ports:
+ {{- range $index, $port := .Values.service.ports }}
+ - containerPort: {{ $port.port }}
+ name: {{ $port.name }}
+ {{- end }}
+ {{- range $index, $port := .Values.service.headlessPorts }}
+ - containerPort: {{ $port.port }}
+ name: {{ $port.name }}
+ {{- end }}
+ <...>
+
+This version of the statefulset specification has gone through the process of
+templating values that are likely to change between statefulsets. Note that the
+image is now specified as: image: {{ .Values.image }} instead of a
+string used previously. During the statefulset phase, Helm (actually the Helm
+sub-component Tiller) substitutes the {{ .. }} entries with a variable defined
+in a values.yaml file. The content of this file is as follows:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ <...>
+ image: gcr.io/google_samples/k8szk:v3
+ replicaCount: 3
+ <...>
+
+
+Within the values.yaml file there is an image key with the value
+`gcr.io/google_samples/k8szk:v3` which is the same value used in
+the non-templated version. Once all of the substitutions are complete, the
+resulting statefulset specification ready to be used by Kubernetes.
+
+When creating a template consider the use of default values if appropriate.
+Helm templating has built in support for DEFAULT values, here is
+an example:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ imagePullSecrets:
+ - name: "{{ .Values.nsPrefix | default "onap" }}-docker-registry-key"
+
+The pipeline operator ("|") used here hints at that power of Helm templates in
+that much like an operating system command line the pipeline operator allow
+over 60 Helm functions to be embedded directly into the template (note that the
+Helm template language is a superset of the Go template language). These
+functions include simple string operations like upper and more complex flow
+control operations like if/else.
+
+OOM is mainly helm templating. In order to have consistent deployment of the
+different components of ONAP, some rules must be followed.
+
+Templates are provided in order to create Kubernetes resources (Secrets,
+Ingress, Services, ...) or part of Kubernetes resources (names, labels,
+resources requests and limits, ...).
+
+a full list and simple description is done in
+`kubernetes/common/common/documentation.rst`.
+
+Service template
+----------------
+
+In order to create a Service for a component, you have to create a file (with
+`service` in the name.
+For normal service, just put the following line:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ {{ include "common.service" . }}
+
+For headless service, the line to put is the following:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ {{ include "common.headlessService" . }}
+
+The configuration of the service is done in component `values.yaml`:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ service:
+ name: NAME-OF-THE-SERVICE
+ postfix: MY-POSTFIX
+ type: NodePort
+ annotations:
+ someAnnotationsKey: value
+ ports:
+ - name: tcp-MyPort
+ port: 5432
+ nodePort: 88
+ - name: http-api
+ port: 8080
+ nodePort: 89
+ - name: https-api
+ port: 9443
+ nodePort: 90
+
+`annotations` and `postfix` keys are optional.
+if `service.type` is `NodePort`, then you have to give `nodePort` value for your
+service ports (which is the end of the computed nodePort, see example).
+
+It would render the following Service Resource (for a component named
+`name-of-my-component`, with version `x.y.z`, helm deployment name
+`my-deployment` and `global.nodePortPrefix` `302`):
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ apiVersion: v1
+ kind: Service
+ metadata:
+ annotations:
+ someAnnotationsKey: value
+ name: NAME-OF-THE-SERVICE-MY-POSTFIX
+ labels:
+ app.kubernetes.io/name: name-of-my-component
+ helm.sh/chart: name-of-my-component-x.y.z
+ app.kubernetes.io/instance: my-deployment-name-of-my-component
+ app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Tiller
+ spec:
+ ports:
+ - port: 5432
+ targetPort: tcp-MyPort
+ nodePort: 30288
+ - port: 8080
+ targetPort: http-api
+ nodePort: 30289
+ - port: 9443
+ targetPort: https-api
+ nodePort: 30290
+ selector:
+ app.kubernetes.io/name: name-of-my-component
+ app.kubernetes.io/instance: my-deployment-name-of-my-component
+ type: NodePort
+
+In the deployment or statefulSet file, you needs to set the good labels in
+order for the service to match the pods.
+
+here's an example to be sure it matches (for a statefulSet):
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ apiVersion: apps/v1
+ kind: StatefulSet
+ metadata:
+ name: {{ include "common.fullname" . }}
+ namespace: {{ include "common.namespace" . }}
+ labels: {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+ spec:
+ selector:
+ matchLabels: {{- include "common.matchLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
+ # serviceName is only needed for StatefulSet
+ # put the postfix part only if you have add a postfix on the service name
+ serviceName: {{ include "common.servicename" . }}-{{ .Values.service.postfix }}
+ <...>
+ template:
+ metadata:
+ labels: {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 8 }}
+ annotations: {{- include "common.tplValue" (dict "value" .Values.podAnnotations "context" $) | nindent 8 }}
+ name: {{ include "common.name" . }}
+ spec:
+ <...>
+ containers:
+ - name: {{ include "common.name" . }}
+ ports:
+ {{- range $index, $port := .Values.service.ports }}
+ - containerPort: {{ $port.port }}
+ name: {{ $port.name }}
+ {{- end }}
+ {{- range $index, $port := .Values.service.headlessPorts }}
+ - containerPort: {{ $port.port }}
+ name: {{ $port.name }}
+ {{- end }}
+ <...>
+
+The configuration of the service is done in component `values.yaml`:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ service:
+ name: NAME-OF-THE-SERVICE
+ headless:
+ postfix: NONE
+ annotations:
+ anotherAnnotationsKey : value
+ publishNotReadyAddresses: true
+ headlessPorts:
+ - name: tcp-MyPort
+ port: 5432
+ - name: http-api
+ port: 8080
+ - name: https-api
+ port: 9443
+
+`headless.annotations`, `headless.postfix` and
+`headless.publishNotReadyAddresses` keys are optional.
+
+If `headless.postfix` is not set, then we'll add `-headless` at the end of the
+service name.
+
+If it set to `NONE`, there will be not postfix.
+
+And if set to something, it will add `-something` at the end of the service
+name.
+
+It would render the following Service Resource (for a component named
+`name-of-my-component`, with version `x.y.z`, helm deployment name
+`my-deployment` and `global.nodePortPrefix` `302`):
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ apiVersion: v1
+ kind: Service
+ metadata:
+ annotations:
+ anotherAnnotationsKey: value
+ name: NAME-OF-THE-SERVICE
+ labels:
+ app.kubernetes.io/name: name-of-my-component
+ helm.sh/chart: name-of-my-component-x.y.z
+ app.kubernetes.io/instance: my-deployment-name-of-my-component
+ app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Tiller
+ spec:
+ clusterIP: None
+ ports:
+ - port: 5432
+ targetPort: tcp-MyPort
+ nodePort: 30288
+ - port: 8080
+ targetPort: http-api
+ nodePort: 30289
+ - port: 9443
+ targetPort: https-api
+ nodePort: 30290
+ publishNotReadyAddresses: true
+ selector:
+ app.kubernetes.io/name: name-of-my-component
+ app.kubernetes.io/instance: my-deployment-name-of-my-component
+ type: ClusterIP
+
+Previous example of StatefulSet would also match (except for the `postfix` part
+obviously).
+
+Creating Deployment or StatefulSet
+----------------------------------
+
+Deployment and StatefulSet should use the `apps/v1` (which has appeared in
+v1.9).
+As seen on the service part, the following parts are mandatory:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ apiVersion: apps/v1
+ kind: StatefulSet
+ metadata:
+ name: {{ include "common.fullname" . }}
+ namespace: {{ include "common.namespace" . }}
+ labels: {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+ spec:
+ selector:
+ matchLabels: {{- include "common.matchLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
+ # serviceName is only needed for StatefulSet
+ # put the postfix part only if you have add a postfix on the service name
+ serviceName: {{ include "common.servicename" . }}-{{ .Values.service.postfix }}
+ <...>
+ template:
+ metadata:
+ labels: {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 8 }}
+ annotations: {{- include "common.tplValue" (dict "value" .Values.podAnnotations "context" $) | nindent 8 }}
+ name: {{ include "common.name" . }}
+ spec:
+ <...>
+ containers:
+ - name: {{ include "common.name" . }}
+
+Dependency Management
+---------------------
+These Helm charts describe the desired state
+of an ONAP deployment and instruct the Kubernetes container manager as to how
+to maintain the deployment in this state. These dependencies dictate the order
+in-which the containers are started for the first time such that such
+dependencies are always met without arbitrary sleep times between container
+startups. For example, the SDC back-end container requires the Elastic-Search,
+Cassandra and Kibana containers within SDC to be ready and is also dependent on
+DMaaP (or the message-router) to be ready - where ready implies the built-in
+"readiness" probes succeeded - before becoming fully operational. When an
+initial deployment of ONAP is requested the current state of the system is NULL
+so ONAP is deployed by the Kubernetes manager as a set of Docker containers on
+one or more predetermined hosts. The hosts could be physical machines or
+virtual machines. When deploying on virtual machines the resulting system will
+be very similar to "Heat" based deployments, i.e. Docker containers running
+within a set of VMs, the primary difference being that the allocation of
+containers to VMs is done dynamically with OOM and statically with "Heat".
+Example SO deployment descriptor file shows SO's dependency on its mariadb
+data-base component:
+
+SO deployment specification excerpt:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ apiVersion: apps/v1
+ kind: Deployment
+ metadata:
+ name: {{ include "common.fullname" . }}
+ namespace: {{ include "common.namespace" . }}
+ labels: {{- include "common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+ spec:
+ replicas: {{ .Values.replicaCount }}
+ selector:
+ matchLabels: {{- include "common.matchLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
+ template:
+ metadata:
+ labels:
+ app: {{ include "common.name" . }}
+ release: {{ .Release.Name }}
+ spec:
+ initContainers:
+ - command:
+ - /app/ready.py
+ args:
+ - --container-name
+ - so-mariadb
+ env:
+ ... \ No newline at end of file
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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
+.. International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. Copyright 2018-2020 Amdocs, Bell Canada, Orange, Samsung
+.. Modification copyright (C) 2022 Nordix Foundation
+
+.. Links
+.. _Kubernetes: https://Kubernetes.io/
+.. _AWS Elastic Block Store: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
+.. _Azure File: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction
+.. _GCE Persistent Disk: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/
+.. _Gluster FS: https://www.gluster.org/
+.. _Kubernetes Storage Class: https://Kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-classes/
+.. _Assigning Pods to Nodes: https://Kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/
+
+
+.. _oom_dev_container_orch:
+
+Kubernetes Container Orchestration
+##################################
+
+The ONAP components are managed by the Kubernetes_ container management system
+which maintains the desired state of the container system as described by one
+or more deployment descriptors - similar in concept to OpenStack HEAT
+Orchestration Templates. The following sections describe the fundamental
+objects managed by Kubernetes, the network these components use to communicate
+with each other and other entities outside of ONAP and the templates that
+describe the configuration and desired state of the ONAP components.
+
+**Name Spaces**
+
+Within the namespaces are Kubernetes services that provide external
+connectivity to pods that host Docker containers.
+
+ONAP Components to Kubernetes Object Relationships
+--------------------------------------------------
+Kubernetes deployments consist of multiple objects:
+
+- **nodes** - a worker machine - either physical or virtual - that hosts
+ multiple containers managed by Kubernetes.
+- **services** - an abstraction of a logical set of pods that provide a
+ micro-service.
+- **pods** - one or more (but typically one) container(s) that provide specific
+ application functionality.
+- **persistent volumes** - One or more permanent volumes need to be established
+ to hold non-ephemeral configuration and state data.
+
+The relationship between these objects is shown in the following figure:
+
+.. .. uml::
+..
+.. @startuml
+.. node PH {
+.. component Service {
+.. component Pod0
+.. component Pod1
+.. }
+.. }
+..
+.. database PV
+.. @enduml
+
+.. figure:: ../../resources/images/k8s/kubernetes_objects.png
+
+OOM uses these Kubernetes objects as described in the following sections.
+
+Nodes
+~~~~~
+OOM works with both physical and virtual worker machines.
+
+* Virtual Machine Deployments - If ONAP is to be deployed onto a set of virtual
+ machines, the creation of the VMs is outside of the scope of OOM and could be
+ done in many ways, such as
+
+ * manually, for example by a user using the OpenStack Horizon dashboard or
+ AWS EC2, or
+ * automatically, for example with the use of a OpenStack Heat Orchestration
+ Template which builds an ONAP stack, Azure ARM template, AWS CloudFormation
+ Template, or
+ * orchestrated, for example with Cloudify creating the VMs from a TOSCA
+ template and controlling their life cycle for the life of the ONAP
+ deployment.
+
+* Physical Machine Deployments - If ONAP is to be deployed onto physical
+ machines there are several options but the recommendation is to use Rancher
+ along with Helm to associate hosts with a Kubernetes cluster.
+
+Pods
+~~~~
+A group of containers with shared storage and networking can be grouped
+together into a Kubernetes pod. All of the containers within a pod are
+co-located and co-scheduled so they operate as a single unit. Within ONAP
+Amsterdam release, pods are mapped one-to-one to docker containers although
+this may change in the future. As explained in the Services section below the
+use of Pods within each ONAP component is abstracted from other ONAP
+components.
+
+Services
+~~~~~~~~
+OOM uses the Kubernetes service abstraction to provide a consistent access
+point for each of the ONAP components independent of the pod or container
+architecture of that component. For example, the SDNC component may introduce
+OpenDaylight clustering as some point and change the number of pods in this
+component to three or more but this change will be isolated from the other ONAP
+components by the service abstraction. A service can include a load balancer
+on its ingress to distribute traffic between the pods and even react to dynamic
+changes in the number of pods if they are part of a replica set.
+
+Persistent Volumes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+To enable ONAP to be deployed into a wide variety of cloud infrastructures a
+flexible persistent storage architecture, built on Kubernetes persistent
+volumes, provides the ability to define the physical storage in a central
+location and have all ONAP components securely store their data.
+
+When deploying ONAP into a public cloud, available storage services such as
+`AWS Elastic Block Store`_, `Azure File`_, or `GCE Persistent Disk`_ are
+options. Alternatively, when deploying into a private cloud the storage
+architecture might consist of Fiber Channel, `Gluster FS`_, or iSCSI. Many
+other storage options existing, refer to the `Kubernetes Storage Class`_
+documentation for a full list of the options. The storage architecture may vary
+from deployment to deployment but in all cases a reliable, redundant storage
+system must be provided to ONAP with which the state information of all ONAP
+components will be securely stored. The Storage Class for a given deployment is
+a single parameter listed in the ONAP values.yaml file and therefore is easily
+customized. Operation of this storage system is outside the scope of the OOM.
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ Insert values.yaml code block with storage block here
+
+Once the storage class is selected and the physical storage is provided, the
+ONAP deployment step creates a pool of persistent volumes within the given
+physical storage that is used by all of the ONAP components. ONAP components
+simply make a claim on these persistent volumes (PV), with a persistent volume
+claim (PVC), to gain access to their storage.
+
+The following figure illustrates the relationships between the persistent
+volume claims, the persistent volumes, the storage class, and the physical
+storage.
+
+.. graphviz::
+
+ digraph PV {
+ label = "Persistance Volume Claim to Physical Storage Mapping"
+ {
+ node [shape=cylinder]
+ D0 [label="Drive0"]
+ D1 [label="Drive1"]
+ Dx [label="Drivex"]
+ }
+ {
+ node [shape=Mrecord label="StorageClass:ceph"]
+ sc
+ }
+ {
+ node [shape=point]
+ p0 p1 p2
+ p3 p4 p5
+ }
+ subgraph clusterSDC {
+ label="SDC"
+ PVC0
+ PVC1
+ }
+ subgraph clusterSDNC {
+ label="SDNC"
+ PVC2
+ }
+ subgraph clusterSO {
+ label="SO"
+ PVCn
+ }
+ PV0 -> sc
+ PV1 -> sc
+ PV2 -> sc
+ PVn -> sc
+
+ sc -> {D0 D1 Dx}
+ PVC0 -> PV0
+ PVC1 -> PV1
+ PVC2 -> PV2
+ PVCn -> PVn
+
+ # force all of these nodes to the same line in the given order
+ subgraph {
+ rank = same; PV0;PV1;PV2;PVn;p0;p1;p2
+ PV0->PV1->PV2->p0->p1->p2->PVn [style=invis]
+ }
+
+ subgraph {
+ rank = same; D0;D1;Dx;p3;p4;p5
+ D0->D1->p3->p4->p5->Dx [style=invis]
+ }
+
+ }
+
+In-order for an ONAP component to use a persistent volume it must make a claim
+against a specific persistent volume defined in the ONAP common charts. Note
+that there is a one-to-one relationship between a PVC and PV. The following is
+an excerpt from a component chart that defines a PVC:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ Insert PVC example here
+
+OOM Networking with Kubernetes
+------------------------------
+
+- DNS
+- Ports - Flattening the containers also expose port conflicts between the
+ containers which need to be resolved.
+
+
+Pod Placement Rules
+-------------------
+OOM will use the rich set of Kubernetes node and pod affinity /
+anti-affinity rules to minimize the chance of a single failure resulting in a
+loss of ONAP service. Node affinity / anti-affinity is used to guide the
+Kubernetes orchestrator in the placement of pods on nodes (physical or virtual
+machines). For example:
+
+- if a container used Intel DPDK technology the pod may state that it as
+ affinity to an Intel processor based node, or
+- geographical based node labels (such as the Kubernetes standard zone or
+ region labels) may be used to ensure placement of a DCAE complex close to the
+ VNFs generating high volumes of traffic thus minimizing networking cost.
+ Specifically, if nodes were pre-assigned labels East and West, the pod
+ deployment spec to distribute pods to these nodes would be:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ nodeSelector:
+ failure-domain.beta.Kubernetes.io/region: {{ .Values.location }}
+
+- "location: West" is specified in the `values.yaml` file used to deploy
+ one DCAE cluster and "location: East" is specified in a second `values.yaml`
+ file (see OOM Configuration Management for more information about
+ configuration files like the `values.yaml` file).
+
+Node affinity can also be used to achieve geographic redundancy if pods are
+assigned to multiple failure domains. For more information refer to `Assigning
+Pods to Nodes`_.
+
+.. note::
+ One could use Pod to Node assignment to totally constrain Kubernetes when
+ doing initial container assignment to replicate the Amsterdam release
+ OpenStack Heat based deployment. Should one wish to do this, each VM would
+ need a unique node name which would be used to specify a node constaint
+ for every component. These assignment could be specified in an environment
+ specific values.yaml file. Constraining Kubernetes in this way is not
+ recommended.
+
+Kubernetes has a comprehensive system called Taints and Tolerations that can be
+used to force the container orchestrator to repel pods from nodes based on
+static events (an administrator assigning a taint to a node) or dynamic events
+(such as a node becoming unreachable or running out of disk space). There are
+no plans to use taints or tolerations in the ONAP Beijing release. Pod
+affinity / anti-affinity is the concept of creating a spacial relationship
+between pods when the Kubernetes orchestrator does assignment (both initially
+an in operation) to nodes as explained in Inter-pod affinity and anti-affinity.
+For example, one might choose to co-located all of the ONAP SDC containers on a
+single node as they are not critical runtime components and co-location
+minimizes overhead. On the other hand, one might choose to ensure that all of
+the containers in an ODL cluster (SDNC and APPC) are placed on separate nodes
+such that a node failure has minimal impact to the operation of the cluster.
+An example of how pod affinity / anti-affinity is shown below:
+
+Pod Affinity / Anti-Affinity
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ apiVersion: v1
+ kind: Pod
+ metadata:
+ name: with-pod-affinity
+ spec:
+ affinity:
+ podAffinity:
+ requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+ - labelSelector:
+ matchExpressions:
+ - key: security
+ operator: In
+ values:
+ - S1
+ topologyKey: failure-domain.beta.Kubernetes.io/zone
+ podAntiAffinity:
+ preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+ - weight: 100
+ podAffinityTerm:
+ labelSelector:
+ matchExpressions:
+ - key: security
+ operator: In
+ values:
+ - S2
+ topologyKey: Kubernetes.io/hostname
+ containers:
+ - name: with-pod-affinity
+ image: gcr.io/google_containers/pause:2.0
+
+This example contains both podAffinity and podAntiAffinity rules, the first
+rule is is a must (requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution) while the
+second will be met pending other considerations
+(preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution). Preemption Another feature
+that may assist in achieving a repeatable deployment in the presence of faults
+that may have reduced the capacity of the cloud is assigning priority to the
+containers such that mission critical components have the ability to evict less
+critical components. Kubernetes provides this capability with Pod Priority and
+Preemption. Prior to having more advanced production grade features available,
+the ability to at least be able to re-deploy ONAP (or a subset of) reliably
+provides a level of confidence that should an outage occur the system can be
+brought back on-line predictably.
+
+Health Checks
+-------------
+
+Monitoring of ONAP components is configured in the agents within JSON files and
+stored in gerrit under the consul-agent-config, here is an example from the AAI
+model loader (aai-model-loader-health.json):
+
+.. code-block:: json
+
+ {
+ "service": {
+ "name": "A&AI Model Loader",
+ "checks": [
+ {
+ "id": "model-loader-process",
+ "name": "Model Loader Presence",
+ "script": "/consul/config/scripts/model-loader-script.sh",
+ "interval": "15s",
+ "timeout": "1s"
+ }
+ ]
+ }
+ }
+
+Liveness Probes
+---------------
+
+These liveness probes can simply check that a port is available, that a
+built-in health check is reporting good health, or that the Consul health check
+is positive. For example, to monitor the SDNC component has following liveness
+probe can be found in the SDNC DB deployment specification:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ sdnc db liveness probe
+
+ livenessProbe:
+ exec:
+ command: ["mysqladmin", "ping"]
+ initialDelaySeconds: 30 periodSeconds: 10
+ timeoutSeconds: 5
+
+The 'initialDelaySeconds' control the period of time between the readiness
+probe succeeding and the liveness probe starting. 'periodSeconds' and
+'timeoutSeconds' control the actual operation of the probe. Note that
+containers are inherently ephemeral so the healing action destroys failed
+containers and any state information within it. To avoid a loss of state, a
+persistent volume should be used to store all data that needs to be persisted
+over the re-creation of a container. Persistent volumes have been created for
+the database components of each of the projects and the same technique can be
+used for all persistent state information. \ No newline at end of file
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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
+.. International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. Copyright 2018-2020 Amdocs, Bell Canada, Orange, Samsung
+.. Modification copyright (C) 2022 Nordix Foundation
+
+.. Links
+.. _Helm Charts: https://artifacthub.io/packages/search
+.. _aai: https://github.com/onap/oom/tree/master/kubernetes/aai
+.. _name.tpl: https://github.com/onap/oom/blob/master/kubernetes/common/common/templates/_name.tpl
+.. _namespace.tpl: https://github.com/onap/oom/blob/master/kubernetes/common/common/templates/_namespace.tpl
+
+.. _oom_helm_chart_info:
+
+Helm Charts
+###########
+
+A Helm chart is a collection of files that describe a related set of Kubernetes
+resources. A simple chart might be used to deploy something simple, like a
+memcached pod, while a complex chart might contain many micro-service arranged
+in a hierarchy as found in the `aai`_ ONAP component.
+
+Charts are created as files laid out in a particular directory tree, then they
+can be packaged into versioned archives to be deployed. There is a public
+archive of `Helm Charts`_ on ArtifactHUB that includes many technologies applicable
+to ONAP. Some of these charts have been used in ONAP and all of the ONAP charts
+have been created following the guidelines provided.
+
+An example structure of the OOM common helm charts is shown below:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ common
+ ├── cassandra
+ │   ├── Chart.yaml
+ │   ├── resources
+ │   │   ├── config
+ │   │   │   └── docker-entrypoint.sh
+ │   │   ├── exec.py
+ │   │   └── restore.sh
+ │   ├── templates
+ │   │   ├── backup
+ │   │   │   ├── configmap.yaml
+ │   │   │   ├── cronjob.yaml
+ │   │   │   ├── pv.yaml
+ │   │   │   └── pvc.yaml
+ │   │   ├── configmap.yaml
+ │   │   ├── pv.yaml
+ │   │   ├── service.yaml
+ │   │   └── statefulset.yaml
+ │   └── values.yaml
+ ├── common
+ │   ├── Chart.yaml
+ │   ├── templates
+ │   │   ├── _createPassword.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _ingress.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _labels.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _mariadb.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _name.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _namespace.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _repository.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _resources.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _secret.yaml
+ │   │   ├── _service.tpl
+ │   │   ├── _storage.tpl
+ │   │   └── _tplValue.tpl
+ │   └── values.yaml
+ ├── ...
+ └── postgres-legacy
+    ├── Chart.yaml
+ ├── charts
+ └── configs
+
+The common section of charts consists of a set of templates that assist with
+parameter substitution (`name.tpl`_, `namespace.tpl`_, etc) and a set of
+charts for components used throughout ONAP. When the common components are used
+by other charts they are instantiated each time or we can deploy a shared
+instances for several components.
+
+All of the ONAP components have charts that follow the pattern shown below:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ name-of-my-component
+ ├── Chart.yaml
+ ├── component
+ │   └── subcomponent-folder
+ ├── charts
+ │   └── subchart-folder
+ ├── resources
+ │   ├── folder1
+ │   │   ├── file1
+ │   │   └── file2
+ │   └── folder1
+ │   ├── file3
+ │   └── folder3
+ │      └── file4
+ ├── templates
+ │   ├── NOTES.txt
+ │   ├── configmap.yaml
+ │   ├── deployment.yaml
+ │   ├── ingress.yaml
+ │   ├── job.yaml
+ │   ├── secrets.yaml
+ │   └── service.yaml
+ └── values.yaml
+
+Note that the /components sub dir may include a hierarchy of sub
+components and in themselves can be quite complex.
+
+You can use either `charts` or `components` folder for your subcomponents.
+`charts` folder means that the subcomponent will always been deployed.
+
+`components` folders means we can choose if we want to deploy the subcomponent.
+
+This choice is done in root `values.yaml`:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ ---
+ global:
+ key: value
+
+ component1:
+ enabled: true
+ component2:
+ enabled: true
+
+Then in `Chart.yaml` dependencies section, you'll use these values:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+ ---
+ dependencies:
+ - name: common
+ version: ~x.y-0
+ repository: '@local'
+ - name: component1
+ version: ~x.y-0
+ repository: 'file://components/component1'
+ condition: component1.enabled
+ - name: component2
+ version: ~x.y-0
+ repository: 'file://components/component2'
+ condition: component2.enabled
+
+Configuration of the components varies somewhat from component to component but
+generally follows the pattern of one or more `configmap.yaml` files which can
+directly provide configuration to the containers in addition to processing
+configuration files stored in the `config` directory. It is the responsibility
+of each ONAP component team to update these configuration files when changes
+are made to the project containers that impact configuration.
+
+The following section describes how the hierarchical ONAP configuration system
+is key to management of such a large system.
+
+
+.. MISC
+.. ====
+.. Note that although OOM uses Kubernetes facilities to minimize the effort
+.. required of the ONAP component owners to implement a successful rolling
+.. upgrade strategy there are other considerations that must be taken into
+.. consideration.
+.. For example, external APIs - both internal and external to ONAP - should be
+.. designed to gracefully accept transactions from a peer at a different
+.. software version to avoid deadlock situations. Embedded version codes in
+.. messages may facilitate such capabilities.
+..
+.. Within each of the projects a new configuration repository contains all of
+.. the project specific configuration artifacts. As changes are made within
+.. the project, it's the responsibility of the project team to make appropriate
+.. changes to the configuration data.
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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
+.. International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. Copyright (C) 2022 Nordix Foundation
+
+.. Links
+.. _Helm: https://docs.helm.sh/
+.. _Helm Charts: https://github.com/kubernetes/charts
+.. _Kubernetes: https://Kubernetes.io/
+.. _Docker: https://www.docker.com/
+.. _Nexus: https://nexus.onap.org/
+
+.. _oom_dev_guide:
+
+OOM Developer Guide
+###################
+
+.. figure:: ../../resources/images/oom_logo/oomLogoV2-medium.png
+ :align: right
+
+ONAP consists of a large number of components, each of which are substantial
+projects within themselves, which results in a high degree of complexity in
+deployment and management. To cope with this complexity the ONAP Operations
+Manager (OOM) uses a Helm_ model of ONAP - Helm being the primary management
+system for Kubernetes_ container systems - to drive all user driven life-cycle
+management operations. The Helm model of ONAP is composed of a set of
+hierarchical Helm charts that define the structure of the ONAP components and
+the configuration of these components. These charts are fully parameterized
+such that a single environment file defines all of the parameters needed to
+deploy ONAP. A user of ONAP may maintain several such environment files to
+control the deployment of ONAP in multiple environments such as development,
+pre-production, and production.
+
+
+
+.. rubric:: Container Background
+
+Linux containers allow for an application and all of its operating system
+dependencies to be packaged and deployed as a single unit without including a
+guest operating system as done with virtual machines. The most popular
+container solution is Docker_ which provides tools for container management
+like the Docker Host (dockerd) which can create, run, stop, move, or delete a
+container. Docker has a very popular registry of containers images that can be
+used by any Docker system; however, in the ONAP context, Docker images are
+built by the standard CI/CD flow and stored in Nexus_ repositories. OOM uses
+the "standard" ONAP docker containers and three new ones specifically created
+for OOM.
+
+Containers are isolated from each other primarily via name spaces within the
+Linux kernel without the need for multiple guest operating systems. As such,
+multiple containers can be deployed with little overhead such as all of ONAP
+can be deployed on a single host. With some optimization of the ONAP components
+(e.g. elimination of redundant database instances) it may be possible to deploy
+ONAP on a single laptop computer.
+
+The following sections describe how the ONAP Helm charts are constructed.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ oom_dev_helm_chart_info.rst
+ oom_dev_config_management.rst
+ oom_dev_container_orchestration.rst
+