VNF Package Tool ================ Provided tools -------------- * VNF Package Builder - creates a CSAR file based on inputs provided by the VNF product DevOps engineer * VNF Package Validator - validates the content of the VNF packages to ensure that everything has been built correctly * VNF Package Extractor - extracts VNF product model and executables from the CSAR file * VNF Package Parser - translates VNF product blueprint into a format consumable by ONAP components * VNF Package Dry Run - performs a "dry run" install to ensure that the package can be deployed during instantiation   The tools are provided in a form of a shared library (Python module) that can be used in other projects. A CLI is also provided out-of-the box for DevOps to use the library with their scripts and autoamtion framework. Repository Name: vnfsdk/pkgtools Clone command: git clone http://gerrit.onap.org/r/vnfsdk/pkgtools Installation ------------ Python module with CLI is installed by Python pip command. It is possible to install into a virtual environment (virtualenv). The following commands are executed in the cloned repository directory: 1. pip install -r requirements.txt Install all required dependencies 2. pip install . Or run the following commands in the cloned repository directory to install: 1. python setup.py install Install VNF SDK tools package ----------------------------- Usage * Create CSAR by specifying a directory vnfsdk csar-create -d DESTINATION [--manifest MANIFEST] [--history HISTORY] [--tests TESTS] [--licenses LICENSES] source entry * Extract CSAR content vnfsdk csar-open -d DESTINATION source * Validate CSAR content vnfsdk csar-validate source   All commands have -h switch which displays help and description of all paramaters.