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Subject: RE: InstantiationLevel discussion paper
Hi, I’m attaching a write-up I did on this topic. It includes suggested extensions to the grammar that could be used to control the number of instances. It also points out some areas where more exploration
is necessary. Chris From: Lishitao <lishitao@huawei.com> Hi Chris and Arturo I think Chris has pointed out some interesting and important issues for the multiple instances design. I agree we need to take this as one of the high priority feature to be support in v1.3. Regards shitao 发件人: Chris Lauwers [mailto:lauwers@ubicity.com]
Hi Arturo, Thanks for putting this together. We’ll use it as the basis for further discussion.
Comments in-line: From: Arturo Martin De Nicolas [mailto:arturo.martin-de-nicolas@ericsson.com]
Hello all, As already discussed, there is no clear equivalent to the NFV instantiation level in the TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML (i.e. a property that indicates how many instances of each node template should be instantiated
at deployment of the service template). I think this is a candidate feature for 1.3. Yes, there is currently no language support for allowing the same node template to be instantiated multiple times. Your proposal circumvents this by making it the responsibility of the “create” operation to create
multiple instances (based on the instantiation level data structure). While this will work, it means that the orchestrator (and any ongoing operational management systems) has no knowledge of the individual instances.
I fully support your suggestion that we should address this in Version 1.3. You have previously proposed to support the ‘occurrences’ keyname in node templates. This is likely the correct starting point, but
we need to think through the implications on the rest of the topology template. Specifically:
I’m sure there are other potential issues, but we can start with these. I have uploaded a discussion paper related to this issue. The intention of the paper is not to propose a solution for 1.3, but something that ETSI NFV could use in the meantime, using the mechanisms available in
YAML 1.1 or 1.2. One of the concerns you point out is that, independent of multiple occurrences, the get_property syntax can get cumbersome when complex data types are used. I’m not sure that this is necessarily a problem, but
I agree that we need to do a better job of clarifying what the appropriate syntax is for various scenarios that involve list, map, or complex data. Specifically:
As the instantiationLevel is a complex type and there is a need to pass information from one node template to another, the grammar becomes unclear. I am looking for advice if this may be a base for a solution. The mechanism for passing information from one node template to another is through the ‘substitution_mapping’ grammar. I agree, that this grammar can get confusing, since in the v1.2 spec we’re overloading this
grammar for two completely different purposes:
The examples in Chapter 14 do not properly highlight these two purposes. I strongly believe we need to more clearly separate them. In my opinion, substitution mapping grammar should be used exclusively to specify
the intended mappings. Different grammar should then be used to drive matching. Since we use node filters in other parts of the spec for similar purposes, I suggest we investigate the use of node filters to guide matching decisions when multiple possible substituting
template are found. Claude and Matt, is it possible to add this discussion to the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting? TOSCA_InstantiationLevel_Discussion.docx Best regards, Arturo Chris |
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