Introduction

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The rApp Manager integrated with the below components to support lifecycle managing the rApp.

ACM

Automation Composition Management (ACM) is a framework that supports Life Cycle Management of Automation Compositions. It supports deployment, monitoring, update and removal of Automation Compositions en-bloc, allowing users to manage their features, services, and capabilities as single logical units. More details about ACM can be found here.

ACM-R supports any number of participants and all the participants can be configured through the configuration in the rApp package.

List of participants used by rApp manager sample rApp.

• A1PMS Participant - It interacts with A1PMS of NONRTRIC. It is capable of lifecycle managing A1PMS service.
• Kserve Participant - It interacts with Kserve. It is capable of lifecycle managing Kserve inference service.
• Kubernetes Participant - It interacts with Helm/Kubernetes. It is capable of lifecycle managing Helm charts.
• DME Participant -  It interacts with DME(ICS) of NONRTRIC. It is capable of lifecycle managing DME entities.

ACM composition and instance details can be provided as part of rApp package and the package structure can be found here.

DME

The DME(Information Coordination Service (ICS)) is a generic service that maintains data subscriptions. Its main purpose is to decouple data consumers and data producers in a multi vendor environment. A data consumer does not need to know anything about the producers of the data. More details about DME can be found here.

It integrates with rApp manager to enable the rApp produce/consume specific type of data(Information Type in DME terms).

Information type, Data producer/consumer information can be provided as part of rApp package and the package structure can be found here.

SME

The SME(CAPIF) stands for Common API framework and it was developed by 3GPP to enable a unified Northbound API framework across 3GPP network functions, and to ensure that there is a single and harmonized approach for API development. More details about DME can be found here.

It integrates with rApp manager to enable the rApp expose/access/discover endpoints.

Service exposure/access related configurations can be provided as part of rApp package and the package structure can be found here.

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• Kubernetes Cluster (V1.24.6)
• GIT

Environment setup

The installation scripts shown here installs all the required components.

It is installed by default with the configuration which refer to other components. 

In case some of the installation is already setup or not set by the installation scripts, Below environment variables can be used to set the configurations for the installation scripts.

Installation

All components can be installed using the command below,

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>./install-kserve.sh

To installs the NONRTRIC components.

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