Introduction

The rApp Manager is a lifecycle management service for rApps. It gets the rApp as an ASD formatted package and lifecycle manages it based on it instance configuration. It uses ONAP ACM for lifecycle management operations and it integrates with other components for managing the rApp.

The ASD package contains the details required to create and integrate the required services/components. Each ASD package contains only one rApp and one rApp can have any number of rApp instances.

Repository and documentation about the service can be found at:

Architecture

rApp Data Model

Integrations

The rApp Manager is integrated with the following 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 has the ability to support an unlimited 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. It expects the helm charts to be available in the mentioned repository as it doesn't handle the helm chart creation in the chart repository.
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 the 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 is integrated with rApp manager to enable the rApp to produce/consume specific type of data(Information Type in DME terms).

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

SME

The 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 SME can be found here.

It is integrated with rApp manager to enable the rApp to 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.

State Transitions

rApp States

The rApp lifecycle contains 4 states. The state and transitions are as follows,

COMMISSIONED
rApp get created in this state and once the 
DEPRIMING is completed

PRIMING
This is a transition state. rApp will be in this 
state once the PRIMING requested for rApp

PRIMED
rApp will be in this state once the PRIMING is 
completed. In this state rApp instances can be 
created

DEPRIMING
This is a transition state. rApp will be 
in this state once the DEPRIMING requested for rApp

rApp Instance States

The rApp Instance lifecycle contains 4 states. The state and transitions are as follows,

UNDEPLOYED
rApp instance gets created in this state and 
once the rApp Instance undeploy is completed

DEPLOYING
This is the transition state. rApp instance will
be in this state once DEPLOY is requested

DEPLOYED
rApp instance will be in this state once the 
rapp instance deployment is completed.

UNDEPLOYING
This is a transition state. rApp instance will
be in this state once UNDEPLOY requested for 
rApp instance

Flows

rApp flow

Create rApp

API user creates rApp by sending rApp package

```
rApp Manager validates the rApp
```

rApp Manager stores the rApp in the file system if the rApp is valid

API user provided with the status of rApp creation.

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API user request to Prime the rApp
```

rApp Manager uploads the helm artifacts to chart museum server

rApp Manager get helm artifacts upload status

rApp Manager fetches the ACM composition from rApp package and creates the ACM composition in ACM-R

rApp Manager gets the ACM composition creation status from ACM-R

rApp Manager request ACM-R to prime the ACM composition

rApp Manager gets the ACM composition priming status from ACM-R

rApp Manager checks with DME for the unknown information type from rApp package

rApp Manager get the information type availability from DME

API user provided with the status of rApp priming

Delete rApp

```
API user request to Deprime rApp
```

rApp Manager request ACM-R to deprime the ACM composition

rApp Manager get the status of ACM composition depriming.

rApp Manager requests ACM-R to delete the ACM composition

rApp Manager gets the status of ACM composition deletion

API user provided with the deprime rApp status.

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API user request to delete the rApp
```

rApp Manager validates that the rApp is in COMMISSIONED state and 
there is no rApp Instances are available.

API User provided with delete rApp status

rApp Instance flow

Create rApp Instance

API user request to create rApp Instance with the resource details from rApp package

API user get the rApp instance creation response

Deploy rApp Instance

API user request to deploy rApp instance

rApp Manager fetches the rApp package from file system and fetches the 
resources mentioned in the rApp instance.

rApp Manager request ACM-R with the necessary details from rApp package to 
Instantiate ACM instance

rApp Manager gets instantiate ACM instance response

rApp Manager request ACM-R to deploy ACM instance

ACM-R deploys the A1PMS instance if it is configured in the ACM instance

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ACM-R gets the A1PMS deployment status
```

ACM-R deploys the Kserve instance if it is configured in the ACM instance

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ACM-R gets the Kserve deployment status
```

ACM-R deploys the Kubernetes instance if it is configured in the ACM instance

ACM-R gets the Kubernetes deployment status

ACM-R deploys the DME instance if it is configured in the ACM instance

```
ACM-R gets the DME deployment status
```
```
rApp Manager gets ACM deployment status
```

rApp Manager request SME to create the entities in rApp instance

SME creates the entities provided by rApp Manager

rApp manager get the response of SME entities creation

API user provided with the status of rApp instance deployment. rApp Manager combines 
the status of ACM deployment and SME deployment to provide the rApp instance status.

Undeploy rApp Instance

API user request to undeploy rApp instance

rApp Manager fetches the rApp and rApp instance details

rApp Manager request ACM-R to undeploy the ACM instance

ACM-R undeploy the A1PMS instance if it is already deployed

```
ACM-R gets the A1PMS undeploy status
```

ACM-R undeploy the Kserve instance if it is already deployed

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ACM-R gets the Kserve undeploy status
```

ACM-R undeploy the Kubernetes instance if it is already deployed

ACM-R gets the Kubernetes undeploy status

ACM-R undeploy the DME instance if it is already deployed

```
ACM-R gets the DME undeploy status
```
```
rApp Manager get ACM undeploy status
```

rApp Manager request ACM-R to delete the ACM instance

rApp Manager get response of ACM instance deletion

rApp Manager request SME to delete SME entities

SME deletes the entities created as part of rApp

rApp Manager get the response of SME entities deletion

API user get the status of undeploy rApp instance

Delete rApp Instance

API user request rApp Manager to delete rApp Instance

API user gets delete rApp instance response

Sample rApp package structure

This packaging structure is a prototype and subject to change

The sample rApp package structure shown below and the location of relevant files for each integration is provided.

ACM (Files/Acm)

Definition - Files/Acm/Definition (Only one file)

```
Instances - Files/Acm/instances
```

DME (Files/Dme)

Consumer Information Types - Files/Dme/consumerinfotypes

Producer information Types -  Files/Dme/producerinfotypes

Information Consumers - Files/Dme/infoconsumers

Information Producers - Files/Dme/infoproducers

SME (Files/Sme)

Providers Functions - Files/Sme/providers

```
Service Api -  Files/Sme/serviceapis
```
```
Invokers - Files/Sme/invokers
```

contd ..

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CSAR File Generation

CSAR file generator is available in the rAppmanager repository here (master).

"rappmanager/sample-rapp-generator" folder contains sample rApp packages.

The contents of the rApp (Eg. rapp-all, rapp-hello-world...) directory can be modified as required and the package can be generated as shown below,

Linux: Generate rApp package

> ./generate.sh <FOLDER_NAME>

Windows: Generate rApp package

> ./generate.bat <FOLDER_NAME>

This will generate a package named " <FOLDER_NAME>.csar". It can be renamed as required.

This generated package can be used with rApp Manager to create rApp.

Deployment Instructions

The scripts for the deployments of rApp Manager and its dependent components are available here (master).

These scripts are specifically designed for a fresh environment. Some tweaks may be required to run these in an environment where there are some existing installations

Pre-requisites

Kubernetes Cluster (V1.24.6)
GIT

Environment setup

The installation scripts shown here installs all the required components. It installs chart museum server where the installation script is running and it will get whitelisted in ACM. All sample rApps uses similar addresses for referring the charts in asd.yaml and Kubernetes instance configuration.

Separate chart museum can be used here and It should be whitelisted in ACM manually and the server IP/FQDN should be used in the rApp package configuration such as asd.yaml and Kubernetes instance configuration (Chart museum server should be reachable from rApp manager and Kubernetes-Participant).

ACM components should be configured with couple of other components for the participants to work.

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

Ignore the below variables if the entire environment is being setup by the following installation scripts

Variable Name

Description

Default Value

A1PMS_HOST

Address of the A1PMS.

It will be accessed from A1PMS participant.

http://policymanagementservice.nonrtric:9080

CHART_REPO_GET_URI

URI to get the charts.

It will be used by Kubernetes participant

and sample rApp generator.

http://IP_ADDRESS:8879/charts

IP_ADDRESS: IP of the host in which

the installation scripts are running.

CHART_REPO_POST_URI

URI to upload the charts.

It will be used by sample rApp generator.

http://IP_ADDRESS:8879/charts/api/charts

IP_ADDRESS: IP of the host in which

the installation scripts are running.

Installation

All components can be installed using the command below,

>./install-all.sh

Individual components can be installed using the commands below,

To install the tools required for other installer scripts.

>./install-base.sh

To install the ACM, and it's related components.

>./install-acm.sh

To install the Kserve, and it's related components.

>./install-kserve.sh

To installs the NONRTRIC components.

>./install-nonrtric.sh

Dev mode of installation can be done by providing an argument "dev" to the installation scripts above. Eg., install-all.sh dev

Dev mode installation uses snapshot images for rApp manager and DME participant.

Installed Components

The below components should be up and running for the rApp Manager integrations to work properly.

Istio components

Cert Manager components

Kserve components

Kserve Components

ACM Components

NONRTRIC Components

Troubleshooting

If Kserve installation failed or end up in the below state after "install-all.sh", Try run "patch-kserve.sh" script after "install-all.sh"

Uninstallation

To uninstall all the components

>./uninstall-all.sh

Non-Realtime RIC

Release J: rApp Manager