Network Instantiation

Note: in ONAP SDC, network object is called “virtual link”

Various possible methods are available with ONAP to instantiate a network

  • With A La Carte method, the user needs to build and send a Network instantiation request.

    Note 1: prior to be able to send a request to instantiate a Network, the user needs to instantiate a Service Object and then will need to refer to that Service instance in the Network instantiate request.

    Note 2: the request to instantiate the Network object will update ONAP AAI (inventory) and will send a request to the selected Cloud Platform (Openstack, Azure, K8S…).

  • With Macro method, the user do not need to send any Network instantiation request. Network instantiation is being automatically performed by ONAP when sending the request to instantiate the Service (see: Instantiate Service).

Possible Tools to perform Network Instantiation

the user needs such a tool only if using the “A La Carte” method.

  • via ONAP VID Graphical User Interface tool

  • via any tool able to perform REST API requests (for example : Robot Framework, Postman, Curl…) connected to ONAP SO legacy API.

With “A La Carte” method

With “Macro” method

Network instantiation is performed automatically when performing Service Instantiation.