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TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML Version 1.0

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21 December 2016

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Technical Committee:

OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC

Chairs:

Paul Lipton (paul.lipton@ca.com), CA Technologies

John Crandall (jcrandal@brocade.com), Brocade Communications Systems

Editors:

Derek Palma (dpalma@vnomic.com), Vnomic

Matt Rutkowski (mrutkows@us.ibm.com), IBM

Thomas Spatzier (thomas.spatzier@de.ibm.com), IBM

Related work:

This specification is related to:

·         Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications Version 1.0. Edited by Derek Palma and Thomas Spatzier. 25 November 2013. OASIS Standard. http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v1.0/os/TOSCA-v1.0-os.html.

Declared XML namespace:

·         http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/ns/simple/yaml/1.0

Abstract:

This document defines a simplified profile of the TOSCA version 1.0 specification in a YAML rendering which is intended to simplify the authoring of TOSCA service templates.  This profile defines a less verbose and more human-readable YAML rendering, reduced level of indirection between different modeling artifacts as well as the assumption of a base type system.

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TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML Version 1.0. Edited by Derek Palma, Matt Rutkowski, and Thomas Spatzier. 21 December 2016. OASIS Standard. http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.0/os/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.0-os.html. Latest version: http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.0/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.0.html.

 

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Table of Contents

1        Introduction. 9

1.1 Objective. 9

1.2 Summary of key TOSCA concepts. 9

1.3 Implementations. 9

1.4 Terminology. 10

1.5 Notational Conventions. 10

1.6 Normative References. 10

1.7 Non-Normative References. 10

1.8 Glossary. 11

2        TOSCA by example. 12

2.1 A “hello world” template for TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML. 12

2.2 TOSCA template for a simple software installation. 14

2.3 Overriding behavior of predefined node types. 16

2.4 TOSCA template for database content deployment 17

2.5 TOSCA template for a two-tier application. 19

2.6 Using a custom script to establish a relationship in a template. 22

2.7 Using custom relationship types in a TOSCA template. 23

2.8 Defining generic dependencies between nodes in a template. 25

2.9 Describing abstract requirements for nodes and capabilities in a TOSCA template. 25

2.10 Using node template substitution for model composition. 30

2.11 Using node template substitution for chaining subsystems. 34

2.12 Grouping node templates. 39

2.13 Using YAML Macros to simplify templates. 42

2.14 Passing information as inputs to Nodes and Relationships. 43

2.15 Topology Template Model versus Instance Model 44

2.16 Using attributes implicitly reflected from properties. 45

3        TOSCA Simple Profile definitions in YAML. 47

3.1 TOSCA Namespace URI and alias. 47

3.2 Parameter and property types. 48

3.3 Normative values. 57

3.4 TOSCA Metamodel 59

3.5 Reusable modeling definitions. 59

3.6 Type-specific definitions. 78

3.7 Template-specific definitions. 95

3.8 Topology Template definition. 105

3.9 Service Template definition. 111

4        TOSCA functions. 123

4.1 Reserved Function Keywords. 123

4.2 Environment Variable Conventions. 123

4.3 Intrinsic functions. 125

4.4 Property functions. 127

4.5 Attribute functions. 129

4.6 Operation functions. 130

4.7 Navigation functions. 131

4.8 Artifact functions. 131

4.9 Context-based Entity names (global) 134

5        TOSCA normative type definitions. 135

5.1 Assumptions. 135

5.2 Data Types. 135

5.3 Artifact Types. 142

5.4 Capabilities Types. 145

5.5 Requirement Types. 153

5.6 Relationship Types. 153

5.7 Interface Types. 157

5.8 Node Types. 162

5.9 Group Types. 173

5.10 Policy Types. 174

6        TOSCA Cloud Service Archive (CSAR) format 176

6.1 Overall Structure of a CSAR. 176

6.2 TOSCA Meta File. 176

7        TOSCA networking. 177

7.1 Networking and Service Template Portability. 177

7.2 Connectivity Semantics. 177

7.3 Expressing connectivity semantics. 178

7.4 Network provisioning. 180

7.5 Network Types. 184

7.6 Network modeling approaches. 189

8        Non-normative type definitions. 195

8.1 Artifact Types. 195

8.2 Capability Types. 195

8.3 Node Types. 197

9        Component Modeling Use Cases. 200

10      Application Modeling Use Cases. 207

10.1 Use cases. 207

11      TOSCA Policies. 253

11.1 A declarative approach. 253

11.2 Consideration of Event, Condition and Action. 253

11.3 Types of policies. 253

11.4 Policy relationship considerations. 254

11.5 Use Cases. 255

12      Conformance. 258

12.1 Conformance Targets. 258

12.2 Conformance Clause 1: TOSCA YAML service template. 258

12.3 Conformance Clause 2: TOSCA processor 258

12.4 Conformance Clause 3: TOSCA orchestrator 258

12.5 Conformance Clause 4: TOSCA generator 259

12.6 Conformance Clause 5: TOSCA archive. 259

Appendix A. Known Extensions to TOSCA v1.0. 260

A.1 Model Changes. 260

A.2 Normative Types. 260

Appendix B. Acknowledgments. 262

Appendix C. Revision History. 263

Table of Examples

Example 1 - TOSCA Simple "Hello World". 12

Example 2 - Template with input and output parameter sections. 13

Example 3 - Simple (MySQL) software installation on a TOSCA Compute node. 14

Example 4 - Node Template overriding its Node Type's "configure" interface. 16

Example 5 - Template for deploying database content on-top of MySQL DBMS middleware. 17

Example 6 - Basic two-tier application (web application and database server tiers). 19

Example 7 - Providing a custom relationship script to establish a connection. 22

Example 8 - A web application Node Template requiring a custom database connection type. 23

Example 9 - Defining a custom relationship type. 24

Example 10 - Simple dependency relationship between two nodes. 25

Example 11 - An abstract "host" requirement using a node filter. 26

Example 12 - An abstract Compute node template with a node filter. 27

Example 13 - An abstract database requirement using a node filter. 28

Example 14 - An abstract database node template. 29

Example 15 - Referencing an abstract database node template. 31

Example 16 - Using substitution mappings to export a database implementation. 33

Example 17 - Declaring a transaction subsystem as a chain of substitutable node templates. 35

Example 18 - Defining a TransactionSubsystem node type. 36

Example 19 - Implementation of a TransactionSubsytem node type using substitution mappings. 38

Example 20 - Grouping Node Templates for possible policy application. 40

Example 21 - Grouping nodes for anti-colocation policy application. 41

Example 22 - Using YAML anchors in TOSCA templates. 42

Example 23 - Properties reflected as attributes. 45


Table of Figures

Figure 1: Using template substitution to implement a database tier. 31

Figure 2: Substitution mappings. 33

Figure 3: Chaining of subsystems in a service template. 35

Figure 4: Defining subsystem details in a service template. 37

Figure‑5: Typical 3-Tier Network. 181

Figure‑6: Generic Service Template. 190

Figure‑7: Service template with network template A.. 190

Figure‑8: Service template with network template B. 191

 

1      Introduction

1.1 Objective

The TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML specifies a rendering of TOSCA which aims to provide a more accessible syntax as well as a more concise and incremental expressiveness of the TOSCA DSL in order to minimize the learning curve and speed the adoption of the use of TOSCA to portably describe cloud applications.

This proposal describes a YAML rendering for TOSCA. YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard (http://yaml.org/) with a syntax much easier to read and edit than XML. As there are a number of DSLs encoded in YAML, a YAML encoding of the TOSCA DSL makes TOSCA more accessible by these communities.

This proposal prescribes an isomorphic rendering in YAML of a subset of the TOSCA v1.0 ensuring that TOSCA semantics are preserved and can be transformed from XML to YAML or from YAML to XML. Additionally, in order to streamline the expression of TOSCA semantics, the YAML rendering is sought to be more concise and compact through the use of the YAML syntax.

1.2 Summary of key TOSCA concepts

The TOSCA metamodel uses the concept of service templates to describe cloud workloads as a topology template, which is a graph of node templates modeling the components a workload is made up of and as relationship templates modeling the relations between those components. TOSCA further provides a type system of node types to describe the possible building blocks for constructing a service template, as well as relationship type to describe possible kinds of relations. Both node and relationship types may define lifecycle operations to implement the behavior an orchestration engine can invoke when instantiating a service template. For example, a node type for some software product might provide a ‘create’ operation to handle the creation of an instance of a component at runtime, or a ‘start’ or ‘stop’ operation to handle a start or stop event triggered by an orchestration engine. Those lifecycle operations are backed by implementation artifacts such as scripts or Chef recipes that implement the actual behavior.

An orchestration engine processing a TOSCA service template uses the mentioned lifecycle operations to instantiate single components at runtime, and it uses the relationship between components to derive the order of component instantiation. For example, during the instantiation of a two-tier application that includes a web application that depends on a database, an orchestration engine would first invoke the ‘create’ operation on the database component to install and configure the database, and it would then invoke the ‘create’ operation of the web application to install and configure the application (which includes configuration of the database connection).

The TOSCA simple profile assumes a number of base types (node types and relationship types) to be supported by each compliant environment such as a ‘Compute’ node type, a ‘Network’ node type or a generic ‘Database’ node type. Furthermore, it is envisioned that a large number of additional types for use in service templates will be defined by a community over time. Therefore, template authors in many cases will not have to define types themselves but can simply start writing service templates that use existing types. In addition, the simple profile will provide means for easily customizing and extending existing types, for example by providing a customized ‘create’ script for some software.

1.3 Implementations

Different kinds of processors and artifacts qualify as implementations of the TOSCA simple profile. Those that this specification is explicitly mentioning or referring to fall into the following categories:

·         TOSCA YAML service template (or “service template”): A YAML document artifact containing a (TOSCA) service template (see sections 3.9 “Service template definition”) that represents a Cloud application. (see sections 3.8 “Topology template definition”)

·         TOSCA processor (or “processor”): An engine or tool that is capable of parsing and interpreting a TOSCA service template for a particular purpose. For example, the purpose could be validation, translation or visual rendering.

·         TOSCA orchestrator (also called orchestration engine): A TOSCA processor that interprets a TOSCA service template or a TOSCA CSAR in order to instantiate and deploy the described application in a Cloud.

·         TOSCA generator: A tool that generates a TOSCA service template. An example of generator is a modeling tool capable of generating or editing a TOSCA service template (often such a tool would also be a TOSCA processor).

·         TOSCA archive (or TOSCA Cloud Service Archive, or “CSAR”): a package artifact that contains a TOSCA service template and other artifacts usable by a TOSCA orchestrator to deploy an application.

The above list is not exclusive. The above definitions should be understood as referring to and implementing the TOSCA simple profile as described in this document (abbreviated here as “TOSCA” for simplicity).

1.4 Terminology

The TOSCA language introduces a YAML grammar for describing service templates by means of Topology Templates and towards enablement of interaction with a TOSCA instance model perhaps by external APIs or plans. The primary currently is on design time aspects, i.e. the description of services to ensure their exchange between Cloud providers, TOSCA Orchestrators and tooling.

 

The language provides an extension mechanism that can be used to extend the definitions with additional vendor-specific or domain-specific information.

1.5 Notational Conventions

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

1.5.1 Notes

·         Sections that are titled “Example” throughout this document are considered non-normative.

1.6 Normative References

[RFC2119]

S. Bradner, Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt, IETF RFC 2119, March 1997.

[TOSCA-1.0]

Topology and Orchestration Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Version 1.0, an OASIS Standard, 25 November 2013, http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v1.0/os/TOSCA-v1.0-os.pdf

[YAML-1.2]

YAML, Version 1.2, 3rd Edition, Patched at 2009-10-01, Oren Ben-Kiki, Clark Evans, Ingy döt Net http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html

[YAML-TS-1.1]

Timestamp Language-Independent Type for YAML Version 1.1, Working Draft 2005-01-18, http://yaml.org/type/timestamp.html

1.7 Non-Normative References

 

 

[Apache]

Apache Server, https://httpd.apache.org/

[Chef]

Chef, https://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home

[NodeJS]

Node.js, https://nodejs.org/

[Puppet]

Puppet, http://puppetlabs.com/

[WordPress]

WordPress, https://wordpress.org/

[Maven-Version]

 

Apache Maven version policy draft:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Version+number+policy

1.8 Glossary

The following terms are used throughout this specification and have the following definitions when used in context of this document.

Term

Definition

Instance Model

A deployed service is a running instance of a Service Template. More precisely, the instance is derived by instantiating the Topology Template of its Service Template, most often by running a special plan defined for the Service Template, often referred to as build plan.

Node Template

A Relationship Template specifies the occurrence of a software component node as part of a Topology Template. Each Node Template refers to a Node Type that defines the semantics of the node (e.g., properties, attributes, requirements, capabilities, interfaces). Node Types are defined separately for reuse purposes.

Relationship Template

A Relationship Template specifies the occurrence of a relationship between nodes in a Topology Template. Each Relationship Template refers to a Relationship Type that defines the semantics relationship (e.g., properties, attributes, interfaces, etc.). Relationship Types are defined separately for reuse purposes.

Service Template

A Service Template is typically used to specify the “topology” (or structure) and “orchestration” (or invocation of management behavior) of IT services so that they can be provisioned and managed in accordance with constraints and policies.

 

Specifically, TOSCA Service Templates optionally allow definitions of a TOSCA Topology Template, TOSCA types (e.g., Node, Relationship, Capability, Artifact, etc.), groupings, policies and constraints along with any input or output declarations.

 

Topology Model

The term Topology Model is often used synonymously with the term Topology Template with the use of “model” being prevalent when considering a Service Template’s topology definition as an abstract representation of an application or service to facilitate understanding of its functional components and by eliminating unnecessary details.

Topology Template

A Topology Template defines the structure of a service in the context of a Service Template. A Topology Template consists of a set of Node Template and Relationship Template definitions that together define the topology model of a service as a (not necessarily connected) directed graph.

 

The term Topology Template is often used synonymously with the term Topology Model.  The distinction is that a topology template can be used to instantiate and orchestrate the model as a reusable pattern and includes all details necessary to accomplish it.

 

 

2      TOSCA by example

This non-normative section contains several sections that show how to model applications with TOSCA Simple Profile using YAML by example starting with a “Hello World” template up through examples that show complex composition modeling.

2.1 A “hello world” template for TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML

As mentioned before, the TOSCA simple profile assumes the existence of a small set of pre-defined, normative set of node types (e.g., a ‘Compute’ node) along with other types, which will be introduced through the course of this document, for creating TOSCA Service Templates. It is envisioned that many additional node types for building service templates will be created by communities some may be published as profiles that build upon the TOSCA Simple Profile specification. Using the normative TOSCA Compute node type, a very basic “Hello World” TOSCA template for deploying just a single server would look as follows:

Example 1 - TOSCA Simple "Hello World"

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template for deploying a single server with predefined properties.

 

topology_template:

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        # Host container properties

        host:

         properties:

           num_cpus: 1

           disk_size: 10 GB

           mem_size: 4096 MB

        # Guest Operating System properties

        os:

          properties:

            # host Operating System image properties

            architecture: x86_64

            type: linux 

            distribution: rhel 

            version: 6.5 

The template above contains a very simple topology template with only a single ‘Compute’ node template that declares some basic values for properties within two of the several capabilities that are built into the Compute node type definition.  All TOSCA Orchestrators are expected to know how to instantiate a Compute node since it is normative and expected to represent a well-known function that is portable across TOSCA implementations.  This expectation is true for all normative TOSCA Node and Relationship types that are defined in the Simple Profile specification. This means, with TOSCA’s approach, that the application developer does not need to provide any deployment or implementation artifacts that contain code or logic to orchestrate these common software components.  TOSCA orchestrators simply select or allocate the correct node (resource) type that fulfills the application topologies requirements using the properties declared in the node and its capabilities.

In the above example, the “host” capability contains properties that allow application developers to optionally supply the number of CPUs, memory size and disk size they believe they need when the Compute node is instantiated in order to run their applications. Similarly, the “os” capability is used to provide values to indicate what host operating system the Compute node should have when it is instantiated.

The logical diagram of the “hello world” Compute node would look as follows:

 

As you can see, the Compute node also has attributes and other built-in capabilities, such as Bindable and Endpoint, each with additional properties that will be discussed in other examples later in this document.  Although the Compute node has no direct properties apart from those in its capabilities, other TOSCA node type definitions may have properties that are part of the node type itself in addition to having Capabilities.  TOSCA orchestration engines are expected to validate all property values provided in a node template against the property definitions in their respective node type definitions referenced in the service template.  The tosca_definitions_version keyname in the TOSCA service template identifies the versioned set of normative TOSCA type definitions to use for validating those types defined in the TOSCA Simple Profile including the Compute node type. Specifically, the value tosca_simple_yaml_1_0 indicates Simple Profile v1.0.0 definitions would be used for validation.  Other type definitions may be imported from other service templates using the import keyword discussed later.

2.1.1 Requesting input parameters and providing output

Typically, one would want to allow users to customize deployments by providing input parameters instead of using hardcoded values inside a template. In addition, output values are provided to pass information that perhaps describes the state of the deployed template to the user who deployed it (such as the private IP address of the deployed server). A refined service template with corresponding inputs and outputs sections is shown below.

Example 2 - Template with input and output parameter sections

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template for deploying a single server with predefined properties.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        # Host container properties

        host:

          properties:

            # Compute properties

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 2048  MB

            disk_size: 10 GB

 

  outputs:

    server_ip:

      description: The private IP address of the provisioned server.

      value: { get_attribute: [ my_server, private_address ] }

The inputs and outputs sections are contained in the topology_template element of the TOSCA template, meaning that they are scoped to node templates within the topology template. Input parameters defined in the inputs section can be assigned to properties of node template within the containing topology template; output parameters can be obtained from attributes of node templates within the containing topology template.

Note that the inputs section of a TOSCA template allows for defining optional constraints on each input parameter to restrict possible user input. Further note that TOSCA provides for a set of intrinsic functions like get_input, get_property or get_attribute to reference elements within the template or to retrieve runtime values.

2.2 TOSCA template for a simple software installation

Software installations can be modeled in TOSCA as node templates that get related to the node template for a server on which the software shall be installed. With a number of existing software node types (e.g. either created by the TOSCA work group or a community) template authors can just use those node types for writing service templates as shown below.

Example 3 - Simple (MySQL) software installation on a TOSCA Compute node

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

description: Template for deploying a single server with MySQL software on top.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    mysql:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

      properties:

        root_password: { get_input: my_mysql_rootpw }

        port: { get_input: my_mysql_port }

      requirements:

        - host: db_server

 

    db_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        # omitted here for brevity

The example above makes use of a node type tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL for the mysql node template to install MySQL on a server. This node type allows for setting a property root_password to adapt the password of the MySQL root user at deployment. The set of properties and their schema has been defined in the node type definition. By means of the get_input function, a value provided by the user at deployment time is used as value for the root_password property. The same is true for the port property.

The mysql node template is related to the db_server node template (of type tosca.nodes.Compute) via the requirements section to indicate where MySQL is to be installed. In the TOSCA metamodel, nodes get related to each other when one node has a requirement against some feature provided by another node. What kinds of requirements exist is defined by the respective node type. In case of MySQL, which is software that needs to be installed or hosted on a compute resource, the underlying node type named DBMS has a predefined requirement called host, which needs to be fulfilled by pointing to a node template of type tosca.nodes.Compute.

The logical relationship between the mysql node and its host db_server node would appear as follows:

Within the requirements section, all entries simple entries are a map which contains the symbolic name of a requirement definition as the key and the identifier of the fulfilling node as the value. The value is essentially the symbolic name of the other node template; specifically, or the example above, the host requirement is fulfilled by referencing the db_server node template.  The underlying TOSCA DBMS node type already defines a complete requirement definition for the host requirement of type Container and assures that a HostedOn TOSCA relationship will automatically be created and will only allow a valid target host node is of type Compute.  This approach allows the template author to simply provide the name of a valid Compute node (i.e., db_server) as the value for the mysql node’s host requirement and not worry about defining anything more complex if they do not want to.

2.3 Overriding behavior of predefined node types

Node types in TOSCA have associated implementations that provide the automation (e.g. in the form of scripts such as Bash, Chef or Python) for the normative lifecycle operations of a node. For example, the node type implementation for a MySQL database would associate scripts to TOSCA node operations like configure, start, or stop to manage the state of MySQL at runtime.

Many node types may already come with a set of operational scripts that contain basic commands that can manage the state of that specific node. If it is desired, template authors can provide a custom script for one or more of the operation defined by a node type in their node template which will override the default implementation in the type.  The following example shows a mysql node template where the template author provides their own configure script:

Example 4 - Node Template overriding its Node Type's "configure" interface

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template for deploying a single server with MySQL software on top.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    mysql:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

      properties:

        root_password: { get_input: my_mysql_rootpw }

        port: { get_input: my_mysql_port }

      requirements:

        - host: db_server

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          configure: scripts/my_own_configure.sh

 

    db_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        # omitted here for brevity

In the example above, the my_own_configure.sh script is provided for the configure operation of the MySQL node type’s Standard lifecycle interface. The path given in the example above (i.e., ‘scripts/’) is interpreted relative to the template file, but it would also be possible to provide an absolute URI to the location of the script.

In other words, operations defined by node types can be thought of as “hooks” into which automation can be injected. Typically, node type implementations provide the automation for those “hooks”. However, within a template, custom automation can be injected to run in a hook in the context of the one, specific node template (i.e. without changing the node type).

2.4 TOSCA template for database content deployment

In the example shown in section 4 the deployment of the MySQL middleware only, i.e. without actual database content was shown. The following example shows how such a template can be extended to also contain the definition of custom database content on-top of the MySQL DBMS software.

Example 5 - Template for deploying database content on-top of MySQL DBMS middleware

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template for deploying MySQL and database content.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    my_db:

      type: tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL

      properties:

        name: { get_input: database_name }

        user: { get_input: database_user }

        password: { get_input: database_password }

        port: { get_input: database_port }

      artifacts:

        db_content:

          file: files/my_db_content.txt

          type: tosca.artifacts.File

      requirements:

        - host: mysql

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          create:

            implementation: db_create.sh

            inputs:

              # Copy DB file artifact to server’s staging area

              db_data: { get_artifact: [ SELF, db_content ] }

 

    mysql:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

      properties:

        root_password: { get_input: mysql_rootpw }

        port: { get_input: mysql_port }

      requirements:

        - host: db_server

 

    db_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        # omitted here for brevity

In the example above, the my_db node template or type tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL represents an actual MySQL database instance managed by a MySQL DBMS installation. The requirements section of the my_db node template expresses that the database it represents is to be hosted on a MySQL DBMS node template named mysql which is also declared in this template.

In its artifacts section of the my_db the node template, there is an artifact definition named db_content which represents a text file  my_db_content.txt which in turn will be used to add content to the SQL database as part of the create operation. The requirements section of the my_db node template expresses that the database is hosted on a MySQL DBMS represented by the mysql node.

As you can see above, a script is associated with the create operation with the name db_create.sh.  The TOSCA Orchestrator sees that this is not a named artifact declared in the node’s artifact section, but instead a filename for a normative TOSCA implementation artifact script type (i.e., tosca.artifacts.Implementation.Bash). Since this is an implementation type for TOSCA, the orchestrator will execute the script automatically to create the node on db_server, but first it will prepare the local environment with the declared inputs for the operation. In this case, the orchestrator would see that the db_data input is using the get_artifact function to retrieve the file (my_db_content.txt) which is associated with the db_content artifact name prior to executing the db_create.sh script.

 

The logical diagram for this example would appear as follows:

Note that while it would be possible to define one node type and corresponding node templates that represent both the DBMS middleware and actual database content as one entity, TOSCA normative node types distinguish between middleware (container) and application (containee) node types. This allows on one hand to have better re-use of generic middleware node types without binding them to content running on top of them, and on the other hand this allows for better substitutability of, for example, middleware components like a DBMS during the deployment of TOSCA models.

2.5 TOSCA template for a two-tier application

The definition of multi-tier applications in TOSCA is quite similar to the example shown in section 2.2, with the only difference that multiple software node stacks (i.e., node templates for middleware and application layer components), typically hosted on different servers, are defined and related to each other. The example below defines a web application stack hosted on the web_server “compute” resource, and a database software stack similar to the one shown earlier in section 6 hosted on the db_server compute resource.

Example 6 - Basic two-tier application (web application and database server tiers)

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template for deploying a two-tier application servers on two

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # Admin user name and password to use with the WordPress application

    wp_admin_username:

      type: string

    wp_admin_password:

      type: string

    wp_db_name:

      type: string

    wp_db_user:

      type: string

    wp_db_password:

      type: string

    wp_db_port:

      type: integer

    mysql_root_password:

      type: string

    mysql_port:

      type: integer

    context_root:

      type: string

 

  node_templates:

    wordpress:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

      properties:

        context_root: { get_input: context_root }

        admin_user: { get_input: wp_admin_username }

        admin_password: { get_input: wp_admin_password }

        db_host: { get_attribute: [ db_server, private_address ] }

      requirements:

        - host: apache

        - database_endpoint: wordpress_db

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          inputs:

            db_host: { get_attribute: [ db_server, private_address ] }

            db_port: { get_property: [ wordpress_db, port ] }

            db_name: { get_property: [ wordpress_db, name ] }

            db_user: { get_property: [ wordpress_db, user ] }

            db_password: { get_property: [ wordpress_db, password ] }  

 

    apache:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebServer.Apache

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

      requirements:

        - host: web_server

 

    web_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        # omitted here for brevity

 

    wordpress_db:

      type: tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL

      properties:

        name: { get_input: wp_db_name }

        user: { get_input: wp_db_user }

        password: { get_input: wp_db_password }

        port: { get_input: wp_db_port }

      requirements:

        - host: mysql

 

    mysql:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

      properties:

        root_password: { get_input: mysql_root_password }

        port: { get_input: mysql_port }

      requirements:

        - host: db_server

 

    db_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        # omitted here for brevity

The web application stack consists of the wordpress [WordPress], the apache [Apache] and the web_server node templates. The wordpress node template represents a custom web application of type tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress which is hosted on an Apache web server represented by the apache node template. This hosting relationship is expressed via the host entry in the requirements section of the wordpress node template. The apache node template, finally, is hosted on the web_server compute node.

The database stack consists of the wordpress_db, the mysql and the db_server node templates. The wordpress_db node represents a custom database of type tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL which is hosted on a MySQL DBMS represented by the mysql node template. This node, in turn, is hosted on the db_server compute node.

The wordpress node requires a connection to the wordpress_db node, since the WordPress application needs a database to store its data in. This relationship is established through the database_endpoint entry in the requirements section of the wordpress node template’s declared node type. For configuring the WordPress web application, information about the database to connect to is required as input to the configure operation. Therefore, the input parameters are defined and values for them are retrieved from the properties and attributes of the wordpress_db node via the get_property and get_attribute functions. In the above example, these inputs are defined at the interface-level and would be available to all operations of the Standard interface (i.e., the tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard interface) within the wordpress node template and not just the configure operation.

2.6 Using a custom script to establish a relationship in a template

In previous examples, the template author did not have to think about explicit relationship types to be used to link a requirement of a node to another node of a model, nor did the template author have to think about special logic to establish those links. For example, the host requirement in previous examples just pointed to another node template and based on metadata in the corresponding node type definition the relationship type to be established is implicitly given.

In some cases it might be necessary to provide special processing logic to be executed when establishing relationships between nodes at runtime. For example, when connecting the WordPress application from previous examples to the MySQL database, it might be desired to apply custom configuration logic in addition to that already implemented in the application node type.  In such a case, it is possible for the template author to provide a custom script as implementation for an operation to be executed at runtime as shown in the following example.

Example 7 - Providing a custom relationship script to establish a connection

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template for deploying a two-tier application on two servers.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    wordpress:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

      requirements:

        - host: apache

        - database_endpoint:

            node: wordpress_db

            relationship: my_custom_database_connection

 

    wordpress_db:

      type: tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL

      properties:

        # omitted here for the brevity

      requirements:

        - host: mysql

 

  relationship_templates:

    my_custom_database_connection:

      type: ConnectsTo

      interfaces:

        Configure:

          pre_configure_source: scripts/wp_db_configure.sh

 

   # other resources not shown for this example ...

The node type definition for the wordpress node template is WordPress which declares the complete database_endpoint requirement definition. This database_endpoint declaration indicates it must be fulfilled by any node template that provides an Endpoint.Database Capability Type using a ConnectsTo relationship. The wordpress_db node template’s underlying MySQL type definition indeed provides the Endpoint.Database Capability type.  In this example however, no explicit relationship template is declared; therefore TOSCA orchestrators would automatically create a ConnectsTo relationship to establish the link between the wordpress node and the wordpress_db node at runtime.

 

The ConnectsTo relationship (see 5.6.4) also provides a default Configure interface with operations that optionally get executed when the orchestrator establishes the relationship. In the above example, the author has provided the custom script wp_db_configure.sh to be executed for the operation called pre_configure_source. The script file is assumed to be located relative to the referencing service template such as a relative directory within the TOSCA Cloud Service Archive (CSAR) packaging format. This approach allows for conveniently hooking in custom behavior without having to define a completely new derived relationship type.

2.7 Using custom relationship types in a TOSCA template

In the previous section it was shown how custom behavior can be injected by specifying scripts inline in the requirements section of node templates. When the same custom behavior is required in many templates, it does make sense to define a new relationship type that encapsulates the custom behavior in a re-usable way instead of repeating the same reference to a script (or even references to multiple scripts) in many places.

Such a custom relationship type can then be used in templates as shown in the following example.

Example 8 - A web application Node Template requiring a custom database connection type

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template for deploying a two-tier application on two servers.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    wordpress:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

      requirements:

        - host: apache

        - database_endpoint:

            node: wordpress_db
           
relationship: my.types.WordpressDbConnection

 

    wordpress_db:

      type: tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL

      properties:

        # omitted here for the brevity

      requirements:

        - host: mysql

 

   # other resources not shown here ...

In the example above, a special relationship type my.types.WordpressDbConnection is specified for establishing the link between the wordpress node and the wordpress_db node through the use of the relationship (keyword) attribute in the database reference. It is assumed, that this special relationship type provides some extra behavior (e.g., an operation with a script) in addition to what a generic “connects to” relationship would provide. The definition of this custom relationship type is shown in the following section.

2.7.1 Definition of a custom relationship type

The following YAML snippet shows the definition of the custom relationship type used in the previous section. This type derives from the base “ConnectsTo” and overrides one operation defined by that base relationship type. For the pre_configure_source operation defined in the Configure interface of the ConnectsTo relationship type, a script implementation is provided. It is again assumed that the custom configure script is located at a location relative to the referencing service template, perhaps provided in some application packaging format (e.g., the TOSCA Cloud Service Archive (CSAR) format).

Example 9 - Defining a custom relationship type

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Definition of custom WordpressDbConnection relationship type

 

relationship_types:

  my.types.WordpressDbConnection:

    derived_from: tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo

    interfaces:

      Configure:

        pre_configure_source: scripts/wp_db_configure.sh

In the above example, the Configure interface is the specified alias or shorthand name for the TOSCA interface type with the full name of tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure which is defined in the appendix.

2.8 Defining generic dependencies between nodes in a template

In some cases it can be necessary to define a generic dependency between two nodes in a template to influence orchestration behavior, i.e. to first have one node processed before another dependent node gets processed. This can be done by using the generic dependency requirement which is defined by the TOSCA Root Node Type and thus gets inherited by all other node types in TOSCA (see section 5.8.1).

Example 10 - Simple dependency relationship between two nodes

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template with a generic dependency between two nodes.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    my_app:

      type: my.types.MyApplication

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

      requirements:

        - dependency: some_service

 

    some_service:

      type: some.nodetype.SomeService

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

As in previous examples, the relation that one node depends on another node  is expressed in the requirements section using the built-in requirement named dependency that exists for all node types in TOSCA. Even if the creator of the MyApplication node type did not define a specific requirement for SomeService (similar to the database requirement in the example in section 2.6), the template author who knows that there is a timing dependency and can use the generic dependency requirement to express that constraint using the very same syntax as used for all other references.

2.9 Describing abstract requirements for nodes and capabilities in a TOSCA template

In TOSCA templates, nodes are either:

·         Concrete: meaning that they have a deployment and/or one or more implementation artifacts that are declared on the “create” operation of the node’s Standard lifecycle interface, or they are

·         Abstract: where the template describes the node type along with its required capabilities and properties that must be satisfied.

 

TOSCA Orchestrators, by default, when finding an abstract node in TOSCA Service Template during deployment will attempt to “select” a concrete implementation for the abstract node type that best matches and fulfills the requirements and property constraints the template author provided for that abstract node. The concrete implementation of the node could be provided by another TOSCA Service Template (perhaps located in a catalog or repository known to the TOSCA Orchestrator) or by an existing resource or service available within the target Cloud Provider’s platform that the TOSCA Orchestrator already has knowledge of.

 

TOSCA supports two methods for template authors to express requirements for an abstract node within a TOSCA service template. 

 

1.       Using a target node_filter: where a node template can describe a requirement (relationship) for another node without including it in the topology. Instead, the node provides a node_filter to describe the target node type along with its capabilities and property constrains

 

2.       Using an abstract node template: that describes the abstract node’s type along with its property constraints and any requirements and capabilities it also exports.  This first method you have already seen in examples from previous chapters where the Compute node is abstract and selectable by the TOSCA Orchestrator using the supplied Container and OperatingSystem capabilities property constraints.

 

These approaches allows architects and developers to create TOSCA service templates that are composable and can be reused by allowing flexible matching of one template’s requirements to another’s capabilities. Examples of both these approaches are shown below.

2.9.1 Using a node_filter to define hosting infrastructure requirements for a software

Using TOSCA, it is possible to define only the software components of an application in a template and just express constrained requirements against the hosting infrastructure. At deployment time, the provider can then do a late binding and dynamically allocate or assign the required hosting infrastructure and place software components on top.

This example shows how a single software component (i.e., the mysql node template) can define its host requirements that the TOSCA Orchestrator and provider will use to select or allocate an appropriate host Compute node by using matching criteria provided on a node_filter.

Example 11 - An abstract "host" requirement using a node filter

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template with requirements against hosting infrastructure.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    mysql:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

      requirements:

        - host:

            node_filter:

              capabilities:

                # Constraints for selecting “host” (Container Capability)

                - host:

                    properties:

                      - num_cpus: { in_range: [ 1, 4 ] }

                      - mem_size: { greater_or_equal: 2 GB }

                # Constraints for selecting “os” (OperatingSystem Capability)

                - os:

                    properties:

                      - architecture: { equal: x86_64 }

                      - type: linux

                      - distribution: ubuntu

In the example above, the mysql component contains a host requirement for a node of type Compute which it inherits from its parent DBMS node type definition; however, there is no declaration or reference to any node template of type Compute. Instead, the mysql node template augments the abstract “host” requirement with a node_filter which contains additional selection criteria (in the form of property constraints that the provider must use when selecting or allocating a host Compute node. 

Some of the constraints shown above narrow down the boundaries of allowed values for certain properties such as mem_size or num_cpus for the “host” capability by means of qualifier functions such as greater_or_equal. Other constraints, express specific values such as for the architecture or distribution properties of the “os” capability which will require the provider to find a precise match. 

Note that when no qualifier function is provided for a property (filter), such as for the distribution property, it is interpreted to mean the equal operator as shown on the architecture property.

2.9.2 Using an abstract node template to define infrastructure requirements for software

This previous approach works well if no other component (i.e., another node template) other than mysql node template wants to reference the same Compute node the orchestrator would instantiate. However, perhaps another component wants to also be deployed on the same host, yet still allow the flexible matching achieved using a node-filter.  The alternative to the above approach is to create an abstract node template that represents the Compute node in the topology as follows:

Example 12 - An abstract Compute node template with a node filter

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

                  

description: Template with requirements against hosting infrastructure.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    mysql:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

      requirements:

        - host: mysql_compute

 

    # Abstract node template (placeholder) to be selected by provider

    mysql_compute:

      type: Compute

      node_filter:

        capabilities:

          - host:

              properties:

                num_cpus: { equal: 2 }

                mem_size: { greater_or_equal: 2 GB }

          - os:

              properties:

                architecture: { equal: x86_64 }

                type: linux

                distribution: ubuntu

As you can see the resulting mysql_compute node template looks very much like the “hello world” template as shown in Chapter 2.1 (where the Compute node template was abstract), but this one also allows the TOSCA orchestrator more flexibility when “selecting” a host Compute node by providing flexible constraints for properties like mem_size.

As we proceed, you will see that TOSCA provides many normative node types like Compute for commonly found services (e.g., BlockStorage, WebServer, Network, etc.).  When these TOSCA normative node types are used in your application’s topology they are always assumed to be “selectable” by TOSCA Orchestrators which work with target infrastructure providers to find or allocate the best match for them based upon your application’s requirements and constraints.

2.9.3 Using a node_filter to define requirements on a database for an application

In the same way requirements can be defined on the hosting infrastructure (as shown above) for an application, it is possible to express requirements against application or middleware components such as a database that is not defined in the same template. The provider may then allocate a database by any means, (e.g. using a database-as-a-service solution).

Example 13 - An abstract database requirement using a node filter

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template with a TOSCA Orchestrator selectable database requirement using a node_filter.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    my_app:

      type: my.types.MyApplication

      properties:

        admin_user: { get_input: admin_username }

        admin_password: { get_input: admin_password }

        db_endpoint_url: { get_property: [SELF, database_endpoint, url_path ] }         

      requirements:

        - database_endpoint:

            node: my.types.nodes.MyDatabase

            node_filter:

              properties:

                - db_version: { greater_or_equal: 5.5 }

In the example above, the application my_app requires a database node of type MyDatabase which has a db_version property value of greater_or_equal to the value 5.5.

This example also shows how the get_property intrinsic function can be used to retrieve the url_path property from the database node that will be selected by the provider and connected to my_app at runtime due to fulfillment of the database_endpoint requirement. To locate the property, the get_property’s first argument is set to the keyword SELF which indicates the property is being referenced from something in the node itself. The second parameter is the name of the requirement named database_endpoint which contains the property we are looking for. The last argument is the name of the property itself (i.e., url_path) which contains the  value we want to retrieve and assign to db_endpoint_url.

The alternative representation, which includes a node template in the topology for database that is still selectable by the TOSCA orchestrator for the above example, is as follows:

Example 14 - An abstract database node template

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template with a TOSCA Orchestrator selectable database using node template.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    my_app:

      type: my.types.MyApplication

      properties:

        admin_user: { get_input: admin_username }

        admin_password: { get_input: admin_password }

        db_endpoint_url: { get_property: [SELF, database_endpoint, url_path ] }         

      requirements:

        - database_endpoint: my_abstract_database

 

    my_abstract_database:

      type: my.types.nodes.MyDatabase

      properties:

        - db_version: { greater_or_equal: 5.5 }

2.10 Using node template substitution for model composition

From an application perspective, it is often not necessary or desired to dive into platform details, but the platform/runtime for an application is abstracted. In such cases, the template for an application can use generic representations of platform components. The details for such platform components, such as the underlying hosting infrastructure at its configuration, can then be defined in separate template files that can be used for substituting the more abstract representations in the application level template file.

2.10.1 Understanding node template instantiation through a TOSCA Orchestrator

When a topology template is instantiated by a TOSCA Orchestrator, the orchestrator has to look for realizations of the single node templates according to the node types specified for each node template. Such realizations can either be node types that include the appropriate implementation artifacts and deployment artifacts that can be used by the orchestrator to bring to life the real-world resource modeled by a node template. Alternatively, separate topology templates may be annotated as being suitable for realizing a node template in the top-level topology template.

In the latter case, a TOSCA Orchestrator will use additional substitution mapping information provided as part of the substituting topology templates to derive how the substituted part get “wired” into the overall deployment, for example, how capabilities of a node template in the top-level topology template get bound to capabilities of node templates in the substituting topology template.

Thus, in cases where no “normal” node type implementation is available, or the node type corresponds to a whole subsystem that cannot be implemented as a single node, additional topology templates can be used for filling in more abstract placeholders in top level application templates.

2.10.2 Definition of the top-level service template

The following sample defines a web application web_app connected to a database db. In this example, the complete hosting stack for the application is defined within the same topology template: the web application is hosted on a web server web_server, which in turn is installed (hosted) on a compute node server.

The hosting stack for the database db, in contrast, is not defined within the same file but only the database is represented as a node template of type tosca.nodes.Database. The underlying hosting stack for the database is defined in a separate template file, which is shown later in this section. Within the current template, only a number of properties (user, password, name) are assigned to the database using hardcoded values in this simple example.

Figure 1: Using template substitution to implement a database tier

When a node template is to be substituted by another service template, this has to be indicated to an orchestrator by means of a special “substitutable” directive. This directive causes, for example, special processing behavior when validating the left-hand service template in Figure 1. The hosting requirement of the db node template is not bound to any capability defined within the service template, which would normally cause a validation error. When the “substitutable” directive is present, the orchestrator will however first try to perform substitution of the respective node template and after that validate if all mandatory requirements of all nodes in the resulting graph are fulfilled.

Note that in contrast to the use case described in section 0 (where a database was abstractly referred to in the requirements section of a node and the database itself was not represented as a node template), the approach shown here allows for some additional modeling capabilities in cases where this is required.
For example, if multiple components shall use the same database (or any other sub-system of the overall service), this can be expressed by means of normal relations between node templates, whereas such modeling would not be possible in requirements sections of disjoint node templates.

Example 15 - Referencing an abstract database node template

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

topology_template:

  description: Template of an application connecting to a database.

 

  node_templates:

    web_app:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.MyWebApp

      requirements:

        - host: web_server

        - database_endpoint: db

 

    web_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebServer

      requirements:

        - host: server

 

    server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      # details omitted for brevity

 

    db:

      # This node is abstract (no Deploment or Implemenation artifacts on create)

      # and can be substituted with a topology provided by another template

      # that exports a Database type’s capabilities.

      type: tosca.nodes.Database

      properties:

        user: my_db_user

        password: secret

        name: my_db_name

2.10.3 Definition of the database stack in a service template

The following sample defines a template for a database including its complete hosting stack, i.e. the template includes a database node template, a template for the database management system (dbms) hosting the database, as well as a computer node server on which the DBMS is installed.

This service template can be used standalone for deploying just a database and its hosting stack. In the context of the current use case, though, this template can also substitute the database node template in the previous snippet and thus fill in the details of how to deploy the database.

In order to enable such a substitution, an additional metadata section substitution_mappings is added to the topology template to tell a TOSCA Orchestrator how exactly the topology template will fit into the context where it gets used. For example, requirements or capabilities of the node that gets substituted by the topology template have to be mapped to requirements or capabilities of internal node templates for allow for a proper wiring of the resulting overall graph of node templates.

In short, the substitution_mappings section provides the following information:

1.       It defines what node templates, i.e. node templates of which type, can be substituted by the topology template.

2.       It defines how capabilities of the substituted node (or the capabilities defined by the node type of the substituted node template, respectively) are bound to capabilities of node templates defined in the topology template.

3.       It defines how requirements of the substituted node (or the requirements defined by the node type of the substituted node template, respectively) are bound to requirements of node templates defined in the topology template.

Figure 2: Substitution mappings

The substitution_mappings section in the sample below denotes that this topology template can be used for substituting node templates of type tosca.nodes.Database. It further denotes that the database_endpoint capability of the substituted node gets fulfilled by the database_endpoint capability of the database node contained in the topology template.

Example 16 - Using substitution mappings to export a database implementation

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

topology_template:

  description: Template of a database including its hosting stack.

 

  inputs:

    db_user:

      type: string

    db_password:

      type: string

    # other inputs omitted for brevity

 

  substitution_mappings:

    node_type: tosca.nodes.Database

    capabilities:

      database_endpoint: [ database, database_endpoint ]

 

  node_templates:

    database:

      type: tosca.nodes.Database

      properties:

        user: { get_input: db_user }

        # other properties omitted for brevity

      requirements:

        - host: dbms

 

    dbms:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS

      # details omitted for brevity

 

    server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      # details omitted for brevity

Note that the substitution_mappings section does not define any mappings for requirements of the Database node type, since all requirements are fulfilled by other nodes templates in the current topology template. In cases where a requirement of a substituted node is bound in the top-level service template as well as in the substituting topology template, a TOSCA Orchestrator should raise a validation error.

Further note that no mappings for properties or attributes of the substituted node are defined. Instead, the inputs and outputs defined by the topology template have to match the properties and attributes or the substituted node. If there are more inputs than the substituted node has properties, default values must be defined for those inputs, since no values can be assigned through properties in a substitution case.

2.11 Using node template substitution for chaining subsystems

A common use case when providing an end-to-end service is to define a chain of several subsystems that together implement the overall service. Those subsystems are typically defined as separate service templates to (1) keep the complexity of the end-to-end service template at a manageable level and to (2) allow for the re-use of the respective subsystem templates in many different contexts. The type of subsystems may be specific to the targeted workload, application domain, or custom use case. For example, a company or a certain industry might define a subsystem type for company- or industry specific data processing and then use that subsystem type for various end-user services. In addition, there might be generic subsystem types like a database subsystem that are applicable to a wide range of use cases.

2.11.1 Defining the overall subsystem chain

Figure 3 shows the chaining of three subsystem types – a message queuing subsystem, a transaction processing subsystem, and a databank subsystem – that support, for example, an online booking application. On the front end, this chain provides a capability of receiving messages for handling in the message queuing subsystem. The message queuing subsystem in turn requires a number of receivers, which in the current example are two transaction processing subsystems. The two instances of the transaction processing subsystem might be deployed on two different hosting infrastructures or datacenters for high-availability reasons. The transaction processing subsystems finally require a database subsystem for accessing and storing application specific data. The database subsystem in the backend does not require any further component and is therefore the end of the chain in this example.

Figure 3: Chaining of subsystems in a service template

All of the node templates in the service template shown above are abstract and considered substitutable where each can be treated as their own subsystem; therefore, when instantiating the overall service, the orchestrator would realize each substitutable node template using other TOSCA service templates.  These service templates would include more nodes and relationships that include the details for each subsystem. A simplified version of a TOSCA service template for the overall service is given in the following listing.

 

Example 17 - Declaring a transaction subsystem as a chain of substitutable node templates

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

topology_template:

  description: Template of online transaction processing service.

 

  node_templates:

    mq:

      type: example.QueuingSubsystem

      properties:

        # properties omitted for brevity

      capabilities:

        message_queue_endpoint:

          # details omitted for brevity

      requirements:

        - receiver: trans1

        - receiver: trans2

 

    trans1:

      type: example.TransactionSubsystem

      properties:

        mq_service_ip: { get_attribute: [ mq, service_ip ] }

        receiver_port: 8080

      capabilities:

        message_receiver:

          # details omitted for brevity

      requirements:

        - database_endpoint: dbsys

 

    trans2:

      type: example.TransactionSubsystem

      properties:

        mq_service_ip: { get_attribute: [ mq, service_ip ] }

        receiver_port: 8080

      capabilities:

        message_receiver:

          # details omitted for brevity

      requirements:

        - database_endpoint: dbsys

 

    dbsys:

      type: example.DatabaseSubsystem

      properties:

        # properties omitted for brevity

      capabilities:

        database_endpoint:

          # details omitted for brevity

 

As can be seen in the example above, the subsystems are chained to each other by binding requirements of one subsystem node template to other subsystem node templates that provide the respective capabilities. For example, the receiver requirement of the message queuing subsystem node template mq is bound to transaction processing subsystem node templates trans1 and trans2.

Subsystems can be parameterized by providing properties. In the listing above, for example, the IP address of the message queuing server is provided as property mq_service_ip to the transaction processing subsystems and the desired port for receiving messages is specified by means of the receiver_port property.

If attributes of the instantiated subsystems shall be obtained, this would be possible by using the get_attribute intrinsic function on the respective subsystem node templates.

2.11.2 Defining a subsystem (node) type

The types of subsystems that are required for a certain end-to-end service are defined as TOSCA node types as shown in the following example. Node templates of those node types can then be used in the end-to-end service template to define subsystems to be instantiated and chained for establishing the end-to-end service.

The realization of the defined node type will be given in the form of a whole separate service template as outlined in the following section.

 

Example 18 - Defining a TransactionSubsystem node type

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

node_types:

  example.TransactionSubsystem:

    properties:

      mq_service_ip:

        type: string

      receiver_port:

        type: integer

    attributes:

      receiver_ip:

        type: string

      receiver_port:

        type: integer

    capabilities:

      message_receiver: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

    requirements:

      - database_endpoint: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Database

 

Configuration parameters that shall be allowed for customizing the instantiation of any subsystem are defined as properties of the node type. In the current example, those are the properties mq_service_ip and receiver_port that had been used in the end-to-end service template in section 2.11.1.

Observable attributes of the resulting subsystem instances are defined as attributes of the node type. In the current case, those are the IP address of the message receiver as well as the actually allocated port of the message receiver endpoint.

2.11.3 Defining the details of a subsystem

The details of a subsystem, i.e. the software components and their hosting infrastructure, are defined as node templates and relationships in a service template. By means of substitution mappings that have been introduced in section 2.10.2, the service template is annotated to indicate to an orchestrator that it can be used as realization of a node template of certain type, as well as how characteristics of the node type are mapped to internal elements of the service template.

 

Figure 4: Defining subsystem details in a service template

Figure 1 illustrates how a transaction processing subsystem as outlined in the previous section could be defined in a service template. In this example, it simply consists of a custom application app of type SomeApp that is hosted on a web server websrv, which in turn is running on a compute node.

The application named app provides a capability to receive messages, which is bound to the message_receiver capability of the substitutable node type. It further requires access to a database, so the application’s database_endpoint requirement is mapped to the database_endpoint requirement of the TransactionSubsystem node type.

Properties of the TransactionSubsystem node type are used to customize the instantiation of a subsystem. Those properties can be mapped to any node template for which the author of the subsystem service template wants to expose configurability. In the current example, the application app and the web server middleware websrv get configured through properties of the TransactionSubsystem node type. All properties of that node type are defined as inputs of the service template. The input parameters in turn get mapped to node templates by means of get_input function calls in the respective sections of the service template.

Similarly, attributes of the whole subsystem can be obtained from attributes of particular node templates. In the current example, attributes of the web server and the hosting compute node will be exposed as subsystem attributes. All exposed attributes that are defined as attributes of the substitutable TransactionSubsystem node type are defined as outputs of the subsystem service template.

An outline of the subsystem service template is shown in the listing below. Note that this service template could be used for stand-alone deployment of a transaction processing system as well, i.e. it is not restricted just for use in substitution scenarios. Only the presence of the substitution_mappings metadata section in the topology_template enables the service template for substitution use cases.

 

Example 19 - Implementation of a TransactionSubsytem node type using substitution mappings

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

topology_template:

  description: Template of a database including its hosting stack.

 

  inputs:

    mq_service_ip:

      type: string

      description: IP address of the message queuing server to receive messages from

    receiver_port:

      type: string

      description: Port to be used for receiving messages

    # other inputs omitted for brevity

 

  substitution_mappings:

    node_type: example.TransactionSubsystem

    capabilities:

      message_receiver: [ app, message_receiver ]

    requirements:

      database_endpoint: [ app, database ]

 

  node_templates:

    app:

      type: example.SomeApp

      properties:

        # properties omitted for brevity

      capabilities:

        message_receiver:

          properties:

            service_ip: { get_input: mq_service_ip }

            # other properties omitted for brevity

      requirements:

        - database:

            # details omitted for brevity

        - host: websrv

 

    websrv:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebServer

      properties:

        # properties omitted for brevity

      capabilities:

        data_endpoint:

          properties:

            port_name: { get_input: receiver_port }

            # other properties omitted for brevity

      requirements:

        - host: server

 

    server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      # details omitted for brevity

 

  outputs:

    receiver_ip:

      description: private IP address of the message receiver application

      value: { get_attribute: [ server, private_address ] }

    receiver_port:

      description: Port of the message receiver endpoint

      value: { get_attribute: [ app, app_endpoint, port ] }

2.12 Grouping node templates

In designing applications composed of several interdependent software components (or nodes) it is often desirable to manage these components as a named group.  This can provide an effective way of associating policies (e.g., scaling, placement, security or other) that orchestration tools can apply to all the components of group during deployment or during other lifecycle stages.

In many realistic scenarios it is desirable to include scaling capabilities into an application to be able to react on load variations at runtime. The example below shows the definition of a scaling web server stack, where a variable number of servers with apache installed on them can exist, depending on the load on the servers.

Example 20 - Grouping Node Templates for possible policy application

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template for a scaling web server.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    apache:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebServer.Apache

      properties:

        # Details omitted for brevity

      requirements:

        - host: server

 

    server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

        # details omitted for brevity

 

  groups:

    webserver_group:

      type: tosca.groups.Root

      members: [ apache, server ]

The example first of all uses the concept of grouping to express which components (node templates) need to be scaled as a unit – i.e. the compute nodes and the software on-top of each compute node. This is done by defining the webserver_group in the groups section of the template and by adding both the apache node template and the server node template as a member to the group.

Furthermore, a scaling policy is defined for the group to express that the group as a whole (i.e. pairs of server node and the apache component installed on top) should scale up or down under certain conditions.

In cases where no explicit binding between software components and their hosting compute resources is defined in a template, but only requirements are defined as has been shown in section 2.9, a provider could decide to place software components on the same host if their hosting requirements match, or to place them onto different hosts.

It is often desired, though, to influence placement at deployment time to make sure components get collocation or anti-collocated. This can be expressed via grouping and policies as shown in the example below.

Example 21 - Grouping nodes for anti-colocation policy application

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: Template hosting requirements and placement policy.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    # omitted here for brevity

 

  node_templates:

    wordpress_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebServer

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

      requirements:

        - host:

            # Find a Compute node that fulfills these additional filter reqs.

            node_filter:

              capabilities:

                - host:

                    properties:

                      - mem_size: { greater_or_equal: 512 MB }

                      - disk_size: { greater_or_equal: 2 GB }

                - os:

                    properties:

                      - architecture: x86_64

                      - type: linux

 

    mysql:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

      properties:

        # omitted here for brevity

      requirements:

        - host:

            node: tosca.nodes.Compute

            node_filter:

              capabilities:

                - host:

                    properties:

                      - disk_size: { greater_or_equal: 1 GB }

                - os:

                    properties:

                      - architecture: x86_64

                      - type: linux

 

  groups:

    my_co_location_group:

      type: tosca.groups.Root

      members: [ wordpress_server, mysql ]

 

  policies:

    - my_anti_collocation_policy:

        type: my.policies.anticolocateion

        targets: [ my_co_location_group ]

        # For this example, specific policy definitions are considered

        # domain specific and are not included here

In the example above, both software components wordpress_server and mysql have similar hosting requirements. Therefore, a provider could decide to put both on the same server as long as both their respective requirements can be fulfilled. By defining a group of the two components and attaching an anti-collocation policy to the group it can be made sure, though, that both components are put onto different hosts at deployment time.

2.13 Using YAML Macros to simplify templates

The YAML 1.2 specification allows for defining of aliases, which allow for authoring a block of YAML (or node) once and indicating it is an “anchor” and then referencing it elsewhere in the same document as an “alias”.  Effectively, YAML parsers treat this as a “macro” and copy the anchor block’s code to wherever it is referenced.  Use of this feature is especially helpful when authoring TOSCA Service Templates where similar definitions and property settings may be repeated multiple times when describing a multi-tier application.

 

For example, an application that has a web server and database (i.e., a two-tier application) may be described using two Compute nodes (one to host the web server and another to host the database).  The author may want both Compute nodes to be instantiated with similar properties such as operating system, distribution, version, etc.

To accomplish this, the author would describe the reusable properties using a named anchor in the “dsl_definitions” section of the TOSCA Service Template and reference the anchor name as an alias in any Compute node templates where these properties may need to be reused.  For example:

Example 22 - Using YAML anchors in TOSCA templates

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile that just defines a YAML macro for commonly reused Compute

  properties.

 

dsl_definitions:

  my_compute_node_props: &my_compute_node_props

    disk_size: 10 GB

    num_cpus: 1

    mem_size: 2 GB

 

topology_template:

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: Compute

      capabilities:

        - host:

            properties: *my_compute_node_props

 

    my_database:

      type: Compute

      capabilities:

        - host:

            properties: *my_compute_node_props

2.14 Passing information as inputs to Nodes and Relationships

It is possible for type and template authors to declare input variables within an inputs block on interfaces to nodes or relationships in order to pass along information needed by their operations (scripts).  These declarations can be scoped such as to make these variable values available to all operations on a node or relationships interfaces or to individual operations.  TOSCA orchestrators will make these values available as environment variables within the execution environments in which the scripts associated with lifecycle operations are run.

2.14.1 Example: declaring input variables for all operations on a single interface

node_templates: 

  wordpress:

    type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

    requirements:

      ...

      - database_endpoint: mysql_database

    interfaces:

      Standard:

        inputs:

          wp_db_port: { get_property: [ SELF, database_endpoint, port ] }

2.14.2 Example: declaring input variables for a single operation

node_templates: 

  wordpress:

    type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

    requirements:

      ...

      - database_endpoint: mysql_database

    interfaces:

      Standard:

        create: wordpress_install.sh

        configure:

          implementation: wordpress_configure.sh           

          inputs:

            wp_db_port: { get_property: [ SELF, database_endpoint, port ] }

In the case where an input variable name is defined at more than one scope within the same interfaces section of a node or template definition, the lowest (or innermost) scoped declaration would override those declared at higher (or more outer) levels of the definition.

2.14.3 Example: setting output variables to an attribute

node_templates:

  frontend: 
    type: MyTypes.SomeNodeType    

    attributes: 
      url: { get_operation_output: [ SELF, Standard, create, generated_url ] } 
    interfaces: 
      Standard: 
        create: 
          implementation: scripts/frontend/create.sh

 

In this example, the Standard create operation exposes / exports an environment variable named “generated_url” attribute which will be assigned to the WordPress node’s url attribute.

2.14.4 Example: passing output variables between operations

node_templates:

  frontend: 
    type: MyTypes.SomeNodeType 
    interfaces: 
      Standard: 
        create: 
          implementation: scripts/frontend/create.sh

        configure: 
          implementation: scripts/frontend/configure.sh 
          inputs: 
            data_dir: {
get_operation_output: [ SELF, Standard, create, data_dir ] }

In this example, the Standard lifecycle’s create operation exposes / exports an environment variable named “data_dir” which will be passed as an input to the Standard lifecycle’s configure operation.

2.15 Topology Template Model versus Instance Model

A TOSCA service template contains a topology template, which models the components of an application, their relationships and dependencies (a.k.a., a topology model) that get interpreted and instantiated by TOSCA Orchestrators.  The actual node and relationship instances that are created represent a set of resources distinct from the template itself, called a topology instance (model). The direction of this specification is to provide access to the instances of these resources for management and operational control by external administrators.  This model can also be accessed by an orchestration engine during deployment – i.e. during the actual process of instantiating the template in an incremental fashion, That is, the orchestrator can choose the order of resources to instantiate (i.e., establishing a partial set of node and relationship instances) and have the ability, as they are being created, to access them in order to facilitate instantiating the remaining resources of the complete topology template.

2.16 Using attributes implicitly reflected from properties

Most entity types in TOSCA (e.g., Node, Relationship, Requirement and Capability Types) have property definitions, which allow template authors to set the values for as inputs when these entities are instantiated by an orchestrator.  These property values are considered to reflect the desired state of the entity by the author.   Once instantiated, the actual values for these properties on the realized (instantiated) entity are obtainable via attributes on the entity with the same name as the corresponding property.

In other words, TOSCA orchestrators will automatically reflect (i.e., make available) any property defined on an entity making it available as an attribute of the entity with the same name as the property.

 

Use of this feature is shown in the example below where a source node named my_client, of type ClientNode, requires a connection to another node named my_server of type ServerNode.  As you can see, the ServerNode type defines a property named notification_port which defines a dedicated port number which instances of my_client may use to post asynchronous notifications to it during runtime.  In this case, the TOSCA Simple Profile assures that the notification_port property is implicitly reflected as an attribute in the my_server node (also with the name notification_port) when its node template is instantiated. 

 

Example 23 - Properties reflected as attributes

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

                        

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile that shows how the (notification_port) property is reflected as an attribute and can be referenced elsewhere.

 

node_types:

  ServerNode:

    derived_from: SoftwareComponent

    properties:

      notification_port:

        type: integer

    capabilities:

      # omitted here for brevity

 

  ClientNode:

    derived_from: SoftwareComponent

    properties:

      # omitted here for brevity

    requirements:

      - server:

          capability: Endpoint

          node: ServerNode 

          relationship: ConnectsTo

 

topology_template:          

  node_templates:

 

    my_server:

      type: ServerNode 

      properties:

        notification_port: 8000

 

    my_client:

      type: ClientNode

      requirements:

        - server:

            node: my_server

            relationship: my_connection

 

  relationship_templates:

    my_connection:

      type: ConnectsTo

      interfaces:

        Configure:

          inputs:

            targ_notify_port: { get_attribute: [ TARGET, notification_port ] }

            # other operation definitions omitted here for brevity

 

Specifically, the above example shows that the ClientNode type needs the notification_port value anytime a node of ServerType is connected to it using the ConnectsTo relationship in order to make it available to its Configure operations (scripts). It does this by using the get_attribute function to retrieve the notification_port attribute from the TARGET node of the ConnectsTo relationship (which is a node of type ServerNode) and assigning it to an environment variable named targ_notify_port.

 

It should be noted that the actual port value of the notification_port attribute may or may not be the value 8000 as requested on the property; therefore, any node that is dependent on knowing its actual “runtime” value would use the get_attribute function instead of the get_property function. 

3      TOSCA Simple Profile definitions in YAML

Except for the examples, this section is normative and describes all of the YAML grammar, definitions and block structure for all keys and mappings that are defined for the TOSCA Version 1.0 Simple Profile specification that are needed to describe a TOSCA Service Template (in YAML).

3.1 TOSCA Namespace URI and alias

The following TOSCA Namespace URI alias and TOSCA Namespace Alias are reserved values which SHALL be used when identifying the TOSCA Simple Profile version 1.0 specification.

Namespace Alias

Namespace URI

Specification Description

tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/ns/simple/yaml/1.0

The TOSCA Simple Profile v1.0 (YAML) target namespace and namespace alias.

3.1.1 TOSCA Namespace prefix

The following TOSCA Namespace prefix is a reserved value and SHALL be used to reference the default TOSCA Namespace URI as declared in TOSCA Service Templates.

Namespace Prefix

Specification Description

tosca

The reserved TOSCA Simple Profile Specification prefix that can be associated with the default TOSCA Namespace URI

3.1.2 TOSCA Namespacing in TOSCA Service Templates

In the TOSCA Simple Profile, TOSCA Service Templates MUST always have, as the first line of YAML, the keyword “tosca_definitions_version” with an associated TOSCA Namespace Alias value.  This single line accomplishes the following:

1.       Establishes the TOSCA Simple Profile Specification version whose grammar MUST be used to parse and interpret the contents for the remainder of the TOSCA Service Template.

2.       Establishes the default TOSCA Namespace URI and Namespace Prefix for all types found in the document that are not explicitly namespaced.

3.       Automatically imports (without the use of an explicit import statement) the normative type definitions (e.g., Node, Relationship, Capability, Artifact, etc.) that are associated with the TOSCA Simple Profile Specification the TOSCA Namespace Alias value identifies.

4.       Associates the TOSCA Namespace URI and Namespace Prefix to the automatically imported TOSCA type definitions.

3.1.3 Rules to avoid namespace collisions

TOSCA Simple Profiles allows template authors to declare their own types and templates and assign them simple names with no apparent namespaces.  Since TOSCA Service Templates can import other service templates to introduce new types and topologies of templates that can be used to provide concrete implementations (or substitute) for abstract nodes.  Rules are needed so that TOSCA Orchestrators know how to avoid collisions and apply their own namespaces when import and nesting occur.

3.1.3.1 Additional Requirements

·         Since TOSCA Service Templates can import (or substitute in) other Service Templates, TOSCA Orchestrators and tooling will encounter the “tosca_definitions_version” statement for each imported template.  In these cases, the following additional requirements apply:

o   Imported type definitions with the same Namespace URI, local name and version SHALL be equivalent.

o   If different values of the “tosca_definitions_version” are encountered, their corresponding type definitions MUST be uniquely identifiable using their corresponding Namespace URI using a different Namespace prefix.

·         Duplicate local names (i.e., within the same Service Template SHALL be considered an error.  These include, but are not limited to duplicate names found for the following definitions:

o   Repositories (repositories)

o   Data Types (data_types)

o   Node Types (node_types)

o   Relationship Types (relationship_types)

o   Capability Types (capability_types)

o   Artifact Types (artifact_types)

o   Interface Types (interface_types)

·         Duplicate Template names within a Service Template’s Topology Template SHALL be considered an error.  These include, but are not limited to duplicate names found for the following template types:

o   Node Templates (node_templates)

o   Relationship Templates (relationship_templates)

o   Inputs (inputs)

o   Outputs (outputs)

o   Groups (groups)

·         Duplicate names for the following keynames within Types or Templates SHALL be considered an error.  These include, but are not limited to duplicate names found for the following keynames:

o   Properties (properties)

o   Attributes (attributes)

o   Artifacts (artifacts)

o   Requirements (requirements)

o   Capabilities (capabilities)

o   Interfaces (interfaces)

3.2 Parameter and property types

This clause describes the primitive types that are used for declaring normative properties, parameters and grammar elements throughout this specification.

3.2.1 Referenced YAML Types

Many of the types we use in this profile are built-in types from the YAML 1.2 specification (i.e., those identified by the “tag:yaml.org,2002” version tag) [YAML-1.2].

The following table declares the valid YAML type URIs and aliases that SHALL be used when possible when defining parameters or properties within TOSCA Service Templates using this specification:

Valid aliases

Type URI

string

tag:yaml.org,2002:str (default)

integer

tag:yaml.org,2002:int

float

tag:yaml.org,2002:float

boolean

tag:yaml.org,2002:bool (i.e., a value either ‘true’ or ‘false’)

timestamp

tag:yaml.org,2002:timestamp  [YAML-TS-1.1]

null

tag:yaml.org,2002:null

3.2.1.1 Notes

·         The “string” type is the default type when not specified on a parameter or property declaration.

·         While YAML supports further type aliases, such as “str” for “string”, the TOSCA Simple Profile specification promotes the fully expressed alias name for clarity.

3.2.2 TOSCA version

TOSCA supports the concept of “reuse” of type definitions, as well as template definitions which could be version and change over time.  It is important to provide a reliable, normative means to represent a version string which enables the comparison and management of types and templates over time. Therefore, the TOSCA TC intends to provide a normative version type (string) for this purpose in future Working Drafts of this specification.

Shorthand Name

version

Type Qualified Name

tosca:version

3.2.2.1 Grammar

TOSCA version strings have the following grammar:

<major_version>.<minor_version>[.<fix_version>[.<qualifier>[-<build_version] ] ]

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         major_version: is a required integer value greater than or equal to 0 (zero)

·         minor_version: is a required integer value greater than or equal to 0 (zero).

·         fix_version: is an optional integer value greater than or equal to 0 (zero).

·         qualifier: is an optional string that indicates a named, pre-release version of the associated code that has been derived from the version of the code identified by the combination major_version, minor_version and fix_version numbers.

·         build_version: is an optional integer value greater than or equal to 0 (zero) that can be used to further qualify different build versions of the code that has the same qualifer_string.

3.2.2.2 Version Comparison

·         When comparing TOSCA versions, all component versions (i.e., major, minor and fix) are compared in sequence from left to right.

·         TOSCA versions that include the optional qualifier are considered older than those without a qualifier.

·         TOSCA versions with the same major, minor, and fix versions and have the same qualifier string, but with different build versions can be compared based upon the build version.

·         Qualifier strings are considered domain-specific. Therefore,  this specification makes no recommendation on how to compare TOSCA versions with the same major, minor and fix versions, but with different qualifiers strings and simply considers them different named branches derived from the same code.

3.2.2.3 Examples

Example of a version with

# basic version strings

6.1

2.0.1

 

# version string with optional qualifier

3.1.0.beta

 

# version string with optional qualifier and build version

1.0.0.alpha-10

3.2.2.4 Notes

·         [Maven-Version] The TOSCA version type is compatible with the Apache Maven versioning policy.

3.2.2.5 Additional Requirements

·         A version value of zero (i.e., ‘0’, ‘0.0’, or ‘0.0.0’) SHALL indicate there no version provided.

·         A version value of zero used with any qualifiers SHALL NOT be valid.

3.2.3 TOCSA range type

The range type can be used to define numeric ranges with a lower and upper boundary. For example, this allows for specifying a range of ports to be opened in a firewall.

Shorthand Name

range

Type Qualified Name

tosca:range

3.2.3.1 Grammar

TOSCA range values have the following grammar:

[<lower_bound>, <upper_bound>]  

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         lower_bound: is a required integer value that denotes the lower boundary of the range.

·         upper_bound: is a required integer value that denotes the upper boundary of the range. This value MUST be greater than lower_bound.

3.2.3.2 Keywords

The following Keywords may be used in the TOSCA range type:

Keyword

Applicable Types

Description

UNBOUNDED

scalar

Used to represent an unbounded upper bounds (positive) value in a set for a scalar type.

3.2.3.3 Examples

Example of a node template property with a range value:

# numeric range between 1 and 100

a_range_property: [ 1, 100 ]

 

# a property that has allows any number 0 or greater

num_connections: [ 0, UNBOUNDED ]

3.2.4 TOSCA list type

The list type allows for specifying multiple values for a parameter of property. For example, if an application allows for being configured to listen on multiple ports, a list of ports could be configured using the list data type.

Note that entries in a list for one property or parameter must be of the same type. The type (for simple entries) or schema (for complex entries) is defined by the entry_schema attribute of the respective property definition, attribute definitions, or input or output parameter definitions.

Shorthand Name

list

Type Qualified Name

tosca:list

3.2.4.1 Grammar

TOSCA lists are essentially normal YAML lists with the following grammars:

3.2.4.1.1  Square bracket notation

 [ <list_entry_1>, <list_entry_2>, ... ]

3.2.4.1.2 Bulleted (sequenced) list notation

- <list_entry_1>

- ...

- <list_entry_n>

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         <list_entry_*>: represents one entry of the list.

3.2.4.2 Declaration Examples

3.2.4.2.1 List declaration using a simple type

The following example shows a list declaration with an entry schema based upon a simple integer type (which has additional constraints):

<some_entity>:

  ...

  properties:  

    listen_ports:

      type: list

      entry_schema:

        description: listen port entry (simple integer type)

        type: integer

        constraints:

          - max_length: 128

3.2.4.2.2 List declaration using a complex type

The following example shows a list declaration with an entry schema based upon a complex type:

<some_entity>:

  ...

  properties:  

    products:

      type: list

      entry_schema:

        description: Product information entry (complex type) defined elsewhere

        type: ProductInfo

3.2.4.3 Definition Examples

These examples show two notation options for defining lists:

·         A single-line option which is useful for only short lists with simple entries.

·         A multi-line option where each list entry is on a separate line; this option is typically useful or more readable if there is a large number of entries, or if the entries are complex.

3.2.4.3.1 Square bracket notation

listen_ports: [ 80, 8080 ]

3.2.4.3.2 Bulleted list notation

listen_ports:

  - 80

  - 8080

3.2.5 TOSCA map type

The map type allows for specifying multiple values for a parameter of property as a map. In contrast to the list type, where each entry can only be addressed by its index in the list, entries in a map are named elements that can be addressed by their keys.

Note that entries in a map for one property or parameter must be of the same type. The type (for simple entries) or schema (for complex entries) is defined by the entry_schema attribute of the respective property definition, attribute definition, or input or output parameter definition.

Shorthand Name

map

Type Qualified Name

tosca:map

3.2.5.1 Grammar

TOSCA maps are normal YAML dictionaries with following grammar:

3.2.5.1.1 Single-line grammar

{ <entry_key_1>: <entry_value_1>, ..., <entry_key_n>: <entry_value_n> }

...

<entry_key_n>: <entry_value_n>

3.2.5.1.2 Multi-line grammar

<entry_key_1>: <entry_value_1>

...

<entry_key_n>: <entry_value_n>

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         entry_key_*: is the required key for an entry in the map

·         entry_value_*: is the value of the respective entry in the map

3.2.5.2 Declaration Examples

3.2.5.2.1 Map declaration using a simple type

The following example shows a map with an entry schema definition based upon an existing string type (which has additional constraints):

<some_entity>:

  ...

  properties:  

    emails:

      type: map

      entry_schema:

        description: basic email address

        type: string

        constraints:

          - max_length: 128

3.2.5.2.2 Map declaration using a complex type

The following example shows a map with an entry schema definition for contact information:

<some_entity>:

  ...

  properties:  

    contacts:

      type: map

      entry_schema:

        description: simple contact information

        type: ContactInfo

3.2.5.3 Definition Examples

These examples show two notation options for defining maps:

·         A single-line option which is useful for only short maps with simple entries.

·         A multi-line option where each map entry is on a separate line; this option is typically useful or more readable if there is a large number of entries, or if the entries are complex.

3.2.5.3.1 Single-line notation

# notation option for shorter maps

user_name_to_id_map: { user1: 1001, user2: 1002 }

3.2.5.3.2 Multi-line notation

# notation for longer maps

user_name_to_id_map:

  user1: 1001

  user2: 1002

3.2.6 TOCSA scalar-unit type

The scalar-unit type can be used to define scalar values along with a unit from the list of recognized units provided below.

3.2.6.1 Grammar

TOSCA scalar-unit typed values have the following grammar:

<scalar> <unit>  

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         scalar: is a required scalar value.

·         unit: is a required unit value. The unit value MUST be type-compatible with the scalar.

3.2.6.2 Additional requirements

·         Whitespace: any number of spaces (including zero or none) SHALL be allowed between the scalar value and the unit value.

·         It SHALL be considered an error if either the scalar or unit portion is missing on a property or attribute declaration derived from any scalar-unit type.

·         When performing constraint clause evaluation on values of the scalar-unit type, both the scalar value portion and unit value portion SHALL be compared together (i.e., both are treated as a single value). For example, if we have a property called storage_size. which is of type scalar-unit, a valid range constraint would appear as follows:

o    storage_size: in_range [ 4 GB, 20 GB ]

where storage_size’s range would be evaluated using both the numeric and unit values (combined together), in this case ‘4 GB’ and ’20 GB’.

3.2.6.3 Concrete Types

Shorthand Names

scalar-unit.size, scalar-unit.size

Type Qualified Names

tosca:scalar-unit.size, tosca:scalar-unit.time

 

The scalar-unit type grammar is abstract and has two recognized concrete types in TOSCA:

·         scalar-unit.size – used to define properties that have scalar values measured in size units.

·         scalar-unit.time – used to define properties that have scalar values measured in size units.

·         scalar-unit.frequency – used to define properties that have scalar values measured in units per second.

These types and their allowed unit values are defined below.

3.2.6.4 scalar-unit.size

3.2.6.4.1 Recognized Units

Unit

Usage

Description

B

size

byte

kB

size

kilobyte (1000 bytes)

KiB

size

kibibytes (1024 bytes)

MB

size

megabyte (1000000 bytes)

MiB

size

mebibyte (1048576 bytes)

GB

size

gigabyte (1000000000 bytes)

GiB

size

gibibytes (1073741824 bytes)

TB

size

terabyte (1000000000000 bytes)

TiB

size

tebibyte (1099511627776 bytes)

3.2.6.4.2 Examples

# Storage size in Gigabytes

properties:

  storage_size: 10 GB

3.2.6.4.3 Notes

·         The unit values recognized by TOSCA Simple Profile for size-type units are based upon a subset of those defined by GNU at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/unit.html, which is a non-normative reference to this specification.

·         TOSCA treats these unit values as case-insensitive (e.g., a value of ‘kB’, ‘KB’ or ‘kb’ would be equivalent), but it is considered best practice to use the case of these units as prescribed by GNU.

·         Some Cloud providers may not support byte-level granularity for storage size allocations. In those cases, these values could be treated as desired sizes and actual allocations would be based upon individual provider capabilities.

3.2.6.5 scalar-unit.time

3.2.6.5.1 Recognized Units

Unit

Usage

Description

d

time

days

h

time

hours

m

time

minutes

s

time

seconds

ms

time

milliseconds

us

time

microseconds

ns

time

nanoseconds

3.2.6.5.2 Examples

# Response time in milliseconds

properties:

  respone_time: 10 ms

3.2.6.5.3 Notes

·         The unit values recognized by TOSCA Simple Profile for time-type units are based upon a subset of those defined by International System of Units whose recognized abbreviations are defined within the following reference: 

o    http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ias/pub-dept/abbreviation.pdf

o    This document is a non-normative reference to this specification and intended for publications or grammars enabled for Latin characters which are not accessible in typical programming languages

3.2.6.6 scalar-unit.frequency

3.2.6.6.1 Recognized Units

Unit

Usage

Description

Hz

frequency

Hertz, or Hz. equals one cycle per second.

kHz

frequency

Kilohertz, or kHz, equals to 1,000 Hertz

MHz

frequency

Megahertz, or MHz, equals to 1,000,000 Hertz or 1,000 kHz

GHz

frequency

Gigahertz, or GHz, equals to 1,000,000,000 Hertz, or 1,000,000 kHz, or 1,000 MHz.

3.2.6.6.2 Examples

# Processor raw clock rate

properties:

  clock_rate: 2.4 GHz

3.2.6.6.3 Notes

·         The value for Hertz (Hz) is the International Standard Unit (ISU) as described by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) in the SI Brochure: The International System of Units (SI) [8th edition, 2006; updated in 2014]”, http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/

3.3 Normative values

3.3.1 Node States

As components (i.e., nodes) of TOSCA applications are deployed, instantiated and orchestrated over their lifecycle using normative lifecycle operations (see section 5.7 for normative lifecycle definitions) it is important define normative values for communicating the states of these components normatively between orchestration and workflow engines and any managers of these applications.

The following table provides the list of recognized node states for TOSCA Simple Profile that would be set by the orchestrator to describe a node instance’s state:

Node State

Value

Transitional

Description

initial

no

Node is not yet created.  Node only exists as a template definition.

creating

yes

Node is transitioning from initial state to created state.

created

no

Node software has been installed.

configuring

yes

Node is transitioning from created state to configured state.

configured

no

Node has been configured prior to being started.

starting

yes

Node is transitioning from configured state to started state.

started

no

Node is started.

stopping

yes

Node is transitioning from its current state to a configured state.

deleting

yes

Node is transitioning from its current state to one where it is deleted and its state is no longer tracked by the instance model.

error

no

Node is in an error state.

3.3.2 Relationship States

Similar to the Node States described in the previous section, Relationships have state relative to their (normative) lifecycle operations.

The following table provides the list of recognized relationship states for TOSCA Simple Profile that would be set by the orchestrator to describe a node instance’s state:

Node State

Value

Transitional

Description

initial

no

Relationship is not yet created.  Relationship only exists as a template definition.

3.3.2.1 Notes

·         Additional states may be defined in future versions of the TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML specification.

3.3.3 Directives

There are currently no directive values defined for this version of the TOSCA Simple Profile.

3.3.4 Network Name aliases

The following are recognized values that may be used as aliases to reference types of networks within an application model without knowing their actual name (or identifier) which may be assigned by the underlying Cloud platform at runtime.

Alias value

Description

PRIVATE

An alias used to reference the first private network within a property or attribute of a Node or Capability which would be assigned to them by the underlying platform at runtime.

 

A private network contains IP addresses and ports typically used to listen for incoming traffic to an application or service from the Intranet and not accessible to the public internet.

PUBLIC

An alias used to reference the first public network within a property or attribute of a Node or Capability which would be assigned to them by the underlying platform at runtime.

 

A public network contains IP addresses and ports typically used to listen for incoming traffic to an application or service from the Internet.

3.3.4.1 Usage

These aliases would be used in the tosca.capabilities.Endpoint Capability type (and types derived from it) within the network_name field for template authors to use to indicate the type of network the Endpoint is supposed to be assigned an IP address from.

3.4 TOSCA Metamodel

This section defines all modelable entities that comprise the TOSCA Version 1.0 Simple Profile specification along with their keynames, grammar and requirements.

3.4.1 Required Keynames

The TOSCA metamodel includes complex types (e.g., Node Types, Relationship Types, Capability Types, Data Types, etc.) each of which  include their own list of reserved keynames that are sometimes marked as required.  These types may be used to derive other types.  These derived types (e.g., child types) do not have to provide required keynames as long as they have been specified in the type they have been derived from (i.e., their parent type).

3.5 Reusable modeling definitions

3.5.1 Description definition

This optional element provides a means include single or multiline descriptions within a TOSCA Simple Profile template as a scalar string value.

3.5.1.1 Keyname

The following keyname is used to provide a description within the TOSCA Simple Profile specification:

description

3.5.1.2 Grammar

Description definitions have the following grammar:

description: <string>

3.5.1.3 Examples

Simple descriptions are treated as a single literal that includes the entire contents of the line that immediately follows the description key:

description: This is an example of a single line description (no folding).

The YAML “folded” style may also be used for multi-line descriptions which “folds” line breaks as space characters.

description: >

  This is an example of a multi-line description using YAML. It permits for line       

  breaks for easier readability...

 

  if needed.  However, (multiple) line breaks are folded into a single space  

  character when processed into a single string value.

3.5.1.4 Notes

3.5.2 Constraint clause

A constraint clause defines an operation along with one or more compatible values that can be used to define a constraint on a property or parameter’s allowed values when it is defined in a TOSCA Service Template or one of its entities.

3.5.2.1 Operator keynames

The following is the list of recognized operators (keynames) when defining constraint clauses:

Operator

Type

Value Type

Description

equal

scalar

any

Constrains a property or parameter to a value equal to (‘=’) the value declared.

greater_than

scalar

comparable

Constrains a property or parameter to a value greater than (‘>’) the value declared.

greater_or_equal

scalar

comparable

Constrains a property or parameter to a value greater than or equal to (‘>=’) the value declared.

less_than

scalar

comparable

Constrains a property or parameter to a value less than (‘<’) the value declared.

less_or_equal

scalar

comparable

Constrains a property or parameter to a value less than or equal to (‘<=’) the value declared.

in_range

dual scalar

comparable, range

Constrains a property or parameter to a value in range of (inclusive) the two values declared.

 

Note: subclasses or templates of types that declare a property with the in_range constraint MAY only further restrict the range specified by the parent type.

valid_values

list

any

Constrains a property or parameter to a value that is in the list of declared values.

length

scalar

string, list, map

Constrains the property or parameter to a value of a given length.

min_length

scalar

string, list, map

Constrains the property or parameter to a value to a minimum length.

max_length

scalar

string, list, map

Constrains the property or parameter to a value to a maximum length.

pattern

regex

string

Constrains the property or parameter to a value that is allowed by the provided regular expression.


Note: Future drafts of this specification will detail the use of regular expressions and reference an appropriate standardized grammar.

3.5.2.1.1 Comparable value types

In the Value Type column above, an entry of “comparable” includes integer, float, timestamp, string, version, and scalar-unit types while an entry of “any” refers to any type allowed in the TOSCA simple profile in YAML.

3.5.2.2 Additional Requirements

·         If no operator is present for a simple scalar-value on a constraint clause, it SHALL be interpreted as being equivalent to having the “equal” operator provided; however, the “equal” operator may be used for clarity when expressing a constraint clause.

·         The “length” operator SHALL be interpreted mean “size” for set types (i.e., list, map, etc.).

3.5.2.3 Grammar

Constraint clauses have one of the following grammars:

# Scalar grammar

<operator>: <scalar_value>

 

# Dual scalar grammar

<operator>: [ <scalar_value_1>, <scalar_value_2> ]

 

# List grammar

<operator> [ <value_1>, <value_2>, ..., <value_n> ]

 

# Regular expression (regex) grammar

pattern: <regular_expression_value>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         operator: represents a required operator from the specified list shown above (see section 3.5.2.1 “Operator keynames”).

·         scalar_value, scalar_value_*: represents a required scalar (or atomic quantity) that can hold only one value at a time.  This will be a value of a primitive type, such as an integer or string that is allowed by this specification.

·         value_*: represents a required value of the operator that is not limited to scalars.

·         reqular_expression_value: represents a regular expression (string) value.

3.5.2.4 Examples

Constraint clauses used on parameter or property definitions:

# equal

equal: 2

 

# greater_than

greater_than: 1

 

# greater_or_equal

greater_or_equal: 2

 

# less_than

less_than: 5

 

# less_or_equal

less_or_equal: 4

 

# in_range

in_range: [ 1, 4 ]

 

# valid_values

valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4 ]

# specific length (in characters)

length: 32

 

# min_length (in characters)

min_length: 8

 

# max_length (in characters)

max_length: 64

3.5.3 Property Filter definition

A property filter definition defines criteria, using constraint clauses, for selection of a TOSCA entity based upon it property values.

3.5.3.1 Grammar

Property filter definitions have one of the following grammars:

3.5.3.1.1 Short notation:

The following single-line grammar may be used when only a single constraint is needed on a property:

<property_name>: <property_constraint_clause>

3.5.3.1.2 Extended notation:

The following multi-line grammar may be used when multiple constraints are needed on a property:

<property_name>:

  - <property_constraint_clause_1>

  - ...

  - <property_constraint_clause_n>

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         property_name: represents the name of property that would be used to select a property definition with the same name (property_name) on a TOSCA entity (e.g., a Node Type, Node Template, Capability Type, etc.). 

·         property_constraint_clause_*: represents constraint clause(s) that would be used to filter entities based upon the named property’s value(s).

3.5.3.2 Additional Requirements

·         Property constraint clauses must be type compatible with the property definitions (of the same name) as defined on the target TOSCA entity that the clause would be applied against.

3.5.4 Node Filter definition

A node filter definition defines criteria for selection of a TOSCA Node Template based upon the template’s property values, capabilities and capability properties.

3.5.4.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA node filter definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

properties

no

list of

property filter definition

An optional sequenced list of property filters that would be used to select (filter) matching TOSCA entities (e.g., Node Template, Node Type, Capability Types, etc.) based upon their property definitions’ values.

capabilities

no

list of capability names or capability type names

An optional sequenced list of capability names or types that would be used to select (filter) matching TOSCA entities based upon their existence.

3.5.4.2 Additional filtering on named Capability properties

Capabilities used as filters often have their own sets of properties which also can be used to construct a filter.

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

<capability   name_or_type>  

  name>:

   properties

no

list of

property filter definitions

An optional sequenced list of property filters that would be used to select (filter) matching TOSCA entities (e.g., Node Template, Node Type, Capability Types, etc.) based upon their capabilities’ property definitions’ values.

3.5.4.3 Grammar

Node filter definitions have following grammar:

<filter_name>:

  properties:

    - <property_filter_def_1>

    - ...

    - <property_filter_def_n>

  capabilities:

    - <capability_name_or_type_1>:

        properties:

          - <cap_1_property_filter_def_1>

          - ...

          - <cap_m_property_filter_def_n>

    -  ...

    - <capability_name_or_type_n>:

        properties:

          - <cap_1_property_filter_def_1>

          - ...

          - <cap_m_property_filter_def_n>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         property_filter_def_*: represents a property filter definition that would be used to select (filter) matching TOSCA entities (e.g., Node Template, Node Type, Capability Types, etc.) based upon their property definitions’ values. 

·         capability_name_or_type_*: represents the type or name of a capability that would be used to select (filter) matching TOSCA entities based upon their existence.

·         cap_*_property_def_*: represents a property filter definition that would be used to select (filter) matching TOSCA entities (e.g., Node Template, Node Type, Capability Types, etc.) based upon their capabilities’ property definitions’ values.

3.5.4.4 Additional requirements

·         TOSCA orchestrators SHALL search for matching capabilities listed on a target filter by assuming the capability name is first a symbolic name and secondly it is a type name (in order to avoid namespace collisions).

3.5.4.5 Example

The following example is a filter that would be used to select a TOSCA Compute node based upon the values of its defined capabilities. Specifically, this filter would select Compute nodes that supported a specific range of CPUs (i.e., num_cpus value between 1 and 4) and memory size (i.e., mem_size of 2 or greater) from its declared “host” capability. 

                                                                                                     

my_node_template:

  # other details omitted for brevity

  requirements:

    - host:

        node_filter:

          capabilities:

            # My “host” Compute node needs these properties:     

            - host:

                properties:

                  - num_cpus: { in_range: [ 1, 4 ] }

                  - mem_size: { greater_or_equal: 512 MB }

3.5.5 Repository definition

A repository definition defines a named external repository which contains deployment and implementation artifacts that are referenced within the TOSCA Service Template.

3.5.5.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA repository definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

description

no

description

None

The optional description for the repository.

url

yes

string

None

The required URL or network address used to access the repository.

credential

no

Credential

None

The optional Credential used to authorize access to the repository.

3.5.5.2 Grammar

Repository definitions have one the following grammars:

3.5.5.2.1 Single-line grammar (no credential):

<repository_name>: <repository_address>

3.5.5.2.2 Multi-line grammar

<repository_name>:

  description: <repository_description>

  url: <repository_address>

  credential: <authorization_credential>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         repository_name: represents the required symbolic name of the repository as a string.

·         repository_description: contains an optional description of the repository.

·         repository_address: represents the required URL of the repository as a string.

·         authorization_credential: represents the optional credentials (e.g., user ID and password) used to authorize access to the repository.

3.5.5.3 Example

The following represents a repository definition:

repositories:

  my_code_repo:

    description: My project’s code repository in GitHub

    url: https://github.com/my-project/

3.5.6 Artifact definition

An artifact definition defines a named, typed file that can be associated with Node Type or Node Template and used by orchestration engine to facilitate deployment and implementation of interface operations.

3.5.6.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA artifact definition when using the extended notation:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

type

yes

string

The required artifact type for the artifact definition.

file

yes

string

The required URI string (relative or absolute) which can be used to locate the artifact’s file.

repository

no

string

The optional name of the repository definition which contains the location of the external repository that contains the artifact.  The artifact is expected to be referenceable by its file URI within the repository.

description

no

description

The optional description for the artifact definition.

deploy_path

no

string

The file path the associated file would be deployed into within the target node’s container.

3.5.6.2 Grammar

Artifact definitions have one of the following grammars:

3.5.6.2.1 Short notation

The following single-line grammar may be used when the artifact’s type and mime type can be inferred from the file URI:

<artifact_name>: <artifact_file_URI>

3.5.6.2.2 Extended notation:

The following multi-line grammar may be used when the artifact’s definition’s type and mime type need to be explicitly declared:

<artifact_name>:

  description: <artifact_description>

  type: <artifact_type_name>

  file: <artifact_file_URI>

  repository: <artifact_repository_name>

  deploy_path: <file_deployment_path>

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         artifact_name: represents the required symbolic name of the artifact as a string.

·         artifact_description: represents the optional description for the artifact.

·         artifact_type_name: represents the required artifact type the artifact definition is based upon.

·         artifact_file_URI: represents the required URI string (relative or absolute) which can be used to locate the artifact’s file.

·         artifact_repository_name: represents the optional name of the repository definition to use to retrieve the associated artifact (file) from.

·         file_deployement_path: represents the optional path the artifact_file_URI would be copied into within the target node’s container.

3.5.6.3 Example

The following represents an artifact definition:

my_file_artifact: ../my_apps_files/operation_artifact.txt

3.5.7 Import definition

An import definition is used within a TOSCA Service Template to locate and uniquely name another TOSCA Service Template file which has type and template definitions to be imported (included) and referenced within another Service Template.

3.5.7.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA import definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

file

yes

string

None

The required symbolic name for the imported file.

repository

no

string

None

The optional symbolic name of the repository definition where the imported file can be found as a string.

namespace_uri

no

string

None

The optional namespace URI to that will be applied to type definitions found within the imported file as a string.

namespace_prefix

no

string

None

The optional namespace prefix (alias) that will be used to indicate the namespace_uri when forming a qualified name (i.e., qname) when referencing type definitions from the imported file.

3.5.7.2 Grammar

Import definitions have one the following grammars:

3.5.7.2.1 Single-line grammar:

<import_name>: <file_URI>

3.5.7.2.2 Multi-line grammar

<import_name>:

  file: <file_URI>

  repository: <repository_name>

  namespace_uri: <definition_namespace_uri>

  namespace_prefix: <definition_namespace_prefix>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         import_name: represents the required symbolic name for the imported file as a string.

·         file_uri: contains the required name (i.e., URI) of the file to be imported as a string.

·         repository_name: represents the optional symbolic name of the repository definition where the imported file can be found as a string.

·         namespace_uri: represents the optional namespace URI to that will be applied to type definitions found within the imported file as a string.

·         namespace_prefix: represents the optional namespace prefix (alias) that will be used to indicate the namespace_uri when forming a qualified name (i.e., qname) when referencing type definitions from the imported file as a string.

3.5.7.3 Example

The following represents how import definitions would be used for the imports keyname within a TOSCA Service Template:

imports:

  - some_definition_file: path1/path2/some_defs.yaml

  - another_definition_file:

      file: path1/path2/file2.yaml

      repository: my_service_catalog

      namespace_uri: http://mycompany.com/tosca/1.0/platform

      namespace_prefix: mycompany

3.5.8 Property definition

A property definition defines a named, typed value and related data that can be associated with an entity defined in this specification (e.g., Node Types, Relationship Types, Capability Types, etc.).  Properties are used by template authors to provide input values to TOSCA entities which indicate their “desired state” when they are instantiated.  The value of a property can be retrieved using the get_property function within TOSCA Service Templates.

3.5.8.1.1 Attribute and Property reflection

The actual state of the entity, at any point in its lifecycle once instantiated, is reflected by Attribute definitions.  TOSCA orchestrators automatically create an attribute for every declared property (with the same symbolic name) to allow introspection of both the desired state (property) and actual state (attribute).

3.5.8.2 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA property definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

type

yes

string

None

The required data type for the property.

description

no

description

None

The optional description for the property.

required

no

 

boolean

default: true

An optional key that declares a property as required (true) or not (false).

default

no

<any>

None

An optional key that may provide a value to be used as a default if not provided by another means.

status

no

 

string

default: supported

The optional status of the property relative to the specification or implementation. See table below for valid values.

constraints

no

list of

constraint clauses

None

The optional list of sequenced constraint clauses for the property.

entry_schema

no

string

None

The optional key that is used to declare the name of the Datatype definition for entries of set types such as the TOSCA list or map.

3.5.8.3 Status values

The following property status values are supported:

Value

Description

supported

Indicates the property is supported.  This is the default value for all property definitions.

unsupported

Indicates the property is not supported.

experimental

Indicates the property is experimental and has no official standing.

deprecated

Indicates the property has been deprecated by a new specification version.

3.5.8.4 Grammar

Named property definitions have the following grammar:

<property_name>:

  type: <property_type>

  description: <property_description>

  required: <property_required>

  default: <default_value>

  status: <status_value>

  constraints:

    - <property_constraints>

  entry_schema:

    description: <entry_description>

    type: <entry_type>

    constraints:

      - <entry_constraints>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         property_name: represents the required symbolic name of the property as a string.

·         property_description: represents the optional description of the property.

·         property_type: represents the required data type of the property.

·         property_required: represents an optional boolean value (true or false) indicating whether or not the property is required.  If this keyname is not present on a property definition, then the property SHALL be considered required (i.e., true) by default.

·         default_value: contains a type-compatible value that may be used as a default if not provided by another means.

·         status_value: a string that contains a keyword that indicates the status of the property relative to the specification or implementation. 

·         property_constraints: represents the optional sequenced list of one or more constraint clauses on the property definition.

·         entry_description: represents the optional description of the entry schema.

·         entry_type: represents the required type name for entries in a list or map  property type.

·         entry_constraints: represents the optional sequenced list of one or more constraint clauses on entries in a list or map property type.

3.5.8.5 Additional Requirements

·         Implementations of the TOSCA Simple Profile SHALL automatically reflect (i.e., make available) any property defined on an entity as an attribute of the entity with the same name as the property.

·         A property SHALL be considered required by default (i.e., as if the required keyname on the definition is set to true) unless the definition’s required keyname is explicitly set to false.

·         The value provided on a property definition’s default keyname SHALL be type compatible with the type declared on the definition’s type keyname.

3.5.8.6 Notes

·         This element directly maps to the PropertiesDefinition element defined as part of the schema for most type and entities defined in the TOSCA v1.0 specification.

3.5.8.7 Example

The following represents an example of a property definition with constraints:

properties:

  num_cpus:

    type: integer

    description: Number of CPUs requested for a software node instance.

    default: 1

    required: true

    constraints:

      - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

3.5.9 Property assignment

This section defines the grammar for assigning values to named properties within TOSCA Node and Relationship templates that are defined in their corresponding named types.

3.5.9.1 Keynames

The TOSCA property assignment has no keynames.

3.5.9.2 Grammar

Property assignments have the following grammar:

3.5.9.2.1 Short notation:

The following single-line grammar may be used when a simple value assignment is needed:

<property_name>: <property_value> | { <property_value_expression> }

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         property_name: represents the name of a property that would be used to select a property definition with the same name within on a TOSCA entity (e.g., Node Template, Relationship Template, etc.,) which is declared in its declared type (e.g., a Node Type, Node Template, Capability Type, etc.). 

·         property_value, property_value_expression: represent the type-compatible value to assign to the named property.  Property values may be provided as the result from the evaluation of an expression or a function.

3.5.10 Attribute definition

An attribute definition defines a named, typed value that can be associated with an entity defined in this specification (e.g., a Node, Relationship or Capability Type).  Specifically, it is used to expose the “actual state” of some property of a TOSCA entity after it has been deployed and instantiated (as set by the TOSCA orchestrator).  Attribute values can be retrieved via the get_attribute function from the instance model and used as values to other entities within TOSCA Service Templates.

3.5.10.1 Attribute and Property reflection

TOSCA orchestrators automatically create Attribute definitions for any Property definitions declared on the same TOSCA entity (e.g., nodes, node capabilities and relationships) in order to make accessible the actual (i.e., the current state) value from the running instance of the entity.

3.5.10.2 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA attribute definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

type

yes

string

None

The required data type for the attribute.

description

no

description

None

The optional description for the attribute.

default

no

<any>

None

An optional key that may provide a value to be used as a default if not provided by another means.

 

This value SHALL be type compatible with the type declared by the property definition’s type keyname.

status

no

string

default: supported

The optional status of the attribute relative to the specification or implementation.  See supported status values defined under the Property definition section.

entry_schema

no

string

None

The optional key that is used to declare the name of the Datatype definition for entries of set types such as the TOSCA list or map.

3.5.10.3 Grammar

Attribute definitions have the following grammar:

attributes:

  <attribute_name>:

    type: <attribute_type>

    description: <attribute_description>

    default: <default_value>

    status: <status_value>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         attribute_name: represents the required symbolic name of the attribute as a string.

·         attribute_type: represents the required data type of the attribute.

·         attribute_description: represents the optional description of the attribute.

·         default_value: contains a type-compatible value that may be used as a default if not provided by another means.

·         status_value: contains a value indicating the attribute’s status relative to the specification version (e.g., supported, deprecated, etc.). Supported status values for this keyname are defined under Property definition.

3.5.10.4 Additional Requirements

·         In addition to any explicitly defined attributes on a TOSCA entity (e.g., Node Type, RelationshipType, etc.), implementations of the TOSCA Simple Profile MUST automatically reflect (i.e., make available) any property defined on an entity as an attribute of the entity with the same name as the property.

·         Values for the default keyname MUST be derived or calculated from other attribute or operation output values (that reflect the actual state of the instance of the corresponding resource) and not hard-coded or derived from a property settings or inputs (i.e., desired state).

3.5.10.5 Notes

·         Attribute definitions are very similar to Property definitions; however, properties of entities reflect an input that carries the template author’s requested or desired value (i.e., desired state) which the orchestrator (attempts to) use when instantiating the entity whereas attributes reflect the actual value (i.e., actual state) that provides the actual instantiated value. 

o   For example, a property can be used to request the IP address of a node using a property (setting); however, the actual IP address after the node is instantiated may by different and made available by an attribute.

3.5.10.6 Example

The following represents a required attribute definition:

actual_cpus:

  type: integer

  description: Actual number of CPUs allocated to the node instance.

3.5.11 Attribute assignment

This section defines the grammar for assigning values to named attributes within TOSCA Node and Relationship templates which are defined in their corresponding named types.

3.5.11.1 Keynames

The TOSCA attribute assignment has no keynames.

3.5.11.2 Grammar

Attribute assignments have the following grammar:

3.5.11.2.1 Short notation:

The following single-line grammar may be used when a simple value assignment is needed:

<attribute_name>: <attribute_value> | { <attribute_value_expression> }

3.5.11.2.2 Extended notation:

The following multi-line grammar may be used when a value assignment requires keys in addition to a simple value assignment:

<attribute_name>:

  description: <attribute_description>

  value: <attribute_value> | { <attribute_value_expression> }

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         attribute_name: represents the name of an attribute that would be used to select an attribute definition with the same name within on a TOSCA entity (e.g., Node Template, Relationship Template, etc.) which is declared (or reflected from a Property definition) in its declared type (e.g., a Node Type, Node Template, Capability Type, etc.). 

·         attribute_value, attribute_value_expresssion: represent the type-compatible value to assign to the named attribute.  Attribute values may be provided as the result from the evaluation of an expression or a function.

·         attribute_description: represents the optional description of the attribute.

3.5.11.3 Additional requirements

·         Attribute values MAY be provided by the underlying implementation at runtime when requested by the get_attribute function or it MAY be provided through the evaluation of expressions and/or functions that derive the values from other TOSCA attributes (also at runtime).

3.5.12 Parameter definition

A parameter definition is essentially a TOSCA property definition; however, it also allows a value to be assigned to it (as for a TOSCA property assignment). In addition, in the case of output parameters, it can optionally inherit the data type of the value assigned to it rather than have an explicit data type defined for it.

3.5.12.1 Keynames

The TOSCA parameter definition has all the keynames of a TOSCA Property definition, but in addition includes the following additional or changed keynames:

Keyname

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

type

no

string

None

The required data type for the parameter.

 

Note: This keyname is required for a TOSCA Property definition, but is not for a TOSCA Parameter definition.

value

no

<any>

N/A

The type-compatible value to assign to the named parameter.  Parameter values may be provided as the result from the evaluation of an expression or a function.

 

3.5.12.2 Grammar

Named parameter definitions have the following grammar:

<parameter_name>:

  type: <parameter_type>

  description: <parameter_description>

  value: <parameter_value> | { <parameter_value_expression> }

  required: <parameter_required>

  default: <parameter_default_value>

  status: <status_value>

  constraints:

    - <parameter_constraints>

  entry_schema:

    description: <entry_description>

    type: <entry_type>

    constraints:

      - <entry_constraints>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         parameter_name: represents the required symbolic name of the parameter as a string.

·         parameter_description: represents the optional description of the parameter.

·         parameter_type: represents the optional data type of the parameter.  Note, this keyname is required for a TOSCA Property definition, but is not for a TOSCA Parameter definition.

·         parameter_value, parameter_value_expresssion: represent the type-compatible value to assign to the named parameter.  Parameter values may be provided as the result from the evaluation of an expression or a function.

·         parameter_required: represents an optional boolean value (true or false) indicating whether or not the parameter is required.  If this keyname is not present on a parameter definition, then the property SHALL be considered required (i.e., true) by default.

·         default_value: contains a type-compatible value that may be used as a default if not provided by another means.

·         status_value: a string that contains a keyword that indicates the status of the parameter relative to the specification or implementation. 

·         parameter_constraints: represents the optional sequenced list of one or more constraint clauses on the parameter definition.

·         entry_description: represents the optional description of the entry schema.

·         entry_type: represents the required type name for entries in a list or map  parameter type.

·         entry_constraints: represents the optional sequenced list of one or more constraint clauses on entries in a list or map parameter type.

3.5.12.3 Additional Requirements

·         A parameter SHALL be considered required by default (i.e., as if the required keyname on the definition is set to true) unless the definition’s required keyname is explicitly set to false.

·         The value provided on a parameter definition’s default keyname SHALL be type compatible with the type declared on the definition’s type keyname.

3.5.12.4 Example

The following represents an example of an input parameter definition with constraints:

inputs:

  cpus:

    type: integer

    description: Number of CPUs for the server.

    constraints:

      - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

The following represents an example of an (untyped) output parameter definition:

outputs:

  server_ip:

    description: The private IP address of the provisioned server.

    value: { get_attribute: [ my_server, private_address ] }

 

3.5.13 Operation definition

An operation definition defines a named function or procedure that can be bound to an implementation artifact (e.g., a script).

3.5.13.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA operation definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

description

no

description

The optional description string for the associated named operation.

implementation

no

string

The optional implementation artifact name (e.g., a script file name within a TOSCA CSAR file). 

inputs

no

list of

property definitions

The optional list of input properties definitions (i.e., parameter definitions) for operation definitions that are within TOSCA Node or Relationship Type definitions. This includes when operation definitions are included as part of a Requirement definition in a Node Type.

no

list of

property assignments

The optional list of input property assignments (i.e., parameters assignments) for operation definitions that are within TOSCA Node or Relationship Template definitions. This includes when operation definitions are included as part of a Requirement assignment in a Node Template.

The following is the list of recognized keynames to be used with the implementation keyname within a TOSCA operation definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

primary

no

string

The optional implementation artifact name (i.e., the primary script file name within a TOSCA CSAR file). 

dependencies

no

list of

string

The optional ordered list of one or more dependent or secondary implementation artifact name which are referenced by the primary implementation artifact (e.g., a library the script installs or a secondary script). 

3.5.13.2 Grammar

Operation definitions have the following grammars:

3.5.13.2.1 Short notation

The following single-line grammar may be used when only an operation’s implementation artifact is needed:

<operation_name>: <implementation_artifact_name>

3.5.13.2.2 Extended notation for use in Type definitions

The following multi-line grammar may be used in Node or Relationship Type definitions when additional information about the operation is needed:

<operation_name>:

   description: <operation_description>

   implementation: <implementation_artifact_name>

   inputs:

     <property_definitions>

3.5.13.2.3 Extended notation for use in Template definitions

The following multi-line grammar may be used in Node or Relationship Template definitions when there are multiple artifacts that may be needed for the operation to be implemented:

<operation_name>:

   description: <operation_description>

   implementation:

     primary: <implementation_artifact_name>  

     dependencies:

       - <list_of_dependent_artifact_names>

   inputs:

     <property_assignments>

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         operation_name: represents the required symbolic name of the operation as a string.

·         operation_description: represents the optional description string for the corresponding operation_name.

·         implementation_artifact_name: represents the optional name (string) of an implementation artifact definition (defined elsewhere), or the direct name of an implementation artifact’s relative filename (e.g., a service template-relative, path-inclusive filename or absolute file location using a URL).

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of property definitions which the TOSCA orchestrator would make available (i.e., or pass) to the corresponding implementation artifact during its execution.

·         property_assignments: represents the optional list of property assignments for passing parameters to Node or Relationship Template operations providing values for properties defined in their respective type definitions.

·         list_of_dependent_artifact_names: represents the optional ordered list of one or more dependent or secondary implementation artifact names (as strings) which are referenced by the primary implementation artifact.  TOSCA orchestrators will copy these files to the same location as the primary artifact on the target node so as to make them accessible to the primary implementation artifact when it is executed.

3.5.13.3 Additional requirements

·         The default sub-classing behavior for implementations of operations SHALL be override.  That is, implementation artifacts assigned in subclasses override any defined in its parent class.

·         Template authors MAY provide property assignments on operation inputs on templates that do not necessarily have a property definition defined in its corresponding type.

·         Implementation artifact file names (e.g., script filenames) may include file directory path names that are relative to the TOSCA service template file itself when packaged within a TOSCA Cloud Service ARchive (CSAR) file.

3.5.13.4 Examples

3.5.13.4.1 Single-line implementation example

interfaces:

  Standard:

    start: scripts/start_server.sh

3.5.13.4.2 Multi-line implementation example

interfaces:

  Configure:

    pre_configure_source:

      implementation:

        primary: scripts/pre_configure_source.sh

        dependencies:

          - scripts/setup.sh

          - binaries/library.rpm

          - scripts/register.py

3.5.14 Interface definition

An interface definition defines a named interface that can be associated with a Node or Relationship Type

3.5.14.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA interface definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

inputs

no

list of

property definitions

The optional list of input property definitions available to all defined operations for interface definitions that are within TOSCA Node or Relationship Type definitions. This includes when interface definitions are included as part of a Requirement definition in a Node Type.

no

list of

property assignments

The optional list of input property assignments (i.e., parameters assignments) for interface definitions that are within TOSCA Node or Relationship Template definitions. This includes when interface definitions are referenced as part of a Requirement assignment in a Node Template.

3.5.14.2 Grammar

Interface definitions have the following grammar:

3.5.14.2.1 Extended notation for use in Type definitions

The following multi-line grammar may be used in Node or Relationship Type definitions:

<interface_definition_name>:

  type: <interface_type_name>

  inputs:

    <property_definitions>

  <operation_definitions>

3.5.14.2.2 Extended notation for use in Template definitions

The following multi-line grammar may be used in Node or Relationship Type definitions:

<interface_definition_name>:

  inputs:

    <property_assignments>

  <operation_definitions>

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         interface_definition_name: represents the required symbolic name of the interface as a string.

·         interface_type_name: represents the required name of the Interface Type for the interface definition.

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of property definitions (i.e., parameters) which the TOSCA orchestrator would make available (i.e., or pass) to all defined operations. 

-       This means these properties and their values would be accessible to the implementation artifacts (e.g., scripts) associated to each operation during their execution.

·         property_assignments: represents the optional list of property assignments for passing parameters to Node or Relationship Template operations providing values for properties defined in their respective type definitions.

·         operation_definitions: represents the required name of one or more operation definitions.

3.6 Type-specific definitions

3.6.1 Capability definition

A capability definition defines a named, typed set of data that can be associated with Node Type or Node Template to describe a transparent capability or feature of the software component the node describes.

3.6.1.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA capability definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

type

yes

string

N/A

The required name of the Capability Type the capability definition is based upon.

description

no

description

N/A

The optional description of the Capability definition.

properties

no

list of

property definitions

N/A

An optional list of property definitions for the Capability definition.

attributes

no

list of

attribute definitions

N/A

An optional list of attribute definitions for the Capability definition.

valid_source_types

no

string[]

N/A

An optional list of one or more valid names of Node Types that are supported as valid sources of any relationship established to the declared Capability Type.

occurrences

no

range of integer

implied default of [1,UNBOUNDED]

The optional minimum and maximum occurrences for the capability. By default, an exported Capability should allow at least one relationship to be formed with it with a maximum of UNBOUNDED relationships.

Note: the keyword UNBOUNDED is also supported to represent any positive integer.

3.6.1.2 Grammar

Capability definitions have one of the following grammars:

3.6.1.2.1 Short notation

The following grammar may be used when only a list of capability definition names needs to be declared:

<capability_definition_name>: <capability_type>

3.6.1.2.2 Extended notation

The following multi-line grammar may be used when additional information on the capability definition is needed:

<capability_definition_name>:

  type: <capability_type>

  description: <capability_description>

  properties:

    <property_definitions>

  attributes:

    <attribute_definitions>

  valid_source_types: [ <node type_names> ]

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         capability_definition_name: represents the symbolic name of the capability as a string.

·         capability_type: represents the required name of a capability type the capability definition is based upon.

·         capability_description: represents the optional description of the capability definition.

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of property definitions for the capability definition.

·         attribute_definitions: represents the optional list of attribute definitions for the capability definition.

·         node_type_names: represents the optional list of one or more names of Node Types that the Capability definition supports as valid sources for a successful relationship to be established to itself.

3.6.1.3 Examples

The following examples show capability definitions in both simple and full forms:

3.6.1.3.1 Simple notation example

# Simple notation, no properties defined or augmented

some_capability: mytypes.mycapabilities.MyCapabilityTypeName

3.6.1.3.2 Full notation example

# Full notation, augmenting properties of the referenced capability type

some_capability:

  type: mytypes.mycapabilities.MyCapabilityTypeName

  properties:

    limit:

      type: integer

      default: 100

3.6.1.4 Additional requirements

·         Any Node Type (names) provides as values for the valid_source_types keyname SHALL be type-compatible (i.e., derived from the same parent Node Type) with any Node Types defined using the same keyname in the parent Capability Type. 

·         Capability symbolic names SHALL be unique; it is an error if a capability name is found to occur more than once.

3.6.1.5 Notes

3.6.2 Requirement definition

The Requirement definition describes a named requirement (dependencies) of a TOSCA Node Type or Node template which needs to be fulfilled by a matching Capability definition declared by another TOSCA modelable entity.  The requirement definition may itself include the specific name of the fulfilling entity (explicitly) or provide an abstract type, along with additional filtering characteristics, that a TOSCA orchestrator can use to fulfill the capability at runtime (implicitly).

3.6.2.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA requirement definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

capability

yes

string

N/A

The required reserved keyname used that can be used to provide the name of a valid Capability Type  that can fulfill the requirement.

node

no

string

N/A

The optional reserved keyname used to provide the name of a valid Node Type that contains the capability definition that can be used to fulfill the requirement.

relationship

no

string

N/A

The optional reserved keyname used to provide the name of a valid Relationship Type to construct when fulfilling the requirement.

occurrences

no

range of integer

implied default of [1,1]

The optional minimum and maximum occurrences for the requirement.

Note: the keyword UNBOUNDED is also supported to represent any positive integer.

3.6.2.1.1 Additional Keynames for multi-line relationship grammar

The Requirement definition contains the Relationship Type information needed by TOSCA Orchestrators to construct relationships to other TOSCA nodes with matching capabilities; however, it is sometimes recognized that additional properties may need to be passed to the relationship (perhaps for configuration).  In these cases, additional grammar is provided so that the Node Type may declare additional Property definitions to be used as inputs to the Relationship Type’s declared interfaces (or specific operations of those interfaces). 

Keyname

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

type

yes

string

N/A

The optional reserved keyname used to provide the name of the Relationship Type for the requirement definition’s relationship keyname.

interfaces

no

list of interface definitions

N/A

The optional reserved keyname used to reference declared (named) interface definitions of the corresponding Relationship Type in order to declare additional Property definitions for these interfaces or operations of these interfaces.

3.6.2.2 Grammar

Requirement definitions have one of the following grammars:

3.6.2.2.1 Simple grammar (Capability Type only)

<requirement_name>: <capability_type_name>

3.6.2.2.2 Extended grammar (with Node and Relationship Types)

<requirement_name>:

  capability: <capability_type_name>

  node: <node_type_name>

  relationship: <relationship_type_name>

  occurrences: [ <min_occurrences>, <max_occurrences> ]

3.6.2.2.3 Extended grammar for declaring Property Definitions on the relationship’s Interfaces

The following additional multi-line grammar is provided for the relationship keyname in order to declare new Property definitions for inputs of known Interface definitions of the declared Relationship Type. 

<requirement_name>:

  # Other keynames omitted for brevity

  relationship:

    type: <relationship_type_name>

    interfaces:

      <interface_definitions>

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         requirement_name: represents the required symbolic name of the requirement definition as a string.

·         capability_type_name: represents the required name of a Capability type that can be used to fulfill the requirement.

·         node_type_name: represents the optional name of a TOSCA Node Type that contains the Capability Type definition the requirement can be fulfilled by. 

·         relationship_type_name: represents the optional name of a Relationship Type to be used to construct a relationship between this requirement definition (i.e., in the source node) to a matching capability definition (in a target node).

·         min_occurrences, max_occurrences: represents the optional minimum and maximum occurrences of the requirement (i.e., its cardinality).

·         interface_definitions: represents one or more already declared interface definitions in the Relationship Type (as declared on the type keyname) allowing for the declaration of new Property definition for these interfaces or for specific Operation definitions of these interfaces.

3.6.2.3 Additional Requirements

·         Requirement symbolic names SHALL be unique; it is an error if a requirement name is found to occur more than once.

·         If the occurrences keyname is not present, then the occurrence of the requirement SHALL be one and only one; that is a default declaration as follows would be assumed: 

o    occurrences: [1,1]

3.6.2.4 Notes

·         This element directly maps to the RequirementsDefinition of the Node Type entity as defined in the TOSCA v1.0 specification.

·         The requirement symbolic name is used for identification of the requirement definition only and not relied upon for establishing any relationships in the topology.

3.6.2.5 Requirement Type definition is a tuple

A requirement definition allows type designers to govern which types are allowed (valid) for fulfillment using three levels of specificity with only the Capability Type being required.

1.       Node Type (optional)

2.       Relationship Type (optional)

3.       Capability Type (required)

The first level allows selection, as shown in both the simple or complex grammar, simply providing the node’s type using the node keyname. The second level allows specification of the relationship type to use when connecting the requirement to the capability using the relationship keyname.  Finally, the specific named capability type on the target node is provided using the capability keyname.

3.6.2.5.1 Property filter

In addition to the node, relationship and capability types, a filter, with the keyname node_filter, may be provided to constrain the allowed set of potential target nodes based upon their properties and their capabilities’ properties.  This allows TOSCA orchestrators to help find the “best fit” when selecting among multiple potential target nodes for the expressed requirements.

3.6.3 Artifact Type

An Artifact Type is a reusable entity that defines the type of one or more files that are used to define implementation or deployment artifacts that are referenced by nodes or relationships on their operations.

3.6.3.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Artifact Type definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

derived_from

no

string

An optional parent Artifact Type name the Artifact Type derives from.

version

no

version

An optional version for the Artifact Type definition.

description

no

description

An optional description for the Artifact Type.

mime_type

no

string

The required mime type property for the Artifact Type.

file_ext

no

string[]

The required file extension property for the Artifact Type.

properties

no

list of

property definitions

An optional list of property definitions for the Artifact Type.

3.6.3.2 Grammar

Artifact Types have following grammar:

<artifact_type_name>:

  derived_from: <parent_artifact_type_name>

  version: <version_number>

  description: <artifact_description>

  mime_type: <mime_type_string>

  file_ext: [ <file_extensions> ]

  properties:

    <property_definitions>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         artifact_type_name: represents the name of the Artifact Type being declared as a string.

·         parent_artifact_type_name: represents the name of the Artifact Type this Artifact Type definition derives from (i.e., its “parent” type).

·         version_number: represents the optional TOSCA version number for the Artifact Type.

·         artifact_description: represents the optional description string for the Artifact Type.

·         mime_type_string: represents the optional Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) standard string value that describes the file contents for this type of Artifact Type as a string.

·         file_extensions: represents the optional list of one or more recognized file extensions for this type of artifact type as strings.

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of property definitions for the artifact type.

3.6.3.3 Examples

my_artifact_type:

  description: Java Archive artifact type

  derived_from: tosca.artifact.Root

  mime_type: application/java-archive

  file_ext: [ jar ]

3.6.4 Interface Type

An Interface Type is a reusable entity that describes a set of operations that can be used to interact with or manage a node or relationship in a TOSCA topology.

3.6.4.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Interface Type definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

derived_from

no

string

An optional parent Interface  Type name this new Interface Type derives from.

version

no

version

An optional version for the Interface Type definition.

description

no

description

An optional description for the Interface Type.

inputs

no

list of

property definitions

The optional list of input parameter definitions.

3.6.4.2 Grammar

Interface Types have following grammar:

<interface_type_name>:

  derived_from: <parent_interface_type_name>

  version: <version_number>

  description: <interface_description>

  inputs:

    <property_definitions>

  <operation_definitions>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         parent_interface_type_name: represents the name of the Interface Type this Interface Type definition derives from (i.e., its “parent” type).

·         version_number: represents the optional TOSCA version number for the Interface Type.

·         interface_description: represents the optional description string for the Interface Type.

3.6.4.3 Example

The following example shows a custom interface used to define multiple configure operations.

mycompany.mytypes.myinterfaces.MyConfigure:

  derived_from: tosca.interfaces.Root

  description: My custom configure Interface Type

  inputs:

    mode:

      type: string

  pre_configure_service:

    description: pre-configure operation for my service

  post_configure_service:

    description: post-configure operation for my service

3.6.4.4 Additional Requirements

·         Interface Types MUST NOT include any implementations for defined operations; that is, the implementation keyname is invalid.

·         The inputs keyname is reserved and SHALL NOT be used for an operation name.

3.6.4.5 Notes

·         The TOSCA Simple Profile specification does not yet provide a means to derive or extend an Interface Type from another Interface Type.

3.6.5 Data Type

A Data Type definition defines the schema for new named datatypes in TOSCA. 

3.6.5.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Data Type definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

derived_from

no

string

The optional key used when a datatype is derived from an existing TOSCA Data Type.

version

no

version

An optional version for the Data Type definition.

description

no

description

The optional description for the Data Type.

constraints

no

list of

constraint clauses

The optional list of sequenced constraint clauses for the Data Type. 

properties

no

list of

property definitions

The optional list property definitions that comprise the schema for a complex Data Type in TOSCA.

3.6.5.2 Grammar

Data Types have the following grammar:

<data_type_name>:

  derived_from: <existing_type_name>

  version: <version_number>

  description: <datatype_description>

  constraints:

    - <type_constraints>

  properties:

    <property_definitions>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         data_type_name: represents the required symbolic name of the Data Type as a string.

·         version_number: represents the optional TOSCA version number for the Data Type.

·         datatype_description: represents the optional description for the Data Type.

·         existing_type_name: represents the optional name of a valid TOSCA type this new Data Type would derive from.

·         type_constraints: represents the optional sequenced list of one or more type-compatible constraint clauses that restrict the Data Type.

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of one or more property definitions that provide the schema for the Data Type.

3.6.5.3 Additional Requirements

·         A valid datatype definition MUST have either a valid derived_from declaration or at least one valid property definition.

·         Any constraint clauses SHALL be type-compatible with the type declared by the derived_from keyname.

·         If a properties keyname is provided, it SHALL contain one or more valid property definitions.

3.6.5.4 Examples

The following example represents a Data Type definition based upon an existing string type:

3.6.5.4.1 Defining a complex datatype

# define a new complex datatype

mytypes.phonenumber:

  description: my phone number datatype

  properties:

    countrycode:

      type: integer

    areacode:

      type: integer

    number:

      type: integer

3.6.5.4.2 Defining a datatype derived from an existing datatype

# define a new datatype that derives from existing type and extends it

mytypes.phonenumber.extended:

  derived_from: mytypes.phonenumber

  description: custom phone number type that extends the basic phonenumber type

  properties:

    phone_description:

      type: string

      constraints:

        - max_length: 128

3.6.6 Capability Type

A Capability Type is a reusable entity that describes a kind of capability that a Node Type can declare to expose.  Requirements (implicit or explicit) that are declared as part of one node can be matched to (i.e., fulfilled by) the Capabilities declared by another node.

3.6.6.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Capability Type definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

derived_from

no

string

An optional parent capability type name this new Capability Type derives from.

version

no

version

An optional version for the Capability Type definition.

description

no

description

An optional description for the Capability Type.

properties

no

list of
property definitions

An optional list of property definitions for the Capability Type.

attributes

no

list of

attribute definitions

An optional list of attribute definitions for the Capability Type.

valid_source_types

no

string[]

An optional list of one or more valid names of Node Types that are supported as valid sources of any relationship established to the declared Capability Type.

3.6.6.2 Grammar

Capability Types have following grammar:

<capability_type_name>:

  derived_from: <parent_capability_type_name>

  version: <version_number>

  description: <capability_description>

  properties:

    <property_definitions>

  attributes:

    <attribute_definitions>

  valid_source_types: [ <node type_names> ]

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         capability_type_name: represents the required name of the Capability Type being declared as a string.

·         parent_capability_type_name: represents the name of the Capability Type this Capability Type definition derives from (i.e., its “parent” type).

·         version_number: represents the optional TOSCA version number for the Capability Type.

·         capability_description: represents the optional description string for the corresponding capability_type_name.

·         property_definitions: represents an optional list of property definitions that the Capability type exports.

·         attribute_definitions: represents the optional list of attribute definitions for the Capability Type.

·         node_type_names: represents the optional list of one or more names of Node Types that the Capability Type supports as valid sources for a successful relationship to be established to itself.

3.6.6.3 Example

mycompany.mytypes.myapplication.MyFeature:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Root

  description: a custom feature of my company’s application

  properties:

    my_feature_setting:

      type: string

    my_feature_value:

      type: integer

3.6.7 Requirement Type

A Requirement Type is a reusable entity that describes a kind of requirement that a Node Type can declare to expose.  The TOSCA Simple Profile seeks to simplify the need for declaring specific Requirement Types from nodes and instead rely upon nodes declaring their features sets using TOSCA Capability Types along with a named Feature notation.

Currently, there are no use cases in this TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML specification that utilize an independently defined Requirement Type.  This is a desired effect as part of the simplification of the TOSCA v1.0 specification.

3.6.8 Node Type

A Node Type is a reusable entity that defines the type of one or more Node Templates. As such, a Node Type defines the structure of observable properties via a Properties Definition, the Requirements and Capabilities of the node as well as its supported interfaces.

3.6.8.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Node Type definition:

Keyname

Required

Definition/Type

Description

derived_from

no

string

An optional parent Node Type name this new Node Type derives from.

version

no

version

An optional version for the Node Type definition.

description

no

description

An optional description for the Node Type.

properties

no

list of

property definitions

An optional list of property definitions for the Node Type.

attributes

no

list of

attribute definitions

An optional list of attribute definitions for the Node Type.

requirements

no

list of

requirement definitions

An optional sequenced list of requirement definitions for the Node Type.

capabilities

no

list of

capability definitions

An optional list of capability definitions for the Node Type.

interfaces

no

list of

interface definitions

An optional list of interface definitions supported by the Node Type.

artifacts

no

list of

artifact definitions

An optional list of named artifact definitions for the Node Type.

3.6.8.2 Grammar

Node Types have following grammar:

<node_type_name>: 

  derived_from: <parent_node_type_name>

  version: <version_number>

  description: <node_type_description>

  properties:

    <property_definitions>

  attributes:

    <attribute_definitions>

  requirements:

    - <requirement_definitions>

  capabilities:

    <capability_definitions>

  interfaces:

    <interface_definitions>

  artifacts:

    <artifact_definitions>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         node_type_name: represents the required symbolic name of the Node Type being declared.

·         parent_node_type_name: represents the name (string) of the Node Type this Node Type definition derives from (i.e., its “parent” type).

·         version_number: represents the optional TOSCA version number for the Node Type.

·         node_type_description: represents the optional description string for the corresponding node_type_name.

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of property definitions for the Node Type.

·         attribute_definitions: represents the optional list of attribute definitions for the Node Type.

·         requirement_definitions: represents the optional sequenced list of requirement definitions for the Node Type.

·         capability_definitions: represents the optional list of capability definitions for the Node Type.

·         interface_definitions: represents the optional list of one or more interface definitions supported by the Node Type.

·         artifact_definitions: represents the optional list of artifact definitions for the Node Type.

3.6.8.3 Additional Requirements

·         Requirements are intentionally expressed as a sequenced list of TOSCA Requirement definitions which SHOULD be resolved (processed) in sequence order by TOSCA Orchestrators. .

3.6.8.4 Best Practices

·         It is recommended that all Node Types SHOULD derive directly (as a parent) or indirectly (as an ancestor) of the TOSCA Root Node Type (i.e., tosca.nodes.Root) to promote compatibility and portability.  However, it is permitted to author Node Types that do not do so.

·         TOSCA Orchestrators, having a full view of the complete application topology template and its resultant dependency graph of nodes and relationships, MAY prioritize how they instantiate the nodes and relationships for the application (perhaps in parallel where possible) to achieve the greatest efficiency

3.6.8.5 Example

my_company.my_types.my_app_node_type:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent

  description: My company’s custom applicaton

  properties:

    my_app_password:

      type: string

      description: application password

      constraints:

        - min_length: 6

        - max_length: 10

  attributes:

    my_app_port:

      type: integer

      description: application port number

  requirements:

    - some_database:

        capability: EndPoint.Database

        node: Database   

        relationship: ConnectsTo

3.6.9 Relationship Type

A Relationship Type is a reusable entity that defines the type of one or more relationships between Node Types or Node Templates.

3.6.9.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Relationship Type definition:

Keyname

Required

Definition/Type

Description

derived_from

no

string

An optional parent Relationship Type name the Relationship Type derives from.

version

no

version

An optional version for the Relationship Type definition.

description

no

description

An optional description for the Relationship Type.

properties

no

list of

property definitions

An optional list of property definitions for the Relationship Type.

attributes

no

list of

attribute definitions

An optional list of attribute definitions for the Relationship Type.

interfaces

no

list of

interface definitions

An optional list of interface definitions interfaces supported by the Relationship Type.

valid_target_types

no

string[]

An optional list of one or more names of Capability Types that are valid targets for this relationship.

3.6.9.2 Grammar

Relationship Types have following grammar:

<relationship_type_name>:

  derived_from: <parent_relationship_type_name>

  version: <version_number>

  description: <relationship_description>

  properties:

    <property_definitions>

  attributes:

    <attribute_definitions>

  interfaces:

    <interface_definitions>

  valid_target_types: [ <capability_type_names> ]

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         relationship_type_name: represents the required symbolic name of the Relationship Type being declared as a string.

·         parent_relationship_type_name: represents the name (string) of the Relationship Type this Relationship Type definition derives from (i.e., its “parent” type).

·         relationship_description: represents the optional description string for the corresponding relationship_type_name.

·         version_number: represents the optional TOSCA version number for the Relationship Type.

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of property definitions for the Relationship Type.

·         attribute_definitions: represents the optional list of attribute definitions for the Relationship Type.

·         interface_definitions: represents the optional list of one or more names of valid interface definitions supported by the Relationship Type.

·         capability_type_names: represents one or more names of valid target types for the relationship (i.e., Capability Types).

3.6.9.3 Best Practices

·         For TOSCA application portability, it is recommended that designers use the normative Relationship types defined in this specification where possible and derive from them for customization purposes.

·         The TOSCA Root Relationship Type (tosca.relationships.Root) SHOULD be used to derive new types where possible when defining new relationships types.  This assures that its normative configuration interface (tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure) can be used in a deterministic way by TOSCA orchestrators.

3.6.9.4 Examples

mycompanytypes.myrelationships.AppDependency:

  derived_from: tosca.relationships.DependsOn

  valid_target_types: [ mycompanytypes.mycapabilities.SomeAppCapability ]

3.6.10 Group Type

A Group Type defines logical grouping types for nodes, typically for different management purposes. Groups can effectively be viewed as logical nodes that are not part of the physical deployment topology of an application, yet can have capabilities and the ability to attach policies and interfaces that can be applied (depending on the group type) to its member nodes.

 

Conceptually, group definitions allow the creation of logical “membership” relationships to nodes in a service template that are not a part of the application’s explicit requirement dependencies in the topology template (i.e. those required to actually get the application deployed and running). Instead, such logical membership allows for the introduction of things such as group management and uniform application of policies (i.e., requirements that are also not bound to the application itself) to the group’s members.

3.6.10.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Group Type definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

derived_from

no

string

An optional parent Group Type name the Group Type derives from.

version

no

version

An optional version for the Group Type definition.

description

no

description

The optional description for the Group Type.

properties

no

list of

property definitions

An optional list of property definitions for the Group Type.

members

no

string[]

An optional list of one or more names of Node Types that  are valid (allowed) as members of the Group Type. 

 

Note: This can be viewed by TOSCA Orchestrators as an implied relationship from the listed members nodes to the group, but one that does not have operational lifecycle considerations.  For example, if we were to name this as an explicit Relationship Type we might call this “MemberOf” (group).

interfaces

no

list of

interface definitions

An optional list of interface definitions supported by the Group Type.

3.6.10.2 Grammar

Group Types have one the following grammars:

<group_type_name>:

  derived_from: <parent_group_type_name>

  version: <version_number>

  description: <group_description>

  properties:

    <property_definitions>

  members: [ <list_of_valid_member_types> ]

  interfaces:

    <interface_definitions>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         group_type_name: represents the required symbolic name of the Group Type being declared as a string.

·         parent_group_type_name: represents the name (string) of the Group Type this Group Type definition derives from (i.e., its “parent” type).

·         version_number: represents the optional TOSCA version number for the Group Type.

·         group_description: represents the optional description string for the corresponding group_type_name.

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of property definitions for the Group Type.

·         list_of_valid_member_types: represents the optional list of TOSCA types (i.e., Node or Capability Types) that are valid member types for being added to (i.e., members of) the Group Type.

·         interface_definitions: represents the optional list of one or more interface definitions supported by the Group Type.

3.6.10.3 Additional Requirements

·         Group definitions SHOULD NOT be used to define or redefine relationships (dependencies) for an application that can be expressed using normative TOSCA Relationships within a TOSCA topology template.

·         The list of values associated with the “members” keyname MUST only contain types that or homogenous (i.e., derive from the same type hierarchy).

3.6.10.4 Example

The following represents a Group Type definition:

group_types:

  mycompany.mytypes.groups.placement:

    description: My company’s group type for placing nodes of type Compute

    members: [ tosca.nodes.Compute ]

3.6.11 Policy Type

A Policy Type defines a type of requirement that affects or governs an application or service’s topology at some stage of its lifecycle, but is not explicitly part of the topology itself (i.e., it does not prevent the application or service from being deployed or run if it did not exist).

3.6.11.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Policy Type definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

derived_from

no

string

An optional parent Policy Type name the Policy Type derives from.

version

no

version

An optional version for the Policy Type definition.

description

no

description

The optional description for the Policy Type.

properties

no

list of

property definitions

An optional list of property definitions for the Policy Type.

targets

 

no

string[]

An optional list of valid Node Types or Group Types the Policy Type can be applied to.

 

Note: This can be viewed by TOSCA Orchestrators as an implied relationship to the target nodes, but one that does not have operational lifecycle considerations.  For example, if we were to name this as an explicit Relationship Type we might call this “AppliesTo” (node or group).

3.6.11.2 Grammar

Policy Types have one the following grammars:

<policy_type_name>:

  derived_from: <parent_policy_type_name>

  version: <version_number>

  description: <policy_description>

  properties:

    <property_definitions>

  targets: [ <list_of_valid_target_types> ]

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         policy_type_name: represents the required symbolic name of the Policy Type being declared as a string.

·         parent_policy_type_name: represents the name (string) of the Policy Type this Policy Type definition derives from (i.e., its “parent” type).

·         version_number: represents the optional TOSCA version number for the Policy Type.

·         policy_description: represents the optional description string for the corresponding policy_type_name.

·         property_definitions: represents the optional list of property definitions for the Policy Type.

·         list_of_valid_target_types: represents the optional list of TOSCA types (i.e., Group or Node Types) that are valid targets for this Policy Type.

3.6.11.3 Additional Requirements

·         None

3.6.11.4 Example

The following represents a Policy Type definition:

policy_types:

  mycompany.mytypes.policies.placement.Container.Linux:

    description: My company’s placement policy for linux

    derived_from: tosca.policies.Root

3.7 Template-specific definitions

The definitions in this section provide reusable modeling element grammars that are specific to the Node or Relationship templates.

3.7.1 Capability assignment

A capability assignment allows node template authors to assign values to properties and attributes for a named capability definition that is part of a Node Template’s type definition.

3.7.1.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA capability assignment:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

properties

no

list of

property assignments

An optional list of property definitions for the Capability definition.

attributes

no

list of

attribute assignments

An optional list of attribute definitions for the Capability definition.

3.7.1.2 Grammar

Capability assignments have one of the following grammars:

<capability_definition_name>:

  properties:

    <property_assignments>

  attributes:

    <attribute_assignments>

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         capability_definition_name: represents the symbolic name of the capability as a string.

·         property_assignments: represents the optional list of property assignments for the capability definition.

·         attribute_assignments: represents the optional list of attribute assignments for the capability definition.

3.7.1.3 Example

The following example shows a capability assignment:

3.7.1.3.1 Notation example

node_templates:

  some_node_template:

    capabilities:

      some_capability:

        properties:

          limit: 100

3.7.2 Requirement assignment

A Requirement assignment allows template authors to provide either concrete names of TOSCA templates or provide abstract selection criteria for providers to use to find matching TOSCA templates that are used to fulfill a named requirement’s declared TOSCA Node Type.

3.7.2.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA requirement assignment:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

capability

no

string

The optional reserved keyname used to provide the name of either a:

·         Capability definition within a target node template that can fulfill the requirement.

·         Capability Type that the provider will use to select a type-compatible target node template to fulfill the requirement at runtime.

node

no

string

The optional reserved keyname used to identify the target node of a relationship.  specifically, it is used to provide either a:

·         Node Template name that can fulfill the target node requirement.

·         Node Type name that the provider will use to select a type-compatible node template to fulfill the requirement at runtime.

relationship

no

string

The optional reserved keyname used to provide the name of either a:

·         Relationship Template to use to relate the source node to the (capability in the) target node when fulfilling the requirement.

·         Relationship Type that the provider will use to select a type-compatible relationship template to relate the source node to the target node at runtime.

node_filter

no

node filter

The optional filter definition that TOSCA orchestrators or providers would use to select a type-compatible target node that can fulfill the associated abstract requirement at runtime.

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA requirement assignment’s relationship keyname which is used when Property assignments need to be provided to inputs of declared interfaces or their operations:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

type

no

string

The optional reserved keyname used to provide the name of the Relationship Type for the requirement assignment’s relationship keyname.

properties

no

list of

interface definitions

The optional reserved keyname used to reference declared (named) interface definitions of the corresponding Relationship Type in order to provide Property assignments for these interfaces or operations of these interfaces.

3.7.2.2 Grammar

Named requirement assignments have one of the following grammars:

3.7.2.2.1 Short notation:

The following single-line grammar may be used if only a concrete Node Template for the target node needs to be declared in the requirement:

<requirement_name>: <node_template_name>

This notation is only valid if the corresponding Requirement definition in the Node Template’s parent Node Type declares (at a minimum) a valid Capability Type which can be found in the declared target Node Template. A valid capability definition always needs to be provided in the requirement declaration of the source node to identify a specific capability definition in the target node the requirement will form a TOSCA relationship with.

3.7.2.2.2 Extended notation:

The following grammar would be used if the requirement assignment needs to provide more information than just the Node Template name:

<requirement_name>:

  node: <node_template_name> | <node_type_name>

  relationship: <relationship_template_name> | <relationship_type_name>

  capability: <capability_symbolic_name> | <capability_type_name>

  node_filter:

    <node_filter_definition>

  occurrences: [ min_occurrences, max_occurrences ]

3.7.2.2.3 Extended grammar with Property Assignments for the relationship’s Interfaces

The following additional multi-line grammar is provided for the relationship keyname in order to provide new Property assignments for inputs of known Interface definitions of the declared Relationship Type. 

<requirement_name>:

  # Other keynames omitted for brevity

  relationship:

    type: <relationship_template_name> | <relationship_type_name>

    properties:

      <property_assignments>

    interfaces:

      <interface_assignments>

Examples of uses for the extended requirement assignment grammar include:

·         The need to allow runtime selection of the target node based upon an abstract Node Type rather than a concrete Node Template.  This may include use of the node_filter keyname to provide node and capability filtering information to find the “best match” of a concrete Node Template at runtime.

·         The need to further clarify the concrete Relationship Template or abstract Relationship Type to use when relating the source node’s requirement to the target node’s capability.

·         The need to further clarify the concrete capability (symbolic) name or abstract Capability Type in the target node to form a relationship between.

·         The need to (further) constrain the occurrences of the requirement in the instance model.

In the above grammars, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         requirement_name: represents the symbolic name of a requirement assignment as a string.

·         node_template_name: represents the optional name of a Node Template that contains the capability this requirement will be fulfilled by.

·         relationship_template_name: represents the optional name of a Relationship Type to be used when relating the requirement appears to the capability in the target node.

·         capability_symbolic_name: represents the optional ordered list of specific, required capability type or named capability definition within the target Node Type or Template.

·         node_type_name: represents the optional name of a TOSCA Node Type the associated named requirement can be fulfilled by.  This must be a type that is compatible with the Node Type declared on the matching requirement (same symbolic name) the requirement’s Node Template is based upon.

·         relationship_type_name: represents the optional name of a Relationship Type that is compatible with the Capability Type in the target node.

·         property_assignments: represents the optional list of property value assignments for the declared relationship.

·         interface_assignments: represents the optional list of interface definitions for the declared relationship used to provide property assignments on inputs of interfaces and operations.

·         capability_type_name: represents the optional name of a Capability Type definition within the target Node Type this requirement needs to form a relationship with.

·         node_filter_definition: represents the optional node filter TOSCA orchestrators would use to fulfill the requirement for selecting a target node. Note that this SHALL only be valid if the node keyname’s value is a Node Type and is invalid if it is a Node Template.

3.7.2.3 Examples

3.7.2.3.1 Example 1 – Abstract hosting requirement on a Node Type

A web application node template named ‘my_application_node_template’ of type WebApplication declares a requirement named ‘host’ that needs to be fulfilled by any node that derives from the node type WebServer

# Example of a requirement fulfilled by a specific web server node template

node_templates:

  my_application_node_template:

    type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication

    ...

    requirements:

      - host:

          node: tosca.nodes.WebServer

In this case, the node template’s type is WebApplication which already declares the Relationship Type HostedOn to use to relate to the target node and the Capability Type of Container to be the specific target of the requirement in the target node.

3.7.2.3.2 Example  2 - Requirement with Node Template and a custom Relationship Type

This example is similar to the previous example; however, the requirement named ‘database’ describes a requirement for a connection to a database endpoint (Endpoint.Database) Capability Type in a named node template (my_database). However, the connection requires a custom Relationship Type (my.types.CustomDbConnection’) declared on the keyname ‘relationship’.

# Example of a (database) requirement that is fulfilled by a node template named

# “my_database”, but also requires a custom database connection relationship

my_application_node_template:

  requirements:

    - database:

        node: my_database

        capability: Endpoint.Database

        relationship: my.types.CustomDbConnection

3.7.2.3.3 Example 3 - Requirement for a Compute node with additional selection criteria (filter)

This example shows how to extend an abstract ‘host’ requirement for a Compute node with a filter definition that further constrains TOSCA orchestrators to include additional properties and capabilities on the target node when fulfilling the requirement.

node_templates:

  mysql:

   type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

    properties:

      # omitted here for brevity

    requirements:

      - host:

          node: tosca.nodes.Compute

          node_filter:

            capabilities:

              - host:

                  properties:

                    - num_cpus: { in_range: [ 1, 4 ] }

                    - mem_size: { greater_or_equal: 512 MB }

              - os:

                  properties:

                    - architecture: { equal: x86_64 }

                    - type: { equal: linux }

                    - distribution: { equal: ubuntu }

              - mytypes.capabilities.compute.encryption:

                  properties:

                    - algorithm: { equal: aes }

                    - keylength: { valid_values: [ 128, 256 ] }

3.7.3 Node Template

A Node Template specifies the occurrence of a manageable software component as part of an application’s topology model which is defined in a TOSCA Service Template.  A Node template is an instance of a specified Node Type and can provide customized properties, constraints or operations which override the defaults provided by its Node Type and its implementations.

3.7.3.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Node Template definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

type

yes

string

The required name of the Node Type the Node Template is based upon.

description

no

description

An optional description for the Node Template.

directives

no

string[]

An optional list of directive values to provide processing instructions to orchestrators and tooling.

properties

no

list of

property assignments

An optional list of property value assignments for the Node Template.

attributes

no

list of

attribute assignments

An optional list of attribute value assignments for the Node Template.

requirements

no

list of

requirement assignments

An optional sequenced list of requirement assignments for the Node Template.

capabilities

no

list of

capability assignments

An optional list of capability assignments for the Node Template.

interfaces

no

list of

interface definitions

An optional list of named interface definitions for the Node Template.

artifacts

no

list of

artifact definitions

 

An optional list of named artifact definitions for the Node Template.

node_filter

no

node filter

The optional filter definition that TOSCA orchestrators would use to select the correct target node.  This keyname is only valid if the directive has the value of “selectable” set.

copy

no

string

The optional (symbolic) name of another node template to copy into (all keynames and values) and use as a basis for this node template.

3.7.3.2 Grammar

<node_template_name>:

  type: <node_type_name>

  description: <node_template_description>

  directives: [<directives>]

  properties:

    <property_assignments>

  attributes:

    <attribute_assignments>

  requirements:

    - <requirement_assignments>

  capabilities:

    <capability_assignments>

  interfaces:

    <interface_definitions>

  artifacts:

    <artifact_definitions>

  node_filter:

    <node_filter_definition>

  copy: <source_node_template_name>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         node_template_name: represents the required symbolic name of the Node Template being declared.

·         node_type_name: represents the name of the Node Type the Node Template is based upon.

·         node_template_description: represents the optional description string for Node Template.

·         directives: represents the optional list of processing instruction keywords (as strings) for use by tooling and orchestrators.

·         property_assignments: represents the optional list of property assignments for the Node Template that provide values for properties defined in its declared Node Type.

·         attribute_assignments: represents the optional list of attribute assignments  for the Node Template that provide values for attributes defined in its declared Node Type.

·         requirement_assignments: represents the optional sequenced list of requirement assignments for the Node Template that allow assignment of type-compatible capabilities, target nodes, relationships and target (node filters) for use when fulfilling the requirement at runtime.

·         capability_assignments: represents the optional list of capability assignments for the Node Template that augment those provided by its declared Node Type.

·         interface_definitions: represents the optional list of interface definitions for the Node Template that augment those provided by its declared Node Type.

·         artifact_definitions: represents the optional list of artifact definitions for the Node Template that augment those provided by its declared Node Type.

·         node_filter_definition: represents the optional node filter TOSCA orchestrators would use for selecting a matching node template.

·         source_node_template_name: represents the optional (symbolic) name of another node template to copy into (all keynames and values) and use as a basis for this node template.

3.7.3.3 Additional requirements

·         The node_filter keyword (and supporting grammar) SHALL only be valid if the Node Template has a directive keyname with the value of “selectable” set.

·         The source node template provided as a value on the copy keyname MUST NOT itself use the copy keyname (i.e., it must itself be a complete node template description and not copied from another node template).

3.7.3.4 Example

node_templates:

  mysql:

    type: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

    properties:

      root_password: { get_input: my_mysql_rootpw }

      port: { get_input: my_mysql_port }

    requirements:

      - host: db_server

    interfaces:

      Standard:

        configure: scripts/my_own_configure.sh

3.7.4 Relationship Template

A Relationship Template specifies the occurrence of a manageable relationship between node templates as part of an application’s topology model that is defined in a TOSCA Service Template.  A Relationship template is an instance of a specified Relationship Type and can provide customized properties, constraints or operations which override the defaults provided by its Relationship Type and its implementations.

3.7.4.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Relationship Template definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

type

yes

string

The required name of the Relationship Type the Relationship Template is based upon.

description

no

description

An optional description for the Relationship Template.

properties

no

list of

property assignments

An optional list of property assignments for the Relationship Template.

attributes

no

list of

attribute assignments

An optional list of attribute assignments for the Relationship Template.

interfaces

no

list of

interface definitions

An optional list of named interface definitions for the Node Template.

copy

no

string

The optional (symbolic) name of another relationship template to copy into (all keynames and values) and use as a basis for this relationship template.

3.7.4.2 Grammar

<relationship_template_name>:

  type: <relationship_type_name>

  description: <relationship_type_description>

  properties:

    <property_assignments>

  attributes:

    <attribute_assignments>

  interfaces:

    <interface_definitions>

  copy:

    <source_relationship_template_name>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         relationship_template_name: represents the required symbolic name of the Relationship Template being declared.

·         relationship_type_name: represents the name of the Relationship Type the Relationship Template is based upon.

·         relationship_template_description: represents the optional description string for the Relationship Template.

·         property_assignments: represents the optional list of property assignments for the Relationship Template that provide values for properties defined in its declared Relationship Type.

·         attribute_assignments: represents the optional list of attribute assignments  for the Relationship Template that provide values for attributes defined in its declared Relationship Type.

·         interface_definitions: represents the optional list of interface definitions for the Relationship Template that augment those provided by its declared Relationship Type.

·         source_relationship_template_name: represents the optional (symbolic) name of another relationship template to copy into (all keynames and values) and use as a basis for this relationship template.

3.7.4.3 Additional requirements

·         The source relationship template provided as a value on the copy keyname MUST NOT itself use the copy keyname (i.e., it must itself be a complete relationship template description and not copied from another relationship template).

3.7.4.4 Example

relationship_templates:

  storage_attachment:

    type: AttachesTo

    properties:

      location: /my_mount_point

3.7.5 Group definition

A group definition defines a logical grouping of node templates, typically for management purposes, but is separate from the application’s topology template.

3.7.5.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA group definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

type

yes

string

The required name of the group type the group definition is based upon.

description

no

description

The optional description for the group definition.

properties

no

list of

property assignments

An optional list of property value assignments for the group definition.

members

no

list of string

The optional list of one or more node template names that are members of this group definition.

interfaces

no

list of

interface definitions

An optional list of named interface definitions for the group definition.

3.7.5.2 Grammar

Group definitions have one the following grammars:

<group_name>:

  type: <group_type_name>

  description: <group_description>

  properties:

    <property_assignments>

  members: [ <list_of_node_templates> ]

  interfaces:

    <interface_definitions>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         group_name: represents the required symbolic name of the group as a string.

·         group_type_name: represents the name of the Group Type the definition is based upon.

·         group_description: contains an optional description of the group.

·         property_assignments: represents the optional list of property assignments for the group definition that provide values for properties defined in its declared Group Type.

·         list_of_node_templates: contains the required list of one or more node template names (within the same topology template) that are members of this logical group.

·         interface_definitions: represents the optional list of interface definitions for the group definition that augment those provided by its declared Group Type.

3.7.5.3 Additional Requirements

·         Group definitions SHOULD NOT be used to define or redefine relationships (dependencies) for an application that can be expressed using normative TOSCA Relationships within a TOSCA topology template.

3.7.5.4 Example

The following represents a group definition:

groups:

  my_app_placement_group:

    type: tosca.groups.Root

    description: My application’s logical component grouping for placement

    members: [ my_web_server, my_sql_database ]

3.7.6 Policy definition

A policy definition defines a policy that can be associated with a TOSCA topology or top-level entity definition (e.g., group definition, node template, etc.).

3.7.6.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA policy definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

type

yes

string

The required name of the policy type the policy definition is based upon.

description

no

description

The optional description for the policy definition.

properties

no

list of

property assignments

An optional list of property value assignments for the policy definition.

targets

 

no

string[]

An optional list of valid Node Templates or Groups the Policy can be applied to.

3.7.6.2 Grammar

Policy definitions have one the following grammars:

<policy_name>:

  type: <policy_type_name>

  description: <policy_description>

  properties:

    <property_assignments>

  targets: [<list_of_policy_targets>]

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         policy_name: represents the required symbolic name of the policy as a string.

·         policy_type_name: represents the name of the policy the definition is based upon.

·         policy_description: contains an optional description of the policy.

·         property_assignments: represents the optional list of property assignments for the policy definition  that provide values for properties defined in its declared Policy Type.

·         list_of_policy_targets: represents the optional list of names of node templates or groups that the policy is to applied to.

3.7.6.3 Example

The following represents a policy definition:

policies:

  - my_compute_placement_policy:

      type: tosca.policies.placement

      description: Apply my placement policy to my application’s servers

      targets: [ my_server_1, my_server_2 ]

3.8 Topology Template definition

This section defines the topology template of a cloud application. The main ingredients of the topology template are node templates representing components of the application and relationship templates representing links between the components. These elements are defined in the nested node_templates section and the nested relationship_templates sections, respectively.  Furthermore, a topology template allows for defining input parameters, output parameters as well as grouping of node templates.

3.8.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Topology Template:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

description

no

description

The optional description for the Topology Template.

inputs

no

list of

parameter definitions

An optional list of input parameters (i.e., as parameter definitions) for the Topology Template.

node_templates

no

list of

node templates

An optional list of node template definitions for the Topology Template.

relationship_templates

no

list of

relationship templates

An optional list of relationship templates for the Topology Template.

groups

no

list of

group definitions

An optional list of Group definitions whose members are node templates defined within this same Topology Template.

policies

no

list of

policy definitions

An optional list of Policy definitions for the Topology Template.

outputs

no

list of

parameter definitions

An optional list of output parameters (i.e., as parameter definitions) for the Topology Template.

substitution_mappings

no

N/A

An optional declaration that exports the topology template as an implementation of a Node type.

 

This also includes the mappings between the external Node Types named capabilities and requirements to existing implementations of those capabilities and requirements on Node templates declared within the topology template.

3.8.2 Grammar

The overall grammar of the topology_template section is shown below.–Detailed grammar definitions of the each sub-sections are provided in subsequent subsections.

topology_template:

  description: <template_description>

  inputs: <input_parameter_list>

  outputs: <output_parameter_list>

  node_templates: <node_template_list>

  relationship_templates: <relationship_template_list>

  groups: <group_definition_list>

  policies:

    - <policy_definition_list>

 

  # Optional declaration that exports the Topology Template

  # as an implementation of a Node Type.

  substitution_mappings:

    node_type: <node_type_name>

    capabilities:

      <map_of_capability_mappings_to_expose>

    requirements:

      <map_of_requirement_mapping_to_expose>

In the above grammar, the pseudo values that appear in angle brackets have the following meaning:

·         template_description: represents the optional description string for Topology Template.

·         input_parameter_list: represents the optional list of input parameters (i.e., as property definitions) for the Topology Template.

·         output_parameter_list: represents the optional list of output parameters (i.e., as property definitions) for the Topology Template.

·         group_definition_list: represents the optional list of group definitions whose members are node templates that also are defined within this Topology Template.

·         policy_definition_list: represents the optional sequenced list of policy definitions for the Topology Template.

·         node_template_list: represents the optional list of node template definitions for the Topology Template.

·         relationship_template_list: represents the optional list of relationship templates for the Topology Template.

·         node_type_name: represents the optional name of a Node Type that the Topology Template implements as part of the substitution_mappings.

·         map_of_capability_mappings_to_expose: represents the mappings that expose internal capabilities from node templates (within the topology template) as capabilities of the Node Type definition that is declared as part of the substitution_mappings.

·         map_of_requirement_mappings_to_expose: represents the mappings of link requirements of the Node Type definition that is declared as part of the substitution_mappings to internal requirements implementations within node templates (declared within the topology template).

 

More detailed explanations for each of the Topology Template grammar’s keynames appears in the sections below.

3.8.2.1 inputs

The inputs section provides a means to define parameters using TOSCA parameter definitions, their allowed values via constraints and default values within a TOSCA Simple Profile template. Input parameters defined in the inputs section of a topology template can be mapped to properties of node templates or relationship templates within the same topology template and can thus be used for parameterizing the instantiation of the topology template.

 

This section defines topology template-level input parameter section.

·         Inputs here would ideally be mapped to BoundaryDefinitions in TOSCA v1.0.

·         Treat input parameters as fixed global variables (not settable within template)

·         If not in input take default (nodes use default)

3.8.2.1.1 Grammar

The grammar of the inputs section is as follows:

inputs:

  <parameter_definition_list>

3.8.2.1.2 Examples

This section provides a set of examples for the single elements of a topology template.

Simple inputs example without any constraints:

inputs:

  fooName:

    type: string

    description: Simple string typed property definition with no constraints.

    default: bar

Example of inputs with constraints:

inputs:

  SiteName:

    type: string

    description: string typed property definition with constraints

    default: My Site

    constraints:

      - min_length: 9

3.8.2.2 node_templates

The node_templates section lists the Node Templates that describe the (software) components that are used to compose cloud applications.

3.8.2.2.1 grammar

The grammar of the node_templates section is a follows:

node_templates:

  <node_template_defn_1>

  ...

  <node_template_defn_n>

3.8.2.2.2 Example

Example of node_templates section:

node_templates:

  my_webapp_node_template:

    type: WebApplication

 

  my_database_node_template:

    type: Database

3.8.2.3 relationship_templates

The relationship_templates section lists the Relationship Templates that describe the relations between components that are used to compose cloud applications.

 

Note that in the TOSCA Simple Profile, the explicit definition of relationship templates as it was required in TOSCA v1.0 is optional, since relationships between nodes get implicitly defined by referencing other node templates in the requirements sections of node templates.

3.8.2.3.1 Grammar

The grammar of the relationship_templates section is as follows:

relationship_templates:

  <relationship_template_defn_1>

  ...

  <relationship_template_defn_n>

3.8.2.3.2 Example

Example of relationship_templates section:

relationship_templates:

  my_connectsto_relationship:

    type: tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo

    interfaces:

      Configure:

        inputs:

          speed: { get_attribute: [ SOURCE, connect_speed ] }     

3.8.2.4 outputs

The outputs section provides a means to define the output parameters that are available from a TOSCA Simple Profile service template. It allows for exposing attributes of node templates or relationship templates within the containing topology_template to users of a service.

3.8.2.4.1 Grammar

The grammar of the outputs section is as follows:

outputs:

  <parameter_def_list>

3.8.2.4.2 Example

Example of the outputs section:

outputs:

  server_address:

    description: The first private IP address for the provisioned server.

    value: { get_attribute: [ HOST, networks, private, addresses, 0 ] }

3.8.2.5 groups

The groups section allows for grouping one or more node templates within a TOSCA Service Template and for assigning special attributes like policies to the group.

3.8.2.5.1 Grammar

The grammar of the groups section is as follows:

groups:

  <group_defn_1>

  ...

  <group_defn_n>

3.8.2.5.2 Example

The following example shows the definition of three Compute nodes in the node_templates section of a topology_template as well as the grouping of two of the Compute nodes in a group server_group_1.

node_templates:

  server1:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    # more details ...

 

  server2:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    # more details ...

 

  server3:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    # more details ...

 

groups:

  # server2 and server3 are part of the same group

  server_group_1:

    type: tosca.groups.Root

    members: [ server2, server3 ]

3.8.2.6 policies

The policies section allows for declaring policies that can be applied to entities in the topology template.

3.8.2.6.1 Grammar

The grammar of the policies section is as follows:

policies:

  - <policy_defn_1>

  - ...

  - <policy_defn_n>

3.8.2.6.2 Example

The following example shows the definition of a placement policy.

policies:

  - my_placement_policy:

      type: mycompany.mytypes.policy.placement

3.8.2.7 Notes

·         The parameters (properties) that are listed as part of the inputs block can be mapped to PropertyMappings provided as part of BoundaryDefinitions as described by the TOSCA v1.0 specification.

·         The node templates listed as part of the node_templates block can be mapped to the list of NodeTemplate definitions provided as part of TopologyTemplate of a ServiceTemplate as described by the TOSCA v1.0 specification.

·         The relationship templates listed as part of the relationship_templates block can be mapped to the list of RelationshipTemplate definitions provided as part of TopologyTemplate of a ServiceTemplate as described by the TOSCA v1.0 specification.

·         The output parameters that are listed as part of the outputs section of a topology template can be mapped to PropertyMappings provided as part of BoundaryDefinitions as described by the TOSCA v1.0 specification.

o   Note, however, that TOSCA v1.0 does not define a direction (input vs. output) for those mappings, i.e. TOSCA v1.0 PropertyMappings are underspecified in that respect and TOSCA Simple Profile’s inputs and outputs provide a more concrete definition of input and output parameters.

3.9 Service Template definition

A TOSCA Service Template (YAML) document contains element definitions of building blocks for cloud application, or complete models of cloud applications. This section describes the top-level structural elements (TOSCA keynames) along with their grammars, which are allowed to appear in a TOSCA Service Template document.

3.9.1 Keynames

The following is the list of recognized keynames for a TOSCA Service Template definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

tosca_definitions_version

yes

string

Defines the version of the TOSCA Simple Profile specification the template (grammar) complies with.

metadata

no

map of string

Defines a section used to declare additional metadata information.  Domain-specific TOSCA profile specifications may define keynames that are required for their implementations.

description

no

description

Declares a description for this Service Template and its contents.

dsl_definitions

no

N/A

Declares optional DSL-specific definitions and conventions.  For example, in YAML, this allows defining reusable YAML macros (i.e., YAML alias anchors) for use throughout the TOSCA Service Template.

repositories

no

list of

Repository definitions

Declares the list of external repositories which contain artifacts that are referenced in the service template along with their addresses and necessary credential information used to connect to them in order to retrieve the artifacts.

imports

no

list of

Import Definitions

Declares import statements external TOSCA Definitions documents. For example, these may be file location or URIs relative to the service template file within the same TOSCA CSAR file.

artifact_types

no

list of

Artifact Types

This section contains an optional list of artifact type definitions for use in the service template

data_types

no

list of

Data Types

Declares a list of optional TOSCA Data Type definitions.

capability_types

no

list of

Capability Types

This section contains an optional list of capability type definitions for use in the service template.

interface_types

no

list of

Interface Types

This section contains an optional list of interface type definitions for use in the service template.

relationship_types

no

list of

Relationship Types

This section contains a set of relationship type definitions for use in the service template.

node_types

no

list of

Node Types

This section contains a set of node type definitions for use in the service template.

group_types

no

list of

Group Types

This section contains a list of group type definitions for use in the service template.

policy_types

no

list of

Policy Types

This section contains a list of policy type definitions for use in the service template.

topology_template

no

Topology Template definition

Defines the topology template of an application or service, consisting of node templates that represent the application’s or service’s components, as well as relationship templates representing relations between the components.

3.9.1.1 Metadata keynames

The following is the list of recognized metadata keynames for a TOSCA Service Template definition:

Keyname

Required

Type

Description

template_name

no

string

Declares a descriptive name for the template. 

template_author

no

string

Declares the author(s) or owner of the template.

template_version

no

string

Declares the version string for the template.

3.9.2 Grammar

The overall structure of a TOSCA Service Template and its top-level key collations using the TOSCA Simple Profile is shown below:

tosca_definitions_version: # Required TOSCA Definitions version string

 

# Optional metadata keyname: value pairs

metadata:

  template_name:             # Optional name of this service template

  template_author:           # Optional author of this service template

  template_version:          # Optional version of this service template

  #  Optional list of domain or profile specific metadata keynames

 

# Optional description of the definitions inside the file.

description: <template_type_description>

 

dsl_definitions:

  # list of YAML alias anchors (or macros)

 

repositories:

  # list of external repository definitions which host TOSCA artifacts

 

imports:

  # ordered list of import definitions

 

artifact_types:

  # list of artifact type definitions

 

data_types:

  # list of datatype definitions

 

capability_types:

  # list of capability type definitions

 

interface_types

  # list of interface type definitions

 

relationship_types:

  # list of relationship type definitions

 

node_types:

  # list of node type definitions

 

group_types:

  # list of group type definitions

 

policy_types:

  # list of policy type definitions

 

topology_template:

  # topology template definition of the cloud application or service

3.9.2.1 Notes

·         TOSCA Service Templates do not have to contain a topology_template and MAY contain simply type definitions (e.g., Artifact, Interface, Capability, Node, Relationship Types, etc.) and be imported for use as type definitions in other TOSCA Service Templates.

3.9.3 Top-level keyname definitions

3.9.3.1 tosca_definitions_version

This required element provides a means to include a reference to the TOSCA Simple Profile specification within the TOSCA Definitions YAML file.  It is an indicator for the version of the TOSCA grammar that should be used to parse the remainder of the document.

3.9.3.1.1 Keyname

tosca_definitions_version

3.9.3.1.2 Grammar

Single-line form:

tosca_definitions_version: <tosca_simple_profile_version>

3.9.3.1.3 Examples:

TOSCA Simple Profile version 1.0 specification using the defined namespace alias (see Section 3.1):

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

TOSCA Simple Profile version 1.0 specification using the fully defined (target) namespace (see Section 3.1):

tosca_definitions_version: http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/ns/simple/yaml/1.0

3.9.3.2 metadata

This keyname is used to associate domain-specific metadata with the Service Template.  The metadata keyname allows a declaration of a map of keynames with string values.

3.9.3.2.1 Keyname

metadata

3.9.3.2.2 Grammar

metadata:

  <map_of_string_values>

3.9.3.2.3 Example

metadata:

  creation_date: 2015-04-14

  date_updated: 2015-05-01

  status: developmental 

 

3.9.3.3 template_name

This optional metadata keyname can be used to declare the name of service template as a single-line string value.

3.9.3.3.1 Keyname

template_name

3.9.3.3.2 Grammar

template_name: <name string>

3.9.3.3.3 Example

template_name: My service template

3.9.3.3.4 Notes

·         Some service templates are designed to be referenced and reused by other service templates.  Therefore, in these cases, the template_name value SHOULD be designed to be used as a unique identifier through the use of namespacing techniques. 

3.9.3.4 template_author

This optional metadata keyname can be used to declare the author(s) of the service template as a single-line string value.

3.9.3.4.1 Keyname

template_author

3.9.3.4.2 Grammar

template_author: <author string>

3.9.3.4.3 Example

template_author: My service template

3.9.3.5 template_version

This optional metadata keyname can be used to declare a domain specific version of the service template as a single-line string value.

3.9.3.5.1 Keyname

template_version

3.9.3.5.2 Grammar

template_version: <version>

3.9.3.5.3 Example

template_version: 2.0.17

3.9.3.5.4 Notes:

·         Some service templates are designed to be referenced and reused by other service templates and have a lifecycle of their own.  Therefore, in these cases, a template_version value SHOULD be included and used in conjunction with a unique template_name value to enable lifecycle management of the service template and its contents. 

3.9.3.6 description

This optional keyname provides a means to include single or multiline descriptions within a TOSCA Simple Profile template as a scalar string value.

3.9.3.6.1 Keyname

description

3.9.3.7 dsl_definitions

This optional keyname provides a section to define macros (e.g., YAML-style macros when using the TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML specification).

3.9.3.7.1 Keyname

dsl_definitions

3.9.3.7.2 Grammar

dsl_definitions:

   <dsl_definition_1>

   ...

   <dsl_definition_n>

3.9.3.7.3 Example

dsl_definitions:

    ubuntu_image_props: &ubuntu_image_props

      architecture: x86_64

      type: linux

      distribution: ubuntu

      os_version: 14.04

 

    redhat_image_props: &redhat_image_props

      architecture: x86_64

      type: linux

      distribution: rhel

      os_version: 6.6

3.9.3.8 repositories

This optional keyname provides a section to define external repositories which may contain artifacts or other TOSCA Service Templates which might be referenced or imported by the TOSCA Service Template definition.

3.9.3.8.1 Keyname

repositories

3.9.3.8.2 Grammar

repositories:

   <repository_definition_1>

   ...

   <repository_definition_n>

3.9.3.8.3 Example

repositories:

  my_project_artifact_repo:

    description: development repository for TAR archives and Bash scripts

    url: http://mycompany.com/repository/myproject/

3.9.3.9 imports

This optional keyname provides a way to import a block sequence of one or more TOSCA Definitions documents.  TOSCA Definitions documents can contain reusable TOSCA type definitions (e.g., Node Types, Relationship Types, Artifact Types, etc.) defined by other authors.  This mechanism provides an effective way for companies and organizations to define normative types and/or describe their software applications for reuse in other TOSCA Service Templates.

3.9.3.9.1 Keyname

imports

3.9.3.9.2 Grammar

imports:

   - <import_definition_1>

   - ...

   - <import_definition_n>

3.9.3.9.3 Example

# An example import of definitions files from a location relative to the

# file location of the service template declaring the import.

imports:

  - some_definitions: relative_path/my_defns/my_typesdefs_1.yaml

  - more_definitions:

      file: my_defns/my_typesdefs_n.yaml   

      repository: my_company_repo

      namespace_uri: http://mycompany.com/ns/tosca/2.0

      namespace_prefix: mycompany

3.9.3.10 artifact_types

This optional keyname lists the Artifact Types that are defined by this Service Template.

3.9.3.10.1 Keyname

artifact_types

3.9.3.10.2 Grammar

artifact_types:

  <artifact_type_defn_1>

  ...

  <artifact type_defn_n>

3.9.3.10.3 Example

artifact_types:

  mycompany.artifacttypes.myFileType:

    derived_from: tosca.artifacts.File

3.9.3.11 data_types

This optional keyname provides a section to define new data types in TOSCA.

3.9.3.11.1 Keyname

data_types

3.9.3.11.2 Grammar

data_types:

   <tosca_datatype_def_1>

   ...

   <tosca_datatype_def_n>

3.9.3.11.3 Example

data_types:

  # A complex datatype definition

  simple_contactinfo_type:

    properties:

      name:

        type: string

      email:

        type: string

      phone:

        type: string

 

  # datatype definition derived from an existing type

  full_contact_info:

    derived_from: simple_contact_info

    properties:

      street_address:

        type: string

      city:

        type: string

      state:

        type: string

      postalcode:

        type: string

3.9.3.12 capability_types

This optional keyname lists the Capability Types that provide the reusable type definitions that can be used to describe features Node Templates or Node Types can declare they support.

3.9.3.12.1 Keyname

capability_types

3.9.3.12.2 Grammar

capability_types:

  <capability_type_defn_1>

  ...

  <capability type_defn_n>

3.9.3.12.3 Example

capability_types:

  mycompany.mytypes.myCustomEndpoint:

    derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

    properties:

      # more details ...

 

  mycompany.mytypes.myCustomFeature:

    derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Feature

    properties:

      # more details ...

3.9.3.13 interface_types

This optional keyname lists the Interface Types that provide the reusable type definitions that can be used to describe operations for on TOSCA entities such as Relationship Types and Node Types.

3.9.3.13.1 Keyname

interface_types

3.9.3.13.2 Grammar

interface_types:

  <interface_type_defn_1>

  ...

  <interface type_defn_n>

3.9.3.13.3 Example

interface_types:

  mycompany.interfaces.service.Signal:

    signal_begin_receive:

      description: Operation to signal start of some message processing.

    signal_end_receive:

      description: Operation to signal end of some message processed.

3.9.3.14 relationship_types

This optional keyname lists the Relationship Types that provide the reusable type definitions that can be used to describe dependent relationships between Node Templates or Node Types.

3.9.3.14.1 Keyname

relationship_types

3.9.3.14.2 Grammar

relationship_types:

  <relationship_type_defn_1>

  ...

  <relationship type_defn_n>

3.9.3.14.3 Example

relationship_types:

  mycompany.mytypes.myCustomClientServerType:

    derived_from: tosca.relationships.HostedOn

    properties:

      # more details ...

  mycompany.mytypes.myCustomConnectionType:

    derived_from: tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo

    properties:

      # more details ...

3.9.3.15 node_types

This optional keyname lists the Node Types that provide the reusable type definitions for software components that Node Templates can be based upon.

3.9.3.15.1 Keyname

node_types

3.9.3.15.2 Grammar

node_types:

  <node_type_defn_1>

  ...

  <node_type_defn_n>

3.9.3.15.3 Example

node_types:

  my_webapp_node_type:

    derived_from: WebApplication

    properties:

      my_port:

        type: integer

 

  my_database_node_type:

    derived_from: Database

    capabilities:

      mytypes.myfeatures.transactSQL

3.9.3.15.4 Notes

·         The node types listed as part of the node_types block can be mapped to the list of NodeType definitions as described by the TOSCA v1.0 specification. 

3.9.3.16 group_types

This optional keyname lists the Group Types that are defined by this Service Template.

3.9.3.16.1 Keyname

group_types

3.9.3.16.2 Grammar

group_types:

  <group_type_defn_1>

  ...

  <group type_defn_n>

3.9.3.16.3 Example

group_types:

  mycompany.mytypes.myScalingGroup:

    derived_from: tosca.groups.Root

3.9.3.17 policy_types

This optional keyname lists the Policy Types that are defined by this Service Template.

3.9.3.17.1 Keyname

policy_types

3.9.3.17.2 Grammar

policy_types:

  <policy_type_defn_1>

  ...

  <policy type_defn_n>

3.9.3.17.3 Example

policy_types:

  mycompany.mytypes.myScalingPolicy:

    derived_from: tosca.policies.Scaling

4      TOSCA functions

Except for the examples, this section is normative and includes functions that are supported for use within a TOSCA Service Template.

4.1 Reserved Function Keywords

The following keywords MAY be used in some TOSCA function in place of a TOSCA Node or Relationship Template name.  A TOSCA orchestrator will interpret them at the time the function would be evaluated at runtime as described in the table below.  Note that some keywords are only valid in the context of a certain TOSCA entity as also denoted in the table.

 

Keyword

Valid Contexts

Description

SELF

Node Template or Relationship Template

A TOSCA orchestrator will interpret this keyword as the Node or Relationship Template instance that contains the function at the time the function is evaluated.

SOURCE

Relationship Template only.

A TOSCA orchestrator will interpret this keyword as the Node Template instance that is at the source end of the relationship that contains the referencing function.

TARGET

Relationship Template only.

A TOSCA orchestrator will interpret this keyword as the Node Template instance that is at the target end of the relationship that contains the referencing function.

HOST

Node Template only

A TOSCA orchestrator will interpret this keyword to refer to the all nodes that “host” the node using this reference (i.e., as identified by its HostedOn relationship).

 

Specifically, TOSCA orchestrators that encounter this keyword when evaluating the get_attribute or get_property functions SHALL search each node along the “HostedOn” relationship chain starting at the immediate node that hosts the node where the function was evaluated (and then that node’s host node, and so forth) until a match is found or the “HostedOn” relationship chain ends.

 

4.2 Environment Variable Conventions

4.2.1 Reserved Environment Variable Names and Usage

TOSCA orchestrators utilize certain reserved keywords in the execution environments that implementation artifacts for Node or Relationship Templates operations are executed in. They are used to provide information to these implementation artifacts such as the results of TOSCA function evaluation or information about the instance model of the TOSCA application

 

The following keywords are reserved environment variable names in any TOSCA supported execution environment:

Keyword

Valid Contexts

Description

TARGETS

Relationship Template only.

·   For an implementation artifact that is executed in the context of a relationship, this keyword, if present, is used to supply a list of Node Template instances in a TOSCA application’s instance model that are currently target of the context relationship. 

·   The value of this environment variable will be a comma-separated list of identifiers of the single target node instances (i.e., the tosca_id attribute of the node).

TARGET

Relationship Template only.

·   For an implementation artifact that is executed in the context of a relationship, this keyword, if present, identifies a Node Template instance in a TOSCA application’s instance model that is a target of the context relationship, and which is being acted upon in the current operation. 

·   The value of this environment variable will be the identifier of the single target node instance (i.e., the tosca_id attribute of the node).

SOURCES

Relationship Template only.

·   For an implementation artifact that is executed in the context of a relationship, this keyword, if present, is used to supply a list of Node Template instances in a TOSCA application’s instance model that are currently source of the context relationship. 

·   The value of this environment variable will be a comma-separated list of identifiers of the single source node instances (i.e., the tosca_id attribute of the node).

SOURCE

Relationship Template only.

·   For an implementation artifact that is executed in the context of a relationship, this keyword, if present, identifies a Node Template instance in a TOSCA application’s instance model that is a source of the context relationship, and which is being acted upon in the current operation. 

·   The value of this environment variable will be the identifier of the single source node instance (i.e., the tosca_id attribute of the node).

 

For scripts (or implementation artifacts in general) that run in the context of relationship operations, select properties and attributes of both the relationship itself as well as select properties and attributes of the source and target node(s) of the relationship can be provided to the environment by declaring respective operation inputs.

 

Declared inputs from mapped properties or attributes of the source or target node (selected via the SOURCE or TARGET keyword) will be provided to the environment as variables having the exact same name as the inputs. In addition, the same values will be provided for the complete set of source or target nodes, however prefixed with the ID if the respective nodes. By means of the SOURCES or TARGETS variables holding the complete set of source or target node IDs, scripts will be able to iterate over corresponding inputs for each provided ID prefix.

 

The following example snippet shows an imaginary relationship definition from a load-balancer node to worker nodes. A script is defined for the add_target operation of the Configure interface of the relationship, and the ip_address attribute of the target is specified as input to the script:

 

node_templates:

  load_balancer:

    type: some.vendor.LoadBalancer

    requirements:

      - member:

          relationship: some.vendor.LoadBalancerToMember

            interfaces:

              Configure:

                add_target:

                  inputs:

                    member_ip: { get_attribute: [ TARGET, ip_address ] }

                  implementation: scripts/configure_members.py

The add_target operation will be invoked, whenever a new target member is being added to the load-balancer. With the above inputs declaration, a member_ip environment variable that will hold the IP address of the target being added will be provided to the configure_members.py script. In addition, the IP addresses of all current load-balancer members will be provided as environment variables with a naming scheme of <target node ID>_member_ip. This will allow, for example, scripts that always just write the complete list of load-balancer members into a configuration file to do so instead of updating existing list, which might be more complicated.

Assuming that the TOSCA application instance includes five load-balancer members, node1 through node5, where node5 is the current target being added, the following environment variables (plus potentially more variables) would be provided to the script:

# the ID of the current target and the IDs of all targets    

TARGET=node5

TARGETS=node1,node2,node3,node4,node5

 

# the input for the current target and the inputs of all targets

member_ip=10.0.0.5

node1_member_ip=10.0.0.1

node2_member_ip=10.0.0.2

node3_member_ip=10.0.0.3

node4_member_ip=10.0.0.4

node5_member_ip=10.0.0.5

With code like shown in the snippet below, scripts could then iterate of all provided member_ip inputs:

#!/usr/bin/python

import os

 

targets = os.environ['TARGETS'].split(',')

 

for t in targets:

  target_ip = os.environ.get('%s_member_ip' % t)

  # do something with target_ip ...

4.2.2 Prefixed vs. Unprefixed TARGET names

The list target node types assigned to the TARGETS key in an execution environment would have names prefixed by unique IDs that distinguish different instances of a node in a running model  Future drafts of this specification will show examples of how these names/IDs will be expressed.

4.2.2.1 Notes

·         Target of interest is always un-prefixed. Prefix is the target opaque ID.  The IDs can be used to find the environment var. for the corresponding target. Need an example here.

·         If you have one node that contains multiple targets this would also be used (add or remove target operations would also use this you would get set of all current targets).

4.3 Intrinsic functions

These functions are supported within the TOSCA template for manipulation of template data. 

4.3.1 concat

The concat function is used to concatenate two or more string values within a TOSCA service template.

4.3.1.1 Grammar

concat: [<string_value_expressions_*> ]

4.3.1.2 Parameters

Parameter

Required

Type

Description

<string_value_expressions_*>

yes

list of

string or

string value expressions

A list of one or more strings (or expressions that result in a string value) which can be concatenated together into a single string.

4.3.1.3 Examples

outputs:

  description: Concatenate the URL for a server from other template values

  server_url:

  value: { concat: [ 'http://',

                     get_attribute: [ server, public_address ],

                     ':',

                     get_attribute: [ server, port ] ] }

4.3.2 token

The token function is used within a TOSCA service template on a string to parse out (tokenize) substrings separated by one or more token characters within a larger string.

4.3.2.1 Grammar

token: [ <string_with_tokens>, <string_of_token_chars>, <substring_index> ]

4.3.2.2 Parameters

Parameter

Required

Type

Description

string_with_tokens

yes

string

The composite string that contains one or more substrings separated by token characters.

string_of_token_chars

yes

string

The string that contains one or more token characters that separate substrings within the composite string.

substring_index

yes

integer

The integer indicates the index of the substring to return from the composite string.  Note that the first substring is denoted by using the ‘0’ (zero) integer value.

4.3.2.3 Examples

outputs:

   webserver_port:

     description: the port provided at the end of my server’s endpoint’s IP address

     value: { token: [ get_attribute: [ my_server, data_endpoint, ip_address ],

                       ‘:’,

                       1 ] }

4.4 Property functions

These functions are used within a service template to obtain property values from property definitions declared elsewhere in the same service template.  These property definitions can appear either directly in the service template itself (e.g., in the inputs section) or on entities (e.g., node or relationship templates) that have been modeled within the template.

 

Note that the get_input and get_property functions may only retrieve the static values of property definitions of a TOSCA application as defined in the TOSCA Service Template.  The get_attribute function should be used to retrieve values for attribute definitions (or property definitions reflected as attribute definitions) from the runtime instance model of the TOSCA application (as realized by the TOSCA orchestrator).

4.4.1 get_input

The get_input function is used to retrieve the values of properties declared within the inputs section of a TOSCA Service Template.

4.4.1.1 Grammar

get_input: <input_property_name>

4.4.1.2 Parameters

Parameter

Required

Type

Description

<input_property_name>

yes

string

The name of the property as defined in the inputs section of the service template.

4.4.1.3 Examples

inputs:

  cpus:

    type: integer

 

node_templates:

  my_server:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    capabilities:

      host:

        properties:

          num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

4.4.2 get_property

The get_property function is used to retrieve property values between modelable entities defined in the same service template.

4.4.2.1 Grammar

get_property: [ <modelable_entity_name>, <optional_req_or_cap_name>, <property_name>, <nested_property_name_or_index_1>, ..., <nested_property_name_or_index_n> ]

4.4.2.2 Parameters

Parameter

Required

Type

Description

<modelable entity name> | SELF | SOURCE | TARGET | HOST

yes

string

The required name of a modelable entity (e.g., Node Template or Relationship Template name) as declared in the service template that contains the named property definition the function will return the value from. See section B.1 for valid keywords.

<optional_req_or_cap_name>

no

string

The optional name of the requirement or capability name within the modelable entity (i.e., the <modelable_entity_name> which contains the named property definition the function will return the value from.

 

Note:  If the property definition is located in the modelable entity directly, then this parameter MAY be omitted.

<property_name>

yes

string

The name of the property definition the function will return the value from.

<nested_property_name_or_index_*>

no

string| integer

Some TOSCA properties are complex (i.e., composed as nested structures).  These parameters are used to dereference into the names of these nested structures when needed. 

 

Some properties represent list types. In these cases, an index may be provided to reference a specific entry in the list (as named in the previous parameter) to return.

4.4.2.3 Examples

The following example shows how to use the get_property function with an actual Node Template name:

node_templates:

 

  mysql_database:

    type: tosca.nodes.Database

    properties:

      name: sql_database1

 

  wordpress:

    type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

    ...

    interfaces:

      Standard:

        configure:

          inputs:

            wp_db_name: { get_property: [ mysql_database, name ] }

The following example shows how to use the get_property function using the SELF keyword:

node_templates: 

 

  mysql_database:

    type: tosca.nodes.Database

    ...

    capabilities:

      database_endpoint:

        properties:

          port: 3306

 

  wordpress:

    type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

    requirements:

      ...

      - database_endpoint: mysql_database

    interfaces:

      Standard:

        create: wordpress_install.sh

        configure:

          implementation: wordpress_configure.sh           

          inputs:

            ...

            wp_db_port: { get_property: [ SELF, database_endpoint, port ] }

The following example shows how to use the get_property function using the TARGET keyword:

relationship_templates:

    my_connection:

      type: ConnectsTo

      interfaces:

        Configure:

          inputs:

            targets_value: { get_property: [ TARGET, value ] }

4.5 Attribute functions

These functions (attribute functions) are used within an instance model to obtain attribute values from instances of nodes and relationships that have been created from an application model described in a service template.  The instances of nodes or relationships can be referenced by their name as assigned in the service template or relative to the context where they are being invoked.

4.5.1 get_attribute

The get_attribute function is used to retrieve the values of named attributes declared by the referenced node or relationship template name.

4.5.1.1 Grammar

get_attribute: [ <modelable_entity_name>, <optional_req_or_cap_name>, <attribute_name>, <nested_attribute_name_or_index_1>, ..., <nested_attribute_name_or_index_n> ]

4.5.1.2 Parameters

Parameter

Required

Type

Description

<modelable entity name> | SELF | SOURCE | TARGET | HOST

yes

string

The required name of a modelable entity (e.g., Node Template or Relationship Template name) as declared in the service template that contains the named attribute definition the function will return the value from.  See section B.1 for valid keywords.

<optional_req_or_cap_name>

no

string

The optional name of the requirement or capability name within the modelable entity (i.e., the <modelable_entity_name> which contains the named attribute definition the function will return the value from.

 

Note:  If the attribute definition is located in the modelable entity directly, then this parameter MAY be omitted.

<attribute_name>

yes

string

The name of the attribute definition the function will return the value from.

<nested_attribute_name_or_index_*>

no

string| integer

Some TOSCA attributes are complex (i.e., composed as nested structures).  These parameters are used to dereference into the names of these nested structures when needed.   

 

Some attributes represent list types. In these cases, an index may be provided to reference a specific entry in the list (as named in the previous parameter) to return.

4.5.1.3 Examples:

The attribute functions are used in the same way as the equivalent Property functions described above.  Please see their examples and replace “get_property” with “get_attribute” function name.

4.5.1.4 Notes

These functions are used to obtain attributes from instances of node or relationship templates by the names they were given within the service template that described the application model (pattern).

4.6 Operation functions

These functions are used within an instance model to obtain values from interface operations. These can be used in order to set an attribute of a node instance at runtime or to pass values from one operation to another.

4.6.1 get_operation_output

The get_operation_output function is used to retrieve the values of variables exposed / exported from an interface operation.

4.6.1.1 Grammar

get_operation_output: <modelable_entity_name>, <interface_name>, <operation_name>, <output_variable_name>

4.6.1.2 Parameters

Parameter

Required

Type

Description

<modelable entity name> | SELF | SOURCE | TARGET

yes

string

The required name of a modelable entity (e.g., Node Template or Relationship Template name) as declared in the service template that implements the named interface and operation.

<interface_name>

Yes

string

The required name of the interface which defines the operation.

<operation_name>

yes

string

The required name of the operation whose value we would like to retrieve.

<output_variable_name>

Yes

string

The required name of the variable that is exposed / exported by the operation.

 

4.6.1.3 Notes

·         If operation failed, then ignore its outputs.  Orchestrators should allow orchestrators to continue running when possible past deployment in the lifecycle.  For example, if an update fails, the application should be allowed to continue running and some other method would be used to alert administrators of the failure.

4.7 Navigation functions

·         This version of the TOSCA Simple Profile does not define any model navigation functions.

4.7.1 get_nodes_of_type

The get_nodes_of_type function can be used to retrieve a list of all known instances of nodes of the declared Node Type.

4.7.1.1 Grammar

get_nodes_of_type: <node_type_name>

4.7.1.2 Parameters

Parameter

Required

Type

Description

<node_type_name>

yes

string

The required name of a Node Type that a TOSCA orchestrator would use to search a running application instance in order to return all unique, named node instances of that type.

4.7.1.3 Returns

Return Key

Type

Description

TARGETS

<see above>

The list of node instances from the current application instance that match the node_type_name supplied as an input parameter of this function.

4.8 Artifact functions

4.8.1 get_artifact

The get_artifact function is used to retrieve artifact location between modelable entities defined in the same service template.

4.8.1.1 Grammar

get_artifact: [ <modelable_entity_name>, <artifact_name>, <location>, <remove> ]

4.8.1.2 Parameters

Parameter

Required

Type

Description

<modelable entity name> | SELF | SOURCE | TARGET | HOST

yes

string

The required name of a modelable entity (e.g., Node Template or Relationship Template name) as declared in the service template that contains the named property definition the function will return the value from. See section B.1 for valid keywords.

<artifact_name>

yes

string

The name of the artifact definition the function will return the value from.

<location> | LOCAL_FILE

no

string

Location value must be either a valid path e.g. ‘/etc/var/my_file’ or ‘LOCAL_FILE’.

 

If the value is LOCAL_FILE the orchestrator is responsible for providing a path as the result of the get_artifact call where the artifact file can be accessed. The orchestrator will also remove the artifact from this location at the end of the operation.

 

If the location is a path specified by the user the orchestrator is responsible to copy the artifact to the specified location. The orchestrator will return the path as the value of the get_artifact function and leave the file here after the execution of the operation.

remove

no

boolean

Boolean flag to override the orchestrator default behavior so it will remove or not the artifact at the end of the operation execution.

 

If not specified the removal will depends of the location e.g. removes it in case of ‘LOCAL_FILE’ and keeps it in case of a path.

 

If true the artifact will be removed by the orchestrator at the end of the operation execution, if false it will not be removed.

4.8.1.3 Examples

The following example uses a snippet of a WordPress [WordPress] web application to show how to use the get_artifact function with an actual Node Template name:

4.8.1.3.1 Example: Retrieving artifact without specified location:

node_templates:

 

  wordpress:

    type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

    ...

    interfaces:

      Standard:

        configure:

          create:

            implementation: wordpress_install.sh

            inputs

              wp_zip: { get_artifact: [ SELF, zip ] }

    artifacts:

      zip: /data/wordpress.zip

In such implementation the TOSCA orchestrator may provide the wordpress.zip archive as a local URL (example: file://home/user/wordpress.zip) or a remote one (example: http://cloudrepo:80/files/wordpress.zip) (some orchestrator may indeed provide some global artifact repository management features)

4.8.1.3.2 Example: Retrieving artifact as a local path :

The following example explains how to force the orchestrator to copy the file locally before calling the operation’s implementation script:

 

node_templates:

 

  wordpress:

    type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

    ...

    interfaces:

      Standard:

        configure:

          create:

            implementation: wordpress_install.sh

            inputs

              wp_zip: { get_artifact: [ SELF, zip, LOCAL_FILE] }

    artifacts:

      zip: /data/wordpress.zip

In such implementation the TOSCA orchestrator must provide the wordpress.zip archive as a local path (example: /tmp/wordpress.zip) and will remove it after the operation is completed.

4.8.1.3.3 Example: Retrieving artifact in a specified location:

The following example explains how to force the orchestrator to copy the file locally to a specific location before calling the operation’s implementation script :

 

node_templates:

 

  wordpress:

    type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

    ...

    interfaces:

      Standard:

        configure:

          create:

            implementation: wordpress_install.sh

            inputs

              wp_zip: { get_artifact: [ SELF, zip, C:/wpdata/wp.zip ] }

    artifacts:

      zip: /data/wordpress.zip

In such implementation the TOSCA orchestrator must provide the wordpress.zip archive as a local path (example: C:/wpdata/wp.zip ) and will let it after the operation is completed.

4.9 Context-based Entity names (global)

Future versions of this specification will address methods to access entity names based upon the context in which they are declared or defined. 

4.9.1.1 Goals

·         Using the full paths of modelable entity names to qualify context with the future goal of a more robust get_attribute function: e.g.,  get_attribute( <context-based-entity-name>, <attribute name>)

5      TOSCA normative type definitions

Except for the examples, this section is normative and contains normative type definitions which must be supported for conformance to this specification.

 

The declarative approach is heavily dependent of the definition of basic types that a declarative container must understand. The definition of these types must be very clear such that the operational semantics can be precisely followed by a declarative container to achieve the effects intended by the modeler of a topology in an interoperable manner.

5.1 Assumptions

·         Assumes alignment with/dependence on XML normative types proposal for TOSCA v1.1

·         Assumes that the normative types will be versioned and the TOSCA TC will preserve backwards compatibility.

·         Assumes that security and access control will be addressed in future revisions or versions of this specification.

5.2 Data Types

5.2.1 tosca.datatypes.Root

This is the default (root) TOSCA Root Type definition that all complex TOSCA Data Types derive from.

5.2.1.1 Definition

The TOSCA Credential type is defined as follows:

tosca.datatypes.Root:

  description: The TOSCA root Data Type all other TOSCA base Data Types derive from

5.2.2 tosca.datatypes.Credential

The Credential type is a complex TOSCA data Type used when describing authorization credentials used to access network accessible resources.

Shorthand Name

Credential

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Credential

Type URI

tosca.datatypes.Credential

5.2.2.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

protocol

no

string

None

The optional protocol name.

token_type

yes

string

default: password

The required token type.

token

yes

string

None

The required token used as a credential for authorization or access to a networked resource.

keys

no

map of string

None

The optional list of protocol-specific keys or assertions.

userh

no

string

None

The optional user (name or ID) used for non-token based credentials.

5.2.2.2 Definition

The TOSCA Credential type is defined as follows:

tosca.datatypes.Credential:

  derived_from: tosca.datatypes.Root

  properties:

    protocol:

      type: string

      required: false

    token_type:

      type: string

      default: password

    token:

      type: string

    keys:

      type: map

      required: false

      entry_schema:

        type: string

    user:

      type: string

      required: false

5.2.2.3 Additional requirements

·         TOSCA Orchestrators SHALL interpret and validate the value of the token property based upon the value of the token_type property.

5.2.2.4 Notes

·         Specific token types and encoding them using network protocols are not defined or covered in this specification.

·         The use of transparent user names (IDs) or passwords are not considered best practice. 

5.2.2.5 Examples

5.2.2.5.1 Provide a simple user name and password without a protocol or standardized token format

<some_tosca_entity>:

  properties:

    my_credential:

      type: Credential

        properties:

          user: myusername

          token: mypassword

5.2.2.5.2 HTTP Basic access authentication  credential

<some_tosca_entity>:

  properties:

    my_credential:  # type: Credential

      protocol: http

      token_type: basic_auth

      # Username and password are combined into a string

      # Note: this would be base64 encoded before transmission by any impl.

      token: myusername:mypassword

5.2.2.5.3 X-Auth-Token credential

<some_tosca_entity>:

  properties:

    my_credential:  # type: Credential

      protocol: xauth

      token_type: X-Auth-Token

      # token encoded in Base64

      token: 604bbe45ac7143a79e14f3158df67091

5.2.2.5.4 OAuth bearer token credential

<some_tosca_entity>:

  properties:

    my_credential:  # type: Credential

      protocol: oauth2

      token_type: bearer

      # token encoded in Base64      

      token: 8ao9nE2DEjr1zCsicWMpBC

5.2.3 tosca.datatypes.network.NetworkInfo

The Network type is a complex TOSCA data type used to describe logical network information.

Shorthand Name

NetworkInfo

Type Qualified Name

tosca:NetworkInfo

Type URI

tosca.datatypes.network.NetworkInfo

5.2.3.1 Properties

Name

Type

Constraints

Description

network_name

string

None

The name of the logical network.

e.g., “public”, “private”, “admin”. etc.

network_id

string

None

The unique ID of for the network generated by the network provider.

addresses

string []

None

The list of IP addresses assigned from the underlying network.

5.2.3.2 Definition

The TOSCA NetworkInfo data type is defined as follows:

tosca.datatypes.network.NetworkInfo:

  derived_from: tosca.datatypes.Root

  properties:  

    network_name:

      type: string

    network_id:

      type: string

    addresses:

      type: list

      entry_schema:

        type: string

5.2.3.3 Examples

Example usage of the NetworkInfo data type:

private_network:

  network_name: private

  network_id: 3e54214f-5c09-1bc9-9999-44100326da1b

  addresses: [ 10.111.128.10 ]

5.2.3.4 Additional Requirements

·         It is expected that TOSCA orchestrators MUST be able to map the network_name from the TOSCA model to underlying network model of the provider.

·         The properties (or attributes) of NetworkInfo may or may not be required depending on usage context.

5.2.4 tosca.datatypes.network.PortInfo

The PortInfo type is a complex TOSCA data type used to describe network port information.

Shorthand Name

PortInfo

Type Qualified Name

tosca:PortInfo

Type URI

tosca.datatypes.network.PortInfo

5.2.4.1 Properties

Name

Type

Constraints

Description

port_name

string

None

The logical network port name.

port_id

string

None

The unique ID for the network port generated by the network provider.

network_id

string

None

The unique ID for the network.

mac_address

string

None

The unique media access control address (MAC address) assigned to the port.

addresses

string []

None

The list of IP address(es) assigned to the port.

5.2.4.2 Definition

The TOSCA PortInfo type is defined as follows:

tosca.datatypes.network.PortInfo:

  derived_from: tosca.datatypes.Root

  properties:  

    port_name:

      type: string

    port_id:

      type: string

    network_id:

      type: string

    mac_address:

      type: string

    addresses:

      type: list

      entry_schema:

        type: string

5.2.4.3 Examples

Example usage of the PortInfo data type:

ethernet_port:

  port_name: port1

  port_id: 2c0c7a37-691a-23a6-7709-2d10ad041467

  network_id: 3e54214f-5c09-1bc9-9999-44100326da1b

  mac_address: f1:18:3b:41:92:1e

  addresses: [ 172.24.9.102 ]

5.2.4.4 Additional Requirements

·         It is expected that TOSCA orchestrators MUST be able to map the port_name from the TOSCA model to underlying network model of the provider.

·         The properties (or attributes) of PortInfo may or may not be required depending on usage context.

5.2.5 tosca.datatypes.network.PortDef

The PortDef type is a TOSCA data Type used to define a network port.

Shorthand Name

PortDef

Type Qualified Name

tosca:PortDef

Type URI

tosca.datatypes.network.PortDef

5.2.5.1 Definition

The TOSCA PortDef type is defined as follows:

tosca.datatypes.network.PortDef:
  derived_from: integer

  constraints:

    - in_range: [ 1, 65535 ]

5.2.5.2 Examples

Example use of a PortDef property type:

listen_port:

  type: PortDef

  default: 9000

  constraints:

    - in_range: [ 9000, 9090 ]

5.2.6 tosca.datatypes.network.PortSpec

The PortSpec type is a complex TOSCA data Type used when describing port specifications for a network connection.

Shorthand Name

PortSpec

Type Qualified Name

tosca:PortSpec

Type URI

tosca.datatypes.network.PortSpec

5.2.6.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

protocol

yes

string

default: tcp

The required protocol used on the port.

source

no

PortDef

See PortDef

The optional source port.

source_range

no

range

in_range: [ 1, 65536 ]

The optional range for source port.

target

no

PortDef

See PortDef

The optional target port.

target_range

no

range

in_range: [ 1, 65536 ]

The optional range for target port.

5.2.6.2 Definition

The TOSCA PortSpec type is defined as follows:

tosca.datatypes.network.PortSpec:

  derived_from: tosca.datatypes.Root

  properties:  

    protocol:

      type: string

      required: true

      default: tcp

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ udp, tcp, igmp ]

    target: 

      type: PortDef

    target_range:

      type: range

      constraints:

        - in_range: [ 1, 65535 ]

    source:

      type: PortDef

    source_range:

      type: range

      constraints:

        - in_range: [ 1, 65535 ]

5.2.6.3 Additional requirements

·         A valid PortSpec must have at least one of the following properties: target, target_range, source or source_range.

5.2.6.4 Examples

Example usage of the PortSpec data type:

# example properties in a node template

some_endpoint:

  properties:

    ports:

      user_port:

        protocol: tcp

        target: 50000

        target_range: [ 20000, 60000 ]

        source: 9000

        source_range: [ 1000, 10000 ]

5.3 Artifact Types

TOSCA Artifacts Types represent the types of packages and files used by the orchestrator when deploying  TOSCA Node or Relationship Types or invoking their interfaces.  Currently, artifacts are logically divided into three categories:

 

·         Deployment Types:  includes those artifacts that are used during deployment (e.g., referenced on create and install operations) and include packaging files such as RPMs, ZIPs, or TAR files.

·         Implementation Types: includes those artifacts that represent imperative logic and are used to implement TOSCA Interface operations.  These typically include scripting languages such as Bash (.sh), Chef [Chef] and Puppet [Puppet].

·         Runtime Types: includes those artifacts that are used during runtime by a service or component of the application.  This could include a library or language runtime that is needed by an application such as a PHP or Java library.

 

Note: Additional TOSCA Artifact Types will be developed in future drafts of this specification.

5.3.1 tosca.artifacts.Root

This is the default (root) TOSCA Artifact Type definition that all other TOSCA base Artifact Types derive from. 

5.3.1.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Root:

  description: The TOSCA Artifact Type all other TOSCA Artifact Types derive from

5.3.2 tosca.artifacts.File

This artifact type is used when an artifact definition needs to have its associated file simply treated as a file and no special handling/handlers are invoked (i.e., it is not treated as either an implementation or deployment artifact type).

Shorthand Name

File

Type Qualified Name

tosca:File

Type URI

tosca.artifacts.File

5.3.2.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.File:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Root

5.3.3 Deployment Types

5.3.3.1 tosca.artifacts.Deployment

This artifact type represents the parent type for all deployment artifacts in TOSCA. This class of artifacts typically represents a binary packaging of an application or service that is used to install/create or deploy it as part of a node’s lifecycle.

5.3.3.1.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Deployment:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Root

  description: TOSCA base type for deployment artifacts    

 

 

5.3.3.2 Additional Requirements

·         TOSCA Orchestrators MAY throw an error if it encounters a non-normative deployment artifact type that it is not able to process.

5.3.3.3 tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image

This artifact type represents a parent type for any “image” which is an opaque packaging of a TOSCA Node’s deployment (whether real or virtual) whose contents are typically already installed and pre-configured (i.e., “stateful”) and prepared to be run on a known target container.

Shorthand Name

Deployment.Image

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Deployment.Image

Type URI

tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image

5.3.3.3.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Deployment

5.3.3.4 tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM

This artifact represents the parent type for all Virtual Machine (VM) image and container formatted deployment artifacts. These images contain a stateful capture of a machine (e.g., server) including operating system and installed software along with any configurations and can be run on another machine using a hypervisor which virtualizes typical server (i.e., hardware) resources.

5.3.3.4.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image

  description: Virtual Machine (VM) Image

5.3.3.4.2 Notes

·         Future drafts of this specification may include popular standard VM disk image (e.g., ISO, VMI, VMDX, QCOW2, etc.) and container (e.g., OVF, bare, etc.) formats.  These would include consideration of disk formats such as:

5.3.4 Implementation Types

5.3.4.1 tosca.artifacts.Implementation

This artifact type represents the parent type for all implementation artifacts in TOSCA. These artifacts are used to implement operations of TOSCA interfaces either directly (e.g., scripts) or indirectly (e.g., config. files).

5.3.4.1.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Implementation:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Root

  description: TOSCA base type for implementation artifacts    

 

 

5.3.4.2 Additional Requirements

·         TOSCA Orchestrators MAY throw an error if it encounters a non-normative implementation artifact type that it is not able to process.

5.3.4.3 tosca.artifacts.Implementation.Bash

This artifact type represents a Bash script type that contains Bash commands that can be executed on the Unix Bash shell. 

Shorthand Name

Bash

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Bash

Type URI

tosca.artifacts.Implementation.Bash

5.3.4.3.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Implementation.Bash:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Implementation

  description: Script artifact for the Unix Bash shell   

  mime_type: application/x-sh

  file_ext: [ sh ]

5.3.4.4 tosca.artifacts.Implementation.Python

This artifact type represents a Python file that contains Python language constructs that can be executed within a Python interpreter. 

Shorthand Name

Python

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Python

Type URI

tosca.artifacts.Implementation.Python

5.3.4.4.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Implementation.Python:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Implementation

  description: Artifact for the interpreted Python language

  mime_type: application/x-python

  file_ext: [ py ]

5.4 Capabilities Types

5.4.1 tosca.capabilities.Root

This is the default (root) TOSCA Capability Type definition that all other TOSCA Capability Types derive from. 

5.4.1.1 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Root:

  description: The TOSCA root Capability Type all other TOSCA base Capability Types derive from

5.4.2 tosca.capabilities.Node

The Node capability indicates the base capabilities of a TOSCA Node Type.

Shorthand Name

Node

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Node

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Node

5.4.2.1 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Node:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Root

5.4.3 tosca.capabilities.Container

The Container capability, when included on a Node Type or Template definition, indicates that the node can act as a container for (or a host for) one or more other declared Node Types.

Shorthand Name

Container

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Container

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Container

5.4.3.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

num_cpus

no

integer

greater_or_equal: 1

Number of (actual or virtual) CPUs associated with the Compute node.

cpu_frequency

no

scalar-unit.frequency

greater_or_equal: 0.1 GHz

Specifies the operating frequency of CPU's core.  This property expresses the expected frequency of one (1) CPU as provided by the property “num_cpus”.

disk_size

no

scalar-unit.size

greater_or_equal: 0 MB

Size of the local disk available to applications running on the Compute node (default unit is MB).

mem_size

no

scalar-unit.size

greater_or_equal: 0 MB

Size of memory available to applications running on the Compute node (default unit is MB).

 

5.4.3.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Container:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Root

  properties:

    num_cpus:

      type: integer

      required: false

      constraints:

        - greater_or_equal: 1

    cpu_frequency:

      type: scalar-unit.frequency

      required: false

      constraints:

        - greater_or_equal: 0.1 GHz

    disk_size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      required: false

      constraints:

        - greater_or_equal: 0 MB

    mem_size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      required: false

      constraints:

        - greater_or_equal: 0 MB

5.4.4 tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

This is the default TOSCA type that should be used or extended to define a network endpoint capability. This includes the information to express a basic endpoint with a single port or a complex endpoint with multiple ports.  By default the Endpoint is assumed to represent an address on a private network unless otherwise specified.

Shorthand Name

Endpoint

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Endpoint

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

5.4.4.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

protocol

yes

string

default: tcp

The name of the protocol (i.e., the protocol prefix) that the endpoint accepts (any OSI Layer 4-7 protocols)

 

Examples: http, https, ftp, tcp, udp, etc.

port

no

PortDef

greater_or_equal: 1

less_or_equal: 65535

The optional port of the endpoint.

secure

no

boolean

default: false

Requests for the endpoint to be secure and use credentials supplied on the ConnectsTo relationship.

url_path

no

string

None

The optional URL path of the endpoint’s address if applicable for the protocol.

port_name

no

string

None

The optional name (or ID) of the network port this endpoint should be bound to. 

network_name

no

string

default: PRIVATE

The optional name (or ID) of the network this endpoint should be bound to. 

network_name: PRIVATE | PUBLIC |<network_name> | <network_id>

initiator

no

string

one of:

·   source

·   target

·   peer

 

default: source

The optional indicator of the direction of the connection.

ports

no

map of PortSpec

None

The optional map of ports the Endpoint supports (if more than one)

5.4.4.2 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

ip_address

yes

string

None

Note: This is the IP address as propagated up by the associated node’s host (Compute) container.

5.4.4.3 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Endpoint:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Root

  properties:

    protocol:

      type: string

      default: tcp

    port:

      type: PortDef

      required: false

    secure:

      type: boolean

      default: false

    url_path:

      type: string

      required: false

    port_name:

      type: string

      required: false

    network_name:

      type: string

      required: false

      default: PRIVATE

    initiator:

      type: string

      default: source

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ source, target, peer ]

    ports:

      type: map

      required: false

      constraints:

        - min_length: 1

      entry_schema:

        type: PortSpec

  attributes:

    ip_address:

      type: string

5.4.4.4 Additional requirements

·         Although both the port and ports properties are not required, one of port or ports must be provided in a valid Endpoint.

5.4.5 tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Public

This capability represents a public endpoint which is accessible to the general internet (and its public IP address ranges).

This public endpoint capability also can be used to create a floating (IP) address that the underlying network assigns from a pool allocated from the application’s underlying public network.  This floating address is managed by the underlying network such that can be routed an application’s private address and remains reliable to internet clients.

Shorthand Name

Endpoint.Public

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Endpoint.Public

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Public

5.4.5.1 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Public:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

  properties:

    # Change the default network_name to use the first public network found

    network_name:

      type: string

      default: PUBLIC

      constraints:

        - equal: PUBLIC

    floating:

      description: >

        indicates that the public address should be allocated from a pool of floating IPs that are associated with the network.

      type: boolean

      default: false

      status: experimental

    dns_name:

      description: The optional name to register with DNS

      type: string

      required: false   

      status: experimental

5.4.5.2 Additional requirements

·         If the network_name is set to the reserved value PRIVATE or if the value is set to the name of network (or subnetwork) that is not public (i.e., has non-public IP address ranges assigned to it) then TOSCA Orchestrators SHALL treat this as an error.

·         If a dns_name is set, TOSCA Orchestrators SHALL attempt to register the name in the (local) DNS registry for the Cloud provider.

5.4.6 tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Admin

This is the default TOSCA type that should be used or extended to define a specialized administrator endpoint capability.

Shorthand Name

Endpoint.Admin

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Endpoint.Admin

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Admin

5.4.6.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

None

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.4.6.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Admin:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

  # Change Endpoint secure indicator to true from its default of false

  properties:

    secure:

      type: boolean

      default: true

      constraints:

        - equal: true

5.4.6.3 Additional requirements

·         TOSCA Orchestrator implementations of Endpoint.Admin (and connections to it) SHALL assure that network-level security is enforced if possible.

5.4.7 tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Database

This is the default TOSCA type that should be used or extended to define a specialized database endpoint capability.

Shorthand Name

Endpoint.Database

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Endpoint.Database

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Database

5.4.7.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

None

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.4.7.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Database:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

5.4.8 tosca.capabilities.Attachment

This is the default TOSCA type that should be used or extended to define an attachment capability of a (logical) infrastructure device node (e.g., BlockStorage node).

Shorthand Name

Attachment

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Attachment

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Attachment

5.4.8.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.4.8.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Attachment:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Root

5.4.9 tosca.capabilities.OperatingSystem

This is the default TOSCA type that should be used to express an Operating System capability for a node. 

Shorthand Name

OperatingSystem

Type Qualified Name

tosca:OperatingSystem

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.OperatingSystem

5.4.9.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

architecture

no

string

None

The Operating System (OS) architecture.

 

Examples of valid values include:

x86_32, x86_64, etc.

type

no

string

None

The Operating System (OS) type.

 

Examples of valid values include:

linux, aix, mac, windows, etc.

distribution

no

string

None

The Operating System (OS) distribution.

 

Examples of valid values for an “type” of “Linux” would include:  debian, fedora, rhel and ubuntu.

version

no

version

None

The Operating System version.

5.4.9.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.OperatingSystem:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Root

  properties:

    architecture:

      type: string

      required: false

    type:

      type: string

      required: false

    distribution:

      type: string

      required: false

    version:

      type: version

      required: false

5.4.9.3 Additional Requirements

·         Please note that the string values for the properties architecture, type and distribution SHALL be normalized to lowercase by processors of the service template for matching purposes.  For example, if a “type” value is set to either “Linux”, “LINUX” or “linux” in a service template, the processor would normalize all three values to “linux” for matching purposes.

5.4.10 tosca.capabilities.Scalable

This is the default TOSCA type that should be used to express a scalability capability for a node. 

Shorthand Name

Scalable

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Scalable

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Scalable

5.4.10.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

min_instances

yes

integer

default: 1

This property is used to indicate the minimum number of instances that should be created for the associated TOSCA Node Template by a TOSCA orchestrator.

max_instances

yes

integer

default: 1

This property is used to indicate the maximum number of instances that should be created for the associated TOSCA Node Template by a TOSCA orchestrator.

default_instances

no

integer

N/A

An optional property that indicates the requested default number of instances that should be the starting number of instances a TOSCA orchestrator should attempt to allocate.

 

Note: The value for this property MUST be in the range between the values set for ‘min_instances’ and ‘max_instances’ properties.

5.4.10.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Scalable:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Root

  properties:

    min_instances:

      type: integer

      default: 1

    max_instances:

      type: integer

      default: 1

    default_instances:

      type: integer

5.4.10.3 Notes

·         The actual number of instances for a node may be governed by a separate scaling policy which conceptually would be associated to either a scaling-capable node or a group of nodes in which it is defined to be a part of.  This is a planned future feature of the TOSCA Simple Profile and not currently described.

5.4.11 tosca.capabilities.network.Bindable

A node type that includes the Bindable capability indicates that it can be bound to a logical network association via a network port.

Shorthand Name

network.Bindable

Type Qualified Name

tosca:network.Bindable

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.network.Bindable

5.4.11.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.4.11.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.network.Bindable:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Node

5.5 Requirement Types

There are no normative Requirement Types currently defined in this working draft.  Typically, Requirements are described against a known Capability Type

5.6 Relationship Types

5.6.1 tosca.relationships.Root

This is the default (root) TOSCA Relationship Type definition that all other TOSCA Relationship Types derive from. 

5.6.1.1 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

tosca_id

yes

string

None

A unique identifier of the realized instance of a Relationship Template that derives from any TOSCA normative type.

tosca_name

yes

string

None

This attribute reflects the name of the Relationship Template as defined in the TOSCA service template.  This name is not unique to the realized instance model of corresponding deployed application as each template in the model can result in one or more instances (e.g., scaled) when orchestrated to a provider environment.

state

yes

string

default: initial

The state of the relationship instance.  See section “Relationship States” for allowed values.

5.6.1.2 Definition

tosca.relationships.Root:

  description: The TOSCA root Relationship Type all other TOSCA base Relationship Types derive from

  attributes:

    tosca_id:

      type: string

    tosca_name:

      type: string

  interfaces:

    Configure:

      type: tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure

5.6.2 tosca.relationships.DependsOn

This type represents a general dependency relationship between two nodes.

Shorthand Name

DependsOn

Type Qualified Name

tosca:DependsOn

Type URI

tosca.relationships.DependsOn

5.6.2.1 Definition

tosca.relationships.DependsOn:

  derived_from: tosca.relationships.Root

  valid_target_types: [ tosca.capabilities.Node ]

5.6.3 tosca.relationships.HostedOn

This type represents a hosting relationship between two nodes.

Shorthand Name

HostedOn

Type Qualified Name

tosca:HostedOn

Type URI

tosca.relationships.HostedOn

5.6.3.1 Definition

tosca.relationships.HostedOn:

  derived_from: tosca.relationships.Root

  valid_target_types: [ tosca.capabilities.Container ]

5.6.4 tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo

This type represents a network connection relationship between two nodes.

Shorthand Name

ConnectsTo

Type Qualified Name

tosca:ConnectsTo

Type URI

tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo

5.6.4.1 Definition

tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo:

  derived_from: tosca.relationships.Root

  valid_target_types: [ tosca.capabilities.Endpoint ]

  properties:

    credential:

      type: tosca.datatypes.Credential

      required: false

5.6.4.2 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

credential

no

Credential

None

The security credential to use to present to the target endpoint to for either authentication or authorization purposes.

5.6.5 tosca.relationships.AttachesTo

This type represents an attachment relationship between two nodes.  For example, an AttachesTo relationship type would be used for attaching a storage node to a Compute node.

Shorthand Name

AttachesTo

Type Qualified Name

tosca:AttachesTo

Type URI

tosca.relationships.AttachesTo

5.6.5.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

location

yes

string

min_length: 1

The relative location (e.g., path on the file system), which provides the root location to address an attached node.

e.g., a mount point / path such as ‘/usr/data’

 

Note: The user must provide it and it cannot be “root”.

device

no

string

None

The logical device name which for the attached device (which is represented by the target node in the model).

e.g., ‘/dev/hda1’

5.6.5.2 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

device

no

string

None

The logical name of the device as exposed to the instance.

Note: A runtime property that gets set when the model gets instantiated by the orchestrator.

5.6.5.3 Definition

tosca.relationships.AttachesTo:

  derived_from: tosca.relationships.Root

  valid_target_types: [ tosca.capabilities.Attachment ]

  properties:

    location:

      type: string

      constraints:

        - min_length: 1

    device:

      type: string

      required: false

5.6.6 tosca.relationships.RoutesTo

This type represents an intentional network routing between two Endpoints in different networks.

Shorthand Name

RoutesTo

Type Qualified Name

tosca:RoutesTo

Type URI

tosca.relationships.RoutesTo

5.6.6.1 Definition

tosca.relationships.RoutesTo:

  derived_from: tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo

  valid_target_types: [ tosca.capabilities.Endpoint ]

5.7 Interface Types

Interfaces are reusable entities that define a set of operations that that can be included as part of a Node type or Relationship Type definition. Each named operations may have code or scripts associated with them that orchestrators can execute for when transitioning an application to a given state.

5.7.1 Additional Requirements

·         Designers of Node or Relationship types are not required to actually provide/associate code or scripts with every operation for a given interface it supports.  In these cases, orchestrators SHALL consider that a “No Operation” or “no-op”.

·         The default behavior when providing scripts for an operation in a sub-type (sub-class) or a template of an existing type which already has a script provided for that operation SHALL be override. Meaning that the subclasses’ script is used in place of the parent type’s script.

5.7.2 Best Practices

·         When TOSCA Orchestrators substitute an implementation for an abstract node in a deployed service template it SHOULD be able to present a confirmation to the submitter to confirm the implementation chosen would be acceptable.

5.7.3 tosca.interfaces.Root

This is the default (root) TOSCA Interface Type definition that all other TOSCA Interface Types derive from. 

5.7.3.1 Definition

tosca.interfaces.Root:

  description: The TOSCA root Interface Type all other TOSCA base Interface Types derive from

5.7.4 tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard

This lifecycle interface defines the essential, normative operations that TOSCA nodes may support.   

Shorthand Name

 Standard

Type Qualified Name

tosca: Standard

Type URI

tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard

5.7.4.1 Definition

tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard:

  derived_from: tosca.interfaces.Root

  create:

    description: Standard lifecycle create operation.

  configure:

    description: Standard lifecycle configure operation.

  start:

    description: Standard lifecycle start operation.

  stop:

    description: Standard lifecycle stop operation.

  delete:

    description: Standard lifecycle delete operation.

5.7.4.2 Create operation

The create operation is generally used to create the resource or service the node represents in the topology.  TOSCA orchestrators expect node templates to provide either a deployment artifact or an implementation artifact of a defined artifact type that it is able to process.  This specification defines normative deployment and implementation artifact types all TOSCA Orchestrators are expected to be able to process to support application portability.

5.7.4.3 TOSCA Orchestrator processing of Deployment artifacts

TOSCA Orchestrators, when encountering a deployment artifact on the create operation; will automatically attempt to deploy the artifact based upon its artifact type. This means that no implementation artifacts (e.g., scripts) are needed on the create operation to provide commands that deploy or install the software.

 

For example, if a TOSCA Orchestrator is processing an application with a node of type SoftwareComponent and finds that the node’s template has a create operation that provides a filename (or references to an artifact which describes a file) of a known TOSCA deployment artifact type such as an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) image it will automatically deploy that image into the SoftwareComponent’s host Compute node.

5.7.4.4 Operation sequencing and node state

The following diagrams show how TOSCA orchestrators sequence the operations of the Standard lifecycle in normal node startup and shutdown procedures. 


The following key should be used to interpret the diagrams:

5.7.4.4.1 Normal node startup sequence diagram


The following diagram shows how the TOSCA orchestrator would invoke operations on the Standard lifecycle to startup a node.

5.7.4.4.2 Normal node shutdown sequence diagram

The following diagram shows how the TOSCA orchestrator would invoke operations on the Standard lifecycle to shut down a node.

 

5.7.5 tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure

The lifecycle interfaces define the essential, normative operations that each TOSCA Relationship Types may support.   

Shorthand Name

Configure

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Configure

Type URI

tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure

5.7.5.1 Definition

tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure:

  derived_from: tosca.interfaces.Root

  pre_configure_source:

    description: Operation to pre-configure the source endpoint.

  pre_configure_target:

    description: Operation to pre-configure the target endpoint.

  post_configure_source:

    description: Operation to post-configure the source endpoint.

  post_configure_target:

    description: Operation to post-configure the target endpoint.

  add_target:

    description: Operation to notify the source node of a target node being added via a relationship.

  add_source:

    description: Operation to notify the target node of a source node which is now available via a relationship.

    description:

  target_changed:

    description: Operation to notify source some property or attribute of the target changed

  remove_target:

    description: Operation to remove a target node. 


 

5.7.5.2

Invocation Conventions

TOSCA relationships are directional connecting a source node to a target node.  When TOSCA Orchestrator connects a source and target node together using a relationship that supports the Configure interface it will “interleave” the operations invocations of the Configure interface with those of the node’s own Standard lifecycle interface. This concept is illustrated below:

5.7.5.3 Normal node start sequence with Configure relationship operations


The following diagram shows how the TOSCA orchestrator would invoke Configure lifecycle operations in conjunction with Standard lifecycle operations during a typical startup sequence on a node.

5.7.5.4 Node-Relationship configuration sequence

Depending on which side (i.e., source or target) of a relationship a node is on, the orchestrator will:

Invoke either the pre_configure_source or pre_configure_target operation as supplied by the relationship on the node.  

Invoke the node’s configure operation. 

Invoke either the post_configure_source or post_configure_target as supplied by the relationship on the node.

Note that the pre_configure_xxx and post_configure_xxx are invoked only once per node instance.

5.7.5.4.1 Node-Relationship add, remove and changed sequence

Since a topology template contains nodes that can dynamically be added (and scaled), removed or changed as part of an application instance, the Configure lifecycle includes operations that are invoked on node instances that to notify and address these dynamic changes. 

 

For example, a source node, of a relationship that uses the Configure lifecycle, will have the relationship operations add_target, or remove_target invoked on it whenever a target node instance is added or removed to the running application instance.  In addition, whenever the node state of its target node changes, the target_changed operation is invoked on it to address this change.  Conversely, the add_source and remove_source operations are invoked on the source node of the relationship.

5.7.5.5 Notes

·         The target (provider) MUST be active and running (i.e., all its dependency stack MUST be fulfilled) prior to invoking add_target

·         In other words, all Requirements MUST be satisfied before it advertises its capabilities (i.e., the attributes of the matched Capabilities are available).

·         In other words, it cannot be “consumed” by any dependent node.

·         Conversely, since the source (consumer) needs information (attributes) about any targets (and their attributes) being removed before it actually goes away.

·         The remove_target operation should only be executed if the target has had add_target executed. BUT in truth we’re first informed about a target in pre_configure_source, so if we execute that the source node should see remove_target called to cleanup.

·         Error handling: If any node operation of the topology fails processing should stop on that node template and the failing operation (script) should return an error (failure) code when possible.

5.8 Node Types

5.8.1 tosca.nodes.Root

The TOSCA Root Node Type is the default type that all other TOSCA base Node Types derive from.  This allows for all TOSCA nodes to have a consistent set of features for modeling and management (e.g., consistent definitions for requirements, capabilities and lifecycle interfaces).

 

Shorthand Name

Root

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Root

Type URI

tosca.nodes.Root

5.8.1.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

The TOSCA Root Node type has no specified properties.

5.8.1.2 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

tosca_id

yes

string

None

A unique identifier of the realized instance of a Node Template that derives from any TOSCA normative type.

tosca_name

yes

string

None

This attribute reflects the name of the Node Template as defined in the TOSCA service template.  This name is not unique to the realized instance model of corresponding deployed application as each template in the model can result in one or more instances (e.g., scaled) when orchestrated to a provider environment.

state

yes

string

default: initial

The state of the node instance.  See section “Node States” for allowed values.

5.8.1.3 Definition

tosca.nodes.Root:

  description: The TOSCA Node Type all other TOSCA base Node Types derive from

  attributes:

    tosca_id:

      type: string

    tosca_name:

      type: string

    state:

      type: string

  capabilities:

    feature:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Node

  requirements:

    - dependency:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Node

        node: tosca.nodes.Root

                 relationship: tosca.relationships.DependsOn

                 occurrences: [ 0, UNBOUNDED ]

  interfaces:

    Standard:

      type: tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard

5.8.1.4 Additional Requirements

·         All Node Type definitions that wish to adhere to the TOSCA Simple Profile SHOULD extend from the TOSCA Root Node Type to be assured of compatibility and portability across implementations.

5.8.2 tosca.nodes.Compute

The TOSCA Compute node represents one or more real or virtual processors of software applications or services along with other essential local resources.  Collectively, the resources the compute node represents can logically be viewed as a (real or virtual) “server”.

Shorthand Name

Compute

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Compute

Type URI

tosca.nodes.Compute

5.8.2.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.8.2.2 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

private_address

no

string

None

The primary private IP address assigned by the cloud provider that applications may use to access the Compute node.

public_address

no

string

None

The primary public IP address assigned by the cloud provider that applications may use to access the Compute node.

networks

no

map of NetworkInfo

None

The list of logical networks assigned to the compute host instance and information about them.

ports

no

map of PortInfo

None

The list of logical ports assigned to the compute host instance and information about them.

5.8.2.3 Definition

tosca.nodes.Compute:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  attributes:

    private_address:

      type: string

    public_address:

      type: string

    networks:

      type: map

      entry_schema:

        type: tosca.datatypes.network.NetworkInfo

    ports:

      type: map

      entry_schema:

        type: tosca.datatypes.network.PortInfo

  requirements:

    - local_storage:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Attachment

        node: tosca.nodes.BlockStorage

        relationship: tosca.relationships.AttachesTo

        occurrences: [0, UNBOUNDED] 

  capabilities:

    host:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Container

      valid_source_types: [tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent]

    endpoint:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Admin

    os:

      type: tosca.capabilities.OperatingSystem

    scalable:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Scalable

    binding:

      type: tosca.capabilities.network.Bindable

5.8.2.4 Additional Requirements

·         The underlying implementation of the Compute node SHOULD have the ability to instantiate guest operating systems (either actual or virtualized) based upon the OperatingSystem capability properties if they are supplied in the a node template derived from the Compute node type.

5.8.3 tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent

The TOSCA SoftwareComponent node represents a generic software component that can be managed and run by a TOSCA Compute Node Type.

Shorthand Name

SoftwareComponent

Type Qualified Name

tosca:SoftwareComponent

Type URI

tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent

5.8.3.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

component_version

no

version

None

The optional software component’s version.

admin_credential

no

Credential

None

The optional credential that can be used to authenticate to the software component.

5.8.3.2 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.8.3.3 Definition

tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  properties:

    # domain-specific software component version

    component_version:

      type: version

      required: false

    admin_credential:

      type: tosca.datatypes.Credential

      required: false

  requirements:

    - host:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Container

        node: tosca.nodes.Compute

        relationship: tosca.relationships.HostedOn

5.8.3.4 Additional Requirements

·         Nodes that can directly be managed and run by a TOSCA Compute Node Type SHOULD extend from this type.

5.8.4 tosca.nodes.WebServer

This TOSA WebServer Node Type represents an abstract software component or service that is capable of hosting and providing management operations for one or more WebApplication nodes.

Shorthand Name

WebServer

Type Qualified Name

tosca:WebServer

Type URI

tosca.nodes.WebServer

5.8.4.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

None

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.8.4.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.WebServer:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent

  capabilities:

    # Private, layer 4 endpoints

    data_endpoint: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

    admin_endpoint: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Admin

    host:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Container

      valid_source_types: [ tosca.nodes.WebApplication ]

5.8.4.3 Additional Requirements

·         This node SHALL export both a secure endpoint capability (i.e., admin_endpoint), typically for administration, as well as a regular endpoint (i.e., data_endpoint) for serving data.

5.8.5 tosca.nodes.WebApplication

The TOSCA WebApplication node represents a software application that can be managed and run by a TOSCA WebServer node.  Specific types of web applications such as Java, etc. could be derived from this type.

Shorthand Name

WebApplication

Type Qualified Name

tosca: WebApplication

Type URI

tosca.nodes.WebApplication

5.8.5.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

context_root

no

string

None

The web application’s context root which designates the application’s URL path within the web server it is hosted on.

5.8.5.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.WebApplication:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  properties:

    context_root:

      type: string

  capabilities:

    app_endpoint:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

  requirements:

    - host:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Container

        node: tosca.nodes.WebServer

        relationship: tosca.relationships.HostedOn

5.8.6 tosca.nodes.DBMS

The TOSCA DBMS node represents a typical relational, SQL Database Management System software component or service.

5.8.6.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

root_password

no

string

None

The optional root password for the DBMS server.

port

no

integer

None

The DBMS server’s port.

5.8.6.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.DBMS:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent

  properties:

    root_password:

      type: string

      required: false

      description: the optional root password for the DBMS service

    port:

      type: integer

      required: false

      description: the port the DBMS service will listen to for data and requests

  capabilities:   

    host:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Container

      valid_source_types: [ tosca.nodes.Database ]

5.8.7 tosca.nodes.Database

The TOSCA Database node represents a logical database that can be managed and hosted by a TOSCA DBMS node.

Shorthand Name

Database

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Database

Type URI

tosca.nodes.Database

5.8.7.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

name

yes

string

None

The logical database Name

port

no

integer

None

The port the database service will use to listen for incoming data and requests.

user

no

string

None

The special user account used for database administration.

password

no

string

None

The password associated with the user account provided in the ‘user’ property.

5.8.7.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.Database:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  properties:

    name:

      type: string

      description: the logical name of the database

    port:

      type: integer

      description: the port the underlying database service will listen to for data

    user:

      type: string

      description: the optional user account name for DB administration

      required: false

    password:

      type: string

      description: the optional password for the DB user account

      required: false

  requirements:

    - host:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Container

        node: tosca.nodes.DBMS

        relationship: tosca.relationships.HostedOn

  capabilities:

    database_endpoint:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Database

5.8.8 tosca.nodes.ObjectStorage

The TOSCA ObjectStorage node represents storage that provides the ability to store data as objects (or BLOBs of data) without consideration for the underlying filesystem or devices.

Shorthand Name

ObjectStorage

Type Qualified Name

tosca:ObjectStorage

Type URI

tosca.nodes.ObjectStorage

5.8.8.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

name

yes

string

None

The logical name of the object store (or container).

size

no

scalar-unit.size

greater_or_equal: 0 GB

The requested initial storage size (default unit is in Gigabytes).

maxsize

no

scalar-unit.size

greater_or_equal: 0 GB

The requested maximum storage size (default unit is in Gigabytes).

5.8.8.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.ObjectStorage:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  properties:

    name:

      type: string

    size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      constraints:

        - greater_or_equal: 0 GB

    maxsize:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      constraints:

        - greater_or_equal: 0 GB

  capabilities:

    storage_endpoint:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

5.8.8.3 Notes:

·         Subclasses of the tosca.nodes.ObjectStorage node type may impose further constraints on properties.  For example, a subclass may constrain the (minimum or maximum) length of the ‘name’ property or include a regular expression to constrain allowed characters used in the ‘name’ property.

5.8.9 tosca.nodes.BlockStorage

The TOSCA BlockStorage node currently represents a server-local block storage device (i.e., not shared) offering evenly sized blocks of data from which raw storage volumes can be created.

Note: In this draft of the TOSCA Simple Profile, distributed or Network Attached Storage (NAS) are not yet considered (nor are clustered file systems), but the TC plans to do so in future drafts.

Shorthand Name

BlockStorage

Type Qualified Name

tosca:BlockStorage

Type URI

tosca.nodes.BlockStorage

5.8.9.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

size

yes *

scalar-unit.size

greater_or_equal: 1 MB

The requested storage size (default unit is MB).

 

* Note:

·         Required when an existing volume (i.e., volume_id) is not available.

·         If volume_id is provided, size is ignored.  Resize of existing volumes is not considered at this time.

volume_id

no

string

None

ID of an existing volume (that is in the accessible scope of the requesting application).

snapshot_id

no

string

None

Some identifier that represents an existing snapshot that should be used when creating the block storage (volume).

5.8.9.2 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

5.8.9.3 Definition

tosca.nodes.BlockStorage:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  properties:

    size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      constraints:

        - greater_or_equal: 1 MB

    volume_id:

      type: string

      required: false

    snapshot_id:

      type: string

      required: false

  capabilities:

    attachment:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Attachment

5.8.9.4 Additional Requirements

·         The size property is required when an existing volume (i.e., volume_id) is not available. However, if the property volume_id is provided, the size property is ignored. 

5.8.9.5 Notes

·         Resize is of existing volumes is not considered at this time.

·         It is assumed that the volume contains a single filesystem that the operating system (that is hosting an associate application) can recognize and mount without additional information (i.e., it is operating system independent).

·         Currently, this version of the Simple Profile does not consider regions (or availability zones) when modeling storage.

5.8.10 tosca.nodes.Container.Runtime

The TOSCA Container Runtime node represents operating system-level virtualization technology used to run multiple application services on a single Compute host.

Shorthand Name

Container.Runtime

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Container.Runtime

Type URI

tosca.nodes.Container.Runtime

5.8.10.1 Definition

tosca.nodes.Container.Runtime:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent

  capabilities:

    host:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Container

    scalable:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Scalable

5.8.11 tosca.nodes.Container.Application

The TOSCA Container Application node represents an application that requires Container-level virtualization technology.

Shorthand Name

Container.Application

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Container.Application

Type URI

tosca.nodes.Container.Application

5.8.11.1 Definition

tosca.nodes.Container.Application:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  requirements:

    - host:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Container

        node: tosca.nodes.Container

        relationship: tosca.relationships.HostedOn

5.8.12 tosca.nodes.LoadBalancer

The TOSCA Load Balancer node represents logical function that be used in conjunction with a Floating Address to distribute an application’s traffic (load) across a number of instances of the application (e.g., for a clustered or scaled application).

Shorthand Name

LoadBalancer

Type Qualified Name

tosca:LoadBalancer

Type URI

tosca.nodes.LoadBalancer

5.8.12.1 Definition

tosca.nodes.LoadBalancer:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  properties:

    algorithm:

      type: string

      required: false

      status: experimental

  capabilities:

    client:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Public

      occurrences: [0, UNBOUNDED] 

      description: the Floating (IP) client’s on the public network can connect to

  requirements:

    - application:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

        relationship: tosca.relationships.RoutesTo

        occurrences: [0, UNBOUNDED] 

        description: Connection to one or more load balanced applications

5.8.12.2 Notes:

·         A LoadBalancer node can still be instantiated and managed independently of any applications it would serve; therefore, the load balancer’s application requirement allows for zero occurrences.

5.9 Group Types

TOSCA Group Types represent logical groupings of TOSCA nodes that have an implied membership relationship and may need to be orchestrated or managed together to achieve some result.  Some use cases being developed by the TOSCA TC use groups to apply TOSCA policies for software placement and scaling while other use cases show groups can be used to describe cluster relationships.

 

Note: Additional normative TOSCA Group Types and use cases for them will be developed in future drafts of this specification.

5.9.1 tosca.groups.Root

This is the default (root) TOSCA Group Type definition that all other TOSCA base Group Types derive from. 

5.9.1.1 Definition

tosca.groups.Root:

  description: The TOSCA Group Type all other TOSCA Group Types derive from

  interfaces:

    Standard:

      type: tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard

5.9.1.2 Notes:

·         Group operations are not necessarily tied directly to member nodes that are part of a group. 

·         Future versions of this specification will create sub types of the tosca.groups.Root type that will describe how Group Type operations are to be orchestrated.

5.10 Policy Types

TOSCA Policy Types represent logical grouping of TOSCA nodes that have an implied relationship and need to be orchestrated or managed together to achieve some result.  Some use cases being developed by the TOSCA TC use groups to apply TOSCA policies for software placement and scaling while other use cases show groups can be used to describe cluster relationships.

5.10.1 tosca.policies.Root

This is the default (root) TOSCA Policy Type definition that all other TOSCA base Policy Types derive from. 

5.10.1.1 Definition

tosca.policies.Root:

  description: The TOSCA Policy Type all other TOSCA Policy Types derive from

5.10.2 tosca.policies.Placement

This is the default (root) TOSCA Policy Type definition that is used to govern placement of TOSCA nodes or groups of nodes. 

5.10.2.1 Definition

tosca.policies.Placement:

  derived_from: tosca.policies.Root

  description: The TOSCA Policy Type definition that is used to govern placement of TOSCA nodes or groups of nodes. 

5.10.3 tosca.policies.Scaling

This is the default (root) TOSCA Policy Type definition that is used to govern scaling of TOSCA nodes or groups of nodes. 

5.10.3.1 Definition

tosca.policies.Scaling:

  derived_from: tosca.policies.Root

  description: The TOSCA Policy Type definition that is used to govern scaling of TOSCA nodes or groups of nodes. 

5.10.4 tosca.policies.Update

This is the default (root) TOSCA Policy Type definition that is used to govern update of TOSCA nodes or groups of nodes. 

5.10.4.1 Definition

tosca.policies.Update:

  derived_from: tosca.policies.Root

  description: The TOSCA Policy Type definition that is used to govern update of TOSCA nodes or groups of nodes. 

5.10.5 tosca.policies.Performance

This is the default (root) TOSCA Policy Type definition that is used to declare performance requirements for TOSCA nodes or groups of nodes. 

5.10.5.1 Definition

tosca.policies.Performance:

  derived_from: tosca.policies.Root

  description: The TOSCA Policy Type definition that is used to declare performance requirements for TOSCA nodes or groups of nodes. 

 

6      TOSCA Cloud Service Archive (CSAR) format

Except for the examples, this section is normative and defines changes to the TOSCA archive format relative to the TOSCA v1.0 XML specification.

 

TOSCA Simple Profile definitions along with all accompanying artifacts (e.g. scripts, binaries, configuration files) can be packaged together in a CSAR file as already defined in the TOSCA version 1.0 specification [TOSCA-1.0]. In contrast to the TOSCA 1.0 CSAR file specification (see chapter 16 in [TOSCA-1.0]), this simple profile makes a few simplifications both in terms of overall CSAR file structure as well as meta-file content as described below.

6.1 Overall Structure of a CSAR

A CSAR zip file is required to contain a TOSCA-Metadata directory, which in turn contains the TOSCA.meta metadata file that provides entry information for a TOSCA orchestrator processing the CSAR file.

The CSAR file may contain other directories with arbitrary names and contents. Note that in contrast to the TOSCA 1.0 specification, it is not required to put TOSCA definitions files into a special “Definitions” directory, but definitions YAML files can be placed into any directory within the CSAR file.

6.2 TOSCA Meta File

The TOSCA.meta file structure follows the exact same syntax as defined in the TOSCA 1.0 specification. However, it is only required to include block_0 (see section 16.2 in [TOSCA-1.0]) with the Entry-Definitions keyword pointing to a valid TOSCA definitions YAML file that a TOSCA orchestrator should use as entry for parsing the contents of the overall CSAR file.

Note that it is not required to explicitly list TOSCA definitions files in subsequent blocks of the TOSCA.meta file, but any TOSCA definitions files besides the one denoted by the Entry-Definitions keyword can be found by a TOSCA orchestrator by processing respective imports statements in the entry definitions file (or in recursively imported files).

Note also that any additional artifact files (e.g. scripts, binaries, configuration files) do not have to be declared explicitly through blocks in the TOSCA.meta file. Instead, such artifacts will be fully described and pointed to by relative path names through artifact definitions in one of the TOSCA definitions files contained in the CSAR.

 

Due to the simplified structure of the CSAR file and TOSCA.meta file compared to TOSCA 1.0, the CSAR-Version keyword listed in block_0 of the meta-file is required to denote version 1.1.

6.2.1 Example

The following listing represents a valid TOSCA.meta file according to this TOSCA Simple Profile specification.

TOSCA-Meta-File-Version: 1.0

CSAR-Version: 1.1

Created-By: OASIS TOSCA TC

Entry-Definitions: definitions/tosca_elk.yaml

 

This TOSCA.meta file indicates its simplified TOSCA Simple Profile structure by means of the CSAR-Version keyword with value 1.1. The Entry-Definitions keyword points to a TOSCA definitions YAML file with the name tosca_elk.yaml which is contained in a directory called definitions within the root of the CSAR file.

7      TOSCA networking

 Except for the examples, this section is normative and describes how to express and control the application centric network semantics available in TOSCA.

7.1 Networking and Service Template Portability

TOSCA Service Templates are application centric in the sense that they focus on describing application components in terms of their requirements and interrelationships. In order to provide cloud portability, it is important that a TOSCA Service Template avoid cloud specific requirements and details. However, at the same time, TOSCA must provide the expressiveness to control the mapping of software component connectivity to the network constructs of the hosting cloud.

TOSCA Networking takes the following approach.

1.       The application component connectivity semantics and expressed in terms of Requirements and Capabilities and the relationships between these. Service Template authors are able to express the interconnectivity requirements of their software components in an abstract, declarative, and thus highly portable manner.

2.       The information provided in TOSCA is complete enough for a TOSCA implementation to fulfill the application component network requirements declaratively (i.e., it contains information such as communication initiation and layer 4 port specifications) so that the required network semantics can be realized on arbitrary network infrastructures.

3.       TOSCA Networking provides full control of the mapping of software component interconnectivity to the networking constructs of the hosting cloud network independently of the Service Template, providing the required separation between application and network semantics to preserve Service Template portability.

4.       Service Template authors have the choice of specifying application component networking requirements in the Service Template or completely separating the application component to network mapping into a separate document. This allows application components with explicit network requirements to express them while allowing users to control the complete mapping for all software components which may not have specific requirements. Usage of these two approaches is possible simultaneously and required to avoid having to re-write components network semantics as arbitrary sets of components are assembled into Service Templates.

5.       Defining a set of network semantics which are expressive enough to address the most common application connectivity requirements while avoiding dependencies on specific network technologies and constructs. Service Template authors and cloud providers are able to express unique/non-portable semantics by defining their own specialized network Requirements and Capabilities.

7.2 Connectivity Semantics

TOSCA’s application centric approach includes the modeling of network connectivity semantics from an application component connectivity perspective. The basic premise is that applications contain components which need to communicate with other components using one or more endpoints over a network stack such as TCP/IP, where connectivity between two components is expressed as a <source component, source address, source port, target component, target address, target port> tuple. Note that source and target components are added to the traditional 4 tuple to provide the application centric information, mapping the network to the source or target component involved in the connectivity.

 

Software components are expressed as Node Types in TOSCA which can express virtually any kind of concept in a TOSCA model. Node Types offering network based functions can model their connectivity using a special Endpoint Capability, tosca.capabilities.Endpoint, designed for this purpose. Node Types which require an Endpoint can specify this as a TOSCA requirement. A special Relationship Type, tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo, is used to implicitly or explicitly relate the source Node Type’s endpoint to the required endpoint in the target node type. Since tosca.capabilities.Endpoint and tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo are TOSCA types, they can be used in templates and extended by subclassing in the usual ways, thus allowing the expression of additional semantics as needed.


The following diagram shows how the TOSCA node, capability and relationship types enable modeling the  application layer decoupled from the network model intersecting at the Compute node using the Bindable capability type.

As you can see, the Port node type effectively acts a broker node between the Network node description and a host Compute node of an application.

7.3 Expressing connectivity semantics

This section describes how TOSCA supports the typical client/server and group communication semantics found in application architectures.

7.3.1 Connection initiation semantics

The tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo expresses that requirement that a source application component needs to be able to communicate with a target software component to consume the services of the target. ConnectTo is a component interdependency semantic in the most general sense and does not try imply how the communication between the source and target components is physically realized.

 

Application component intercommunication typically has conventions regarding which component(s) initiate the communication. Connection initiation semantics are specified in tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.  Endpoints at each end of the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo must indicate identical connection initiation semantics.

 

The following sections describe the normative connection initiation semantics for the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo Relationship Type.

7.3.1.1 Source to Target

The Source to Target communication initiation semantic is the most common case where the source component initiates communication with the target component in order to fulfill an instance of the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo relationship. The typical case is a “client” component connecting to a “server” component where the client initiates a stream oriented connection to a pre-defined transport specific port or set of ports.

 

It is the responsibility of the TOSCA implementation to ensure the source component has a suitable network path to the target component and that the ports specified in the respective tosca.capabilities.Endpoint are not blocked. The TOSCA implementation may only represent state of the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo relationship as fulfilled after the actual network communication is enabled and the source and target components are in their operational states.

 

Note that the connection initiation semantic only impacts the fulfillment of the actual connectivity and does not impact the node traversal order implied by the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo Relationship Type.

7.3.1.2 Target to Source

The Target to Source communication initiation semantic is a less common case where the target component initiates communication with the source comment in order to fulfill an instance of the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo relationship. This “reverse” connection initiation direction is typically required due to some technical requirements of the components or protocols involved, such as the requirement that SSH mush only be initiated from target component in order to fulfill the services required by the source component.

 

It is the responsibility of the TOSCA implementation to ensure the source component has a suitable network path to the target component and that the ports specified in the respective tosca.capabilities.Endpoint are not blocked. The TOSCA implementation may only represent state of the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo relationship as fulfilled after the actual network communication is enabled and the source and target components are in their operational states.

 

Note that the connection initiation semantic only impacts the fulfillment of the actual connectivity and does not impact the node traversal order implied by the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo Relationship Type.

 

7.3.1.3 Peer-to-Peer

The Peer-to-Peer communication initiation semantic allows any member of a group to initiate communication with any other member of the same group at any time. This semantic typically appears in clustering and distributed services where there is redundancy of components or services.

 

It is the responsibility of the TOSCA implementation to ensure the source component has a suitable network path between all the member component instances and that the ports specified in the respective tosca.capabilities.Endpoint are not blocked, and the appropriate multicast communication, if necessary, enabled. The TOSCA implementation may only represent state of the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo relationship as fulfilled after the actual network communication is enabled such that at least one member component of the group may reach any other member component of the group.

 

Endpoints specifying the Peer-to-Peer initiation semantic need not be related with a tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo relationship for the common case where the same set of component instances must communicate with each other.

 

Note that the connection initiation semantic only impacts the fulfillment of the actual connectivity and does not impact the node traversal order implied by the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo Relationship Type.

7.3.2 Specifying layer 4 ports

TOSCA Service Templates must express enough details about application component intercommunication to enable TOSCA implementations to fulfill these communication semantics in the network infrastructure. TOSCA currently focuses on TCP/IP as this is the most pervasive in today’s cloud infrastructures. The layer 4 ports required for application component intercommunication are specified in tosca.capabilities.Endpoint. The union of the port specifications of both the source and target tosca.capabilities.Endpoint which are part of the tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo Relationship Template are interpreted as the effective set of ports which must be allowed in the network communication.

 

The meaning of Source and Target port(s) corresponds to the direction of the respective tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo.

7.4 Network provisioning

7.4.1 Declarative network provisioning

TOSCA orchestrators are responsible for the provisioning of the network connectivity for declarative TOCSA Service Templates (Declarative TOCSA Service Templates don’t contain explicit plans). This means that the TOSCA orchestrator must be able to infer a suitable logical connectivity model from the Service Template and then decide how to provision the logical connectivity, referred to as “fulfillment”, on the available underlying infrastructure. In order to enable fulfillment, sufficient technical details still must be specified, such as the required protocols, ports and QOS information. TOSCA connectivity types, such as tosca.capabilities.Endpoint, provide well defined means to express these details.

7.4.2 Implicit network fulfillment

TOSCA Service Templates are by default network agnostic. TOSCA’s application centric approach only requires that a TOSCA Service Template contain enough information for a TOSCA orchestrator to infer suitable network connectivity to meet the needs of the application components. Thus Service Template designers are not required to be aware of or provide specific requirements for underlying networks. This approach yields the most portable Service Templates, allowing them to be deployed into any infrastructure which can provide the necessary component interconnectivity.

7.4.3 Controlling network fulfillment

TOSCA provides mechanisms for providing control over network fulfillment.

This mechanism allows the application network designer to express in service template or network template how the networks should be provisioned.

 

For the use cases described below let’s assume we have a typical 3-tier application which is consisting of FE (frontend), BE (backend) and DB (database) tiers. The simple application topology diagram can be shown below:

 

Figure‑5: Typical 3-Tier Network

7.4.3.1 Use case: OAM Network

When deploying an application in service provider’s on-premise cloud, it’s very common that one or more of the application’s services should be accessible from an ad-hoc OAM (Operations, Administration and Management) network which exists in the service provider backbone.

 

As an application network designer, I’d like to express in my TOSCA network template (which corresponds to my TOSCA service template) the network CIDR block, start ip, end ip and segmentation ID (e.g. VLAN id).

The diagram below depicts a typical 3-tiers application with specific networking requirements for its FE tier server cluster:

 

7.4.3.2 Use case: Data Traffic network

The diagram below defines a set of networking requirements for the backend and DB tiers of the 3-tier app mentioned above.

7.4.3.3 Use case: Bring my own DHCP

The same 3-tier app requires for its admin traffic network to manage the IP allocation by its own DHCP which runs autonomously as part of application domain.

 

For this purpose, the app network designer would like to express in TOSCA that the underlying provisioned network will be set with DHCP_ENABLED=false.  See this illustrated in the figure below:

7.5 Network Types

7.5.1 tosca.nodes.network.Network

The TOSCA Network node represents a simple, logical network service.

Shorthand Name

Network

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Network

Type URI

tosca.nodes.network.Network

7.5.1.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

ip_version

no

integer

valid_values: [4, 6]

default: 4

The IP version of the requested network

cidr

no

string

None

The cidr block of the requested network

start_ip

no

string

None

The IP address to be used as the 1st one in a pool of addresses derived from the cidr block full IP range

end_ip

no

string

None

The IP address to be used as the last one in a pool of addresses derived from the cidr block full IP range

gateway_ip

no

string

None

The gateway IP address.

network_name

no

string

None

An Identifier that represents an existing Network instance in the underlying cloud infrastructure – OR – be used as the name of the new created network.

·   If network_name is provided along with network_id they will be used to uniquely identify an existing network and not creating a new one, means all other possible properties are not allowed.

·   network_name should be more convenient for using. But in case that network name uniqueness is not guaranteed then one should provide a network_id as well.

network_id

no

string

None

An Identifier that represents an existing Network instance in the underlying cloud infrastructure.

This property is mutually exclusive with all other properties except network_name.

·   Appearance of network_id in network template instructs the Tosca container to use an existing network instead of creating a new one.

·   network_name should be more convenient for using. But in case that network name uniqueness is not guaranteed then one should add a network_id as well.

·   network_name and network_id can be still used together to achieve both uniqueness and convenient.

segmentation_id

no

string

None

A segmentation identifier in the underlying cloud infrastructure (e.g., VLAN id, GRE tunnel id). If the segmentation_id is specified, the network_type or physical_network properties should be provided as well.

network_type

no

string

None

Optionally, specifies the nature of the physical network in the underlying cloud infrastructure. Examples are flat, vlan, gre or vxlan. For flat and vlan types, physical_network should be provided too.

physical_network

no

string

None

Optionally, identifies the physical network on top of which the network is implemented, e.g. physnet1. This property is required if network_type is flat or vlan.

dhcp_enabled

no

boolean

default: true

Indicates the TOSCA container to create a virtual network instance with or without a DHCP service.

7.5.1.2 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

segmentation_id

no

string

None

The actual segmentation_id that is been assigned to the network by the underlying cloud infrastructure.

7.5.1.3 Definition

  tosca.nodes.network.Network:

    derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

    properties:

      ip_version:

        type: integer

        required: false

        default: 4

        constraints:

          - valid_values: [ 4, 6 ]

      cidr:

        type: string

        required: false

      start_ip:

        type: string

        required: false

      end_ip:

        type: string

        required: false

      gateway_ip:

        type: string

        required: false

      network_name:

        type: string

        required: false

      network_id:

        type: string

        required: false

      segmentation_id:

        type: string

        required: false

      network_type:

        type: string

        required: false

      physical_network:

        type: string

        required: false

    capabilities:

      link:

        type: tosca.capabilities.network.Linkable

7.5.2 tosca.nodes.network.Port

The TOSCA Port node represents a logical entity that associates between Compute and Network normative types.

The Port node type effectively represents a single virtual NIC on the Compute node instance.

Shorthand Name

Port

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Port

Type URI

tosca.nodes.network.Port

7.5.2.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

ip_address

no

string

None

Allow the user to set a fixed IP address.

 

Note that this address is a request to the provider which they will attempt to fulfill but may not be able to dependent on the network the port is associated with.

order

no

integer

greater_or_equal: 0

default: 0

The order of the NIC on the compute instance (e.g. eth2).

 

Note: when binding more than one port to a single compute (aka multi vNICs) and ordering is desired, it is *mandatory* that all ports will be set with an order value and. The order values must represent a positive, arithmetic progression that starts with 0 (e.g. 0, 1, 2, …, n).    

is_default

no

boolean

default: false

Set is_default=true to apply a default gateway route on the running compute instance to the associated network gateway.

 

Only one port that is associated to single compute node can set as default=true.

ip_range_start

no

string

None

Defines the starting IP of a range to be allocated for the compute instances that are associated by this Port.

Without setting this property the IP allocation is done from the entire CIDR block of the network.

ip_range_end

no

string

None

Defines the ending IP of a range to be allocated for the compute instances that are associated by this Port.

Without setting this property the IP allocation is done from the entire CIDR block of the network.

7.5.2.2 Attributes

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

ip_address

no

string

None

The IP address would be assigned to the associated compute instance.

7.5.2.3 Definition

  tosca.nodes.network.Port:

    derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

    properties:

      ip_address:

        type: string

        required: false

      order:

        type: integer

        required: true

        default: 0

        constraints:

          - greater_or_equal: 0

      is_default:

        type: boolean

        required: false

        default: false

      ip_range_start:

        type: string

        required: false

      ip_range_end:

        type: string

        required: false 

    requirements:

     - link:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.network.Linkable

        relationship: tosca.relationships.network.LinksTo

     - binding:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.network.Bindable

        relationship: tosca.relationships.network.BindsTo

7.5.3 tosca.capabilities.network.Linkable

A node type that includes the Linkable capability indicates that it can be pointed by tosca.relationships.network.LinksTo relationship type.

Shorthand Name

Linkable

Type Qualified Name

tosca:.Linkable

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.network.Linkable

7.5.3.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

7.5.3.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.network.Linkable:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Node

7.5.4 tosca.relationships.network.LinksTo

This relationship type represents an association relationship between Port and Network node types.

Shorthand Name

LinksTo

Type Qualified Name

tosca:LinksTo

Type URI

tosca.relationships.network.LinksTo

7.5.4.1 Definition

tosca.relationships.network.LinksTo:

  derived_from: tosca.relationships.DependsOn

  valid_target_types: [ tosca.capabilities.network.Linkable ]

7.5.5 tosca.relationships.network.BindsTo

This type represents a network association relationship between Port and Compute node types.

Shorthand Name

network.BindsTo

Type Qualified Name

tosca:BindsTo

Type URI

tosca.relationships.network.BindsTo

7.5.5.1 Definition

tosca.relationships.network.BindsTo:

  derived_from: tosca.relationships.DependsOn

    valid_target_types: [ tosca.capabilities.network.Bindable ]

7.6 Network modeling approaches

7.6.1 Option 1: Specifying a network outside the application’s Service Template

This approach allows someone who understands the application’s networking requirements, mapping the details of the underlying network to the appropriate node templates in the application.

 

The motivation for this approach is providing the application network designer a fine-grained control on how networks are provisioned and stitched to its application by the TOSCA orchestrator and underlying cloud infrastructure while still preserving the portability of his service template. Preserving the portability means here not doing any modification in service template but just “plug-in” the desired network modeling. The network modeling can reside in the same service template file but the best practice should be placing it in a separated self-contained network template file.

 

This “pluggable” network template approach introduces a new normative node type called Port, capability called tosca.capabilities.network.Linkable and relationship type called tosca.relationships.network.LinksTo.

The idea of the Port is to elegantly associate the desired compute nodes with the desired network nodes while not “touching” the compute itself.

 

The following diagram series demonstrate the plug-ability strength of this approach.

Let’s assume an application designer has modeled a service template as shown in Figure 1 that describes the application topology nodes (compute, storage, software components, etc.) with their relationships.  The designer ideally wants to preserve this service template and use it in any cloud provider environment without any change.

Figure‑6: Generic Service Template

When the application designer comes to consider its application networking requirement they typically call the network architect/designer from their company (who has the correct expertise).

The network designer, after understanding the application connectivity requirements and optionally the target cloud provider environment, is able to model the network template and plug it to the service template as shown in Figure 2:

Figure‑7: Service template with network template A

When there’s a new target cloud environment to run the application on, the network designer is simply creates a new network template B that corresponds to the new environmental conditions and provide it to the application designer which packs it into the application CSAR.

Figure‑8: Service template with network template B

The node templates for these three networks would be defined as follows:

node_templates:

  frontend:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    properties: # omitted for brevity

 

  backend:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    properties: # omitted for brevity

 

  database:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    properties: # omitted for brevity

 

  oam_network:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

    properties: # omitted for brevity

 

  admin_network:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

    properties: # omitted for brevity 

 

  data_network:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

    properties: # omitted for brevity

 

  # ports definition

  fe_oam_net_port:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

    properties:

      is_default: true

      ip_range_start: { get_input: fe_oam_net_ip_range_start }

      ip_range_end: { get_input: fe_oam_net_ip_range_end }

    requirements:

      - link: oam_network

      - binding: frontend

     

  fe_admin_net_port:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

    requirements:

      - link: admin_network

      - binding: frontend

     

  be_admin_net_port:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

    properties:

       order: 0

    requirements:

      - link: admin_network

      - binding: backend

     

  be_data_net_port:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

    properties:

       order: 1

    requirements:

      - link: data_network

      - binding: backend

 

  db_data_net_port:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

    requirements:     

      - link: data_network

      - binding: database

 

7.6.2 Option 2: Specifying network requirements within the application’s Service Template

This approach allows the Service Template designer to map an endpoint to a logical network.

The use case shown below examines a way to express in the TOSCA YAML service template a typical 3-tier application with their required networking modeling:

node_templates:

  frontend:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    properties: # omitted for brevity

    requirements:

      - network_oam: oam_network

      - network_admin: admin_network

  backend:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    properties: # omitted for brevity

    requirements:

      - network_admin: admin_network

      - network_data: data_network

 

  database:

    type: tosca.nodes.Compute

    properties: # omitted for brevity

    requirements:

      - network_data: data_network

 

  oam_network:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

    properties:

      ip_version:  { get_input: oam_network_ip_version }

      cidr: { get_input: oam_network_cidr }

      start_ip: { get_input: oam_network_start_ip }

      end_ip: { get_input: oam_network_end_ip }

 

  admin_network:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

    properties:

      ip_version:  { get_input: admin_network_ip_version }

      dhcp_enabled: { get_input: admin_network_dhcp_enabled } 

 

  data_network:

    type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

    properties:

       ip_version:  { get_input: data_network_ip_version }

       cidr: { get_input: data_network_cidr }

 

8      Non-normative type definitions

This section defines non-normative types which are used only in examples and use cases in this specification and are included only for completeness for the reader. Implementations of this specification are not required to support these types for conformance.

8.1 Artifact Types

This section contains are non-normative Artifact Types used in use cases and examples. 

8.1.1 tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.Container.Docker

This artifact represents a Docker “image” (a TOSCA deployment artifact type) which is a binary comprised of one or more (a union of read-only and read-write) layers created from snapshots within the underlying Docker Union File System.

8.1.1.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.Container.Docker:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image

  description: Docker Container Image

8.1.2 tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM.ISO

A Virtual Machine (VM) formatted as an ISO standard disk image.

8.1.2.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM.ISO:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM

  description: Virtual Machine (VM) image in ISO disk format

  mime_type: application/octet-stream

  file_ext: [ iso ]

8.1.3 tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM.QCOW2

A Virtual Machine (VM) formatted as a QEMU emulator version 2 standard disk image.

8.1.3.1 Definition

tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM.QCOW2:

  derived_from: tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM

  description: Virtual Machine (VM) image in QCOW v2 standard disk format

  mime_type: application/octet-stream

  file_ext: [ qcow2 ]

8.2 Capability Types

This section contains are non-normative Capability Types used in use cases and examples. 

8.2.1 tosca.capabilities.Container.Docker

The type indicates capabilities of a Docker runtime environment (client).

Shorthand Name

Container.Docker

Type Qualified Name

tosca:Container.Docker

Type URI

tosca.capabilities.Container.Docker

8.2.1.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

version

no

version[]

None

The Docker version capability (i.e., the versions supported by the capability).

publish_all

no

boolean

default: false

Indicates that all ports (ranges) listed in the dockerfile using the EXPOSE keyword be published.

publish_ports

no

list of PortSpec

None

List of ports mappings from source (Docker container) to target (host) ports to publish.

expose_ports

no

list of PortSpec

None

List of ports mappings from source (Docker container) to expose to other Docker containers (not accessible outside host).   

volumes

no

list of string

None

The dockerfile VOLUME command which is used to enable access from the Docker container to a directory on the host machine.

host_id

no

string

None

The optional identifier of an existing host resource that should be used to run this container on.

volume_id

no

string

None

The optional identifier of an existing storage volume (resource) that should be used to create the container’s mount point(s) on.

8.2.1.2 Definition

tosca.capabilities.Container.Docker:

  derived_from: tosca.capabilities.Container

  properties:

    version:

      type: list

      required: false

      entry_schema: version

    publish_all:

      type: boolean

      default: false

      required: false

    publish_ports:

      type: list

      entry_schema: PortSpec

      required: false

    expose_ports:

      type: list

      entry_schema: PortSpec

      required: false

    volumes:

      type: list

      entry_schema: string

      required: false

8.2.1.3 Notes

·         When the expose_ports property is used, only the source and source_range properties of PortSpec would be valid for supplying port numbers or ranges, the target and target_range properties would be ignored.

8.3 Node Types

This section contains non-normative node types referenced in use cases and examples.  All additional Attributes, Properties, Requirements and Capabilities shown in their definitions (and are not inherited from ancestor normative types) are also considered to be non-normative.

8.3.1 tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL

8.3.1.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

8.3.1.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Database

  requirements:

    - host:

        node: tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

8.3.2 tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL

8.3.2.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

8.3.2.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.DBMS.MySQL:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.DBMS

  properties:

    port:

      description: reflect the default MySQL server port

      default: 3306

    root_password:

      # MySQL requires a root_password for configuration

      # Override parent DBMS definition to make this property required

      required: true

  capabilities:

    # Further constrain the ‘host’ capability to only allow MySQL databases

    host:

      valid_source_types: [ tosca.nodes.Database.MySQL ]

8.3.3 tosca.nodes.WebServer.Apache

8.3.3.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

8.3.3.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.WebServer.Apache:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.WebServer

8.3.4 tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

This section defines a non-normative Node type for the WordPress [WordPress] application.

8.3.4.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

8.3.4.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.WebApplication

  properties:

    admin_user:

      type: string

    admin_password:

      type: string

    db_host:

      type: string

  requirements:

    - database_endpoint:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.Database  

        node: tosca.nodes.Database

        relationship: tosca.relationships.ConnectsTo

8.3.5 tosca.nodes.WebServer.Nodejs

This non-normative node type represents a Node.js [NodeJS] web application server.

8.3.5.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

8.3.5.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.WebServer.Nodejs:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.WebServer

  properties:

    # Property to supply the desired implementation in the Github repository

    github_url:

      required: no

      type: string

      description: location of the application on the github.

      default: https://github.com/mmm/testnode.git

  interfaces:

    Standard:

      inputs:

        github_url:

          type: string

8.3.6 tosca.nodes.Container.Application.Docker

8.3.6.1 Properties

Name

Required

Type

Constraints

Description

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

8.3.6.2 Definition

tosca.nodes.Container.Application.Docker:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Container.Application

  requirements:

    - host:

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Container.Docker

9      Component Modeling Use Cases

This section is non-normative and includes use cases that explore how to model components and their relationships using TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML.

9.1.1 Use Case: Exploring the HostedOn relationship using WebApplication and WebServer

This use case examines the ways TOSCA YAML can be used to express a simple hosting relationship (i.e., HostedOn) using the normative TOSCA WebServer and WebApplication node types defined in this specification.

9.1.1.1 WebServer declares its “host” capability

For convenience, relevant parts of the normative TOSCA Node Type for WebServer are shown below:

tosca.nodes.WebServer

  derived_from: SoftwareComponent

  capabilities:

    ...

    host:

      type: tosca.capabilities.Container

      valid_source_types: [ tosca.nodes.WebApplication ]

As can be seen, the WebServer Node Type declares its capability to “contain” (i.e., host) other nodes using the symbolic name “host” and providing the Capability Type tosca.capabilities.Container.  It should be noted that the symbolic name of “host” is not a reserved word, but one assigned by the type designer that implies at or betokens the associated capability.  The Container capability definition also includes a required list of valid Node Types that can be contained by this, the WebServer, Node Type.  This list is declared using the keyname of valid_source_types and in this case it includes only allowed type WebApplication.

9.1.1.2 WebApplication declares its “host” requirement

The WebApplication node type needs to be able to describe the type of capability a target node would have to provide in order to “host” it.   The normative TOSCA capability type tosca.capabilities.Container is used to describe all normative TOSCA hosting (i.e., container-containee pattern) relationships. As can be seen below, the WebApplication accomplishes this by declaring a requirement with the symbolic name “host” with the capability keyname set to tosca.capabilities.Container.   

Again, for convenience, the relevant parts of the normative WebApplication Node Type are shown below:

tosca.nodes.WebApplication:

  derived_from: tosca.nodes.Root

  requirements:

    - host:       

        capability: tosca.capabilities.Container

        node: tosca.nodes.WebServer

        relationship: tosca.relationships.HostedOn

9.1.1.2.1 Notes

·         The symbolic name “host” is not a keyword and was selected for consistent use in TOSCA normative node types to give the reader an indication of the type of requirement being referenced.  A valid HostedOn relationship could still be established between WebApplicaton and WebServer in a TOSCA Service Template regardless of the symbolic name assigned to either the requirement or capability declaration.

9.1.2 Use Case: Establishing a ConnectsTo relationship to WebServer

This use case examines the ways TOSCA YAML can be used to express a simple connection relationship (i.e., ConnectsTo) between some service derived from the SoftwareComponent Node Type, to the normative WebServer node type defined in this specification.

The service template that would establish a ConnectsTo relationship as follows:

node_types:

  MyServiceType:

    derived_from: SoftwareComponent

    requirements:

      # This type of service requires a connection to a WebServer’s data_endpoint

      - connection1:

          node: WebServer

          relationship: ConnectsTo

          capability: Endpoint

 

topology_template:

  node_templates:

    my_web_service:

      type: MyServiceType

      ...

      requirements:

        - connection1:

            node: my_web_server

 

    my_web_server:

      # Note, the normative WebServer node type declares the “data_endpoint”

      # capability of type tosca.capabilities.Endpoint

      type: WebServer

Since the normative WebServer Node Type only declares one capability of type tosca.capabilties.Endpoint (or Endpoint, its shortname alias in TOSCA) using the symbolic name data_endpoint, the my_web_service node template does not need to declare that symbolic name on its requirement declaration.  If however, the my_web_server node was based upon some other node type that declared more than one capability of type Endpoint, then the capability keyname could be used to supply the desired symbolic name if necessary.

9.1.2.1 Best practice

 It should be noted that the best practice for designing Node Types in TOSCA should not export two capabilities of the same type if they truly offer different functionality (i.e., different capabilities) which should be distinguished using different Capability Type definitions.

9.1.3 Use Case: Attaching (local) BlockStorage to a Compute node

This use case examines the ways TOSCA YAML can be used to express a simple AttachesTo relationship between a Compute node and a locally attached BlockStorage node.

The service template that would establish an AttachesTo relationship follows:

node_templates:

  my_server:

    type: Compute

    ...

    requirements:

      # contextually this can only be a relationship type

      - local_storage:

          # capability is provided by Compute Node Type

          node: my_block_storage           

          relationship:

            type: AttachesTo

            properties:

              location: /path1/path2

          # This maps the local requirement name ‘local_storage’ to the

          # target node’s capability name ‘attachment’

 

  my_block_storage:

    type: BlockStorage

    properties:

      size: 10 GB

9.1.4 Use Case: Reusing a BlockStorage Relationship using Relationship Type or Relationship Template

This builds upon the previous use case (9.1.3) to examine how a template author could attach multiple Compute nodes (templates) to the same BlockStorage node (template), but with slightly different property values for the AttachesTo relationship.

 

Specifically, several notation options are shown (in this use case) that achieve the same desired result.

9.1.4.1 Simple Profile Rationale

Referencing an explicitly declared Relationship Template is a convenience of the Simple Profile that allows template authors an entity to set, constrain or override the properties and operations as defined in its declared (Relationship) Type much as allowed now for Node Templates.  It is especially useful when a complex Relationship Type (with many configurable properties or operations) has several logical occurrences in the same Service (Topology) Template; allowing the author to avoid configuring these same properties and operations in multiple Node Templates.

9.1.4.2 Notation Style #1: Augment AttachesTo Relationship Type directly in each Node Template

This notation extends the methodology used for establishing a HostedOn relationship, but allowing template author to supply (dynamic) configuration and/or override of properties and operations.

 

Note: This option will remain valid for Simple Profile regardless of other notation (copy or aliasing) options being discussed or adopted for future versions.

 

node_templates:

 

  my_block_storage:

    type: BlockStorage

    properties:

      size: 10

 

  my_web_app_tier_1:

    type: Compute

    requirements:

      - local_storage:

          node: my_block_storage

          relationship: MyAttachesTo

            # use default property settings in the Relationship Type definition

 

  my_web_app_tier_2:

    type: Compute

    requirements:

      - local_storage:

          node: my_block_storage

          relationship:

            type: MyAttachesTo

            # Override default property setting for just the ‘location’ property

            properties:

              location: /some_other_data_location

 

relationship_types:

 

  MyAttachesTo:

    derived_from: AttachesTo

    properties:

      location: /default_location

    interfaces:

      Configure:

        post_configure_target:

          implementation: default_script.sh

 

9.1.4.3 Notation Style #2: Use the ‘template’ keyword on the Node Templates to specify which named Relationship Template to use

This option shows how to explicitly declare different named Relationship Templates within the Service Template as part of a relationship_templates section (which have different property values) and can be referenced by different Compute typed Node Templates.

 

node_templates:

 

  my_block_storage:

    type: BlockStorage

    properties:

      size: 10

 

  my_web_app_tier_1:

    derived_from: Compute

    requirements:

      - local_storage:

          node: my_block_storage

          relationship: storage_attachesto_1

 

  my_web_app_tier_2:

    derived_from: Compute

    requirements:

      - local_storage:

          node: my_block_storage

          relationship: storage_attachesto_2

 

relationship_templates:

  storage_attachesto_1:

    type: MyAttachesTo

    properties:

      location: /my_data_location

 

  storage_attachesto_2:

    type: MyAttachesTo

    properties:

      location: /some_other_data_location

 

relationship_types:

 

  MyAttachesTo:

    derived_from: AttachesTo

    interfaces:

      some_interface_name:

        some_operation:

          implementation: default_script.sh

 

9.1.4.4 Notation Style #3: Using the “copy” keyname to define a similar Relationship Template

How does TOSCA make it easier to create a new relationship template that is mostly the same as one that exists without manually copying all the same information? TOSCA provides the copy keyname as a convenient way to copy an existing template definition into a new template definition as a starting point or basis for describing a new definition and avoid manual copy.  The end results are cleaner TOSCA Service Templates that allows the description of only the changes (or deltas) between similar templates.

The example below shows that the Relationship Template named storage_attachesto_1 provides some overrides (conceptually a large set of overrides) on its Type which the Relationship Template named storage_attachesto_2 wants to “copy” before perhaps providing a smaller number of overrides. 

node_templates:

 

  my_block_storage:

    type: BlockStorage

    properties:

      size: 10

 

  my_web_app_tier_1:

    derived_from: Compute

    requirements:

      - attachment:

          node: my_block_storage

          relationship: storage_attachesto_1

 

  my_web_app_tier_2:

    derived_from: Compute

    requirements:

      - attachment:

          node: my_block_storage

          relationship: storage_attachesto_2

 

relationship_templates:

  storage_attachesto_1:

    type: MyAttachesTo

    properties:

      location: /my_data_location

    interfaces:

      some_interface_name:

        some_operation_name_1: my_script_1.sh

        some_operation_name_2: my_script_2.sh

        some_operation_name_3: my_script_3.sh

 

  storage_attachesto_2:

    # Copy the contents of the “storage_attachesto_1” template into this new one

    copy: storage_attachesto_1

    # Then change just the value of the location property

    properties:

      location: /some_other_data_location

 

relationship_types:

 

  MyAttachesTo:

    derived_from: AttachesTo

    interfaces:

      some_interface_name:

        some_operation:

          implementation: default_script.sh

10 Application Modeling Use Cases

This section is non-normative and includes use cases that show how to model Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and complete application uses cases using TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML.

10.1 Use cases

The actual source for many of the use cases listed below can by found under the following link:

https://github.com/openstack/heat-translator/tree/master/translator/tests/data

10.1.1 Overview

Name

Description

Compute: Create a single Compute instance with a host Operating System

Introduces a TOSCA Compute node type which is used to stand up a single compute instance with a host Operating System Virtual Machine (VM) image selected by the platform provider using the Compute node’s properties.

Software Component 1:  Automatic deployment of a Virtual Machine (VM) image artifact

Introduces the SoftwareComponent node type which declares software that is hosted on a Compute instance.  In this case, the SoftwareComponent declares a VM image as a deployment artifact which includes its own pre-packaged operating system and software.  The TOSCA Orchestrator detects this known deployment artifact type on the SoftwareComponent node template and automatically deploys it to the Compute node.

BlockStorage-1: Attaching Block Storage to a single Compute instance

Demonstrates how to attach a TOSCA BlockStorage node to a Compute node using the normative AttachesTo relationship.

BlockStorage-2: Attaching Block Storage using a custom Relationship Type

Demonstrates how to attach a TOSCA BlockStorage node to a Compute node using a custom RelationshipType that derives from the normative AttachesTo relationship.

BlockStorage-3: Using a Relationship Template of type AttachesTo

Demonstrates how to attach a TOSCA BlockStorage node to a Compute node using a TOSCA Relationship Template that is based upon the normative AttachesTo Relationship Type.

BlockStorage-4: Single Block Storage shared by 2-Tier Application with custom AttachesTo Type and implied relationships

This use case shows 2 Compute instances (2 tiers) with one BlockStorage node, and also uses a custom AttachesTo Relationship that provides a default mount point (i.e., location) which the 1st tier uses, but the 2nd tier provides a different mount point. 

BlockStorage-5: Single Block Storage shared by 2-Tier Application with custom AttachesTo Type and explicit Relationship Templates

This use case is like the previous BlockStorage-4 use case, but also creates two relationship templates (one for each tier) each of which provide a different mount point (i.e., location) which overrides the default location defined in the custom Relationship Type.

BlockStorage-6: Multiple Block Storage attached to different Servers

This use case demonstrates how two different TOSCA BlockStorage nodes can be attached to two different Compute nodes (i.e., servers) each using the normative AttachesTo relationship.

Object Storage 1: Creating an Object Storage service

Introduces the TOSCA ObjectStorage node type and shows how it can be instantiated.

Network-1: Server bound to a new network

Introduces the TOSCA Network and Port nodes used for modeling logical networks using the LinksTo and BindsTo Relationship Types. In this use case, the template is invoked without an existing network_name as an input property so a new network is created using the properties declared in the Network node.

Network-2: Server bound to an existing network

Shows how to use a network_name as an input parameter to the template to allow a server to be associated with (i.e. bound to) an existing Network.

Network-3: Two servers bound to a single network

This use case shows how two servers (Compute nodes) can be associated with the same Network node using two logical network Ports.

Network-4: Server bound to three networks

This use case shows how three logical networks (Network nodes), each with its own IP address range, can be associated with the same server (Compute node). 

WebServer-DBMS-1: WordPress [WordPress] + MySQL, single instance

Shows how to host a TOSCA WebServer with a TOSCA WebApplication, DBMS and Database Node Types along with their dependent HostedOn and ConnectsTo relationships.

WebServer-DBMS-2: Nodejs with PayPal Sample App and MongoDB on separate instances

Instantiates a 2-tier application with Nodejs and its (PayPal sample) WebApplication on one tier which connects a MongoDB database (which stores its application data) using a ConnectsTo relationship.

Multi-Tier-1: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK)

Shows Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) being used in a typical manner to collect, search and monitor/visualize data from a running application. 

 

This use case builds upon the previous Nodejs/MongoDB 2-tier application as the one being monitored.  The collectd and rsyslog components are added to both the WebServer and Database tiers which work to collect data for Logstash.

 

In addition to the application tiers, a 3rd tier is introduced with Logstash to collect data from the application tiers. Finally a 4th tier is added to search the Logstash data with Elasticsearch and visualize it using Kibana.

 

Note: This use case also shows the convenience of using a single YAML macro (declared in the dsl_definitions section of the TOSCA Service Template) on multiple Compute nodes.

Container-1: Containers using Docker single Compute instance (Containers only)

Minimalist TOSCA Service Template description of 2 Docker containers linked to each other.  Specifically, one container runs wordpress and connects to second mysql database container both on a single server (i.e., Compute instance). The use case also demonstrates how TOSCA declares and references Docker images from the Docker Hub repository.

 

Variation 1: Docker Container nodes (only) providing their Docker Requirements allowing platform (orchestrator) to select/provide the underlying Docker implementation (Capability).

10.1.2 Compute: Create a single Compute instance with a host Operating System

10.1.2.1 Description

This use case demonstrates how the TOSCA Simple Profile specification can be used to stand up a single Compute instance with a guest Operating System using a normative TOSCA Compute node.  The TOSCA Compute node is declarative in that the service template describes both the processor and host operating system platform characteristics (i.e., properties declared on the capability named “os” sometimes called a “flavor”) that are desired by the template author.  The cloud provider would attempt to fulfill these properties (to the best of its abilities) during orchestration.

10.1.2.2 Features

This use case introduces the following TOSCA Simple Profile features:

·         A node template that uses the normative TOSCA Compute Node Type along with showing an exemplary set of its properties being configured.

·         Use of the TOSCA Service Template inputs section to declare a configurable value the template user may supply at runtime. In this case, the “host” property named “num_cpus” (of type integer) is declared.

o   Use of a property constraint to limit the allowed integer values for the “num_cpus” property to a specific list supplied in the property declaration.

·         Use of the TOSCA Service Template outputs section to declare a value the template user may request at runtime. In this case, the property named “instance_ip” is declared

o   The “instance_ip” output property is programmatically retrieved from the Compute node’s “public_address” attribute using the TOSCA Service Template-level get_attribute function.

10.1.2.3 Logical Diagram

10.1.2.4 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile that just defines a single compute instance and selects a (guest) host Operating System from the Compute node’s properties. Note, this example does not include default values on inputs properties.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: {  get_input: cpus  }

            mem_size: 1 GB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: ubuntu

            version: 12.04

  outputs:

    private_ip:

      description: The private IP address of the deployed server instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_server, private_address] }

10.1.2.5 Notes

·         This use case uses a versioned, Linux Ubuntu distribution on the Compute node.

10.1.3 Software Component 1: Automatic deployment of a Virtual Machine (VM) image artifact

10.1.3.1 Description

This use case demonstrates how the TOSCA SoftwareComponent node type can be used to declare software that is packaged in a standard Virtual Machine (VM) image file format (i.e., in this case QCOW2) and is hosted on a TOSCA Compute node (instance).  In this variation, the SoftwareComponent declares a VM image as a deployment artifact that includes its own pre-packaged operating system and software.  The TOSCA Orchestrator detects this known deployment artifact type on the SoftwareComponent node template and automatically deploys it to the Compute node.

10.1.3.2 Features

This use case introduces the following TOSCA Simple Profile features:

·         A node template that uses the normative TOSCA SoftwareComponent Node Type along with showing an exemplary set of its properties being configured.

·         Use of the TOSCA Service Template artifacts section to declare a Virtual Machine (VM) image artifact type which is referenced by the SoftwareComponent node template.

·         The VM file format, in this case QCOW2, includes its own guest Operating System (OS) and therefore does not “require” a TOSCA OperatingSystem capability from the TOSCA Compute node.

10.1.3.3 Assumptions

This use case assumes the following:

·         That the TOSCA Orchestrator (working with the Cloud provider’s underlying management services) is able to instantiate a Compute node that has a hypervisor that supports the Virtual Machine (VM) image format, in this case QCOW2, which should be compatible with many standard hypervisors such as XEN and KVM.

·         This is not a “bare metal” use case and assumes the existence of a hypervisor on the machine that is allocated to “host” the Compute instance supports (e.g. has drivers, etc.) the VM image format in this example.

10.1.3.4 Logical Diagram

10.1.3.5 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA Simple Profile with a SoftwareComponent node with a declared Virtual machine (VM) deployment artifact that automatically deploys to its host Compute node.

 

topology_template:

 

  node_templates:

    my_virtual_machine:

      type: SoftwareComponent

      artifacts:

        my_vm_image:

          file: images/fedora-18-x86_64.qcow2

          type: tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM.QCOW2

      requirements:

        - host: my_server

      # Automatically deploy the VM image referenced on the create operation

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          create: my_vm_image

 

    # Compute instance with no Operating System guest host

    my_server:

      type: Compute

      capabilities:

        # Note: no guest OperatingSystem requirements as these are in the image.

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: {  get_input: cpus  }

            mem_size: 4 GB

 

  outputs:

    private_ip:

      description: The private IP address of the deployed server instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_server, private_address] }

10.1.3.6 Notes

·         The use of the type keyname on the artifact definition (within the my_virtual_machine node template) to declare the ISO image deployment artifact type (i.e., tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.VM.ISO) is redundant since the file extension is “.iso” which associated with this known, declared artifact type.

·         This use case references a filename on the my_vm_image artifact, which indicates a Linux, Fedora 18, x86 VM image, only as one possible example.

10.1.4 Block Storage 1: Using the normative AttachesTo Relationship Type

10.1.4.1 Description

This use case demonstrates how to attach a TOSCA BlockStorage node to a Compute node using the normative AttachesTo relationship.

10.1.4.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.4.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with server and attached block storage using the normative AttachesTo Relationship Type.

 

topology_template:

 

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

    storage_size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      description: Size of the storage to be created.

      default: 1 GB

    storage_snapshot_id:

      type: string

      description: >

        Optional identifier for an existing snapshot to use when creating storage.    

    storage_location:

      type: string

      description: Block storage mount point (filesystem path).

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 1 GB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: linux 

            distribution: fedora 

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

        - local_storage:

            node: my_storage

            relationship:

              type: AttachesTo

              properties:

                location: { get_input: storage_location }

 

    my_storage:

      type: BlockStorage

      properties:

        size: { get_input: storage_size }

        snapshot_id: { get_input: storage_snapshot_id }

 

  outputs:

    private_ip:

      description: The private IP address of the newly created compute instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_server, private_address] }

    volume_id:

      description: The volume id of the block storage instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_storage, volume_id] }

10.1.5 Block Storage 2: Using a custom AttachesTo Relationship Type

10.1.5.1 Description

This use case demonstrates how to attach a TOSCA BlockStorage node to a Compute node using a custom RelationshipType that derives from the normative AttachesTo relationship.

10.1.5.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.5.3 Sample YAML

 

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with server and attached block storage using a custom AttachesTo Relationship Type.

 

relationship_types:

  MyCustomAttachesTo:

     derived_from: AttachesTo

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

    storage_size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      description: Size of the storage to be created.

      default: 1 GB

    storage_snapshot_id:

      type: string

      description: >

        Optional identifier for an existing snapshot to use when creating storage.    

    storage_location:

      type: string

      description: Block storage mount point (filesystem path).

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4 GB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux 

            distribution: Fedora 

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

        - local_storage:

            node: my_storage

            # Declare custom AttachesTo type using the ‘relationship’ keyword

            relationship:

              type: MyCustomAttachesTo

              properties:

                location: { get_input: storage_location }

    my_storage:

      type: BlockStorage

      properties:

        size: { get_input: storage_size }

        snapshot_id: { get_input: storage_snapshot_id }

 

  outputs:

    private_ip:

      description: The private IP address of the newly created compute instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_server, private_address] }

    volume_id:

      description: The volume id of the block storage instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_storage, volume_id] }

10.1.6 Block Storage 3: Using a Relationship Template of type AttachesTo

10.1.6.1 Description

This use case demonstrates how to attach a TOSCA BlockStorage node to a Compute node using a TOSCA Relationship Template that is based upon the normative AttachesTo Relationship Type.

10.1.6.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.6.3 Sample YAML

 

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with server and attached block storage using a named Relationship Template for the storage attachment.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

    storage_size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      description: Size of the storage to be created.

      default: 1 GB

    storage_location:

      type: string

      description: Block storage mount point (filesystem path).

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4 GB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux 

            distribution: Fedora 

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

        - local_storage:

            node: my_storage

            # Declare template to use with ‘relationship’ keyword

            relationship: storage_attachment

 

    my_storage:

      type: BlockStorage

      properties:

        size: { get_input: storage_size }

 

  relationship_templates:

    storage_attachment:

      type: AttachesTo

      properties:

        location: { get_input: storage_location }

 

  outputs:

    private_ip:

      description: The private IP address of the newly created compute instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_server, private_address] }

    volume_id:

      description: The volume id of the block storage instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_storage, volume_id] }

10.1.7 Block Storage 4: Single Block Storage shared by 2-Tier Application with custom AttachesTo Type and implied relationships

10.1.7.1 Description

This use case shows 2 compute instances (2 tiers) with one BlockStorage node, and also uses a custom AttachesTo Relationship that provides a default mount point (i.e., location) which the 1st tier uses, but the 2nd tier provides a different mount point. 

 

Please note that this use case assumes both Compute nodes are accessing different directories within the shared, block storage node to avoid collisions.

10.1.7.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.7.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with a Single Block Storage node shared by 2-Tier Application with custom AttachesTo Type and implied relationships.

 

relationship_types:

  MyAttachesTo:

    derived_from: tosca.relationships.AttachesTo

    properties:

      location:

        type: string

        default: /default_location

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

    storage_size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      default: 1 GB

      description: Size of the storage to be created.

    storage_snapshot_id:

      type: string

      description: >

        Optional identifier for an existing snapshot to use when creating storage.    

 

  node_templates:

    my_web_app_tier_1:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:
        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: Fedora

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

        - local_storage:

            node: my_storage

            relationship: MyAttachesTo

 

    my_web_app_tier_2:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: Fedora

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

        - local_storage:

            node: my_storage

            relationship:

              type: MyAttachesTo

              properties:

                location: /some_other_data_location

 

    my_storage:

      type: tosca.nodes.BlockStorage

      properties:

        size: { get_input: storage_size }

        snapshot_id: { get_input: storage_snapshot_id }

 

  outputs:

    private_ip_1:

      description: The private IP address of the application’s first tier.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_web_app_tier_1, private_address] }

    private_ip_2:

      description: The private IP address of the application’s second tier.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_web_app_tier_2, private_address] }

    volume_id:

      description: The volume id of the block storage instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_storage, volume_id] }

10.1.8 Block Storage 5: Single Block Storage shared by 2-Tier Application with custom AttachesTo Type and explicit Relationship Templates

10.1.8.1 Description

This use case is like the Notation1 use case, but also creates two relationship templates (one for each tier) each of which provide a different mount point (i.e., location) which overrides the default location defined in the custom Relationship Type.

 

Please note that this use case assumes both Compute nodes are accessing different directories within the shared, block storage node to avoid collisions.

10.1.8.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.8.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with a single Block Storage node shared by 2-Tier Application with custom AttachesTo Type and explicit Relationship Templates.

relationship_types:

  MyAttachesTo:

    derived_from: tosca.relationships.AttachesTo

    properties:

      location:

        type: string

        default: /default_location

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

    storage_size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      default: 1 GB

      description: Size of the storage to be created.

    storage_snapshot_id:

      type: string

      description: >

        Optional identifier for an existing snapshot to use when creating storage.

    storage_location:

      type: string

      description: >

        Block storage mount point (filesystem path).

 

  node_templates:

 

    my_web_app_tier_1:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: Fedora

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

        - local_storage:

            node: my_storage

            relationship: storage_attachesto_1

 

    my_web_app_tier_2:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: Fedora

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

        - local_storage:

            node: my_storage

            relationship: storage_attachesto_2

 

    my_storage:

      type: tosca.nodes.BlockStorage

      properties:

        size: { get_input: storage_size }

        snapshot_id: { get_input: storage_snapshot_id }

 

  relationship_templates:

    storage_attachesto_1:

      type: MyAttachesTo

      properties:

        location: /my_data_location

 

    storage_attachesto_2:

      type: MyAttachesTo

      properties:

        location: /some_other_data_location

  outputs:

    private_ip_1:

      description: The private IP address of the application’s first tier.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_web_app_tier_1, private_address] }

    private_ip_2:

      description: The private IP address of the application’s second tier.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_web_app_tier_2, private_address] }

    volume_id:

      description: The volume id of the block storage instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_storage, volume_id] }

10.1.9 Block Storage 6: Multiple Block Storage attached to different Servers

10.1.9.1 Description

This use case demonstrates how two different TOSCA BlockStorage nodes can be attached to two different Compute nodes (i.e., servers) each using the normative AttachesTo relationship.

10.1.9.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.9.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with 2 servers each with different attached block storage.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

    storage_size:

      type: scalar-unit.size

      default: 1 GB

      description: Size of the storage to be created.

    storage_snapshot_id:

      type: string

      description: >

        Optional identifier for an existing snapshot to use when creating storage.

    storage_location:

      type: string

      description: >

        Block storage mount point (filesystem path).

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: Fedora

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

         - local_storage:

             node: my_storage

             relationship:

               type: AttachesTo

               properties:

                 location: { get_input: storage_location }

    my_storage:

      type: tosca.nodes.BlockStorage

      properties:

        size: { get_input: storage_size }

        snapshot_id: { get_input: storage_snapshot_id }

 

    my_server2:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: Fedora

            version: 18.0

      requirements:

         - local_storage:

             node: my_storage2

             relationship:

               type: AttachesTo

               properties:

                 location: { get_input: storage_location }

    my_storage2:

      type: tosca.nodes.BlockStorage

      properties:

        size: { get_input: storage_size }

        snapshot_id: { get_input: storage_snapshot_id }

 

  outputs:

    server_ip_1:

      description: The private IP address of the application’s first server.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_server, private_address] }

    server_ip_2:

      description: The private IP address of the application’s second server.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_server2, private_address] }

    volume_id_1:

      description: The volume id of the first block storage instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_storage, volume_id] }

    volume_id_2:

      description: The volume id of the second block storage instance.

      value: { get_attribute: [my_storage2, volume_id] }

10.1.10 Object Storage 1: Creating an Object Storage service

10.1.10.1 Description

10.1.10.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.10.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

    Tosca template for creating an object storage service.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    objectstore_name:

      type: string

 

  node_templates:

    obj_store_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.ObjectStorage

      properties:

        name: { get_input: objectstore_name }

        size: 4096 MB

        maxsize: 20 GB

10.1.11 Network 1: Server bound to a new network

10.1.11.1 Description

Introduces the TOSCA Network and Port nodes used for modeling logical networks using the LinksTo and BindsTo Relationship Types.  In this use case, the template is invoked without an existing network_name as an input property so a new network is created using the properties declared in the Network node.

10.1.11.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.11.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with 1 server bound to a new network

 

topology_template:

 

  inputs:

    network_name:

      type: string

      description: Network name

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: 1

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: CirrOS

            version: 0.3.2

 

    my_network:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

      properties:

        network_name: { get_input: network_name }

        ip_version: 4

        cidr: '192.168.0.0/24'

        start_ip: '192.168.0.50'

        end_ip: '192.168.0.200'

        gateway_ip: '192.168.0.1'

 

    my_port:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

      requirements:

        - binding: my_server

        - link: my_network

10.1.12 Network 2: Server bound to an existing network

10.1.12.1 Description

This use case shows how to use a network_name as an input parameter to the template to allow a server to be associated with an existing network.

10.1.12.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.12.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with 1 server bound to an existing network

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    network_name:

      type: string

      description: Network name

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: 1

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: CirrOS

            version: 0.3.2

 

    my_network:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

      properties:

        network_name: { get_input: network_name }

 

    my_port:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

      requirements:

        - binding:

            node: my_server

        - link:

            node: my_network

10.1.13 Network 3: Two servers bound to a single network

10.1.13.1 Description

This use case shows how two servers (Compute nodes) can be bound to the same Network (node) using two logical network Ports.

10.1.13.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.13.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with 2 servers bound to the 1 network

 

topology_template:

 

  inputs:

    network_name:

      type: string

      description: Network name

    network_cidr:

      type: string

      default: 10.0.0.0/24

      description: CIDR for the network

    network_start_ip:

      type: string

      default: 10.0.0.100

      description: Start IP for the allocation pool

    network_end_ip:

      type: string

      default: 10.0.0.150

      description: End IP for the allocation pool

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: 1

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: CirrOS

            version: 0.3.2

 

    my_server2:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: 1

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: CirrOS

            version: 0.3.2

 

    my_network:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

      properties:

        ip_version: 4

        cidr: { get_input: network_cidr }

        network_name: { get_input: network_name }

        start_ip: { get_input: network_start_ip }

        end_ip: { get_input: network_end_ip }

 

    my_port:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

      requirements:

        - binding: my_server

        - link: my_network

 

    my_port2:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

      requirements:

        - binding: my_server2

        - link: my_network

10.1.14 Network 4: Server bound to three networks

10.1.14.1 Description

This use case shows how three logical networks (Network), each with its own IP address range, can be bound to with the same server (Compute node). 

10.1.14.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.14.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with 1 server bound to 3 networks

 

topology_template:

 

  node_templates:

    my_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: 1

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: Linux

            distribution: CirrOS

            version: 0.3.2

 

    my_network1:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

      properties:

        cidr: '192.168.1.0/24'

        network_name: net1

 

    my_network2:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

      properties:

        cidr: '192.168.2.0/24'

        network_name: net2

 

    my_network3:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Network

      properties:

        cidr: '192.168.3.0/24'

        network_name: net3

 

    my_port1:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

      properties:

        order: 0

      requirements:

        - binding: my_server

        - link: my_network1

 

    my_port2:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

      properties:

        order: 1

      requirements:

        - binding: my_server

        - link: my_network2

 

    my_port3:

      type: tosca.nodes.network.Port

      properties:

        order: 2

      requirements:

        - binding: my_server

        - link: my_network3

10.1.15 WebServer-DBMS 1: WordPress + MySQL, single instance

10.1.15.1 Description

TOSCA simple profile service showing the WordPress web application with a MySQL database hosted on a single server (instance).

10.1.15.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.15.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with WordPress, a web server, a MySQL DBMS hosting the application’s database content on the same server. Does not have input defaults or constraints.

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

    db_name:

      type: string

      description: The name of the database.

    db_user:

      type: string

      description: The username of the DB user.

    db_pwd:

      type: string

      description: The WordPress database admin account password.

    db_root_pwd:

      type: string

      description: Root password for MySQL.

    db_port:

      type: PortDef

      description: Port for the MySQL database

 

  node_templates:

    wordpress:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.WordPress

      properties:

        context_root: { get_input: context_root }

      requirements:

        - host: webserver

        - database_endpoint: mysql_database

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          create: wordpress_install.sh

          configure:

            implementation: wordpress_configure.sh           

            inputs:

              wp_db_name: { get_property: [ mysql_database, name ] }

              wp_db_user: { get_property: [ mysql_database, user ] }

              wp_db_password: { get_property: [ mysql_database, password ] }  

              # In my own template, find requirement/capability, find port property

              wp_db_port: { get_property: [ SELF, database_endpoint, port ] }

 

    mysql_database:

      type: Database

      properties:

        name: { get_input: db_name }

        user: { get_input: db_user }

        password: { get_input: db_pwd }

        port: { get_input: db_port }

      capabilities:

        database_endpoint:

          properties:

            port: { get_input: db_port }

      requirements:

        - host: mysql_dbms

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          configure: mysql_database_configure.sh

 

    mysql_dbms:

      type: DBMS

      properties:

        root_password: { get_input: db_root_pwd }

        port: { get_input: db_port }

      requirements:

        - host: server

      interfaces:

        Standard:              

          inputs:

              db_root_password: { get_property: [ mysql_dbms, root_password ] }

          create: mysql_dbms_install.sh

          start: mysql_dbms_start.sh

          configure: mysql_dbms_configure.sh

 

    webserver:

      type: WebServer

      requirements:

        - host: server

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          create: webserver_install.sh

          start: webserver_start.sh

        

    server:

      type: Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties:

            disk_size: 10 GB

            num_cpus: { get_input: cpus }

            mem_size: 4096 MB

        os:

          properties:

            architecture: x86_64

            type: linux 

            distribution: fedora 

            version: 17.0

 

  outputs:

    website_url:

      description: URL for Wordpress wiki.

      value: { get_attribute: [server, public_address] }

10.1.15.4 Sample scripts

Where the referenced implementation scripts in the example above would have the following contents

10.1.15.4.1 wordpress_install.sh

yum -y install wordpress

10.1.15.4.2 wordpress_configure.sh

sed -i "/Deny from All/d" /etc/httpd/conf.d/wordpress.conf

sed -i "s/Require local/Require all granted/" /etc/httpd/conf.d/wordpress.conf

sed -i s/database_name_here/name/ /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php

sed -i s/username_here/user/ /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php

sed -i s/password_here/password/ /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php

systemctl restart httpd.service

10.1.15.4.3 mysql_database_configure.sh

# Setup MySQL root password and create user

cat << EOF | mysql -u root --password=db_root_password

CREATE DATABASE name;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON name.* TO "user"@"localhost"

IDENTIFIED BY "password";

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT

EOF

10.1.15.4.4 mysql_dbms_install.sh

yum -y install mysql mysql-server

# Use systemd to start MySQL server at system boot time

systemctl enable mysqld.service

10.1.15.4.5 mysql_dbms_start.sh

# Start the MySQL service (NOTE: may already be started at image boot time)

systemctl start mysqld.service

10.1.15.4.6 mysql_dbms_configure

# Set the MySQL server root password

mysqladmin -u root password db_root_password

10.1.15.4.7 webserver_install.sh

yum -y install httpd

systemctl enable httpd.service

10.1.15.4.8 webserver_start.sh

# Start the httpd service (NOTE: may already be started at image boot time)

systemctl start httpd.service

10.1.16 WebServer-DBMS 2: Nodejs with PayPal Sample App and MongoDB on separate instances

10.1.16.1 Description

This use case Instantiates a 2-tier application with Nodejs and its (PayPal sample) WebApplication on one tier which connects a  MongoDB database (which stores its application data) using  a ConnectsTo relationship.

10.1.16.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.16.3 Sample YAML

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with a nodejs web server hosting a PayPal sample application which connects to a mongodb database.

 

imports:

  - custom_types/paypalpizzastore_nodejs_app.yaml

 

dsl_definitions:

    ubuntu_node: &ubuntu_node

      disk_size: 10 GB

      num_cpus: { get_input: my_cpus }

      mem_size: 4096 MB

    os_capabilities: &os_capabilities

      architecture: x86_64

      type: Linux

      distribution: Ubuntu

      version: 14.04

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    my_cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

      default: 1

    github_url:

       type: string

       description: The URL to download nodejs.

       default:  https://github.com/sample.git

 

  node_templates:

 

    paypal_pizzastore:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.PayPalPizzaStore

      properties:

          github_url: { get_input: github_url }

      requirements:

        - host:nodejs

        - database_connection: mongo_db

      interfaces:

        Standard:

           configure:

             implementation: scripts/nodejs/configure.sh

             inputs:

               github_url: { get_property: [ SELF, github_url ] }

               mongodb_ip: { get_attribute: [mongo_server, private_address] }

           start: scripts/nodejs/start.sh

 

    nodejs:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebServer.Nodejs

      requirements:

        - host: app_server

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          create: scripts/nodejs/create.sh

 

    mongo_db:

      type: tosca.nodes.Database

      requirements:

        - host: mongo_dbms

      interfaces:

        Standard:

         create: create_database.sh

 

    mongo_dbms:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS

      requirements:

        - host: mongo_server

      properties:

        port: 27017

      interfaces:

        tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard:

          create: mongodb/create.sh

          configure:

            implementation: mongodb/config.sh

            inputs:

              mongodb_ip: { get_attribute: [mongo_server, private_address] }

          start: mongodb/start.sh

 

    mongo_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        os:

          properties: *os_capabilities

        host:

          properties: *ubuntu_node

 

    app_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        os:

          properties: *os_capabilities

        host:

          properties: *ubuntu_node

 

  outputs:

    nodejs_url:

      description: URL for the nodejs server, http://<IP>:3000

      value: { get_attribute: [app_server, private_address] }

    mongodb_url:

      description: URL for the mongodb server.

      value: { get_attribute: [ mongo_server, private_address ] }

10.1.16.4 Notes:

·         Scripts referenced in this example are assumed to be placed by the TOSCA orchestrator in the relative directory declared in TOSCA.meta of the TOSCA CSAR file.

10.1.17 Multi-Tier-1: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) use case with multiple instances

10.1.17.1 Description

TOSCA simple profile service showing the Nodejs, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, rsyslog and collectd installed on a different server (instance).

 

This use case also demonstrates:

·         Use of TOSCA macros or dsl_definitions

·         Multiple SoftwareComponents hosted on same Compute node

·         Multiple tiers communicating to each other over ConnectsTo using Configure interface.

10.1.17.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.17.3 Sample YAML

10.1.17.3.1 Master Service Template application (Entry-Definitions)

The following YAML is the primary template (i.e., the Entry-Definition) for the overall use case.  The imported YAML for the various subcomponents are not shown here for brevity.

 

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  This TOSCA simple profile deploys nodejs, mongodb, elasticsearch, logstash and kibana each on a separate server with monitoring enabled for nodejs server where a sample nodejs application is running. The syslog and collectd are installed on a nodejs server.

 

imports:

  - paypalpizzastore_nodejs_app.yaml

  - elasticsearch.yaml

  - logstash.yaml

  - kibana.yaml

  - collectd.yaml

  - rsyslog.yaml

 

dsl_definitions:

    host_capabilities: &host_capabilities

      # container properties (flavor)

      disk_size: 10 GB

      num_cpus: { get_input: my_cpus }

      mem_size: 4096 MB

    os_capabilities: &os_capabilities

      architecture: x86_64

      type: Linux

      distribution: Ubuntu

      version: 14.04

 

topology_template:

  inputs:

    my_cpus:

      type: integer

      description: Number of CPUs for the server.

      constraints:

        - valid_values: [ 1, 2, 4, 8 ]

    github_url:

       type: string

       description: The URL to download nodejs.

       default: https://github.com/sample.git

 

  node_templates:

    paypal_pizzastore:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebApplication.PayPalPizzaStore

      properties:

          github_url: { get_input: github_url }

      requirements:

        - host: nodejs

        - database_connection: mongo_db

      interfaces:

        Standard:

           configure:

             implementation: scripts/nodejs/configure.sh

             inputs:

               github_url: { get_property: [ SELF, github_url ] }

               mongodb_ip: { get_attribute: [mongo_server, private_address] }

           start: scripts/nodejs/start.sh

 

    nodejs:

      type: tosca.nodes.WebServer.Nodejs

      requirements:

        - host: app_server

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          create: scripts/nodejs/create.sh

 

    mongo_db:

      type: tosca.nodes.Database

      requirements:

        - host: mongo_dbms

      interfaces:

        Standard:

         create: create_database.sh

 

    mongo_dbms:

      type: tosca.nodes.DBMS

      requirements:

        - host: mongo_server

      interfaces:

        tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard:

          create: scripts/mongodb/create.sh

          configure:

            implementation: scripts/mongodb/config.sh

            inputs:

              mongodb_ip: { get_attribute: [mongo_server, ip_address] }

          start: scripts/mongodb/start.sh

 

    elasticsearch:

      type: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent.Elasticsearch

      requirements:

        - host: elasticsearch_server

      interfaces:

        tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard:

          create: scripts/elasticsearch/create.sh

          start: scripts/elasticsearch/start.sh

    logstash:

      type: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent.Logstash

      requirements:

        - host: logstash_server

        - search_endpoint: elasticsearch

          interfaces:

            tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure:

              pre_configure_source:

                implementation: python/logstash/configure_elasticsearch.py

                input:

                  elasticsearch_ip: { get_attribute: [elasticsearch_server, ip_address] }

      interfaces:

        tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard:

          create: scripts/lostash/create.sh

          configure: scripts/logstash/config.sh

          start: scripts/logstash/start.sh

 

    kibana:

      type: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent.Kibana

      requirements:

        - host: kibana_server

        - search_endpoint: elasticsearch

      interfaces:

        tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard:

          create: scripts/kibana/create.sh

          configure:

            implementation: scripts/kibana/config.sh

            input:

              elasticsearch_ip: { get_attribute: [elasticsearch_server, ip_address] }

              kibana_ip: { get_attribute: [kibana_server, ip_address] }

          start: scripts/kibana/start.sh

 

    app_collectd:

      type: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent.Collectd

      requirements:

        - host: app_server

        - collectd_endpoint: logstash

          interfaces:

            tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure:

              pre_configure_target:

                implementation: python/logstash/configure_collectd.py

      interfaces:

        tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard:

          create: scripts/collectd/create.sh

          configure:

            implementation: python/collectd/config.py

            input:

              logstash_ip: { get_attribute: [logstash_server, ip_address] }

          start: scripts/collectd/start.sh

 

    app_rsyslog:

      type: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent.Rsyslog

      requirements:

        - host: app_server

        - rsyslog_endpoint: logstash

          interfaces:

            tosca.interfaces.relationship.Configure:

              pre_configure_target:

                implementation: python/logstash/configure_rsyslog.py

      interfaces:

        tosca.interfaces.node.lifecycle.Standard:

          create: scripts/rsyslog/create.sh

          configure:

            implementation: scripts/rsyslog/config.sh

            input:

              logstash_ip: { get_attribute: [logstash_server, ip_address] }

          start: scripts/rsyslog/start.sh

 

    app_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties: *host_capabilities

        os:

          properties: *os_capabilities

 

    mongo_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties: *host_capabilities

        os:

          properties: *os_capabilities

 

    elasticsearch_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties: *host_capabilities

        os:

          properties: *os_capabilities

 

    logstash_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties: *host_capabilities

        os:

          properties: *os_capabilities

 

    kibana_server:

      type: tosca.nodes.Compute

      capabilities:

        host:

          properties: *host_capabilities

        os:

          properties: *os_capabilities

 

  outputs:

    nodejs_url:

      description: URL for the nodejs server.

      value: { get_attribute: [ app_server, private_address ] }

    mongodb_url:

      description: URL for the mongodb server.

      value: { get_attribute: [ mongo_server, private_address ] }

    elasticsearch_url:

      description: URL for the elasticsearch server.

      value: { get_attribute: [ elasticsearch_server, private_address ] }

    logstash_url:

      description: URL for the logstash server.

      value: { get_attribute: [ logstash_server, private_address ] }

    kibana_url:

      description: URL for the kibana server.

      value: { get_attribute: [ kibana_server, private_address ] }

10.1.17.4 Sample scripts

Where the referenced implementation scripts in the example above would have the following contents

10.1.18 Container-1: Containers using Docker single Compute instance (Containers only)

10.1.18.1 Description

This use case shows a minimal description of two Container nodes (only) providing their Docker Requirements allowing platform (orchestrator) to select/provide the underlying Docker implementation (Capability). Specifically, wordpress and mysql Docker images are referenced from Docker Hub.

 

This use case also demonstrates:

·         Abstract description of Requirements (i.e., Container and Docker) allowing platform to dynamically select the appropriate runtime Capabilities that match.

·         Use of external repository (Docker Hub) to reference image artifact.

10.1.18.2 Logical Diagram

10.1.18.3 Sample YAML

10.1.18.3.1  Two Docker “Container” nodes (Only) with Docker Requirements

tosca_definitions_version: tosca_simple_yaml_1_0

 

description: >

  TOSCA simple profile with wordpress, web server and mysql on the same server.

 

# Repositories to retrieve code artifacts from

repositories:

  docker_hub: https://registry.hub.docker.com/

 

topology_template:

 

  inputs:

    wp_host_port:

      type: integer

      description: The host port that maps to port 80 of the WordPress container.

    db_root_pwd:

      type: string

      description: Root password for MySQL.

 

  node_templates:

    # The MYSQL container based on official MySQL image in Docker hub

    mysql_container:

      type: tosca.nodes.Container.Application.Docker

      capabilities:

        # This is a capability that would mimic the Docker –link feature

        database_link: tosca.capabilities.Docker.Link

      artifacts:

        my_image:

          file: mysql

          type: tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.Container.Docker

          repository: docker_hub

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          create:

            implementation: my_image

            inputs:

              db_root_password: { get_input: db_root_pwd }

 

    # The WordPress container based on official WordPress image in Docker hub

    wordpress_container:

      type: tosca.nodes.Container.Application.Docker

      requirements:

        - database_link: mysql_container

      artifacts:

        my_image:

          file: wordpress

          type: tosca.artifacts.Deployment.Image.Container.Docker

          repository: docker_hub

      interfaces:

        Standard:

          create:

            implementation: my_image

            inputs:

              host_port: { get_input: wp_host_port }

 

11 TOSCA Policies

This section is non-normative and describes the approach TOSCA Simple Profile plans to take for policy description with TOSCA Service Templates.  In addition, it explores how existing TOSCA Policy Types and definitions might be applied in the future to express operational policy use cases.

11.1 A declarative approach

TOSCA Policies are a type of requirement that govern use or access to resources which can be expressed independently from specific applications (or their resources) and whose fulfillment is not discretely expressed in the application’s topology (i.e., via TOSCA Capabilities).   

 

TOSCA deems it not desirable for a declarative model to encourage external intervention for resolving policy issues (i.e., via imperative mechanisms external to the Cloud). Instead, the Cloud provider is deemed to be in the best position to detect when policy conditions are triggered, analyze the affected resources and enforce the policy against the allowable actions declared within the policy itself. 

11.1.1 Declarative considerations

·         Natural language rules are not realistic, too much to represent in our specification; however, regular expressions can be used that include simple operations and operands that include symbolic names for TOSCA metamodel entities, properties and attributes.

·         Complex rules can actually be directed to an external policy engine (to check for violation) returns true|false then policy says what to do (trigger or action).

·         Actions/Triggers could be:

·         Autonomic/Platform corrects against user-supplied criteria

·         External monitoring service could be utilized to monitor policy rules/conditions against metrics, the monitoring service could coordinate corrective actions with external services (perhaps Workflow engines that can analyze the application and interact with the TOSCA instance model).

11.2 Consideration of Event, Condition and Action

11.3 Types of policies

Policies typically address two major areas of concern for customer workloads:

·         Access Control – assures user and service access to controlled resources are governed by rules which determine general access permission (i.e., allow or deny) and conditional access dependent on other considerations (e.g., organization role, time of day, geographic location, etc.).

·         Placement – assures affinity (or anti-affinity) of deployed applications and their resources; that is, what is allowed to be placed where within a Cloud provider’s infrastructure. 

·         Quality-of-Service (and continuity) - assures performance of software components (perhaps captured as quantifiable, measure components within an SLA) along with consideration for scaling and failover.

11.3.1 Access control policies

Although TOSCA Policy definitions could be used to express and convey access control policies, definitions of policies in this area are out of scope for this specification.  At this time, TOSCA encourages organizations that already have standards that express policy for access control to provide their own guidance on how to use their standard with TOSCA.

11.3.2 Placement policies

There must be control mechanisms in place that can be part of these patterns that accept governance policies that allow control expressions of what is allowed when placing, scaling and managing the applications that are enforceable and verifiable in Cloud.

 

These policies need to consider the following:

·         Regulated industries need applications to control placement (deployment) of applications to different countries or regions (i.e., different logical geographical boundaries).

11.3.2.1 Placement for governance concerns

In general, companies and individuals have security concerns along with general “loss of control” issues when considering deploying and hosting their highly valued application and data to the Cloud.  They want to control placement perhaps to ensure their applications are only placed in datacenter they trust or assure that their applications and data are not placed on shared resources (i.e., not co-tenanted).

 

In addition, companies that are related to highly regulated industries where compliance with government, industry and corporate policies is paramount. In these cases, having the ability to control placement of applications is an especially significant consideration and a prerequisite for automated orchestration.

11.3.2.2 Placement for failover

Companies realize that their day-to-day business must continue on through unforeseen disasters that might disable instances of the applications and data at or on specific data centers, networks or servers.  They need to be able to convey placement policies for their software applications and data that mitigate risk of disaster by assuring these cloud assets are deployed strategically in different physical locations.  Such policies need to consider placement across geographic locations as wide as countries, regions, datacenters, as well as granular placement on a network, server or device within the same physical datacenter. Cloud providers must be able to not only enforce these policies but provide robust and seamless failover such that a disaster’s impact is never perceived by the end user.

11.3.3 Quality-of-Service (QoS) policies

Quality-of-Service (apart from failover placement considerations) typically assures that software applications and data are available and performant to the end users.  This is usually something that is measurable in terms of end-user responsiveness (or response time) and often qualified in SLAs established between the Cloud provider and customer.  These QoS aspects can be taken from SLAs and legal agreements and further encoded as performance policies associated with the actual applications and data when they are deployed.  It is assumed that Cloud provider is able to detect high utilization (or usage load) on these applications and data that deviate from these performance policies and is able to bring them back into compliance.

 

11.4 Policy relationship considerations

·         Performance policies can be related to scalability policies.  Scalability policies tell the Cloud provider exactly how to scale applications and data when they detect an application’s performance policy is (or about to be) violated (or triggered).  

·         Scalability policies in turn are related to placement policies which govern where the application and data can be scaled to.

·         There are general “tenant” considerations that restrict what resources are available to applications and data based upon the contract a customer has with the Cloud provider. This includes other constraints imposed by legal agreements or SLAs that are not encoded programmatically or associated directly with actual application or data..

11.5 Use Cases

This section includes some initial operation policy use cases that we wish to describe using the TOSCA metamodel.  More policy work will be done in future versions of the TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML specification.

11.5.1 Placement

11.5.1.1 Use Case 1: Simple placement for failover

11.5.1.1.1 Description

This use case shows a failover policy to keep at least 3 copies running in separate containers. In this simple case, the specific containers to use (or name is not important; the Cloud provider must assure placement separation (anti-affinity) in three physically separate containers.

11.5.1.1.2 Features

This use case introduces the following policy features:

·         Simple separation on different “compute” nodes (up to discretion of provider).

·         Simple separation by region (a logical container type) using an allowed list of region names relative to the provider.

o   Also, shows that set of allowed “regions” (containers) can be greater than the number of containers requested.

11.5.1.1.3 Logical Diagram

 Sample YAML: Compute separation

failover_policy_1:

  type: tosca.policy.placement.Antilocate

  description: My placement policy for Compute node separation

  properties:

    # 3 diff target containers

    container type: Compute

    container_number: 3

11.5.1.1.4 Notes

·         There may be availability (constraints) considerations especially if these policies are applied to “clusters”.

·         There may be future considerations for controlling max # of instances per container.

11.5.1.2 Use Case 2: Controlled placement by region

11.5.1.2.1 Description

This use case demonstrates the use of named “containers” which could represent the following:

·         Datacenter regions

·         Geographic regions (e.g., cities, municipalities, states, countries, etc.)

·         Commercial regions (e.g., North America, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, etc.)

11.5.1.2.2 Features

This use case introduces the following policy features:

·         Separation of  resources (i.e., TOSCA nodes) by logical regions, or zones.

11.5.1.2.3 Sample YAML: Region separation amongst named set of regions

failover_policy_2:

  type: tosca.policy.placement

  description: My failover policy with allowed target regions (logical containers)

  properties:

    container type: region

    container_number: 3

    # If “containers” keyname is provided, they represent the allowed set

    # of target containers to use for placement for .

    containers: [ region1, region2, region3, region4 ]

11.5.1.3 Use Case 3: Co-locate based upon Compute affinity

11.5.1.3.1 Description

Nodes that need to be co-located to achieve optimal performance based upon access to similar Infrastructure (IaaS) resource types (i.e., Compute, Network  and/or Storage).

 

This use case demonstrates the co-location based upon Compute resource affinity; however, the same approach could be taken for Network as or Storage affinity as well. :

11.5.1.3.2 Features

This use case introduces the following policy features:

·         Node placement based upon Compute resource affinity.

11.5.1.4 Notes

·         The concept of placement based upon IaaS resource utilization is not future-thinking, as Cloud should guarantee equivalent performance of application performance regardless of placement.  That is, all network access between application nodes and underlying Compute or Storage should have equivalent performance (e.g., network bandwidth, network or storage access time, CPU speed, etc.).

11.5.1.4.1 Sample YAML: Region separation amongst named set of regions

keep_together_policy:

  type: tosca.policy.placement.Colocate

  description: Keep associated nodes (groups of nodes) based upon Compute

  properties:

    affinity: Compute

11.5.2 Scaling

11.5.2.1 Use Case 1:  Simple node autoscale

11.5.2.1.1 Description

Start with X nodes and scale up to Y nodes, capability to do this from a dashboard for example.

11.5.2.1.2 Features

This use case introduces the following policy features:

·         Basic autoscaling policy

11.5.2.1.3 Sample YAML

my_scaling_policy_1:

  type: tosca.policy.scaling

  description: Simple node autoscaling

  properties:

    min_instances: <integer>

    max_instances: <integer>

    default_instances: <integer>

    increment: <integer>

11.5.2.1.4 Notes

·         Assume horizontal scaling for this use case

o    Horizontal scaling, implies “stack-level” control using Compute nodes to define a “stack” (i.e., The Compute node’s entire HostedOn relationship dependency graph is considered part of its “stack”)

·         Assume Compute node has a SoftwareComponent that represents a VM application.

·         Availability Zones (and Regions if not same) need to be considered in further use cases.

·         If metrics are introduced, there is a control-loop (that monitors).  Autoscaling is a special concept that includes these considerations.

·         Mixed placement and scaling use cases need to be considered:

o   Example: Compute1 and Compute2 are 2 node templates. Compute1 has 10 instances, 5 in one region 5 in other region.

 

12 Conformance

12.1 Conformance Targets

The implementations subject to conformance are those introduced in Section 1.3 “Implementations”. They are listed here for convenience:

·         TOSCA YAML service template

·         TOSCA processor

·         TOSCA orchestrator (also called orchestration engine)

·         TOSCA generator

·         TOSCA archive

12.2 Conformance Clause 1: TOSCA YAML service template

A document conforms to this specification as TOSCA YAML service template if it satisfies all the statements below:

(a)    It is valid according to the grammar, rules and requirements defined in section 3 “TOSCA Simple Profile definitions in YAML”.

(b)   When using functions defined in section 4 “TOSCA functions”, it is valid according to the grammar specified for these functions.

(c)    When using or referring to data types, artifact types, capability types, interface types, node types, relationship types, group types, policy types defined in section 5 “TOSCA normative type definitions”, it is valid according to the definitions given in section 5.

12.3 Conformance Clause 2: TOSCA processor

A processor or program conforms to this specification as TOSCA processor if it satisfies all the statements below:

(a)    It can parse and recognize the elements of any conforming TOSCA YAML service template, and generates errors for those documents that fail to conform as TOSCA YAML service template while clearly intending to.

(b)   It implements the requirements and semantics associated with the definitions and grammar in section 3 “TOSCA Simple Profile definitions in YAML”, including those listed in the “additional requirements” subsections.

(c)    It resolves the imports, either explicit or implicit, as described in section 3 “TOSCA Simple Profile definitions in YAML”.

(d)   It generates errors as required in error cases described in sections 3.1  (TOSCA Namespace URI and alias), 3.2 (Parameter and property type) and 3.6 (Type-specific definitions).

(e)   It normalizes string values as described in section 5.4.9.3 (Additional Requirements)

 

12.4 Conformance Clause 3: TOSCA orchestrator

A processor or program conforms to this specification as TOSCA orchestrator if it satisfies all the statements below:

(a)    It is conforming as a TOSCA Processor as defined in conformance clause 2: TOSCA Processor.

(b)   It can process all types of artifact described in section 5.3 “Artifact types” according to the rules and grammars in this section.

(c)    It can process TOSCA archives as intended in section 6 “TOSCA Cloud Service Archive (CSAR) format” and other related normative sections.

(d)   It can understand and process the functions defined in section 4 “TOSCA functions” according to their rules and semantics.

(e)   It can understand and process the normative type definitions according to their semantics and requirements as described in section 5 “TOSCA normative type definitions”.

(f)     It can understand and process the  networking types and semantics defined in section 7 “TOSCA Networking”.

(g)    It generates errors as required in error cases described in sections 2.10  (Using node template substitution for chaining subsystems), 5.4 (Capabilities Types) and 5.7 (Interface Types).

12.5 Conformance Clause 4: TOSCA generator

A processor or program conforms to this specification as TOSCA generator if it satisfies at least one of  the statements below:

(a)    When requested to generate a TOSCA service template, it always produces a conforming TOSCA service template, as defined in Clause 1: TOSCA YAML service template,

(b)   When requested to generate a TOSCA archive, it always produces a conforming TOSCA archive, as defined in Clause 5: TOSCA archive.

12.6 Conformance Clause 5: TOSCA archive

A package artifact conforms to this specification as TOSCA archive if it satisfies all the statements below:

(a)    It is valid according to the structure and rules defined in section 6 “TOSCA Cloud Service Archive (CSAR) format”.

Appendix A. Known Extensions to TOSCA v1.0

The following items will need to be reflected in the TOSCA (XML) specification to allow for isomorphic mapping between the XML and YAML service templates.

A.1 Model Changes

·         The “TOSCA Simple ‘Hello World’” example introduces this concept in Section 2.  Specifically, a VM image assumed to accessible by the cloud provider.

·         Introduce template Input and Output parameters

·         The “Template with input and output parameter” example introduces concept in Section 2.1.1.

·         “Inputs” could be mapped to BoundaryDefinitions in TOSCA v1.0. Maybe needs some usability enhancement and better description.

·         “outputs” are a new feature.

·         Grouping of Node Templates

·         This was part of original TOSCA proposal, but removed early on from v1.0  This allows grouping of node templates that have some type of logically managed together as a group (perhaps to apply a scaling or placement policy).

·         Lifecycle Operation definition independent/separate from Node Types or Relationship types (allows reuse).  For now we added definitions for “node.lifecycle” and “relationship.lifecycle”.

·         Override of Interfaces (operations) in the Node Template.

·         Service Template Naming/Versioning

·         Should include TOSCA spec. (or profile) version number (as part of namespace)

·         Allow the referencing artifacts using a URL (e.g., as a property value). 

·         Repository definitions in Service Template.

·         Substitution mappings for Topology template.

·         Addition of Group Type, Policy Type, Group def., Policy def. along with normative TOSCA base types for policies and groups.

A.2 Normative Types

·         Constraints

·         constraint clauses, regex

·         Types / Property / Parameters

·         list, map, range, scalar-unit types

·         Includes YAML intrinsic types

·         NetworkInfo, PortInfo, PortDef, PortSpec, Credential

·         TOSCA Version based on Maven

·         Node

·         Root, Compute, ObjectStorage, BlockStorage, Network, Port, SoftwareComponent, WebServer, WebApplicaton, DBMS, Database, Container, and others

·         Relationship

·         Root, DependsOn, HostedOn, ConnectsTo, AttachesTo, RoutesTo, BindsTo, LinksTo and others

·         Artifact

·         Deployment: Image Types (e.g., VM, Container), ZIP, TAR, etc.

·         Implementation: File, Bash, Python, etc.

·         Requirements

·         None

·         Capabilities

·         Container, Endpoint, Attachment, Scalable, …

·         Lifecycle

·         Standard (for Node Types)

·         Configure (for Relationship Types)

·         Functions

·         get_input, get_attribute, get_property, get_nodes_of_type, get_operation_output and others

·         concat, token

·         get_artifact

·         Groups

·         Root

·         Policies

·         Root, Placement, Scaling, Update, Performance

 

Appendix B. Acknowledgments

The following individuals have participated in the creation of this specification and are gratefully acknowledged:

Contributors:

Avi Vachnis (avi.vachnis@alcatel-lucent.com), Alcatel-Lucent

Chris Lauwers (lauwers@ubicity.com)

Derek Palma (dpalma@vnomic.com), Vnomic

Frank Leymann (Frank.Leymann@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de), Univ. of Stuttgart

Gerd Breiter (gbreiter@de.ibm.com), IBM

Hemal Surti (hsurti@cisco.com), Cisco

Ifat Afek (ifat.afek@alcatel-lucent.com), Alcatel-Lucent

Idan Moyal, (idan@gigaspaces.com), Gigaspaces

Jacques Durand (jdurand@us.fujitsu.com), Fujitsu

Jin Qin, (chin.qinjin@huawei.com), Huawei

Juergen Meynert (juergen.meynert@ts.fujitsu.com), Fujitsu

Kapil Thangavelu (kapil.thangavelu@canonical.com), Canonical

Karsten Beins (karsten.beins@ts.fujitsu.com), Fujitsu

Kevin Wilson (kevin.l.wilson@hp.com), HP

Krishna Raman (kraman@redhat.com), Red Hat

Luc Boutier (luc.boutier@fastconnect.fr),  FastConnect

Matt Rutkowski (mrutkows@us.ibm.com), IBM

Moshe Elisha (moshe.elisha@alcatel-lucent.com), Alcatel-Lucent

Nate Finch (nate.finch@canonical.com), Canonical

Nikunj Nemani (nnemani@vmware.com), WMware

Richard Probst (richard.probst@sap.com), SAP AG

Sahdev Zala (spzala@us.ibm.com), IBM

Shitao li (lishitao@huawei.com), Huawei

Simeon Monov (sdmonov@us.ibm.com), IBM

Stephane Maes (stephane.maes@hp.com), HP

Thomas Spatzier (thomas.spatzier@de.ibm.com), IBM

Ton Ngo (ton@us.ibm.com), IBM

Travis Tripp (travis.tripp@hp.com), HP

Vahid Hashemian (vahidhashemian@us.ibm.com), IBM

Wayne Witzel (wayne.witzel@canonical.com), Canonical

Yaron Parasol (yaronpa@gigaspaces.com), Gigaspaces

Appendix C. Revision History

Revision

Date

Editor

Changes Made

WD06, Rev01

2015-06-02

Matt Rutkowski, IBM

·  Initial WD06, Revision 01 baseline.

·  Ch. 3: Changed Hello World example to use 512 MB instead of 4 MB which was not a realistic value.

·  C.8.4: Fixed incorrect Heading number (indent)

·  C.8.1: added “version” property to tosca.artifacts.Root to allow template authors the ability to declare the artifact’s version (i.e., the file itself and its contents).

·  H.1.2: Adjusted description of Compute 1 use case to be more accurate

·  H.1.3: Added new SoftwareComponent use case to show how an existing VM image can be used as a deployment artifact.

·  H.1.19: Container 1: Fixed incorrect YAML which did not use the artifact definition grammar correctly

·  A.5.5: Artifact def.: Added missing “repository” keyname to grammar and renamed “implementation” keyname to “file” to simplify and to not confuse template authors since this keyname is also used for deployment artifacts.

·  C.2.1: Added tosca.datatypes.Root that all TOSCA complex datatypes derive from

·  C.2.2, C.2.3, C.2.4, C.2.6: Credential, NetworkInfo, PortInfo, PortSpec now derive from tosca.datatypes.Root.

·  A.6.3, A.6.4, A.6.5, A.6.6, A.6.8, A.6.9: Added optional “version” keyname to all TOSCA type grammars (i.e., Artifact, Interface, Data, Capability, Node and Relationship).

·  A.6.4: Interface Type: Added optional “description” keyname.

·  A.1.1, A.1.2: Added Namespace prefix, Namespacing in TOSCA Service Templates sections.

·  A.1.1.3: Updated namespace requirements/rules.

·  A.9.1: Removed keyname “tosca_default_namespace” since it was redundant to the one indicated by the “tosca_definitions_version” keyname.

·  A.9.3.1: Fixed namespace errors in Service Template examples.

·  A.7.4: Removed “alias” keyname from Relationship Template as we had no use cases for it.  Also, fixed copy to be a “string” type.

·  A.5.7: Added “import definition” section with keynames, grammars and example.

·  A.9: Service Template: Fixed “imports” grammar and example.

WD06, Rev02

2015-06-02

Matt Rutkowski, IBM

·  D.1.3: Added QCOW2 as non-normative VM image format

·  D.1.2, D.1.3: Added “mime_type” and “file_ext” values to the ISO and QCOW2 non-normative artifact types.

·  H.1.3: Changed use case example to use QCOW2 (which is testable on various hypervisors such as XEN and KVM).

·  H.1.3: Added assumptions to the use case to assure that this is qualified as a non-bare metal use case and that VM management services (including hypervisors) are in place that support the VM image format.

·  Fixed all hyperlinks to any tosca.capabilities.Endpoint.* capability definitions.

·  C.8.3, C.8.4: Added “Additional Requirements” to allow orchestrators to throw an error if they encounter non-normative deployment or implementation artifacts they cannot process.

WD06, Rev03

2015-06-22

Matt Rutkowski, IBM

·  A.5.7.4: import def.: fixed example to have real sample values for repository, namespace URI and namespace prefix.

·  A.6.10: Added Group Type definition, grammar and example

·  A.7.5: Added Group Definition and example

·  14: Fixed example in group chapter to use latest grammar.

·  A.7.4: Added missing Relationship Def. example

·  C.8: Artifact Type: Fixed description to be more accurate

·  11.3: Included example of how to reference an abstract database without a node filter (to show alternative using an abstract node template in the topology).

·  A.5: removed redundant word “recognized” from all keyname table introductions.

·  A.8: Adjusted topology definition to reference new Group definition grammar.

·  A.9: Service Template: Added support for “group_types” element and listing Group Type definitions.

·  Appendix I: Policies: Added official prologue on TOSCA’s declarative approach stated the areas of policy we acknowledge include Access Control, Governance (placement) and Quality-of-Service (QoS).

WD06, Rev04

2015-07-01

Matt Rutkowski, IBM

·  A.6.10: Group Type: Added up-front discussion of the distinction between a group and a node In TOSCA.

·  A.6.10, A.7.5: Group Type, Group definition: Added “interfaces”

·  C.9: Developed the normative Group Type section more.

·  C.9: Added Standard interface to tosca.groups.Root Type.

·  I3: Lots of prose to discuss types of policies and considerations (and overlap).

·  I.5: Policy Use Cases: Added use cases section and started to organize our policy use cases by policy type (e.g., placement, QoS, scaling, etc.)

·  I.5.1, I.5.2: Worked on separating out individual Placement and scaling use cases for policies.

WD06, Rev05

2015-07-08

Matt Rutkowski, IBM

·  11.2: Simple Profile WG agreed to add back the “node_filter” keyword and ordered lists for capabilities for “abstract” nodes; otherwise, ordering was lost for requirement fulfillment. Additionally, we agreed that the grammar needs to support “constraints” wherever they appear on abstract nodes.

·  A.5.4.5: Removed the portion of the example that hinted at the use of a capability “decorator” in the form of requesting encryption in the CPU. We kept the removed capability as a comment to address in v1.1.

·  D.3.1.2: Database.MySQL: does not need “root_password” property.  This was likely a copy/paste error from DBMS type that no one caught until now.

·  A.5.5.1 Artifact def. – prose in table still used old “implementation” keyname; change it to current keyname of “file”.

·  Ch. 6: Changed artifact definition example to use “file” keyname to match grammar.

·  A.5.12: Added comment to Operation Def. to discuss using “file” keyname instead of “implementation” which would be simpler.

·  A.5.12.2.3: Fixed Operation Def. grammar when multiple files are needed to implement the operation (i.e., “implementation” keyname has its own map of keynames).

·  11.1: Missing colon after “host” capability

·  11.3: Missing colon after “my_abstract_database”

·  14: Removed “policies” from “group” example as this is not specified and will not be how we associate policies with groups.

·  A.2.4.2: typo on constraint in example.

·  A.5.5: Artifact def. – “file” is now a required keyname, resolves issue TOSCA-249.

·  A.5.5.2: Fixed typos for repository definition and fixed font as well.

·  A.5.12.4.1: Fixed single-line example for start operation def.

·  A.5.12.4.2: Fixed example so that secondary artifacts are in a valid YAML ordered list format.

·  A.6.3: Fixed description for Artifact Type to be coherent.

·  A.6.8.2: Fixed copy/paste error for artifact def. description below grammar.

·  A.6.10, A.7.5: Added “properties” keyname to Group Type and Group definition along with their respective property definitions and assignments.

·  A.8: Topology Template: formalized grammar so it is like all other definitions.  Clarified use of groups within topology. Comments to create a new parameter definition for inputs and outputs.

·  A.9.3: Added subsections under Service Template to describe “group_types”, “artifact_types”, “relationships” and “interface_types”.

·  A.9.10: Renamed “datatype_definitions” to “data_types”

·  A.9.1: Changed Service Template grammar to use the new Import Definition (no longer only a list of simple strings).

·  C.2.2: Credential: Table had listed the “protocol” as required property which it is not.

·  C.2.2: Credential: Fixed examples to remove “type” and “properties” keys that are not valid for a property assignment (only property def.).

·  C.2.5.2: Missing colon from example for “in_range” constraint

·  C.2.6: PortSpec: “target” and “source” grammars are not maps but a single PortDef.

·  C.8.1: tosca.artifacts.Root: Does not need a version property as it is now part of the metamodel.

·  C.9.1: tosca.groups.Root: Does not need a version property as it is now part of the metamodel.

·  D.1.3: QCOW2 artifact type had “ISO” in type name; a cut/paste error.

·  H.1.3.5:  Use case YAML had an artifact as an ordered list; and “host” requirement was not ordered list.  Fixed both.

·  G.1.4, H.1.4, H.1.5, H.1.7, H.1.8, and H.1.9: BlockStorage use cases should use “local_storage” requirement already pre-defined in the Compute node not “attachment” which is not normative.

·  H.1.5, H.1.6: Compute node needs to reference “my_storage” node.

·  H.1.6: Indentation error on one of the output parameters.

·  H.1.9: Incorrect YAML on “local_storage” relationship, AttachesTo type needs to be indented on a new line with “type” from Extended Grammar as explained in section A.7.2.

·  H.1.12: Added “host” capability and moved its properties that were directly under Compute node (old grammar) to be under “host”.  Also added units to property values.

·  H.1.19: “inputs” definitions were not inside topology template (old grammar).  Fixed that the image artifacts were defined as ordered lists, normal unordered list now. Also, only need interface name “Standard” not redeclared the normative type definition.

WD06, Rev06

2015-07-28

Matt Rutkowski, IBM

·  Changed all examples to use a host container mem_size of either 512 MB (i.e., “tiny”) or 4096 MB (i.e., medium) to be more realistic to typical production public cloud values.

·  A.5.12:  Added Parameter def. which is used by Input and Output parameters for the topology template and Inputs for Interfaces

·  A.6.10: Added Policy Type section, grammar and examples

·  A.7.6: Added Policy Def. section, grammar and examples

·  C.10 Policy Types: Added normative policy type (families) which will be expanded in future versions.  The goal in v1.0 was to establish the type families acknowledged in Appendix I.  These include Root, Placement, Scaling, Performance and Update.

·  C.6.6: RoutesTo relationship type: Removed empty grammar and example sections.

·  A.8.2: Topology Template: Fixed grammar issues with group definitions.  Added policy definitions to grammar. Changed grammar to reference Parameter def. for both Inputs and Outputs.

·  A.8.2.1: Topology Template: Changed Inputs section to reference Parameter def.

·  A.8.2.4: Topology Template: Changed Outputs section to reference Parameter def.

·  A.8.2.6: Topology Template: Added policies section.

·  A.9.1: Service Template: Added “policies” keyname section to allow policy types to be declared.

·  H.1.15.4.3: Changed legacy “postconfigure” operations to current “configure” operation.

WD06, Rev07

2015-08-20

Matt Rutkowski, IBM

·  A.9.1: Service Template: Added metadata keyname “mime_type” to declare the type of TOSCA file’s Mime Type string (i.e. grammar, information) the .yaml file holds.

·  A.6.10, A.6.11: Added the keyname “targets” to both Group Type and Policy Type as a new “shortcut” for describing a relationship between a logical entity (i.e. a Group or Policy) and concrete entities in TOSCA models (i.e., ones that are part of the actual application topology and deployment such as Nodes).

·  I.3.2.1: Placement policy: corrected incomplete sentence.

·  C.6.1: Relationship Types: added “state” attribute to Root type

·  A.3.2, C.6.1: Relationship States: Placeholder created to define states once TOSCA-272  is addressed.

·  I.5.1.3: Filled out “co-locate” placement policy use case removing TBD placeholders.

·  D.3: Non-normative Node Types: Added text to clearly state these are non-normative for use in examples and use cases and any Attributes, properties, requirements or capabilities they introduce are also non-normative.  Fixed Properties tables to show “N/A” and opened TOSCA-273 if in the future we wish to document non-normative properties.

·  H.1, H.1.16: Removed the placeholder for the WebServer-DBMS 2 use case (will renumber use case WebServer-DBMS 3 to be 2) As it was a legacy AWS Cloud formation (CFN) [AWS-CFN] use case that used explicit Floating IPs which is not the approach we use in TOSCA.

WD06, Rev08

2015-08-26

Matt Rutkowski, IBM

Jacques Durand, Fujitsu

·  Reorganization of chapters and appendices to conform to OASIS staff directions and to accommodate addition of a new Conformance section.

o Created new Chapter 1 “Introduction”. 

§ Moved former Chapter 1 “Objective” to Chapter 1.1.

§ Moved former Chapter 2 “Summary of key TOSCA Concepts” to Chapter 1.2.

§ Created Chapter 1.3 “Implementations” to introduce key terms used to identify conformance targets for the new Conformance Chapter (12).

§ Moved former Appendix J.2 “Terminology” to Chapter 1.4.

§ Moved RFC 2119 text formerly under Appendix J.2 under a new Chapter 1.5 “Notational Conventions” adding a normative reference to RFC 2119.

§ Moved former Appendix J.3, J.4 “Normative References” and “Non-normative References” to Chapters 1.6 and 1.7 respectively.

§ Moved former Appendix J.5 “Glossary” to Chapter 1.8.

o Created new Chapter 2 “TOSCA by example”.

§ Moved former Chapters 3 through 18 under new Chapter 2.  This effectively made these chapters subchapters/subsections under the new chapter (which demotes all former Header levels by one decimal point).  For example former Chapter 3 ‘A “hello world” template for TOSCA’ became Chapter 2.1 ‘A “hello world” template for TOSCA’ and so on.

o Renumbered  former Appendix A “TOSCA Simple Profile definitions in YAML” to now be Chapter 3.

§ Note: This chapter begins the group of normative chapters.

o Renumbered  former Appendix B “Functions” to now be Chapter 4. 

§ Changed title to “TOSCA functions” for consistency.

o Renumbered  former Appendix C “TOSCA normative type definitions” to now be Chapter 5. 

o Renumbered  former Appendix D “Non-normative type definitions” to now be Chapter 8. 

§ Note: This new Chapter 8 locates  (groups) this section with the other sections that are non-normative.  This was done to accommodate the new “Conformance” section (Chapter 12) and its referential contents.

o Renumbered  former Appendix E “TOSCA Cloud Service Archive (CSAR)” to now be Chapter 6. 

o Renumbered  former Appendix F “Networking” to now be Chapter 7.  

§ Changed title to “TOSCA networking” for consistency.

o Renumbered  former Appendix G “Component modeling use cases” to now be Chapter 9. 

§ Note: This chapter begins the group of non-normative chapters.

o Renumbered  former Appendix H “Complete application modeling use cases” to now be Chapter 10. 

§ Changed title to “Application modeling use cases” for consistency.

o Renumbered  former Appendix I “TOSCA Policies” to now be Chapter 11. 

o Moved contents of former Appendix J.1 “Known extensions to TOSCA v1.0” to now be Appendix A contents.

o Former Appendix K “Issues list” was removed by consensus as it was outdated and should not appear in the final CSD 04 contents and be carried as the spec. is taken through the OASIS standards track process.

§ Note: The “Issues List” will be added back for the first working draft of v1.1 of Simple Profile and updated to reflect the TOSCA JIRA status of issues against this work product.

o Former Appendix L “Acknowledgments” was automatically renumbered to be Appendix B.

o Former Appendix M “Revision history” was automatically renumbered to be Appendix C.

·  Chapter 1.4:  Jacques authored “Implementations” section to reflect terms we use later in the Conformance section

·  Chapter 1.5: Authored “Terminology” introductory paragraph to explain the domain of TOSCA.

·  Chapter 12: “Conformance”: Jacques authored this section which is a new OASIS requirement for standards-track documents.  It establishes the Simple Profile in YAML conformance clauses relative to the Terms established in Section 1.5 and also by referencing the Chapters’ contents.

·  Added a sentence at the top (i.e., first sentence) of every Chapter stating whether to Chapter contents was “normative” or “non-normative”.

·  Section 10.1.18: Container-1 example: Fixed requirements and capability for “linking” Docker containers. 

o Added logical diagram.

·  Section 3: Assured all Examples had captions (and that they appear in Table of Figures).

·  Section 4.4.2.3: Added get_property with TARGET parameter.

·  Section 2.10.3: Changed ‘SHOULD’ to ‘should’.

·  Section 3.8.2: Topology template: Policies should be a sequenced list.

·  Section 3.5.13.2: Operation def.: Fixed extended grammar which was missing ‘primary’ keyword.

·  Section 3.6.10.3: Group Type: Fixed example to use ‘targets’.

·  Section 3.6.11: Policy Type: Updated description for ‘target’ keyname to include Group types.

·  Section 3.7.5: Group def.: Changed ‘members’ to ‘targets’ as agreed by work group.

·  Section 2.12: Example 21: Fixed group example to adhere to latest grammar.

·  Section 3.7.6: Policy def.: Added ‘targets’ keyname as agreed by work group.

·  Section 3.8.1: Topology Template: Fixed description for ‘inputs’ and ‘output’ to reference parameter def.  instead of property def.

·  Section 3.8.2.5.2: Topology Template: Fixed example to adhere to latest Group def. grammar.

·  Section 3.9.3.17: Added missing Policy Type definitions from Service Template definition grammar.

·  Fixed hyperlinks throughout document

·  Chapter H.1:Filled in missing links to BlockStorage use cases. Fixed Table width to be 100% not 115%.

·  Incorporated several copy/paste errors, typos and such reported by Luc B.

·  5.4.5.1, 5.4.6.2: Luc B. provided fixes for errors in how the PUBLIC network_name was being set as the only allowed value.  Similarly, the “secure” boolean was not defined properly to ensure it was the only allowed value.