RIC platform xApp onboard service provides REST APIs for xApp onboarding and testing. The following steps describes the workflow to onboard, config and deploy an xApp.
- To onboard an xApp, the xApp descriptor and its schema will be submitted to the xApp onboarder. (ADD LINK TO API DOC)
- xApp onboarder generates helm charts and distributes them to the local helm repo in the RIC platform instance
- Operator triggers xApp deployment
- (OPTIONAL)Through RIC dashboard, download an values.yaml file that contains the default xApp configuration parameters
- (OPTIONAL) Modify the xApp configuration parameters, upload the new configuration to appmgr
- Appmgr combines the xApp helm charts from local helm repo and the new configuration
- Appmgr creates an xApp instance