Getting Started

Once manual installation of tacker components are completed, follow the below steps to get started with tacker and validate the installation.

i). Create a sample-vnfd.yml file with the following content:

template_name: sample-vnfd
description: demo-example

service_properties:
  Id: sample-vnfd
  vendor: tacker
  version: 1

vdus:
  vdu1:
    id: vdu1
    vm_image: <IMAGE>
    instance_type: <FLAVOR>

    network_interfaces:
      management:
        network: <NETWORK_ID>
        management: true

    placement_policy:
      availability_zone: nova

    auto-scaling: noop

    config:
      param0: key0
      param1: key1

ii). Create a sample vnfd.

tacker vnfd-create --name <NAME> --vnfd-file sample-vnfd.yml

iii). Create a VNF.

tacker vnf-create --name <NAME> --vnfd-id <VNFD_ID>

iv). Check the status.

tacker vnf-list
tacker vnf-show <VNF_ID>