Creating a service instance

This topic describes the general steps to create a new instance of a service. It assumes you have already created your domain or domains.

Service instance prerequisites

  • Ensure the supported RA is deployed. This typically occurs during installation. Review the release notes for RA details.

  • Each service instance requires a domain or domains. Create your domains before you proceed. See Creating a domain. Remember that services might depend on more than one domain.

    This procedure describes how to create a Juniper Firewall (vSRX FireFly) service that is dependent on having three domains:

    • Planet Orchestrate (all services require this domain that is present by default)

    • OpenStack

    • Virtual Firewall (Juniper vSRX Firefly)

  • Verify your resource types, service templates, and UI schemas display in the Asset Manager.

Creating a service

There are several ways to create a service. You can create one from its associated domain or create the resource and associate it to a domain during the service creation. This procedure describes the quickest way to create an MDSO service from the domain.

To create a service from its associated domain:

  1. Ensure the prerequisites for your service are complete.

    This includes installing your RAs and creating a domain or domains. For RA installation details, see your installation guide.

    For online deployments, solutions and RAs for Blue Planet Orchestrate are available from bpdr.io registry. For offline deployments, Ciena delivers Blue Planet solutions as a tar.gz file, and you can use BP tools to onboard the solutions and then deploy them via solutionmanager CLI. See your Blue Planet installation guide for more details.

  2. From the Blue Planet dashboard Domains pane, click Orchestrate.

  3. Click Products in the far right pane.

  4. Select Openstack.

  5. Select Virtual Firewall (Firefly) and click Details.

  6. Click Inventory.

  7. Click Create.

  8. Fill in the form tabs.

    All required fields are labelled.

  9. Click Create.

    The service instance displays after creation. It might take a few minutes to refresh.

  10. Select the instance checkbox and click Details.

    Some details of interest include:

    • The orchestrate state is Active. It might take a few minutes to change state.

    • Relationships tab shows dark blue when active; light blue when pending state: activating.

    • Use the relationship map in the model hierarchy tab to see sub-resources.

    • Possible Orchestrate states include: unknown, unspecified, requested, scheduled, activating, failed, active, inactive, terminating, and terminated.

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