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Terminology

User Roles

  • OpenSlice Administrator: Installs, configures and maintains an OpenSlice instance
  • OpenSlice Service Designer: Uses available resources to design service specifications that are offered to OpenSlice users
  • OpenSlice User: Browses and orders offered services

Useful Terms

  • Service Specification: A blueprint with detailed descriptions of services, including attributes, configurations, performance metrics, and SLAs (e.g. 5G Connectivity).
  • Service: A running instance of a Service Specification.
  • Resource Specification: A blueprint with detailed descriptions of resources, including attributes, configurations, and instantiation patterns (e.g. a Kubernetes CRD).
  • Resource: A running instance of a Resource Specification.
  • Resource Facing Service Specification (RFSS): A Service Specification that exposes a Resource Specification as a Service (e.g. UPF Deployment in K8s).
  • Customer Facing Service Specification (CFSS): A Service Specification exposed to Users, available for Service Orders. Usually an exposed CFSS (e.g. 5G Connectivity) is a Service Bundle and comprises of other RFSSs (e.g. UPF Deployment, Core Deployment) and CFSSs (e.g. Connect Radio Nodes).
  • Resource Facing Service (RFS): An running instance of an RFSS, created via a Service Order of a related Service Bundle.
  • Customer Facing Service (CFS): An running instance of an CFSS, created via a Service Order.
  • Service Category: A collection of CFSSs.
  • Service Catalog: A collection of exposed Service Categories.
  • Service Inventory: An inventory of all the service instances.
  • Resource Inventory: An inventory of all the resource instances.