====== Project: Deployment Template Translation (Parser) ======

In NFV, various templates (such as descriptors, records and so on) are utilized to describe the deployment requirements (such as basic VM requirements – vCPU, memory, storage, as well as the NFV acceleration management requirement such as Huge Pages support, SR-IOV, NUMA affinity, DPDK support  etc.), the post-instaniation records (such as storage usage report, CPU performance report etc.) or other purposes. However in order to make these templates adaptable and feasible for purpose like deployment orchestration/automation, certain tooling mechanism that provides template translation is necessary.

Project Parser will help to provide such tooling mechanism, by parsing Telecom operators’ descriptors/records into TOSCA/CAMP templates and then further translate TOSCA/CAMP templates into certain common templates, which could be used in IaaS orchestration projects like OpenStack Heat.

The overall project plan for Parser is:{{ :parser.png?nolink&200|}}
  * During the time period of Release One, identify more use cases, and also the gap for the upstream project.

Related wiki pages:
  * [[parser/parser_project_proposal| Parser Project Proposal]]
  * [[parser/use_cases| Use Cases]]
  * [[parser/parser_work_items|List of Candidate Work Items / Open Questions]]  
  * [[parser/meetings | Meeting Calendar]]
  * [[parser/meeting_minutes | Meeting Minutes]]
  * [[parser/docs | Parser Documentation]]
  * [[parser/howto | Parser HowTo page on developement]]
  * [[releases/brahmaputra/release_plan/parser | Parser B release status]]
  * [[https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/parser_rel_c_plan | Parser Rel C Planning]]

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===== Key Project Facts =====

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** Contributors: **
Srinivas Tadepalli, TCS (srinivas.tadepalli@tcs.com)
  
** IRC ** : freenode.net  [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opnfv-parser|#opnfv-parser]]\\
** GoToMeeting ** : [[https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/201997445 | 201997445 ]] \\
** Trello ** : [[https://trello.com/b/doCkFD3F/parser|Parser Trello Board]] for coordination \\
** Mailing List **: no dedicated mailing list - use opnfv-tech-discuss and tag your emails with [parser] in the subject for easier filtering \\
** Meetings **: 
  * [[parser/meetings | Meeting Calendar]]
** Repository: ** parser