How to deploy a file or a folder to a target compute node?

How to deploy a file?

During the deployment of a software component, sometimes we need to deploy an external file on the target compute node. In such a case, we can define an artifacts in the node definition as below:

node_types:

otc.nodes.SoftwareComponent.ComponentA:

derived_from: tosca.nodes.SoftwareComponent

interfaces:

Standard:

create: scripts/create.sh

artifacts:

# specify the artifact name

- hello_script:

type: tosca.artifacts.File

# path to an existing file, relative path to this yaml definition

file: scripts/helloworld.js

The orchestrator will send the file (available at the path scripts/helloworld.js) to the compute node, on which the software component is deployed.

In the interface implementation, we can get the location of the artifact as follows:

# scripts/create.sh

# The artifact name "hello_script" resolves to the location of the file artifact

# on the target compute node

cat $hello_script

In the editor, you can also upload and overwrite the artifact hello_script for a given topology:

Figure 1: Click "Select Artifact" to replace an artifact

How to deploy a folder?

The artifact can be a folder as well:

node_types:

...

artifacts:

# specify an artifact name

- scripts:

type: tosca.artifacts.File

# "myscripts" is an existing folder, relative path to this yaml definition

file: myscripts

In the interface implementation, we can get the path to the folder in the same way:

# scripts/create.sh

# The artifact name "scripts" resolves to the location of the folder on the target

# compute node.

ls $scripts

note

The orchestration engine is responsible for copying the artifact to the compute node and makes its path available as the environment variable (i.e., the artifact name) in the configuration script for you.

Full example

• See example