Welcome to xOpera’s documentation!

The following documentation explains the usage of xOpera TOSCA orchestrator. Want to try it right away? Just go to Examples or follow the Table of Contents below.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Background
  • Parser
• Quickstart
  • Opera CLI Quickstart
  • xOpera SaaS Quickstart
• xOpera CLI (opera)
  • Installation
  • Secrets and Environment variables
  • CLI reference and examples
    • deploy
    • undeploy
    • validate
    • outputs
    • info
    • package
    • unpackage
    • init (deprecated since 0.6.1)
• xOpera SaaS
  • Browser interface
  • Eclipse Che plugin for xOpera SaaS
  • The API
  • Warnings about your secrets and general security
• xOpera API
  • Installation
• xOpera TPS (template library)
• Examples
  • Private cloud
    • OpenStack client setup
  • Public cloud
  • Serverless
    • Screencast video
  • HPC
  • More tempaltes and blueprints
    • TOSCA CSAR

References

• Carbonell, Maria: xOpera: an agile orchestrator: https://www.sodalite.eu/content/xopera-agile-orchestrator

• Cankar, Matija et. al.: Auto-scaling Using TOSCA Infrastructure as Code: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59155-7_20

• Luzar, Anže et. al.: Examination and Comparison of TOSCA Orchestration Tools: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-59155-7_19

Contact

The list of contributors:

• xOpera orchestration tool core development team:

  • Tadej Borovšak (https://github.com/tadeboro/)

  • Matej Artač (https://github.com/matejart/)

  • Anže Luzar (https://github.com/anzoman/)

  • Sašo Stanovnik (https://github.com/sstanovnik/)

  • Alexander Maslennikov (https://github.com/alexmaslenn/)

• Contacts for projects where xOpera is being or has been used:

  • Matija Cankar (https://github.com/cankarm/): RADON Horizon 2020 project

  • Dragan Radolović (https://github.com/dradX/): SODALITE Horizon 2020 project

Acknowledgments

• This work is being supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant no. 825040, RADON).

• The work described here has been conducted within the Research & Innovation action SODALITE (project no. 825480), started in February 2019, and co-funded by the European Commission under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the H2020 framework programme (H2020-ICT-16-2018: Software Technologies)