Release v0.4.0 · 6G-SANDBOX/TNLCM

v0.4.0 - 2024-10-24

Concurrency support in the Flask application by integrating Gunicorn to handle multiple simultaneous requests, improving responsiveness and performance.
Trial network isolation to run several networks in parallel. The number of parallel trial networks is determined by the value of the environment variable GUNICORN_WORKERS minus 1. By default, GUNICORN_WORKERS is set to 3, allowing two trial networks to be executed concurrently. To execute sequentially, the number of GUNICORN_WORKERS has to be 2.
TNLCM folder is created in jenkins. For each trial network its own pipeline is created to guarantee the isolation and to be able to execute several at the same time.
TRIAL_NETWORKS readme file added in the docs directory to explain defined trial networks.
Initial CLI handler to execute commands.
Git switch method for streamlined repository management.
Callback collection in database for answers generated by jenkins on entity deployment.
Utils directory with required functions.
Scripts directory with the following deployment scripts:
- deploy_vm.sh: deploy TNLCM and MongoDB in a virtual machine.
- deploy_docker.sh: deploy TNLCM and MongoDB using Docker.

Updated Python to version 3.13.0.
Updated MongoDB to version 8.0.
Improved README documentation for better clarity and usage guidelines.
Migrated from the ansible-vault library to ansible-core since only this module is of interest.
Renamed ANSIBLE_VAULT variable in .env.template to SITES_TOKEN for clarity.
Moved the implementation from the resource_manager directory to the resource manager within the models directory.
Rename trial_networks, users and verification_tokens collections to trial_network, user and verification_token.
Rename columns tn_state, tn_date_created_utc, tn_raw_descriptor, tn_sorted_descriptor, tn_deployed_descriptor, tn_report and tn_directory_path to state, date_created_utc, raw_descriptor, sorted_descriptor, deployed_descriptor, report and directory_path in trial_network collection.

Resolved a bug when creating a trial network, where components were defined in the 6G-Sandbox-Sites repository but not in the 6G-Library.
Trial network can be destroyed if it is in failed state.
Corrected function documentation to reflect accurate information.
Message display when checking if a user can access a trial network.
Enhanced logging for TNLCM processes.
Issues with JWT and MongoDB error handling.
Simplified class exception handling for improved readability and maintainability.
Descriptors are converted from being stored in json to dictionaries in the trial_networks collection of the database.

Deprecated API namespaces:
- Trial network templates.
- 6G-Library.
- 6G-Sandbox-Sites.