- Added/Updated headers
- Added script to update copyright headers

- migrated from DEFAULT_CONTEXT_UUID to DEFAULT_CONTEXT_NAME
- migrated from DEFAULT_TOPOLOGY_UUID to DEFAULT_TOPOLOGY_NAME
- migrated from INTERDOMAIN_TOPOLOGY_UUID to INTERDOMAIN_TOPOLOGY_NAME

- corrected service name of load generator

- Converted load_gen tool into a microservice
- Added simple WebUI page to manage it
- Created manifests, Dockerfile, etc.
- Created proto file to manage the load generator

- disabled event testing; operation works, but sometimes tests get stuck
- added dynamic wait for CockroachDB and NATS containers to start
- tuned grace shutdown period
- improved NatsBackend termination

- updated coveragerc template file
- extended and improved rpc wrapper set of declarable exceptions
- updated default context and topology definition constants

- added field name in context
- added field name in topology
- added field name in device
- added field name in link
- added field name in service
- added field name in slice

- Increased default gRPC workers from 10 to 200
- added object factory methods for L2NM services

- First functional version of TopologyAbstractor
- Updated default context/topology UUIDs

- removed unneeded constant for AGGREGATED topology name
- removed unused tools
- code reorganizations and factorizations
- implemented own-domain-finder class
- implemented first partial version of topology abstractor
- implemented abstract device class

- Extended DltGatewayClient to support configuration through env vars
- Added DltEventsCollector to DltConnector
- Implemented RecordDevice in DltConnectorServicer

MockBlockchain:
- Implemented mock-blockchain module to facilitate testing and debugging of DLT connector & workflows
- Added manifests, Dockerfile, etc.

DLT Connector:
- corrected requirements.in
- updated Dockerfile
- WIP: implementation of test_unitary.py

DLT Gateway:
- Improved/extended Dockerfile
- Moved Dockerfile to correct folder
- Corrected import path for proto files

- Moved imports from *.proto folder to common.proto folder
- Removed webui's genproto.sh script
- Minor code and linting fixing
- Arranged requirements to accelerate Docker image creation
- Updated Dockerfile
- Arranged GitLab CI/CD pipeline
- Corrected usage of ConfigRules to use new custom ConfigRules
- Moved config variables to new config framework
- Removed unneeded Config variables

- initial skeleton (not functional)

- defined unified constants for all micro-services
- defined common settings getter methods
- defined generic gRPC servicer
- defined generic Rest servicer
- defined common MockServicer for Monitoring component
- removed old common/tests MockService class; to be replaced by new generic gRPC servicer
- minor code formatting/styling

- monitoring/test_monitoring.py: provides a basic testing skeleton
- monitoring/requirements.in/.txt: updated with pytest
- monitoring/genproto.py: added instructions to import generated Python modules using "from . import ..." instead of "import ..."; otherwise, pytest and other possible modules doing imports might complain.
- monitoring/monitoring_server.py: packed start_server and stop_server functionaity to simplify test definition, minor formattings, bug resolutions and improvements in package import.
- monitoring/monitoring_client.py: minor formattings, bug resolutions, and improvements in package import.