- removed useless comment

- Added method to request device/endpoint names from a list of endpoint identifiers

- updated method to update config rules and support action updates

- added missing "raise" statement when something goes wrong

- added support for username and password
- added support for direct URI

- updated old gitlab.com URLs by new labs.etsi.org URLs.
- updated Context to use secrets generated by CockroachDB and NATS

- corrected gRPC format of Events in MockMessageBroker

- 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

- added missing log messages in MockContext

- added get_device helper method

- reduced log level of InterDomain-related methods to DEBUG

- added context "admin" as default for slices

- corrected service name of load generator

- added dependencies for 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

- updated definition of constant DEFAULT_CONTEXT_UUID to DEFAULT_CONTEXT_NAME
- updated definition of constant DEFAULT_TOPOLOGY_UUID to DEFAULT_TOPOLOGY_NAME
- updated definition of constant INTERDOMAIN_TOPOLOGY_UUID to INTERDOMAIN_TOPOLOGY_NAME

- 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

- Added backend for NATS message broker
- removed unneeded test script

- corrected metrics names

- corrected logger instantiation
- arranged performance collector for unit tests
- moved performance evaluation dump method to Metrics Pool

- corrected slice and service methods

- disabled Redis MessageBroker backend

- updated policy rule object factory
- updated rpc method wrapper decorator's duration buckets

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

- cosmetic changes in RPC method wrapper

- added results

- removed incorrect instruction

- improved object-factry slice-related methods

- updated histogram definition in Grafana dashboards
- updated prometheus queries

- 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

- improved README file
- enabled configuration of histogram buckets
- updated emulated and openconfig device driver
- updated L2NM, L3NM and TAPI service handlers

- updated default decorator histogram buckets
- updated grafana dashboard pannel backups
- updated testing deploy script

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

- moved manifests for service monitors

- solved issue parsing slice config rules

- updated grafana dashboard backups and prometheus queries

- unified RPC method wrapper with performance evaluation
- migrated components to new method wrapping API
- added new grafana dashboard backups