- Updated deploy_specs

- Added availability percentage to SLA Availability constraint

- Removed availability percentage from SLA Availability constraint (new feature)

- Added availability percentage to SLA Availability constraint

- Removed availability percentage from SLA Availability constraint (new feature)

- Corrected Constraint definitions

- corrected parsing of slice descriptors

- implemented missing methods

- implemented missing methods

- added support for dictionary and file-based loading of descriptors
- added getter methods
- added validation and unload methods
- integrated helper methods
- updated documentation

- Added safety control

- Added method to get Context
- Added method to get Link

- Implemented parallel descriptor loading, especially for device onboarding

- Corrected structure of Debug API
- Updated paths and endpoints
- Removed unneeded common constants

- Restored execute permissions

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

- Removed unused ORM
- Removed old tutorial folder
- Commented out unfinished unitary tests

- 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