During deployment sdc-be-init fails while deploying VFCs. When the csar is being generated for a VFC the tosca template is first created and stored in cassandra and then the csar is created. The tosca template is fetched from cassandra for inclusion in the csar.

Logs show that the fetching of the tosca template from cassandra sometimes does not find the artifact even though it has been created. 

There is a very short time span between the creation and attempted fetching of the tosca template so the suspicion is this is a cassandra consistency issue. 

The proposal is to, in the event of a failure to read the tosca template, try again but with cassandra consistency  set to ALL for the read.