How-to Guides

This section discusses common Stratoss™ Lifecycle Manager (LM) use cases and provides examples to help illustrate how to best apply to what you are working on.

VNFs

• Upgrade a VNF with no service downtime
• Move a VNF from one location to another

Network Services

• Model an EPC Network Service
• Create service chains and auto test their behaviour
• Model an Enterprise Connectivity Network Service

Data Centre Automation

• Configure and tune hardware devices
• Configure network fabric controllers
• Auto-test your NFVI data centre
• Configure physical network appliances

Northbound Integration

• Integrate with external policy engines

Southbound Integration

• Build your own Resource Manager
• Integrate with ETSI SOL003 VNFMs

DevOps

• Manage CI/CD inter package dependencies
• Self certify VNFs
• Manage lifecycle of VNF packages that are managed by external VNFMs

Cloud native

• Create a cloud native “Network Service Mesh”