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Description
nmaas is an open-source, multi-tenant cloud platform designed for easy, on-demand deployment of applications across distributed Kubernetes clusters (https://docs.nmaas.eu). Built around an extensible catalogue of applications, nmaas allows users to deploy software tools with minimal effort, supporting network operations through process automation.
Originally focused on network management applications, nmaas now serves a broad range of real use cases across academic, research and network operator communities. Users can deploy and customize application instances via a self-service web portal, either on the GÉANT-managed instance or a self-hosted nmaas installation.
nmaas for Virtual Network Operations Center (vNOC) is meant for teams tasked with network or service monitoring responsibility that have limited resources to develop and/or maintain their own NMS or plan to migrate their existing monitoring tools to the cloud. With nmaas, open-source software tools are deployed on a cloud infrastructure, potentially distributed across multiple locations. Using a multi-tenant approach and software-based VPNs, each team has private access to their isolated network management toolset without the burden of underlying IT infrastructure maintenance. Using a single nmaas instance users can deploy applications across multiple remote Kubernetes clusters. This architecture is particularly valuable for managing distributed setups, such as edge nodes or regional clusters. All of the application data never leaves the environment where the application has been deployed, thus ensuring complete data sovereignty. nmaas’ architecture also allows it to take advantage of hardware accelerators such as GPUs, thus enabling the deployment of AI-driven network analysis and monitoring tools.
The nmaas platform is actively used for infrastructure management and monitoring as part of multiple research projects, including production environments in Poland. This presentation will offer an in-depth look at nmaas, highlighting key features and use cases, and will include a demo of core functionalities such as GitOps-based configuration of representative applications.
| Estimated presentation duration | 25-30 mins |
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