From 64ffde1f530e7345b108d2a9eba2c4b3e2522ea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C5=81ukasz=20=C5=81opatowski?= <lukasz.lopatowski@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:58:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Initial content for Overview and What is NMaaS pages --- docs/about.md | 6 ++++-- docs/index.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/what-is-nmaas.md | 11 +++++++++++ 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/about.md b/docs/about.md index 41fcdf3..31cb4db 100644 --- a/docs/about.md +++ b/docs/about.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ -**NMaaS** is a **[GÉANT](https://www.geant.org)** project from the **[GÉANT fourth programme](https://www.geant.org/Projects/GEANT_Project_GN4-3)** (GN4-3) +**NMaaS** is a **[GÉANT](https://www.geant.org)** project from the +**[GÉANT fourth programme](https://www.geant.org/Projects/GEANT_Project_GN4-3)** (GN4-3) ## Useful links -- [An example link](https://beta.docs.nmaas.eu) +- [GitHub](https://github.com/nmaas-platform) +- [GÉANT project](https://geant.org/) ## Project members diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 1f0c128..a9bf808 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ # **NMaaS** home ## **Overview** + +The cost and complexity of developing and integrating in-house network management may be too high for many NRENs, +Institutions, projects or teams. Off-the-shelf solutions might not be suitable and might be costly. + +Network Management as a Service (NMaaS) aims to support these users in providing an effective, efficient network +and service management platform. NMaaS enables management and monitoring of user networks through on-demand deployment +of network management tools in a Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure. Using a multi-tenant approach and software based +VPNs, each NREN or Institution has private access to their network management systems and services from a highly +available cloud based platform. + +NMaaS is meant for smaller and emerging NRENs, campuses, small organisations or distributed research projects that may +have limited resources to develop and/or maintain their own NMS infrastructure or planned to outsource these activities. +By using a shared and supported platform, Institutions can focus solely on the monitoring and management of their +service components. It is also suitable for use in those NRENs which provide campus network management service (CNaaS) +to their institutions. Using NMaaS, NRENs can easily provide per-campus network management software instances. + +NMaaS (https://nmaas.eu) is offered within the GÉANT project as a production service since December 2018. Currently, +the portfolio of tools offered by NMaaS consists of 28 applications including Oxidized, LibreNMS, Prometheus, Grafana, +Zabbix, NetBox and others. + +## **Reference documentation** + +This page is still being populated with up to date NMaaS news and documentation. For additional information visit our +GÉANT project [website](https://wiki.geant.org/display/NMAAS). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/what-is-nmaas.md b/docs/what-is-nmaas.md index e69de29..afa5703 100644 --- a/docs/what-is-nmaas.md +++ b/docs/what-is-nmaas.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# What is **NMaaS**? + +NMaaS is an [open source](https://github.com/nmaas-platform) framework originally developed within the +[GÉANT](https://geant.org/projects/) project for orchestration of on-demand deployment of applications in a +Kubernetes-based cloud environment. + +With a simple self-service web interface, NMaaS applications are easily deployed within an isolated tenant environment +assigned to a given institution or team. An application’s lifecycle (configuration updates and re-deployments) is fully +managed following a GitOps approach: a specific Git repository is tightly associated with every deployed application +and a set of CI/CD pipelines ensure proper re-deployments of the applications following every update on the Git master +branch. \ No newline at end of file -- GitLab