Infrastructure automation enables operators to deploy virtualized infrastructure and provision new sites easily through automation and templates, reducing the need for complex manual site operations. The sample workflow for an automated site consists of the following steps:
- Before starting the deployment, validate the prerequisites for each site: the host configuration, the physical switch and domain configurations, and the network design, including time synchronization and license availability. Infrastructure automation validates these prerequisites to ensure easy and fast deployment.
- Install ESXi on each server and configure appropriate networking. Confirm IP reachability from the site to the data.
- Bootstrap the Telco Cloud Automation virtual appliance to enable automated configurations from the UI.
- Create site blueprints in the Telco Cloud Automation UI, including blueprints for:
- Domains
- DNS
- NTP
- Proxy servers
- IP address ranges
- Gateways
- NIC configurations
- Images
- Licenses
- VLANs
- MTU size settings for jumbo frames,
- Physical site location coordinates
- Add hosts to each site.
- Bootstrap the VMware telco cloud infrastructure (the software-defined data center cloud or SDDC).
- Launch the Telco Cloud Automation control plane in each cloud location. The Telco Cloud Automation appliance in the central location provides its services at each cloud location that is using the VMware TCA-CP.
- Deploy the Tanzu Kubernetes clusters to enable the management and worker cluster.
- Instantiate the cloud-native network functions and the related network services. Customize the Tanzu worker clusters in accordance with the CSAR files for each workload.
- Integrate the instantiated workloads with the appropriate OSS and BSS system to enable further LCM operations.