Chapter 5: NSP deployment basics

Overview

Purpose

This chapter describes the container-based NSP environment and fundamental NSP deployment considerations. Also included is information about upgrading the deployment environment.

The following contain important information about the initial platform setup in advance of deploying the NSP container environment:

• NSP Planning Guide—platform hardware recommendations and deployment scaling guidelines

• Part I: Getting started—platform configuration, for example, preparing disk partitions, installing the RHEL OS, and implementing platform security

Contents

Overview

NSP system elements

Introduction

Containerized NSP cluster

NSP deployment infrastructure

Kubernetes deployment environment

To upgrade the NSP Kubernetes environment

IP version support

Introduction

Addressing requirements

Using multiple NSP interfaces

Multi-interface configuration

Centralized logging

Introduction

NSP application log forwarding to OpenSearch

NSP application log forwarding to Elasticsearch

NSP application log forwarding to Splunk

NSP application log forwarding to syslog servers

NFM-P server log forwarding to syslog servers

NFM-P server log forwarding to OpenSearch

User activity log forwarding to syslog servers