Deployment mechanisms

Containerized NSP deployment

NSP system deployment is supported in a Kubernetes environment. The following container-based environments are supported

• the NSP container environment

• a container environment that you provide and maintain, as specified in the NSP Planning Guide.

You can add components that do not support deployment in containers to an NSP container deployment by installing the components using the traditional method, after which you can include the components in the NSP system.

Traditional deployment

Traditional NSP system deployment is performed using the open-source Ansible software-deployment tool. The tool performs the deployment based on parameters that you specify in a configuration file. You can deploy all required components in one operation from one central station.

Deployment documentation

See the following documents for information about the NSP system requirements, and about component installation, upgrade, and other deployment operations:

• NSP Planning Guide—provides information about planning an NSP deployment based on scale requirements, network environment, management scope, and the functions required; includes specific information such as firewall rules for inter-component communication

• NSP Installation and Upgrade Guide—describes the supported deployment types and includes all information required to preconfigure, install, upgrade, integrate and uninstall the NSP software