Overview

IBM Agile Lifecycle Manager provides a comprehensive services design, testing and automated deployment solution that address the challenges and complexities of the NFV paradigm. IBM Agile Lifecycle Manager helps service providers effectively streamline service delivery, minimize complexity, and deliver innovative new services to customers at significant speed and lower cost of operations. This course gives you an overview of the tasks involved to deploy a virtualized service. You use hands-on exercises to learn how to design and build a service based on virtual network functions (VNFs) with IBM Agile Lifecycle Manager.

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Audience

IBM technical sales, IBM Lab Services, IBM support, Business Partners.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Linux Administration

Objective

• Integrate the software of a virtual network function (VNF) into the lifecycle model, onboard it to a resource manager, and onboard the resource manager into ALM.
• Design services on top of VNFs and build assembly descriptors describing the components of the service and relationships between them.
• Manage the lifecycle of services and underlying resources

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Onboard ResourcesLesson 2: Service Design part 1Lesson 2: Service Design part 2Lesson 4: Deploy and Maintain Service