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- Hybrid, Multi-Cloud support, that is, LCM works across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, supporting on-premise, cloud, and distributed environments (like Edge)
- Complete system life cycle control (Plan/Design, Build, Provision, Operate/Manage, Retire, Recycle/Scrap)
- Enablement for automation of most system maintenance tasks
The following diagram provides diagrams provide mapping between different stages of the lifecycle automation across all layers of the stack to owners of infrastructure and cloud and the tenant as the consumer of the cloud services . The diagram defines in three very different scenarios: applications running as containers within virtual machines (CaaS on IaaS scenario), application running as containers on bare metal (CaaS on BM scenario) and more traditional view of applications running as VNFs within virtual machines (IaaS scenario) . The diagrams define the scope of the Infrastructure LCM Automation as composed of LCM Automation for Site/Physical Infrastructure, LCM Automation for IaaS/CaaS , and LCM Automation for CaaS within the tenancy layerfor each of these scenarios. The dotted lines symbolise the interactions between the layers of each of the model .
Essential foundation functional blocks for Infrastructure LCM automation:
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