Product overview

IBM® Cloud Pak for Network Automation is a cloud networking automation tool that fully automates the operational lifecycle of cloud network services. Cloud DevOps teams can use the orchestration component of IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation to design, create, and continuously optimize complex network services across hybrid and distributed cloud environments.

To drive automation, the orchestration component uses a standardized lifecycle model that requires all the underlying artifacts, network services, and virtualized network functions (VNFs), to look the same to the orchestration component. Each artifact of a network service is expected to go through the same lifecycle with defined lifecycle transitions. The intent-based automation engine drives network service instances through their lifecycle.

The orchestration component includes a behavior-driven testing capability that works as an automated test framework for VNF and network service testing.