Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator
Simplifying Bare-Metal to Service Orchestration
Overview
A pioneer in cloud innovation, Rakuten Symphony offers a comprehensive suite of tools including Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator, designed to streamline service provisioning, network optimization, and automation across cloud and edge deployments.
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are continually seeking ways to streamline operations and accelerate innovation. Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator, a revolutionary solution poised to transform the management of complex infrastructures.
Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator
Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator is a game-changer, offering hyperautomation capabilities that orchestrates and manages the lifecycles of bare-metal infrastructure, 3rd party appliances, Virtual Network Functions (NVFs), CloudNative Network Functions (CNFs), and service chains. This all-in-one platform boasts built-in logging, monitoring, and a policy engine, ensuring closed-loop automation managed through a unified interface.
At its core is an intuitive, context-aware workflow manager, empowering users to seamlessly navigate intricate processes. With just a click, applications and Network Functions (NFs) can be onboarded from a vast pre-integrated vendor ecosystem spanning telco, cloud, and enterprise applications.
What sets Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator apart is its ability to ingest any scripting, including helm charts, to automate Methods of Procedures (MOPs). This means orchestrating any network element, application, or process is effortlessly streamlined.
The impact is profound. What once took days or weeks can now be accomplished in minutes, thanks to Rakuten’s consolidation of orchestration layers into a singular, user-friendly platform. This makes it an ideal solution for rapid scale-out scenarios, particularly in the realms of 5G, Open RAN, and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) applications like Content Delivery Network (CDN) streaming and gaming.
Key Advantages
- Faster Deployment: Speeds up infrastructure and service setup while ensuring timely deployment, facilitating rapid deployment processes.
- Streamlined Integration: Eliminates integration touch-points and orchestration silos, simplifying integration processes for seamless operations.
- Improved Efficiency: Enhances performance and utilization of services, optimizing resource usage and boosting overall efficiency.
- Shared Resource Flexibility: Enables deployment of containers and VMs within the same cluster, fostering the utilization of shared resource pools for increased flexibility.
- Scalable Architecture: Offers scalability with a small footprint, capable of supporting over a million appliances, ensuring adaptability to growing demands.
- Unified Management Interface: Provides single-pane management for orchestrating a wide range of elements and functions, simplifying operations through centralized control and oversight.
- 1-Click Onboarding: Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator boasts a pre-integrated vendor ecosystem encompassing telco, cloud, and enterprise applications and network functions. This rich library streamlines onboarding by offering pre-configured templates and workflows, minimizing manual configuration.
- Security Considerations: Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator incorporates role-based access control and integrates with security information and event management (SIEM) systems for comprehensive security posture management.
Vital Characteristics
Life cycle management Rakuten orchestrator offers a unified approach to streamlining the management of network elements and services throughout their entire lifecycle, covering provisioning (Day 0), configuration (Day 1), and ongoing operations (Day 2). By automating deployment, scaling, health monitoring, updates, resource optimization, and decommissioning, Rakuten orchestrator enhances operational efficiency and reduces the complexity of managing large-scale network deployments. This comprehensive lifecycle management ensures agility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, enabling organizations to focus on delivering value while optimizing network operations.
Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) within Rakuten Orchestrator automates the configuration and deployment of network devices, enabling seamless integration into the network infrastructure without manual intervention. By pre-configuring devices and enabling plug-and-play deployment, ZTP enhances scalability, fault tolerance, and operational efficiency, streamlining network operations and empowering service providers to rapidly deploy and manage their network resources with minimal complexity.
End-to-end telemetry for Rakuten orchestrator entails the comprehensive monitoring and analysis of data from the initiation of requests through task execution, service communication, error handling, security, and final outcomes. This approach ensures real-time visibility, performance optimization, and compliance adherence across the orchestration lifecycle, facilitating efficient and reliable workflow management.
Multi-cluster management within Rakuten orchestrator automates and coordinates the deployment, scaling, and monitoring of cloud-native applications across distributed Kubernetes clusters. This centralized control optimizes resource utilization, enhances fault tolerance, and ensures high availability, enabling Rakuten Mobile to efficiently operate a resilient telco cloud infrastructure while minimizing operational complexity.
Energy management within the framework of Rakuten orchestrator involves the strategic coordination and optimization of energy resources and workflows to ensure efficient utilization and distribution, minimizing waste and maximizing output. Leveraging Rakuten orchestrator’s capabilities, businesses can dynamically allocate resources, balance loads, and adapt to changing demands in real-time, enhancing operational performance and sustainability while driving cost-effectiveness and reliability in energy operations.
Inventory management within Rakuten Orchestrator involves overseeing the flow of goods and products within the ecosystem, optimizing stock levels, and ensuring efficient distribution processes. Leveraging data insights and automation capabilities, Rakuten Orchestrator streamlines inventory operations, from procurement to fulfilment, minimizing stockouts while maximizing inventory turnover. By integrating with various platforms and utilizing advanced algorithms, it facilitates real-time visibility into inventory status, enabling timely decision-making and enhancing customer satisfaction through reliable supply chain management.
Conclusion
Rakuten Cloud Native Orchestrator empowers telecommunications operators, cloud providers, and enterprises to automate and manage their entire infrastructure and service lifecycles, from bare-metal provisioning to ongoing operation. Its hyperautomation capabilities, vendor neutrality, and focus on Day 0/1/2 lifecycle management deliver significant cost savings, operational efficiency, and time-to-market advantages.