The Blue Planet platform consists of a set of tools and applications designed to facilitate the development and deployment of container-based networking applications. The Blue Planet platform provides a collection of related applications and services called solutions. These solutions, such as Blue Planet Orchestration for multi-domain service orchestration (MDSO) and network functions virtualization orchestration (NFVO), are delivered as independent containers that include all application dependencies, are run without the extra load of a hypervisor, and contain a REST-based interface for communications between the platform and application.

Using the Blue Planet Dashboard, you can use orchestration to allocate and coordinate both physical and virtual resources and services into repeatable workflows across multiple technologies and domains. Orchestration may consist of the following:

This section describes:

• Blue Planet architecture