Deployment Overview

This section provides high level information about deploying VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance through VMware Telco Cloud Automation.

At a high level, the deployment of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance through VMware Telco Cloud Automation involves the following steps:

• Download the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance package onto deployment host. For more instructions, see Download the Package topic.
• Extract the package on the deployment host. For more information, see Extract the Downloaded Package and Installer topic.
• Download and launch the Deployment Container. For more information, see Download and Launch the Deployment Container section.
• Configure secure Harbor registry. For more information, see Configure VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster for Secure Harbor Registry.
• Run the installer script to push artifacts to registry. For more information, see Push Artifacts to Registry.
• Onboard and instantiate three Helm charts which are the tcsa-init, admin-operator, and tcsa (VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance) using the CSAR files through VMware Telco Cloud Automation. For more information, see Onboard and Instantiate Container Network Functions.