Exploring nmaas Platform Use Cases – Beyond network and service monitoring (Plugged-in)#

Lukasz Lopatowski (PCSS), Vojdan Kjorveziroski (UKIM)

• Why: The companion to the RENATER deployment talk, showing where the nmaas multi-tenant, multi-cluster Kubernetes platform is heading beyond perfSONAR.
• What: A demo-format Community Hub session around the core nmaas use cases: Virtual NOC (vNOC) as the central point from which business workflows are triggered, Virtual Lab (vLAB — educational network exercises at scale), Metrics, and Active Monitoring (including the EdgePL project), plus web-service health monitoring and backups as run at PCSS. The slides also flag two forward items: sharing GPU resources on edge nodes, and extending nmaas with generative AI via an nmaas MCP server (new application addition).
• How: Same mechanism as the monitoring talk — catalogue applications deployable onto any onboarded remote Kubernetes cluster, centrally managed, edge-resident.
• Where applicable: Open-source platform, directly reusable; note this is a demo showcase rather than a results paper, and the source slides are mostly screenshots, so judge the depth accordingly.