Cloud-Based Live Production: How To Orchestrate a Multi-Vendor Environment in the Cloud 

This presentation discusses a case study, developed together with Grass Valley and RTS, of how multiple hybrid/cloud-native solutions from different vendors are managed together to make cloud-based productions as easy as they were in the past using on-premises infrastructure. The first part presents the underlying architecture, which is based on media services blueprints. Those include a set of virtual functions (e.g. a playout or multi-viewer function) and also describe how the functions get connected to each other. Profiles are defined to apply different configurations to a virtual function. A resource management layer maps resources that are available and have the capabilities and the required capacity to execute the live production. Mediation translates the profile parameters into the required API calls to ensure that solutions from different vendors can be used independently of the supported protocols. The 2nd part discusses the entire lifecycle management of a production and how a CI/CD approach is used to automate things as much as possible: enter planning data, deploy/configure resources, present control surfaces, monitor the event and finally decommission resources again.