Applying OSiRIS NMAL to Network Slices on SLATE

Preprint of CHEP 2019 paper describing the results of the SLATE-OSiRIS collaboration. The OSIRIS Network Management Abstraction Layer (NMAL) extends perfSONAR capabilities to include automated network topology discovery and tracking in the Unified Network Information Service (UNIS), and incorporates Software Defined Networking (SDN) into overall operations of the OSiRIS distributed Ceph infrastructure. These NMAL components have been containerized to operate within the Services Layer at the Edge (SLATE) infrastructure, and we describe our experiences in packaging and deploying these services.