Service placement assistance

A computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon to cause the one or more processors to:
• receive, from a customer device, an indication of a plurality of resources;
• receive, from the customer device, an indication of a plurality of customer services, each of the plurality of customer services being associated with a corresponding at least one requirement and zero of more corresponding constraints;
• automatically determine, for each requirement and each constraint, whether the requirement or the constraint can only be satisfied by a particular resource of the plurality of resources;
• and
• allocate, based on the determining, at least one resource of the plurality of resources to at least one customer service of the plurality of customer services;
• and provide, to the customer device and subsequent to the determining for every requirement and for every constraint, information to enable the customer device to provision the at least one customer service.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for causing at least one programmable processor to:

• receive, from a customer device, an indication of a plurality of resources;
• receive, from the customer device, an indication of a plurality of customer services, each of the plurality of customer services being associated with a corresponding at least one requirement and zero or more corresponding constraints;
• automatically determine, for each requirement and each constraint, whether the requirement or the constraint can only be satisfied by a particular resource of the plurality of resources;
• allocate, based on the determining, at least one resource of the plurality of resources to at least one customer service of the plurality of customer services;
• and
• provide, to the customer device and subsequent to the determining for every requirement and for every constraint, information to enable the customer device to provision the at least one customer service.