A flexible and cost-effective cloud-based network service delivery platform. It enables hosting of networking services as virtual network functions (VNFs) and containers in the cloud, and provisions services on-demand to customer premises equipment (CPEs). This allows organizations to reduce their on-premise footprint to low-cost whitebox CPE appliances, offload network services (such as VPN, Firewall, WLAN Management) to the cloud and deliver Network-as-a-Service (NaaS).