Method for enhanced management and/or deployment of network nodes of a communications network, wherein the communications network is a mobile communications network and comprises a plurality of physical and/or virtual machines (201, 202, 203, 204) in a network architecture of the communications network realizing software defined network technologies, wherein at least one of the plurality of physical and/or virtual machines (201, 202, 203, 204) realizes or is associated with at least one network node functionality of the communications network, wherein an image database entity of the communication network retains a common configuration image of a specific physical and/or virtual machine of the plurality of physical and/or virtual machines (201, 202, 203, 204), wherein the plurality of physical and/or virtual machines (201, 202, 203, 204) realize or are associated with the network node functionality of at least one of the following: -- one or a plurality of mobility management entity node(s), -- one or a plurality of serving gateway node(s), -- one or a plurality of packet gateway node(s) -- one or a plurality of network layers of the mobile communications network, wherein the method is characterized by the following steps: -- in a first step, the specific physical and/or virtual machine is provided with the common configuration image by means of transmitting operating system data from the image database entity to the specific physical and/or virtual machine, wherein the common configuration image comprises an operating system and a configuration management client, wherein the operating system data correspond to a basic version of the operating system of the specific physical and/or virtual machine, -- in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the configuration management client requests, from a configuration management entity of the communications network, configuration management data in order to finalize the configuration of the specific physical and/or virtual machine by modifying the configuration provided by the common configuration image, -- in a third step, subsequent to the second step, snapshot data of the specific physical and/or virtual machine are transmitted to a snapshot database entity of the communications network. -- one or a plurality of mobility management entity node(s), -- one or a plurality of serving gateway node(s), -- one or a plurality of packet gateway node(s) -- one or a plurality of network layers of the mobile communications network, wherein the method is characterized by the following steps: -- in a first step, the specific physical and/or virtual machine is provided with the common configuration image by means of transmitting operating system data from the image database entity to the specific physical and/or virtual machine, wherein the common configuration image comprises an operating system and a configuration management client, wherein the operating system data correspond to a basic version of the operating system of the specific physical and/or virtual machine, -- in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the configuration management client requests, from a configuration management entity of the communications network, configuration management data in order to finalize the configuration of the specific physical and/or virtual machine by modifying the configuration provided by the common configuration image, -- in a third step, subsequent to the second step, snapshot data of the specific physical and/or virtual machine are transmitted to a snapshot database entity of the communications network. -- in a first step, the specific physical and/or virtual machine is provided with the common configuration image by means of transmitting operating system data from the image database entity to the specific physical and/or virtual machine, wherein the common configuration image comprises an operating system and a configuration management client, wherein the operating system data correspond to a basic version of the operating system of the specific physical and/or virtual machine, -- in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the configuration management client requests, from a configuration management entity of the communications network, configuration management data in order to finalize the configuration of the specific physical and/or virtual machine by modifying the configuration provided by the common configuration image, -- in a third step, subsequent to the second step, snapshot data of the specific physical and/or virtual machine are transmitted to a snapshot database entity of the communications network.