5G Deployment Guide

Deployment Overview

SD-Core is released with Helm chart and container images. We recommend using Kubernetes and Helm to deploy SD-Core. SD-Core images are hosted on an ONF member-only Docker registry. You need to obtain access token and supply that as part of the Helm value.

Hardware resource requirement

CPU & Memory Requirements for 5G components
SD-Core Component	Required CPU	Required Memory in Gi
AMF	2 CPU Cores	4Gi
SMF	2 CPU Cores	4Gi
NRF	2 CPU Cores	1Gi
NSSF	2 CPU Cores	1Gi
AUSF	1 CPU Cores	1Gi
PCF	1 CPU Cores	1Gi
UDR	2 CPU Cores	1Gi
UDM	2 CPU Cores	1Gi
Config5G(webconsole)	1 CPU Cores	1Gi
SimApp	1 CPU Cores	1Gi
MongoDB	2 CPU Cores	4Gi

Prepare access credential for SD-Core images

Container images can be download from ONF self-hosted container registry but you have to gain the access token first.

Login to Aether Harbor Registry using your ONF Crowd credential,
Select User Profile drop-down menu in the upper-right corner
Generate the CLI secret and it’s the secret token you have to access the container registry via CLI tool.
Login to the container registry with your username and access token by docker login command to ensure you can access it.

╰─$ docker login registry.aetherproject.org --username hwchiu
Password:
Login Succeeded

Deployment Options

Development Environments

Please refer (see Aether In a Box) to setup 5G development environment.

Production Environments - 5G

To install SD-Core into your Kubernetes cluster, follow instructions

Step1 - Clone SD-Core 5G Helm chart

git clone ssh://gerrit.opencord.org:29418/sdcore-helm-charts
cd sdcore-helm-charts/sdcore-helm-charts/
helm dep update #Update Helm dependencies

Step2 - Prepare your Helm value for 5G

You can modify existing values.yaml directly, but we recommend composing another value file myvalues.yaml using values.yaml as an example. We are highlighting a few things we need to modify here. More explanation of the supported Helm values can be found in the Configuration section below.

Step3 - Install 5G using SD-Core umbrella helm chart

The following command will deploy the SD-Core helm chart with release name sdcore-4g in the sdcore-4g namespace.

helm install -n sdcore-5g --create-namespace -f myvaules.yaml sdcore-5g .

To verify the installation:

helm -n sdcore-5g ls

To uninstall:

helm -n sdcore-5g uninstall sdcore-5g
kubectl delete namespace sdcore-5g # also remove the sdcore-5g if needed