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

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 "https://gerrit.opencord.org/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-5g in the sdcore-5g namespace.

helm install -n sdcore-5g --create-namespace -f myvalues.yaml sdcore-5g  ~/cord/sdcore-helm-charts/sdcore-helm-charts

To verify the installation:

helm -n sdcore-5g ls
ajayonf@node:~$ helm -n sdcore-5g ls
NAME        NAMESPACE       REVISION        UPDATED                                 STATUS          CHART           APP VERSION
sdcore-5g   sdcore-5g       1               2022-03-05 16:25:32.338495035 -0700 MST deployed        sd-core-0.10.9
ajayonf@node:~$

ajayonf@node:~$ kubectl get pods -n sdcore-5g
NAME                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
amf-66bf99c879-5x4ms       1/1     Running   0          3m23s
ausf-65dc454b79-jp2cb      1/1     Running   0          3m23s
mongodb-6df94d8dd9-h8p4w   1/1     Running   0          3m23s
nrf-65bcfbb496-xvt6t       1/1     Running   0          3m23s
nssf-6f58859d67-552l2      1/1     Running   0          3m23s
pcf-5b4c75f57d-sl5rh       1/1     Running   0          3m23s
simapp-d8994999d-98k6v     1/1     Running   0          3m23s
smf-77c89ccc6d-4d8g2       1/1     Running   0          3m23s
udm-6dcdc457c6-gwmfk       1/1     Running   0          3m23s
udr-84678ff6dc-zkj52       1/1     Running   0          3m23s
upf-0                      0/5     Pending   0          3m23s
webui-66b4df44b-9clwf      1/1     Running   0          3m23s
ajayonf@node:~$

To uninstall:

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