Vamsi Chemitiganti

5G applications will all be about low latency and fast data processing at high throughput. These will include not just the wireless core, radio applications but also custom workloads such as video streaming, VoIP, etc. Along with SR-IOV, DPDK is a high-performance option that enables the industry to move latency-sensitive applications to the cloud.

5G use cases need direct connectivity between CNFs (Cloud Native Functions), running on Kubernetes pods,  and physical NICs. SR/IOV has been used for quite some time and thanks to plugin contributions from Intel and others, it is now available for enterprise use.  

EKS Anywhere brings a consistent AWS management experience to your data center, building on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro, an open-source distribution for Kubernetes used by Amazon EKS.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications.

Amazon EKS Anywhere, is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables customers and operators to run open-source Kubernetes clusters on-premises.

While the concept is straightforward, Horizontal pod autoscaling requires time and effort to implement. More often than not, applications need to undergo load testing to tune HPA configuration to determine the best scaling and capacity management settings.

While the concept is straightforward, Horizontal pod autoscaling requires time and effort to implement. More often than not, applications need to undergo load testing to tune HPA configuration to determine the best scaling and capacity management settings.

Cluster autoscaling is typically the easiest autoscaler to configure and to use. However there may be situations where it may not be the best option for an application.

This post discusses how to overcome the first limitation of K8s from a 5G standpoint – enabling pods to assume multiple network interfaces. 

To break this out into numbers, a typical CSP will deploy hundreds of thousands of network services as virtual network functions (VNFs) or CNFs. VNFs will run in virtual machines that can optionally be run inside a Kubernetes distribution.