Free5GC | 5G Core SA network & RAN on Kubernetes with Grafana KPI Monitoring

Deploy 5G Core SA on Kubernetes | minikube & kubectl on AWS | Grafana KPI Monitoring

📚 Concepts

• 3GPP 5G SA Core Network
• Kubernetes
• Helm chart
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• AWS EC2
• Ansible
• Docker
• Linux

📚 Review

• minikube (minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster)
• CNI Calico plugin (features for container network interface)
• kubectl (the Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl, allows you to run commands against Kubernetes clusters)
• Helm (helps you manage Kubernetes applications )
• Multus-CNI (enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods)
• Free5GC (open-source project for 5th generation mobile core networks)
• Prometheus (monitoring system with a dimensional data model)
• Grafana (multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application)

📚 Tutorial

1- Launch AWS EC2 Ubuntu (4GB RAM and 2vCPUs minimum)

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install ansible -y

2- Run Ansible playbook.yml

#check docker
sudo systemctl status docker

#check minikube
minikube status

#check kubectl
kubectl version -o yaml

#check helm
helm list -A

#check pods
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

#check free5gc pods
kubectl get pods -n free5gc

#check free5gc service
kubectl get svc -n free5gc

#check prometheus pods
kubectl get pods -n prometheus

#check grafana service
kubectl get svc -n prometheus | grep grafana

#access local SSH service port
ssh -i "yourkey" -L localhost:5000:localhost:5000 user@EC2-IP