The 5G core SBI uses HTTP2 protocol for communication and from a security perspective this communication channel should be secured. One of the ways of securing the HTTP2 SBI traffic is to make use of mTLS certificates, while it is possible to directly embed the certificate in the container images…

This is the second blog post that I will be writing about LoxiLB and this one focuses on how to use LoxiLB as an SCTP loadbalancer to loadbalance N2 traffic between 2 or more AMFs. Git repo for this blog-post: https://github.com/infinitydon/5gcore-sctp-loadbalancer The git repo has all the manifests file that…

As we see more 5G Core CNFs adhering to native cloudnative principles I was immensely surprised when I stumbled upon Loxilb open source project because of the 5G related features that it supports out of the box. The feature that really picked my interest is the UL-CL support. Basically UL-CL…

Gradually we are seeing several open source solutions for 5G core. I was glad when I read about OAI releasing a cloud native open source 5G core. What excites me about the OAI 5g core is that it comes ready with some containerization features: Dockerfiles for building container images: when…

This blog post shows how to deploy an opensource 5G core with service mesh on Kubernetes. N.B — Some familiarity with kubernetes and telecommunication is assumed. Components: Kubernetes v1.21 Calico CNI Open5gs 5G Core Linkerd stable-2.10.0 Helm v3 UERANSIM v3.1.4 (gNB and UE simulator) The service mesh makes this interesting because…

The first part of this series (​ https://medium.com/@futuredon/kubernetes-on-prem-demo-using-gns3-kubespray-nginx-ingress-frr-and-metallb-part-1-4b872a6fa89e) dealt with installing the kubernetes cluster using the open source project kubespray. It should be noted that I have left the aspect of internet access out, this depends on the way you want to achieve this but if you are curious as…

I started my IT career as a network engineer around 2003, back then I used GNS3 heavily to emulate both Cisco and Juniper devices but as the years rolled on I eventually switched to been a Linux/Infrastructure engineer, hence network engineering was no longer my main core area but I…

Update March 17 / 2019: Jmeter Operator is released: https://github.com/kubernauts/jmeter-operator In one of my recent projects we’d to perform load testing with Apache Jmeter on Kubernetes for some large scale web applications which are running on Kubernetes. This articles shares our experience and gives you an overview of how to…