Migrating 5G Core to the Edge, Wisely and Confidently with Kubernetes - Marco Antonio Gonzalez Ortiz

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Don't miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 18 - 21 April, 2023. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects. Migrating 5G Core to the Edge, Wisely and Confidently with Kubernetes - Marco Antonio Gonzalez Ortiz, Ericsson In recent times, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), a 5G specification, has risen as a game-changing solution for data exchange latency and cybersecurity threats identified among the variety of profitable use cases identified while migrating 5G to the edge. This proposal will describe three simple, yet consistent migration stages of a pre-existing 5G-Core Cloud Native solution to an ETSI-compliant 3GPP 5G EdgeApp (Edge Application) architecture. The first stage will include a review of the different considerations while re-architecting Kubernetes for an EdgeApp. Etcd performance in large Edge environments will be examined, along with pod-scheduling strategies and consistent data-storage for persistent data in a K8s cluster. Subsequently, an integrated MEC-5G architecture will be presented, along with MEC deployment scenarios, including MEC application mobility in a 5G containerized solution. The second stage will involve a thorough review of existing Kubernetes open-source edge projects: k0s, K3S, microK8S and KubeEdge, analysing their deployment costs, Edge-oriented level of maturity, documentation and community support. The final stage will outline some interesting examples of deployed MEC Use-cases, including AI platform for edge devices and 5G-Core over Bare-metal.