Nephio Edge Orchestration

  • Leverage cloud native intent-based automation using Kubernetes with Gitops

  • Automate cloud infrastructure and network functions with zero-touch provisioning

  • Utilize Aarna Nephio Support 1. 0 (ANS) 8x5 or 24x7 support to deploy upstream Nephio modules

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Nephio Installation Guide

This Installation Guide will set up and run a Nephio demonstration environment. This environment is a single VM that will be used in the exercises to simulate a topology with a Nephio Management cluster, a Regional Workload cluster, and two Edge Workload clusters.

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About Nephio

‍Nephio is a Linux Foundation project seeded by Google with the goal of delivering carrier-grade, simple, open, Kubernetes-based cloud native intent automation and common automation templates. These simplify the deployment and management of multi-vendor cloud infrastructure and network functions across large scale edge deployments.

Aarna Networks is a leading participant and contributor to Nephio and is leveraging this powerful tool for orchestrating edge computing in multi-vendor environments — including infrastructure, 5G, network services, and edge computing applications. 

The Nephio community has articulated two initial use cases and we are adding a third:

Edge infrastructure orchestration

Nephio uses the term deployment instead of orchestration) and management

CNF orchestration & management

VNFs can be supported as well through a Kubernetes technology called Kubevirt

Edge computing application orchestration and management

under development
“By automating cloud infrastructure, network functions, and potentially edge applications together, Nephio is transforming network service delivery. In addition to integrating Nephio in our core products, we are also offering commercial support for upstream R1 for the ecosystem to immediately take advantage of the Nephio opportunity." - Amar Kapadia, CEO & Co-Founder, Aarna Networks

Nephio Configuration Layers

Nephio Release 1.0

The first release, Nephio R1, is now available.  It includes a framework to orchestrate CNFs, infrastructure, and cross-domain lifecycle management; along with core Nephio principles and Kubernetes integration using custom definitions (CRDs); and an enhanced user experience and sandbox environment. 

At Aarna, we believe Nephio R1 introduces features to empower telecoms and enterprises to efficiently configure and manage cloud infrastructure and network functions using Kubernetes-based intent automation.

New Feature Details

  1. Common configuration templates to provision and life-cycle management of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, 5G network functions and network configurations.
  2. Gitops- based package management and scaled deployment using Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) and Configuration as data (CaD).
  3. Uniform Kubernetes CRD and operator-based deployment of multi-cloud infrastructure and multi-vendor network functions.
  4. Kubernetes- based Nephio control-plane which supports single pane of management of large scale deployments.
  5. Common set of user interface and APIs for integration with service orchestration layers.
  6. Multiple personas- based management and approval of configurations, and much more.
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Aarna Nephio Support 1.0 (ANS)

Aarna Networks is leveraging our deep experience with Nephio to offer a commercial support package for upstream Nephio R1 – Aarna Nephio Support 1.0 (ANS). ANS makes it easy to get started with a comprehensive support to help you deploy, configure, and manage Nephio.

  • Automating upstream R1 installation on bare metal server(s), GCE, or other cloud provider
  • Bringing up and configuring K8s clusters
  • 8x5 or 24x7 operational and maintenance support
  • Developing controllers as needed 
  • Using Nephio to deploy Free5GCore, infrastructure, or other network services

We also believe that Nephio is perfect for the Open RAN networks and the O-RAN SMO as Nephio can manage O1 (Configuration Management), O2 FOCOM (Federated O-Cloud Orchestration and Management), and O2 NFO (Network Function Orchestration). To see our Aarna’s leadership in this area, please see this recent presentation to the Linux Foundation Networking community.

Get started by requesting Nephio support today.

Want to learn more about using Nephio? See the Nephio Executive Guide.

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