Migrating the Next Generation Mobile Core Towards 5G with Kubernetes
summary
Prototype migrates an EPC to Kubernetes using SR-IOV and DPDK for user-plane speed, plus multus CNI to give pods multiple interfaces; core pinning and hugepages are enabled. Custom operator automates config and scales control-plane/data-plane in lockstep using Prometheus metrics; Consul stores extra-network addresses. A tiny Go load balancer routes by 32-bit TID ranges. Measured bare-metal ~1.5M pps and Kubernetes within ~5% (≈50k pps); demo scale triggers at ~6k sessions per instance. Prototype is open-source and experimental, not production ready.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:22Mobile core fundamentals
- 3:49NFV and 5G architecture
- 6:08Kubernetes migration
- 8:24Networking challenges
- 13:56Performance optimization
- 17:37Experimental results
- 21:02Orchestration and scaling
- 28:33Q&A and conclusion
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