Tools: Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform

Container Orchestration and Deployment

Kubernetes is the foundation platform for cloud-native 5GC deployment. Core engineers use kubectl for daily NF management, Helm for templated NF deployments and upgrades, and Terraform or Ansible for infrastructure provisioning. Key Kubernetes concepts for 5GC include namespaces for NF isolation, ConfigMaps and Secrets for NF configuration, resource quotas for slice-level resource control, and custom resource definitions (CRDs) for operator-specific NF management patterns.