RIC deployment on Kubernetes: Helm charts, O-RAN SC releases

Kubernetes as the RIC Runtime

The O-RAN Software Community builds the near-RT RIC as a cloud-native application designed to run on Kubernetes. Each RIC component — E2 termination, subscription manager, Route Manager, A1 mediator, App Manager, and SDL — is packaged as a container image with a corresponding Helm chart. Helm charts define resource requests, config maps, service endpoints, and pod anti-affinity rules that distribute components across worker nodes for resilience. A single umbrella Helm chart orchestrates the entire RIC deployment, pulling in subchart dependencies and injecting environment-specific values such…