Lab: Deploy near-RT RIC on a K8s cluster

Lab Environment Setup

In this lab you will deploy a functional near-RT RIC platform on a Kubernetes cluster using O-RAN SC Helm charts. The environment requires a multi-node K8s cluster with at least three worker nodes, a storage class for persistent volumes, and Helm 3 installed. You will begin by cloning the O-RAN SC it/dep repository, which contains the deployment recipes, infrastructure charts for Kong ingress and chart museum, and the RIC platform umbrella chart. Before deploying, you will customize the override values file to set your cluster-specific parameters including NodePort ranges, Docker registry…