Cluster Manager Pods

A pod is a process that runs on your Kubernetes cluster. Pod encapsulates a granular unit that is known as a container. A pod contains one or multiple containers.

Kubernetes deploys one or multiple pods on a single node which can be a physical or virtual machine. Each pod has a discrete identity with an internal IP address and Port space. However, the containers within a pod can share the storage and network resources.

The following table lists the Cluster Manager (CM) pod names and their descriptions.

CM Pods
Pod Name Description

cluster-files-offline-smi-cluster-deployer

Hosts all the necessary software that is locally required for successfully provisioning the remote Kubernetes clusters or UPF clusters. This pod in part enables a complete offline orchestration of the remote clusters.

ops-center-smi-cluster-deployer

Deployer operations center that can take in the required config for baremetal and/or VM Kubernetes clusters and provision it. It also accepts software inputs to spawn the required network functions on the appropriate clusters with day 0 configuration.

squid-proxy

Squid is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy. It has wide variety of uses, including speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching web, DNS and other lookups, and aiding security by filtering traffic.