SMI Bare Metal Deployment Architecture
The SMI Bare Metal deployment architecture comprises of a two node Management Cluster. The two node cluster comprises of a SMI CEE (for monitoring) and SMI Cluster Manager running on it. Also, the two node cluster is responsible for:
Installing and upgrading the BIOS, host OS, Kubernetes, KVM.
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Installing and upgrading Kubernetes based NFs.
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Adding the day-0 configuration to installed NFs.
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Installing StarOS NFs (UPF).
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Monitoring and Alerting.
The SMI Cluster Manager provisions and manages the Life Cycle Management (LCM) of each worker node for both the K8s and Kernel based Virtual Machine (KVM) infrastructure. The following figure depicts the high-level architecture of SMI Bare Metal Deployment architecture:
