A GitOps Approach to Zero Touch Provisioning for the 5G vRAN Edge

Explore a GitOps approach to Zero Touch Provisioning for 5G vRAN Edge in this 23-minute conference talk presented by Ian Jolliffe and Yolanda Robla Mota from Red Hat at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021. Discover how traditional deployment methods fall short when scaling to thousands of Edge nodes for 5G vRAN DUs at cell tower bases. Learn about leveraging Zero Touch Provisioning and declarative frameworks to reduce operational expenses and enable parallel software deployment across multiple sites without human intervention. Gain insights into the use of open-source projects like Ansible, Kustomize, OpenShift, and Open Cluster Management in creating a diverse environment managed through GitOps methodologies. Understand the importance of defining infrastructure as code to address business challenges at scale in the telecommunications industry. The presentation covers topics such as workflow overview, site planning, static networking, cluster creation, GitOps manifests, policy implementation, placement rules, subscriptions, and cluster enrollment.