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This document outlines the steps to deploy Radio Edge Cloud (REC). REC was designed from the ground up to be a highly available, flexible, and cost-efficient system for the use and support of Cloud RAN and 5G networks. The production deployment of Radio Edge Cloud is intended to be done using the Akraino Regional Controller which has been significantly enhanced during the Akraino Release 1 timeframe, but for evaluation purposes it is possible to deploy REC without the Regional Controller. In a Regional Controller based deployment, the Regional Controller API will be used to upload the REC Blueprint YAML (available from the REC repository) which informs the Regional Controller of where to obtain the REC ISO images, the REC workflows (executable code for creating, modifying and deleleting REC sites) and the REC remote installer component (a container image which will be instantiated by the create workflow and which will then invoke the REC Deployer (which is located in the ISO DVD disc image file) which conducts the rest of the installation. The instructions below skip most of this and directly invoke the REC Deployer from the BMC, iLO or iDRAC of a physical server. The basic workflow of the REC deployer is to copy a base image to the first controller in the cluster and then read the contents of a configuration file (typically called user_config.yaml) to deploy the base OS and all additional software to the rest of the nodes in the cluster.

Pre-Installation Requirements for REC Cluster

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