OCCNE Installation Overview

The installation procedures in this document provision and configure an Oracle Communications Signaling, Network Function Cloud Native Environment (OCCNE). Using Oracle partners, the customer purchases the required hardware which is then configured and prepared for installation by Oracle Consulting.

To aid with the provisioning, installation, and configuration of OCCNE, a collection of container-based utilities are used to automate much of the initial setup. These utilities are based on tools such as PXE, the Kubespray project, and Ansible:

• PXE helps reliably automate provisioning the hosts with a minimal operating system.
• Kubespray helps reliably install a base Kubernetes cluster, including all dependencies (like etcd), using the Ansible provisioning tool.
• Ansible is used to deploy and manage a collection of operational tools (Common Services) provided by open source third party products such as Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch and Kibana.
• Common services and functions such as load balancers and ingress controllers are deployed, configured, and managed as Helm packages.