H NRF Traffic IP Flow

This section describes the Internet Protocol (IP) flow between the IP services.

Table H-1 NRF Traffic IP Flow

S.No NF Service Name Pod Name Container Name Accesses the DB Tier Service Account or Role or RoleBinding (RBAC) Nature of port Nature of IP Service Port Container Port User Traffic type Notes (PROTOCOL, SECURE) Egress Paths Ingress Paths
1 Ingress Gateway <helm release name>-ingressgateway-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #ingressgateway$ No Yes External LoadBalancer 80 8081 5G Peer Signaling Messages HTTP2/0 Port (unsecured)
  • NF Registration
  • NF Subscription
  • NF Discovery
  • NF Access Token
  • NRF Configuration
  • NRF Cache Data Service
  • Perf-Info
  • K8s API Server

Any NF Peer (Including NRF)
443 8443 5G Peer HTTPS2/0 Port (secured)
30080 8081 5G Peer Static Node Port on demand. Configurable. HTTP2/0 Port (unsecured)
30443 8443 5G Peer Static Node Port on demand, Configurable. HTTPS2/0 Port (secured)
Internal POD IP - 9090

Prometheus

Liveliness/Readiness

 -

Metrics Data

Deployment details

 -
  • Prometheus
  • Liveliness/Readiness
- - - 8000 - Coherence Used internally for coherence Coherence Coherence
- - - 8095 - Coherence Coherence Messaging Port1 Coherence Coherence
- - - 8096 - Coherence Coherence Messaging Port2 Coherence Coherence
Internal - - - - - Open Telemetry Jaeger Exporter Port 4318 Open Telemetry Jaeger Exporter -
- Internal POD IP 8008 8008 - intraNfService

Internal Service.

ingress-gateway-intra-nf Service for NRF Backend Service to Ingress Gateway comminication over internal port.

 Internal Service Perf-Info
#init-service$ - - - - - Towards K8s API Server To get NRF Private Key/ Certificate and CA Root Certificate for TLS during start up K8s API Server -
2 Egress Gateway <helm release name>-egressgateway-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #egressgateway$ No Yes Internal Cluster IP 8080 8080 5G Peer Signaling Messages Both for HTTP2/0 Port (unsecured) and HTTPS2/0 Port (secured)
  • NF Access Token
  • NRF Configuration
  • Alternate Route Service
  • Any NF Peer (Including NRF)
  • K8s API Server
  • NF Registration
  • NF Subscription
  • NF Discovery
  • NF Access Token
  • NRF Cache Data Service
Cluster IP - 9090
  • Prometheus
  • Liveliness/Readiness
 -

Metrics Data

Deployment details

 -
  • Prometheus
  • Liveliness/Readiness
- - 8000 - Coherence Used internally for coherence Coherence Coherence
- - 8095 - Coherence Coherence Messaging Port1 Coherence Coherence
- - 8096 - Coherence Coherence Messaging Port2 Coherence Coherence
Internal - - - - Open Telemetry Jaeger Exporter port 4318 Open Telemetry Jaeger Exporter -
#init-service$ - - - - Towards K8s API Server To get NRF Private Key/ Certificate and CA Root Certificate for TLS during start up K8s API Server -
3 NF Registration <helm release name>-nfregistration-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #nfregistration$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 8080 8081 Inter micro-service communication Signaling Messages 5G Signaling messages
  • Egress Gateway
  • NF Subscription
  • NRF Artisan
  • NRF Cache Data Service
  • App-Info
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • K8s API Server
  • Ingress Gateway
  • NF Subscription
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Liveliness/Readiness - Deployment details - Liveliness/Readiness
4 NF Subscription <helm release name>-nfsubscription-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #nfsubscription$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 8080 8081 Inter micro-service communication Signaling Messages 5G Signaling messages
  • Egress Gateway
  • NF Registration
  • NRF Cache Data Service
  • App-Info
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • K8s API Server
  • Ingress Gateway
  • NF Registration
  • NRF Auditor
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Liveliness/Readiness - Deployment details - Liveliness/Readiness
5 NF Discover <helm release name>-nfdiscovery-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #nfdiscovery$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 8080 8081 Inter micro-service communication Signaling Messages -
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • App-Info
  • Cache Data Service
  • Egress Gateway
  • K8s API Server
  • Ingress Gateway
  • Artisan
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Liveliness/Readiness - - - Liveliness/Readiness
6 NF Access token <helm release name>-nfaccesstoken-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #nfaccesstoken$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 8080 8081 Inter micro-service communication - -
  • Egress Gateway
  • NRF Cache Data Service
  • App-Info
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • K8s API Server
  • Ingress Gateway
  • Egress Gateway
  • NF Discovery
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Liveliness/Readiness - - - Liveliness/Readiness
7 NRF Configuration <helm release name>-nrfconfiguration-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #nrfconfiguration$ Yes Yes External LoadBalancer 8080 8081 Operator Configuration When CNC OAM is not in use.
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • App-Info
  • Cache Data Service
  • K8s API Server
  • Egress Gateway
  • Ingress Gateway
  • Perf-info
  • App-info
  • Alternate Route Service
  • Artisan
30076 8081 Operator When CNC OAM is not in use. Static Node Port on demand. Configurable.
Internal Cluster IP 8080 8081 CNCOAM When CNC OAM is in use.
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Liveliness/Readiness - - - Liveliness/Readiness
8 NRF Auditor <helm release name>-nrfauditor-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #nrfauditor$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 8080 8081 Internal Audit processing NA This is internal to NRF and doing some internal work like Audit of records.
  • NF Subscription
  • NRF Artisan
  • NRF Cache Data Service
  • App-Info
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • K8s API Server
 -
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Readiness - Liveliness is script based. - Liveliness/Readiness
9 NRF Artisan <helm release name>-nrfartisan-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #nrfartisan$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 8080 8081 Internal Audit processing NA This is internal to NRF and doing some internal scheduled work.
  • NF Discovery
  • NRF Configuration
  • App-Info
  • Alternate Route Service
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • K8s API Server
  • NF Registration
  • NRF Configuration
  • NRF Auditor
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Readiness - Liveliness is script based. - Liveliness/Readiness
10 NRF Cache Data Service <helm release name>-nrfcachedata-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #nrfcachedata$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 8080 8081 Inter micro-service communication NA This is internal to NRF and doing some caching work.
  • Egress Gateway
  • App-Info
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • K8s API Server
  • Ingress Gateway
  • NF Registration
  • NF Subscription
  • NF Discovery
  • NF Access Token
  • NRF Configuration
  • NRF Auditor
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Readiness - Liveliness is script based. - Liveliness/Readiness
11 App-Info <helm release name>-appinfo-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #appinfo$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 5906 5906 Internal Microservice uses exposes REST endpoint to fetch Microservice Status -
  • NRF Configuration
  • Db-Monitoring-Svc
  • K8s API Server
  • NF Registration
  • NF Subscription
  • NF Discovery
  • NF Access Token
  • NRF Configuration
  • NRF Auditor
  • NRF Artisan
  • NRF Cache Data Service
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - Metrics Data - Prometheus
- 9090 Liveliness/Readiness - - - Liveliness/Readiness
12 Perf-Info <helm release name>-performance-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #perfinfo$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 5905 5905 Internal Microservice uses exposes REST endpoint to fetch Microservice Load Status -
  • Ingress Gateway
  • Egress Gateway
  • Prometheus
  • cnDBTier for DB Query
  • K8s API Server
  • Configuration
  • Ingress Gateway
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - - - Prometheus
- - 9090 Liveliness/Readiness - - - Liveliness/Readiness
13 Alternate Route Service <helm release name>-alternate-route-<xxxxxxxxxx>-<yyyyy> #alternate-route$ Yes Yes Internal Cluster IP 80 8004 Internal Microservice uses - -
  • DNS External Port
  • DNS
  • External DNS
  • Egress Gateway
  • Artisan
POD IP - 9090 Prometheus - - - Prometheus
- - 9090 Readiness - - - Liveliness/Readiness