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VM Minimum Requirements for RIC 22


NOTE: sudo access is required for installation

Getting Started PDF

Step 1: Obtaining the Deployment Scripts and Charts

NOTE:  cd to your directory where installation will be, i.e. /home/user

Run ...

$ sudo -i
$ git clone http://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/it/dep -b bronze
$ cd dep
$ git submodule update --init --recursive --remote
Step 2: Generation of cloud-init Script 

This step will generate a script that will set up a one-node Kubernetes cluster for installing the SMO components.  The resultant script can run as the cloud-init script when launching the VM, or run at a root shell after the VM is launched.

Note, because the O-RAN SC Bronze SMO consists components from ONAP Frankfurt release, the infrastructure software stack (Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm) versions are as required by the ONAP deployment.  It is a different combination compared to what the Near RT RIC requires.

Run ...

$ cd tools/k8s/etc
# edit the infra.rc file to specify the versions of docker, kubernetes, and helm. 
# For SMO, the versions are as required by the ONAP Frankfurt release. 
# Comment out the lines below the heading of "RIC tested"; and un-comment 
# the lines following the heading of "ONAP Frankfurt"

$ cd ../bin
$ ./gen-cloud-init.sh   # will generate the stack install script for what RIC needs
# The outputted script is will be used for preparing K8 cluster for RIC to deploy 
# to file is  "k8s-1node-cloud-init-k_1_15-h_2_16-d_18_09.sh"

Step 3: Installation of Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, etc.

Run ...

$ ./k8s-1node-cloud-init-k_1_15-h_2_16-d_18_09.sh

NOTE: Be patient as this takes some time to complete. Upon completion of this script, the VM will be rebooted.  You will then need to login once again.

$ sudo -i
$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces  # There should be  9 pods running in kube-system namespace.
Step 4:  Deploy SMO

O-RAN Bronze SMO consists of components from three separate groups: ONAP, Non RT RIC, and RIC-AUX.  It is deployed by running a script under smo/bin.

Run ...

$ cd smo/bin
$ ./install

# If this is the first time SMO is installed on the SMO VM, it suggested to run "./install initlocalrepo" instead. 
# The extra argument also initializes the local Helm repo.

# Also if this is the first time SMO is installed on the SMO VM, because it involves the preparation of the ONAP
# helm charts, the instillation may take hours to finish.  It is suggested to run the install as a nohup command 
# in background, just in case connection to the VM is interrupted.

# Upon successful deployment, the "kubectl get pods --all-namespaces" command should show 8 pods in nonrtric 
# namespace, 27 pods/jobs in onap namespace, and 2 pods in ricaux name space, all in Running or Completed state.
Helpful Hints

Kubectl commads:

kubectl get pods -n nampespace - gets a list of Pods running

kubectl get logs -n namespace name_of_running_pod






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11 Comments

  1. Zhengwei Gao

    hello experts,

    after onap deployment, i have a pod not ready but completed, is it normal? thanks

    dev-sdnc-sdnrdb-init-job-6v525 0/1 Completed 0 18m 10.244.0.159 smobronze <none> <none>

    and is it possible to set the pullPolicy to IfNotPresent for all the charts of onap?

    1. Lusheng Ji

      That is okay.  You can see that it is actually a job, not a regular pod.  You may view its status by:

      kubectl get jobs -n onap

      or even: 

      kubectl get jobs -n onap dev-sdnc-sdnrdb-init-job -o json

      1. Anonymous

        Hi Lusheng,

        thanks for quick reply. Now I have smo fully deployed. thanks

        (10:57 dabs@smobronze bin) > sudo kubectl get jobs --all-namespaces
        NAMESPACE NAME COMPLETIONS DURATION AGE
        onap dev-sdnc-sdnrdb-init-job 1/1 34m 74m

  2. Anonymous

    Hi. I am new to O-RAN and trying to deploy SMO as well as RIC. I was successfully able to install SMO with the given steps but while deploying I keep on getting below messages:-

    ===> Deploying OAM (ONAP Lite)
    ======> Deploying ONAP-lite
    Error: unknown command "deploy" for "helm"
    Run 'helm --help' for usage.
    ======> Waiting for ONAP-lite to reach operatoinal state
    0/7 SDNC-SDNR pods and 0/7 Message Router pods running
    0/7 SDNC-SDNR pods and 0/7 Message Router pods running
    0/7 SDNC-SDNR pods and 0/7 Message Router pods running


    None of these pods are getting up and running for like hours, infact none of them are even present. Did I miss any step or do i need to install any component of ONAP before this?

    1. Zhengwei Gao

      I had once encountered this problem:

      make sure deploy/undeploy plugins exist in /root/.helm:

      dabs@RICBronze:~/oran/dep/smo/bin/smo-deploy/smo-oom$sudo cp -R ./kubernetes/helm/plugins/ /root/.helm

      1. Chirag Gandhi

        Thanks for prompt response.

        Even after copying the plugins, I am getting same messages. But I am getting initial error message as :-

        ===> Deploying OAM (ONAP Lite)
        ======> Deploying ONAP-lite
        fetching local/onap
        Error: chart "onap" matching version "" not found in local index. (try 'helm repo update'). no chart name found
        mv: cannot stat '/root/.helm/plugins/deploy/cache/onap/charts/*': No such file or directory
        mv: cannot stat '/root/.helm/plugins/deploy/cache/onap-subcharts/common': No such file or directory
        rm: cannot remove '/root/.helm/plugins/deploy/cache/onap/requirements.lock': No such file or directory
        mv: cannot stat '/root/.helm/plugins/deploy/cache/onap/requirements.yaml': No such file or directory
        Error: could not find a ready tiller pod
        release "dev" deployed
        Error: could not find a ready tiller pod
        Error: could not find a ready tiller pod
        ======> Waiting for ONAP-lite to reach operatoinal state
        0/7 SDNC-SDNR pods and 0/7 Message Router pods running
        0/7 SDNC-SDNR pods and 0/7 Message Router pods running


        Seems that the onap charts are not present. I even tried "helm repo update" but no luck. Can you share how to get them?

        1. Lusheng Ji

          Chirag,

          Did the step 1 through 3 complete without error for your installation?  It appears that your k8s cluster is not running correctly (i.e. error msg complaining about tiller pod not in ready state).

          Lusheng


        2. Zhengwei Gao

          Your tiller pod is not ready. 

          1st, make sure the tiller pod is in running state

          2nd, make sure helm service is in running state:

          sudo helm serve

          3rd, make sure 'helm search onap' has 35 charts listed. If not, you can manually issue the 'make all' command:

          dabs@smobronze:~/oran/dep/smo/bin/smo-deploy/smo-oom/kubernetes$ sudo make all


        3. Makarand Kulkarni

          What I found in my case is the version of helm that caused the issue - In step 2, I need to set the version as 2.16.6 in infra.rc and things  work fine. This is evident from the name of the script "

          k8s-1node-cloud-init-k_1_15-h_2_16-d_18_09.sh" (note the h_2_16 in it)

          1. Chirag Gandhi

            Step 3 was going wrong. Helm was not getting initialized due to proxy server. Installed certificates and got it working.

            Thanks for the help (smile)

  3. Shunsuke Tanaka

    Hi, I deployed SMO.
    How can I access to O1 Dashboard (ODLUX)?
    I can't find the access URL. O1 Dashboard is not deployed by this procedure maybe?

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