Use of crds as descriptors for applications, application components, deployments, clouds, ai/ml models, and rte in an o-ran system

Abstract

Some embodiments use CRDs (custom resource definitions) to define resources in an O-RAN system. These resources include applications (xApps, rApps, etc.), components of these applications, deployment constructs, cloud constructs, AI/ML models and RTE constructs. Using these CRD descriptors, app developers can develop and distribute their applications in a platform independent manner. The CRDs of some embodiments are used to on board applications into an O-RAN system. In some embodiments, the SMO (Service, Management and Orchestration) framework of the O-RAN system has a service for processing CRDs. In some of these embodiments, this SMO service has one controller to process the new application CRD. In some embodiments, the SMO identifies clouds for placements of the deployed applications and directs Kubernetes managers of the identified clouds to deploy the applications.

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