Kube5G is an open source platform fostering the research and development (R&D) of cellular mobile networks, 5G and Beyond, in a cloud native environment. Kube5G platform allows you to deploy services on baremetal, virtual machine, and/or any private/public cloud. Kube5G uses Kubernetes as container orchestration for both applications and infrastructure. Inhereted from K8S, Kube5G can support both CNF and VNF applications, e.g. using docker and kubevirt as runtime environments respectiveley. Kube5G supports multiple extensions as value added functionalities, such as (i) management and orchestration (MANO) like OSM, (ii) monitoring and network intelligence like kubeflow, (iii) Kube5G-Operator to achieve zero-touch configuration and dynamic services updating/upgrading.

Mosaic5G introduces a novel design of a cloud-native network function as a set of nested layers that are reusable and loosely coupled across different applications. Such a layered design allows independent lifecycle management process to occur, and it is of paramount importance in cloud environment as it (i) minimizes application update/upgrade time during the CI/CD process, (ii) retains service continuity by keeping application data outside of the sandbox (stateless), (iii) exposes natively applications resources to other subsystems, such as an orchestrator through openAPI, and (iv) conforms with the CNCF principles for telco applications.