High Availability Support

The SMF supports high availability with the new "smf-udp-proxy" Kubernetes pod. This pod performs the following functions:

  • Acts as a proxy for all types of UDP messages.

  • Sends the UDP payload out after it receives the payload from the protocol pods.

  • Opens the UDP sockets on a virtual IP (VIP) instead of a physical IP to enable node-level high availability for the UDP proxy.

The following feature is related to this use case: