High Availability Support
The SMF supports high availability with the new "smf-udp-proxy" Kubernetes pod. This pod performs the following functions:
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Acts as a proxy for all types of UDP messages.
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Sends the UDP payload out after it receives the payload from the protocol pods.
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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: