The Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) custom resource definitions (CRDs), software images and installation Helm charts are provided in a single TAR file. A CNFs public signing key, and two signature files are also provided to validate the TAR file鈥檚 integrity. Once validated and extracted, the software images can be uploaded to a local container registry, and integrated into the cluster using the CNFs Helm charts. Finally, the CNFs CRDs will be installed into the cluster.

This document describes the CNFs software, and guides you through validating, extracting and installing the CNF software components.

The table below lists and describes the software images for this software release. For a full list of software images by release, refer to the Software Releases guide.

Note: The software image name and deployed container name may differ.

Ensure you have:

Use the following steps to validate the CNFs tarball, extract the software images, installation Helm charts, and CRDs.

Create a new directory for the CNFs files:

In this example, the new directory is named cnfinstall:

Move the CNFs files into the directory:

Change into the directory and list the files:

The files appear as:

Use the PEM signing key and each SHA signature file to validate the CNFs TAR file:

The command output states Verified OK for each signature file:

Extract the CNFs images, Helm charts, and CRDs from the TAR file:

List the newly extracted files:

The file list shows the CRD bundless and the CNF image TAR file named f5-cnf-images-1.1.0.tgz:

Extract the CNF Helm charts and software images:

List the extracted Helm charts and software images:

The file list shows a new tar directory with the following files:

Use the following steps to extract and install the new CNF CRDs.

List the CNF CRD bundle:

The file list shows three CRD bundles:

Extract the CRDs from the bundle:

Install the CRDs:

Note the command output: Newly installed CRDs will be indicated by created, and updated CRDs will be indicated by configured:

List the installed CNFs CRDs:

The CRD listing will contain the full list of CRDs:

Use the following steps to upload the CNFs software images to a local container registry.

Install the CNFs images to your workstation鈥檚 Podman image store:

List the CNF images to be tagged and pushed to the local container registry in the next step:

Tag and push each image to the local container registry. For example:

In this example, the f5ingress:v9.0.60 image is tagged and pushed to the remote registry registry.com:

Once all of the images have uploaded, verify the images exist in the local container registry:

For example:

Continue to the CNFs Cert Manager guide to secure CNFs communications.

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