SUSE Telco Cloud 3.6
Publication Date: 2026-05-27
- SUSE Telco Cloud 3.6 Documentation
- I Concept & Architecture
- II Quick Starts
- III Components
- 6 Rancher
- 7 Rancher Dashboard Extensions
- 8 Rancher Turtles
- 9 Fleet
- 10 SUSE Linux Micro
- 11 Metal3
- 12 Edge Image Builder
- 13 Edge Networking
- 14 RKE2
- 15 SUSE Storage
- 16 SUSE Security
- 17 MetalLB
- 18 Endpoint Copier Operator
- 19 Edge Virtualization
- 20 System Upgrade Controller
- 21 Upgrade Controller
- 21.1 How does SUSE Telco Cloud use Upgrade Controller?
- 21.2 Upgrade Controller vs System Upgrade Controller
- 21.3 Installing the Upgrade Controller
- 21.4 Installing the Upgrade Controller via Edge Image Builder
- 21.5 How does the Upgrade Controller work?
- 21.6 Kubernetes API extensions
- 21.7 Tracking the upgrade process
- 21.8 Known Limitations
- IV Requirements & Assumptions
- V Setting up the management cluster
- VI Telco features configuration
- 34 Kernel image for real time
- 35 Kernel arguments for low latency and high performance
- 36 CPU Pinning on Host
- 37 CPU Pinning on Kubernetes
- 38 CNI Configuration
- 39 SR-IOV
- 40 DPDK
- 41 vRAN Acceleration (
Intel ACC100/VRB1/VRB2) - 42 Huge pages
- 43 NUMA-aware scheduling
- 44 Metal LB
- 45 Private registry configuration
- 46 Precision Time Protocol
- 47 SCTP - Stream Control Transmission Protocol
- VII Fully automated directed network provisioning
- 48 Introduction
- 49 Prepare downstream cluster image for connected scenarios
- 50 Prepare downstream cluster image for air-gap scenarios
- 51 Downstream cluster provisioning with Directed network provisioning (single-node)
- 52 Downstream cluster provisioning with Directed network provisioning (multi-node)
- 53 Advanced Network Configuration
- 54 Telco features (DPDK, SR-IOV, CPU isolation, huge pages, NUMA, etc.)
- 55 Private registry
- 56 Downstream cluster provisioning in air-gapped scenarios
- VIII Day 2 Operations
- IX How-To Guides
- 60 MetalLB on K3s (using Layer 2 Mode)
- 61 MetalLB on K3s (using Layer 3 Mode)
- 62 MetalLB in front of the Kubernetes API server
- 63 Air-gapped deployments with Edge Image Builder
- 63.1 Intro
- 63.2 Prerequisites
- 63.3 Libvirt Network Configuration
- 63.4 Base Directory Configuration
- 63.5 Base Definition File
- 63.6 Rancher Installation
- 63.7 SUSE Security Installation
- 63.8 SUSE Storage Installation
- 63.9 KubeVirt and CDI Installation
- 63.10 SUSE Private Registry Installation
- 63.11 Metal3 Installation
- 63.12 Troubleshooting
- 64 Building Updated SUSE Linux Micro Images with Kiwi
- 65 Using clusterclass to deploy downstream clusters
- X Tips and Tricks
- XI Troubleshooting
- XII Appendix
List of Figures
List of Tables
- 24.1 Inbound Network Rules for Management Nodes
- 24.2 Inbound Network Rules for Baseboard Management Controllers
- 24.3 Inbound Network Rules for Downstream Nodes -
Metal3/IronicProvisioning phase - 24.4 Inbound Network Rules for Downstream Nodes
- 24.5 Inbound Network Rules for Management/Downstream Nodes - external metrics exposure from
cilium-operatorenabled - 57.1 Clusters and methods to upgrade downstream clusters