How Thales and Red Hat Secure Kubernetes Data in a 5G World

Service providers that operate 5G networks face many challenges related to their highly distributed infrastructure. While Kubernetes presents a promising solution for addressing these challenges, service providers and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) need to mitigate the data security challenges that arise from using Kubernetes for 5G deployments. Thales CipherTrust Transparent Encryption application was developed to help users secure data in persistent volumes attached to pods running on Red Hat OpenShift, a unified platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. Thales CipherTrust Transparent Encryption application and Kubernetes operator are both certified on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and available in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalogue

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration software solution that can help service providers with 5G Cloud-native Network Functions (CNFs), since containers are essential to getting cloud software and services to operate at scale. With an application platform such as Red Hat OpenShift, cloud-native microservice applications can span hosts across on-premise, public, private, or hybrid clouds. For this reason, Red Hat OpenShift is an ideal platform to build, deploy and runcloud-native applications that require rapid scaling, like real-time data communications.

MNOs’ challenges in the highly distributed 5G environment range from managing their complex IT infrastructure yet also ensuring software applications run efficiently across all layers. This same infrastructure also needs to be flexible, in order to meet ever evolving business and performance needs.

For these reasons, 5G networks require dynamic and scalable infrastructures built on a services-based architecture. Operations can be deployed across several geographically distributed environments, often cre

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