  Virtualization is a key feature in Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN). It can
help to save costs since it allows the use of virtualized base stations instead
of physically deployment in different areas. However, the creation and
management of virtual base stations pools is not trivial and introduces new
challenges to C-RAN deployment. This paper reports a method to orchestrate and
manage a container-based C-RAN. We used several instances of the
OpenAirInterface software running on Docker containers, and orchestrated them
using Kubernetes. We demonstrate that using Kubernetes it is possible to
dynamically scale remote radio heads (RRHs) and baseband units (BBUs) according
to requirements of the network and parameters such as the server resources
usage.
