Support for emulating the OLT/ONU using ponsim is still a work-in-progress, so it is not currently possible to bring up R-CORD without the necessary access hardware. In the meantime, it is possible to set up a development environment that includes just the R-CORD control plane. Doing so involves installing the following helm charts:
in addition to rcord-lite. This would typically be done on a single node platform in support of a developer workflow that emulates subscriber provisioning.