Private 5G provides high bandwidth, low latency, mobile communication services to end uses for heterogeneous vertical applications, such as vision analytics, industrial control, smart city etc. Migrating 5G components to Cloud-Native Edge infrastructure and integrating Private 5G services with Edge services on a single platform helps ease the onboarding lifecycle management of application workloads and optimize user’s and owner’s experience. To deliver a high performance and cloud-native Private 5G Edge, we face multitude of challenges around vRAN and 5GC containerization, 5G traffic flow management, performance loss with a 5G container, CPU workload offloading and scheduling, accelerator and infrastructure hardware integration and multiplexing, lifecycle management of components, etc. This paper presents a framework for addressing challenges in enabling cloud-native infrastructure for Private 5G deployments and associated performance benefits of using containerized implementation required in Private 5G platforms using Private Wireless Experience Kit (PWEK) of Smart Edge, a highly integrated open-source Edge services platform. End-to-End 5G testbed is used to enable UE communication with Edge applications using 5G spectrum & containerized network functions to evaluate its feasibility, data plane performance & real-world applications. The test results indicate performance of cloud native containerized vRAN network functions on an Edge platform has almost the same performance with bare metal counterparts with appropriate optimizations while achieving deterministic latency, achieved 90% of theoretical maximum data plane throughput with iperf across the Private 5G testbed, and demonstrated viability of running remote education application with strict performance criteria with 5G. Usage of hardware accelerators in a cloud native fashion is addressed as well by demonstrating 3x performance improvement of AES encryption/decryption using Intel® QuickAssist Technology with a 5G centralized unit network function.