Towards the Cloud Native Telco: Learning from the Trenches
Talkat Cloud Native Telco Day Europe 2022 · on Monday, 2022-05-16· at 09:25· Pavilion 3, Room E | Level 2 | Central Forum·
summary
Swisscom builds a 5G/4G converged core with ~40–50 engineers, two years into a cloud-native migration but not yet production; CI/CD uses Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Flux and Ansible to push container images and run Flux + Jenkins + GitOps pipelines while a homegrown SEMA service management drives NSD and lifecycle actions. Problems: CNFs remain vertically integrated with CaaS, UPF scaling needs bespoke low‑level designs, public cloud VPNs force overlays, NETCONF-based day‑one config blocks immutable deployments (NETCONF vs configmaps), and observability lacks end‑to‑end tracing. Automation at slice scale is not yet achieved.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Josua Hiller
- 6:51What we do
- 9:24Simano
- 10:55Git Pipeline
- 12:50Learnings
- 14:00Independence
- 16:48Configuration Management
- 19:36Architecture Standards
- 21:03Observability
- 22:43Call for Improvement
- 24:58Conclusions
- 26:57Questions
- 30:13When did you start the journey
- 32:21How are you managing your relationship with telco vendors
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