From Spreadsheets to "Everything as Code"
Talkat Cloud Native Telco Day Europe 2023 · on Tuesday, 2023-04-18· at 09:50· Hall 7, Room A | Ground Floor | Europe Complex·
summary
Swisscom replaces scattered spreadsheets with a GitOps pipeline that fully describes 5G core services as code, using Flux, Ansible, Jenkins to pull Helm charts and images from Artifactory, push configs via NETCONF, and run post-deploy tests. Repositories split per CNF plus a centralized IP/low-level design Ansible inventory enable templated Day-0/Day-1 files and a branch-per-cluster promotion flow. Continuous testing includes chaos testing with Litmus and observability in Grafana; outcome: automated recovery from a deleted namespace and the goal of 20–100 changes a week (or per day) with far fewer manual failures.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Cloud-native journey at Swisscom
- 2:28Spreadsheets to everything as code
- 6:265G core automation pipeline
- 10:23Git for infrastructure management
- 18:55Repository integration
- 21:25Live automation demo
- 23:34Conclusion and key takeaways from the journey
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