Orchestrating Interconnected Apps Across Geographically Distributed Kubernetes Clusters
summary
Nephio presents a concrete platform that uses Kubernetes everywhere plus configuration as data to automate deploying interrelated workloads across hundreds of thousands of edge sites, demonstrated with examples like 10,000 clusters and a 20,000‑truck private 5G use case. The system stores KRM packages in Git/OCI, tracks upstream revisions, runs controllers to reconcile and inject IPs via IPAM, and can propose and canary automated upstream updates. Reference implementation uses Config Sync / GitOps and an orchestration management cluster; project is open source and backed by ~60–70 companies.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 4:07Simplified/Minimal 5G Network
- 6:58A Simple Request
- 8:53Complexity, Complexity, Complexity
- 9:31It Gets Worse...
- 11:28What do we do? Where do we start?
- 15:05Configuration-as-Data (CaD)
- 20:21Very High Level Nephio Architecture
- 22:06Layers of Configuration
- 24:08Nephio End-to-End Journey
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