Kubenet: Harnessing Kubernetes for Network Automation
Talkat Cloud Native Telco Day Europe 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-04-01· at 14:10· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12·
summary
Kubenet is a community stack that applies Kubernetes API machinery to network automation and claims vendor-agnostic device control with real deployments: SDC (schema-driven configuration) speaks gNMI and NETCONF and is used to configure UPF in Swisscom’s 5G core, QID provides Kubernetes-native topology, IP and VLAN identity, and Choreography (coro) adds versioned relationships and orchestration. The system enforces transactional GitOps so commits only merge after successful network apply, supports Day-0/1/2, works with Nokia/Cisco/Juniper/Arista and optics, and prototypes agentic AI for automation.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Cloud-native for automation
- 3:38Kubernetes API automation
- 5:24Network automation requirements
- 7:10Advantages for networking
- 8:33Gaps in critical infrastructure
- 11:21Reusable components
- 13:51Mental model
- 14:56Schema-Driven Configuration
- 17:49Kubernetes identifiers
- 19:57Choreography layer
- 22:46Agentic AI future
- 24:10Resources and involvement
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