How Deutsche Telekom Technik Built Das Schiff for Sailing the Cloud Native Seas
summary
Das Schiff builds a GitOps-driven platform that provisions bare-metal Kubernetes across hundreds of sites and scales toward thousands of clusters while staffed by a small SRE team (≤10). It uses Cluster API and Flux CD plus Ironic/metal3 and SONiC for containerized switching, managing servers via Git and the Kubernetes API to create bare-metal clusters, runs 5G core workloads, experiments with Firecracker microVMs for far-edge control planes, and aims for continuous CNF validation.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Telco Kubernetes Challenge
- 0:49Workloads and Objectives
- 2:10Building the Team and Vision
- 3:59Platform Architecture
- 5:26Bare Metal and Networking
- 6:59Benefits and Future Outlook
- 8:17Community and CNFs
- 9:41Continuous Validation
- 10:46Contributing Back and Hiring
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