Escaping the Vendor Trap: A Journey for Migrating Legacy Infrastructure To Op...
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 · 2026-09-07..09-09·
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By 2018 Viettel runs ~18,000 servers across 11 countries on VMware and multi‑vendor storage, low 20–25% utilization and huge MTTR force a move to OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes and Prometheus; a pilot 100‑compute cluster grows into a repeatable migration factory that automates assessment, sizing, network, cutover and observability; over 80% migrated by end of 2025, provisioning drops from days to minutes, license costs fall by millions and control shifts from vendors to internal teams.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Escaping the vendor trap
- 1:50Legacy migration pain points
- 4:27Open infrastructure strategy
- 5:53Pilot cluster challenges
- 7:38Upgrading OpenStack
- 9:31Migration factory setup
- 10:56Adopting Kubernetes
- 12:26People and org dimensions
- 13:31Migration outcomes
- 15:20Digital sovereignty
- 17:07Self-sufficient ops
- 18:40Community engagement
- 19:48Key takeaways
- 21:14Q&A
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