Lightning Talk: Interoperable CD for Telecom: Paving the Way to Seamless Cloud-Na... Andrea Frittoli
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 08/11/2023

Lightning Talk: Interoperable CD for Telecom: Paving the Way to Seamless Cloud-Native Integration - Andrea Frittoli, IBM

Cloud-native has revolutionized the telecommunications industry, offering unprecedented agility, scalability, and innovation. As the industry embraces disaggregation and openness, the need for seamless CD becomes critical. In today's telco industry, operators and vendors use different CD technologies and the lack of interoperability within the CD ecosystem inherently results in challenges for operators to find and implement risky and costly workarounds in order to connect vendor CD pipelines to those of their own, just so that they are in a position to receive products from different vendors and send feedback. In this talk, we explore the challenges posed by multi-vendor environments, the necessity of focusing on interoperability in CD and why making interoperability a first-class citizen in the CD landscape is critical for telecom operators and vendors to harness the potential of cloud-native. We will also highlight ongoing collaborative efforts to address this such as CDEvents.