Adopting Cloud-Native at Deutsche Telekom with Vuk Gojnic

Semaphore Uncut

In this episode of Semaphore Uncut, we talk to Vuk Gojnic. Vuk is Squad Lead for container and cloud-native engine at Deutsche Telekom Technik. Vuk describes how his internal engineering team is bringing Cloud Native infrastructure to the 200,000 person telecom giant. We discuss a number of technical challenges. We also address the issue of measuring the success of an internal engineering team. And we discuss the difficulty of hiring and training cloud-native specialists.

Key takeaways:

• Cloud-native in telcos - not straightforward
• Key principles for cluster management: declarative, immutable
• Leveraging existing IaaS using Cluster API
• Using Flux/GitOps Toolkit
• How to succeed with internal engineering
• Large scale, small team using GitOps
• Partnerships and education to access cloud-native talent
• The road ahead

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In each episode of Semaphore Uncut, we invite software industry professionals to discuss the impact they are making and what excites them about the emerging technologies.