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By unifying their Network Transformation (NT) and IT operations with Kubernetes, Telecom organizations realize key benefits such as increased reliability, improved security, and greater efficiencies with standardized automation. Organizations adopt the use of Kubernetes infrastructure platforms to deliver:
To unify NT and IT operations, Telecom organizations are deploying Kubernetes clusters in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge.
However, relying on upstream Kubernetes alone can introduce overhead and risk because Kubernetes clusters are:
The deployment of a scalable Kubernetes infrastructure requires consideration of a large ecosystem that encompasses many software and infrastructure components and providers. Also, a scalable Kubernetes infrastructure requires the ability to continually address the following needs and concerns for network architects, developers, and IT operators:
Beyond the core infrastructure software layers of managed Kubernetes clusters, potential inconsistencies may affect organizations causing an impact of multiple target system platforms for the distributed deployments of the cluster elements across physical and bare-metal hypervisors and virtual machines.