Swisscom: End-to-End Cloud Native Telco Platform Automation

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Swisscom’s "Cloud Native Telco Platform" is an end-to-end automation architecture designed to modernize telecommunications by replacing legacy, hardware-centric networks with a software-defined infrastructure for their 5G standalone core and cross-domain resource orchestration. At the heart of this platform is Kubernetes, which acts not just as a workload runtime, but as the central control plane and database backend for the entire system. By leveraging GitOps (via tools like Flux) and the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM), the architecture enforces continuous reconciliation and strict separation of concerns—engineers declare high-level intents in Git, while custom Kubernetes operators handle the dynamic, low-level configuration and complex assembly. This "abstraction over complexity" empowers Swisscom to scale, simplify, and future-proof their network operations using a unified, fully automated source of truth.

Link: https://architecture.cncf.io/architectures/swisscom-cloud-native-telco/