Vamsi Chemitiganti

Small-scale enterprises and organizations have started evaluating and implementing edge architectures due to the need to support innovative use cases to increase efficiency and/or enhance their customer experience. But there is still a long way to go for enterprise edge deployments as there are more challenges in large-scale distributed computing

Those who pay attention and follow the 5G space have probably noticed the phenomenon of Operators moving their infrastructure over to the cloud providers.

We introduce Cilium, an open source community-driven project that aims to drive software-driven networking, network observability, and monitoring for cloud-native microservice-based deployments on Kubernetes and other container orchestration platforms.

Over the years, I have had the good fortune of working with some of the best engineering talent in the financial services industry on cutting edge, realtime platforms. A customer who led the way in the Capital markets space is FINRA.

At AWS, I lead the global container practice for two key verticals – Telcos and M&E (Media and Entertainment). My group spends a lot of our time being customer-focused and working with customers & partners on a daily basis to understand trends, use cases, and business goals.

Running Kubernetes on bare metal infrastructure is complex, requiring specialized expertise and significant customer investment in time and the tools needed to automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management.

As service providers begin to roll out 5G POCs and initial deployments, there is no question that these cloud native platforms will be huge Capex and Opex investments on their part. These platforms should be able to handle diverse workloads such as telco, edge and enterprise applications. They must be efficient as well as robust from an operational standpoint. They must also serve the operator well for years. While it is never my intention to be hyperbolic or combative, the question is if Openstack is a viable 5G platform – when compared with hyperscaler clouds.

Ericsson just released the twenty-second edition of their authoritative Mobility Report, in which they continue to follow the evolution of the telecom industry. Ericsson calls out 5G as scaling faster than any previous mobile generation. This blogpost summarizes the key findings of the report from a 5G subscriber growth & global distribution standpoint.

Using the above architecture and dataflow model, eBPF programs can be attached to key ingress and egress points when the kernel processes networking packets. That leads us to SDN, monitoring, tracing et al.

This post is an introduction to eBPF where we will discuss the key capabilities Solutions Architects and Technology Managers should look for. We will follow up with a deep-dive around individual capabilities in the following posts.