Automating Kubernetes Resource Management Over GitOps for the Telco Cloud

This conference talk explores how to automate Kubernetes resource management using GitOps for Telco Cloud environments, particularly focusing on Cloud-RAN deployments. Learn how GitOps can be effectively used to manage thousands of Kubernetes resources across numerous clusters without manual intervention. Discover Porch, a tool that enables human-machine collaboration on infrastructure and application configuration data stored in Git repositories, transforming generic blueprints into fully specified deployable packages. The speakers explain how this "hydration" process, pioneered in Nephio, offers a novel approach to platform engineering that significantly simplifies the reconciliation of Kubernetes YAML manifests in Git repositories. Particularly valuable for organizations managing or planning to scale to tens or hundreds of thousands of Cloud-RAN far-edge clusters, this presentation addresses the challenges of handling numerous Kubernetes manifests and reducing the need for human approval of hundreds of git pull requests.