What is a telecommunications provider, if not a very distributed system? Kubernetes is becoming an important engine for the world’s telcos, especially as they roll out 5G. Vuk Gojnic leads the team rolling out Kubernetes across Deutsche Telekom (the parent company of T-Mobile), and he tells us how the worlds of telco and cloud have converged.

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• New Jeopardy! hosts
• The Price Is Right
  • Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore
  • Spay and neuter your pets

News of the week

• eBPF Foundation announcement
  • Episode 91, with Leonardo Di Donato
  • Episode 133, with Thomas Graf
• Istio 1.11
• NSA & CISA release Kubernetes hardening guidance
  • PDF link
• Google Cloud Service Discovery adds GKE auto-discovery
• Troubleshoot GKE faster with monitoring data in your logs
• Sysdig announces new Prometheus integrations
• Nirmata takes $4m in funding
• CNCF Survey, part 2

Links from the interview

• History of Montenegro
  • Balkans region
• Postal, telegraph and telephone services
• Cafe del Montenegro “archeological remains” (archeological remains of original Cafe del Montenegro)
  • CdM today
• Crnogorski Telekom
• Deutsche Telekom
• Crossbar switches
• O-RAN Software Community and source code
• Network function virtualization
• Natural selection
• Mobile base station
• DSLAM
• 5G
• Das blinkenlights
• Das Schiff
  • Das Boot
  • Cluster API
  • Flux CD
• OpenStack Ironic
• mIRC
• Vuk Gojnic on Twitter