Over the last five or so years, the telecom industry has been transformed through the use of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). At the same time in the enterprise application space, cloud native technologies, led by the Kubernetes container orchestration system have transformed the way applications are built an delivered.
At the Open Networking Summit Europe, the Linux Foundation announced its Cloud-native Network Functions (CNF) effort that bring the world of Kubernetes together with the telecom world