My team is responsible for developing and maintaining the open-source components related to Ericsson Cloud platform offering. We have a focus on working with Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and OpenInfra projects as these are the foundation to Ericsson offering in Cloud-Native Infrastructure Services (CNIS) and Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI).
The team responsibilities are to drive chosen key projects in this space and have key people taking part of community and helping the projects. Currently, we are contributing to Metal3, security, Istio, multi-networking and working as part of ClusterAPI release team.
In the OpenInfra we have been driving the improvements for the neutron and taken an active role as part for the release to helping the community release in timely manner coming versions. To learn more about scaling neutron visit OpenInfra Live Recap
Our goal is driving our industry in adoption of Cloud-Native platforms and principles enable these technologies to become as the corner stone of 5G and digitalization; securing, trusted networks that are resilient and supporting new technology innovation.
We have been in the forefront in introducing the BareMetal provisioning for Kubernetes through Metal3 project. Ericsson has deployed to its customers live BareMetal clusters that span from single-node cluster up to clusters of hundreds of nodes. For this reason, we have been actively working on to find the limits and fix the bottlenecks on large scale deployments. To read more visit Metal3 blog on Scaling to 1000 clusters or take a look at project lightning talk.
Ericsson as a Telco networking company has been driving and promoting enhancements in the Kubernetes networking to reach line speeds and enabling easier integration of secondary networking plugins for K8s clusters. Secondary networking is one of the key features that is required for the traffic separation and enabling network functions to create network slices that are key for 5G adoption in critical and industry network communication. To learn more take a look at Istio contributions and CNI updates
Come and meet us in the CNCF events like CloudNativeCon + KubeCon or at local meetups in the Nordics and Western Europe or join Contribfests with us. Our team has super-smart people and I’m proud to be part of it and we welcome any opportunity to learn from and exchange ideas with other super-smart people that are active participants of CNCF community.
Bio of the author:
Jan Melén is an expert in networking, open-source software, and cloud technologies with a career spanning over two decades. Since 2019, he has led a team dedicated to Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open-source projects, contributing significantly to Ericsson's Kubernetes distribution, and building the culture of upstream first at Ericsson. With Jan Melén’s lead Ericsson has become one of the top 20 contributors in the yearly stats of CNCF and having roles in release teams and being instrumental part of releasing new versions of key components of Kubernetes.
Jan is now overseeing Ericsson’s cloud open-source contributions and coordinates collaborations with CNCF projects. With his technical expertise and leadership, Jan aims to support CNCF's mission and strengthen the global cloud-native ecosystem.
Jan has been a staunch advocate for Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) throughout his career, in early 2000s, he contributed to the IETF's IPv6 and Host Identity Protocol (HIP) specifications and developed the open-source HIP implementation for FreeBSD, including kernel-level IPSec integration. He has also played a key role in EU-funded research projects and has been a staunch advocate for Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) adoption within his company as well as in research communities.