Last week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event in San Diego, California had its eyes firmly on the migration of telecoms networks to cloud-native architectures in the 5G era, a significant opportunity to grow the containerized cloud platform in a previously untapped industry. Pat Gelsinger, CEO of data center virtualization stalwart VMware, has said that telco cloud and 5G represent a “great opportunity to participate in an enormous market”. There was a ‘live’ 5G call between San Diego, Montreal Canada, and Sophia Antipolis, France, presented by Heather Kirksey, VP of community and ecosystem development at the Linux Foundation; Azhar Sayeed, chief architect for service providers at Red Hat; and Fu Qiao, project manager at China Mobile. Behind those public faces,…