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> Back in 2016, the Solomon Islands government signed a deal with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to lay a cable to Australia.
> To push out the arrangement Solomon Islands had with Huawei Marine, Australia paid for most of the Coral Sea Cable, which connects Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and Honiara in the Solomon Islands to Sydney.
> The contract for Huawei Marine would have led to a cable between Honiara and Sydney being laid, which would have meant Chinese hardware had been connected to the backbone of Australia's domestic internet infrastructure.
> "That was seen as a red line that Australia would not cross and so we jumped in with a better deal, providing the cable as a grant that would be implemented with a procurement partner of Australia's choosing - that wouldn't be Chinese," director of the Lowy Institute's Pacific Island Program Jonathan Pryke said.
> This was at a time when Australia had just banned Huawei from its 5G and NBN networks.
> Huawei Marine also bid on the East Micronesia cable project that would have seen Nauru, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia connect, via several other cables, to Guam, but the US reportedly had concerns about the Chinese firm's involvement.
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I have a number of k8s clusters which have installed a prometheus instance(using prom operator). I have a central separate prometheus which collects all metrics(cadvisor, kubelet) from all the k8s clusters using the /federated endpoint(using a load balancer service). I have recently installed kube-state-metrics on some of the clusters and i was able to expose those metrics using a separate LB service.
My end goal is to be able to have only one LB service exposed from each cluster and expose all metrics from that endpoint.
What i want is to be able to merge all metrics (cadvisor, kubelet, kube-state-metrics) into the local prometheus and expose all metrics externally using the federated endpoint of the local prometheus.
I was unable to find something similar online but i am sure other people have had experience on how to do this.
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I'd really want to get away from proprietary IM (Whatsapp/Telegram), and fed up with paying for a landline I hardly use. I selfhost a lot of stuff (NextCloud, FreeIPA, Bitwarden), but my infrastructure has capacity to spare, and I already have solid monitoring and management.
My questions are:
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What's the state of VOIP/SIP instant messaging? Can you get interoperable good instant messaging (push to Android, multiple device support, delivery/read receipts, group chats with history, etc.) with any server/client combination? (I'm looking at Android phones and Windows/Linux desktops, mostly). I'd like something open source, preferably that also does SIP/VOIP and that I can federate, so users on my system could communicate with other federated servers without noticing they are on separate systems.
Or should I be looking at combining something like Matrix with a VOIP server, because... -
I'd like to be able to use hardware phones with this system, because I have "users" that would prefer to use a wireless phone instead of a smartphone for long calls for ergonomics. So I assume that the easiest way to have hardware phones is to use SIP.
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I might switch my two sites to a fiber service without phone service (and perhaps pick up a cloud VOIP service for interoperating with the regular phone network), but in the meantime, those two sites have a phone service that is SIP- I've been able to connect my Android phone to that service and receive/place calls. Can I get a SIP server such as Asterisk to connect to those services to route ongoing calls, and pick up calls (and maybe do some spam blocking, etc.)? What's the term I need to Google for?
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Basically I'd like to set up a federated, open-protocol based text/voice/video service. Even if I never federate with anyone and just use it internally. Bonus if I can tie it up with my FreeIPA system (basically LDAP + Kerberos) and my users can use centralized login and directory service.
Germany, Austria and Belgium are examples of this. By the same token, we could also include Spain or Italy with its Autonomous Communities and Autonomous Regions respectively, that have a higher degree of decentralization than the federal subjects of many countries like Austria. What is the best way to maintain the autonomy of the regions or states in a federal Europe?
Perhaps we could think of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is a federation and at the same time a federal subject inside Bosnia and Herzegovina. But these could be expensive and maybe ineficient.
I have listened about dismantling the bigger member states like Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain or France. This could be a solution, but it would be pretty difficult to obtain the approval of the Member States and their citizens to form a federal Europe is this is a condition to it.
Maybe the solution would be to base the model on foralism better than federalism. This is applied to Spain with two of their Autonomous Communities (or in this case, Charter Communities). The difference in this model is that, while the goverment of the community or region is the one in charge of healthcare, security, education, laws..., the provinces that form the region are the ones that have economic autonommy, not the region itself. This is applied in the Basque Country and it could be used to led the regions that form a member state still have control of the most important part: the economy.
