OCUDU on Telco Clouds – #1 Sylva Management Cluster
This post was initially published by Nils Fuerste and is reposted here with permission In this post, I focus on setting up the Sylva management cluster as the foundation for…
OCUDU On Telco Clouds – #0 Introduction to Sylva
This post was initially published here by Nils Fuerste and is re-posted with permission This post starts a series on deploying and operating a RAN on top of a telco…
Validation Center: Leading vendors to higher Cloud Nativeness levels
By Luis Velarde (Telefónica), Guillermo Carreto (Telefónica) and Cédric Ollivier (Orange), Sylva Validation Center (WG-02) team Validation Center (WG-02) evolution The figures speak for themselves: 8 operational validation platforms (with…
Sovereignty Is More Than Trusted Hosting: How Sylva Helps Build a Truly Sovereign Telco Cloud
By Kai Steuernagel (Deutsche Telekom) and Vladimir Braquet (Orange), Sylva Developer Day, Amsterdam, March 27, 2026 Sovereignty is one of the most talked-about concepts in European tech today. It appears…
Every Cloud Has a Sylva Lining: A Year of Milestones, Production Reality, and a Thriving Community
By Guillaume Nevicato, Sylva Co-chair and Telco Cloud Product Manager, Orange When we kicked off Sylva Developer Day in Amsterdam on March 27, closing out an incredible KubeCon + CloudNativeCon…
Sylva Developer Day in Amsterdam: A Community on the Rise
By Philippe Ensarguet (Orange) and Kai Steuernagel (Deutsche Telekom), Co-chairs, Sylva Governing Board What a week. What energy. What a community. As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 wrapped up in…
Don’t Miss Project Sylva in Amsterdam for Cloud Native Telco Day and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 lands in Amsterdam (March 23–26, 2026), bringing the cloud native community together for four days of deep technical content and hard-earned lessons from production. For…
Sylva 1.6 is Here! It brings smoother ops, stronger security, and more flexible clusters
Sylva v1.6.0 is now available, bringing a focused set of upgrades that make it easier to run, evolve, and secure cloud-native telco infrastructure, without adding operational drag. From Kubernetes 1.33…
Sylva in 2025: A Thriving Telco Community with an Ambitious Goal
2025 was a breakout year for our community! Three years after launch, Sylva has evolved from a bold vision into a production-grade telco cloud stack that operators now run in…
Sylva Project Turns Three: From Vision to Production at Global Scale
On November 12, 2022, at the North American Open Source Summit, Sylva Project officially launched—introduced by Arpit Joshipura and Stéphane Demartis—and became the first project hosted at LF Europe. That…









