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 the telco cloud community, this year is especially notable: Sylva (with LF Networking) is sponsoring Cloud Native Telco Day, and is showing up across multiple KubeCon sessions that get straight to the “how” of running telco-grade platforms on Kubernetes: bare metal, lifecycle automation, compatibility, and the realities of operating network functions at scale.
Here are six Project Sylva-related sessions to add to your calendar:
Monday, March 22:
Operationalizing the NGMN Cloud Native Manifesto: CNTi and Sylva in Action (Cloud Native Telco Day)
A lightning talk grounded in real implementation: how CNTi and Sylva translate the NGMN Cloud Native Manifesto into practical criteria—and how operators and vendors can leverage that work to accelerate transformation.
Why it matters to Sylva: This is the “from principles to checklists” step—turning broad guidance into actionable, testable, operator-relevant outcomes.
The Shift: Radio Network Functions as IT Applications (Cloud Native Telco Day)
A look at how RAN is evolving in line with broader IT transformation—pairing an open source RAN network function with Sylva as an open source telco cloud stack, plus a demo showing lifecycle management using a GitOps approach.
Why it matters to Sylva: It connects platform architecture to lived operations—showing how GitOps-style workflows can apply not just to apps, but to network functions and their lifecycle
Teaching Machines to debug Machines: Building an AI-Powered RCA Agent for Sylva-Core (Cloud Native Telco Day)
Once you have standardized deployment and lifecycle, the next frontier is faster detection, triage, and root-cause analysis. This talk brings AI into the day-2 story with a concrete target: RCA for Sylva-Core.
What this matters: this session points to the next chapter of Sylva’s enablement; not just deploying telco cloud consistently, but operating it intelligently and predictably at scale.
Sylva, Taming Complexity With FluxCD Dependency Management (FluxCon)
As Sylva deployments grow more modular, GitOps complexity can spike, especially around ordering and prerequisites. This session shares how FluxCD dependency management helps keep multi-component Sylva stacks converging predictably.
Why this matters: It enables deterministic rollouts and safer upgrades (CRDs/controllers/platform services in the right order), reduces drift, and makes troubleshooting faster by turning “what broke?” into a clearer dependency chain.
Thursday, March 25:
Beyond the Cloud: Managing Baremetal the Kubernetes way using Metal3.io & Sylva Project as a use case (Maintainer Track)
If you’re building telco cloud infrastructure, “bare metal” isn’t a corner case—it’s the foundation. This session spotlights how Kubernetes-native bare metal management (via Metal3.io) can be applied in a Sylva-driven telco cloud context, connecting infrastructure automation with real-world operational needs.
Why it matters: This is the control plane meets the chassis: repeatable, declarative bare metal operations that enable consistent CNF platform rollouts.
K8s-sigs NFD × SYLVA: Declarative Image-to-Node Compatibility for Telco Clouds (Operations & Performance Track)
This talk dives into a field deployment co-developed by Node Feature Discovery (NFD) maintainers and the SYLVA telco-cloud community, focusing on making image-to-node compatibility declarative—a practical lever for scaling telco clouds across heterogeneous hardware.
Why it matters: Telco clouds live and die on determinism. This session is about reducing drift, surprises, and manual glue when hardware diversity is the norm.
Sylva Developer Day: March 27
Extend your stay through the week! We are holding Sylva Developer Day, also in Amsterdam, on Friday, March 27. Save the date and stay tuned for more details!
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The party doesn’t end there! We are holding Sylva Developer Day, also in Amsterdam, on Friday, March 27. Save the date and stay tuned for more details!
Sylva is helping the telco cloud ecosystem turn cloud-native ideas into repeatable operations, from Kubernetes-native bare metal, to hardware-aware scheduling/compatibility, to measurable cloud-native criteria, to AI-assisted troubleshooting.
Hope to see you in Amsterdam!
