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Sylva V1.5: Expanding Flexibility and Openness for the Telco Cloud

By October 23, 2025No Comments

The Sylva Project is excited to announce the release of Sylva V1.5, delivering new capabilities that strengthen flexibility, interoperability, and resilience across cloud-native telco infrastructures.

Multi-Kubernetes Distribution Support

Sylva continues its commitment to openness with expanded multi-Kubernetes (K8s) support through the Sylva Cluster Manager. Version 1.5 now supports multiple K8s distributions, including:

  • Canonical Kubernetes (new) – production-grade integration ensuring robust performance and reliability
  • OpenShift (OKD) (new) – with full support coming in Sylva V1.6
  • RKE2 (Rancher Kubernetes Engine)
  • Vanilla Kubernetes

Learn more from our partners’ recent announcements:

Enhanced Backup and Restore

The Cluster Backup & Restore capabilities have been upgraded with Velero tooling, providing advanced backup policy management and faster, more reliable restoration to help operators safeguard critical deployments.

Continuous Innovation

Sylva V1.5 introduces OpenNebula as a new infrastructure provider—joining Bare Metal, OpenStack, and vSphere. This integration broadens deployment options and demonstrates Sylva’s ongoing dedication to a flexible and vendor-neutral cloud ecosystem. 

Learn More

Dive into the full details in the official release notes:
Sylva V1.5.0 Release Notes

About Sylva

Sylva is a Linux Foundation Europe project driving an open, secure, and sustainable telco cloud architecture.

Backed by leading European operators and vendors, Sylva accelerates cloud-native transformation and ensures sovereignty across the telecom ecosystem.