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Sylva 1.7 Expands Deployment Flexibility and Infrastructure Support

The Sylva Project has released Sylva 1.7, introducing new capabilities designed to make the cloud stack easier to deploy across a wider range of infrastructure environments, simpler to keep current,…

Plakar Joins Sylva: Making Recoverability a Default

Plakar Joins Sylva: Making Recoverability a Default

This blog is based on a fireside conversation hosted by Philippe Ensarguet, VP Cloud & Software Engineering at Orange and Sylva Project Governing Board member, with Julien Mangeard, CEO and…

Driving Sustainable Infrastructure with Energy Observability

By Praveen Varshney As sustainability becomes a key priority in modern digital infrastructure, engineering teams are no longer focused only on performance and cost—they also need to understand the environmental…

OCUDU on Telco Clouds – #2 Sylva Workload Cluster

This post was initially published here by Nils Fuerste and has been reposted with permission.  In this post, I focus on setting up the Sylva workload cluster on the bare-metal…

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…