Cloud Native Telco Day Europe 2025
as the organisers put it
Cloud Native Telco Day Europe has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
cloud native network engineers, platform engineers, network automation engineers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, cloud architects, open source project maintainers
topics
Kubernetes multi-networking with DRA; GitOps for containerised network functions; ClusterAPI zero-downtime upgrades; NetBox operator IP claim workflows; userspace CNI with VPP and DPDK; schema-driven network configuration (gNMI/NETCONF); transactional GitOps for network apply; CAMARA APIs for edge and discovery; declarative CNF component manifests; KPT package hydration for edge fan-out; AI-driven template convergence for manifests
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Gergely Csatari, Philippe Ensarguet | 07m |
Welcome to a full afternoon of cloud native telco sessions sponsored by Linux Foundation Networking and Control Plane; captioning is available via QR code and… | ||
| Panel: Are We There Yet? Native Kubernetes Networking for Telecom Workloads | Gergely Csatari, Lionel Jouin, Surya Seetharaman, Antonio Ojea | 32m |
Kubernetes gains a concrete path for multi-networking by treating network interfaces as schedulable devices: the community layers dynamic resource allocation… | ||
| A Telco Game Changer: Sylva Embraces GitOps | Guillaume Nevicato, Cedric Yhuel | 28m |
Orange and Oracle show Sylva implementing GitOps for CNFs using FluxCD, ClusterAPI and OpenStack: repository-driven deploy CNF, upgrade Kubernetes cluster via… | ||
| Kubenet: Harnessing Kubernetes for Network Automation | Wim Henderickx, Ashan Senevirathne | 26m |
Kubenet is a community stack that applies Kubernetes API machinery to network automation and claims vendor-agnostic device control with real deployments: SDC… | ||
| Cloud Native Networks - The Open Way | Ranny Haiby | 08m |
LF Networking reports a survey of a few hundred respondents with ~75% already on a cloud native journey and identifies four main blockers: employee knowhow… | ||
| Lightning Talk: What Operators are Looking for in a Cloud Native Data Plane | Benoit Gaussen | 11m |
Orange builds a Kubernetes-native data plane called VNA that uses operator-managed CRDs, a modified generic device plugin and a userspace CNI to wire VNFs/CNFs… | ||
| Unlocking Telco Innovation with CAMARA: Bridging the Gap Between Telcos and (Cloud) Developers | M. Kummerle, J. Lovato | 23m |
Project claims a working set of 60 APIs standardized and Apache‑licensed, backed by ~1,200 contributors from 400+ companies and three years of activity… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Gergely Csatari, Philippe Ensarguet | 04m |
Sixty proposals arrive at the program committee and organizers run a full day of sessions that start packed and taper off but end with a Friday keynote on the… | ||
| Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: A Choreography for the Management of Complex Solutions | A.G. Sánchez, B. Tsai | 27m |
Proposes using declarative component manifests that include relationships, endpoints, metrics and vendor‑supplied hardware/BIOS/acceleration requirements (UPF… | ||
| Just Claim It: Simplifying Network Automation with NetBox Operator... | L. Brühwiler, J. Studler | 23m |
Swisscom built an open‑source NetBox Operator that exposes NetBox IPs as Kubernetes claim resources so GitOps can request addresses with high‑level intent… | ||
| Automating Kubernetes Resource Management Over GitOps for the Telco Cloud RAN Prime Time | L. Fallon, I. Kispál | 31m |
Porch automates turning generic KPT blueprints (lists of KRM YAML) into fully specified deployment packages, applying chains of KM functions and producing KPT… | ||
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