CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel London in London, England.

The Sched app allows you to build your schedule, but is not a substitute for your event registration. You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, and have an All-Access pass in order to participate in the sessions.

To view the full event schedule for a specific CNCF-hosted Co-located event, you can use the right-hand navigation bar to sort and filter.

The schedule is subject to change.

09:00 BST

Kubernetes on Edge Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes on Edge Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

09:10 BST

Chaos To Control: Kubernetes Resiliency at the Edge - Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam & Candida Valois, Scality

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Edge computing with Kubernetes is powerful but comes with challenges like limited resources, unreliable connectivity, and ransomware threats. Keeping systems running at the edge is critical, but how do you make that happen?

In this session, we'll share how a global retail chain used Kubernetes-native tools to recover from a ransomware attack. With 500+ stores relying on Kubernetes for inventory and sales they couldn't afford any downtime. Using immutable backups and S3-compatible storage, they fully recovered in under 10 minutes, avoiding major disruption.

Learn how to build secure and resilient Kubernetes environments at the edge, ensuring your systems are prepared for the unexpected.

Speakers

Julia F Morgado

Global Technologist, Veeam

Julia is a Global Technologist on the Product Strategy team - Office of the CTO at Veeam Software. Her passion is making Cloud and Cloud Native technologies easier to understand by sharing her knowledge and experiences. She is also committed to empowering communities as a CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Candida Valois

Field CTO, Scality

Candida Valois is an accomplished technology strategist with deep expertise in data protection, cloud storage, and enterprise IT solutions. With years of experience working with cutting-edge technologies, she is a trusted advisor to organizations seeking to modernize their infrastructure... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes on Edge Day, Kubernetes for Retail Edge

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

09:45 BST

Seamless List-Watch Improvements Across Data Center and Massive Unstable Network Edge - Fei Xu, Huawei Cloud & Huan Wei, Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technologies Co., Ltd

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Many enterprises, such as new energy vehicle and smart campus, are deploying cloudnative workloads to edge nodes. However, these nodes often exist in highly distributed and high-latency network environments, bringing challenges to manage them.

However, as some maintainers of K8s have also pointed out, there're challenges in distributed and high-latency network with K8s, including: 1) the impact of the List-watch mechanism on server-side due to data retransmission(re-list frequently) in scenarios with frequent node online/offline 2) how to recover apps when nodes go offline and restart.

This topic will introduce how KubeEdge optimizes the K8s List-watch in unstable network, avoiding the impact on the server-side bandwidth by re-list frequently. Notably, users can in the data center manage workloads on massively discrete edges without awareness. Moreover, real-world user cases such as those in new energy vehicles and smart campuses will be presented to demonstrate the effect and value.

Speakers

Fei Xu

Senior Software Engineer, Huawei Cloud

Huawei Cloud, Senior Software Engineer KubeEdge TSC Member, Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Cloud. Focusing on Cloud Native,Kubernetes, EdgeComputing, EdgeAI and other fields. Currently maintaining the KubeEdge project which is a CNCF graduated project. And has rich experience... Read More →

Huan Wei

Senior Technical Director, Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technologies Co., Ltd

Huan is an open source enthusiast and cloud native technology advocate. He is currently the CNCF ambassador, and TSC member of KubeEdge project. He is serving as experienced technical director for HarmonyCloud.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes on Edge Day, Kubernetes mobile devices-low resource hardware

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

10:15 BST

Sponsored Keynote: TBA, Spectro Cloud

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:15 - 10:20 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:15 - 10:20 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes on Edge Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

11:00 BST

From Weeks To Minutes: How Focke & Co Packaged Factory Edge K8s Across 20k+ Machines - Alexandre Boutet, Focke & CO & Dmitry Shevrin, Spectro Cloud

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:00 - 11:25 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

At Focke & Co, our packaging machines are a critical part of operations in factories around the world. Downtime is serious. There’s also a necessity to process information in locations without any K8s expertise. It’s dictated by the cost of sending traffic for analysis to the cloud and by data governance. Combined with the mandatory EU resilience act, K8s on the edge becomes almost required to stay compliant.

Like many manufacturers, we found it costly to send field engineers to provide support at customer sites. So we set out to connect our machinery for remote monitoring and servicing, looking to build an IoT platform that could handle scale — and be easy to deploy in the factory.

We’ll explore how we reduced time to edge K8s deployment from two days to 15 minutes and achieved centralized remote management for a fleet of various 20k+ packaging machines. We’ll share a success story of the last two years, from our pilot project to deploying devices in production.

Speakers

Dmitry Shevrin

Senior Solutions Architect, Spectro Cloud

Dmitry Shevrin is an infrastructure specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the open source software and cloud native world, and he's currently a Senior Solutions Architect at Spectro Cloud. He spent a number of years with Red Hat, then with Rancher/SUSE. In his free time... Read More →

Alexandre Boutet

Senior Architect Engineer, Focke & CO

Alexandre Boutet is a Technical Lead in digitalization with extensive experience in automation and industrial IT. He has driven innovation across leading organizations like FOCKE & CO, OAS AG, and Broetje Automation, specializing in process control systems and digital transformat... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:00 - 11:25 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes on Edge Day, Kubernetes in Production on the Edge

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

11:35 BST

Thinking Outside the Classroom: Building an Edge Device To Monitor Atmospheric Conditions. - Hadijat Sanni & Jubril Oyetunji, Students

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:35 - 12:00 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Being in a Nigerian university, depending on what state you school sometimes means that your education falls short in terms of the problems we are exposed to and the topics we explore in class.
To fill this gap we formed NARSDA, a small group primarily focused on astronomy based research, this semester we decided to take our heads out of the cloud and focus on some local problems facing your school.
In this session we will discuss how we built an edge device to monitor atmospheric conditions in our school, how we leveraged Prometheus, grafana and MQTT to collect and generate meaningful insights from the data and finally how we plan on using the data to cut down emissions and possibly save an endangered bird native to our local.

Speakers

Jubril Oyetunji

Student

software engineer interested in distributed systems and likes coffee

Hadijat Sanni

Student

Hadijat Sanni is a Computer Science student and cloud native technology enthusiast who loves tackling diverse projects that pique her interest. Passionate about learning and technology, she also advocates for climate change and supports the SDGs through the Millennium Fellowship... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:35 - 12:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes on Edge Day, Event + Data Collection

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

12:10 BST

Kubernetes Cross-Zone/Region Simplified: Harnessing Bacalhau for Efficient Distributed Compute - David Aronchick, Expanso

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:10 - 12:35 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Organizations face a critical challenge: data is growing exponentially across distributed locations, but traditional centralized processing approaches are becoming unsustainable.

Specifically, the challenges of massive data transfer costs, regulatory compliance issues, and network reliability problems are slowing the adoption of ML infrastructure. This is particularly acute in scenarios like processing data from distributed deployments or analyzing real-time sensor edge data.

This talk demonstrates implementing compute over data with Kubernetes - bringing ML compute to where data is being created. Using real-world examples, including an energy company managing 15,000 microgrids, we demonstrate processing data in place, ensuring regulatory compliance, reducing costs, and improving reliability while maintaining centralized control. We'll showcase implementation using open-source tools like Bacalhau, providing attendees with practical patterns for modernizing their ML infrastructure.

Speakers

David Aronchick

CEO, Expanso

I am CEO and co-founder of Expanso, the company behind the distributed compute platform Bacalhau. This means I spend most of my time helping humans to convince machines to be smarter. I am only moderately successful at this. Previously, I led Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:10 - 12:35 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes on Edge Day, Machine Learning

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

12:35 BST

Kubernetes on Edge Day | Closing Remarks

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:35 - 12:40 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:35 - 12:40 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes on Edge Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

12:50 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:50 - 12:55 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:50 - 12:55 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

12:55 BST

Panel: Are We There Yet? Native Kubernetes Networking for Telecom Workloads - Gergely Csatari, Nokia; Lionel Jouin, Ericsson; Doug Smit & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:30 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Kubernetes and the cloud native paradigm is beneficial not for web services, but for telecom and networking workloads also. These telecom and networking workloads have more special requirements for the platform due to the nature of their functionality. One big area for these extra requirements is networking. The cloud native ecosystem responded to these needs with a couple of additions to Kubernetes, but these can not provide complete functionality without modifications in Kubernetes itself. In this panel leading experts in Kubernetes networking who are in the forefront of developing and providing these additional features will discuss what are the still missing features, how to find a balance between modifying Kubernetes and providing an add-on components, and what are the limitations of modifying Kubernetes.

Speakers

Doug Smith

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Doug Smith is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. Focusing on Network Function Virtualization and container technologies, Doug integrates new networking technologies with container systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. He is a member of the Network... Read More →

Gergely Csatari

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia

Working in the telecom industry in the last two decades it was possible for Gergely to see the evolution from vendor specific hardware to virtualisation and cloud and a to cloud native. Currently Gergely is part of the OSPO team of Nokia CTO which is responsible for open source. In... Read More →

Surya Seetharaman

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc

Surya is an Open Source advocate and contributor, active in the Kubernetes SIG-Network working group. She is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat in the OpenShift Networking team. Her areas of interest include Cloud Infrastructure and Networked Services and Systems... Read More →

Lionel Joiun

Software Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology

Lionel Jouin is a Software Engineer at Ericsson Software Technology, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He actively contributes to Kubernetes with a focus on bringing native support for secondary networks and its ecosystem including services and policies…. His contributions span SIG Network... Read More →

Antonio Jimenez Martinez

Tech Lead Software Engineer, Cisco ThousandEyes

I am a Tech Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes, specializing in observability to ensure our customers can effectively monitor their products. My recent work involves using OpenTelemetry to stream telemetry data, enhancing network visibility and performance for our clients.I... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

13:35 BST

A Telco Game Changer: Sylva Embraces GitOps - Guillaume Nevicato, Orange & Cedric Yhuel, Oracle

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

The adoption of a mutualized Telco Cloud for hosting multiple network functions presents significant opportunities in terms of common tooling. We will present GitOps best practices in configuration management, and reliability for large-scale production environments.
Then how we the open-source project Sylva helps to implement GitOps for CNF and Kubernetes.

After this intro, we will show in a demo with a Oracle CNF, Sylva LCM based on FluxCD and ClusterAPI. The aim is to show how Gitops approach ease to manage NF and Cloud
1st step Deployment of the CNF
2nd Upgrade the Kubernetes Cluster with Gitops without impacting the NF
3rd NF configuration changes
Takeways :
The audience will leave with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities in Telco cloud management, the role of GitOps.
The audience will have demo with materials released in open source.
We will open the door to the audience if they want deeper collaboration on Gitops adoption via Sylva

Speakers

Guillaume Nevicato

Telco Cloud Product Manager & Sylva Cochair, Orange

Guillaume Nevicato is a passionate cloud-native advocate since ten years.As Product Manager for Orange Telco Cloud, he leads the deployment of services that support a diverse range of Network Functions across 18 Orange affiliatesGuillaume is also an active participant in the Telco... Read More →

Cedric Yhuel

5G Architect - Orange account, Oracle

Seasoned presales consultant with over 20 years of experience in telecommunications and working at Oracle France. He specializes in 5G signaling & Voice over IP, supporting French service providers. Currently, Cédric is actively engaged in product-level support for Orange’s 5G... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, Integrate

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

14:10 BST

Kubenet: Harnessing Kubernetes for Network Automation - Wim Henderickx, Nokia & Ashan Senevirathne, Swisscom

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

In this session we will introduce Kubenet, a community-driven initiative leveraging Kubernetes principles for automation and orchestration of networking systems (no CNI revolution). While Kubernetes has revolutionized container orchestration, its capabilities extend far beyond, offering powerful tools to automate and manage physical, virtual, and containerized Network Operating Systems (NOS). This talk will highlight how network engineers can leverage Kubernetes to simplify, standardize, and scale network automation.

We’ll discuss the motivations behind Kubenet, its architecture, and its practical applications in diverse networking scenarios such as datacenter networking, WAN, peering, campus networking, and cloud environments.

This session will also introduce open-source extensions developed by the Kubenet community, designed to tackle real-world networking challenges across Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 operations.

Speakers

Wim Hendrerickx

Head of Technology and Architecture, Nokia

Wim is head of technology and architecture in Nokia’s IP division, where he works with partners and customers to provide consultancy advise in IP technology, Cloud and Automation. He has over 25 years of experience in the telco and enterprise communication and networking industry... Read More →

Ashan Senevirathne

Product Owner, Swisscom

Experienced Product Owner and Senior DevOps Engineer with a proven track record in driving innovation and efficiency in telecommunications. Currently with Swisscom, leading the development of a cloud-native orchestration framework for 5G Core using Kubernetes. Adept at optimizing... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

14:40 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: What Operators are Looking for in a Cloud Native Data Plane - Benoit Gaussen, Orange

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 14:50 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

As an operator, we are convinced that Kubernetes is the platform to build our infrastructure and run our B2B, wholesales and Telco services.

But how do we manage those ever-lasting VNFs, with all their networking constraints and performance requirements, in a Cloud Native way?
How do we isolate networks of our many B2B services of our many customers?
How can we provide each customer's CNFs with inter-connectivity and with the expected service exposition features ?
How do we ensure this UPF pod will automatically get its connectivity, without being too greedy with our nodes' NICs, while ensuring its security?

If you're also wondering how to tackle these challenges, you might be interested in the solution we intend to share with you.

Speakers

Benoit Gaussen

Cloud Native Technical Leader, Orange Innovation

Benoit Gaussen works at Orange Innovation as a technical leader on Cloud Native ecosystems, in IT & Network projects. He has been promoting the use of Kubernetes in many fields for years, latest playground being CDN, networking and telco cloud services.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 14:50 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

15:20 BST

Unlocking Telco Innovation with CAMARA: Bridging the Gap Between Telcos and (Cloud) Developers - Markus Kummerle, Deutsche Telekom & Jill Lovato, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

The telecommunications industry is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by the need for scalable, cloud-native solutions that enable seamless integration of advanced network capabilities into modern applications. CAMARA, an open source project under the Linux Foundation, is addressing this challenge by standardizing APIs to simplify access to telco capabilities such as quality of service (QoS), device location, and identity management among others.
In this talk, Markus Kümmerle of Deutsche Telekom and chair of the CAMARA Outreach Committee, will provide an overview of how CAMARA is fostering collaboration between telcos, developers, and hyperscalers. Attendees will gain insights into the project’s mission and value in simplifying telco network complexity with APIs, and making the APIs available across telco networks and countries. Focus will be on cloud APIs, but also how cloud capabilities are used to implement APIs.
By reducing complexity and enabling interoperability across telco networks and countries, CAMARA is accelerating innovation, creating new revenue opportunities for telcos, and empowering developers to deliver next-generation applications. This session will inspire participants to join the growing CAMARA community, to use CAMARA APIs and contribute to shaping the future of telecommunications

Speakers

Jill Lovato

Marketing, The Linux Foundation

Jill leads marketing communications for LF Networking, LF Edge, and several other related projects at the Linux Foundation. As an experienced tech communications and marketing leader with nearly 20 years’ of experience across both open source and corporate environments, she brings... Read More →

Markus Kummerle

Tribe Lead, Magenta API Engineering & CAMARA Marketing Outreach Chair, Deutsche Telekom

Markus Kümmerle is responsible for the 5G Network Exposure Program at Deutsche Telekom. Since 2014 Markus has been responsible for Quality for the System Integration / Digital Solutions unit of T-Systems. In parallel, he continues driving large projects and programs. In 2020 he took... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, Integrate

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

15:55 BST

With Great Networks Come Great Carbon Savings: OpenSource + AI for RAN Optimization - Marco González, Ericsson & Prakash Rao Bethapudi, Accenture

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Telecom networks, especially with 5G expansion, are major energy consumers. What if we could cut energy use and carbon emissions without compromising performance? In this session, we’ll show how Kubernetes and OpenSource tools can transform Radio Access Networks (RAN) into energy-efficient systems.

We’ll walk through deploying AI/ML pipelines to predict network traffic and optimize energy in real-time. Using Kubernetes for scalability, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, and open-source tools for automation, we’ll demonstrate how these technologies come together to tackle energy challenges.

The session ends with a live demo, starting with a RAN simulator, integrating AI workloads, and visualizing energy-saving results. You’ll see the power of OpenSource in action and leave with practical tips, reusable code, and a clear vision for making telecom networks more sustainable.

Speakers

Marco González

5G Solutions Architect, Ericsson

Marco Gonzalez is an international speaker and patent creator 5G Solutions Architect at Ericsson Japan who has more than 12 years of Designing and Integrating 3G, 4G, and 5G networks worldwide. During this tenure, he has performed strategic and innovative roles in supporting critical... Read More →

Prakash Rao Bethapudi

Cloud Architect, Accenture

Prakash Rao is a Cloud Architect with an impressive tenure designing advanced cloud-based solutions. Currently excelling at Accenture Japan, Prakash showcases his expert knowledge in automation and configuration management in cloud platforms, notably AWS. He is highly experienced... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, Sustainability

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

16:30 BST

Just Claim It: Simplifying Network Automation with NetBox Operator - Lea Brühwiler & Joel Studler, Swisscom

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

As part of Swisscom's cloud-native transformation, we developed the open-source NetBox Operator to bridge the gap between network management and Kubernetes. Leveraging the Kubernetes API, the NetBox operator enables users to adopt GitOps practices for IP address management.

The operator uses the same "claim" model found in Kubernetes – e.g. in the PersistentVolume Controller – to differentiate desired and observed states. The user only defines a high-level intent which the operator will process to reserve a resource, like IPs, in NetBox.

In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how the NetBox Operator simplifies the automation of MetalLB IP Address Pools, enabling zero-touch configuration for ingress networking in your Kubernetes clusters. We’ll also highlight advanced features like sticky IP assignments for power users. By simplifying resource management, the operator lets engineers focus on higher-level tasks, enhancing scalability and agility across infrastructures, including the 5G core.

Speakers

Joel Studler

DevOps Engineer and System Architect, Swisscom

Joel is a DevOps Engineer currently in a team that builds the cloud native 5G core at Swisscom. He is experienced in infrastructure automation, software defined networking and highly available databases and passionate about automation. He is CK* certified and has written several CRD/Operator... Read More →

Lea Brühwiler

DevOps Engineer, Swisscom

Lea is a DevOps Engineer at Swisscom, with a focus on automation for cloud-native 5G core.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

17:05 BST

Automating Kubernetes Resource Management Over GitOps for the Telco Cloud RAN Prime Time - Liam Fallon, Ericsson & István Kispál, Nokia

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:05 - 17:30 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Are you using GitOps to manage increasing numbers of Kubernetes clusters without going insane? Great!

GitOps is widely used to manage 1000s of Kubernetes resources in large numbers of clusters with numerous Kubernetes manifests in Git repositories. These are difficult to handle manually, requiring human approval of 100s of git pull requests.

Better GitOps automation is essential to manage Kubernetes workloads, especially towards 10s or 100s of thousands of Cloud-RAN far-edge clusters. Kubernetes-native automation with operators is well-supported but reconciling Kubernetes YAML manifests in Git repositories is a challenge. That is, until now! Let us introduce you to Porch, which simplifies this process significantly.

Porch allows human-machine collaboration on infrastructure/application configuration data stored in Git, transforming generic blueprints to fully specified deployable packages. This “hydration” process pioneered in Nephio is a novel approach to platform engineering.

Speakers

Liam Fallon

Principal Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology

Liam Fallon is a practitioner delivering Network Automation in open source. He is building the software frameworks needed to realize the promise of automation in modern Telco systems.He helped to develop the Policy Framework in ONAP, and led the implementation of Automation Composition... Read More →

István Kispál

Senior Reseacher, Nokia Bell Labs

Istvan is a senior researcher and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Nokia Bell Labs with 10+ years of experience in telco research. His main research focus is in cloud-native telco network automation.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:05 - 17:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, War Stories

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

17:30 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day | Closing Remarks

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:30 - 17:35 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:30 - 17:35 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day

Content Experience Level Any
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day