WG06 Hackathon Opportunity study
Sylva Hackathon officially announced !
Topics
| Project | High Level Description | tags | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| E// MPN Operator | How about making it as easy as saying, “I want a new APN: dunder.scottelco.com”? No need to ask an LLM and hope it figures things out. Join us to design and build a Kubernetes operator that automates the configuration of all the network elements needed to create an APN. No thrills, no frills: just a simple and effective way for telcos to onboard new MNP customers in minutes. | Kubernetes Go Programming 5G Core and Packet Core Intent-Driven Configuration Network Automation | A.Diamanti, A.North (Swisscom) |
| Configuration Validator | Are you observing deployment or application failures caused by incorrect configuration? Even today, an incorrect configuration caused by a schema mismatch or syntax error can lead to serious production issues. The Configuration Validator validates configuration files against the provided YANG or JSON schema and can be extended with additional linting validations. It helps ensure that only valid and compliant configurations are propagated to the target environment. | Go Programming GitOps CI/CD & Pipeline Design Configuration Validation | M.Thaker (DT) |
| Flux Troubleshooting Tool | Troubleshooting Flux GitOps workloads is not always trivial for CNF experts. Traditional tools (Flux/Kubernetes/Sylva CLI, K9s, Headlamp,..) allow access to resources but are sometimes limited. The goal of this activity is to build or enhance a tool to serve intent builders and simplify troubleshooting related to GitOps operations. | Go Programming Kubernetes Flux GitOps Tooling cnfs | A.Pasquier, A.Régnault, S.Desbureaux (Orange) |
| Enhancing GitOps with Keptn for Autonomous Operations | To enable autonomous operations, the existing GitOps framework must expand to accommodate closed-loop automation without compromising core GitOps principles. The goal of this activity will consist in designing and implementing such closed-loop on cloud native function. | keptn GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) DevOps Scripting & Bash OpenTelemetry & Observability Testing | M.Sewera (DT), AW.Jagau, A.Ramirez (Cuemby) |
| GitOps Deployment Feedback | When Sylva deploys a workload cluster, it creates a long chain of Kubernetes objects behind the scenes, starting from a single SylvaWorkloadCluster all the way down to the final HelmRelease but right now, nobody can easily see what's happening in between. We invite the community to collaborate during this hackathon to develop innovative ways to visualize this cascade of objects from the SylvaWorkloadCluster to the final HelmRelease and build a troubleshooting skills matrix that any agent, whether a CLI tool, an operator, or an AI assistant, can use to diagnose failures automatically. | Go Programming Kubernetes operators GitOps Devops Operations | P.Goyal (Orange) |
| SDC NETCONF Actions | Shape how imperative NETCONF operations like reboot, commit-confirm, upgrades, and custom RPCs can work in a declarative GitOps workflow. Work directly with the SDC.io developers to design and prototype Kubernetes CRDs for ordered execution, retries, failure handling, and rollback of network actions. This hackathon is a hands-on opportunity to influence the future of cloud-native network automation and NETCONF operations.. | Go Programming Kubernetes GitOps Configuration Management Network Automation | A.North, F.Schulz(Swisscom), W.Hendrickx, M.Vahlenkamp (Nokia) |
| Telco-Specific AI Agents and Skills | Collaborate with telecom engineers across operators to design and build open-source agents and reusable skills for real network operations use cases. Create practical capabilities for troubleshooting, configuration validation, deployment workflows, alarm analysis, and operational automation across telco domains. Help establish a shared ecosystem of interoperable telco automation components that operators can adopt, extend, and improve together. | Telecom Networks Network Automation AI Agents Skills Prompt engineering | J. Weber, J. Studler (Swisscom) |
| AI Root Cause Analysis | Full observability across the whole infrastructure, applications and services promised easy Root Cause Analysis for alert troubleshooting. The reality? An immense amount of data to sift through and hours spent in trying to correlate alerts and data manually. Join us to develop an LLM-based framework that connects the dots to find out what went wrong. Say goodbye to two-digit MTTRs! | AIOps RootCauseAnalysis AgenticAI OpenTelemetry & Observability Network & Telco Analytics | J.Studler, A.Diamanti, F.Schulz (Swisscom) |
Participants
The event is integrator/developer oriented. the goal is to produce and test code.
Expected participants are:
- Telco Devops Team
- Vendor
- Open Source contributors
Registration will be open beginning of September, stay tuned.
Location
The Hackathon will take place in Bern (Switzerland) in Swisscom premises.