Nearby Computing teams up with NeoNephos to accelerate open, federated cloud–edge orchestration across Europe

These contributions have been made within the Katalis project, part of the NeoNephos community under the Linux Foundation Europe, of which Nearby Computing became a member in 2025.

The initiative supports the objectives of the Important Project of Common European Interest on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) — Europe’s flagship programme to achieve technological sovereignty and next-generation cloud capabilities.

Contributing open technology for Telco–Cloud federation

Over the past months, Nearby Computing has worked closely with the NeoNephos community within the Katalis project to contribute key open-source components that enable federation between telecom operators and cloud providers using Kubernetes-based orchestration.

These contributions include both the OPG EWBI Operator and the OPG EWBI API, which together implement the GSMA OPG East/West Bound Interface (OPG-EWBI) standard through Kubernetes® resources and APIs.

The Operator is developed using the Kubebuilder framework. It maps federation requests and objects into Kubernetes® Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to enable a declarative approach and control loops for federation. The API provides an external interface for this operator, maintaining the existing GSMA OPG flows for federation, maximizing compatibility with non-kubernetes® external orchestrators and controllers. This architecture, familiar to most application developers, is proposed to facilitate the adoption of the API.

By bridging telecom federation APIs with cloud-native resource management, these open components create a common operational model across distributed environments. This architecture, familiar to application developers, is proposed to facilitate the adoption of the API.

Rather than constituting a standalone product, this work represents an open technological contribution — a set of mechanisms that make multi-domain orchestration and automation possible, allowing operators, cloud providers, and enterprises to coordinate workloads, services, and policies seamlessly across domains.

NearbyOne: The orchestration platform behind the continuum

This open-source work is complemented and extended through NearbyOne, Nearby Computing’s modular orchestration and automation platform.

NearbyOne provides the operational framework that manages the entire ecosystem, unifying infrastructure, network, and application lifecycle management from edge to cloud.

Through NearbyOne, organizations can deploy and operate federated environments securely, automate application and service lifecycles, and ensure observability and compliance across distributed infrastructures.

Driving open innovation and industry collaboration

This milestone contribution will be adopted by several European telcos and technology partners in upcoming pilot projects.

By combining open-source collaboration with production-grade orchestration, Nearby Computing and NeoNephos are shaping a future where Europe’s digital infrastructure is both open and operationally sovereign.