Spec-Driven Evolution: How AI Agents Are Rewriting the OpenStack/K8s Pla... - B. Souville & M. Hamza

How do you turn complex Telco standards into production-ready code—without months of manual design and validation? This session introduces a spec-driven development workflow using AI coding agents to accelerate the design, implementation, and testing of features in OpenStack Tacker. We show how AI agents navigate large codebases to propose architectural solutions and generate test suites directly from specifications. Two use cases are presented: (1) Cloud-native high availability, with AI-assisted design of Kubernetes Operators enabling redundancy and fast failover toward 99.999% SLA; and (2) Massive-scale vRAN, with a Leader–Conductor style coordination model inspired by OpenStack orchestration systems coordinating thousands of VNFs/CNFs, along with automated edge-case test generation. Attendees will learn a repeatable workflow for combining AI with upstream collaboration to accelerate the delivery of carrier-grade systems while maintaining OpenInfra and Kubernetes standards.