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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · 1d

That moment when you’re surrounded by people who just get it — that’s #CloudNativeZürich 💙

We’re bringing that energy back in 2026!
🎟️ Tickets are on sale
🤝 Sponsors welcome

Join the vibe → June 11, Zürich 🇨🇭

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · Jun 6

Stefan Dietiker (Ergon) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “Ingress is Frozen – What Should I Do?”
Ingress is stuck. The Gateway API is the future.
Learn why it matters, what it solves & how to get started with simple, hands-on examples.
Looking forward to this one!

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · Jun 5

Simon Lackerbauer (Scigility AG) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “High Security Cluster Operations with Cilium and Kyverno”
eBPF networking + Kubernetes-native policy = secure, compliant clusters.
Real-world use cases, no prior Cilium/Kyverno knowledge needed!
See you there!

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · Jun 4

Simon Krenger (Red Hat) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “Containers Aren’t VMs… Except When They Are”
KubeVirt in action: run VMs alongside containers in Kubernetes.
Live demos, trade-offs & when to use it — or not.

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · Jun 3

Rostyslav Myronenko (booking.com) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “Data Asset Discovery for Complex Cloud-Native Environments”
K8s, OPA, Prometheus & Fluentd to map, monitor & secure thousands of data assets at scale.
We are looking forward to learning from you, Rostyslav!

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · Jun 2

Mario Fahlandt (Kubermatic, GDE) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “The Bedrock of Efficient Software Delivery Are API-Driven Platforms”
From API-first design to cognitive load reduction — smart platforms start with strong foundations.
We’re looking forward to meet you, Mario!

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · Jun 2

Fabian Schulz & Pablo Garcia (Swisscom) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “From Weeks to Seconds: Scaling Network Automation with Kubernetes Operators”
KRM + MetalLB + NetBox = 5G Core network in minutes.
👉 Cloud-native automation in action.

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · Jun 1

That's all folks

We’ve unlocked unused sponsor vouchers for Cloud Native Zurich – and they're going exclusively to people on the waitlist!

📬 If you're on the list, check your inbox – your ticket might be waiting 🎟️

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 30

🚫 Clément Nussbaumer (PostFinance) joins the #CNZRejects stage!
“Quantifying Randomness on Your Clusters with Kubenurse”
Flaky services? DNS issues? Ghost bugs?
Kubenurse monitors in-cluster network health — one DaemonSet away.
Looking forward to this one!

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 30

Marco Kuendig (copebit) takes the #CloudNativeZürich stage!
🎙️ “See an Elastic Platform Engineering Foundation”
Live demo of a scalable platform built with Kubernetes, GitOps & Crossplane — from compute to queues, ready for dev teams & real-world workloads.

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 29

Marcel Härri (Red Hat) takes the #CloudNativeZürich stage!
🎙️ “Building Kubernetes Clusters on Demand with Hypershift”
Hosted control planes, auto node provisioning & scalable cluster management — from bare metal to cloud.

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 28

Jeremy Colvin (Isovalent) hits the #CloudNativeZürich stage with:
🎙️ “Visualizing Security Data with Tetragon and Splunk”
From raw eBPF data to real-time dashboards — turn security noise into insight.
👉 SecOps + DevOps, this one’s for you!

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 28

📢 Gold Sponsor Announcement!

We’re thrilled to have Red Hat on board! 🏆
They deliver enterprise open-source solutions, excelling in hybrid cloud, automation & cloud-native development while driving innovation with open-source communities.

🎟️ Get your ticket now: zurl.co/dfgv

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 27

Johann Schley & Gregor Wälchli (Swisscom) hit the #CloudNativeZürich stage with:
🎙️ “Enterprise-grade IaaS in a Cloud Native Way”
VMs, multi-tenancy, SDN & guardrails, powered by KubeVirt, Kube-OVN & Kyverno.
👉 Swiss-grade infra, built the cloud-native way.

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 26

🚀 Kirusihaan Sathiyapalan (Axians Amanox) & Fabian Böger (Nutanix) take the #CloudNativeZürich stage to show how the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform simplifies ops & boosts cloud-native agility.

👉 Can’t wait to learn from these two and broaden our horizons together!

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 23

🎤 Lukas Grimm & Christian Haller bring 25 years of Puzzle ITC to the #CloudNativeZürich stage!
Get ready for their best explosion stories — real outages, bad deploys, hard lessons, and a lot of laughs.
See you there, we can`t wait! 🚀

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 23

On the CNZ Rejects stage: Tobias Brunner (VSHN) 🚀

👉 Talk: “Behind the Scenes of Servala – The Open Cloud Native Hub”
A look at its architecture, tools like Crossplane, Kubernetes, Helm, and Django, and the challenges of running multi-tenant cross-cloud services at scale.

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 22

👏 Gold Sponsor – Applause, please!

Huge thanks to copebit AG for supporting us! 🏆
As a key player in the Swiss #cloud-community, they excel in #cloud-consulting, #engineering & #automation, with expertise in #AWS & #containerization.

🤓 Get your ticket here: zurl.co/k796

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 21

🚀 What if your platform isn’t just a tech layer — but a lever for org-wide change?

Manuel Pais hits the #CNZ stage to explore how orgs like Spotify & ING use platform engineering to unlock delivery, culture & flow.
👉 "Talk: Unlocking Platform Engineering for Organizational Success"

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 21

👏 Up next at #CloudNativeZürich: Jonathan Perry, CEO at Unvariance & OpenTelemetry maintainer.

He’ll share how to reduce performance interference in K8s using strategies from Google & Alibaba, plus insights into Kubernetes-native isolators.

We are looking foward!

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 21

👀 Golden Sponsor of CNZ 2025!

Huge thanks to Isovalent for their support! 🏆
They develop cloud-native networking solutions with eBPF, enhancing security & connectivity for Kubernetes & hybrid clouds.

👉 Meet them & other industry leaders: zurl.co/1JqN

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 19

🚫 CNZ Rejects welcomes: Angelo Skibola (AWS)
🎙️ “Increasing Developer Productivity with GenAI”
Meet Amazon Q Developer — your GenAI assistant for writing code, generating tests, and bootstrapping environments across IDE, CLI, and Console.
Build faster. Search less.

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 16

🚫 On the CNZ Rejects stage: Max Körbächer (Liquid Reply)
🎙️ “AiDP – Time to Evolve Our Platforms”
LLMs need more than hype. Max dives into real-world strategies for GPU management, model serving, and secure, scalable AI platforms.
If you're building platforms, don’t miss this.

Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 13

📢 Daniel Binggeli (CTO, Puzzle ITC) hits the #CloudNativeZürich stage with Adrian Brunner to unpack what Platform Engineering really means. From mindset to feedback loops — and some ice hockey metaphors — it’s not just tech, it’s team, culture, and momentum.

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Cloud Native Zürich @cloudnativezurich.ch · May 12

👂Get ready for José Correia & Iveri Prangishvili (Adobe) at #CloudNativeZürich!

Deploying to 15,000+ K8s namespaces daily, they’ll share how SlackOps + GitOps, FluxCD, and DORA metrics power fast, reliable rollouts at scale.