#KubeCon Europe brought some πŸ”₯ real-world reference architectures, by CERN @CERN, Swisscom, and ZEISS Vision!
These published how they're running hashtag#CloudNative in production. Not slides. Not demos. Battle-tested systems.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7450465449735192576/

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#kubecon #cloudnative #cncf #kubernetes #dapr #keda #opentelemetry | Dotan Horovits

#KubeCon Europe brought some πŸ”₯ real-world reference architectures, by CERN, Swisscom, and ZEISS Vision! These companies published how they're running #CloudNative in production. Not slides. Not demos. Battle-tested systems. shepherded by the #CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board.  πŸ‘ I particularly liked ZEISS Group's Vision Care Order Fulfillment platform. They rebuilt their entire order fulfillment stack, greenfield, with 200+ microservices handling order routing, document generation, and logistics at scale. And the stack hits close to home for me: #Kubernetes, #Dapr, #KEDA, and #OpenTelemetry. Their one honest regret? "In hindsight, we would have standardized on CNCF native components sooner to avoid replacing vendor-specific SDKs mid-project." OpenTelemetry from day one would have saved them real headaches. This is exactly why the CNCF ecosystem matters. Real companies, real scale, open source foundations. And the community in sharing knowledge and best practices. Check the comments for the link to the architectures on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) website. I've also covered Dapr, KEDA, and OpenTelemetry in depth. If any of these are on your radar, sharing those in the comments as well. πŸ‘‡

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Hot off #KubeCon: OpenTelemetry OpAMP now has a Gateway Exporter.

Here's how it works and how it can boost your scalability by orders of magnitude.

Check out my latest OpenObservability Talks episode with #OpAMP core maintainer Andy Keller and CNCF Ambassador:
https://medium.com/p/737b6af8222b

#OpenTelemetry #KubeConEU

AI agents and GPU workloads are expanding the attack surfaceβ€”fast.

At #KubeConEU, NVIDIA integrated GPU support with Kata Containers, bringing hardware-isolated execution to accelerated AI workloads on Kubernetes.

Stronger isolation.
Less host exposure.
A better foundation for secure AI.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-at-kubecon-2026/

Advancing Open Source AI, NVIDIA Donates Dynamic Resource Allocation Driver for GPUs to Kubernetes Community

In addition, NVIDIA announced at KubeCon Europe a confidential containers solution for GPU-accelerated workloads, updates to the NVIDIA KAI Scheduler and new open source projects to enable large-scale AI workloads.

NVIDIA Blog

At #KubeConEU, NVIDIA introduced GPU support for Kata Containers, extending hardware acceleration into a stronger isolation, separating workloads for increased security and enabling AI workloads to run with enhanced protection

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-at-kubecon-2026/

Advancing Open Source AI, NVIDIA Donates Dynamic Resource Allocation Driver for GPUs to Kubernetes Community

In addition, NVIDIA announced at KubeCon Europe a confidential containers solution for GPU-accelerated workloads, updates to the NVIDIA KAI Scheduler and new open source projects to enable large-scale AI workloads.

NVIDIA Blog
I'm not one to do corporate puffery for the sake of it but I hope you agree that @[email protected] 's presence at #KubeConEU was fantastic - I loved the combination of local flavor, fun graphics, engaging demos and case studies. Definitely one of the standout booths this year.

And that's it; #KubeConEU is coming to an end. While absolutely exhausting, it was also truly inspiring. I go home with countless new ideas, new friends, and plenty of things to do now, positively. But first: recovery!

Two blogs that contain what I learned and took away:

https://www.vshn.ch/blog/kubecon-europe-2026-recap-souveraenitaet-ai-agents-und-eine-starke-community/

https://servala.com/article/what-open-sovereign-cloud-day-told-us-about-the-future-of-servala/

#KubeCon #Amsterdam #Kubernetes #CNCF

KubeCon Europe 2026 Recap - SouverΓ€nitΓ€t, AI Agents und eine starke Community – VSHN AG

Die KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam geht zu Ende – und hat einmal mehr gezeigt, warum dieses Event […]

VSHN AG

πŸŽ‰ Microcks Community Meeting, live from #KubeConEU! Bring your questions, ideas, experiments, or just your curiosity πŸ‘‡

πŸ—“ Today ⏰ 6–7 PM CET | 1–2 PM EST | 9–10 AM PST

πŸ”— Join us live: https://github.com/microcks/community/blob/main/JOIN-OUR-MEETINGS.md

Having a good time at #KubeConEU with @[email protected]
#KubeConEU is fantastic time to spend with friends and maintainers to discover new projects and build plans for the next year