Aarno had the pleasure of presenting his view of the cloud at the Glenfis Cloud Talk on Wednesday, 20 November 2019, together with other experts at the Clouds in the Prime Tower in Zurich.

Those who understand the cloud only as an IT topic have already lost

Many companies want to move their IT into the cloud, but how does that actually work? At the Glenfis Cloud Talk, visitors learned from three perspectives how to take advantage of the cloud and how to avoid obstacles. Daniel Wolf (Glenfis), Dominik Zemp (Microsoft), Aarno Aukia (VSHN) and Harald Häuschen (Helsana) gave inputs on the subject of cloud computing. (from left, Source: Network Media)

3 views of the cloud at the Glenfis Cloud Talk

Glenfis has invited to cloud talk in the Prime Tower. High above the roofs of Zurich, visitors learned from three perspectives how the promises of the cloud for more scalability and new business models can be implemented in everyday life.

Perspective one: the expert. After the welcome by Glenfis Managing Director Martin Andenmatten, the first speaker was Aarno Aukia. The CTO and founder of VSHN demonstrated the changes that the cloud makes necessary in a company’s IT operations. Read here how VSHN can offer data center services without a data center.

But first the basic question has to be clarified: Why actually go into the cloud? There are many advantages, said Aukia. But the main thing is that cloud IT can be used to obtain IT – when, where and how you want. Like electricity from the socket, a company can use the services it needs. The cloud operator makes sure that everything works. Usually better than you can do it yourself.
As simple as it sounds, however, the use of cloud services is not without its challenges. Aukia said that the cloud can only show its full strength with consistent automation. Security should not be neglected either. DevOps is the ideal operating model. But neither with this, nor with a wealth of tools, migration to the cloud is a sure thing. It also requires collaboration, less silo thinking, training and good leadership.

Read more

You can find the complete article in the netzwoche.

CNC meetup #5 2019

Our fifth Cloud Native Computing Meetup 2019 took place on November 7th at Ergon Informatik in Zurich. Many thanks to Ergon for providing the great premises and sponsoring the Apéro.

As always, the fifth CNC meetup 2019 was very well attended and after interesting talks we had an exciting round of talks in a great atmosphere, illuminated by several Philips Hue powered light bulbs. A dream for IoT and home automation fans. 

VSHN and CNCF

As official member of CNCF and first Swiss Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with the organization of the CNC-Meetups in Zurich and we sponsored the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 im Mai in Barcelona.

Agenda and Talks

Andri Steiner, Ops One: “Our journey to persistent K8s storage with Rook”

Andri’s slides:

Robert Altnoeder, LINBIT: “High performance storage for cloud environments”

Zoltán Majó and Raphael Zimmermann, Ergon: “Cloud Computing at Ergon”

Bottom line

Many thanks to the speakers for the exciting talks and the sponsor Ergon for the great location and the Apéro, especially the great beer selection! 

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we would be happy to see many of you again at the next Meetup.

Next Events

You can find our event overview at: https://vshn.ch/vshn/events/

Next CNC meetup Zurich

The next Cloud Native Computing Meetup Zurich will take place on Thursday 27 February 2020 at Swiss Life. We are already looking forward to it today and wish everyone a good time until then!

Thank you very much and see you soon.

VSHN at AWS Summit Switzerland 2019

As we previously announced, we are proud to have participated in the last AWS Summit Switzerland as Bronze Sponsors. The event happened on Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 in Trafo Baden.
It was a great opportunity to meet partners and customers, and to learn more about the thriving AWS ecosystem. It also shows the importance of Switzerland as a market, that Amazon / AWS decided to host a Summit here after starting their Swiss branch.
We hope to see more events like this in Switzerland and want to say a big thank you to all Amazon employees for the great organization of the AWS Summit.

VSHN was bronze sponsor at AWS Summit

It is pretty awesome that we were a sponsor of AWS Summit Switzerland 2019 at Trafo Baden among other big brands such as Intel, VMware, Datadog, Veeam, NGINX and many many more. 🙂

Thanks for visiting our booth!

The VSHNeers really enjoyed being part of AWS Summit 2019. Thanks everyone for stepping by our booth and for the nice conversations.
Take care and see you on the next event!
Your VSHNeers

About AWS Summit Switzerland

Join the AWS Summit Switzerland in Baden, meet our local team and learn how the cloud is accelerating innovation in companies of all sizes. During this free, one-day event, you’ll get to know the AWS platform in breakout sessions covering a wide range of topics from new services and architectures to performance and operations. You also have the opportunity to hear from Swiss customers about their journey to the cloud.
Whether you’re just getting into the cloud or an experienced user, come and learn something new at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019.

Forum EPFL 2019

On Tuesday, October 8th, the VSHN team participated in the Forum EPFL 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Forum EPFL is the largest recruitment event in Switzerland.
It was a fantastic opportunity to meet talented engineers in the French-speaking side of the country!

Start-Up Day

About Forum EPFL

The 37th edition of Switzerland’s largest recruitment fair took place from the 7th to the 11th of October 2019.

APPUiO at the Cloud Computing Conference 2019 in Germany

APPUiO participated 2019 as Cloud Native Loft Sponsor at the Cloud Conferences of the Vogel IT-Academy in Bonn, Hanau, Hamburg and Munich.

What is the Cloud Computing Conference #CONCLOUD?

The Cloud 2019 Technology & Services Conference (#CONCLOUD) is organized annually by the Vogel IT Academy. In the event series the following topics were covered in lectures, live demos and technology outlooks:

• We are in the middle of a time change – from On Premises safely into the Cloud!
• Transfer existing legacies into hybrid cloud stacks or already into multi-cloud environments
• Containers and Microservices

The dates of the CLOUD Conference 2019:

• 10.09. Bonn
• 17.09. Hanau FFM
• 19.09. Hamburg
• 26.09. Munich

APPUiO Container Platform Pitch from Aarno Aukia (in German)

Success Story APPUiO & Flexis: From the Road to the Cloud (in German)

Success Story by APPUiO and Flexis at the Cloud Conference Hamburg 2019: From the Road to the Cloud – Optimization of Logistics Processes with Docker, Kubernetes and APPUiO.

Presentation From the Road to the Cloud (in German)

Impressions of Cloudcomputing Conference

Conclusion Cloud Conference 2019

The CLOUD 2019 was an extremely exciting series of events for us, which brought us together with various companies in Germany that more or less all face the same challenges. How do I choose Cloud Native? How do I convince traditional IT departments of container technology, Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift? How can I be faster than my competitors and still trust in the security of my important company data despite using innovative technology? Thank you very much for all the great conversations and some great input, we will be happy to contribute it to APPUiO.
APPUiO would like to thank all visitors who visited our booth, all participants and partners and of course the organizers of the Vogel IT Academy, who made the CLOUD 2019 Technology & Services Conference a unique platform around cloud topics again this year!
See you next time and many greetings.
Your APPUiO Team

About APPUiO

With APPUiO.ch we have created a container platform based on Red Hat OpenShift on which we can offer Managed Services as a PaaS solution (Platform-as-a-Service) on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises. Based on proven Open Source concepts like Docker and Kubernetes you develop, operate and scale an application according to your needs. With APPUiO, your applications can be run on public clouds as well as in-house. The platform was originally developed in 2015 by the two IT specialists Puzzle ITC and VSHN AG for the professionalization of internal IT. Today APPUiO is used productively by many customers and is supported by a strong community.

VSHN is Bronze Sponsor at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019 in Baden

We are very happy to be Bronze Sponsor at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019 in Baden.

Visit us at our booth at the AWS Summit

Visit us at our booth at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019 in Baden and learn more about VSHN and our future plans with AWS.

Details AWS Summit

Explore our rich agenda and immerse yourself in your core theme or take part in a starter session to learn something new. All topics are delivered by experts from AWS, partners or expert clients who share their practical experience.

• Where? Trafo Baden, Brown Boveri Pl. 1, 5400 Baden, Switzerland
• When? Wednesday October 2, 2019
• What? The following topics will be covered at the AWS Summit:
  • Machine Learning
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Database Migration
  • Security
• Mehr information can be found on the official AWS Summit website

About AWS Summit Switzerland

Join the AWS Summit Switzerland in Baden, meet our local team and learn how the cloud is accelerating innovation in companies of all sizes. During this free, one-day event, you’ll get to know the AWS platform in breakout sessions covering a wide range of topics from new services and architectures to performance and operations. You also have the opportunity to hear from Swiss customers about their journey to the cloud.
Whether you’re just getting into the cloud or an experienced user, come and learn something new at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019.

Red Hat Forum Zurich 2019

Also this year we attended Red Hat Forum Switzerland in Zurich with APPUiO as sponsor and with a booth on site. In 2019 the event took place at StageOne in Oerlikon and the number of visitors this year was even higher than in the last years. About 900 participants found their way to the 8th Red Hat Forum.

Red Hat and IBM

In addition to Open Source, DevOps, Microservices and Containers, the takeover of Red Hat by IBM was of course another big topic that was discussed extensively this year. But both the Red Hat management team and each individual employee are convinced that Red Hat will remain in its current form and that IBM will create new opportunities for them. So far, there have been absolutely no differences in day-to-day business. For Red Hat, IBM is “shareholder and partner at the same time”, which would open many new doors.

APPUiO at Red Hat Forum

APPUiO had a booth on site and were very happy to see many familiar faces again, but we also made many new contacts. Great keynotes and breakout sessions as well as a great ambience made the Red Hat Forum a special event. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizers and the super friendly service staff!

TeamAPPUiO

There were even red Clouds!

Our latest joint project. APPUiO on Philips. 🙂

APPUiO beerup

After the official part of the Red Hat Forum APPUiO invited to a beerup. The number of visitors was even bigger than last time in Sihlcity – it felt like half of the Red Hat Forum crowd also joined our beerup. 🙂

But only those who were in possession of a golden ticket were let in by the strict admission control. 🙂

In a pleasant atmosphere with many nice people and a wonderful late summer evening we had some drinks after the Red Hat Forum in the Giesserei in Oerlikon and had great conversations. We would like to thank all visitors and are looking forward to the next time! (PS: if you want to have a look at the Red Hat Forum 2018 impressions, you can find our blog post here)
See you soon and take care.
Your APPUiO team

APPUiO – Swiss Container Platform

With APPUiO.ch, we created the Swiss container platform based on Red Hat OpenShift, where we provide managed services on a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises. Reliable open source concepts such as Docker and Kubernetes allow you to develop, operate and scale your application according to your needs. With APPUiO, your applications can be operated both on public clouds as well as on in-house data centers. The platform was originally built by the two IT specialists Puzzle ITC and VSHN AG to professionalize internal IT. Today, APPUiO is already used in production by several customers and supported by a strong community.

World class ice hockey in Sursee

The Lehner Cup 2019 is already history again. With a 5 : 3 victory against the team from Kazakhstan, Barys Nur-Sultan (HK Barys Astana), the EV Zug secured its second tournament victory at the Lehner Cup after 2014. Congratulations to the team from Central Switzerland. The EHC Sursee would like to thank all sponsors for their valuable support and all spectators for visiting this year’s Lehner Cup.

VSHN was sponsor of the Lehner Cup 2019

Following a few impressions of the great ice hockey event.
More infos can be found on www.lehnercup.ch.
We are looking forward to next year! 🙂

Our fourth Cloud Native Computing Meetup 2019 took place on August 29th at VMware Switzerland in the Dell EMC Cafeteria in Zurich. Many thanks to VMware for providing the great premises and sponsoring the Apéro. As always, the fourth CNC-Meetup 2019 was very well attended and after interesting talks we had an exciting round of talks in a pleasant atmosphere.

As official member of CNCF and first Swiss Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with the organization of the CNC-Meetups in Zurich and we sponsored the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 im Mai in Barcelona.

Agenda and Talks

Christian Mäder, nxt Engineering: “Efficient software development with docker-compose”

Cojan van Ballegooijen, Cloudbees, Running CI/CD with CloudBees and VMWare Cloud PKS (https://www.slideshare.net/secret/8dVb5g02NfGwNd)

Running CI/CD with VMWare Cloud PKS and Jenkins X from Cojan van Ballegooijen

Nick Jones, D2iQ, formerly known as Mesosphere: “Introducing KUDO – Kubernetes Operators The Easy Way!”Introducing KUDO – Kubernetes Operators, The Easy Way from Nick Jones

Summary

Many thanks to the speakers for the exciting talks and the sponsor VMware for the great location and the Apéro. In addition to the obligatory pizza, there were also delicious salads and a great selection of beer! 

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we would be happy to see many of you again at the next Meetup.

Next events

Our event overview: https://vshn.ch/vshn/events/

Next CNC-Meetup Zurich

The next CNC Meetup will take place on Thu. November 7. We are already looking forward to it today and wish everyone a good time until then!

Thanks and see you soon!

We were Platinum Sponsor at the DevOpsDays Zurich 2019 and had our own booth with APPUiO. The number of visitors doubled again this year and you can definitely say that DevOpsDays has developed into one of the most important DevOps events in Zurich.
Exciting talks and open spaces and a great audience in a pleasant atmosphere – and all that at affordable prices. What more could you ask for? 🙂

APPUiO at DevOpsDays

You can find some impressions of the DevOpsDays 2019 and our booth in the official APPUiO Blog Post. Have fun reading! 🙂

Impressions

Following some impressions from the DevOpsDays Zurich 2019 in the Umweltarena Spreitenbach:

Über die DevOpsDays

DevOpsDays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area. Most DevOpsDays events feature a combination of curated talks and self organized open space content. Topics often include automation, testing, security, and organizational culture. The first DevOpsDays was held in Ghent, Belgium in 2009. Since then, DevOpsDays events have multiplied, and if there isn’t one in your city, check out the information about organizing one yourself!

CNC-Meetup #3 2019

Our third Cloud Native Computing Meetup took place on Thursday May 9 in the Swisscom Tower in Zurich. Many thanks to Swisscom for providing the great premises and to Cloudreach for sponsoring the Apéro. The third CNC-Meetup 2019 was very well attended and after interesting speakers we had an exciting round of talks in a pleasant atmosphere and a wonderful view over Zurich.

As official member of the CNCF and first Swiss Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with the organization of the CNC-Meetup in Zurich and sponsors the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 in Barcelona in May.

Agenda and Talks

Chris Bingham, Cloudreach: “Once” Upon a Time in a Distributed System…”

Chris’s slides can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12DxCNABy8ohCMAAFql3MnbRnoHSDafO3/view

Josh Wirth, Software Engineer at smartive AG: “How we simplified our Kubernetes deployments with an alternative to Helm”

Adrian Kosmaczewski, VSHN AG: A (Very!) Quick Comparison of Kubernetes Serverless Frameworks.

The slides from Adrian have been published in a separate blog post.

Conclusion

A big thank you to the speakers for the exciting talks and the sponsors for the fantastic location and the Apéro (I just say Poulet-Curry-Pizza – hmm :). We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we would be happy to see many of you again at the next Meetup.

Next Events

This week the DevOpsDays Zurich 2019 took place and next week we are already at KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona. Everything about VSHN and KubeCon can be found on https://vshn.ch/kubecon/. Of course we are also looking forward to meeting many of the Swiss community people in Barcelona!

Next CNC-Meetup Zurich

The next Cloud Native Computing Meetup Zurich will take place on Thursday August 29. Contact us at http://cnc-meetup.ch if you want to hold a talk or if you know someone who could sponsor location / Apéro. Thanks a lot and see you soon.

Google Cloud Switzerland Launch

Switzerland is the 6th region in Europe (europe-west6) and the 19th region of the Google Cloud Platform worldwide to offer computing, storage, big data and network services. It is connected to Google’s well-equipped, secure and private network to provide global access to all services of the Google Cloud Platform.

Launch Event and Google Cloud Services Platform

Of course, this has to be celebrated with a big launch event in Zurich. The VSHNeers are on site at StageOne and follow interesting talks and speakers such as Urs Hölzle – one of the first 10 Google employees – who talks about the Google Cloud Services Platform. With the Google Services Platform (GSP), companies can create their own applications and cloud services that can be operated both on-premise and in the Google Cloud. Other IT professionals from SAP, Google, Credit Suisse and Balgrist University Hospital will be leading the day.

VSHN and Google Cloud / GKE

As the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) in Switzerland, we are of course already very familiar with the Google Cloud and GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine).
We are pleased to announce that Google is now offering a Swiss Cloud. The decision is a very positive statement for the location Switzerland, which makes us as a Swiss company happy and many of our customers have been waiting for. For all those who already work with Google Tools and the Google Cloud, the step of a Swiss Google Cloud is of course very exciting for VSHN as a Managed Service Provider with many Swiss customers.
We are looking forward to the further development of how the Swiss Google Cloud will be accepted and how Zurich will continue to assert itself as a European IT heavyweight in the international environment.

Press

The Swiss press reports in detail about the Google Cloud Switzerland Launch:
https://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2019-03-12/googles-cloud-startet-in-der-schweiz-aber-nicht-fuer-alle
https://www.computerworld.ch/business/cloud/google-cloud-eroeffnet-schweizer-region-1689821.html

About VSHN – The DevOps Company

VSHN AG is the leading Swiss partner for DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and 24/7 Cloud Operations. VSHN helps software developers run their applications agile and 24/7 on any infrastructure while relieving the burden on IT operations.
Since 2014, we are serving more than 1000 servers in 20 different clouds as well as on-premises at customer locations with a total of more than 66’000 services for 300 different customers and partners. We are ISO 27001 certified and work to the strict FINMA guidelines to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information at all times.
With APPUiO.ch, we have created a Red Hat OpenShift based Swiss container platform, where we can offer Managed Services as a PaaS solution (Platform-as-a-Service) on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises.
At VSHN, we believe in openness and transparency, so we let you decide where to store your data (we call this multi-cloud strategy). Either locally in your own data center (on-premise) or at a cloud provider location of your choice. Take a look at our services and learn more about our services and how we can possibly support you. Follow us on Twitter (@vshn_ch and @APPUiO) and don’t miss any news.

Get 20% off KubeCon / CloudNativeCon tickets

You also want to go to KubeCon from May 20 – 23 2019 in Barcelona?

As a CNCF member, we can offer you a 20% discount on the official corporate ticket price.

What do you have to do?

There is no catch – simply fill out the form below and we will send you a discount code immediately.
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How much is a ticket and where can I order?

Tickets for the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon can be ordered on the official website. Do not forget to enter our discount code during the order process.

About KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona

The flagship conference of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation will gather users and technology savvy people from leading open source and cloud communities from May 20 to 23, 2019 in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Be part of theKubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, gRPC, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, TUF, Vitess, CoreDNS, NATS, Linkerd, Helm, Harbor and etcd community and meet with like-minded people four days long, to promote the know-how and further development of cloud computing.
The conference continues to record strong growth: In 2019, more than 6’000 participants are expected to attend KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe in Barcelona.
Here you can find a roundup of the last KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 in Seattle.

VSHN is official sponsor of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon

We support the Cloud Native Computing Foundation by sponsoring KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona, we are official CNCF member, organize the CNC meetups in Zurich and we are the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) in Switzerland. Visit us at our booth at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona!

About VSHN – The DevOps Company

VSHN AG is the leading Swiss partner for DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and 24/7 Cloud Operations. VSHN helps software developers run their applications agile and 24/7 on any infrastructure while relieving the burden on IT operations.
Since 2014, we are serving more than 1000 servers in 20 different clouds as well as on-premises at customer locations with a total of more than 66’000 services for 300 different customers and partners. We are ISO 27001 certified and work to the strict FINMA guidelines to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information at all times.
With APPUiO.ch, we have created a Red Hat OpenShift based Swiss container platform, where we can offer Managed Services as a PaaS solution (Platform-as-a-Service) on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises.
At VSHN, we believe in openness and transparency, so we let you decide where to store your data (we call this multi-cloud strategy). Either locally in your own data center (on-premise) or at a cloud provider location of your choice. Take a look at our services and learn more about our services and how we can possibly support you. Follow us on Twitter (@vshn_ch and @APPUiO) and don’t miss any news.

CNC-Meetup #2 2019

Our second Cloud Native Computing Meetup took place on Thursday Feb 21 in the Swisscom Tower in Zurich. Many thanks to Swisscom for providing the great premises and to Nine for sponsoring the Apéro.

As official member of the CNCF and first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with the organization of the CNC-Meetups in Zurich and sponsors the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 in Barcelona in May.

From the 15th floor of the Swisscom Tower you have a wonderful view over Zurich. 

Agenda and Talks

Gerd König, Managing Director at SCIGILITY: “EKS: K8s on AWS, Holy Grail or Holy moly?”

Peter Bittner, DevOps Engineer at VSHN: “Avoid The Vendor Lock-In Trap With App Deployment”

Peter’s slides can be reviewed here:

Conclusion

Many thanks to the speakers for the interesting talks and the sponsors for the fantastic location and the nice Apéro. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we would be happy to see many of you again at the next Meetup. So long and stay cloud native!

Next CNC meetup

The next meetup will take place on Thursday May 9 2019, we are already looking forward to it and are looking for speakers. Contact us at http://cnc-meetup.ch if you want to hold a talk. Thanks a lot and see you soon.

Container Stack 2019 at FIFA World Football Museum Zurich

On January 30th and 31st 2019, the Container Stack, a two-day event on Kubernetes with one day of workshops and one day of conference, took place for the first time at the FIFA World Football Museum Zurich. VSHN was co-sponsor of the event.

Led by industry professionals, the conference brought together users and representatives of the ecosystem and the CNCF community. A good mix of user reports from experts from the pharmaceutical, banking, media and research sectors, as well as representatives of the global Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystems, presented their experiences and approaches to the challenges of large native cloud architectures.

Impressions from Container Stack

Experts from the fields of Networking Layer, Storage Layer, Packaging Layer and Professional Services have shared their know-how and brought their global expertise closer to the audience. Our VSHNeers were also there and our Head of DevOps Tobias Brunner held a Lightning Talk on Kubernetes Distributions.

Tobias Brunner: Kubernetes Distributions – The road to production

https://speakerdeck.com/tobru/container-stack-lightning-talk-kubernetes-distributions
The following speakers attended the Container Stack:
Sebastien Goasguen from Triggermesh.

Ricardo Rocha from CERN.

Alexis Richardson from Weaveworks.

Ara Pulido from Bitnami.

Romain Chalumeau from Merck.

Other speakers included Pierre-Yves Ritschard from Exoscale, Catalin Cirstoiu from the Pictet Group, Jeffry Molanus from OpenEBS and Liz Rice from Aqua Security.

Knative meetup at VSHN

Between the Container Stack Workshop on Wednesday and the conference on Thursday, VSHN organized a Knative CNCF meetup at short notice. Mark Chmarny (TPM Serverless, Google) and Sebastien Goasguen (Founder, Triggermesh) spoke about Knative, the Kubernetes framework to build, deploy, and manage serverless workloads. Impressions including a video recording of the meetup can be found here.

Conclusion Container Stack 2019

The VSHNeers were enthusiastic about the first edition of the Container Stack. Exciting talks, top speakers and an interested audience. In any case, we would be happy if the Container Stack would take place again next year. Many thanks to the organizers.

What is Kubernetes and who is CNCF?

After Linux, Kubernetes is the largest open source project in the world and the de facto standard for container orchestration and the management of distributed applications. Kubernetes automates the setup, operation and scaling of containerized applications and is a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). VSHN is the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) in Switzerland.

About VSHN – The DevOps Company

VSHN AG is the leading Swiss partner for DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and 24/7 Cloud Operations. VSHN helps software developers run their applications agile and 24/7 on any infrastructure while relieving the burden on IT operations.
Since 2014, we are serving more than 1000 servers in 20 different clouds as well as on-premises at customer locations with a total of more than 66’000 services for 300 different customers and partners. We are ISO 27001 certified and work to the strict FINMA guidelines to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information at all times and we are the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) in Switzerland.
With APPUiO.ch, we have created a Red Hat OpenShift based Swiss container platform, where we can offer Managed Services as a PaaS solution (Platform-as-a-Service) on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises.

Follow us and don’t miss any news

At VSHN, we believe in openness and transparency, so we let you decide where to store your data (we call this multi-cloud strategy). Either locally in your own data center (on-premise) or at a cloud provider location of your choice. Take a look at our services to see how we can possibly support you. VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation by sponsoring KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona, we are official CNCF member and we are the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) in Switzerland. You can find our next events like the next CNC-Meetup here.
Follow us on Twitter (@vshn_ch and @APPUiO) and subscribe to our newsletter and don’t miss any news.

Inside Channels Forum on Jan 31st 2019

On Jan 31st 2019, the Inside Channels Forum 2019 with the big players of the Swiss ICT industry took place in the Kultur- and Kongresshaus in Aarau. VSHN was there and our CTO Aarno held a Transformation Talk.

Channel-Transformation 2019

The Inside Channels Forum 2019 was dedicated to the topic “Channel Transformation”. The ICT industry is undergoing radical change both worldwide and in Switzerland. Previous businesses are disappearing or becoming smaller and all players must become more agile. ICT service providers, cloud providers, resellers, consultants and system integrators must adapt to the changing requirements of the market. The Inside Channels Forum 2019 addressed the question of how companies can be made fit for change.
In the completely filled hall, future topics such as artificial intelligence and digital transformation were discussed.

VSHN at Inside Channels Forum 2019: Aarno’s Transformation Talk

VSHN was also there and Aarno Aukia, founder and CTO of VSHN – The DevOps Company, gave a transformation report speech with the topic: “How we made the entry into the IT business with DevOps, Cloud and Docker” (in German).

Below is a recording of Aarno’s Talk. Have fun watching.

And here can can view the slides of Aarno’s transformation talk:
https://www.slideshare.net/AarnoAukia/transformation-report-vshn-ag-the-devops-company

Many thanks to the organizers of the Inside Channels Forum

Many thanks to the organizers of the Inside Channels Forum, inside-channels.ch. We enjoyed it a lot and will gladly come again next year, especially because of the IPA-as-a-Service! 🙂

About VSHN – The DevOps Company

VSHN AG is the leading Swiss partner for DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and 24/7 Cloud Operations. VSHN helps software developers run their applications agile and 24/7 on any infrastructure while relieving the burden on IT operations.
Since 2014, we are serving more than 1000 servers in 20 different clouds as well as on-premises at customer locations with a total of more than 66’000 services for 300 different customers and partners. We are ISO 27001 certified and work to the strict FINMA guidelines to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information at all times and we are the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) in Switzerland.
With APPUiO.ch, we have created a Red Hat OpenShift based Swiss container platform, where we can offer Managed Services as a PaaS solution (Platform-as-a-Service) on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises.

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At VSHN, we believe in openness and transparency, so we let you decide where to store your data (we call this multi-cloud strategy). Either locally in your own data center (on-premise) or at a cloud provider location of your choice. Take a look at our services to see how we can possibly support you. VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation by sponsoring KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona, we are official CNCF member and we are the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) in Switzerland. You can find our next events like the next CNC-Meetup here.
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Between the Container Stack workshop on Wednesday Jan 30th and the conference on Thursday Jan 31st 2019, we organized a Knative CNCF meetup at VSHN. Mark Chmarny (TPM Serverless, Google) and Sebastien Goasguen (Founder, Triggermesh) spoke about about Knative, the Kubernetes framework for building, deploying, and managing serverless workloads.

Despite the short notice (we planned the meetup 1 week in advance) we had a full house at VSHN. And with all the people on the waiting list, we could have filled the room almost twice.

Watch the recording

But for those who couldn’t join the meetup, we recorded the talks with an introduction to Knative, demos, and the Q&A session. Have fun watching.

Thank you for a great CNC meetup

Many thanks to all attendees and especially to our speakers Mark Chmarny and Sebastien Goasguen for their great talks and their short term commitment.

We would be happy to have you as speakers at a Meetup again!

Cloud Native and Kubernetes

VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation by sponsoring KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona, we are official CNCF member and we are the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) in Switzerland. You can find our next events like the next CNC-Meetup here.

Next CNC meetup

The next CNC-Meetup will take place on Thursday, February 21st 2019, we are already looking forward to it and are still looking for one more speaker. Contact us at http://cnc-meetup.ch if you want to hold a talk.
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Thanks a lot and see you next time!