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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 17h

Two screenshots, one hand-coded and one written by an AI agent. In Chris Bingham's internal poll at Fujitsu, about 75% could not tell which was which. From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026. Full talk: youtu.be/Xf9BVR4uzrY #ai #aicoding #cloudnative

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Istio's ambient mode drops the sidecar, and with it the user ID that kept traffic in the mesh. Benjamin Koltermann shows a pod routing around it. From the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup, 15 September 2026. Full talk: youtu.be/k-DHGADtPP8 #istio #kubernetes #cloudnative

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Thursday, October 1st: MariaDB + VSHN, "Navigating Open Source at Scale". Three days to go. If MariaDB runs anywhere in your stack, this one hour is worth blocking in your calendar.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meet Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, in person, at the VSHN Tower in Zürich. On October 19th, VSHN and MariaDB are hosting a technical hands-on workshop that goes past the marketing pitch: what MariaDB Enterprise actually adds on top of Community, and what that looks..

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back at DINAcon 2026 - now with two talks 🎙️ Two VSHNeers are speaking at DINAcon this year (Nov 18, Bern): 🔹 Tobias Brunner - "Furniture, Not Lumber: What Sausages, Furniture and Airplanes Have to Do with Digital Sovereignty" (14:10)

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join us on October 1st for a closer look at MariaDB and what digital sovereignty really means for your data layer. VSHN Co-Founder Aarno Aukia sits down with MariaDB's Jonas Schwegler to unpack how you keep your data layer sovereign without giving up the reliability of a managed enterprise setup.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cloud Native Day is in full swing and our booth is buzzing 🔥 Come find us, grab a chat about Cloud Native, Kubernetes, platform engineering and more, and say hello - we'd love to meet you! #SCND #CloudNativeDay #Bern #Gurten

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stay ahead on cloud native, platform engineering, Kubernetes, sovereignty and open source in Switzerland. Subscribe to VSHN News, our monthly roundup. Sign up here 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/newsletter/ #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #OpenSource #Kubernetes #DevOps #Switzerland

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MariaDB runs quietly under more of your stack than you'd think, and as Community builds go business-critical, the risks (unpatched CVEs, licensing gaps, operational friction) add up.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Recap: our September Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup at the VSHNtower in Zürich yesterday was another good one 🎉

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Swiss Cloud Native Day is this Thursday, September 17th, up on the Gurten in Bern! 🏔️ We'll be sponsoring again this year with a booth in the Uptown area. Come by between talks, grab a coffee with us, and tell us what you're building -

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣 Call for Speakers: Cloud Native Computing Switzerland - November Meetup We're still looking for speakers for our next CNC Switzerland meetup on Tuesday, November 17, 3-6pm CET at Open Systems AG in Zürich!

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're heading back to DINAcon on November 18 in Bern - and this year we're sponsoring the apéro. DINAcon is Switzerland's conference for digital sustainability, bringing together 300+ people from IT, public administration, politics and civil society around one question:

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Paying for operations by the hour? You've hired someone who loses revenue every time they automate. That's the core problem with hourly ops contracts - and why fixed-fee-per-service-level flips the incentive.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚀 Cloud Native Computing Meetup | Nov 17, 3pm at Open Systems AG in Zurich. Three talk slots waiting for speakers. Submit your proposal: www.cnc-meetup.ch Register on Meetup: www.meetup.com/cloud-native... #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Zürich

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're sponsoring Swiss Cloud Native Day again: 17 September, Mount Gurten, Bern. Find us at our booth in the Uptown area, catch our sponsor talk, and stay for the party. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/back... #swisscnd #cloudnative #CloudNativeDay

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nearly a decade. 3'000+ members. 50+ meetups. 🇨🇭 The next Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup: Tue, 15 September, VSHNtower Zürich. Free, apéro included, limited spots: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/more...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Neutrality isn't a certificate. It's an architecture decision. Aarno Aukia on where dependency really gets created, and what Switzerland can do about it: 🎥 Digital Neutrality: Switzerland's Engineering Advantage www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MmV... Recorded at the SwissSoftwareFestival 2026.

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📢 Call for speakers! Got a cloud-native, Kubernetes, or open-source project to share? We'd love to hear from you. 👉 Suggest your talk: www.cnc-meetup.ch 📅 Event: www.meetup.com/cloud-native... #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Zurich #CallForSpeakers #Meetup

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

VSHN's Liene Luksika talked regulated digital asset platforms on open infra at OSFF London 2026: stable core + agile edge, delegate ops but own your core, evolutionary migration over big bang. Slides + recording + the honest "what didn't work" part here: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/lien...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Public Health Authority of Frankfurt is a new global Red Hat success story - featuring VSHN 🎉 GA-Lotse, a federated open source platform for 25 health authorities in Hesse, runs as a managed service by VSHN on Red Hat OpenShift, hosted on Exoscale. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/sove...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Buy European" isn't enough. "Buy Swiss" isn't either. A Swiss flag on the invoice doesn't equal sovereignty. The real question: can you replace your vendor without replacing the technology underneath? Open source. Operational control. Governance over geography. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/why-...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Great discussions around cloud, AI, and digital sovereignty at the Switch Cloud Forward Forum Day 2026. ☁️🇨🇭 We shared a joint use case with Exoscale and HIN on building sovereign cloud platforms with open technologies. Read the recap 👇 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/swit... #CloudNative #DigitalSovereignty

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

650 people, record heat, and some of the best tech conversations of the year. Swiss Software Festival 2026 delivered. 🙌 Aarno on sovereignty. Tobias on sausages, furniture and airplanes. Markus chairing Tech Track 2. Read the full recap: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/swis... #SwissSoftwareFestival

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Digital Neutrality: Switzerland's Engineering Advantage in the AI Era - watch Aarno Aukia's closing session from yesterday's Swiss Software Festival 2026. AI writes the code. But who controls the runtime? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MmV... #DigitalSovereignty #AI #SwissSoftwareFestival

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Swiss Software Festival 2026 is next Wednesday in Basel - are you joining? Here's what we have going on at the festival: 🎤 Aarno Aukia keynotes the closing plenary on digital sovereignty - "Digital Neutrality: Switzerland’s Engineering Advantage in the AI Era"

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

VSHN engineer Simon Gerber spent his innovation week building a HA load balancer + NAT gateway as a Fedora bootable container - with a custom Kubernetes operator that pulls cluster config from the API and reloads services on the fly.

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Building a Modern Load Balancer and NAT gateway with Fedora bootable containers – VSHN AG

In my team, we have a space called “innovation week” where each engineer gets a week to work on a […]

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We're giving away tickets to Swiss Software Festival 2026 in Basel 🎉 Want to be there? Enter the raffle here: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/win-... - winners will be drawn Wednesday June 17th at 4 pm ⏰

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Data centers in space - coming soon? 🚀 Not that far away said keynote speaker Thomas Zurbuchen at Cloud Native Zürich 2026 - another great edition: 400+ attendees, 4 tracks, and the first Sovereignty Track. Our recap: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/clou...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Quick recap of our panel discussion "Digital Sovereignty - Perspectives from the Ecosystem" yesterday at Cloud Native Zürich 2026: Five panelists, five very different angles. Read our recap: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/digi... #CloudNativeZurich #CNZ2026

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tomorrow at Cloud Native Zürich 2026! 🎉 Find us at the VSHN booth and catch our sessions in the Sovereignty Track at Abaton 4, sponsored by Servala: 🎤 Aarno Aukia – Running LLMs the Cloud-Native Way 🎤 Tobias Brunner – Furniture, Not Lumber 🗣️ Panel: Digital Sovereignty – moderated by Markus Speth

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🇨🇭 Switch joins Servala as a Cloud Service Provider - bringing managed cloud-native services to Swiss universities and research institutions, operated on sovereign infrastructure. Because digital sovereignty is a team sport. 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/swit...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Cloud Native Zürich is just around the corner! See you next week in Zürich - visit us at our booth and attend our talks and the panel discussion on Digital Sovereignty! www.vshn.ch/en/blog/vshn... #CloudNativeZurich #CNZ #CloudNative #Kubernetes #OpenSource #VSHN

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🚀 CloudNativePG is now the default PostgreSQL implementation for new PostgreSQL instances in VSHN AppCat. Plus several operational improvements and platform fixes behind the scenes. Read the full update blog post: 👇 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/vshn... #Kubernetes #PostgreSQL #CloudNativePG

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Cluster Autoscaler doesn't support your cloud? Don't fork it - extend it via #externalgrpc. Marco's CNC Meetup follow-up: how to teach Cluster Autoscaler to speak cloudscale.ch with a separate gRPC service. Plus the gotchas (TemplateNodeInfo, lock ordering, the CCM trap). www.vshn.ch/en/blog/writ...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Recap: Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup - May 2026 🇨🇭 Four talks at the VSHNtower: 🔹 Kuberik 🔹 Anvil: Minecraft on k8s without an operator 🔹 Vibe Code Survival Guide for OSS 🔹 Cluster Autoscaler with externalgrpc Full recap 👇 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/clou...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

VSHN is back as Matterhorn sponsor of Swiss Software Festival 2026 🇨🇭 June 24, 2026 🎤 Keynote by Aarno Aukia: "Digital Neutrality: Switzerland's Engineering Advantage in the AI Era" 🛠 Tobias Brunner in Track Platform Engineering & Software Architecture See you there 👋 www.swiss-software-festival.ch

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

CNC Switzerland Meetup starts soon: 15:00 at the VSHNtower. Kuberik, kube-rs + Minecraft, vibe code in open source, and a Cluster Autoscaler gRPC provider. Apéro after. 🍻 See you soon! www.meetup.com/cloud-native...

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Digital sovereignty is no longer theoretical - it is already running in production. What started as a Swiss healthcare modernization project has now become a global Red Hat Success Story announced during Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta 🇨🇭🚀 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/digi... #DigitalSovereignty #HIN

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Really proud to see Red Hat publish the official HIN & VSHN success story 🚀 Together with HIN, we built a sovereign cloud-native healthcare platform on Red Hat OpenShift across Swiss cloud providers 🇨🇭 👉 Read the full story: www.redhat.com/en/about/pre... #OpenShift #Kubernetes #DigitalSovereignty

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Health Info Net Advances Sovereign Digital Healthcare with Red Hat and VSHN

Health Info Net (HIN) collaborates with Red Hat and VSHN to deploy a multi-cloud, sovereign infrastructure using Red Hat OpenShift, modernizing Swiss healthcare for a broad network of professionals…

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Cloud Native Zürich 2026 is getting closer - and we have a special offer for you: Get 20% off your ticket 🚀 Want to join? Use our discount code: 🎟️ VSHN-20 and get 20% off your Cloud Native Zürich ticket. 👉 More info: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/vshn... #DigitalSovereignty #CloudNativeZurich #CNZ2026

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨 We’re still looking for one more speaker for the upcoming Cloud Native Computing Meetup at the VSHNtower in Zürich on May 21st! 👉 Event details: www.meetup.com/cloud-native... 👉 Submit your talk: cnc-meetup.ch Please share 🙌 #CloudNative #Kubernetes #OpenSource #DevOps #CNCF #Zurich

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

DevOpsDays Zurich 2026 is over. ❤️ Proud to have supported the event since the very first edition in 2016 - already looking forward to the 10th anniversary next year. 🎉 Our recap: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/devo... #DevOpsDays #DevOps #dodzh #CloudNative #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Full house at #DevOpsDays Zurich day 2 in Winterthur! Come to our booth and say hello! 👋 #dodzh

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Digital sovereignty is becoming real. At #TRANSFORM2026: less strategy, more implementation. From e-ID to data infrastructure, things take shape. Key takeaway: "Buy European" isn't enough - Open Source is what truly enables sovereignty. 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/tran... #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

DevOpsDays Zurich kicks off tomorrow 🚀 Excited to see so many familiar faces, meet new ones, and dive into everything DevOps, open source, platform engineering, and cloud native. See you there 👋 And come visit us at our booth! #DevOpsDays #Zurich #CloudNative #OpenSource #PlatformEngineering

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Digital sovereignty in Switzerland is becoming real 🇨🇭 VSHN is a founding member of the Zentrum SDS - Souveräne Digitale Schweiz. Open Source, sovereign cloud, AI, and strong ecosystems - excited to shape this together. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/vshn... #DigitalSovereignty #ZentrumSDS #NetzwerkSDS

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🎟️🚨 DevOpsDays Zurich is next week in Winterthur and we've got a few last tickets to give away! We're raffling: - 1x 2-day pass (May 6-7) - 1x 1-day pass (May 7) Just drop a comment below and tell us which ticket you'd like. We'll draw the winners today at 17:00 CET. www.devopsdays.ch Good luck!

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🐙 Friendly reminder: Codey's price lock-in ends April 30th. Get your own dedicated Forgejo instance in Europe at today's price - permanently. → codey.ch More info: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/code... #Codey #Forgejo #OpenSource #Europe #CodeCollaboration

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VSHN - The DevOps Company @vshnch.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

EUR 180M EU cloud tender introduces sovereignty scoring. 8 dimensions. No provider reached full sovereignty. Hyperscaler involvement lowers your score. For Swiss orgs, this framework will matter soon. 👉 What it means: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/eur-... #SovereignCloud #DigitalSovereignty #EUCloud

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