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KubeCon 2026: Gliders, Drones and Lots of Kubernetes

KubeCon 2026: Gliders, Drones and Lots of Kubernetes

What do a glider, drones, CERN and Uber have in common? They all shared the keynote stage at KubeCon 2026 in Amsterdam last week. As a Silver Member of the CNCF, NWS was once again on site with part of the team. Find out what Sebastian, Achim, Justin, Dominik, Martin and Daniel experienced during the conference, what's new in the cloud-native world and which contributions they found particularly exciting in our review of KubeCon 2026! Keynotes: Cloud-native everywhere, NVIDIA and Uber as new...

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X-Forwarded-For and proxy protocol with kgateway

X-Forwarded-For and proxy protocol with kgateway

In many cases, it is helpful for applications to know the source IP of a request. With this information, your application can do many useful things, e.g. use GeoIP data to display the appropriate language for the visitor on a website.Unfortunately, in the cloud and...

What comes after ingress-nginx?

What comes after ingress-nginx?

Last November, the Kubernetes project announced the discontinuation of the popular ingress controller ingress-nginx. After a best-effort transition phase until March 2026, the project will no longer receive any releases, bug fixes or security updates from this point...

Deploying Ceph on Kubernetes with Rook

Deploying Ceph on Kubernetes with Rook

Most applications require persistent storage in one way or another. Whether profile pictures, text documents or product information in an outsourced database, data always has to be stored somewhere. In the cloud, block storage or object storage is normally used for...

Kubernetes Release v1.35: What’s New?

Kubernetes Release v1.35: What’s New?

The latest Kubernetes release was published just in time for the end of 2025. We therefore kicked off the new year with the usual detailed release notes. As with every Kubernetes version, the release team has once again chosen a name and a release motto. Kubernetes...

Cloud Deployment in 15 Minutes with Terraform and Docker

Cloud Deployment in 15 Minutes with Terraform and Docker

In today's world of the cloud, it's easy to lose track: VMs, Kubernetes, Serverless, the possibilities are almost endless, and the "best" way to run applications is not always clear. It is often worth creating a proof of concept and going through a cloud deployment...

Review: OpenInfra Summit 2025

Review: OpenInfra Summit 2025

The OpenInfra Summit 2025 was once again held in Europe last month. Just outside Paris, developers, operators and decision-makers from all corners of the world came together to discuss the latest developments in cloud-native infrastructure, edge computing and...

Anomaly Detection with Falco

Anomaly Detection with Falco

We rely on containers and Kubernetes to operate the NETWAYS Cloud and our other services. Among other things, this approach allows us to cleanly separate different microservices on the same hypervisor and operate multi-tenant SaaS solutions.However, this architecture...

CoreDNS and Kubernetes: an overview

CoreDNS and Kubernetes: an overview

CoreDNS is one of the unsung heroes of Kubernetes. It can be found in almost every Kubernetes setup and performs its tasks reliably and unnoticed. It can also be found in NETWAYS Managed Kubernetes®.That's why I was recently surprised to suddenly have to interact with...

Kubernetes Gateway API explained

Kubernetes Gateway API explained

If you run applications, you usually want to interact with them. This basic statement is almost always true: whether it's a web store, database or cloud storage, you have to access the services via a network somehow. Very few applications run in a network vacuum. In...

What’s new in Grafana 12?

What’s new in Grafana 12?

Last week, the annual GrafanaCON took place in the USA in Seattle (Washington). Fans and users of the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) know what that means: a new Grafana release! Consequently, there is only one topic today: What's new in Grafana 12? As a user...

NETWAYS on the road – our KubeCon London Review

NETWAYS on the road – our KubeCon London Review

Last week it was time again - the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London was on the agenda! As in previous years, NETWAYS Managed Services was there again with some colleagues - not least because our membership in the CNCF was officially announced. You can find out...

Kubernetes Policies with OPA Gatekeeper

Kubernetes Policies with OPA Gatekeeper

Once you have got started with Kubernetes and are in productive operation, new requirements are often added to the existing environments over time. These can be diverse: from consistent labels for rolled-out applications to security-relevant settings, there are many...

Lightweight and powerful: K3s at a glance

Lightweight and powerful: K3s at a glance

More than 10 years after its release, the Kubernetes project has found its way into the mainstream. The best proof of this is the large number of available solutions: (almost) every cloud provider has managed Kubernetes on offer, as well as a large number of freely...

VM rescue on OpenStack

VM rescue on OpenStack

Accidentally terminated the SSH service, deleted the boot partition, or complications after updating the operating system? Most of us have stood in front of an inaccessible, misconfigured or otherwise broken server at some point and no longer had access. Fortunately,...

Kubernetes v1.31 “Elli”: This is new

Kubernetes v1.31 “Elli”: This is new

Two weeks ago, the Kubernetes project received its first update after its tenth birthday. If you take a closer look at the release notes, at first glance there are few groundbreaking innovations in Kubernetes v1.31 with the mascot "Elli" - and that's a good thing. The...