Cloud Native Zürich 2025 Thu, June 12th, 2025

The conference entry includes a tasty breakfast to start the day, followed by a lunch that provides an opportunity to recharge and mingle with other attendees. After the conference, enjoy a networking apero for informal discussions and building relationships in a laid-back setting.
40 Super Early Bird Tickets available until 11th November 2025

GitOps is a natural extension of the Infrastructure-as-Code and Continuous Delivery principles, with a focus on using Git as the single source of truth for your system. Changes to infrastructure and applications are made declaratively via a Git repository, with an automated process ensuring that the current state of your system reflects the state of the repository. This one-day workshop offers a practical and clearly understandable introduction to GitOps using Argo CD on Kubernetes and will cover:

• Basic concepts and architecture
• Managing Argo CD applications in Git
• Sync policies, Self-healing, Pruning of resources
• Comparing application state (Git vs. Kubernetes Cluster)
• Resource hooks, sync phases and waves
• Various manifest formats

Ansible is an open-source automation tool that simplifies tasks like configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration through declarative, code-based playbooks.
The workshop consists of varied presentations and hands-on labs in order to teach content in an appealing fashion.

• Write a simple Ansible module
• How Ansible finds and uses modules
• Useful documentation and information
• Write documentation of own module
• Testing with ansible-test
• Ansible-Galaxy
• Packing an Ansible module in a collection

Container technologies, Kubernetes above all, have become more important in recent years and now are a significant driver of digitalization. This one-day workshop provides a practical and easy-to-understand introduction to Kubernetes.

• Architecture and components of Kubernetes
• Applications deployment
• Access opportunities
• Pod scaling
• Service layer and discovery
• Persistent storage
• StatefulSet, DaemonSet, Job, ConfigMap, Init and Sidecar Container
• Troubleshooting

KubeVirt is an extension of Kubernetes that follows the Operator pattern. KubeVirt enables the operation of traditional virtual machines (VMs) alongside container workload on the same infrastructure. This one-day workshop offers a practical and clearly understandable introduction on how to run VMs on Kubernetes using KubeVirt covering:

• Introduction to KubeVirt concepts and architecture
• Deploying and managing virtual machines
• Comparison with typical Kubernetes workload
• Creating VM images
• Scaling VMs