Cloud Native Bern Meetup, Mai 2026

Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2026 dürfen wir euch zu einem weiteren Cloud Native Meetup in Bern begrüssen. Es erwarten uns bei der Adnovum in Bern zwei spannende Talks!

16:30 – Türöffnung
17:00 – Begrüssung
17:05 - Orchestrating enterprise infrastructure from a single Cloud Native Control Plane (Angelo Gargiulo, Cyrill Näf, Bank Julius Bär)
Join us as we share Bank Julius Bär's transformative automation journey that began in 2018, when manually deploying a single application environment took weeks. We'll trace our evolution from basic server deployment automation to our current distributed cloud-native control plane known as Fleet Commander.
Our automation journey began by introducing VMware vRealize Automation for server deployments, expanding to databases, container platforms, and other services published on our "IT Shop" portal. As demand increased, our centralized team became a bottleneck, and our hybrid cloud strategy required a new approach.
We implemented a distributed responsibility model where technical teams manage their own automation within architectural guardrails. However, limitations in state management and infrastructure-as-code capabilities led us to develop Fleet Commander—a cloud-native control plane for both on-premise and public cloud environments.
This session explores how we're using Kubernetes and Crossplane to build a scalable automation framework with GitOps-first infrastructure provisioning. We'll cover the architecture patterns that enable unified automation interfaces through a Kubernetes-like API while supporting diverse infrastructure requirements and day 1/day 2 operations.
Audience Takeaways:
• Architecture patterns for building distributed automation systems on Kubernetes
• Approaches to scaling automation capabilities using Crossplane
• Strategies for implementing GitOps workflows in automation platforms
• Methods for creating unified automation interfaces across different infrastructure domains
• Real-world insights from our evolution to a distributed automation model
• Technical implementation of a cloud-native control plane for hybrid environments
17:45 – Pause
17:55 - TBD (Vitor Bernardo, Adnovum)
Es erwartet uns ein spannender Vortrag von Vitor. Das Thema wird demnächst bekannt gegeben. Stay tuned!
18:35 - Apéro

Wir freuen uns riesig, euch wieder bei uns zu begrüssen und gemeinsam in den Feierabend zu starten. Bis bald!
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