Cloud Native Computing Meetup | September 2026

Let's meet at the CNC meetup on Tuesday, September 15th, 2026, at 15:00 CET.

Location:
VSHNtower, Neugasse 6, 8005 Zürich

Agenda:
14:30 – Door Opening
15:00 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
15:05 – How to: securing your clusters, Benjamin Koltermann, cenroq AG
15:35 – 5 minutes pause
15:40 – Paddelbuch – How Kiro Changed the Game, Chris Bingham, CTO Switzerland, Fujitsu
16:10 – 5 minutes pause
16:15 – A swiss, cloud-native Alternative to Vercel and Heroku - Christian Blättler, zeitlos.software
16:45 – Final words, networking & apéro

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Talk 1: Benjamin Koltermann, cenroq AG

How to: securing your clusters

Everyone wants secure Kubernetes clusters. Almost no one can achieve this. In this talk, we’ll show how Kubernetes can be attacked despite seemingly secure configurations, and how these security gaps can be identified and closed.

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Talk 2: Chris Bingham, CTO Switzerland, Fujitsu

Paddelbuch – How Kiro Changed the Game

In 2024 I presented the history of paddelbuch.ch - serverless geospatial information system built on AWS to support the Swiss paddle sports community.
Then Kiro arrived! So what happened next? What did I accomplish with Kiro? And how did one, unexpected, conversation at AWS re:Invent 2025 massively change the technical underpinnings of Paddelbuch? All these questions and perhaps more will be answered in this session.

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Talk 3: Christian Blättler, zeitlos.software

A swiss, cloud-native Alternative to Vercel and Heroku

Vercel and Heroku make it easy to deploy your apps but hard to leave. Lucity is my open-source take on the same developer experience, built on standard Kubernetes and Helm, with one hard constraint: you can eject at any time and keep running without it. I'd like to go deep on these decisions that are driven by the ejectability constraint of Lucity: – why Lucity has no Database and how it derives its entire state from Kubernetes and it's surrounding systems. – why Lucity discovery state lucity.dev/* labels instead of shipping CRDs – how it powers a feature-rich PostgreSQL offering based on CNPG – and lastly how these decisions make the eject project not a data migration but just a pure download of the Helm chart and values

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