NeoNephos at CloudLand 2025

Engage with and learn about NeoNephos and related projects by participating in our sessions at the upcoming CloudLand 2025:

Headline: Building Europe’s Cloud Future: NeoNephos’ Platform Mesh

Abstract: In today’s service- and platform-oriented world, many common questions arise frequently: How can different service offerings across a wide array of providers be unified? What type of topologies are required for connecting service providers in a harmonized way? How can they communicate in a common language? We discuss how a combination of Cloud Native building blocks (kcp and kube-bind, among others) is used to create the foundation for the next generation of cloud platforms. We demonstrate a prototype which meshes together Kubernetes-like APIs that allows us to consume services across multiple control plane instances, instantiating what we call the “Platform Mesh”. This open source project is part of the Apeiro-Reference-Architecture, SAP’s contribution to the European Union’s Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) for Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures and Services (CIS). Apeiro builds upon established cloud-native standards and architectural principles and aims to produce a blueprint for Europe’s cloud-edge continuum.

Speakers: Mirza Kopic, SAP SE & Marvin Beckers, Kubermatic
🗓 Date: July 2nd, 2025 at 14:00 CEST.

Headline: Grow thousands of Kubernetes Clusters with Gardener

Abstract: In the fast-paced world of cloud-native technologies, managing Kubernetes clusters at scale is a major challenge. Join this session to learn how we addressed this with Gardener, an open-source Kubernetes management tool. Gardener allows organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers and on-premise environments at scale. Gardener is fully Kubernetes-based, and you can run it yourself, using any language binding or tool, including kubectl. It gives organizations full control over their cloud strategy. Administrators can set boundaries like available Kubernetes versions and infrastructure providers, while end users can fine-tune cluster configurations and perform upgrades easily with a simple change to a Kubernetes manifest. It supports diverse infrastructures like AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack, ensuring a consistent Kubernetes experience. Managing thousands of clusters becomes straightforward with minimal TCO. Since its launch in 2017, Gardener has reached a high level of enterprise readiness. Its extensibility is valued by adopters, allowing for organizational control and additional features. It has a vibrant ecosystem, particularly in Europe, and is part of the Apeiro-Reference-Architecture, SAP’s contribution to the EU’s Important Project of Common European Interest for Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures and Services.

Speakers: Hendrik Kahl, SAP SE
🗓 Date: July 3rd, 2025 at 16:00 CEST.

Headline: Build your own IaaS with IronCore by utilizing the Kubernetes Aggregation Layer

Abstract: Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, but its extensibility allows it to manage much more than just containers. IronCore is an open-source project that demonstrates how to build a custom Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform by leveraging the Kubernetes controller-runtime library and the aggregation layer. This talk will guide you through the process of extending Kubernetes to manage IaaS resources like virtual machines, networks, and storage as native Kubernetes objects. The IronCore project is part of the Apeiro-Reference-Architecture, SAP’s contribution to the European Union’s Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) for Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures and Services (CIS). Apeiro builds upon established cloud-native standards and architectural principles and aims to produce a blueprint for Europe’s cloud-edge continuum.

Speakers: Andreas Fritzler, SAP SE
🗓 Date: July 4th, 2025 at 13:00 CEST.

Additionally, these related talks may also be of interestd to you:

Headline: Build your own IaaS with IronCore by utilizing the Kubernetes Aggregation Layer

Abstract: *Abstract The Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) has proven to be amazing at building consistent, high quality APIs. Its extensibility has driven mass adoption by third party “operators”. The kcp project (accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in 2023) extends Kubernetes API concepts beyond container orchestration.

This talk will discuss how kcp supercharges platforms with a global control plane for service APIs. As a central API layer, kcp enables a SaaS-like experience between internal service providers and developers, transforming internal developer platforms into a service marketplace. All via concepts and tools that developers working with Kubernetes already know and (some, at least) love.

kcp expands the world of platform engineering beyond the limits of single Kubernetes clusters, and therefore transforms the scale at which platform teams and internal service providers can operate. This talk will explore patterns for both service providers and developers and how kcp makes their lives easier.*

Speakers: Marvin Beckers, Kubermatic GmbH
🗓 Date: July 3rd, 2025 at 15:00 CEST.

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