VSHN - The DevOps Company
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VSHN is Switzerland’s leading partner for DevOps, Container & Kubernetes. We focus on operating IT platforms through automation, agility, and a continuous improvement process.
Neutrality isn't a certificate. It's an architecture decision. Aarno Aukia on where dependency really gets created, and what Switzerland can do about it: 🎥 Digital Neutrality: Switzerland's Engineering Advantage www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MmV... Recorded at the SwissSoftwareFestival 2026.
📢 Call for speakers! Got a cloud-native, Kubernetes, or open-source project to share? We'd love to hear from you. 👉 Suggest your talk: www.cnc-meetup.ch 📅 Event: www.meetup.com/cloud-native... #CloudNative #Kubernetes #Zurich #CallForSpeakers #Meetup
VSHN's Liene Luksika talked regulated digital asset platforms on open infra at OSFF London 2026: stable core + agile edge, delegate ops but own your core, evolutionary migration over big bang. Slides + recording + the honest "what didn't work" part here: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/lien...
The Public Health Authority of Frankfurt is a new global Red Hat success story - featuring VSHN 🎉 GA-Lotse, a federated open source platform for 25 health authorities in Hesse, runs as a managed service by VSHN on Red Hat OpenShift, hosted on Exoscale. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/sove...
"Buy European" isn't enough. "Buy Swiss" isn't either. A Swiss flag on the invoice doesn't equal sovereignty. The real question: can you replace your vendor without replacing the technology underneath? Open source. Operational control. Governance over geography. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/why-...
Great discussions around cloud, AI, and digital sovereignty at the Switch Cloud Forward Forum Day 2026. ☁️🇨🇭 We shared a joint use case with Exoscale and HIN on building sovereign cloud platforms with open technologies. Read the recap 👇 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/swit... #CloudNative #DigitalSovereignty
650 people, record heat, and some of the best tech conversations of the year. Swiss Software Festival 2026 delivered. 🙌 Aarno on sovereignty. Tobias on sausages, furniture and airplanes. Markus chairing Tech Track 2. Read the full recap: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/swis... #SwissSoftwareFestival
Digital Neutrality: Switzerland's Engineering Advantage in the AI Era - watch Aarno Aukia's closing session from yesterday's Swiss Software Festival 2026. AI writes the code. But who controls the runtime? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MmV... #DigitalSovereignty #AI #SwissSoftwareFestival
Swiss Software Festival 2026 is next Wednesday in Basel - are you joining? Here's what we have going on at the festival: 🎤 Aarno Aukia keynotes the closing plenary on digital sovereignty - "Digital Neutrality: Switzerland’s Engineering Advantage in the AI Era"
VSHN engineer Simon Gerber spent his innovation week building a HA load balancer + NAT gateway as a Fedora bootable container - with a custom Kubernetes operator that pulls cluster config from the API and reloads services on the fly.
Building a Modern Load Balancer and NAT gateway with Fedora bootable containers – VSHN AG
In my team, we have a space called “innovation week” where each engineer gets a week to work on a […]
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We're giving away tickets to Swiss Software Festival 2026 in Basel 🎉 Want to be there? Enter the raffle here: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/win-... - winners will be drawn Wednesday June 17th at 4 pm ⏰
Data centers in space - coming soon? 🚀 Not that far away said keynote speaker Thomas Zurbuchen at Cloud Native Zürich 2026 - another great edition: 400+ attendees, 4 tracks, and the first Sovereignty Track. Our recap: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/clou...
Quick recap of our panel discussion "Digital Sovereignty - Perspectives from the Ecosystem" yesterday at Cloud Native Zürich 2026: Five panelists, five very different angles. Read our recap: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/digi... #CloudNativeZurich #CNZ2026
Tomorrow at Cloud Native Zürich 2026! 🎉 Find us at the VSHN booth and catch our sessions in the Sovereignty Track at Abaton 4, sponsored by Servala: 🎤 Aarno Aukia – Running LLMs the Cloud-Native Way 🎤 Tobias Brunner – Furniture, Not Lumber 🗣️ Panel: Digital Sovereignty – moderated by Markus Speth
🇨🇭 Switch joins Servala as a Cloud Service Provider - bringing managed cloud-native services to Swiss universities and research institutions, operated on sovereign infrastructure. Because digital sovereignty is a team sport. 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/swit...
Cloud Native Zürich is just around the corner! See you next week in Zürich - visit us at our booth and attend our talks and the panel discussion on Digital Sovereignty! www.vshn.ch/en/blog/vshn... #CloudNativeZurich #CNZ #CloudNative #Kubernetes #OpenSource #VSHN
🚀 CloudNativePG is now the default PostgreSQL implementation for new PostgreSQL instances in VSHN AppCat. Plus several operational improvements and platform fixes behind the scenes. Read the full update blog post: 👇 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/vshn... #Kubernetes #PostgreSQL #CloudNativePG
Cluster Autoscaler doesn't support your cloud? Don't fork it - extend it via #externalgrpc. Marco's CNC Meetup follow-up: how to teach Cluster Autoscaler to speak cloudscale.ch with a separate gRPC service. Plus the gotchas (TemplateNodeInfo, lock ordering, the CCM trap). www.vshn.ch/en/blog/writ...
Recap: Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup - May 2026 🇨🇭 Four talks at the VSHNtower: 🔹 Kuberik 🔹 Anvil: Minecraft on k8s without an operator 🔹 Vibe Code Survival Guide for OSS 🔹 Cluster Autoscaler with externalgrpc Full recap 👇 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/clou...
VSHN is back as Matterhorn sponsor of Swiss Software Festival 2026 🇨🇭 June 24, 2026 🎤 Keynote by Aarno Aukia: "Digital Neutrality: Switzerland's Engineering Advantage in the AI Era" 🛠 Tobias Brunner in Track Platform Engineering & Software Architecture See you there 👋 www.swiss-software-festival.ch
CNC Switzerland Meetup starts soon: 15:00 at the VSHNtower. Kuberik, kube-rs + Minecraft, vibe code in open source, and a Cluster Autoscaler gRPC provider. Apéro after. 🍻 See you soon! www.meetup.com/cloud-native...
Digital sovereignty is no longer theoretical - it is already running in production. What started as a Swiss healthcare modernization project has now become a global Red Hat Success Story announced during Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta 🇨🇭🚀 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/digi... #DigitalSovereignty #HIN
Really proud to see Red Hat publish the official HIN & VSHN success story 🚀 Together with HIN, we built a sovereign cloud-native healthcare platform on Red Hat OpenShift across Swiss cloud providers 🇨🇭 👉 Read the full story: www.redhat.com/en/about/pre... #OpenShift #Kubernetes #DigitalSovereignty
Health Info Net Advances Sovereign Digital Healthcare with Red Hat and VSHN
Health Info Net (HIN) collaborates with Red Hat and VSHN to deploy a multi-cloud, sovereign infrastructure using Red Hat OpenShift, modernizing Swiss healthcare for a broad network of professionals…
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Cloud Native Zürich 2026 is getting closer - and we have a special offer for you: Get 20% off your ticket 🚀 Want to join? Use our discount code: 🎟️ VSHN-20 and get 20% off your Cloud Native Zürich ticket. 👉 More info: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/vshn... #DigitalSovereignty #CloudNativeZurich #CNZ2026
🚨 We’re still looking for one more speaker for the upcoming Cloud Native Computing Meetup at the VSHNtower in Zürich on May 21st! 👉 Event details: www.meetup.com/cloud-native... 👉 Submit your talk: cnc-meetup.ch Please share 🙌 #CloudNative #Kubernetes #OpenSource #DevOps #CNCF #Zurich
DevOpsDays Zurich 2026 is over. ❤️ Proud to have supported the event since the very first edition in 2016 - already looking forward to the 10th anniversary next year. 🎉 Our recap: www.vshn.ch/en/blog/devo... #DevOpsDays #DevOps #dodzh #CloudNative #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering
Digital sovereignty is becoming real. At #TRANSFORM2026: less strategy, more implementation. From e-ID to data infrastructure, things take shape. Key takeaway: "Buy European" isn't enough - Open Source is what truly enables sovereignty. 👉 www.vshn.ch/en/blog/tran... #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty
DevOpsDays Zurich kicks off tomorrow 🚀 Excited to see so many familiar faces, meet new ones, and dive into everything DevOps, open source, platform engineering, and cloud native. See you there 👋 And come visit us at our booth! #DevOpsDays #Zurich #CloudNative #OpenSource #PlatformEngineering
Digital sovereignty in Switzerland is becoming real 🇨🇭 VSHN is a founding member of the Zentrum SDS - Souveräne Digitale Schweiz. Open Source, sovereign cloud, AI, and strong ecosystems - excited to shape this together. www.vshn.ch/en/blog/vshn... #DigitalSovereignty #ZentrumSDS #NetzwerkSDS
