KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026

DEMO SESSION

Life After Ingress NGINX: How To Unify Kubernetes Traffic In One Stack

As Ingress NGINX and other legacy controllers reach end-of-life, platform teams are forced to make a decision: scramble for a like-for-like replacement, or seize the opportunity to modernize?

In this session, we will demonstrate how to turn this "Ingress Reset" into a strategic advantage. We will move beyond traditional Ingress, showing how to migrate seamlessly to a unified solution that handles external load balancing, Gateway API, and service-to-service traffic — all in one stack.

Join us for a practical look at migration patterns that solve today's maintenance urgency while unlocking the performance and simplicity of tomorrow's platform architecture.

Speaker: Jakub Suchy & Zlatko Bratkovic | Wednesday, March 25 at 11:05 CET | Hall 1-5

KEYNOTE

Universal Mesh: Connect and Secure Everything

Managing connectivity across diverse business units, clouds, locations, and partners is a complex challenge for large organizations. Traditional solutions like VPNs and firewalls provide network-level connectivity, while Service Mesh offers application-aware traffic management for cloud-native environments – but there’s a huge difference in how these connectivity models are managed, secured, and observed.

Universal Mesh bridges this gap with a unified interconnectivity model – delivering the benefits of Service Mesh in a resource-efficient model that works across your entire infrastructure. Universal Mesh brings together North-South and East-West communication in a consistent pattern to connect every cloud, app, and service.

Join us to discover how Universal Mesh simplifies connectivity management, unifies security and governance, and provides consistent control over traffic flows—regardless of where your applications run or how they’re built.

Speaker: Baptiste Assmann | Thursday, March 26 at 09:17 CET | Hall 12