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ayedo from Schwalbach Reaches Millions Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes , and digital sovereignty are the core business. On Instagram, ayedo shows a …
TL;DR A distributed active-active architecture increases resilience but incurs additional costs for redundant capacities, monitoring, testing, and …
TL;DR Edge failover is not a single switch decision. Anycast, routing convergence, backend health checks, and protocol states interlock in multiple …
TL;DR Publicly accessible applications and APIs should not be directly connected to their backends. An upstream edge layer handles DDoS protection …
TL;DR Anycast load balancing combines global reachability with targeted traffic distribution. Anycast determines which Edge PoP handles a request, …
TL;DR Backend Cloaking separates the publicly accessible entry layer from the actual application and API backends, keeping internal target addresses …
TL;DR A robust Edge-Compute Architecture separates the public entry from the actual application execution. The Edge Cloud handles routing, …
TL;DR A distributed Kubernetes landscape requires a clear boundary between public traffic and internal compute infrastructure. An Edge Cloud assumes …
TL;DR A resilient Kubernetes Ingress failover doesn’t start with DNS but with clearly defined failure patterns and meaningful backend health …
TL;DR Kubernetes Ingress Security doesn’t start within the cluster. By bundling WAF, DDoS Protection, TLS Termination, and Backend Cloaking at …
TL;DR The Kubernetes Gateway API can form a portable interface between applications and public traffic. When connected to a provider-independent edge …
TL;DR Kubernetes resources already contain the logical mapping between hostnames and applications. An automated DNS process can evaluate this …
TL;DR The Kubernetes API Server is not a typical ingress target but the central control point of a cluster. A Kubernetes API Server Load Balancer …
TL;DR A central edge entry point can consolidate public Kubernetes endpoints like Ingress services and API servers under a unified architecture. Key …
TL;DR Cross-provider Kubernetes requires a unified public entry point if security, routing, and failover are not to be tied to individual clusters or …
TL;DR Kubernetes Ingress and Gateway configurations already contain the hostnames under which applications should be accessible. External-DNS can …
TL;DR The Kubernetes Gateway API delineates responsibilities between infrastructure, platform, and application more effectively than traditional …
TL;DR A publicly accessible Kubernetes API Server requires more than just forwarding to a control plane endpoint. Key elements include a clear TLS …
TL;DR Provider-independent DNS is not achieved by swapping out a single provider but through an architecture with centralized control, clear …
TL;DR DNS answers the question of which address a service is reachable at. Anycast routing determines to which network location packets are directed. …
TL;DR DNS changes should be part of the same controlled process as other infrastructure changes. With the ayedo Edge Cloud, external DNS zones can be …
TL;DR A robust DNS naming concept separates internal resolution from publicly authoritative edge services. Internal and External DNS Zones have …
TL;DR DNSSEC is not a switch, but an ongoing operational process. In distributed authoritative DNS architectures, zone signing, key rollover, trust …
TL;DR Separate Internal Zones and External Zones address different visibility and security requirements but create a significant consistency risk. …
TL;DR Kubernetes load balancing doesn’t stop at the cluster’s service object. For publicly accessible applications, IP distribution, TLS, …
TL;DR L7 load balancing distributes HTTP and HTTPS requests not only based on IP address and port but also on hostname, URL path, method, or headers. …
TL;DR L4 and L7 load balancing address different issues. TCP load balancing distributes connections quickly and protocol-independently, while HTTP …
TL;DR Backend pools are not merely a technical grouping of target systems; they are a central element of load balancing architecture. A clear …
TL;DR L7 Load Balancing distributes requests not only based on IP address and port but evaluates the HTTP context. Path, hostname, method, or header …
TL;DR Anycast load balancing makes the public entry to applications and APIs independent of a single location or load balancer. L4 and L7 …
TL;DR TLS termination at the edge is not merely a certificate task. It defines where HTTPS transitions into processable HTTP requests and where …
TL;DR HTTP Load Balancing processes requests at Layer 7, allowing it to incorporate HTTP methods, paths, headers, or hostnames into routing …
TL;DR Backend pools are not just a configuration aid but an architectural decision. They determine which backends receive traffic together, which …
TL;DR L4 L7 load balancing is not about a universally better technology. TCP load balancing distributes connections without understanding higher …
The Metrics API is Stable – After Nearly Nine Years in Beta With Kubernetes 1.37, metrics.k8s.io is released as v1, marking it as a Stable API. The …
🧠Editorial: Sometimes you only realize how dependent you are when something fails. Or is sold. Or suddenly someone else wants access to your data. …
📰 Tech News: German Companies Fear Their US Dependency German companies increasingly view their reliance on US technology as a risk. However, many do …
For regulated financial service providers and SaaS vendors, building on proprietary US hyperscaler services was long the fastest path to market …
In modern industrial and resource companies, tens of thousands of telemetry data points from global production facilities, programmable logic …
In many industrial and raw material companies, traditional ETL pipelines hit hard physical limits as data volumes increase: Monolithic orchestration …
In many machine learning initiatives, the speed of innovation and IT security collide head-on: To achieve rapid training results, data scientists, …
In many data science initiatives, there is a significant gap between the proof-of-concept in a Jupyter Notebook and a robust production environment: …
In many companies, the use of modern accelerator hardware resembles an unregulated race: Data scientists reserve entire high-end GPUs like the NVIDIA …
🧠Editorial: This week in the Weekly Backlog: OpenAI prefers to wait for better market conditions, Bavaria continues to transfer millions to Microsoft …
It’s 2:17 AM. Your website is still accessible. The server is running. But a business-critical API is no longer responding. Customers …
Whether it’s a SaaS platform, customer portal, or mobile app – modern software hardly functions without APIs today. They connect frontend and …
There’s a phrase no IT team wants to hear: “Your application isn’t working.” It’s even more uncomfortable when this …
99.9% availability sounds impressive. At first glance, this figure seems like a quality promise. In fact, it appears in many Service Level Agreements …
The status page shows green. The web server responds. Monitoring reports no anomalies. Yet, support requests are piling up. Customers can’t log …
The application is cleanly developed. The code has been tested, performance optimizations have been implemented, and the infrastructure has …
An outage costs money. But even more costly is the time when no one knows why the outage occurred. These very minutes often determine whether an …
The application is slow. Support receives the first reports from customers. Thus begins the search for the cause. CPU usage? Unremarkable. Memory? …
A server doesn’t fail without warning. An application doesn’t slow down in an instant. And databases rarely suddenly encounter …
The IT landscape has fundamentally changed in recent years. Applications no longer run on a single server but are distributed across containers , …
Many companies associate high availability in Kubernetes with a simple rule of thumb: Deploy three control plane nodes and the issue is resolved. In …
🧠 Editorial This edition primarily focuses on digital sovereignty—from both a technical and political perspective. I particularly recommend the guest …
📰Tech-News: The First Documented AI Agent Hack is Here Hugging Face operates the world’s largest directory for open-source AI models. Millions …
🧠 Editorial This week had it all: open databases, open GitHub repositories, open questions about data protection – and a surprisingly large number of …
The Myth of “Finished Kubernetes” “We now have Kubernetes.” Hardly any phrase is uttered more frequently in IT projects—and …
🧠Editorial: This week, it becomes clearer than ever that digital sovereignty is no longer an abstract debate. While a US Supreme Court ruling once …
TL;DR Self-service platforms enable developers to deploy quickly and independently, but they require clear governance and strong security mechanisms. …
TL;DR Open APIs reduce vendor lock-in by bridging location and cloud boundaries with clear contracts and portable data models. API-first promotes …
TL;DR Open standards enable portability, interoperability, and compliance across provider boundaries. Open Standards Kubernetes Europe creates a …
TL;DR Geopolitical factors shape cloud architectures more than many organizations realize. Political decisions, export controls, and supply chains …
TL;DR Geostrategic cloud services create supply chain dependencies that significantly influence operational, security, and cost decisions. …
TL;DR For kubernetes-compliance-audit , organizations need consistent audit trails, clear governance processes, and secure log architectures. Audit …
TL;DR Kubernetes open platforms create digital sovereignty, reduce vendor lock-in, and enhance interoperability across multi-cloud environments. Open …
TL;DR Kubernetes high availability means more than just HA of a cluster. It requires geo-redundant clusters, automated failover paths, and robust …
TL;DR Data sovereignty and portability are not side aspects of the cloud but central architectural principles. Open formats, standardized APIs, and …
In digital customer service, load is rarely linearly predictable. On a normal day, ticket volume usually trickles in quietly - the support team …
Anyone leading a digital team knows that the support helpdesk is the operational nerve center of customer service. Emails, chat messages, and API …
TL;DR This post compares HA patterns in Kubernetes , focusing on etcd replication, control plane redundancy, and platform-wide failover concepts. It …
Efficient management of modern Kubernetes platforms is akin to peering into a black box. Hundreds of microservices fly in containers across nodes, …
In the cloud-native landscape, the number of internal tools, web apps, APIs, and external cluster services is rapidly growing. Each of these …
In modern cloud-native systems, synchronous communication is a risk factor. When an application communicates directly and blocking via HTTP/REST …
The digital transformation of industrial companies, supply chains, and software platforms generates a relentless stream of data every second. Sensors …
How an Open-Source Project Became the Operating System of the Cloud In June, Kubernetes celebrates its twelfth anniversary. What began in 2014 as an …
Why Secrets Are Not an Infrastructure Problem When discussing the security of modern platforms, the topic of secrets inevitably arises sooner or …
Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) has revolutionized software development. Code changes flow automatically through pipelines, are packaged …
The architecture of modern cloud-native platforms ideally follows the principle of statelessness. Requests are distributed across a global Anycast …
In the operation of modern platforms, high-traffic APIs, or industrial IoT gateways, monitoring response times (latency) is one of the most critical …
When a medium-sized company or corporation decides to modernize its IT infrastructure, migration is almost always on the agenda. Workloads move from …
In the architecture of modern, highly available IT infrastructures, load balancing is at the forefront. As applications scale and are distributed …
When companies think about IT security, they usually focus on firewalls, encryption, or protection against phishing. However, legislators are now …
DORA-ready in the Financial Sector: What ICT Third-Party Risk Management Means for DNS For banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and their …
In the world of IT infrastructure, there’s an unwritten rule: “Never trust a single route.” Companies naturally rely on redundancy …
Among system administrators and platform engineers, there’s a well-known running gag: When an IT system goes down globally, the web app is …
When IT decision-makers and data engineers discuss the deployment of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the focus is almost entirely on …
In industrial environments, those training machine learning models, optimizing neural networks, or running complex simulations inevitably encounter …
The hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has become a tangible operational reality in medium-sized …
In many medium-sized companies, the IT landscape resembles a collection of digital islands. There is one application for customer contact, another …
When medium-sized companies plan their IT strategy for the coming years, they often find themselves in a strategic dilemma. On one hand, there is the …
In modern business IT, two departments often stand in stark opposition: IT security demands increasingly complex passwords, additional authentication …
When medium-sized companies decide to break free from the dependency on major US SaaS providers, the migration process often follows a rigid, …
When companies think about IT security, cyberattacks, data loss, or server failures are usually at the forefront. A much more subtle but often …
When analyzing the IT costs of a growing medium-sized enterprise, one almost always encounters the same dynamic: the relentless progression of …
In traditional IT, a glance at CPU load or HTTP status code often suffices: If the server responds and the CPU isn’t at 100%, the system is …
In a multi-tenant environment (many customers on one platform), video is a selfish workload. If Customer A starts a massive live event with 10,000 …
Video data is highly sensitive. Whether it’s internal strategy meetings, confidential investor calls, or patient data in healthcare, the …
One of the biggest cost drivers in the video business is the gap between provisioned and actually used capacity. Video workloads are extremely …
In modern event communication, streaming “only” on your own website is rarely enough. Marketing teams want to be where their audience is: …
In traditional IT monitoring, the binary principle prevailed for a long time: a system is either up or down. However, in the modern digital world, …
Many IT departments feel secure because their monitoring dashboards consistently show “green.” The servers are up, CPU load is low, and …
With the enactment of NIS-2 and the tightening of national security laws (such as BSIG 2.0), the playing field for KRITIS operators has changed. It …
Operators of critical infrastructures (KRITIS) invest heavily in fail-safety. However, this planning often ends at the data center’s property …
The vision of a fully connected “Smart Factory” is impressive, but to many production managers, it seems like an unattainable mammoth …
In Industry 4.0, the cloud is a powerful ally for data analysis and AI. However, for daily operations on the shop floor, a strict rule applies: …
🧠Editorial The Tech World is Writing Its Own Rules The German Armed Forces reject Palantir because software is no longer just software. Microsoft …
How Staleness Mitigation Finally Makes Controllers More Deterministic Kubernetes is an open-source platform for orchestrating containerized …
In the world of data engineering, there’s a saying: “Storing data is easy, querying it quickly is the art.” When we talk about …
In software development, the problem has long been solved: Code is versioned in Git, isolated in containers , and deployed identically across …
In theory, Artificial Intelligence is a boon for the industry. In practice, implementation often stumbles over a mundane hurdle: hardware …
Operating Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or complex eCommerce solutions presents an economic and architectural challenge: the cost structure demands …
At first glance, the business model “Database as a Service” (DBaaS) seems deceptively simple: take a proven open-source database like …
🧠Editorial Europe is negotiating with the USA again over Big Tech regulation. Not public, not officially decisive – but close enough to touch the …
In the world of Critical Infrastructures (KRITIS), having a sophisticated high availability concept in the drawer is not enough. Auditors and …
When companies decide to distribute their Kubernetes platform across two data centers, they face a directional decision: Do they build a single, …
TL;DR Polycrate automatically captures every polycrate run execution as an “Action Run” – including block, action, exit code, timestamp, …
In many data engineering teams, starting a new project follows a frustrating pattern: First, Python versions, R libraries, SQL drivers, and CUDA …
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a hype in e-commerce but a tool for scaling. Whether it’s generating product descriptions from technical …
In modern e-commerce, the search function is much more than just an input field. It is the most important salesperson in the shop. Users who use the …
Have you ever experienced this? A user clicks “Generate PDF Export” or “Create Monthly Report” in your SaaS app, and suddenly …
Editorial This week feels like a reality check for multiple narratives at once. AI is suddenly not just innovation, but a cost issue. Digital …
In customer service and technical support, the ticketing system is the central nervous system. Many companies instinctively turn to market leaders …
Since the breakthrough of ChatGPT, it’s clear: AI can do more than just analyze numbers. It can write reports, summarize maintenance …
In software development, Git is the “Source of Truth.” When something goes wrong, you check the commit history. In the world of …
Why the EVB-IT Reform is a Turning Point for Government IT Public IT procurement in Germany has long been characterized by a structural …
In many data science teams, the workday begins with frustration: A shared notebook won’t run because a library is missing. A model trained on …
In the world of Artificial Intelligence, there’s a phenomenon we often refer to as the “Wall of Confusion.” On one side is the data …
Structure Instead of Symbolic Politics Since 2021, the French government has been pursuing a well-structured approach to the digital transformation …
Digital sovereignty is often discussed in abstract terms, but it can be technically delineated quite clearly: the key is what systems are bound to. …
The Invisible Modernization of Critical Infrastructure It’s often not the visible features that determine the stability of modern platforms, …
Why the Next Evolutionary Stage of the Platform Has Already Begun The discussion around AI infrastructure is noticeably shifting: away from mere …
TL;DR In this post, we build a Polycrate workspace that manages on-premise servers and Azure VMs in a shared inventory—including Resource Groups, …
TL;DR Ansible can fully automate Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) via the azure.azcollection: users, groups, app registrations, and even …
TL;DR Active Directory changes via GUI or non-versioned PowerShell scripts are error-prone, hard to track, and not very collaborative. With Ansible …
Europe’s Missed Opportunity – and Why It’s Not Yet Lost Over the past decade, the cloud has evolved into the central infrastructure of …
TL;DR Milliseconds determine conversion rates and user experience. If every database query has to be read from the disk, the application will collapse …
TL;DR For logistics companies, delivery services, and fleet managers, routing is the heart of the business. However, using the Google Maps Directions …
TL;DR For a long time, Elasticsearch was the undisputed standard for log analytics and full-text search. But then Elastic changed its license, …
TL;DR Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new standard, but using cloud APIs like OpenAI (ChatGPT) or Anthropic comes with a significant catch: data …
TL;DR Every online shop, logistics app, and fleet management system requires geocoding: the conversion of addresses into coordinates (and vice versa). …
Why European Companies Need to Rethink Their Infrastructure Strategy Artificial intelligence is currently transforming not only products, processes, …
Why Regulation is an Architectural Issue Few topics are currently causing as much turmoil in IT as new regulatory requirements. GDPR, NIS-2, DORA, …
Why License Freedom Alone Does Not Create Control In the European digital debate, Open Source is often seen as synonymous with digital sovereignty. …
TL;DR In the modern web stack, application code (PHP, Python, Node.js) is expensive and slow. Nginx is the exact opposite: lightweight, asynchronous, …
TL;DR Email delivery is one of the most critical functions of modern applications (password resets, invoices). However, testing is risky: a wrong …
TL;DR Relational databases are the backbone of almost every business application. However, the market leader MySQL is now owned by Oracle, and cloud …
TL;DR The S3 protocol is to data storage what HTTP is to websites: the universal standard. However, “S3” is not synonymous with Amazon. …
TL;DR Relational databases force developers to squeeze data into rigid tables. MongoDB breaks this mold. It stores data as modern applications use it: …
TL;DR You build a reusable Polycrate workflow that automatically executes backup → update → verify on your Linux servers – including rollback via …
In traditional software development, CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) has long been established as a standard. However, in the …
Why Stable Interfaces Are Crucial for the Ecosystem Kubernetes is now much more than a Container orchestrator. A vast ecosystem has developed around …
March has begun – and with it, the final phase for one of the most widely used components in the Kubernetes network stack: Ingress-NGINX is …
TL;DR Ansible is a strong foundation: agentless, idempotent, human-readable YAML, and a vast module ecosystem make it the de facto standard for …
In modern software development, the unsecured handling of credentials—so-called “Hardcoded Secrets” (static secrets) in Git …
The complexity of modern microservice architectures has reached a point in 2026 where traditional monitoring hits its limits. While metrics tell us …
The era of “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” has begun. While quantum computers capable of breaking commonly used asymmetric encryption …
In 2026, regulatory requirements for the European economy have reached a new level of quality. With the fully effective EU Data Act and the tightened …
In 2026, the threat landscape for European SMEs is more precarious than ever. Identity theft has become the number one attack vector, as traditional …
Until recently, infrastructure automation was reactive: when CPU usage exceeded 80%, Kubernetes would start a new pod (autoscaling). This is …
Until now, compliance has been the natural enemy of agility in many companies. While software development scales in milliseconds thanks to …
The Ingress-NGINX Controller maintained by the Kubernetes community (repository kubernetes/ingress-nginx) will officially reach its end of life in …
The Saarlouis Economic Development and the IHK Saarland invited to the economic policy kickoff of the year at the RAG representation in Ensdorf. The …
A silent act of rebellion occurs daily in German offices. When the official process for data exchange with an architectural firm via the …
Public administration has a massive image problem among IT talents. Young Cloud Architects and DevOps Engineers often associate the public sector …
Every year, billions of taxpayer dollars are funneled into the digitalization of public administration. Yet, this money often ends up in proprietary …
A Smart City is a vast, distributed data ecosystem. Sensors measure air quality, soil moisture in parks, parking occupancy, or traffic flows. The …
The goal of the Online Access Act is ambitious: all administrative services should be digitally available. However, the implementation often failed …
In a globally connected economy, no logistics company is an island. Success depends on how efficiently information flows between shippers, freight …
Polycrate API 0.11.27 is a major feature release focusing on K8sApp pod status tracking, DataSource integration, and UI modernizations. K8sApp Pod …
Digital sovereignty is not a stance or a strategic paper. It is the result of concrete technical decisions. Those who operate software inevitably …
Polycrate CLI version 0.29.16 brings comprehensive improvements for monitoring Kubernetes workloads and a new knowledge base for AI-assisted …
In logistics, success is measured in cycle rates. A modern logistics center is a high-frequency clockwork of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), …
Skill Shortage in Hospital IT: Managed Platforms as a Strategic Lever The skill shortage in hospital IT presents a significant challenge. To address …
For MedTech companies and developers of Digital Health Applications (DiGAs), the path to market is not a sprint but a hurdle race through regulatory …
TL;DR In modern IT, data doesn’t rest; it flows. Apache Kafka serves as the central nervous system for these real-time data streams. While …
TL;DR Identity is the new perimeter. Outsourcing login and user management to SaaS services like Auth0 or AWS Cognito initially offers convenience …
TL;DR Kubernetes is permissive by default: it allows developers almost anything, including insecure configurations (e.g., running containers as …
In many retail companies, an ERP system that has evolved over decades forms the backbone of IT. These systems are stable and proven, but were …
The digitization of the Point of Sale (PoS) offers enormous advantages, but it also introduces a new threat: every connected device in the store—from …
The Architecture of Independence: What Sovereignty Really Looks Like What was decided last week in the EU Parliament marks far more than a political …
TL;DR Security often fails due to usability. While tools like HashiCorp Vault are powerful but operationally complex, and AWS Secrets Manager exists …
The Era of US Dominance Is Over Yesterday, the European Parliament made a decision that goes far beyond the usual Brussels symbolic politics in its …
With Polycrate CLI 0.29.15, we have resolved the root cause of a persistent bug where endpoints with tls: false were not correctly serialized into the …
Polycrate API 0.11.23 introduces crucial fixes for API key authentication and enhances contact management. API Key Authentication Fix User API keys …
Polycrate CLI version 0.29.11 enhances the diagnosis of TLS issues in API-managed endpoints. TLS Type-Cast Debug Logging In API-managed endpoints, …
Service or Architectural Decision? CI/CD is often treated as a tool question: Which service, which pipeline, which provider? In reality, CI/CD is an …
Identity Management as a Control Instrument or Open Infrastructure Identity management is far more than just login and user administration. It …
Certificates as a Cloud Service or as Part of the Platform Architecture TLS certificates are often considered a necessary security detail. However, …
Secrets as a Cloud Service or as Part of the Kubernetes Platform Secrets are among the most sensitive components of modern applications. Credentials, …
Container Registry as a Cloud Service or a Controllable Platform Component Container registries may seem like a technical detail at first glance. …
Secret Management as a Cloud Function or as a Standalone Security Architecture Secrets are not a fringe topic. Credentials, API keys, tokens, and …
Secrets as a Hyperscaler Service or as an Open Developer Security Platform Secrets are among the most inconspicuous yet critical components of modern …
Observability as a Service or as Your Own Infrastructure Azure Monitor and Loki take two fundamentally different approaches to monitoring and logging. …
Consuming or Controlling Object Storage On paper, AWS S3 and MinIO fulfill the same technical task: providing highly available, scalable object …
Why API Compatibility Is Not a Database Strategy AWS DocumentDB and MongoDB are regularly equated. The reason is quickly stated: Both are supposed to …
Polycrate API 0.11.22 fixes the LoadBalancer metrics query. The detail UI now shows correct bandwidth data. LoadBalancer Metrics Fix The LoadBalancer …
Polycrate API 0.11.21 addresses two critical issues: S3 buckets with Ceph backend now display correct storage metrics in the detail UI, and the …
With Polycrate API 0.11.17, we enhance the diagnostic capabilities for the timeline charts in the detail UIs. The Problem After the 0.11.16 release, …
Polycrate API 0.11.20 fixes a JavaScript error and adds debug logging to identify the cause of empty timeline data. Fix: Chart resize TypeError In the …
Polycrate API 0.11.19 enhances the S3 Bucket Table UI with Storage and Objects columns and introduces consistent bar charts for all timeline …
With Polycrate API 0.11.16, we address two critical bugs that could occur in production environments. 🔥 S3 Bucket Reconciliation Fix The Issue: S3 …
Polycrate API 0.11.18 fixes a critical error in timeline data extraction and changes the chart style to bar charts. Hotfix: timezone.utc …
With Polycrate API 0.11.15, we resolve the last remaining collectstatic error in production environments. KaTeX/LaTeX Removed The Milkdown Editor CSS …
With Polycrate API 0.11.14, we address two critical bugs that could occur in production environments. Certificate API Upsert The Polycrate Operator …
With Polycrate API 0.11.13, we address critical production issues that emerged after the 0.11.12 release. collectstatic Fix The milkdown-theme/ …
Polycrate API Version 0.11.12 brings extensive UI modernization with the new Milkdown Editor, S3 Media Storage, and significant performance …
TL;DR Modern software development requires more than just code hosting. While hyperscalers like AWS attempt to lock developers into their platforms …
TL;DR PDF generation is often a technical debt in modern web development. Outdated tools like wkhtmltopdf are no longer maintained, and embedding …
Polycrate API version 0.11.11 delivers massive performance improvements by removing the unused discovery phase and optimizing activity tracking. …
Polycrate API version 0.11.10 addresses several UI bugs and performance issues in the endpoint monitoring system. Highlights Agent Detail Lazy Loading …
Polycrate CLI version 0.29.9 brings significant improvements to endpoint monitoring with a complete redesign of Agent Health data. Agent Health Data …
How Sovereign is Europe’s Data Really? Amazon Web Services is putting the “AWS European Sovereign Cloud” into operation in …
Polycrate API version 0.11.7 corrects the representation of host objects. Host String Representation The base model ManagedObject uses display_name as …
Polycrate API version 0.11.6 addresses critical validation errors that prevented updates via the operator. UniqueValidator Fixes K8sApp Block …
With version 0.29.7, Polycrate receives important bug fixes for the operator’s API communication. API Schema Update The API client has been …
Polycrate CLI version 0.29.8 significantly improves error diagnosis for all API operations. Enhanced API Error Diagnosis All 42 API client functions …
With version 0.11.5, the Polycrate API receives important bugfixes and UX improvements. Tables now refresh faster, and objects can be directly …
With version 0.29.6, Polycrate receives a critical bug fix: The operator was unable to synchronize K8sApp objects with the API. The Problem The …
With version 0.11.4, the Polycrate API receives extensive UI improvements for better clarity and faster navigation. The new Dynamic Tables, Info …
The promise of the cloud has always been flexibility. Yet, the reality in many IT departments is different: Vendor Lock-in. Those who build their …
TL;DR Secrets (API keys, database passwords) do not belong in Git code, but their runtime provisioning is often complex. Integrating AWS Secrets …
TL;DR Encryption is mandatory, but managing it is often a nightmare. While AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) offers free certificates, they are …
TL;DR Authentik redefines identity management: moving away from proprietary cloud silos towards a unified identity layer. As an open-source solution, …
Until now, monitoring was often a compromise: Those who wanted to know exactly what was happening in their applications had to install …
“Base64 is not encryption.” This phrase should be displayed prominently in every platform engineering team. Default Kubernetes Secrets …
For a long time, Kubernetes was considered the operating system for the “big” data center. But in 2026, the most exciting developments …
In the traditional IT world, budgeting was simple: you bought a server, depreciated it over five years, and recorded the costs as a fixed expense. In …
Imagine buying a ready-made meal at the supermarket without an ingredient list. For years, this was the standard in software development: we download …
With version 0.29.5, Polycrate receives a critical bug fix: Endpoints with wildcard hostnames like *.example.com can now be correctly synchronized …
With version 0.29.4, Polycrate receives critical bug fixes for the operator: Correct cluster detection with workspace UUIDs, automatic TLS port …
With version 0.29.3, Polycrate introduces Host SSH-Agent Auto-Mount for seamless Git operations within the container, branch-aware Git commands, and …
With version 0.11.1, the automatic Alert Notification Loop in the Polycrate API is temporarily disabled. This is a patch release aimed at controlling …
Integrating an NVIDIA H100 or A100 into your cluster today quickly reveals that the classic 1-to-1 allocation (one pod reserves an entire GPU) often …
For critical applications, “down-time” is no longer just a technical issue for medium-sized businesses, but a direct business risk. …
The decision by the state government of Schleswig-Holstein to consistently switch its administration to open source software is more than a political …
With version 0.11.0, the Polycrate API gains two key new features: Downtime Detection & Logging for automatic capture and SLA tracking of service …
“The cloud grows with your needs.” This promise is both a blessing and a curse. For growing businesses, cloud scalability is essential to …
In modern software development, “always online” is the standard paradigm. However, in industrial manufacturing (OT), healthcare, or …
The announcement by Kubernetes SIG Network to retire Ingress-NGINX was not an operational accident. It was the result of years of structural overload …
What Operators Face Now – and Which Alternatives Are Truly Viable MinIO has put its Community Edition into maintenance mode. The note in the README …
With the new digital strategy, Bavaria wants to technically mesh state and municipalities more closely, reduce IT security risks, and build a uniform …
The recent outages of central internet services have not only disrupted websites and APIs. They have revealed a structural problem that has been …
Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee have announced the official end for Ingress NGINX. The component, which for years was …
Evasion Attacks on LLMs: A BSI Guide to Defending Against Prompt Injections and Jailbreaks Large Language Models (LLMs) have become established in …
The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) like Google Gemini or OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has the …
TL;DR Starting point is a multi-tenant Django SaaS application, which is taken from the first line of code to production operation on the ayedo …
TL;DR Effective alerting is more than just a few emails at 80% CPU: It requires clean metrics, clear severity levels, thoughtful routing, and …
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is taking a significant step in response to recent political tensions with the USA: it is ending …
TL;DR GitOps describes an approach where Git serves as the central, versioned source for the desired state of your infrastructure and applications; …
With the award ceremony at the Smart Country Convention (SCCON) on October 2, 2025, the open-source movement in public administration celebrated a …
TL;DR Cilium leverages eBPF to execute network functions directly in the Linux kernel, enabling high-performance, identity-based networking for modern …
TL;DR The Cloud-Native community has established a comprehensive “software logistics” system with OCI, Helm, and the Kubernetes API: …
Many confuse Open Source with sovereignty. Both are interconnected – but one does not automatically guarantee the other. The well-known XKCD meme, …
The Germany Stack and the Reality of Modern Cloud-Native Development: Digitization is no longer a buzzword – it is a foundation, a competitive …
TL;DR Extending the classic 12-Factor-App with factors 13–15 (API First, Telemetry, Auth) is not a “nice-to-have” but a prerequisite for …
TL;DR Factors 1–6 of the 15-Factor App define the internal lifecycle of an application: from the codebase through dependencies and configuration to …
TL;DR Heroku’s 12-Factor App set a clear standard for cloud-compatible applications in 2011 – the 15-Factor App extends this foundation with …
When Google quietly removed the “num=100” parameter from its search engine logic, hardly anyone outside the SEO bubble noticed at first. …
The announcement initially sounded like just another technical partnership in the era of generative AI: OpenAI and AMD have agreed on six gigawatts …
The reason given: The storage structure was too large, the transfer rates too slow. A declaration of bankruptcy. Anyone who decides not to maintain …
With the pilot project to introduce the AI assistant F13, Saarland is taking a remarkably clear path towards a digitally sovereign administration. …
Title: OpenAI and Nvidia: $100 Billion for the AI Arms Race Markdown-Content: The Reuters report is making waves: Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 …
Why Hyperscalers Only Sell Hardware – and MSPs Are the Future Hyperscalers have shaped the digital world like few other models. With the promise of …
Sovereignty Through Architecture Cloud-native software development is more than just a set of methods. It describes a paradigm that designs …
The European Union is on the verge of enacting one of the most profound intrusions into digital privacy since the inception of the internet. The …
Since September 8th, concrete evidence has emerged that a number of extremely widespread NPM packages — including debug, chalk, ansi-styles, …
The security of the software supply chain is one of the central topics in modern software development. With every new dependency, external artifact, …
Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) have been a hot topic in software development for several years. Companies face the challenge of managing complex …
The fact that the Bundeswehr will store its data in the Google Cloud is not an IT project. It is a security policy capitulation. Just like the …
In a world where cloud-native architectures, remote development, and complex multi-cluster infrastructures have become the norm, traditional …
The Invisible Foundation of Modern Software Cloud-native software development is built on a foundation that usually remains invisible: artifacts. …
Developer Platforms by ayedo: Tailored, Flexible, and Future-Oriented At its core, Developer Platforms enable teams to guide software securely, …
How companies can make their GPU-Kubernetes environments secure, compliant, and efficient for AI development using tools like Kyverno, Vault, and …
GPUs in Kubernetes: Practical Guide for H100, MIG & Time-Slicing How to securely, efficiently, and cloud-natively provision GPU resources for …
How the AI Service Desk of the Federal Network Agency Guides Companies into the Future The European AI Regulation (AI Act) is a milestone: It creates …
How SAP Evades Responsibility – and What It Reveals About the State of the German Tech Industry On June 21, 2025, the Tagesspiegel published an …
Why Managed Kubernetes with Hyperscalers Doesn’t Lead to Digital Sovereignty Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard for …
Everyone is writing software with AI now. Prompt in, code out. A few lines of Typescript here, a Dockerfile there, and somehow everything flies. …
With the announcement of macOS 26 (“Tahoe”), Apple quietly but fundamentally reshuffles the cards in the DevOps landscape. For the first …
Modern generative AI and large language models (LLMs) present unique traffic management challenges for Kubernetes. Unlike typical ephemeral, stateless …
AI in the Classroom: Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Education The debate around the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education …
Today, every support request influences customer satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term business success. Unstructured processes, lost tickets, and …
We are excited to announce the general availability of Gateway API v1.3.0! Released on April 24, 2025, this version brings exciting new features. …
Health Data is a Special Case — Both Technically and Regulatorily Processing health data fundamentally differs from traditional corporate IT. It …
DORA is coming. And this time, it’s not just about a few pretty compliance PDFs. What many banks, payment service providers, and FinTechs are …
OZG Implementation: Software Alone is Not Enough The Online Access Act (OZG) obliges the federal government, states, and municipalities to make …
Technological Independence Begins in the Data Center: Why We Rely on European Network Technology Digital sovereignty doesn’t start with legal …
Digital Sovereignty Begins with Infrastructure Digitalization in Germany is advancing, but it requires a solid foundation. This foundation is the IT …
How Modern IT Sales Build Trust Instead of Disrupting! In the IT industry, traditional sales were long dominated by persistent calls, generic emails, …
Hey, I’m Fabian – engineer, entrepreneur, and European citizen residing in Germany. For over 10 years, I’ve been part of the …
Germany discusses data sovereignty but remains technologically dependent. How this relates to our culture and what needs to change to achieve digital …
Kubernetes v1.33 introduces exciting innovations that are highly beneficial for both developers and DevOps teams. This version includes 64 …
In a detailed blog series, Nextdoor’s Core Services team provides valuable insights into their strategies for optimizing database and cache …
The sudden dismissal of Jutta Horstmann as the managing director of the Center for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS) raises fundamental questions about …
Automation must become manageable again. At ayedo, we are building a framework with Polycrate that brings order to the chaos of complex IT …
Digital sovereignty is not a feature – it is an architectural principle. After transitioning our toolchain to open source, the next step was to …
Digital sovereignty begins with concrete decisions. In this post, we show how we at ayedo have replaced key SaaS tools with powerful open-source …
The dependency on US SaaS providers is increasingly costing German companies control, money, and innovation power. ayedo demonstrates how Open Source …
In the world of Kubernetes development, there’s exciting news: JobSet has been introduced, an open-source API specifically designed for managing …
Efficient management of Kubernetes clusters is becoming increasingly important, especially as cluster size grows. One of the biggest challenges with …
Kubernetes v1.32: Optimizing Your Container Infrastructure with ayedo In the dynamic world of container orchestration, Kubernetes plays a central …
Kubernetes SIG Network is excited to announce the general availability of Gateway API v1.2! This version of the API was released on October 3rd, and …
Introduction In today’s software development landscape, where AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot and similar assistants provide support, many …
Following the general release of the Gateway API last October, the Kubernetes SIG Network is excited to announce the release of v1.1 of the Gateway …
Kubernetes can help a software or digitalization agency generate additional revenue through the highly available operation of software in various …
PostgreSQL and MariaDB are both popular open-source relational database management systems (RDBMS) used for storing and managing data. Although both …
GitLab and GitHub are both very popular platforms for version control and collaboration on software development projects based on Git. Although they …
Kubernetes is a powerful open-source platform designed to simplify the management of container applications. To understand what Kubernetes is and …
In this article, we demonstrate the fastest and most convenient way to self-host Cal.com with Docker in the Hetzner Cloud. With the help of Polycrate …
We are excited to announce the release of Gateway API v1.0 on behalf of the Kubernetes SIG Network! This release marks a significant milestone for the …
Today, we introduce ingress2gateway , a tool that assists you in migrating from Ingress to the Gateway API . The Gateway API is on the verge of its GA …
Kubernetes v1.25 introduced support for user namespaces only for stateless Pods. With Kubernetes 1.28, this limitation has been lifted following some …
Five Key Features of Portainer 1. Docker Environments 2. Access Control 3. CI/CD Capabilities 4. Monitoring 5. Kubernetes As mentioned in the …
Have you ever wondered how to set up a cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds, simulate real nodes with low resource requirements, and test your …
In Kubernetes 1.26, the first alpha version of Validating Admission Policies is available! These new policies utilize the Common Expression Language …
Introduction In the latest version of Kubernetes 1.26, there is an exciting new feature: the Alpha API for dynamic resource allocation. This feature …
The release of Kubernetes 1.24 introduces Storage Capacity Tracking as a generally available feature. This innovation enables developers and DevOps …
The Kubernetes API is constantly evolving, which means that older APIs are regularly reorganized or updated. With the release of Kubernetes 1.22, …
The Ingress resource is one of Kubernetes’ many success stories. It has spawned a diverse ecosystem of Ingress controllers that are deployed in …
In October 2020, the Kubernetes Dashboard officially celebrated its fifth anniversary. As the main project maintainers, we can hardly believe that so …