Welcome at HCS Open Platform Experience by Karen van Diepen
Containers are fast, agile, and scalable — but ephemeral by nature. Containers revolutionized agility and scale but brought new challenges like persistency. This session traces the journey from the dominance of virtual machines, to the rise of containers, and now to VMs running inside containers. Along the way, we’ll explore the birth of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) and how modern solutions like Portworx Enterprise enables enterprise-grade persistence, availability, and mobility for today’s hybrid workloads.
Want to get your hands dirty? Come join Red Hat and Portworx in this workshop where you will be installing OpenShift Virtualization, add Portworx Enterprise and run your own VM+container app, in your own sandbox environment! We will also be showcasing things like Live Migration as part of the lab. You should also bring your own laptop, preferably with the Chrome browser installed.
CI/CD pipelines can be a struggle to develop and maintain. What if you can treat your pipeline like another application and use your favorite programming language. Interact with your pipelines interactively for fast feedback. Use advanced caching to speed up repetitive tasks.
In this session I will share all these possibilities and more on why Dagger.io can help you modernize your CI/CD pipelines. Demo included.
Daan will take you along the implementation of an open source office/collaboration stack that was POCced at government client.
DAWO stands for Digitally Autonomous Workplace Overheid (Government), or DAWG in English 😉. He will go into
- The process of reanimating old hardware to run it.
- The amateur-hour stuff that cost a bunch of time if only he knew in advance
- What it takes to run the open source version of it (DAWN, mainly based on SUSE and other European software) yourself.
He will attempt to speak manager, but engineering questions are more than welcome. Most will probably be answered with skill-issue.
A five-year journey from siloed teams and shared responsibilities to a DevOps-driven culture empowered by OpenShift. This talk shares the challenges and lessons from a team that took initiative in adopting DevOps practices and applying OpenShift in ways that best fit their needs at the time. Our focus was on discovering how to effectively work with OpenShift as consumers, exploring cloud-native development practices and shaping our own delivery workflows. Throughout this journey, we collaborated closely with the Cloud Platform Enabling Team to align with platform capabilities and ensure smooth integration.
With an ever increasing reliance on 3rd party packages and supply chain attacks regularly making headlines, supply chain security is yet another security challenge organizations face. In this session Zahra Deghan Pour (Bol.) and Feike Wierda (HCS Company) will take you through the entire journey of securing the software supply chain at Bol.
"We have a platform. It’s running. Everyone’s enthusiastic. Right? So… now what?"
In this session, we’ll explore the questions every platform owner faces sooner or later. How mature is our IT platform, really? Is it well-organized? Is it future-proof? Are people truly as satisfied as we think? And are we getting the full potential out of it?
We’ll introduce a maturity model that not only delivers insights, but also sparks the conversations that matter. About strength, growth potential, and direction. Because measuring is useful – but understanding is what really drives progress.
Ben van der Burg combines an impressive career in top-level sports with a passion for digital innovation and technology. With over 20 years of experience in both academia and industry, he inspires audiences with insights on innovation, AI, and the human side of technology. Expect a dynamic keynote full of energy, challenges, and inspiration!