KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam was a milestone week for CLYSO – from CNCF Sandbox progress for kube‑bind to a packed Rook deep dive on petabyte‑scale Ceph, all centered on one theme: digitally sovereign, open cloud infrastructure.
Kube‑bind: from CNCF Sandbox vote to real-world use cases
Just days before KubeCon, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee voted in favor of accepting kube‑bind as a CNCF Sandbox project, an important step for a vendor‑neutral standard for cross‑cluster service sharing.
As a contributor and co‑signer of the application, CLYSO works with partners like SAP and Kubermatic to make kube‑bind the missing “service sharing layer” in multi‑cluster Kubernetes architectures. Our latest article explains how kube‑bind lets you manage services centrally and project APIs into any cluster instead of deploying operators everywhere.
Day 1: Sovereign Cloud with SAP at Open Sovereign Cloud Day
KubeCon week started at the Open Sovereign Cloud Day, where SAP presented how it uses Rook, Ceph, kube‑bind and kcp as part of the Apeiro platform mesh to build a sovereign control plane for European cloud regions.
The session “Platform Mesh: Breaking API Lock-In for True Multi-Cloud Service Portability” by Mirza Kopic (SAP) and Mangirdas Judeikis underlined how open‑source storage and control‑plane technologies can deliver portability, interoperability and zero lock‑in at very large scale. For CLYSO, this is exactly where our expertise sits: turning complex multi‑cluster and multi‑region designs into production‑ready architectures.
Days 2–3: Rook deep dive and 120 PB of Ceph
On the main conference days, CLYSO joined the Rook community at the project booth to answer questions about running Ceph on Kubernetes at scale.
Our Ceph Engineers Artem Torubarov and Deepika Upadhyay (who is also Ceph Ambassador for India) presented together with Niels de Vos (Red Hat), “Rook: Intro and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage” to a full room with more than 250 attendees. The session built on Artem’s Rook blog post, which describes how SAP is operating toward 120 PB of Ceph across 30 regions with zero lock‑in and strong operational resilience.
Community, ecosystem – and the German Stammtisch
Beyond the sessions, KubeCon is always about people and community. At the Rook booth we met engineers, platform teams, and operators who are all trying to answer the same question: how do we run reliable storage for Kubernetes without giving up control?
We were also happy to support and sponsor the German Stammtisch as an informal after‑KubeCon meetup – a relaxed setting for deep technical conversations, new collaborations, and a few well‑deserved drinks with friends from the cloud‑native community.
What’s next: from Amsterdam to Tokyo
KubeCon Europe 2026 was “mega” for our team – and we are just getting started. With kube‑bind on its way into the CNCF Sandbox, petabyte‑scale Rook deployments in production, and the Apeiro reference architecture maturing, we are doubling down on open, sovereign cloud infrastructure.
Next stop: SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 – if you want to discuss Ceph, Rook, kube‑bind or sovereign storage, reach out and we’ll be happy to meet you there or online.