We’re wrapping up the year with our Cloud Native Aarhus Christmas Special 🎄
Join us on December 11 at ORBIT for an evening of great company, exciting talks, tasty food, and a few festive surprises.
There’ll be raffles, good vibes, and plenty of holiday spirit - all kindly sponsored by Dash0.

AGENDA

16:30: Doors open
17:00: Welcome by Cloud Native Aarhus
17:10: Welcome by our sponsors
17:15: "Bridging the Gap Between VMs and Containers" by Casper Thygesen, Principal Cloud Lead at Trifork Public A/S
18:00: Break with food
18:30: "Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability" by Kasper Borg Nissen, Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0
19:15: Christmas Quiz & Raffles
20:00: Doors close

TALKS

"Bridging the Gap Between VMs and Containers" by Casper Thygesen, Principal Cloud Lead at Trifork Public A/S
Despite the rise of containers and Kubernetes, virtual appliances remain a vital part of modern infrastructure. From networking and storage services to management and security components, these self-contained systems often do not require or fit into Kubernetes-like orchestration, yet they still demand reliability, consistency, and security.

This talk explores how Bootc brings modern platform engineering principles such as immutability, automation, GitOps, and declarative configuration to virtual appliances. By applying these concepts, Bootc enables the same predictable, versioned, and automated lifecycle we know from containerized environments, bridging the operational gap between traditional virtual machines and modern cloud-native systems.

Join this session to see how Bootc is redefining how we build, update, and manage virtual appliances, making them stable, auditable, and ready for the future of cloud-native infrastructure.

"Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability" by Kasper Borg Nissen, Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0

Observability is the backbone of modern cloud-native applications, but many organizations find themselves locked into proprietary tools with rising costs, rigid ecosystems, and limited flexibility. In this talk, we’ll explore how open observability standards like OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Perses for monitoring-as-code are transforming the landscape by enabling vendor-neutral, scalable, and future-proof observability stacks.

We’ll start with an introduction to OpenTelemetry, covering how to get started, instrument applications, and provide developer-friendly abstractions for seamless auto-instrumentation. From there, we’ll dive into Perses, a CNCF Sandbox project that brings open, declarative, and portable dashboards to observability. By building on these open standards, organizations gain the freedom to mix and match storage, visualization, and analytics tools without being tied to a single vendor.

Join this session to learn how OpenTelemetry and Perses can help you scale observability, stay in control of your data, and ensure developers get the insights they need exactly when they need them.

Bio
Kasper is a CNCF Ambassador, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, KCD Organizer, and CNCG Group Organizer. He co-founded Cloud Native Nordics to unite meetups across the region. As a Principal Developer Advocate at Dash0, he helps make observability easy for developers by advocating for better tooling, best practices, and seamless integrations.

FINDING THE VENUE

If you have issues finding the venue, please check out the instructions in this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ea4vpEu2ojc
There's parking at Aarhus University School of Engineering or Storcenter Nord.