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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026 Amsterdam

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026 Amsterdam

Event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
Location: Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands

Amsterdam was buzzing this week as the cloud native community gathered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The energy was vibrant, but the technical content revealed a community in transition. Platform engineering is no longer an emerging trend—it’s now table stakes, with countless talks showcasing its maturity. The real conversation starter this year? Sovereignty: the push for open, portable, and vendor-neutral cloud native solutions.

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Removed cloud-controller flag during Talos Kubernetes upgrade to v1.33.x

Removed cloud-controller flag during Talos Kubernetes upgrade to v1.33.x

This first appeared on autops.eu

When updating the Kubernetes version of a Talos cluster from version 1.32.x -> 1.33.0 I ran into the following situation where the install would stop.

$ talosctl --nodes <<talos node>> upgrade-k8s --to 1.33.0
automatically detected the lowest Kubernetes version 1.32.0
discovered controlplane nodes ["10.0.0.3"]
discovered worker nodes ["10.0.0.4" "10.0.0.2"]
checking for removed Kubernetes component flags
checking for removed Kubernetes API resource versions

NODE        COMPONENT                 REMOVED FLAG
10.0.0.3    kube-apiserver            cloud-provider
10.0.0.3    kube-controller-manager   cloud-provider

Kubernetes v1.33 removes the --cloud-provider flag from core components (kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager). If you’re using an external cloud controller manager (CCM), you need to remove this flag from your configuration before upgrading. Your CCM will continue to work - it doesn’t depend on these flags anymore.

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Hosting Hugo website on Scaleway with Cloudflare

Hosting Hugo website on Scaleway with Cloudflare

As I’m using Scaleway more and more for my Cloud hosting needs I wanted to move my personal blog which I hosted on AWS (S3/Cloudfront) to Scaleway. Since there is no CDN alternative on Scaleway (yet) I needed an other alternative and choose Cloudflare as they have a generous free tier and are being used by some bigger companies which means they have mature infrastructure and services

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