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ITQonnect Days & ITQon! 2026

Friday, September 25
 

13:30 CEST

AVI and VKS: better together
LIMITED
Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
(5) Levante 2
Limited Capacity seats available
An overview of how AVI enhances VKS and provides advanced Layer 4 and Layer 7 capabilities, including GSLB, Gateway API, ...
Speakers
avatar for Wouter De Kimpe

Wouter De Kimpe

Cloud Native Consultant
Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
(5) Levante 2 ITQ Hotel
  Technical Breakout, Breakout Session - 40 minutes

13:55 CEST

the platform engineer is dead, long live the platform engineer
FULL
Friday September 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:15 CEST
(6) Lobby 1
Limited Capacity full
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It started as a "let's see how far this goes." It didn't stop where I expected.
This is the story of how I rebuilt my homelab — from vSphere 7 to vSphere 9.1 with VKS — on a single 4-CPU, 64GB Supermicro box, almost entirely with the help of Claude Code. From bare metal to a cloud-native platform running FluxCD, Concourse CI, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager, platform pipelines: built, deployed, and maintained with AI as a hands-on collaborator, not just an autocomplete.
A live look at what changes when AI moves from "helping you write code" to "helping you run infrastructure" — and a starting point for the conversation about where that leaves platform engineers.
Speakers
avatar for Bart Lievers

Bart Lievers

Consultant, ITQ Consultancy B.V.
A modern apps platform consultant. Passionate about platform-as-a-product concept.  Fiddling around with VCF 9.1 VKS on my homelab and using Claude AI to assist and implement solutions to mimic a platform-as-a-product environment on 64 GB.
A proud husband and a proud father of tw... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 13:55 - 14:15 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel
  Demo Session, Demo Session - 15 minutes
 

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