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Beyond the Edge: Cloud Native Application Management Under Extreme Network Conditions#

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 digest Program Wildcard pick 23–26 March 2026

Abstract Recording

Tobias Nöthlich & Maximilian Nitsch, D3TN GmbH

Play the recording: Beyond the Edge: Cloud Native Application Management Under Extreme Network Conditions

  • Why: Kubernetes assumes a network that mostly works. This asks what remains when you remove that assumption entirely — not high latency, but links where end-to-end IP connectivity may never exist at any instant. A genuinely different set of constraints, and a useful stress test of which cloud-native assumptions are fundamental versus incidental.
  • What: How containerized applications can be deployed, updated and managed through Kubernetes while communicating over Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networking protocols.
  • How: Integration points, the networking abstractions required, and practical considerations for operating DTN-enabled workloads.
  • Where applicable: Satellites, deep-space probes, remote research stations, air-gapped systems. Nobody's datacenter — but the store-and-forward discipline is the interesting export.