Talk Announcement – “Free Enterprise Kubernetes: Myth or Reality?” by Jasmin Štrkonjić and Adriano Bubnjek
It is a pleasure to have Jasmin Štrkonjić and Adriano Bubnjek as our speakers at the DORS/CLUC conference this year!
Jasmin Štrkonjić is an open source and DevOps enthusiast with a passion for spreading the DevOps culture as a way of working and building strong, meaningful team relationships.
With a background that began in tech support in 2008 and evolved into an engineering role, he is now leading the Open Source Technologies team at Combis, part of the HT Group.
Jasmin previously worked at Apis IT, where he was part of a full-scale digital transformation project that shaped his career both professionally and personally.
He is committed to pushing the boundaries of enterprise open source and demonstrating how innovation thrives through community collaboration and bold thinking.
Adriano Bubnjek is a DevOps and Systems Engineer specializing in open-source technologies. He began his professional journey during his studies at Algebra University College, where he earned the RHCSA certification.
After completing his undergraduate degree in System Engineering, he continued building his expertise and certifications, focusing his thesis on the implementation of Kubernetes technologies from VMware’s Tanzu portfolio. Today, he holds several industry-recognized certifications, including RHCE, KCNA, KCSA, CKA, and CKAD.
At Combis, he works as a Systems Engineer for open-source technologies and has spent the past two years working on the design and implementation of cloud-native solutions for clients in sectors such as banking, insurance, and government.
His daily work involves technologies like OpenShift, OKD, Kubernetes, Ansible, Kasten, Ceph/OpenShift Data Foundation, and KubeVirt/OpenShift Virtualization.
This talk presents a real-world case study of deploying an enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform using 100% open source technologies. The case study focuses on the implementation of OKD — the upstream version of Red Hat OpenShift — on bare metal infrastructure for a national-level project led by AKD and funded by the EU.
The session explores both the technical and organizational journey: how the project came to life, the initial goals, the challenges faced along the way — from infrastructure limitations to public high visibility — and how open source technologies helped overcome them.
On the technical side, the talk covers the implementation of OKD using Infrastructure as Code principles, GitOps methods, and OpenShift Virtualization through the Hyperconverged Operator. It also highlights how OKD, often underestimated, proved itself as a reliable and scalable platform capable of meeting real enterprise demands.
The session concludes with a comparison between OKD and its commercial counterpart, Red Hat OpenShift, to clarify where supported distributions add value and where upstream projects like OKD can stand on their own.
If you’re curious about how far open source can truly go in enterprise and government settings, this is a story you won’t want to miss.
Get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/grvDKWtT and see you at DORS/CLUC 30!