Container Days Hamburg 2026

Container Days Hamburg 2026 preview

Container Days Hamburg is Europe's largest and longest-running container and Kubernetes conference — a multi-day gathering that brings thousands of platform engineers, SREs, security leaders, and engineering executives to Hamburg for the most substantive cloud-native event on the European calendar. The conference is heavy on practitioner content, light on marketing fluff, and draws an audience spanning German Mittelstand, European telecom and financial services, and the broader EU enterprise Kubernetes user base.

Container Days Hamburg 2026 takes place September 2 to 4, 2026 in Hamburg. The agenda covers the full cloud-native landscape — Kubernetes at scale, platform engineering, container security, eBPF, service mesh, observability, multi-cluster and multi-cloud architectures — and the topics increasingly reshaping how European organizations have to run cloud-native infrastructure: NIS2, DORA, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, AI workload management on Kubernetes, and the operational disciplines required to make platform engineering investments actually pay back. For any organization running serious Kubernetes in Europe, Container Days Hamburg is the most concentrated source of practical, peer-validated insight available.

Meet Echo at Container Days Hamburg

Container Days Hamburg attracts exactly the teams Echo is built for. Platform engineers running production Kubernetes, security architects responsible for container image hygiene at scale, and the engineering leaders trying to keep CVE backlogs from quietly consuming their teams — these are the people in the room. And for all of them, one of the most time-consuming and expensive parts of operating cloud-native infrastructure is the perpetual work of patching base images, defending the security program in audit, and producing the supply chain evidence that EU regulatory regimes increasingly require.

Echo handles all of it. Every Echo image ships CVE-free, continuously rebuilt against patched upstream sources, and pre-hardened against DISA STIG requirements — so your team inherits a clean baseline rather than building one from scratch. Echo supports the largest variety of FIPS-validated crypto modules available, including OpenSSL, BoringCrypto, and Bouncy Castle, meaning you are covered regardless of what your development stack has chosen. All images ship with full SBOM transparency in both SPDX and CycloneDX formats, plus signed provenance and attestation via cosign and sigstore.

Echo also provides the audit evidence that EU enterprises increasingly need to produce. The STIG validation tool generates per-image reports covering every required check, with images prebuilt to pass validation. The FIPS runtime tester verifies FIPS compliance at runtime by executing both approved and unapproved cryptographic algorithms and reporting observed behavior. For NIS2, DORA, and CRA-aligned reporting, Echo's continuous monitoring scans, documents, and forwards justifications for unfixed vulnerabilities automatically — eliminating the manual evidence-gathering overhead that typically consumes security teams.

The results speak for themselves: teams using Echo eliminate 10,000 CVEs, save 4,000 engineering hours per year, bring average remediation time down to 3 days, and can report and triage new findings in under 24 hours. To see what this looks like in practice, read how Varonis used Echo to achieve FedRAMP authorization — with zero vulnerabilities showing up at audit and an experience their Deputy CTO described as "just a smooth ride." The same pattern that worked for FedRAMP is reshaping how European customers prepare for NIS2 audits and CRA-aligned vendor obligations.

At a conference defined by the working realities of running Kubernetes in Europe, that is a message worth hearing.

What to expect at Container Days Hamburg 2026

The 2026 program continues Container Days Hamburg's tradition of engineer-first content. Expect the deep technical talks the event is known for — Kubernetes internals, eBPF, network policy, runtime security, multi-cluster architectures, and platform engineering economics — alongside an expanded track on EU regulatory implementation, where European platform teams compare operational notes on NIS2 and CRA readiness. AI-on-Kubernetes content is expected to grow significantly in 2026, reflecting where the cloud-native community's attention is moving.

Workshop and hands-on sessions remain a defining feature of the event, with live-coding deep dives and practitioner-led labs that go beyond what attendees can get from any vendor track. Networking opportunities — with platform leaders from across European enterprise, cloud-native project maintainers, and the wider CNCF community in EMEA — make Container Days Hamburg one of the most efficient venues in the year for building the relationships that actually move a platform program forward.

Container Days Hamburg 2026 passes and rates

Container Days Hamburg 2026 registration is now open. Early-bird discounts are available for those who register early — locking in your spot early is the best way to secure the best rate and guarantee access to the most in-demand workshops, which historically fill quickly. Full pass pricing and registration details are available directly from the organizers at containerdays.io.

Container Days Hamburg draws a focused, senior, engineer-led audience — this is not a glossy expo, but a working conference for the people actually operating Kubernetes in production every day. Workshop slots and hands-on sessions are limited relative to broader industry events, so registering early is recommended for anyone planning to attend.

Meet Echo at Container Days Hamburg 2026

The Echo team will be in Hamburg for Container Days 2026 for 1:1 conversations about how Echo can transform your container image security and supply chain evidence story. Whether you are managing a mature platform program under NIS2 scope, building out a new container security baseline, or trying to break through a CVE remediation backlog that has become unmanageable, come find us. We can walk you through exactly how Echo's CVE-free, FIPS-validated, STIG-hardened images change the picture — and what your scan dashboards, audit evidence, and engineering capacity look like when your inputs are clean.