This talk will be held in English. / Dieser Vortrag wird auf Englisch gehalten.
Dependency management automation is essential for modern software teams—but cloud-hosted tools often come with trade-offs in flexibility, security, and data ownership. Renovate Operator is an open-source project that brings the popular Mend Renovate experience into your own Kubernetes cluster.
We’ll explore the journey from using Mend Renovate to custom CronJobs and finally to a fully managed Kubernetes Operator. Learn how the Renovate Operator enables teams to automate dependency updates in a sovereign, observable, and developer-friendly way—without sacrificing usability or compliance.
The talk will highlight the architectural design of the operator, real-world use cases, and the balance between automation and sovereignty in CI/CD ecosystems.
Whether you’re operating in regulated environments or simply want to own your automation, this session will show why it’s worth running Renovate yourself.
Benedikt Iltisberger
is co-founder and CTO at mogenius. With over 15 years of experience in software engineering — from startups to enterprise-scale environments — he is deeply passionate about building scalable, cloud-native solutions.
His expertise spans Kubernetes, DevOps automation, and cloud-native architectures, focusing on simplifying infrastructure management through automation and self-service. At mogenius, Benedikt leads product development and platform operations, driving the mission to automate DevOps workflows and make Kubernetes accessible to every development team.
