Paul Nashawaty of theCUBE Research interviews Sudeep Goswami of Traefik Labs, chief executive officer and Troy Topnik of SUSE, director of product management for Rancher Partners and Ecosystems, at SUSECON 2026. The conversation explores migration strategies, networking and artificial intelligence sovereignty, including ingress controllers, Kubernetes distributions, SUSE Virtualization and Rancher management for virtualization and edge computing.
Goswami describes an expanded SUSE-Traefik partnership to support K3s and RKE2 and explains how Traefik serves as a unified ingress from edge to enterprise. They emphasize governance and present a multidimensional AI sovereignty maturity model to guide enterprise adoption and data sovereignty efforts.
Topnik highlights an architectural approach to migration modernization and transformation and underscores Rancher’s unified user interface for managing virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters. They discuss strategies to reduce networking complexity and to accelerate modernization at scale.
Nashawaty observes the rising importance of networking and guides the discussion on practical factors to consider for enterprise migration and virtualization. The episode provides actionable insights for organizations pursuing Kubernetes adoption, edge modernization and data sovereignty.
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Troy Topnik, SUSE & Sudeep Goswami, Traefik Labs
Paul Nashawaty of theCUBE Research interviews Sudeep Goswami of Traefik Labs, chief executive officer and Troy Topnik of SUSE, director of product management for Rancher Partners and Ecosystems, at SUSECON 2026. The conversation explores migration strategies, networking and artificial intelligence sovereignty, including ingress controllers, Kubernetes distributions, SUSE Virtualization and Rancher management for virtualization and edge computing.
Goswami describes an expanded SUSE-Traefik partnership to support K3s and RKE2 and explains how Traefik serves as a unified ingress from edge to enterprise. They emphasize governance and present a multidimensional AI sovereignty maturity model to guide enterprise adoption and data sovereignty efforts.
Topnik highlights an architectural approach to migration modernization and transformation and underscores Rancher��s unified user interface for managing virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters. They discuss strategies to reduce networking complexity and to accelerate modernization at scale.
Nashawaty observes the rising importance of networking and guides the discussion on practical factors to consider for enterprise migration and virtualization. The episode provides actionable insights for organizations pursuing Kubernetes adoption, edge modernization and data sovereignty.
Director of Product Management, Rancher Partners & EcosystemsSUSE
Sudeep Goswami
CEOTraefik Labs
In this interview from SUSECON 2026 in Prague, Troy Topnik, director of product management, Rancher partners and ecosystems at SUSE, joins Sudeep Goswami, chief executive officer of Traefik Labs, to talk with theCUBE Research's Paul Nashawaty about how open-source infrastructure is enabling enterprises to navigate migration, modernization and AI transformation. Topnik and Goswami open by discussing the expanded SUSE-Traefik partnership, which now extends Traefik beyond its role as the default ingress controller for K3S at the edge to RKE2, creating a consiste...Read more
