Legal Disclosure

Information pursuant to § 5 of the Austrian E-Commerce Act (ECG) and §§ 24 and 25 of the Austrian Media Act (MedienG).

Provider and media disclosure

Media owner (Medieninhaber) and publisher (Herausgeber):
Toni Schmidbauer & Thomas Jungbauer

Address:
1010 Vienna, Austria

Purpose of the medium:
Independent technical publication on OpenShift, Kubernetes, GitOps, automation, security, and related platform engineering topics.

Editorial line (grundlegende Richtung):
The blog publishes technical articles, tutorials, and operational experience for an international engineering audience. It is editorially independent and not affiliated with any political party.

Company register number, VAT identification number (UID), and membership of a professional chamber do not apply.

Contact Information

Toni Schmidbauer:

Thomas Jungbauer: https://jungbauer.stderr.at

Internet address: https://blog.stderr.at/

Disclaimer

Accountability for content
The contents of these pages have been created with care. We do not warrant that the content is accurate, complete, or up to date. We are responsible for our own content on these pages under applicable Austrian and European Union law. We are not obliged to monitor information transmitted or stored by third parties, or to investigate circumstances that merely indicate unlawful activity. Statutory obligations to remove or disable access to information remain unaffected, in particular under the Austrian E-Commerce Act (ECG) and, where applicable, the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065).

Accountability for links
Responsibility for the content of external links rests with the operators of the linked pages. No infringement was apparent to us at the time of linking. If we become aware of a legal infringement, we will remove the link concerned without undue delay.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, the content of this website is protected by Austrian copyright law (Urheberrechtsgesetz, UrhG) and related rights. Reproduction, distribution, or other use beyond what is permitted by statute requires the prior consent of the respective rights holder. Statutory exceptions, including those for private use where applicable, remain unaffected.

Article logo and featured images (mainly showing cats) used on this website are AI-generated, unless a specific image is labelled otherwise.

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Privacy notice

This section provides information pursuant to Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR / DSGVO) and the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG). Cookie and end-device storage rules under § 165 (3) of the Telecommunications Act 2021 (TKG 2021) are addressed where relevant.

Controllers

The joint controllers for this website are:

Toni Schmidbauer & Thomas Jungbauer
1010 Vienna, Austria

Contact details are set out under Contact Information above.

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Cookies and local storage

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Comments and third-party processing

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You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. For Austria, the competent authority is the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde).