Driving IT Excellence for Tomorrow
We set new standards in IT excellence: with state-of-the-art cloud solutions, advanced automation processes and comprehensive security management, we make your IT future-proof.
For a digital infrastructure that works today and shines tomorrow.
Services
CLOUD COMPUTING & CLOUD MANAGEMENT
Wir bieten Cloud Computing Services auf Google Cloud, Azure und AWS, passend für ihre Anforderungen.
DATACENTER & NETWORKING
Wir helfen Ihnen bei der Virtualisierung – egal ob Netwerk-, Storage- oder klassische Virtualisierung.
AUTOMATION & DEVOPS
Durch das Automatisieren ihrer Infrastruktur erschaffen wir eine moderne, dynamische IT-Umgebung in ihrem Unternehmen.
APP MODERNIZATION & CLOUD NATIVE
Wir helfen Ihnen mit dem Aufbau einer Cloud-Management Plattform, damit Sie Ordnung in ihr Datacenter bringen können.
OBSERVABILITY & SECURITY
Wir sichern Ihre Unternehmensinfrastruktur mit einer zeitgemäßen Sicherheitsstrategie für einen reibungslosen Betrieb.
BIG DATA & AI
Wir unterstützen Sie dabei, Ihre Daten effizient zu verarbeiten, um tiefgreifende Einblicke zu gewinnen, Geschäftsprozesse zu optimieren und wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben.
Services
CLOUD COMPUTING & CLOUD MANAGEMENT
We help you with virtualisation – whether network, storage or classic virtualisation.
DATACENTER & NETWORKING
We help you with virtualisation – whether network, storage or classic virtualisation.
AUTOMATION & DEVOPS
By automating your infrastructure, we create a modern, dynamic IT environment in your company.
APP MODERNIZATION & CLOUD NATIVE
We help you set up a cloud management platform so that you can bring order to your data centre.
OBSERVABILITY & SECURITY
We secure your company infrastructure with a modern security strategy for smooth operations.
BIG DATA & AI
We help you process your data efficiently to gain in-depth insights, optimise business processes and remain competitive.
Unternehmen
IT Excellence
Seit unserer Gründung im Jahr 2010 agieren wir auf regionaler, deutschlandweiter sowie internationaler Ebene und unterstützen Sie bei der Planung und Implementierung von komplexen IT-Umgebungen. In den letzten Jahren erreichten wir ein durchschnittliches jährliches Wachstum von circa 20%. Mittlerweile beschäftigt die Söldner Consult GmbH über 30 Mitarbeiter.
Our company
IT Excellence
Since our foundation in 2010, we have been operating on a regional, national and international level, supporting you in the planning and implementation of complex IT environments. In recent years, we have achieved average annual growth of around 20%. Söldner Consult GmbH now employs over 30 people.
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Recent Blog Posts
DevSecOps Part 7: Embracing Containers for Infrastructure as Code
Containers have become a cornerstone of modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC). They offer a suite of benefits that are essential for ensuring that applications run smoothly across multiple environments.
Proxmox Series – Part 4: Creating a Linux Container in Proxmox VE
Learn how to set up a Linux Container (LXC) in Proxmox VE with this step-by-step guide. From uploading an LXC Template to configuring the container, we cover everything you need to get started with containerization in Proxmox VE.
Proxmox Series – Part 3: Creating a Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE
Learn how to set up a virtual machine in Proxmox VE with this step-by-step guide. From uploading ISO images to configuring resources, we cover everything you need to get started with virtualization in Proxmox VE.
DevSecOps Series – Part 6: Building Reproducible IT Infrastructure with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD
In today’s fast-paced IT world, managing infrastructure as code (IaC) is a game changer.
DevSecOps Series – Part 5: Implementing DevSecOps in an Infrastructure-as-Code Pipeline with GitLab
In today's fast-paced development environment, integrating security and providing a streamlined infrastructure automation is very important.
Proxmox Series – Part 2: Getting Started with Proxmox VE: Installation and Basic Configuration
Now that you decided to use Proxmox VE as your Hypervisor we will show you how to install Proxmox VE and what basic configurations you should set to get your virtualization environment up and running smoothly.
Proxmox Series – Part 1: Introduction to Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE)
Exploring Proxmox: Unlocking the Power of Open Source Hypervisors
In this blog series, we will explore Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE), an open-source hypervisor that provides a robust platform for creating and managing virtualized environments, combining flexibility with enterprise-grade features.
DevSecOps Series – Part 4: An opinionated list to tools for implementing a DevSecOps approach
In the last blog post, we talked about the technical foundations of DevSecOps. Now it is time to dive into a possible implementation. Remember, combining Development, Operations, and Security (DevSecOps) is the logical next step for teams aiming to streamline their workflows without compromising on compliance and data integrity.
DevSecOps Series – Part 3: Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and Secure CI/CD Pipelines: A Comprehensive Guide
In the last two blog posts, we introduced DevOps and CI/CD and introduced Supply Chain Security. In this blog post, we will provide more insights into Supply Chain Security, before we begin to show the implementation within the next blog posts.
DevSecOps Series – Part 2: Integrating IaC and Monitoring
In the first blog post, we shortly introduced DevOps and CI/CD. Before we dive into the details, we want to continue this discussion, this time about IaC in general and monitoring.
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EXPERT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SPECIALIST MEDIA & SPECIALIST BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Cisco Live 2025: AI Defense for secure AI use
Cisco has presented its all-round security concept for AI operations in companies, which is designed to create transparency and offer real-time protection.
Cisco Live 2025: New server model for AI in the data center and optional cloud management
In front of around 17,000 participants at the Amsterdam edition of its in-house exhibition “Cisco Live”, network specialist Cisco presented a whole series of announcements relating to AI clusters on the podium.
Identity management in Google Cloud Platform – Don’t be misled
Managing identities and access rights is one of the central tasks of cloud operations. This is all the more true given that the increasing use of the Google Cloud Platform also
comes with the need to protect sensitive data.
Secure Kubernetes with canisters – Canisterisation
Broadcom gives in: VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus and Standard return
Clouds Over Paris – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024
Kubernetes is celebrating its tenth birthday this year and its success story and impact on the cloud computing market is impressive. This year's European KubeCon + CloudNativeCon also saw record attendance, with over 12,500 participants making the journey to Paris.
Nutanix: The New Safe Haven in the Turbulent Cloud and Virtualization Market?
At its in-house exhibition, Nutanix presented itself as a secure bank for enterprise cloud and virtualisation, including a new Kubernetes platform.
In addition to announcing innovations in the ‘Nutanix Cloud Platform’ and the new version 6.8 of its ‘Acropolis Operating System’, Nutanix used its in-house exhibition .NEXT to present additional services such as a Kubernetes platform, a curated GPT service, an AI partner programme, a partnership in the PaaS environment and extensions to its Project Beacon.
Dell Technologies World: AI Laptops Featuring ARM CPUs, QLC Flash, and Xeon-6 Servers
As part of a comprehensive AI initiative, Dell announces at its annual in-house exhibition the launch of laptops that meet Microsoft's new specification for Copilot+ PCs and are powered by Snapdragon X processors. Qualcomm's system-on-a-chip family will power five models in the XPS, Inspiron and Latitude product lines.
AWS Summit Berlin 2024: Sovereign Cloud with New Region
The AWS Summit, the annual event of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a melting pot for innovations in cloud technology, took place this year on 15 and 16 May at the ‘Station Berlin’ event location at Gleisdreieck in Berlin, as in previous years.
Firewalls for Everyone – Check Point CPX 2024
In mid-February, Check Point hosted CPX in Vienna: around 4,500 participants were provided with information on innovations in firewalls. In the keynote speech, Check Point founder and CEO Gil Shwed first presented the new firewalls of the high-end ‘Quantum Force’ series, which are intended to set new standards in terms of performance and throughput.
Secure Kubernetes – Backup with Kasten K10
Kubernetes presents backup applications with unrealisable challenges. Kasten K10, specially developed for Kubernetes environments, promises a remedy.
Smarter Data Navigator – Container Networks and the Antrea CNI
Antrea CNI is a powerful software for managing container networks. We look at the Kubernetes network model and how to administer it using Antrea CNI. We will look at the basic rules of the model and the different types of network communication in Kubernetes, such as container-to-container, pod-to-pod and pod-to-service. We also introduce the components of Antrea, including the controller, the agent and the controller API servers.
VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator in Practical Application
When it comes to automation, reusability is the goal - for example, reusing scripts in different places. VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator) provides so-called actions for this purpose. The focus of our workshop is on typical scenarios that occur again and again in practice.
DevSecOps with DefectDojo – The early bird…
When it comes to security, it makes a lot of sense to embed it as early as possible in the software development process. DefectDojo is a vulnerability management tool that helps development teams and admins to identify, track and fix vulnerabilities.
Secured passage – Azure Application Gateway
Managed offerings in the public cloud are an alternative to operating a load balancer locally. These already cover many typical requirements in terms of high availability, scalability and security.
Always wind in your sails – Kubernetes backups with Velero
Once developed by VMware and now open source in the hands of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Velero provides backup, disaster recovery and data migration in the Kubernetes environment. We show you how to set up the tool and perform the three tasks mentioned above in your cluster. This ensures that your apps always have a tailwind.
Container security with Aqua Security – Please keep it locked!
The operation of cloud-native applications in containers or with serverless technologies brings with it special and new requirements in terms of security.
Cloud-o-mat: Administering GCP and AWS with PowerShell
As a cross-platform framework for automating, configuring and managing systems, PowerShell also automates clouds outside of Azure.
VMware Aria Operations: Keeping the balls in the air
Having long been primarily at home in the data centre, VMware has been focusing on the multicloud for some time now. With the revamped Aria suite, VMware offers a tool for the standardised management of such environments.
Easy game: Simplified container orchestration with Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps is a fully managed serverless container service for creating and deploying applications. With this service, Microsoft is targeting IT managers who shy away from the complexity and high level of expertise required for container orchestration, but still want to benefit from the advantages of containerised applications.
Tightly meshed – network security in the Google Cloud Platform
Virtual private clouds allow even complex network infrastructures to be set up quickly and easily in the Google Cloud Platform. However, as every IT manager will confirm, fast does not always mean right.
A look inside – Aqua Security Trivy security scanner
Working with containers has become one of the standard tasks of administrators. However, in addition to the pure operation of containers, it is also important to take care of their security.
Databases in the Google Cloud – storage for every purpose
Even in the cloud age, database operation is one of the classic IT tasks. In addition to relational databases based on SQL, non-relational databases are increasingly finding their way into companies, which now use more than just one database.
Migration Made Easy – True Hybrid Clouds with Azure VMware Service
Moving classic VM workloads directly to the cloud often requires more effort than initially thought. However, all major cloud providers offer support based on VMware's Cloud Foundation.
Regulations with the Open Policy Agent – No more than permitted
Every application that is accessed by more than one user must answer the crucial question: Is this user really authorised to perform the desired action? A role model usually defines what a user is authorised to do in a software application.
Cloud watcher – Monitoring in the Google Cloud Platform
When operating infrastructure and applications, monitoring is indispensable for gaining an insight into the status of the respective components. This applies not only to local environments, but also to the public cloud.
Hashicorp Terraform Enterprise – World Builder
With Terraform, Hashicorp has been offering comprehensive deployment software for infrastructure-as-code for years. Terraform is now available in version 1.0 and, in addition to the open source version, the manufacturer also offers its tool as a cloud service and for local installation.
Empowerment – VMware Workspace ONE
With Workspace ONE, VMware offers a tool for providing a secure and user-friendly digital workplace. Our article presents the features, components and architecture of Workspace ONE and takes a look at application management
Cloud Machine – VMware vRealize Suite 8.2
The vRealize Suite is an established tool for managing and automating VMware landscapes. Like other products, the suite has undergone a transformation towards the cloud in recent years and has therefore undergone many innovations as well as one or two revisions.
“Many Vulnerabilities Are More Social Than Technical” – Interview with Torsten Mutayi
Virtualisation increases the complexity of the IT infrastructure, making the task of keeping the network secure more difficult. We spoke to Torsten Mutayi, Principal Consultant and Trainer at Söldner Consult GmbH, about the challenges facing administrators.
vSphere 7: The Comprehensive Manual
With this book you can administer VMware vSphere 7 efficiently and securely. The professional tips and practical instructions from real VMware experts help admins, consultants, IT architects and decision-makers to reduce effort and costs.
Centrally Managed – Multi-Cloud Management with Morpheus
The best way to use services from several cloud providers simultaneously is with a multi-cloud management platform. Morpheus can be installed quickly and offers a large number of integrations with common cloud and infrastructure providers.
