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8:00am IST

Badge Pick-Up

Thursday August 7, 2025 8:00am - 4:30pm IST

Registration Centre

Thursday August 7, 2025 8:00am - 4:30pm IST
Registration Centre

Registration

9:30am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks

Thursday August 7, 2025 9:30am - 9:35am IST

Hall 3

Thursday August 7, 2025 9:30am - 9:35am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

9:37am IST

Keynote: From Outage To Observability: Lessons From a Kubernetes Meltdown - Saiyam Pathak, LoftLabs & Arnab Chatterjee, Nomura

Thursday August 7, 2025 9:37am - 9:47am IST

Hall 3

Is basic monitoring and logging using prometheus and ELK stack enough? Our DevOps automation platform suffered a major Kubernetes outage due to weak observability despite having the basic setup in place.

What Went Wrong?
Our "good enough" setup fell apart when it mattered most. Logs were a mess with no correlation, & tracing was half-baked, leaving us clueless during debugging. One customer’s CI/CD pipeline overwhelmed shared resources and brought everyone down. Aggressive autoscaling overloaded the control plane. Worst of all, a single tenant’s failure affected the entire cluster.

How did we fix it?
We swapped basic Prometheus for a distributed setup that could handle the scale. Workloads got isolated per tenant and team, with multi-tenancy baked in and dedicated monitoring to match. Fine-grained autoscaling & experimentation with tracing tools(Parca/Odigos). The result? A cluster that bends but doesn’t break.

If you want to avoid your own outage horror story, this talk is for you.

Speakers

Saiyam Pathak

Principal Developer Advocate, LoftLabs

Saiyam is working as Principal Developer Advocate at Loft Labs. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies. Previously at Civo, Walmart Labs, Oracle, and HP, Saiyam has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine... Read More →

Arnab Chatterjee

Vice President, Nomura

Arnab Chatterjee is a seasoned technologist who has nearly two decades of industry experience in Cloud Native,Data Platforms ,Tools and best practices

Thursday August 7, 2025 9:37am - 9:47am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions, Observability

Content Experience Level Advanced

9:48am IST

Keynotes to be Announced

Thursday August 7, 2025 9:48am - 10:01am IST

Hall 3

Thursday August 7, 2025 9:48am - 10:01am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

10:02am IST

Keynote: Kubernetes and Platform Engineering: A Strategic Partnership for Scalable Innovation - Bhavani Indukuri, Staff Platform Engineer, Zscaler

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:02am - 10:12am IST

Hall 3

As organisations push to accelerate software delivery, Kubernetes has emerged as the backbone of modern platform engineering, enabling businesses to transcend traditional infrastructure and build scalable, high-performance platforms that empower developers to effortlessly deploy, manage, and scale applications.

In this session, I’ll dive into how Kubernetes is revolutionising platform engineering — turning complex infrastructure into self-service environments that drive automation, scalability, and developer efficiency. Through real-world case studies and forward-thinking strategies, I’ll demonstrate how Kubernetes helps organisations unlock unprecedented flexibility, accelerate delivery cycles, and build platforms that scale seamlessly in today’s dynamic landscape.

Speakers

Bhavani Indukuri

Staff Platform Engineer, Zscaler

Bhavani is a Staff Platform Engineer at Zscaler. She plays a pivotal role in streamlining and optimising DevOps and CloudNative solutions, ensuring seamless and efficient software delivery. Previously, at ServiceNow, she was actively involved in migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:02am - 10:12am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

10:14am IST

Keynotes to be Announced

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:14am - 10:39am IST

Hall 3

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:14am - 10:39am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

10:40am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:40am - 10:45am IST

Hall 3

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:40am - 10:45am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

10:45am IST

Coffee Break ☕

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am IST

Hall 4

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am IST
Hall 4

Breaks

10:45am IST

Solutions Showcase

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:45am - 3:50pm IST

Hall 4

Visit our sponsors in the Solutions Showcase to try the latest demos, watch live presentations, talk to experts, check out job opportunities, and score some swag.

In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or to access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third-party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.

Thursday August 7, 2025 10:45am - 3:50pm IST
Hall 4

Solutions Showcase

11:30am IST

Children's Guide To LLMs on Kubernetes - Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify & Aman Mundra, Welzin

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

Hall 3

Do you know about Large Language Models or LLMs? It’s been a while since we’ve seen a technology like this grab everyone’s attention, techies and non-techies alike. Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene, powered by an LLM, AI has become a household name. But for newcomers, especially in the cloud native ecosystem, these concepts can feel overwhelming.
In this talk, we’ll start from the very basics, explaining what LLMs are and busting some common myths. We’ll break down the key terms with simple diagrams and analogies that are easy to digest. You’ll get a clear, beginner-friendly look at how LLMs work, why Kubernetes is perfect for running them, and how they fit together in the cloud-native world.
We’ll even walk through running an LLM on Kubernetes using vLLM for some practical insights and touch on how this opens the door to AIOps. If you’re curious about stepping into the AI ecosystem and understanding its cloud foundations, this talk is for you.

Speakers

Aman Mundra

Founder, Welzin

Amandeep Singh is the Founder & CEO of Welzin, a full-stack AI firm delivering cutting-edge solutions in AI/ML, GenAI, and data science. With 11+ years of experience, he has led transformative projects across finance, legal, manufacturing, and mar-tech.Before launching Welzin, Amandeep... Read More →

Saloni Narang

Co-Founder, Kubesimplify

Saloni is a Co-founder at kubesimplify and previously worked at SAP Labs. She has worked on different cloud tools, including GCP,Oracle, AWS. She loves to read about new open-source tools in the Cloud Native landscape. Being a CNCF Ambassador and Docker Captain she has been very... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 3

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Beginner

11:30am IST

The Fast and the Fluent: AI-Powered Speech Translation at the Edge With K0s - Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc.

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

Hall 1

Imagine walking up to a self-service kiosk at an airport, hospital, or hotel, speaking in your native language, and instantly hearing a real-time translation—without cloud delays or privacy risks. Traditional speech translation relies on heavy cloud compute, but what if it could run directly on low-power edge devices like Raspberry Pi or even phones?
This session demonstrates how Kubernetes (k0s) enables AI-powered multilingual speech translation at the edge, eliminating latency, cloud dependency, and high operational costs. With a single k0s control plane, running outside of edge, managing hundreds of kiosks, AI models are deployed, updated, and scaled seamlessly. We’ll showcase a live demo of real-time speech translation running on edge devices, proving how edge-native AI can revolutionize automated customer interactions.
AI-powered customer service—automated, private, and built for scale.

Speakers

Bharath N R

Senior Software Engineer | Open Source Contributor, Mirantis Inc.

Bharath Nallapeta is a seasoned Kubernetes and cloud-native technology expert with a deep passion for AI and its integration with modern infrastructure. With extensive experience in designing and optimizing Kubernetes-based AI/ML deployments, he has contributed to open-source projects... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 1

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:30am IST

Smart Capacity-Aware Volume Provisioning for LVM Local Storage Across Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Fleet - Arathi Balasubramanian & Amarnath Ch, Microsoft

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

Hall 2

In the world of containerization, workloads require reliable, performant storage for logs, data persistence, debugging, and real-time processing. Today, Kubernetes and open-source solutions provide a diverse range of storage provisioning options to choose from for single-cluster environments.

Now, envision scaling this to a broader fleet model, where multiple clusters are in play—worker clusters managed by a single control cluster, supporting a variety of workloads with replica counts in the range of thousands. How can we ensure seamless, dynamic volume provisioning through intelligent, capacity-aware decisions, while optimizing disk utilization across clusters, minimizing manual intervention, and maintaining high performance, reliability, and security as workloads and customer demands grow?

In this session, we will tackle these challenges head-on, exploring the architecture of capacity-aware, dynamic volume provisioning for LVM local storage across a multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet.

Speakers

amarnath ch

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Amar is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, specializing in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure experience in designing scalable, resilient multi-cluster architectures.

Arathi Balasubramanian

Software Engineer II, Microsoft

Arathi is a skilled software engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, currently working in the Platform team at Microsoft AI. Arathi specializes in optimizing volume provisioning and Kubernetes-based storage solutions for scalable, high-performance workloads across multi-region... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 2

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:30am IST

Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Subham Rai, Nikhil Ladha, Rakshith R & Nitin Goyal, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

MRG 1-6

The Rook project will be introduced to attendees of all levels and experience. Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph to natively integrate with Kubernetes. The panel will discuss various scenarios to show how Rook configures Ceph to provide stable block, shared file system, and object storage for your production data. Rook was accepted as a graduated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in October 2020.

Speakers

Subham Rai

Mr, IBM

I'm Subham Rai from India. I have more than 3 years of experience in software or more specifically in the storage industry working mainly in rook-ceph. I hold a B.tech degree and I'm also RHCSA certified. I have spoken at FOSDEM 2022, Cephalocon 2023(Amsterdam). I'm in the top 4... Read More →

Deepika Upadhyay

Ms, Clyso

I'm Deepika, a Ceph Engineer at Clyso I'm working on the Rook project. With over 5 COI Ro clusters for enterprises, particularly in the years in the Ceph community, I specialize in deploying large-scale Rook Ceph in containerized environments. My career started with Ceph Storage... Read More →

Nikhil Ladha

Software Engineer, IBM

Nikhil Ladha is a backend developer from India, working at IBM and has more than 4yrs of industry experience in the domain of storage, web and kubernetes.He is also an active open-source contributor and a maintainer of multiple open-source projects. He loves to travel and explore... Read More →

Nitin Goyal

Senior Backend Engineer, IBM/RedHat

As a valued member of the Red Hat/IBM Storage Team, I bring seven years of expertise to the forefront of Kubernetes development. Specializing in diverse operators such as Rook, LVM, OCS, and ODF, I have played a pivotal role in orchestrating seamless storage solutions. Beyond my contributions... Read More →

Rakshith R

Software Engineer, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Rakshith is a Software Engineer at IBM Storage Team. He is an active open source developer, top contributor at Rook and maintainer at CephCSI, CSI-Addons and External-snapshot-metadata sidecar projects. He has given multiple talks at conferences including Cephalocon and Ceph Days... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
MRG 1-6

Maintainer Track, Rook

11:30am IST

Handling Node Churn in Karpenter: Efficient Scaling for Large EKS Clusters - Shivani Mehrotra, Expedia Group & Chetan Saini, Antra Info Solution PVT LTD

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

Hall 6

Managing node churn in large Amazon EKS clusters posed challenges due to fluctuating workloads, leading to instability and high costs. In this session, we’ll share how we leveraged Karpenter, an open-source K8s autoscaler, to optimize node provisioning and minimize churn across multiple EKS clusters. We’ll explore strategies like Pod Priority, PDBs, and node pools, improving scheduling efficiency and reducing resource waste thereby reducing cloud costs. Additionally, we’ll discuss reducing do-not-disrupt annotations, tightening affinity rules, aligning Karpenter nodes with EC2 savings plans and using latest features of karpenter like reserved instances to enhance performance and cost savings. One can gain insights into understanding node churning and its impact on costs and stability, optimizing Karpenter to scale nodes efficiently, achieving cost savings through spot instances and refined scaling policies. Join us to learn how to make EKS clusters more efficient and cost-effective!

Speakers

Shivani Mehrotra

Software Development Engineer II, Expedia Group

Shivani, SDE-II at Expedia Group is a platform engineer, specializing in building robust systems. Passionate about innovation, Shivani thrives on challenges, delivering impactful results in her role. Outside of work, Shivani enjoys exploring new technologies and staying at the forefront... Read More →

Chetan Saini

Software Engineer III, Antra Info Solution PVT LTD

Chetan, SDE-II at Expedia Group, is a platform engineer specializing in building scalable and resilient systems. He enjoys solving complex technical challenges and optimizing infrastructure for efficiency and performance. Always eager to explore new technologies, Chetan stays up to... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 6

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:10pm IST

Cloud Native GenAI Using KServe and OPEA - Johnu George, Nutanix & Arun Gupta, Intel

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

Hall 3

This talk explores how KServe and OPEA are redefining the enterprise AI stack through modular and composable architectures. KServe delivers a scalable, hardware-agnostic Kubernetes native platform for production model deployment. OPEA complements this infrastructure with an open, multi-provider platform that provides optimized GenAI solutions through standardized interfaces. By building on KServe's capabilities, OPEA allows teams to focus on developing innovative applications rather than managing complex infrastructure concerns.
Join us to learn how deconstructing AI systems into specialized Lego blocks leads to more extensible and powerful enterprise AI architectures. We will demonstrate how this separation of concerns speeds up innovation, enabling teams to focus on app development for their app development. We will also discuss practical approaches for implementing this "building block" methodology in your organization's AI strategy.

Speakers

Johnu George

Technical Director, Nutanix

Johnu George is a Technical Director at Nutanix with a background in distributed systems and large-scale hybrid data pipelines. He is an active open-source contributor and has steered several industry collaborations on projects like Kubeflow, Apache Mnemonic and Knative. He is a member... Read More →

Arun Gupta

VP, Developer Programs, Intel

Arun Gupta is vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for over two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 3

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Any

12:10pm IST

Running Databases Efficiently at Scale - Case Study of Flipkart's Local PV Journey on K8s - Yashpal Choudhary & Akif Ahmed Khan, Flipkart

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

Hall 2

Running large-scale, performance-sensitive distributed databases on K8s requires balancing between latency, reliability, and cost efficiency. At Flipkart, we tackled this challenge by leveraging K8s Local Persistent Volumes (Local PVs) to optimize both performance and infrastructure costs for our stateful workloads.

With a storage footprint of 4PB of directly attached SSDs, 15PB of directly attached HDDs, comprising 1000 K8s stateful nodes spanning across 3 clusters (2 on-prem & 1 on public cloud infrastructure) LocalPV storage currently powers various internal database platforms (Aerospikes, HBase, TiDB) leveraged by critical business applications at Flipkart.

In this talk, we’ll share practical insights from our journey of scaling database infrastructure with Local PVs. We’ll dive into key challenges and solutions, including dynamic provisioning, workload scheduling, and automating maintenance workflows to ensure operational efficiency at scale.

Speakers

Akif Ahmed Khan

Software Engineer, Flipkart

Cloud Platform - Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure Services, Platform Services

Yashpal Choudhary

Software Engineer, Flipkart

K8s Infrastructure

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 2

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:10pm IST

Bridging Big Data and Machine Learning Ecosystems: A Cloud Native Approach Using Kubeflow - Johnu George, Nutanix & Akshay Chitneni, Apple

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

MRG 1-6

In today's data-driven landscape, bridging the gap between scalable big data systems (e.g., Apache Spark, Iceberg) and machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) while minimizing data movement and serialization overhead is a critical challenge. Traditional workflows require costly data serialization between storage (e.g., Parquet/Iceberg) and training frameworks, creating bottlenecks leading to inefficient resource utilization in distributed training. This talk explores a cloud-native solution using Kubeflow for end-to-end ML orchestration and Apache Arrow for high-performance data interchange, enabling seamless integration of analytics and ML workflows.

Speakers

Johnu George

Technical Director, Nutanix

Akshay Chitneni

Staff Software Engineer, Apple

Akshay Chitneni is a software engineer working on building data platform on Kubernetes

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
MRG 1-6

Maintainer Track, Kubeflow

12:10pm IST

Effortless, Standardised Homelab Observability With eBPF - Goutham Veeramachaneni, Grafana Labs

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

Hall 1

Running a homelab means running a diverse set of applications like NextCloud, readeck.org, usememos.com.

They are written in many languages and frameworks and in general lack a good way to monitor them. The old way to monitor them involved having a basic blackbox_exporter enabled synthetic monitoring. Even instrumented, each application has a different set of metrics, leading to complex alerting and dashboards.

Grafana Beyla, powered by eBPF and OpenTelemetry, combined with Prometheus promises to generate first class observability signals for services regardless of the language and frameworks used. We will walk through deploying Beyla for a homelab, and the challenges in having good observability even with Beyla.

We will walk through:

1. Deploying Beyla in your environment with Prometheus
2. Setting up dashboards for the data
3. Robust alerting over the signals, especially in low, sporadic traffic (homelab) scenarios.
4. The missing signals from eBPF and how you can fill those gaps

Speakers

Goutham Veeramachaneni

Product Manager, Grafana Labs

Goutham is a Prometheus maintainer with experience maintaining the TSDB. After spending many years helping build and run the hosted Prometheus service at Grafana, he recently transitioned to PM, managing the Application Observability and OpenTelemetry products. He still hasn't lost... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 1

Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:10pm IST

Cluster API To Streamline Kubernetes Clusters Lifecycle Management at NVIDIA - Megha Singhal & Gulshan Khatri, NVIDIA

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

Hall 6

Teams independently provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters often leads to silos, inefficiencies, and rising operational costs.

This presentation will showcase how NVIDIA successfully consolidated its Kubernetes infrastructure management using ClusterAPI and in-house bare-metal machines. The speakers will demonstrate NVIDIA's implementation that incorporates heterogeneous machine types, including CPU, GPU, TEGRA, and ARM, enabling high-performance workloads to run seamlessly.

By implementing a custom ClusterAPI infrastructure provider, NVIDIA made lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters more efficient. The team enhanced ClusterAPI by wrapping its templates into Helm charts, standardizing cluster deployments across the organization. Through GitOps workflows, NVIDIA ensured cluster creation and management followed a declarative, version-controlled approach, reducing operational overhead while improving consistency in multi-environment deployments.

Speakers

Gulshan Khatri IN

SRE Lead, Nvidia

Gulshan is a SRE Lead at Nvidia. He started working with Kubernetes on small-scale clusters, scaling them to thousands of nodes over time. Today, he leads a team that provides Kubernetes as a Service.

Megha Singhal

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Nvidia

Megha Singhal is a Senior SRE specializing in Kubernetes, automation, and cloud-native reliability, focused on scaling and optimizing resilient systems.

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 6

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:40pm IST

Lunch 🍲

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:40pm - 2:10pm IST

Hall 4

Thursday August 7, 2025 12:40pm - 2:10pm IST
Hall 4

Breaks

2:10pm IST

Auto-instrumentation for GPU Performance Using eBPF - Marc Tudurí, Grafana Labs

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

Hall 3

Modern AI workloads rely on large GPU fleets whose efficient utilisation is crucial due to high costs. However, gathering telemetry from these workloads to optimise performance is challenging because it requires manual instrumentation and adds performance overheads. Further, it does not produce telemetry in a standardised format for commonly used visualisation tools like Prometheus.

This talk explores the potential of leveraging eBPF to capture CUDA calls made to GPUs, including kernel launches and memory allocations. Data from these probes can be used to export Prometheus metrics, facilitating detailed analysis of kernel launch patterns and associated memory usage. This approach offers significant benefits as eBPF imposes minimal overhead and requires no intrusive instrumentation. Our implementation is also open-source and available on GitHub.

Speakers

Marc Tudurí

Staff Engineer, Grafana Labs

Marc Tuduri is Prometheus contributor, OpenTelemetry member and Software Engineer at Grafana.

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 3

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:10pm IST

High-Performance Cloud Networking With Calico and Vector Packet Processing - Shatakshi Mishra & Abed Mohammad Kamaluddin, Marvell Technology

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

Hall 2

In cloud-native environments, high-performance networking is crucial for scalability and security. Calico, a leading solution for container networking, integrates the VPP dataplane alongside eBPF. VPP provides a scalable solution combining security with high-performance packet processing. In this session, we’ll discuss our work with Calico’s VPP dataplane, optimized by integrating Marvell’s high-performance native plugin, an open-source Data Acceleration Offload solution. This integration offloads cryptographic tasks and inline IPSec encryption to SmartNICs, reducing CPU usage and optimizing secure data transmission. VPP offers fast packet processing, low latency, and high throughput, essential for service meshes, edge computing, and microservices. By leveraging hardware offloading and optimizations, VPP enhances throughput and reduces CPU load, making it ideal for demanding networking tasks. We’ll present benchmark results showcasing improved throughput, latency, and resource use.

Speakers

Shatakshi Mishra

Senior Software Engineer, Marvell Technology

Shatakshi Mishra is a Senior Software Engineer at Marvell Technology with 3+ years of experience. She is skilled in P4 Programming Language, Kubernetes Orchestration, and Cloud Native Technologies, dedicated to providing innovative solutions and leveraging cutting-edge technologi... Read More →

Abed Mohammad Kamaluddin

Director, Marvell Technology

Abed Mohammad Kamaluddin serves as the Director of Processor Software, Infrastructure Processors at Marvell Technologies. Leading a software team, he focuses on Packet Accelerators, Transport and Network Security stacks, VPP software, and DPU solutions, with a particular emphasis... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 2

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:10pm IST

Inside Vitess: Building Resilient, Distributed Databases - Manan Gupta & Harshit Gangal, PlanetScale

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

MRG 1-6

Welcome to the Vitess 101 session! In this talk, we’ll introduce you to Vitess — what it is, how it works, and why it’s a powerful solution for scaling databases. We’ll walk through its architecture and key features that enable it to handle database workloads at scale. You’ll learn how Vitess serves queries in a distributed environment and how it makes global data distribution possible. We’ll also demo geo-sharding in action. To wrap things up, we’ll highlight recent improvements in Vitess and share a glimpse of what’s coming in future releases.

Speakers

Harshit Gangal

Software Engineer, PlanetScale

A technology enthusiast with a keen interest in distributed systems. He has been involved in database scalability for 8+ years and is associated with CNCF graduated project Vitess. He is the maintainer for Vitess and contributes significantly to the query serving part of Vitess. Currently... Read More →

Manan Gupta

Software Engineer, PlanetScale

Manan Gupta is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he works on Vitess and focuses on cluster management, high-availability features, and query-serving. He is a maintainer of Vitess and has a passion for designing and implementing robust and scalable solutions that deliver high... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
MRG 1-6

Maintainer Track, Vitess

2:10pm IST

Containerized Time Travel: Replicating Production Performance - Sravanthi Naga & Hari Babu Volli, Pegasystems

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

Hall 1

One of the significant challenges faced by Kubernetes-based applications is that performance issues often only manifest in production environments, making them difficult to reproduce in development or staging settings. Imagine if we could "time travel" and recreate real-world production conditions within a controlled environment.

This session explores how a leading global bank (200M customers in 150+ countries) successfully recreated production workloads in controlled settings. By leveraging synthetic data generation, trace playback, and workload simulation, we tackled most performance issues without compromising sensitive data. This approach not only enhanced system reliability and reduced downtime but also improved the bank's ROI by decreasing operational costs by 30% and increasing transaction efficiency by 25%, resulting in significant annual savings.

Join us as we unravel the secrets of "time travel" to replicate production performance and resolve issues effectively.

Speakers

Hari Babu Volli

Principal Software Engineer, Pegasystems India

Principal Software Engineer at Pega with over 10.5 years of experience in performance engineering. Proficient in debugging and analyzing performance bottlenecks through live monitoring with Dynatrace and other performance monitoring tools. Skilled in automation using Jenkins, and... Read More →

Sravanthi Naga

Senior Engineering Manager, Pegasystems

I am deeply passionate about technology, specializing in performance engineering, DevSecOps, and CloudNative solutions. I strive to create high-performing, resilient applications while fostering a culture of collaboration and learning. As a volunteer at CNCF Hyderabad, I am grateful... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 1

Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:10pm IST

Fine-Grained Authorization: The Missing Piece in Agentic AI Security - Shivay Lamba, Couchbase & Ashish Jha, Okta

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

Hall 6

Securing data access for AI agents has become a critical challenge. Traditional access control approaches fall short when AI systems need contextual, document-level permissions at scale and speed.

This talk demonstrates how Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) provides robust security for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic AI systems. Learn how to implement permission models that protect sensitive information while enabling AI to access only authorized data.

The talk explores implementations using OpenFGA and LangChain, showcasing how to build security directly into AI retrieval pipelines.

The presenters will provide real world case studies to discover how enterprises can prevent data leakage, implement multi-tenant isolation, and maintain audit trails while scaling to billions of access decisions.

Thus join us to understand how one can maintain security without sacrificing performance or user experience in Agentic / Gen AI applications.

Speakers

Ashish Jha

Solutions Engineering Specialist - Auth0, Okta

Ashish is a creative technologist currently driving revenue growth and fostering strong customer partnerships at Okta as a Solutions Engineer. With a strong foundation in Conversational AI, & being one of the leading community voices for Amazon Alexa, Ashish brings a unique perspective... Read More →

Shivay Lamba

Senior Engineer, Couchbase

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 6

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:50pm IST

How Intuit Streamlined AI/ML Inference Workflows on K8s - Yashash H L & Sreekanth P R, Intuit

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

Hall 3

Building ML systems that operate on real-time data streams is no easy feat, especially when dealing with complex messaging systems, scaling requirements, and the need for seamless inference. At Intuit, we saw firsthand how these challenges slowed down our ML teams and hindered innovation. That’s why we created Numaflow, a Kubernetes-native open-source platform that empowers teams to easily connect to streaming sources, apply transformations, and run inference at scale—without the typical overhead. In this talk, we’ll share how Numaflow enhances the developer experience, reduces boilerplate, and accelerates deployment of ML workflows. Whether you're a data scientist, ML engineer, or platform builder, this session will offer practical insights into running real-time inference on streaming data, the Intuit way.

Speakers

Sreekanth P R

Senior Software Engineer, Intuit India

Yashash H L

Senior Software Engineer, Intuit

Yashash is a Software engineer for the Intuit Platform and Analytics team in Bangalore, India. He is one of the lead contributors to open source Numaproj streaming platform. His focus areas include stream processing, analytics and observability.

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 3

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:50pm IST

Scaling Generative AI: Building Production-Ready LLM Applications - Daniel Oh, Red Hat

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

Hall 2

This session delves into the critical aspects of developing production-ready Large Language Model (LLM) applications using Java. We'll explore how to leverage Java's strengths to build scalable and efficient LLM systems, addressing key challenges such as performance optimization, resource management, and seamless integration with existing infrastructures.

Attendees will gain practical knowledge on handling massive datasets, optimizing model inference, and fine-tuning LLMs for optimal performance. We'll discuss strategies for ensuring the reliability and scalability of your LLM deployments, empowering you to create robust and high-performing AI applications. Whether you're a seasoned Java developer or new to the AI domain, this session will provide valuable insights and guidance for your LLM development journey, equipping you with the tools and knowledge to navigate the complexities of building production-grade LLM systems.

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat to evangelize developers for building cloud-native apps and serverless ob Kubernetes ecosystems. He's also contributing to various cloud open-source projects and ecosystems as a CNCF ambassador for accelerating... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 2

Application Development

Content Experience Level Any

2:50pm IST

Kubernetes Steering Committee - Navigating the Tides of the Kubernetes Ocean - Maciej Szulik, Independent; Paco Xu, DaoCloud; Nikhita Raghunath & Nabarun Pal, Broadcom

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

MRG 1-6

How do you steer a project as vast and dynamic as Kubernetes? Join Nikhita, Paco, Nabarun, and Maciej for a candid conversation diving deep into the Kubernetes Steering Committee, the governing heart of the project. This panel will explore the committee's evolution from its origins to its critical present-day responsibilities and its vision for the future.

Gain firsthand perspectives on the challenges and strategic decisions involved in guiding one of the world's most vital open-source projects. We will cover key aspects like defining core values, overseeing crucial financial planning, shaping the community structure, and ensuring the project's overall health. Discover learnings from the Kubernetes governance journey that you can potentially leverage to enhance governance within your own cloud native projects. If you have questions or want insights into Kubernetes governance, drop by for this insightful discussion!

Speakers

Maciej Szulik

Software Engineer, Independant

Maciej is a passionate developer with almost two decades of experience in many languages. Currently he's working on Kubernetes for Defense Unicorns. Whereas at night he is hacking on side projects with python. In his spare time he enjoys reading a good book or taking photos.

Nabarun Pal

Principal Software Engineer, Kubernetes Maintainer, Broadcom

Nabarun is a Principal Software Engineer, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee member and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21 Release Team... Read More →

Paco Xu

Lead of open source team, DaoCloud

Paco is co-chair of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China 2024, and a member of Kubernetes Steering Committee. Paco is a kubeadm maintainer and an active kubernetes contributor. He is the leader of the open-source team in DaoCloud. He organized KCD Chengdu 2022 and KCS China 2023, and... Read More →

Nikhita Raghunath

Principal Engineer @ Broadcom (VMware), ex-CNCF TOC, KubeCon Chair, Kubernetes Steering, Broadcom

Nikhita is a staff software engineer at VMware and a maintainer of the Kubernetes project. She is a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and has won the CNCF Top Committer Award in 2021 for her technical contributions. She is currently the technical lead for Kubernetes... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
MRG 1-6

Maintainer Track, API Expression

2:50pm IST

Observability at Scale With Monitoring as Code: Grafana, Prometheus, & Tempo - Vipin GopalaKrishnapillai, Amway Global

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

Hall 1

We built an enterprise-wide observability platform using CNCF Open Source tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Tempo) to address APM needs for Ops, AppDev, CloudFinOps, and Management. This self-service, automated platform offers dashboards, alerts, and notifications.

Challenges:

1️⃣ Flexibility – Observing diverse tech stacks (Java, Node, Python, Go) with standard & custom metrics and tracing.
2️⃣ Scaling – Observing workloads across multiple Kubernetes clusters and regions.
3️⃣ Cost – Fully managed solutions like Dynatrace were expensive.

Solution:

Hub & Spoke Model: Centralized tooling observing global workloads.
✅ Metrics: AWS Managed Prometheus for metrics, self-hosted Grafana for dashboards and alerts.
✅ Traces: Self-hosted Grafana Tempo with S3 storage for cost optimization.
✅ MAC: Fully automated infrastructure with AWS CDK and TypeScript for self-service configuration.

Speakers

Vipin GopalaKrishnapillai

Full Stack Developer, Amway Global

Vipin is a platform engineer and CNCF contributor with deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and cloud-native ecosystems. Passionate about automation, GitOps, and self-service platform engineering, they build scalable, developer-friendly infrastructure. As a contributor to CNCF projects... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 1

Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:50pm IST

Freeze,Investigate,Recover: Unlocking Forensic Container Checkpointing With CRI-U - Suman Chakraborty, Platform9 Systems & Neel Shah, Middleware

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

Hall 6

Resilience in Kubernetes often relies on pod restarts, but what if we could checkpoint running containers for forensic analysis and seamless recovery? This is where Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace (CRIU) and its integration with CRI-O and Containerd come into play.
When applications fail, are compromised, or need migration, traditional recovery methods lose valuable runtime data, making debugging, forensic investigation, and live migration difficult. CRI-U enables container-level checkpointing, allowing us to snapshot an application’s complete state, including memory, processes, and open files. This unlocks new security forensics, failure recovery, and workload resilience possibilities.
This session will explore how forensic container checkpointing enhances Kubernetes resilience. Attendees will learn how to securely capture, analyse, and restore container states, ensuring minimal downtime and improved security

Speakers

Suman Chakraborty

Solutions Architect, Platform9 Systems

Suman is a Solution Architect at Platform9 Systems. He is a consultant and advisor for Kubernetes & Cloud Native Solutions, helping Customers and End users in their application modernisation journey and adoption with DevOps best practices. Suman has been a distinguished speaker and... Read More →

Neel Shah

Developer Advocate, Middleware

A DevOps engineer with a great passion for building communities around DevOps.Have mentored 15+ hackathons and open source programs. Currently running various communities like CNCF ,Grafana,Hashicorp and Google Cloud . Have given more than 10+ talks in conferences like HashiTalk India... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 6

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:20pm IST

Coffee Break ☕

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:20pm - 3:50pm IST

Hall 4

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:20pm - 3:50pm IST
Hall 4

Breaks

3:50pm IST

Multi-Layered Guardrails for Cloud Native AI: Enforcing Compliance and Safety at Scale - Vincent Caldeira & Anindita Sinha Banerjee, Red Hat

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

Hall 3

As AI-powered cloud-native applications evolve, ensuring trust, compliance, and robustness requires dynamic governance mechanisms that operate seamlessly across distributed environments. This session introduces a multi-layered cloud-native framework that enforces AI guardrails at three critical stages: pre-processing (input validation), inference (real-time bias mitigation), and post-inference (output validation).

By leveraging Kubernetes orchestration, Istio service mesh, and knowledge graphs, the framework enables scalable AI governance that integrates multi-agent coordination, real-time intervention, and traceability to ensure AI decisions remain transparent, auditable, and aligned with compliance requirements.

Attendees will gain insights into cloud-native AI governance patterns, practical deployment strategies, and the role of multi-agent oversight in ensuring compliant, production-ready AI workflows within Kubernetes environments.

Speakers

Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat

Vincent Caldeira, CTO of Red Hat in APAC, is responsible for strategic partnerships and technology strategy. Named a top CTO in APAC in 2023, he has 20+ years in IT, excelling in technology transformation in finance. An authority in open source and cloud-native technologies, Vincent... Read More →

Anindita Sinha Banerjee

Data Scientist, Red Hat

With over a decade in Data and Decision Sciences, I design NLP and AI solutions that solve complex business challenges. Currently a Data Scientist at Red Hat and former researcher at Tata Research Development and Design Center, I have presented research at premier conferences and... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 3

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:50pm IST

One Operator To Rule Them All? CRD Management Strategies for Cloud Native Apps! - Guna Kambalimath, IBM ISDL

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

Hall 2

Kubernetes Operators are revolutionasing cloud-native application management—but when designing an operator, should we go one CRD per operator or manage multiple CRDs within a single operator? How does cascading CRDs impact reconciliation, dependency handling, and performance?

In this talk, we'll dive deep into real-world use cases to explore the trade-offs between these approaches. Whether we are building custom Kubernetes controllers or optimising cloud-native infrastructure, this session will help one make the right design choice for scalability, maintainability, and performance.

Speakers

Guna Kambalimath

Software Engineer, IBM ISDL

Software engineer at IBM ISDL with a work experience of 5 years. My work mainly drives the development of VPC Block CSI driver in IBM Cloud. My expertise is in Golang, monitoring and alerting tools. Contributor to the opensource kubernetes signature community. Current work involves... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 2

Application Development

Content Experience Level Beginner

3:50pm IST

Kubernetes Policy as Code for Platform Engineers - Sonali Srivastava, InfraCloud Technologies; Mohd Kamaal & Kushal Agrawal, Independent

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

MRG 1-6

Platform engineers are tasked with ensuring Kubernetes environments are secure, compliant, and well-governed with high operational efficiencies. This session will explore the power of "Policy as Code" (PaC) using Kyverno to automate and enforce configurations directly within the Kubernetes control plane.

You will learn how to define, deploy, and manage policies as code, enabling proactive risk mitigation, improved consistency, and reduced operational overhead for your platform. Attendees will gain practical insights into implementing PaC workflows and best practices for platform teams.

The session will also showcase new features in Kyverno and discuss the future of policy as code for Kubernetes.

Speakers

Sonali Srivastava

Developer Advocate, InfraCloud Technologies

My expertise in software development allows me to perform POCs and craft engaging demos, tutorials, and videos that showcase the power of cloud-native solutions. Over the past five years, I’ve worn many hats: monitoring Linux servers as a system administrator, developing a cloud... Read More →

Kushal Agrawal

Cloud Native Learner & Contributor, Independent

I’m an independent contributor and LFX mentee at Kyverno, diving deep into Kubernetes and policy management. I love exploring cloud-native tools, contributing to open-source, and learning by doing. Whether it’s writing code, sharing ideas, or just geeking out with the community... Read More →

Mohd Kamaal

Kyverno contributor, Student

Mohd Kamaal is an LFX mentee and a dedicated contributor to the Kyverno project, focusing on enhancing Kubernetes policy engines. With hands-on experience in open source, he is committed to simplifying security and governance for platform teams using Kubernetes. He is passionate about... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
MRG 1-6

Maintainer Track, Kyverno

3:50pm IST

Building a Scalable Observability Platform for Edge Compute Nodes - Naveen Kumar S P & Karthik A, Kongsberg Digital India

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

Hall 1

Unlock edge observability at scale. Tackle distributed node chaos with robust monitoring, logging, and security. Dive into architectural patterns for aggregating data across challenging networks. Discover how to build resilient, multi-tenant observability for your edge deployments.
Presentation leverages a real-world case study to illustrate the architectural design patterns and best practices for building scalable edge observability, emphasizing the application of core cloud-native principles and technologies

Speakers

Naveen Kumar S P

Solution Architect, Kongsberg Digital

Cloud Native Solution Architect with experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex enterprise IT infrastructures. Proven expertise in DevSecOps, SRE, and cloud technologies and edge computing. Deeply skilled in architecting and deploying scalable, resilient, and secure... Read More →

Karthik A

Cloud Operations Engineer, Kongsberg Digital India

DevOps professional with expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automation. specializes in deploying and managing scalable systems, optimizing performance, and implementing best practices in container orchestration and monitoring.

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 1

Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:50pm IST

Choose Your Shield: Evaluating Linux Security Modules for Cloud Native Ecosystems - Ramakant Sharma, AccuKnox Inc.

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

Hall 6

LSMs provide kernel-level security mechanisms that can be used to address the dynamic challenges of cloud native security. KubeArmor, a runtime security engine and CNCF sandbox project uses LSMs to protect cloud workloads at runtime.

As a maintainer of KubeArmor, I will share my understanding working with LSMs to implement a robust runtime security engine to protect cloud workloads through the lens of KubeArmor.

While all LSMs provide crucial security benefits, their effectiveness varies significantly based on use-case, deployment context and operational requirements.

In this session, I'll be evaluating LSMs including SELinux, Apparmor and BPF-LSM across three critical dimensions:
Performance impact: The overhead each LSMs introduce.
Security capabilities: Each LSM's effectiveness against common attack vectors through live demonstrations.
Operational complexity: Highlighting the learning curve, complexities in implementation and maintenance.

Speakers

Ramakant Sharma

Software Engineer, AccuKnox Inc. | Maintainer@KubeArmor, AccuKnox Inc.

Working as a software engineer at AccuKnox Inc., actively contributing to open source and maintainer KubeArmor, CNCF Sandbox project.

Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 6

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm IST

Sandboxing Agentic AI With LSM-BPF - Rahul Jadhav, Accuknox

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

Hall 3

AI Agents are autonomously taking decisions, interacting with each other, and ensuring that the user specified deliverable is achieved. In lot of cases, AI Agents are dynamically generating the code to achieve the functionality. This dynamically generated code needs to be guardrailed i.e., an untrusted model could generate malicious code that will have equal access as that of the model itself. The aim of the talk is to create awareness of security issues sorrounding this use-case, explain the existing tooling/frameworks (such as executing in remotely hosted MicroVMs, use of WASM from NVIDIA). Explain the operational issues using such sandboxing mechanism and then put forth an approach leveraging LSM-BPF that combines the power of Linux Security Modules (LSM) with that of eBPF to achieve better sandboxing. KubeArmor, a CNCF Project, would be used to explain how this can be achieved.

Speakers

Rahul Jadhav

Nephio SIG-Security chair, CNCF Ambassador, CTO AccuKnox, Accuknox

An avid coder, a systems engineer working on solutions involving security and performance of cloud-native tech. Contributed towards several open sources including Linux Kernel and worked closely with IETF Standards (such as ROLL, 6lo, LWIG) and Linux Foundation. Taken several projects... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 3

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm IST

From Slow To Pro: Accelerating Kubernetes Native Development With Kind & DevSpace - Raghu Chandrasekaran & Naveenkumar Kumanan, AppViewX

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

Hall 2

Kubernetes-native development is exhilarating—until complex workflows, slow feedback loops, and steep learning curves slow you down. Teams often spend days or weeks setting up environments, managing dependencies, and debugging microservices. GitLab found that nearly 44% of organizations take over two months to onboard new developers—precious time lost in today’s fast-paced tech world.
This session shows how we cut environment setup from days to minutes, slashed feedback loops by over 90%, and reduced onboarding time by 50%.
The secret? A powerful blend of CNCF tools—Kind and DevSpace—combined with simple lightweight Node.js and Bash/PowerShell scripts, We have automated environment provisioning, code synchronization, and cluster management so that developers can focus on shipping features.
Discover how to integrate Kind and DevSpace for a seamless workflow with real metrics and tips. Developers, architects, and DevOps can streamline Kubernetes, speed onboarding, and boost iterations.

Speakers

Naveenkumar Kumanan

Software Development Engineer, AppViewX

I am an aspiring Backend developer with 3 years of experience with AppViewX. My areas of expertise include Java and Node.js backend development, Kubernetes, shell scripting, and distributed systems like MongoDB and Redis. I also have experience building command-line tools using DevOps... Read More →

Raghu Chandrasekaran

Solution Architect, AppViewX

I'm a Solution Architect at AppViewX with 10 years of experience, including 5 years focused on Kubernetes-native design. He engineered AppViewX’s multi-tenant SaaS platform by architecting scalable, secure cloud-native systems and developing a Kubernetes-native API gateway and message... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 2

Application Development

Content Experience Level Any

4:30pm IST

Minimal OS, Maximum Impact: Journey To a Flatcar Maintainer - Sayan Chowdhury, Microsoft

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

MRG 1-6

Open source thrives on collaboration and shared ideas - especially in operating systems. Flatcar Container Linux embodies this ethos as a minimal, auto-updating distro built for security, stability, and simplicity. But how do you move from simply running Flatcar on clusters to actively shaping it? In this talk, we’ll illuminate that path. Discover how to dive into OS code (even if OS/kernel-level work is new to you), identify ideal “first issues,” and explore the most interesting areas to contribute to. Whether you’re a veteran or just curious about hacking on an OS, join us and become part of Flatcar’s growing family - because in open source, we all build the future together. Finally, use the space to bounce around ideas and discuss on improving the project even further.

Speakers

Sayan Chowdhury

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Sayan is a Linux Software Engineer at Microsoft and a maintainer of Flatcar Container Linux. As a Release Manager, he works to maintain and build Flatcar. With a strong passion for open source, Sayan has been involved in other communities, namely Python, Fedora and Mozilla. Sayan... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
MRG 1-6

Maintainer Track, Flatcar

4:30pm IST

Unlocking Kubernetes Observability: Secure, Tenant-Centric Metrics for GPU Workloads - Bingi Narasimha Karthik & Ramkumar Nagaraj, Adobe

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

Hall 1

The Tenant Exporter enhances observability in multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters by delivering curated namespace metrics for GPU workloads at Adobe. Built on Prometheus, it exposes metrics like ingress requests, container CPU/memory, GPU utilization, and quotas. Users can select metrics via a ConfigMap, with quotas managing load.

The architecture features a Prometheus instance for metric collection, an Nginx proxy for load balancing, and secure authentication using prom-label-proxy with kube-rbac-proxy. A live demo will showcase configuring self-service metrics for a GPU namespace, integrated with Prometheus.

Attendees will learn to deploy this system, manage quotas, and scale metric delivery across clusters. Drawing from Adobe's experience with thousands of namespaces, this session offers best practices for observability using CNCF tools to reduce overhead and improve insights. Join us to elevate your Kubernetes observability strategy and optimize GPU workload management.

Speakers

Ramkumar Nagaraj

Sr Computer Scientist, Adobe

Currently I am working in Adobe Systems Pvt Ltd as a Senior Computer Scientist. Claimed Kubestronaut badge with successful completion of CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA, KCSA, PCA too with flying colors.

Bingi Narasimha Karthik

Senior Cloud Engineer, Adobe

Bingi, a Senior Cloud Engineer at Adobe, is certified in CKA, CKAD, KCNA, PCA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, CSPO, and Machine Learning. He excels in simplifying Kubernetes metrics, transforming data into actionable insights. His innovative namespace metric delivery... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 1

Observability

Content Experience Level Any

4:30pm IST

Security: The Thing That Everyone Loves To Hate - Bhavani Indukuri, Zscaler; Sonali Srivastava, InfraCloud Technologies; Ram Iyengar, The Linux Foundation; Anusha Hegde, Nirmata

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

Hall 6

Security often takes center stage—only after “something” goes wrong. When DevOps teams return a DevOops response! Teams scramble after breaches, misconfigurations, and compliance failures only to realize too late that preventive measures had been missing all along.

For the millions of marketing dollars poured into Shift-left and DevSecOps, security shouldn’t be an afterthought—it needs to be woven into every stage of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

In this panel, we will share real-world stories and discuss how to build a more security-conscious team culture. Security issues span a spectrum of causes ranging from communication breakdowns, lack of training, and plain old human error. We'll cut through the marketing noise and explore the tools and techniques that make a difference. No buzzwords. Just actionable advice you can take home and implement. Honest narratives, shot straight from the heart.

Speakers

Bhavani Indukuri

Staff Platform Engineer, Zscaler

Ram Iyengar

Evangelist, OpenSSF

Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent... Read More →

Sonali Srivastava

Developer Advocate, InfraCloud Technologies

Anusha Hegde

Senior Technical Product Manager, Nirmata

Anusha Hegde is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Nirmata, focusing on cloud security, Kubernetes policy management, policy-as-code automation, and building AI-first products while analyzing AI’s impact on her product and customers. Previously, she was a Tech Lead at VMware... Read More →

Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 6

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate