KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025: Full Schedule

6-7 August
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8:00am IST

Badge Pick-Up

Wednesday August 6, 2025 8:00am - 6:00pm IST

Registration Centre

Wednesday August 6, 2025 8:00am - 6:00pm IST
Registration Centre

Registration

9:30am IST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:30am - 9:45am IST

Hall 3

Speakers

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, CNCF

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:30am - 9:45am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

9:47am IST

Keynote: Kubernetes for GenAI: The New Operating System of the AI-First World - Janakiram MSV, Principal Analyst, Janakiram and Associates

Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:47am - 9:57am IST

Hall 3

As Generative AI moves from prototype to production, Kubernetes has emerged as the foundational substrate powering this transition. In this session, I explore how Kubernetes is accelerating the adoption of GenAI and AI agents—from orchestrating large model training and serving, to powering Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning pipelines, and real-time inference, and agentic workflows. I discuss real-world implementations, cutting-edge open-source projects, and reusable design patterns that highlight how the cloud-native ecosystem is evolving to meet the unique demands of AI-native workloads. Whether you’re building foundation models or deploying intelligent agents at scale, Kubernetes is fast becoming the operating system of the GenAI revolution.

Speakers

Janakiram MSV

Principal Analyst, Janakiram and Associates

Janakiram is a practicing architect, analyst, and advisor with a focus on emerging infrastructure technologies. He provides strategic advisory to technology platform companies, startups, ISVs, and enterprises. As a practitioner working with a diverse Enterprise customer base across... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:47am - 9:57am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

9:59am IST

Keynote: Pushing the Limits: Scaling ArgoCD’s Repo-Server To Handle 30K Applications - Aditya Sharma & Isha Gusai, Expedia Group

Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:59am - 10:09am IST

Hall 3

Expedia Group’s RCP platform is transitioning to ArgoCD as its control plane. As part of this journey, we are adapting ArgoCD’s industry-leading technology to meet our current and future needs. A critical component of this effort involves fine-tuning the repo-server, originally optimized for GitOps workflows, to manage over 4,000 unique Helm charts at a scale of 12,000 applications, with a forecasted future scale of 30,000 applications.

This talk delves into our deep-dive scalability testing of the repo-server component, exploring memory usage patterns, troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, and addressing memory burst issues. We share our solutions to stabilize the repo-server under heavy load, and provide actionable recommendations based on configurations and parameters that worked for us. These insights aim to benefit the broader community in their own scalability endeavors.

Speakers

Isha Gusai

Senior Software Development Engineer, Expedia Group

Isha is a Platform Engineer at Expedia Group, where she brings her expertise as a Software Development Engineer 3 to the forefront of creating seamless travel experiences. Isha remains committed to leveraging her technical expertise and creativity to shape the future of travel technology... Read More →

Aditya Sharma

DevOps @ Expedia Group, Expedia Group

Hi, myself Aditya. I did my undergrad from DTU in Computer Engineering and since then I have had an unquenchable thirst for different technologies. This started off with some AI / ML research works, followed by some Web based full stack personal projects and now finally the DevOps... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:59am - 10:09am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions, Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Beginner

10:11am IST

Keynote: DX Is the New UX: How Technical Friction Impacts Business Value - Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate, InfraCloud Technologies

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:11am - 10:21am IST

Hall 3

Remember how you instantly close that glitchy food delivery app when it freezes mid-order? The same principle now applies to developer tools. Every minute spent battling deployment pipelines or debugging environment issues creates unnecessary friction.

This friction impacts your ability to deliver business value. It affects the things that matter: speed to market, talent retention, and competitive advantage. Leading organizations today are now designing for developer joy with the same intensity they apply to customer experiences.

Let us look at how forward-thinking technology leaders are transforming their platforms into competitive advantages by designing for developer delight. We’ll also learn how community insights can accelerate your DX improvements and why investing in seamless developer workflows is now a strategic priority that directly impacts your bottom line in today's talent-driven market.

Great DX isn't just a technical nicety—it's how you'll win in today's competitive market.

Speakers

Atulpriya Sharma

Sr Developer Advocate | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies

Atul is a Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies, a CNCF Ambassador and a technical storyteller with over a decade of experience spanning manual testing, Android development, and more recently into the cloud native space.With a background in computer science and business... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:11am - 10:21am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

10:23am IST

Keynotes to be Announced

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:23am - 10:39am IST

Hall 3

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:23am - 10:39am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

10:40am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:40am - 10:45am IST

Hall 3

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:40am - 10:45am IST
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

10:45am IST

Coffee Break ☕

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am IST

Hall 4

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am IST
Hall 4

Breaks

10:45am IST

Solutions Showcase

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:45am - 7:15pm 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.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:45am - 7:15pm IST
Hall 4

Solutions Showcase

11:30am IST

Project Lightning Talks Opening

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 11:35am IST

Hall 3

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 11:35am IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

11:30am IST

Back To the Basics - Service Mesh Fundamentals - Kannan Jayaprakasam, Google

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

Hall 2

In containerized environments like Kubernetes, service mesh has emerged as a key architectural component to ensure reliable, secure, and observable communication between services. Despite the growing popularity of service mesh, many developers, operators, and architects find the concept of a service mesh intimidating due to its perceived complexity and wide array of features.

In this talk speaker from the gRPC team in Google will demystify service mesh technology by returning to the basics, providing clear understanding of what a service mesh is, the problems it solves, and how it fits into a cloud-native ecosystem. Additionally, this talk will explore the differences between proxy-based and proxyless service mesh architectures, discussing their advantages, disadvantages, and use cases.

Speakers

Kannan Jayaprakasam

Software Engineer, Google

Kannan works as a software engineer at Google in the gRPC team.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 2

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:30am IST

ArgoCD CLI Gets an Upgrade: Plugins, Flexibility, and More - Nitish Kumar, Akuity

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

MRG 1-6

The ArgoCD CLI tool has been a cornerstone for managing GitOps workflows, but until now, it lacked support for extending its capabilities through plugins – a feature many users have long desired. This talk introduces an enhancement to the ArgoCD CLI: plugin support, enabling users to create custom plugins and use them as subcommands, extending the ArgoCD CLI tool functionality just like the kubectl.

As part of this feature rollout, I'll demonstrate its real-world application by showcasing a plugin we developed: mta (migrate to ArgoCD). This plugin bridges the gap between Flux and ArgoCD by exporting Flux components into ArgoCD-compatible Custom Resources (CRs), simplifying migrations from Flux to ArgoCD.

Speakers

Nitish Kumar

Software Engineer, Argo CD Maintainer, Akuity

Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity, Argo CD maintainer, and a CNCF Ambassador. In the past, Nitish has served as a Linux Foundation Mentee under the Kubernetes Release Engineering Team where he built a Go library used by the K8s project internally. Nitish has given various talks... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, Argo

11:30am IST

Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments With VCluster and FluxCD - Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy, Siemens Technology

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

Hall 1

What if developers could create fully isolated, production-like environments—directly from Backstage—with just a click?

This talk showcases Backstage as a powerful self-service platform to spin up vClusters representing Dev, Test, and Prod environments. Each virtual cluster is fully GitOps-managed with FluxCD, automatically pulling from specific Git branches to mirror real deployment stages.

The environments can be provisioned on-demand—whether on a developer’s local laptop (using WSL), a centralized server, or a remote EKS cluster—offering flexibility and production-like confidence at every stage.

We’ll deep-dive into building this “staging system” where code is tested safely before ever reaching customers, while giving developers the speed and autonomy they crave—all powered by Backstage.

By the end of the session, you’ll learn how to build a practical, cloud-native staging system to test, validate, and promote code safely—before your customers ever see it.

Speakers

Farhaan Shamsee

Senior DevOps Engineer, Siemens Technology Services Private Limited

Farhaan is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Siemens passionate about platform engineering and open source. With extensive experience in Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native technologies, he focuses on building scalable self-service platforms. His work integrates tools like Backstage, vCluster... Read More →

Rakesh Reddy

Sr.DevOps Engineer, siemens

Rakesh Reddy G is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Siemens with 7+ years of experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD automation. He specializes in GitOps, security, and self-service platforms using tools like Backstage and FluxCD. Passionate about open-source and DevOps best practices... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:30am IST

Guard Your Network With Kyverno and Envoy - Sanskar Gurdasani, Scoutflo & Swastik Gour, InfraCloud Technologies

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST

Hall 6

In today's complex service mesh environments, ensuring secure and efficient network traffic management is a significant challenge. Many developers struggle with implementing robust, context-aware access control policies without disrupting existing systems. The Kyverno Envoy Plugin offers a solution by integrating with the Envoy proxy and leveraging the Kyverno Authz Server within the cluster, along with a cluster-wide resource called AuthorizationPolicy. This resource utilizes the CEL language to process these requests seamlessly, allowing you to authenticate and enforce policies seamlessly on all traffic.
In this hands-on session, the speakers will leverage this plugin to enhance the security and control of applications, ensuring they are protected from unauthorized access and threats without requiring changes to your microservices. They will also showcase how the plugin seamlessly integrates with various service meshes such as Istio, to extend its functionality across environments.

Speakers

Swastik Gour

Product engineer, Infracloud technologies

I am a CNCF ambassador and an Product engineer by profession who enjoys to contribute to opensource and study about the latest tech. And innovations going on in the CNCF ecosystem . I am also a former cncf gsoc mentee , an LFX mentee , CI signal shadow at CAPI and a active member... Read More →

Sanskar Gurdasani

Devops Engineer, Scoutflo

Sanskar Gurdasani is a DevOps Engineer and Senior year undergraduate student in Information Technology Engineering at Jabalpur Engineering College. He was an LFX Spring Mentee 2024 for the CNCF - Kyverno where he developed the Kyverno-Envoy-Plugin. He had worked as a DevOps Engineer... Read More →

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

Security

Content Experience Level Any

11:37am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Vitess: OTel 2025: The Latest Milestones and What’s Next - Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:37am - 11:42am IST

Hall 3

OpenTelemetry has transformed the observability landscape by moving beyond the traditional three pillars of traces, metrics, and logs. With these core components now stable, the project is expanding its reach to encompass even more facets of system monitoring and performance analysis. In this session, we will explore the latest advancements in OpenTelemetry, including the integration of profiling, which offers deeper insights into application performance by capturing detailed execution data. Additionally, we'll discuss the emerging concept of entities, which promises to provide a more holistic view of system components and their interactions. By expanding its capabilities, OpenTelemetry is not just enhancing the granularity and scope of observability but also setting the stage for more comprehensive and actionable insights. Join us to learn how these new developments can help you achieve unparalleled visibility into your systems and drive better operational outcomes.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:37am - 11:42am IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

11:44am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD 3.0: What’s New and What’s Next? - Nitish Kumar, Software Engineer, Argo CD Maintainer

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:44am - 11:49am IST

Hall 3

The long-awaited Argo CD 3.0 is here, marking the first major release since 2021! This milestone introduces a more mature and robust GitOps experience, focusing on security, performance, and best-practice defaults. In this session, we’ll dive into the key updates, including fine-grained RBAC for resource-level permissions, smarter defaults for streamlined configurations, and new recommendations for secrets management. We’ll also cover what’s been deprecated, how to ensure a smooth upgrade from Argo CD 2.x, bug fixes, new features introduced and what’s next for the project.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:44am - 11:49am IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

11:51am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Essential Resources for gRPC Development - Kevin Nilson, gRPC Maintainer

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:51am - 11:56am IST

Hall 3

gRPC is a powerful framework for building high-performance, distributed systems. But with its growing ecosystem of tools and resources, it can be challenging to know where to start or how to deepen your expertise.

This talk is your guide to explore essential resources that will empower you to build, debug, and optimize your gRPC applications effectively.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:51am - 11:56am IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

11:58am IST

Project Lightning Talk: How to get your custom access tokens from Keycloak - Alexander Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:58am - 12:03pm IST

Hall 3

Access tokens open the doors to APIs, and Keycloak and OpenID Connect provide you the ways to get them. The authentication code flow provides them to users and the client credential grant provides it to services. With token exchange, you can swap one token for another with the right audience and scopes so it fits the APIs.

Join this talk to learn how to get tokens, how to customize their contents, and what changed in our recent releases.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:58am - 12:03pm IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:05pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: What’s New in k0s: Lightweight Kubernetes Without Compromise - Prithvi Raj, Community Manager & Developer Advocate

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:05pm - 12:10pm IST

Hall 3

k0s, the zero-friction Kubernetes distribution, has been steadily evolving — bringing fresh capabilities and smarter defaults without bloating its minimal footprint. In this lightning talk, I’ll highlight the latest updates in the k0s project, including recent improvements in HA setup, multi-node bootstrapping, air-gapped deployments, and cloud-native enhancements. Whether you're running edge clusters or want a developer-friendly K8s distro that “just works,” k0s is worth a fresh look. Come get a fast-paced tour of what's new, what’s next, and why it matters.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:05pm - 12:10pm IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:10pm IST

Beyond the Start Button: The Hidden Life of Pod Termination in Kubernetes - Rishabh Jain, Amazon Web Services India

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

Hall 2

We spend countless hours making applications resilient and scalable, but often overlook their final moments. While we obsess over startup performance and runtime behavior, the shutdown process remains a mystery. Yet, understanding this crucial phase can mean the difference between clean service transitions and disrupted user experiences.

Join us as we decode Pod termination in Kubernetes, exploring the lifecycle from shutdown signal to final goodbye. We'll examine real-world scenarios through kubectl, kubelet, and API interactions, and share practical strategies for smooth shutdowns. Transform your chaotic Pod terminations into choreographed farewells and enhance your application's reliability.

For: DevOps engineers, SRE teams, and Kubernetes developers.

Speakers

Rishabh Jain

Senior Cloud Support Engineer, Amazon Web Services India

A Senior Cloud Support Engineer and EC2 Subject Matter Expert at AWS India, he specializes in solving complex cloud challenges. Known for his dedication to customer success and technical excellence, he balances his professional role with life as a devoted husband and father, combining... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 2

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

12:10pm IST

Delegate Authentication and a Lot More To Keycloak With OpenID Connect - Alexander Schwartz & Rishabh Singh, Red Hat

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

MRG 1-6

Authenticating users can start simple with a username and a password for each user. But you will also need to handle forgotten passwords and user registration. You might also want to validate email addresses, add second factors and have users update their profile information as needed.

A single-sign-on system like Keycloak can handle all that for you and will redirect users after they are authenticated to your applications.

See how you can delegate authentication by leveraging features of OpenID Connect. We will start simple and enable more and more features in our demo to show the functionality and flexibility of Keycloak. We will also look at features of the latest release and the road map ahead.

Speakers

Alexander Schwartz

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Alexander Schwartz is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working full time as a Keycloak maintainer and technical team lead. At work and in his spare time he codes for Open Source projects. In previous jobs he worked as a software architect and IT consultant. At conferences... Read More →

Rishabh Singh

Senior Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat

Currently Support Engineer at Red Hat, Solving issues around Red Hat Build of Keycloak, Red Hat Single Sign On, Jboss Enterprise Application Server, Elytron, Openshift, Openshift Pipelines(Tekton), Openshift Gitops(Argo CD). Overall Experience of 8years in IT industry and have been... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, Keycloak

12:10pm IST

To Succeed in Platform Engineering, Build Infrastructure Knowledge Graphs - Safeer C M, MoEngage

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

Hall 1

Platform engineering continues to evolve as a critical discipline for modern software development. However, infrastructure complexity is slowing down its momentum. The software infrastructure is a complex web of interrelated entities that spans much beyond a simple software catalog and cloud resources. Such infrastructure management is often driven by a team’s understanding of the implicit relationship between these entities. This is not scalable and often leads to operational challenges and loss of developer productivity. Knowledge graphs can build relationships between entities from diverse infrastructure sources and make explicit what was previously implicit knowledge. It elevates the developer productivity and its neglected counterpart - operational excellence. This talk will discuss the importance of knowledge graphs and the strategies and mental models that will help in building knowledge graphs around the software infrastructure.

Speakers

Safeer CM

Principal Engineer, MoEngage

Safeer has worked in site reliability, DevOps, and platform engineering for the past 19 years. Safeer is the author of the book Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions. He is an ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:10pm IST

Sovereign Kubernetes at Adobe: Navigating Trust, Security & Compliance Across Jurisdictions - Amandeep Singh, Adobe

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST

Hall 6

Sovereign deployments operate in geographically or network-isolated environments where data at rest and in transit is highly sensitive and tightly controlled due to jurisdictional regulations. These deployments come with strict security and compliance requirements.

At Adobe, we manage multiple sovereign Kubernetes deployments across different regulatory frameworks, each with unique constraints and challenges. We have to keep operational overhead minimal while ensuring compliance and security at scale.

This talk will cover key compliance and security requirements, such as vulnerability reporting, runtime container scanning, and policy enforcement. We will dive into the challenges we faced and the solutions we developed, including:
- Building a secure and efficient image distribution system
- Automating image vulnerability scanning
- Using Falco for real-time threat detection and response
- Enforcing compliance with Kyverno and Falco

Speakers

Amandeep Singh

Computer Scientist, Adobe

Currently a Computer Scientist at Adobe, building Adobe's AEM platform. With extensive experience across various cloud technologies, I’ve been working in the Kubernetes space for the past three years. Outside of work, I’m an avid reader and a passionate foodie.

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

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:12pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Dockerfiles vs Buildpacks: What's The Cloud Native Way? - Ram Iyengar, Evangelist

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:12pm - 12:17pm IST

Hall 3

Often, our cloud native thought process begins after we have created containers. Only when we complete the "docker build" command, do all the notions of cloud native come into the picture. This talk raises the question - is that the only way to build containers?

Enter Cloud Native Buildpacks. These make the container build process so much easier. While the end product is an OCI-compatible image, the process in getting there is much more refined with Cloud Native Buildpacks.

The images exported by Buildpacks are smaller, more transparent, and have improved security. They also preclude meta information such as static Dockerfiles, and are infinitely more maintainable as a result.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:12pm - 12:17pm IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:19pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Kyverno: Kubernetes Policy as Code Unleashed! - Mohd Kamaal, Kyverno contributor

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:19pm - 12:24pm IST

Hall 3

Kubernetes policy management has evolved significantly. From basic admission controllers to automating complex, imperative configurations, the journey has highlighted the need for declarative, Kubernetes-native solutions. This lightning talk will explore how Kyverno represents the next generation of Policy as Code for Kubernetes. We'll delve into its declarative approach using Kubernetes manifests, its powerful pattern matching for resource selection, and its ability to mutate, validate, and generate Kubernetes resources and validate images. Discover how Kyverno simplifies policy authoring, enhances security and compliance, and empowers platform engineers and developers alike to manage Kubernetes at scale, all within the familiar Kubernetes ecosystem.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:19pm - 12:24pm IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:26pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: What's new in Harbor Project Updates and New Features - Prasanth Baskar, Software Engineer

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:26pm - 12:31pm IST

Hall 3

we have recently released a new version of harbor. we will go through new and less used features in harbor. that would make managing artifacts at scale much easier. and we will also give you a sneak peek into the exciting features planned for next releases.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:26pm - 12:31pm IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:33pm IST

Project Lightning Talks Closing

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:33pm - 12:38pm IST

Hall 3

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:33pm - 12:38pm IST
Hall 3

Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:40pm IST

Lunch 🍲

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:40pm - 2:10pm IST

Hall 4

Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:40pm - 2:10pm IST
Hall 4

Breaks

2:10pm IST

Scaling AI Like a Pro-PepsiCo’s LLM Deployment Strategy on Kubernetes for AI-Driven Business Impact - Praseed Naduvath & Dhanashree Shetty, PepsiCo

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

Hall 3

As PepsiCo continues to push the boundaries of AI-driven innovation, multiple 70-billion-parameter Llama model has been deployed within our Kubernetes-based AI platform, showcasing our ability to operationalize large-scale LLMs efficiently while optimizing performance, cost, and scalability.

This session will explore our journey of deploying and managing a high-performance LLM on Kubernetes. We’ll share insights on architectural decisions, GPU provisioning, and fine-tuning techniques for efficient inferencing. Attendees will learn how we tackled memory optimization, high availability, cost-performance balancing, and Responsible AI practices.

We’ll also discuss how our infrastructure, orchestration, and resource management evolved to meet large-scale inferencing demands, ensuring AI-driven innovation remains scalable, responsible, and efficient at PepsiCo.

Speakers

Dhanashree Shetty

Architect, PepsiCo

Dhanashree Shetty is a cloud engineer with over 14 years of experience in IT, specializing in cloud infrastructure. As a tech enthusiast, she enjoys exploring emerging technologies such as cloud automation and orchestration, as well as containerization, Kubernetes platforms. In her... Read More →

Praseed Naduvath

Platform Architect, PepsiCo

Praseed Naduvath is a techno-manager with over 18 years in IT, specializing in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Security Specialist, he excels in managing and securing complex Kubernetes environments... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 3

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:10pm IST

Who Let the Pods Out? Extending Kubernetes with Custom Controllers and CRDs - Ria Bhatia, Godman Sachs

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

Hall 2

Kubernetes is powerful, but its true strength lies in extensibility. Many developers struggle to adapt it to their needs, often resorting to workarounds instead of leveraging built-in extension mechanisms. What if Kubernetes worked for you, not the other way around?

This beginner-friendly session will introduce you to Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and custom controllers, guiding you through their design, implementation, and deployment. You'll learn how to create Kubernetes-native abstractions that automate workflows, simplify operations, and enhance the developer experience. We'll cover best practices, automation strategies, and performance optimizations to ensure scalable and maintainable extensions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes.

Get ready to move beyond workarounds and let your pods thrive with clean, scalable, and native Kubernetes extensions!

Speakers

Ria Bhatia

Software Engineer, Goldman Sachs

Ria Bhatia is a passionate software engineer specializing in databases, scalability, and deployment strategies. Committed to gender diversity in tech, she mentors aspiring engineers and actively shares her learnings with the community. An enthusiastic speaker, Ria has presented at... Read More →

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

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:10pm IST

Harbor Maintainers Talk - Role of Harbor in AI, IOT Edge and the Future - Prasanth Baskar, 8gears

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

MRG 1-6

In this Ai Era, we are witnessing a demand to efficiently store AI models.
Harbor has become a critical tool for efficiently storing containerized applications and OCI artifacts including AI models.
As early adopters of CNAI model specification, we are leading a standardized approach to store and manage AI models.
Additionally, We will also discuss about Harbor-Satellite a sub-project of harbor which extends harbor registry capabilities to the IOT Edge. It is focused on simplifying delivery of containers and OCI artifacts to the edge easier.

Speakers

Prasanth B

Software Engineer, 8gears

Prasanth Baskar is a Software Engineer and a core contributor to the CNCF Harbor project. As an LFX mentee for Harbor Satellite, he has played a key role in its development, contributing extensively to Harbor CLI. Passionate about tech and open source, Prasanth thrives on mentoring... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, Harbor

2:10pm IST

Keep Calm and Carry on Cluster Updates - Thanks To Kyverno Chainsaw - Vijay Dharap, Kubermatic

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

Hall 6

Do you often find yourself upgrading various resources in k8s cluster? may be some 3rd party helm chart?

Do you get a feeling of shooting in the dark? That you do not exactly know what all changes are being brought in due to new helm chart version?

Have you faced broken deployments because 3rd paty helmchart maintainer changed the values.yaml layout and you did not change the overrides.yaml to adjust to changed structure?

Yes? Yes? Yes? Well... then you have come to right place find solution to such problems!

I will introduce you to Kyverno Chainsaw, which aims to help us reliably verify the deployments!

With Chainsaw, you define test steps (which can changes / delete existing resources / add new resources) and write assertion to verify that all changes have been reflected in the cluster.

During the session - lets explore Chainsaw via few demos and integrate it in CD pipelines and use reports.

Bonus: I will share small generator I wrote to create Chainsaw testcases quickly.

Speakers

Vijay Dharap

Tech Lead, Kubermatic

Vijay is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and AWS certified solution architect. Vijay has designed and managed complex and hybrid deployments of multiple clusters for large chemical manufacturers in the world. Vijay has spoken at various conferences in past. Vijay is happily... Read More →

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

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:10pm IST

Introducing Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST

Hall 1

Providing application teams with a self-service way of deploying applications and their dependencies often means that platform administrators have to hide the implementation details of the platform via simple to consume APIs. In the case of Kubernetes this usually means having to deploy Custom Resource Definition that are either 3rd party or custom built in-house. These CRD’s in addition to allowing Kubernetes users to manage non-Kubernetes objects via the Kubernetes Resources Model (Aka YAML file), they also allow abstracting away the details of how some resources get created and managed.

In this session, you'll learn how KRO allows platform teams to:
- Create high-level APIs that reduce YAML complexity while maintaining flexibility
- Support both native Kubernetes and cloud-specific resources for more efficient orchestration
- Integrate KRO into your Kubernetes workflows for better scalability and simplicity

Speakers

Abdel Sghiouar

Cloud Developer Advocate, Google Cloud

Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless.

Mofi Rahman

Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud

Mofi Rahman (@moficodes) is a Developer Advocate at Google. His favorite programming language these days is Go. He is a strong believer of the power of open source and importance of giving back to the community. He is a self proclaimed sticker collecting addict and has collected several... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

2:50pm IST

Scaling ML Smarter: Optimizing Kueue & Volcano With Adaptive Scheduling - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe & Aditi Gupta, Disney + Hotstar (now JioHotstar)

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

Hall 3

Kueue and Volcano are leading the charge in orchestrating large-scale distributed ML jobs. But are they truly maximizing your GPU resources? Traditional batch scheduling methods often suffer from inefficient queue management, and rigid allocations that fail to adapt to real-time demand resulting in problems that scale with workloads.

This talk dives into how priority-aware queueing and elastic resource allocation can supercharge Kueue and Volcano, making batch scheduling more adaptive and efficient. We’ll break down the scheduler’s architecture, exploring how jobs dynamically move between priority queues, how elastic scheduling adjusts resource allocations in real time, and how these improvements lead to faster job execution and better GPU utilization.

Whether you're managing distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, or large-scale inference pipelines, this talk will provide the tools and strategies needed to unlock smarter scheduling and maximize ROI on Kubernetes GPU workloads.

Speakers

Aditi Gupta

Software Developer Engineer, Disney + Hotstar (now JioHotstar)

I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →

Nikunj Goyal

Member of Technical Staff 2, Adobe

Hi, I am Nikunj Goyal, working as a developer at Adobe and a Maths major from IIT Roorkee. I am working with AI and Machine Learning for some time mainly with Generative AI and graph based methods. I am a core part of Text-to-vector generation team at my org and previously worked... Read More →

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

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:50pm IST

Kubernetes at the Edge – Come See It in Action! - Xavier Avrillier & Antonia von den Driesch, Giant Swarm

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

Hall 2

Edge computing is still a fairly new area in the cloud native tech industry and is growing fast. As computing moves to the edge, what does Kubernetes look like beyond the cloud, and why does it matter?

This session features a live demo with a Raspberry Pi, camera, and real-time AI detection. Watch as our edge device identifies raised hands, sends data to a Kubernetes cluster via KubeEdge, and visualizes results instantly.

We'll explore:
- Edge Kubernetes challenges: connectivity, resources, security
- KubeEdge's approach to decentralized workloads
- Real-world applications across industries

Join us to see how AI, Kubernetes, and edge computing converge to enable powerful new possibilities.

Speakers

Xavier Avrillier

Solutions Architect, Giant Swarm

Xavier is a Solutions Architect at Giant Swarm, he is currently working on the managed Kubernetes product in hybrid environments and smart factories. His main focus is around cluster lifecycle and customer implementations.

Antonia von den Driesch

Platform Engineer, Giant Swarm

Antonia has been a platform engineer at Giant Swarm for 5 years and is currently working on development of Giant Swarms Industrial IoT platform which brings their managed Kubernetes product to Smart Factory customers.

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

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:50pm IST

Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience: A Look Back, a Step Forward - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE; Aakansha Priya, Independent; Mario Jason Braganza, Janusworx; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom; Sreeram Venkitesh, DigitalOcean

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

MRG 1-6

Ever wondered what it’s like to be part of the Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience (ContribEx)? It’s a role that goes beyond what meets the eye! From coordinating community efforts to keeping projects on track, ContribEx contributors wear many hats — each with its own challenge.

Last year at KubeCon India, we explored the contributor-comms subproject. This year, we’re back to share stories from areas like Last Week in Kubernetes Development (LWKD), tools like Peribolos, and processes like Kubernetes New Org Membership under our GitHub Management subproject. Expect anecdotes, lessons learned, and insights from moments that made us pause and reflect.

Join us for an engaging talk with ContribEx contributors as they share their experiences. Whether you’re curious about community management, contributor growth, or how Kubernetes stays organized, there’s something here for you.

Come for the stories, stay for the insights, and see how the Kubernetes contributor experience comes together!

Speakers

Sreeram Venkitesh

Senior Software Engineer, DigitalOcean

Sreeram is a contributor to the Kubernetes project who is primarily active in SIG Release, SIG Contribex Comms and SIG Node. He was part of the Kubernetes release team from v1.29 to v1.32 and was the Enhancements sub-team lead for Kubernetes v1.31. He is also the subproject lead for... Read More →

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 →

Priyanka Saggu

Technical Lead – SIG Contributor Experience, SUSE

Priyanka Saggu is a Kubernetes Engineer at SUSE, contributing to Kubernetes via Release, ContribEx, Testing, and CLI SIGs. She is the Emeritus Advisor for Kubernetes v1.31, Release Lead for v1.29, GitHub Admin, and Technical Lead for SIG Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx... Read More →

Aakansha Priya

Developer Relationa, Independent

Aakansha Priya is a CNCF Ambassador, CKA certified & an organiser for KubeHuddle, Toronto; who has previously worked as a Developer Advocate @ EmpathyOps and helps scale tech communities. As a frontend dev turned DevOps advocate, love to tinker around with code, content & community... Read More →

Mario Jason Braganza

IT Consultant, Janusworx

Jason Braganza is a seasoned IT consultant with over 20 years of expertise in designing solutions for small & medium-sized businesses. He is currently focused on the path to learning and promoting free and open-source software, specifically Linux. Jason mentors young people in Linux... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, Contributor Experience

2:50pm IST

Mastering Kubernetes Control Plane Performance Optimization With Observability - Liu Jiaxu, Alibaba Cloud

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

Hall 6

Are you experiencing performance issues with your Kubernetes control plane? Symptoms such as rising CPU/memory usage, 429 TooManyRequests errors, and delayed responses from the APIServer or ETCD can significantly degrade cluster responsiveness, especially in large environments, ultimately threatening infrastructure reliability.
In this talk, based on our experience managing tens of thousands of production clusters, we will explore how to leverage observability to identify performance bottlenecks and root causes. We'll compare logging, monitoring, and tracing within the Kubernetes control plane, using real-world example - analyzing LIST request.
We will introduce best practices for observability, discuss common performance pitfalls such as APF flow control issues, misconfigured APIServer webhooks, and the heavy burden of excessive LIST requests on control plane, etc. Additionally, we will share optimization solutions for these scenarios, empowering you to enhance cluster performance.

Speakers

Liu Jiaxu

Senior Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud

Jiaxu Liu is a Senior Engineer on the Container Service Team at Alibaba Cloud. He specializes in observability enhancement and large-scale cluster management and optimization for Alibaba Cloud's container service offerings. Before joining Alibaba Cloud, he worked at Nokia as a Senior... Read More →

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

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:50pm IST

IDP as a Product: Where Developer Happiness Meets Platform's Excellence - Ninad Desai & Ruturaj Kadikar, InfraCloud Technologies

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST

Hall 1

As a developer, are you overwhelmed by the growing number of tools just to ship code? Struggling with visibility into cost, performance, and reliability? Torn between enabling developer autonomy and enforcing governance? The answer to all these challenges lies in building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) like a real product. With clear ownership, iteration, and a focus on your internal users—you solve for both scale and usability. An IDP unifies onboarding, CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, observability, cost visibility, and more.
You’ll learn how an IDP can streamline the entire developer journey while embedding security and operational best practices by design. We’ll discuss prioritising Developer Experience (DevEx), aligning platform capabilities with developer needs, and avoiding becoming a bottleneck.
Whether you’re a platform engineer or an engineering leader, you’ll walk away with actionable insights to make your platform a true enabler at scale.

Speakers

Ninad Desai

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Infracloud pvt ltd

Engineer at heart with 12+ years of experience building secure, scalable cloud-native platforms and solutions. Passionate about simplifying and sharing learnings in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering through real-world stories and community engagement.

Ruturaj Kadikar

Senior SRE, InfraCloud Technologies

Tech enthusiast navigating through Cloud-Native space! DevOps - SRE - Observability - Chaos - Production Grade Kubernetes - Disaster Recovery

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:20pm IST

Coffee Break ☕

Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:20pm - 3:50pm IST

Hall 4

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

Breaks

3:50pm IST

Lessons from Running a CNCF Community: Mistakes, Wins, and Growth - Kemila De Silva, Aeturnum Inc. & Chamod Perera, Circles

Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

Hall 2

Building a CNCF community comes with wins and challenges. We launched KCD Sri Lanka in 2022 with a high-grade green screen production, featuring global speakers and over 1K YouTube livestream views. In 2023, our in-person KCD Sri Lanka was an early sold-out, house-full event, drawing speakers from around the world.

From securing sponsorships and growing engagement to handling setbacks, we’ll share key lessons from leading Kubernetes Sri Lanka. Whether you’re starting or scaling a CNCF community, this talk will provide practical takeaways to build a sustainable and impactful cloud native ecosystem.

Speakers

Chamod Perera

CNCF Ambassador | Software Engineer II @Circles.Life | KCD Sri Lanka Organizer, Circles

Chamod Shehanka is a software engineer II at Circles.Life , an open-source and cloud native enthusiast and interested in conducting tech talks in domains such as cloud native tools. He's leading the KCD Sri Lanka and GDG Sri Lanka. Other than that he's an ex GitHub Field Expert

Kemila De Silva

Senior DevOps Engineer at Aeturnum | CNCF Ambassador | AWS Community Builder (x2), Aeturnum Inc

An experienced DevOps Engineer with 5+ years in CNCF technologies, specializing in developing and implementing robust infrastructures for seamless application deployment. Focused on optimizing availability using industry best practices, actively contributing to the CNCF community... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 2

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

3:50pm IST

From Control Planes To Cognitive Planes: Agentic Architecture With MCP - Eddie Wassef, JPMC

Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

Hall 6

APIs helped define cloud-native—but agentic systems need more.

In this talk, we introduce MCP (Model, Context, Protocol)—an architectural framework built for adaptive, AI-enhanced, agentic systems. You'll learn how MCP extends API-centric thinking to define not just interfaces, but also capabilities, environment-aware behavior, and reflective discovery.

We’ll explore:

How MCP aligns with Kubernetes' dynamic, declarative model
Why JSON-RPC (not REST/gRPC) is the best fit for dynamic agent tooling
Real-world examples of LLM-driven clients discovering tools, prompts, and commands at runtime
How to structure MCP clients and servers using C# or Go for cloud-native deployment
You'll leave with code samples, a conceptual model, and a UML-driven design for building MCP-based systems—ideal for Kubernetes-based platforms, autonomous agents, and AI-enhanced developer tools.

Speakers

Eddie Wassef

Head of Arch and AI, JPMC

As a Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Texas user group organizer, Eddie is dedicated to bringing the cloud-native community together through engaging events and knowledge sharing. His leadership in planning KCD Texas 2025, featuring hands-on workshops and interactive sessions, demonstrates... Read More →

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

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Any

3:50pm IST

SIG etcd Maintainer Track Talk - Arka Saha, VMware by Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat

Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

MRG 1-6

Etcd v3.6, released earlier this year, brings significant features compelling enough to upgrade. This session will provide a detailed overview of the new features and performance improvement over v3.5. We will also discuss known issues and workarounds for upgrading and how it will benefit you.

Next, we will present the long-awaited community-supported etcd-operator which will become the standard way to deploy your etcd clusters on Kubernetes for your bespoke use cases.
Finally, we will share how our in-house robustness test framework has improved etcd's reliability.

This talk will give you a chance to be excited about the future of etcd, and connect you with opportunities to contribute to the project.

Speakers

Josh Berkus

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat

Josh Berkus is the Kubernetes Community Manager, working in Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. He's currently involved with Kubernetes, Etcd, Elekto, Podman, and uBlue, but has spent more than 20 years contributing to many projects, including Linux, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, and... Read More →

Arka Saha

Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom

Arka Saha, a Broadcom Software Engineer, leads Kubernetes releases & maintenance for Tanzu Extended Support. He manages VMware by Broadcom's Prow infrastructure, ensuring long-term support for k8s, etcd, containers, Golang & related components. Previously he managed Red Hat OpenShift... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, etcd

3:50pm IST

Beyond Productivity: Scaling Cloud Dev Environments for Faster Feedback & Sustainable Engineering - Siddhant Khare, Gitpod & Nancy Chauhan, Independent

Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST

Hall 1

Local dev setups worked fine when teams were small. But when you’re dealing with hundreds or thousands of developers, things start to break - slow onboarding, dependency hell, inconsistent environments, and wasted compute cycles.

Cloud Developer Environments (CDEs) promise instant, reproducible workspaces, but shifting from local machines to cloud-first workflows is easier said than done. Latency, security, adoption hurdles, and cost can turn a promising initiative into an operational headache.

This talk will go deep into:

* Why local dev is unsustainable—from wasted CPU cycles to lost engineering hours.
* How cloud environments reduce friction—ephemeral, pre-configured workspaces that just work.
* Optimizing for speed—pre-warmed environments, AI-assisted debugging, and workload-aware compute allocation.
* Measuring impact—tracking developer velocity, infra costs, and sustainability improvements.
* Lessons from real-world rollouts—what works, what breaks, and how to get buy-in.

Speakers

Nancy Chauhan

CNCF Ambassador, Engineer

I am Nancy Chauhan, a software engineer passionate about solving complex problems and enhancing software reliability. As a CNCF Ambassador, I engage with a global cloud-native community, contributing to open-source projects and fostering collaboration. I also founded the Women in... Read More →

Siddhant Khare

Software Engineer, Gitpod

Siddhant Khare is a Software Engineer at Gitpod, where he works on developer productivity, cloud-native architectures, and AI-driven automation. With deep expertise in Go, Rust, and distributed systems, he builds scalable solutions that improve developer workflows. His work spans... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Confidential VMs in Kubevirt: Securing VMs With KubeVirt Trusted Execution Environments - Basavaraju G, IBM

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 4:35pm IST

Hall 3

Multi cloud deployments and shared infrastructure enhance data privacy and security issues, with containerized workloads becoming mainstream in Kubernetes, there is a need to host containers securely in addition to virtual machines (VMs) to safeguard hardware-level workloads.
KubeVirt is a cloud native virtualization platform that comes with Confidential Virtual Machines for the most sensitive use cases. They take advantage of Trusted Execution Environments such as AMD SEV, Intel TDX, and IBM Secure Execution to provide data-in-motion encryption for their workloads and defend against subverted host admins as well as against system attacks.
In this session, we will cover KubeVirt methodology for Confidential VMs, including the design of the architecture, challenges of implementation, and deployments. We will examine how the VMs protect sensitive workloads using memory encryption, workload isolation while being placed within Kubernetes orchestration and automation.

Speakers

Basavaraju G

Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Basava Raju.G is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer at IBM, specializing in IBM Kubernetes Service and Openshift Container Platform. With over all 13 years of experience in cloud-native and Platform as a Service (PaaS) Domain. He earned his Master’s in Computer Science At SJCE... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 4:35pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm IST

Unlocking the Power of Kuma Service Mesh: Enhancing Reliability and Developer Productivity - Deepak Verma & Arpit Mishra, Zomato

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

Hall 2

This session delves into Zomato's journey of adopting Kuma Service Mesh to manage over 500 microservices with 10,000 dataplanes. The session begins by addressing common challenges in service communication, such as observability gaps, insecure traffic, and inconsistent configurations across environments, and explore how Kuma Service Mesh resolves these issues.

The presentation highlights how Kuma standardises configurations, minimises debugging efforts, and improves application performance, thereby reducing developer overhead. A key focus is on leveraging Kuma to enhance developer workflows through local-preview environments, allowing dynamic traffic routing to local services based on headers. This facilitates rapid iteration and debugging.

Additionally, we will discuss our roadmap for utilising Kuma's zone-aware routing to reduce cross-zone data transfer, lowering costs and enhancing efficiency.

Speakers

Arpit Mishra

Software Engineer, Zomato

Arpit is a Linux and Networking enthusiast, currently working as a Software Engineer at Zomato with extensive experience in Site Reliability, Developer Experience and System Engineering. He previously worked in Glance and has a total of three years of experience in software industry... Read More →

Deepak Verma

Site Reliability Engineer, Zomato

A technology enthusiast working at Zomato with 7+ years of experience where his focus is developer experience, system administration and automation. As a SRE, Deepak has been involved in applying site reliability principles to facilitate business growth through the seamless and reliable... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 2

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:30pm IST

Redefining Inclusion: Building Truly Global Cloud Native Communities - Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock); Priyanka Saggu, SUSE

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

MRG 1-6

True inclusivity in open source goes beyond accessibility-it embraces cultural, linguistic, and geographic diversity. This session redefines inclusivity by spotlighting regional contributors and underrepresented voices. Together, we'll share real-world lessons from Cloud Native projects across Asia-like shifting meeting times to better serve regional Time Zone (e.g. SIG Contribex, CHAOSS Asia), navigating connectivity barriers, and amplifying non-Western perspectives in community leadership.

We'll explore what global inclusion looks like in practice: not just inviting participation, but enabling it meaningfully. By addressing time zone inequity, cultural nuance, and infrastructure gaps, we unlock richer collaboration and long-term sustainability. This talk is a call to move beyond checkboxes—toward an inclusiveness rooted in empathy, cultural awareness, and action. Let's build a Cloud Native ecosystem where contributors everywhere can truly belong—and thrive.

Speakers

Josh Berkus

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat

Priyanka Saggu

Technical Lead – SIG Contributor Experience, SUSE

Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)

Hailing from India, Sandeep is a passionate software engineer working at Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock). A frequent meetup speaker, Sandeep enjoys sharing his lessons learned from 15+ years in the tech space with the community. He's a staunch advocate for diversity and inclusion and... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, Contributor Strategy

4:30pm IST

Enhancing DNS Reliability in Kubernetes With Node Local DNS Cache - Sanjay Kumar K K R & Priyanshi Agrawal, New Relic

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

Hall 6

In Kubernetes, DNS resolution is vital for service discovery. CoreDNS, the default DNS provider, can face performance issues such as timeouts, latency, and scalability challenges, which increase reliance on upstream DNS and lead to unreliable service discovery. To enhance DNS reliability, we propose integrating Node Local DNS Cache.

We'll discuss implementing node-local DNS caching in 270 clusters with over 18,000 nodes, effectively resolving DNS issues, boosting resolution reliability, reducing CoreDNS load, and minimizing dependency on upstream DNS sources. Attendees will gain insights into the technical approach, including performance assessments and testing scenarios emphasizing latency improvements. We've achieved a 30x performance enhancement and greater dns query-handling capacities through node-local DNS cache deployment. This session will provide valuable understanding of techniques to ensure robust DNS resolution in large-scale Kubernetes environments.

Speakers

Sanjay Kumar K K R

Software Engineer, New Relic

Sanjay Kumar is a Software Engineer at New Relic, specializing in cloud-agnostic Kubernetes clusters at scale. With expertise in multi-cloud infrastructure, observability, and platform engineering, he has built resilient, high-performance Kubernetes deployments across AWS, GCP, and... Read More →

Priyanshi Agrawal

Software Engineer, New Relic

Priyanshi is a software engineer with 3+ years of experience at VMware and New Relic, specializing in GO, Kubernetes, Microservices, Restful Web Services, Git, AWS, and multicloud solutions. Known for blending technical expertise with leadership, Priyanshi excels at driving innovative... Read More →

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

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:30pm IST

Building a Cloud Native IaC Platform for an Enterprise by Leveraging the Kubernetes Ecosystem - Florian Hopfensperger, Allianz Technology & Yury Tsarev, Upbound

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST

Hall 1

Infrastructure teams have long been a staple of large enterprises, responsible for creating and managing cloud and on-premises resources. However, each team often operates with its own user interface, making it difficult for developers to access the infrastructure they need efficiently. How can we enhance the developer experience while enabling infrastructure teams to offer products more effectively?

This talk will showcase how Allianz Technology leverages the Kubernetes ecosystem and open-source software to build an infrastructure-as-code platform powered by over 1,000 Kubernetes control planes. This approach simplifies the developer experience through customized APIs while providing infrastructure engineers with a scalable framework for delivering infrastructure products and gaining insights for continuous improvement.

Speakers

Yury Tsarev

Principal Solutions Architect, Upbound

Yury is an experienced software engineer who strongly focuses on open-source, software quality and distributed systems. As the creator of k8gb (https://www.k8gb.io) and active contributor to the Crossplane ecosystem, he frequently speaks at conferences covering topics such as Control... Read More →

Florian Hopfensperger

Software Engineering Lead, Allianz Technology

Florian is a Software Engineering Lead at Allianz Technology working on Kubernetes Control Planes. He is an enthusiast for Cloud Computing, GitOps and Open Source Software and actively contributes to it.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:37pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Enhancing Runtime Protection Leveraging Compliance Frameworks - Ramakant Sharma, AccuKnox Inc.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:37pm - 4:42pm IST

Hall 3

Runtime security for cloud workloads involves continuously monitoring workload behavior and preventing deviations from normal activity.

The ideal approach is to enforce application-specific zero-trust policies that establish a baseline and prevent unexpected behavior. While, implementing zero trust requires ongoing tuning and is more of a Day 2 operation. In addition, Hardening policies can be established by translating compliance frameworks' prescriptive guidance into enforceable runtime security policies. By adopting a layered runtime security approach, the attack surface can be significantly reduced.

In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how to enhance runtime security using policies influenced by compliance frameworks like CIS and MITRE, etc. We’ll showcase real-world examples and enforce these policies using KubeArmor.

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.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:37pm - 4:42pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:44pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: K0s at the Edge: Minimal Kubernetes, Maximum Impact - Satyam Bhardwaj, Mirantis

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:44pm - 4:49pm IST

Hall 3

As organizations shift workloads away from centralized clouds, they need solutions that are both lightweight and scalable. In this lightning talk, we’ll see how k0s - a single binary Kubernetes distribution, bridges this gap by making edge deployments simple and efficient.

We’ll walk through a short demo on Raspberry Pi 5, showing how to set up a worker node using a Pi device and deploy containerized applications closer to where data is generated. By the end, we’ll understand how this minimal approach can power IoT, AI/ML.

Speakers

Satyam Bhardwaj

Software Engineer, Mirantis

Satyam is a software engineer at Mirantis with experience in Kubernetes, containers, and open source development. He actively contributes to projects like Kubernetes ClusterAPI and the k0s, k0rdent ecosystem, focusing on enabling scalable AI/ML workloads through efficient infrastructure... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:44pm - 4:49pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:51pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: OpenKruise: Advancing Kubernetes Workload Automation for Scalable, Disruption-Free Operations - Husni Alhamdani, Amartha Mikro Teknologi & Herbert Sianturi, Krom Bank Indonesia

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:51pm - 4:56pm IST

Hall 3

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, yet managing complex workloads—particularly stateful applications and large-scale deployments—often requires extensions beyond its native capabilities. OpenKruise, addresses these gaps by introducing powerful and enhancements to streamline application lifecycle management.

This presentation explores how OpenKruise augments Kubernetes with features like in-place pod updates (reducing downtime by updating containers without restarting pods), advanced workload controllers (CloneSet, Advanced StatefulSet). These innovations enable DevOps teams to optimize deployments, minimize operational overhead, and scale stateful applications seamlessly.

We’ll delve into real-world use cases from our experiences, plus, how OpenKruise can be plugged to any complex systems/apps.

Attendees will leave with actionable insights into leveraging OpenKruise to enhance deployment strategies and achieve zero-downtime operations.

Speakers

Husni Alhamdani

CNCF Ambassador / Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Amartha Mikro Teknologi

Husni is a CNCF Ambassador, and a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at Amartha, previously at Shopee, where he is responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure platforms. In addition to these responsibilities, he primarily focuses on architecting Cloud-Native solutions. He also... Read More →

Herbert Sianturi

Senior DevOps Engineer, Krom Bank Indonesia

Herbert Sianturi serves as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Krom Bank Indonesia, where he roles spearheads efforts in enhancing the quality of end-to-end application lifecycle and applying open source platform as a base. With years of expertise in container orchestration and cloud computing... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:51pm - 4:56pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Any

4:58pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimizing SNAT Port and IP Address Management in Kubernetes - Nitin Nizhawan & Prachi Sahu, Microsoft

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:58pm - 5:00pm IST

Hall 3

Kubernetes workloads rely on public IP addresses for egress traffic via SNAT connections. By default, Kubernetes nodes provide a limited number of SNAT ports (1024 per node), often insufficient for workloads requiring extensive outbound connectivity. Allocating additional IP addresses statically for SNAT purposes in large clusters can lead to significant inefficiencies and wastage of limited public IPv4 resources. This session introduces an innovative SNAT port and IP address management solution developed for AKS multi-cluster, multi-tenant platforms, demonstrating how optimized IP allocation significantly reduces IP address wastage and associated costs.

Speakers

Nitin Nizhawan

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

With over 16 years of experience in software engineering, I have a robust background in developing enterprise applications using Java, C#, and Golang. I have successfully developed solutions for both on-premises and cloud environments. For the past three years, I have been dedicated... Read More →

Prachi Sahu

Software Engineer, Microsoft

I'm a Software Developer at Microsoft with hands-on experience working on Kubernetes and Docker at an intermediate level. My work focuses on the Linux platform and distributed networking within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). I work closely on network debugging and observability using... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:58pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:02pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Solving Multi-Region K8s Challenges: Improving Pod Startup Time & Reducing NAT Costs With Zot - Tamil Vanan Karuppannan, Arcesium

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:02pm - 5:07pm IST

Hall 3

Managing a multi-region Kubernetes deployment comes with significant challenges, especially around container image distribution. In our setup, we had a central container registry in a public cloud, but as the number of clusters grew across regions, our NAT transfer costs skyrocketed— a staggering 10x increase

A major contributor to this cost was cross-region image pulls, which also impacted pod startup times. We explored multiple solutions and found Zot (a CNCF sandbox project) to be an ideal fit due to its lightweight architecture and pull-through cache capabilities

By configuring Zot as a regional caching layer, we:

Reduced NAT data transfer costs significantly by keeping frequently pulled images closer to the clusters.
Improved pod startup times by eliminating long fetch delays from a central registry.
Simplified registry management without adding unnecessary complexity.

Speakers

tamilhce

Principal Engineer, Arcesium

Tamil vanan is a cloud native Tech lead at Arcesium and a former Kubernetes SME at VMware. He is passionate about finding solutions to problems in the cloud native environment. He works with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, multi-cloud and networking. He is a passionate... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:02pm - 5:07pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:09pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Unit Testing in Go With K8s Clients & APIs: An Intern’s POV on Why It’s a Great Start - Harini Anand, IBM

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:09pm - 5:14pm IST

Hall 3

Jumping into a massive infrastructure codebase as an intern can be intimidating. But here’s what made onboarding smoother: unit testing with Kubernetes APIs and fake clients.
This talk shares my experience of working on unit tests for an infra plumbing component of a data lakehouse.

The journey from being overwhelmed by Go and Kubernetes to realizing that unit testing is the best entry point to understanding large-scale cloud-native systems will be explored.

The session highlights why Kubernetes APIs make testing easier, introduces informers, controllers, and API behaviors and how they help in testing, how fake clients eliminate the need for a real cluster, and why this is a great starting point for interns and students working on their first cloud-based project.

Attendees will gain insights into the advantages of Kubernetes API interactions and testing, including speed, reliability, comprehensive coverage, and improved developer experience.

Speakers

Harini Anand

Software Developer Intern, IBM

CSE undergrad passionate about Computational Cognition, ML, and AI in Healthcare. SDE Intern @IBM Data & AI, working on IBM watsonx™. Formerly at Niramai & IIT Hyderabad, researching ML for breast cancer and gene regulatory networks. Built cognitive tools for dementia prevention... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:09pm - 5:14pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Beginner

5:10pm IST

Rewriting the Rules: Why Kubernetes Is Moving To NFTables - Daman Arora & Yash Kumar Singh, Broadcom

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST

Hall 2

This session will explore why NFTables offer clear advantages over IPTables and IPVS, especially in large-scale production environments from both maintainers and end users perspective. We’ll share a user story who faced persistent issues with IPTables, saw some success with IPVS, and finally solved their scalability problems by migrating to NFTables. From a maintainers perspective we will showcase how and why NFTable outperforms the other proxy modes. We’ll provide performance insights and discuss kernel compatibility.
We will also discuss NFTables compatibility with various CNI providers and plugins, and how NFTables support is already integrated in many environments, providing a smoother transition. Attending this session you will get an indepth understanding of behavioral changes when migrating from IPTables and IPVS to NFTables, including key metrics to track.

Speakers

Yash Singh

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Yash Singh is a Software Engineer at VMware. He works on Kubernetes core components releases, building and validating the Kubernetes FIPS for Tanzu. He plays an important role in the development of Tanzu Extend Support of Kubernetes and its components. Yash contributes to a host of... Read More →

Daman Arora

Senior Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom

Trying to maintain kube-proxy.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 2

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:10pm IST

Plug-and-Play Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes Built-in Workloads With OpenKruise Rollout - Harkirat Singh, OpenKruise

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST

MRG 1-6

OpenKruise Rollout is a sub-project of OpenKruise that aims to ease the process of progressive delivery. This talk explores the internal framework of OpenKruise Rollout to support built-in workload non-invasively. For platform builders, you’ll learn how to easily enable your deployments with new capability such as multi-batch release and blue-green deployment without workload migration and HPA solutions switch. You’ll also learn how to leverage the built-in labeling support to inspect and conduct experiments with newly released pods.

Speakers

Harkirat Singh

Open Source Developer, OpenKruise

At the end of 2022, I began my career as a software engineer by working on CNCF projects. Being selected as an LFX mentee for Fall 2022 was a turning point that accelerated my growth and I also won several hackathons . Recently collaborated with European founders to build solutions... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
MRG 1-6

Maintainer Track, OpenKruise

5:10pm IST

Build Your K8s Ready Distro With BootC - Praveen Kumar & Josh Berkus, Red Hat

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST

Hall 6

Kubernetes administrators often struggle with maintaining consistency across distributed nodes, managing OS updates, and preventing configuration drift in large-scale containerized environments. Wouldn't it be great if there is a way to generate the distribution using a container file like we do for application images? With bootable containers (bootc) you can do it.

In this demo-centric presentation, we will explore how bootc can simplify operating system management by treating itself as an immutable container image. Using a local Kind cluster on Podman Desktop, we will demonstrate how to create and deploy images, showcasing its advantages in maintaining consistency and security across clusters and edge nodes. By treating the OS as a container image, we can take advantage of existing container workflows, making updates and rollbacks atomic and version-controlled.

Attendees will learn how they can use their container-building skills to manage their distro images as well.

Speakers

Praveen Kumar

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Praveen Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. In his current role, Praveen is focusing on to provide a tool for developers to play with OpenShift locally. In his free time he tries to contribute different container ecosystem projects. He has been a speaker at Eclipse... Read More →

Josh Berkus

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 6

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Beginner

5:10pm IST

A Journey To Ephemeral Test Environments With EKS and ArgoCD - Tatiana Selezneva & Gazal Gafoor, REA Group

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST

Hall 1

In today's fast-paced development landscape, maintaining reliable and up-to-date test environments is crucial yet challenging. Join us as we share our journey of evolving from traditional long-running test environments to testing directly in production, and eventually achieving scalable and ephemeral test environments for platform builders as well as application teams.

- Are you content with the current state of your test environments?
- Do you find yourself relying on outdated, long-running staging and test environments?
- How do you handle the risks of data staleness and unexpected environment corruption?

In this talk, we will go into the strategies and tools that helped us to transition to ephemeral test environments, highlighting the benefits and challenges encountered along the way. We aim to provide you with practical steps to improve the scalability and reliability of your own testing frameworks.

Speakers

Tatiana Selezneva

Lead Developer, REA Group

Tatiana is a part of the Platform Engineering team at REA Group, where she focuses on improving developer productivity through the use of Kubernetes orchestration and cloud-native technologies. She is passionate about streamlining development processes and enabling innovation within... Read More →

Gazal Gafoor

Lead Developer, REA Group

I have been an active user of cloud native technologies for about a decade. I have contributed to the community with code, engagement in the kubernetes slack channel, blog posts and a podcast appearance with a CNCF ambassador.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

5:16pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: WASM Vs Docker: Partners, Not Rivals - Pradumna V Saraf, Independent

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:16pm - 5:21pm IST

Hall 3

The rise of WebAssembly (WASM) has sparked comparisons with Docker which often leads to questions and confusion: Are WASM and Docker competing technologies?

In this talk, we will see how this is far from the truth. On one side, Docker revolutionised how we bundle and deploy applications, offering unparalleled portability and simplifying workflows across environments. On the other hand, WASM brings speed, security, and efficiency, enabling the execution of code written in languages like C, C++, and Rust almost at native speed, performance, and rapid startup time even in the browser.

We will explore how these two technologies bring the best of both worlds and help developers achieve portability, efficiency, security, and flexibility. We will also look at how Docker is actively working to make WASM mainstream by allowing WASM container images to be hosted on DockerHub and run WASM containers alongside traditional Linux and Windows containers.

Speakers

Pradumna V Saraf

Open Source Developer, Independent

Pradumna is a Developer Advocate, Docker Captain, and a DevOps and Go Developer. He is passionate about Open Source and has mentored hundreds of people to break into the ecosystem. He also creates content on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn, educating others about Open Source and... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:16pm - 5:21pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Any

5:23pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Predictive Autoscaling in Kubernetes With KEDA and Prophet - Snigdha Kanchana, IBM

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:23pm - 5:28pm IST

Hall 3

This session focuses on enhancing Kubernetes autoscaling by integrating **KEDA** (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) with **Prophet**, a time-series forecasting tool. Traditional Kubernetes autoscaling reacts to current resource metrics like CPU and memory, while predictive autoscaling anticipates future workload demands using historical data. By combining Prophet with KEDA, Kubernetes can proactively scale resources before traffic spikes, ensuring better performance and optimized resource usage.

Attendees will learn how to implement predictive autoscaling with KEDA and Prophet to improve efficiency, reduce latency, and manage resources proactively. This approach helps handle fluctuating workloads, enhancing system reliability and providing a seamless user experience.

Ideal for cloud architects, Kubernetes admins, and DevOps professionals, this session provides actionable insights to automate scaling strategies and improve cost efficiency in cloud-native environments.

Speakers

Snigdha Kanchana

Cloud SRE & DevOps Engineer, IBM

I’m a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer at IBM, specializing in DevOps, cloud computing, and automation with expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud security. Previously, I worked as a DevOps Engineer at NCR Corporation, optimizing cloud... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:23pm - 5:28pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Any

5:30pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mission: Impossible - Building Self-Healing Disaster Recovery With OpenFeature - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:30pm - 5:35pm IST

Hall 3

Imagine presenting to your dream clients when your primary region decides to take a coffee break. That's exactly what happened to us - 25 minutes of unexpected manual failover, and watching hope drain from our team's & audience's faces. Our multi-region setup was more "disaster" than "recovery".

Join this talk as Prerit walk us over how they build an intelligent feature flag orchestration platform using OpenFeature which now processes 1k flag evaluations/second across 3 global regions, reduced infrastructure incident risk by 90% & DR time from 25 minutes to 125 seconds and has successfully handled 15 regional incidents without a single lost transaction.

We will also see they built the "infrastructure gates" to control traffic shifting with millisecond precision, feature state synchronization, and WARM-HOT-COLD DR strategies with just a toggle.

Speakers

Prerit Munjal

Co-founder & CTO, InfraOne

Prerit is working as a Software Architect, directing his expertise towards harnessing Cloud Native Technologies to design resilient architectures that can seamlessly scale in the future, all while prioritizing technical cost, security, availability and end-user experience. As the... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:30pm - 5:35pm IST
Hall 3

⚡ Lightning Talks, Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Any

5:45pm IST

Welcome Reception 🎉

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:45pm - 7:15pm IST

Hall 4

Join us onsite for drinks, appetizers, and conversations with old and new friends in the Solutions Showcase. Explore the exhibit booths to learn more about the latest technologies, meet experts and project maintainers, browse special offers, and much more.

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.

Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:45pm - 7:15pm IST
Hall 4

Experiences

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

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

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