KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Full Schedule

In-person
1-4 April 2025
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11:15 BST

"Izzy Saves the Birthday" - A Story-Driven Live Demo Exploring the Magic of Service Mesh - Lin Sun, solo.io & Faseela Kundattil, Ericsson Software Technology

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Ahoy, Kubernetes fans! Captain Kube is thrilled to host a grand cruise celebrating Kubernetes’ 10th birthday. But trouble looms on the horizon—three pirates have sneaked into the party, intent on disrupting the celebration and looting the precious birthday gifts.

Can Captain Kube and his friends uncover the pirates’ identities and safely evict them before the festivities are ruined? Join Phippy, Izzy, Owlina, Goldie, Tiago, Hazel, Zee, and the rest of the crew as they work together to protect the party. Will they get to enjoy cocktails and cake, or will the pirates spoil all the fun?

Istio maintainer and authors of the CNCF Phippy book-”Izzy saves the Birthday”, Faseela K and Lin Sun invite you to an engaging first look at their new book. This interactive session will also include live demos showcasing how CNCF projects like Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, SPIFFE, Envoy, and more come together to tackle challenges, ensuring a fun, safe, and seamless cruise experience.

Speakers

Faseela K

Experienced Cloud-native Developer, Ericsson Software Technology

Faseela is a cloud-native developer at Ericsson, and a maintainer and Steering Committee member at Istio. She has given talks and workshops at several conferences evangelizing CNCF projects, including the recent KubeCons. She is a CNCF Ambassador, LFX Mentor, and the winner of the... Read More →

Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source, solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:00 BST

Explain How Kubernetes Works With GPU Like I’m 5 - Carlos Santana, AWS

Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Want to understand how Kubernetes handles GPUs? Join us for a beginner-friendly deep dive into GPU integration using a homelab setup with NVIDIA Jetson hardware. Rather than relying solely on operators, we'll break down the entire stack to reveal how Kubernetes orchestrates GPU workloads. This session walks through the complete journey of enabling GPU support in Kubernetes, from bare metal to running GPU-accelerated containers.

Using a practical homelab example with a Jetson NUC, we'll explore how Kubernetes detects and manages GPU hardware, the critical role of drivers and container toolkit, and how kubelet plugins enable GPU support. You'll understand the mechanics of node labeling, GPU resource allocation, and the process of requesting GPU resources in Pod specifications. We'll also demystify CUDA and its essential role in GPU computing. Whether you're new to GPU computing or looking to understand the internals beyond operator abstractions, this talk is for you.

Speakers

Carlos Santana

Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS leading Container solutions in the Worldwide Application Modernization (AppMod). He is experienced in distributed cloud application architecture, emerging technologies, open source, serverless, devops. kubernetes, gitops. He is CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

14:30 BST

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Our hero, a running app in a K8s prod environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They’re serving end users, but the value of the cloud is not realized. Hero’s devs toil on custom integrations, deployment is brittle and slow, and security and governance are HARD. Hero longs for a developer platform with consistent and repeatable system building blocks.

It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero’s transformation from a lost and confused app to one built on a solid foundation that abstracts away complexity and promotes innovation. In their fifth KubeCon ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they build an Internal Developer Platform, enabling the devs to have self-service access to widely used system capabilities. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects and build a platform before the session time elapses?

Speakers

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate, Upbound

Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

Whitney Lee

Developer Advocate, CNCF Ambassador

Whitney is a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, she has created and delivered two KubeCon keynotes, a VMware Explore keynote, and countless fun, funny, and informative community conference keynotes. You can... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

Yes You Can Run LLMs on Kubernetes - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud

Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

As LLMs become increasingly powerful and ubiquitous, the need to deploy and scale these models in production environments grows. However, the complexity of LLMs can make them challenging to run reliably and efficiently. In this talk, we'll explore how Kubernetes can be leveraged to run LLMs at scale.

We'll cover the key considerations and best practices for packaging LLM inference services as containerized applications using popular OSS inference servers like TGI, vLLM and Ollama, and deploying them on Kubernetes. This includes managing model weights, handling dynamic batching and scaling, implementing advanced traffic routing, and ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.

Additionally, we'll discuss accelerators management and serving models on multiple hosts. By the end of this talk, attendees will have a comprehensive understanding of how to successfully run their LLMs on Kubernetes, unlocking the benefits of scalability, resilience, and DevOps-friendly deployments.

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 April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

16:15 BST

K8s in Wonderland: Why Many of Unknown Code in My Workload? - Hoon Jo, Megazone

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

When you look at the YAML after you've deployed in kubernetes, surprisingly (from a novice perspective), there's a bunch of unknown code in addition.
In fact, it is essential to work properly, and moreover, it almost matches in best practice way to work for highly compatible purpose.
For example, the service has a key value called "sessionAffinity". This value is set to "None" by default.
We could replace it with a value called "ClientIP" instead of None, but this needs to be carefully considered to avoid side effects.
So in this session it is important to understand the implications of having such a default value in there, and being able to do so will help us when we study each of these objects in more detail in the future.
I'm sure you'll find it useful and thought provoking! :)

Speakers

Hoon Jo

Cloud Solutions Architect | Cloud Native Engineer, Megazone

Hoon Jo is Cloud Solutions Architect as well as Cloud Native engineer at Megazone. He has many times of speaker experience for cloud native technologies. And spread out Cloud Native Ubiquitous in the world. He has written several books and latest books is 『CONTAINER INFRASTRUCTURE... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

17:00 BST

Learning Kubernetes Through the Lens of Metrics - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE & Mario Jason Braganza, Janusworx

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Metrics are often seen as tools for monitoring CPU, memory, or I/O—but Kubernetes metrics offer so much more. They provide a window into your cluster’s inner workings.

Did you know Kubernetes metrics can tell you which (alpha, beta, stable) features are enabled in your cluster? Or reveal how many pods a kubelet is running, how many are waiting to be scheduled, or how much byte space container logs are consuming? They can even track mirror pods, live goroutines, or the latest etcd compaction revision. These seemingly small data points hold huge insights—and that’s just scratching the surface.

In this talk, Priyanka and Jason will explore Kubernetes metrics, their different types, and how to use them for actionable insights. You'll also learn how to add custom metrics to Kubernetes components.

Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned contributor, this session will transform how you understand Kubernetes metrics.

Join us to see Kubernetes through a new lens—metrics! 📈🔍

Speakers

Priyanka Saggu

Kubernetes GitHub Admin, SIG Contribex Technical Lead, 1.31 Emeritus Advisor, 1.29 Release Lead, SUSE

Priyanka Saggu is a Kubernetes Engineer at SUSE, and has made significant contributions to Kubernetes project via Release, ContribEx, Testing and CLI SIGs. She's the Emeritus Advisor for Kubernetes 1.31 release cycle, Release Lead for Kubernetes 1.29, Kubernetes GitHub Admin, and... Read More →

Mario Jason Braganza

Kubernetes New Org Membership Coordinator – SIG Contributer Experience, Janusworx

Jason Braganza is an IT consultant with 20+ years of experience in designing solutions for SMBs. Passionate about FOSS, he mentors youth in Linux, communication, and blogging through the Linux Users' Group of Durgapur.A recipient of the Kubernetes Contributor award 2024, Jason serves... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

17:45 BST

Logs, Metrics, Traces and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure Game - Jay Clifford & Tom Glenn, Grafana Labs

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Have you ever wanted to play an actual game on your observability stack? Well, you can. Not only does Doom run on Grafana, we also built an actual text-based adventure game.

Join us to play a real text-based Observability adventure game! Armed with the tools of the trade—metrics, logs, and traces—you’ll learn to navigate the labyrinth of debugging and optimization, rescuing your application from the clutches of the dark wizard!

In this interactive session, we will dive into a game played live to showcase how each telemetry type is used to solve real-world Observability challenges. As players encounter obstacles, they’ll wield the power of OpenTelemetry to gather critical data and use OSS tools like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus to make informed decisions.

Whether you’re an observability novice or a seasoned engineer, this talk will level up your debugging skills and showcase how to gamify observability training for your team. So, gear up, adventurer—your quest awaits!

Speakers

Jay Clifford

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Jay Clifford is a Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, specializing in Loki. Jay leads the Interactive Sandbox Initiative, designed to enhance Grafana's documentation and provide hands-on learning experiences within the observability space. Previously, Jay worked as a Developer Advocate... Read More →

Tom Glenn

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Tom is a software engineer, developer advocate, and game developer with 17 years of experience. He specializes in full-stack software development, backend game systems, and game development in Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot. At Grafana Labs, Tom improves the developer experience... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

11:00 BST

"Surviving Day2 : Picking the Right Tool To Secure Your Kubernetes Habitat" - Bruno Gabriel da Silva, Sysdig & Henrique Santana, AWS

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

The CNCF landscape is so big that it can feel impossible to comprehend.

A jungle of tools with unique roles and capabilities, divided into several categories.

In nature, every species has its strengths. A falco(n), for instance, serves as a vigilant runtime protector, while the racoon (Trivy) hunts for vulnerabilities. Some animals are hunters, each using a unique set of skills and techniques to survive.

In this session, you'll be exposed to different fauna, like Falco, Trivy, Kyverno and others, with a fun and biological approach.

After this presentation, you’ll have the confidence to decide the correct predator, or a non-poisonous fruit, ensuring your Kubernetes habitat stays secure and thriving.

Speakers

Henrique Santana

Sr. Cloud Support Engineer, AWS

I'm Containers Specialist with over 15 years of experience in infrastructure operations. Skilled at automating workflows and solving problems through user-centered design and emerging technologies. Currently focusing on containers and container orchestration. Adept at optimizing... Read More →

Bruno Gabriel da Silva

Sr Solutions Engineer, Sysdig

I have been working as a Solutions Engineer for several years, with my passion for cloud-native technologies igniting around 2018. That year, I transitioned from a traditional IT Windows Sysadmin role to fully embracing DevOps, focusing entirely on Open Source and Cloud. My first... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:45 BST

Demystifying Why the World Is Built on Kubernetes: Learning To Leverage Bespoke CRDs and Controllers - Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Sebastien Blanc, Port

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

When product teams build software, they think about user personas, and Kubernetes is no different. There are three key user personas for Kubernetes: the one who runs containers (developers), the one who manages the cluster (operators) and the one who creates bespoke tooling (platform engineers). While the first two personas have a lot of resources and support, the third often appears to be a dark art that is only possible by the most courageous and advanced Kubernetes users.

What if we were to tell you the only secret to unleash this power is a single schema and a single function? Yes, even the power of graduated CNCF projects such as ArgoCD and CertManager can boil down that simple description. This talk will take a magnifying glass to how Kubernetes CRDs and controllers work so that you can build confidence in both using, and hopefully building, custom services on top of Kubernetes.

Speakers

Sebastien Blanc

Developer Relations Engineer, Port

Sébastien Blanc, Staff Developer Advocate at Aiven, is a Passion-Driven-Developer with one primary goal : share his passion by giving talks that are pragmatic, fun and focused on live coding.

Abby Bangser

Principal Engineer, Syntasso

Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

13:45 BST

No Code Needed: From Emojis To Glory on the Contribution Ladder - Nancy Chauhan, Student & Carol Valencia, Elastic

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Non-code contributions are essential for the success and sustainability of open-source projects. They promote broader inclusion and accessibility, strengthen project governance, incorporate diverse perspectives to enhance usability and communication and facilitate collaboration across the ecosystem.

The abundance of materials and websites can feel overwhelming when you’re new to the CNCF ecosystem. We will explore the steps to help newcomers create their first PR, guiding them through contributions to projects such as documentation, whitepapers, release projects, governance, and leadership. This includes localization, which allows diverse cultures and language communities to engage with and benefit from the project.

This talk will provide attendees a clear roadmap for non-code contributions, making the journey more visible and accessible, while enabling the next generation of leaders to emerge and thrive in non-code roles.

Speakers

Carolina Valencia

Customer Architect, Elastic

Carol is a passionate software developer dedicated to implementing secure cloud-native practices. She actively contributes to CNCF projects and the Kubernetes community as an open-source contributor. She enjoys learning new technologies and creating material, some of which she shares... Read More →

Nancy Chauhan

Student, Cornell University

I like hacking through software engineering problems. I have been developing solutions for software reliability and also like to break complicated concepts into easier tech content (blogs and videos).I have also worked in Dev Advocacy, amid the crossover of two things I like the most... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

The Ultimate Container Challenge: An Interactive Trivia Game on OCI, Podman, Docker... - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud & Sherine Khoury, Red Hat

Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Containers are now part of our daily lives as Devs and Ops for more than 10 years now. And yet, do we know them as well as we think we do?

With a mix of quiz and live demos, come learn and/or improve your knowledge, about the various existing formats of containers, best practices to secure them, store them, use them on various platforms and... put them on diet!

In this fun and dynamic talk, come compete throughout the quiz and explore the wonderful world of containers.

You will discover or dig into several CNCF and open source projects like Harbor, Skopeo, Oras, Podman, Docker and many more!

Icing on the cake: the first will win some swags.

Speakers

Aurélie Vache

Developer Advocate, OVHcloud

Aurélie Vache is a Developer Advocate at OVHcloud. She is Docker Captain, CNCF ambassador, Cloud GDE, WTM Ambassador & GitPod Hero. Developer and Ops for over 19 years. Mentor and promote diversity and accessibility in technology. She created a new visual way for people to learn... Read More →

Sherine Khoury

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

I've been in the world of tech for nearly 20 years now... Gosh that sounds old! From Dev (Go, Java), to QE, OPS, Infra and SRE, my diverse experiences reflect my passion for learning and exploration. At my day job at Red Hat, I contribute to the OpenShift Kubernetes distribution... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any