KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Full Schedule

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

SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev & Dixita Narang, Google; Francesco Romani & Peter Hunt, Red Hat

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

This session covers the latest updates in the Kubernetes Node subsystem. SIG Node owns components like Kubelet, Container Runtime Interface (CRI), Node API. SIG Node is responsible for Pod lifecycle from allocation to teardown, shared (“classic”) resource management, topology alignment and device access via device plugins. SIG Node is also a major contributor of the Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) which is becoming the bedrock of the new generation or resource management. We work with container runtimes, kernels, networking, storage, and more; anything between the pod and the underlying hardware that runs them is in SIG Node’s purview!

The session will be interesting for end users, seasoned contributors, and people seeking to get involved. Attendees will leave the session with a better understanding of the latest developments like DRA, PSI, pod level resources, in-place VPA and more, as well as understand the roadmap in these days of AI/ML and other workloads adoption.

Speakers

Narang Dixita Sohanlal

Software Engineer, Google

Dixita Narang is a Software Engineer at Google on the Kubernetes Node team. With a primary focus on resource management within Kubernetes, Dixita is deeply involved in the development and advancement of the Memory QoS feature, which is currently in the alpha stage. She is a new contributor... Read More →

Peter Hunt

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Peter Hunt is a Senior Software Engineer working at Red Hat. Passionate about free software, Peter focuses on being a chair for SIG node, maintaining CRI-O, and ~writing~ squashing bugs. Outside of the virtual world, Peter likes collecting floral-printed pants, cooking, and danci... Read More →

Francesco Romani

software engineer, Red Hat

Principal software engineer, joined Red Hat in late 2013, involved in open source projects since 2006. Worked in Red Hat about all things virtualization, then moved to the cloud native virtualization and now on cloud-native network functions. Currently works in the resource management... Read More →

Sergey Kanzhelev

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Sergey Kanzhelev is a seasoned cloud native maintainer. Sergey a chair of Kubernetes SIG node and one of the approvers. He is a co-founder of OpenTelemetry. He is working on both - engineering aspect of software and its practical application. With the Kubernetes, he is contributing... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Maintainer Track, Kubernetes, SIG Node

11:00 BST

SIG API Machinery Maintainer's Track: The Kubernetes Building Blocks - Federico Bongiovanni, Google

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 1-2

An overview of the latest features from Extensibility to Admission policies, and what is in the bag for 2025+.

Speakers

Federico Bongiovanni

Senior Engineering Manager, Google

Engineering Manager who is passionate about people development and growth, building diverse and inclusive teams, and solving large scale technical challenges. With a large technical background in development, cloud computing at scale, building and running successful teams, and operating... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 1-2

Maintainer Track, Kubernetes

16:00 BST

Guiding Kubernetes: The Steering Committee's Role in Project Evolution - Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns & Paco Xu, DaoCloud

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

The Kubernetes Steering Committee plays a crucial role in overseeing the non-technical aspects of the Kubernetes project and making important project-wide decisions. The committee has a wide scope of working and responsibilities. The committee has evolved over the years. In this session, let’s take a look at how the committee came to be created, the bootstrap era, how it works now and what’s in store for the future. We will have excerpts from our emeritus members who served to shape the goals and vision of the steering committee. We will explore how you can leverage our learnings to enhance the governance of your own cloud native projects. If you are eager to gain insights or have queries about the governance journey of the Kubernetes project, we encourage you to drop by and engage in an insightful discussion

Speakers

Maciej Szulik

Staff Platform Engineer, Defense Unicorns

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.

Paco Xu

OpenSource Team Leader, DaoCloud

Paco is a member of Kubernetes Steering Committee and the lead of the DaoCloud open-source team. In community, Paco mainly work as a Kubeadm Maintaine and SIG-Node Reviewer. He is co-chair of KubeCon China 2024 and organized Kubernetes Contributor Summit China 2023 and KCD Chengdu 2022, and speaked at KubeCon EU 2023, KubeCon China 2021 & 2023, KCD Shanghai. In 2024, he becomes LFAPAC Evangelist... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Maintainer Track, Kubernetes, Steering Committee

16:00 BST

Kubespray: Driving Cost-Efficiency for AI on Kubernetes - Antoine Legrand, Conny GmbH & Mohamed Zaian, New Work SE

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST

Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 1-2

In 2025, cost efficiency is more critical than ever as organizations strive to optimize budgets while scaling AI capabilities. Kubernetes has become the backbone for deploying AI workloads, but organizations face the challenge of balancing performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. This session will address these challenges head-on.

Kubespray, a flexible, production-grade, open-source Kubernetes cluster management tool, has empowered countless users and organizations across cloud and bare-metal environments.

Attendees will learn how to build cost-optimized Kubernetes clusters by leveraging efficient resource utilization, GPU integration, and multi-cloud deployment strategies. The session will cover practical configurations to reduce operational expenses while ensuring high availability and scalability for demanding AI use cases.

Speakers

Antoine Legrand

CTO, Conny GmbH

Antoine Legrand is CTO at LegalTech startup CONNY and co-founder of Kubespray, a key tool in the Kubernetes ecosystem. He works with leading industry players to improve the management of applications and Kubernetes clusters. Passionate about open source, Antoine has spent the past... Read More →

Mohamed Zaian

Senior Systems Engineer, New Work SE

Maintainer of Kubespray, Organization member kubernetes/kubernetes and kubernetes/kubernetes-sigs. I do Linux administration, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, and Kubernetes as a Senior Systems Engineer at New Work SE in Hamburg, Germany.

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 1-2

Maintainer Track, Kubernetes, kubespray

16:45 BST

SIG Docs and You: Modernizing API Reference Generation - Kat Cosgrove & Xander Grzywinski, Independent

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST

Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 3-4

The Kubernetes project has some of the best documentation in the industry, and it’s part of the reason for the project’s success. Writing and maintaining that documentation requires the help of a small army of contributors, but there’s an often unseen aspect to the documentation that still needs work: the API reference docs generator. SIG Docs is beginning work to overhaul this process, and we need you! Learn more about how the reference docs are currently generated, the technical problems we face with that process, our plans for the future, and how you can get involved in ensuring the Kubernetes documentation continues to be the best it can be.

Speakers

Kat Cosgrove

Open Source Advocate, Independent

Kat is a Developer Advocate focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native. She was the Kubernetes... Read More →

Xander Grzywinski

Open Source Program Manager, Independent

Xander is an open source program manager with experience at a wide array of companies. Previously he worked in various roles on platform and open source teams at Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, and HashiCorp. When not at a computer, you'd most likely find him at a pottery wheel.

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 3-4

Maintainer Track, Kubernetes

11:45 BST

Contributing To Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - How ContribEx Enhances the Journey! - Nabarun Pal, Broadcom; Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic; Madhav Jivrajani, UIUC; Priyanka Saggu, SUSE

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

Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 3-4

SIG Contributor Experience has been wildly successful in helping grow the contributor base of Kubernetes in the first ten years of the project via New Contributor Workshops. We stressed on the importance of growing existing contributors in our last maintainer track session. However, the other side of the sustainability coin is ensuring that contributors who get started with contributing to Kubernetes, actually stick around. A lot has changed in the last decade, and we also need to change how we teach folks to contribute and interact with the community. Join us as we give a comprehensive overview of the Kubernetes governance and community structure, where you can seek help and what some pitfalls are that you will unexpectedly but inadvertently face in your contributor journey. We will highlight areas that are suited for folks from all backgrounds: marketing, content creation, event planning, community elections, automation and so much more!

Speakers

Nabarun Pal

Principal Software Engineer, Broadcom

Nabarun is a Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience and an emeritus Kubernetes Steering Committee member. He is contributing to kcp in various ways in the recent past.He is a Release Manager... Read More →

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 →

Madhav Jivrajani

Kubernetes Maintainer, UIUC

Madhav is currently working at VMware on upstream Kubernetes. He has been a part of the Kubernetes community for about a year and mainly helps out with SIG-{Contribex, Node, Architecture, API-Machinery}. He was also involved with the structured logging efforts in the Kubernetes project... Read More →

Mario Fahlandt

Customer Delivery Architect, Kubermatic

Mario is from a small village in Germany and working for Kubermatic. He studied creative media at an English university and moved his field of knowledge to Cloud Native Infrastructure. He is working as a Customer Delivery Architect with the focus on planning and building concepts... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 3-4

Maintainer Track, Kubernetes, Special Interest Group (SIG) Contributor Experience

13:45 BST

Bridge the Gap To OSS Adoption With Documentation: A Kubernetes Story - Rey Lejano, Red Hat; Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Divya Mohan, SUSE

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

Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 1-2

Accessible, comprehensive, and easy-to-read documentation aids open source project adoption.
New users of an open source project often follow the documentation to deploy the project.
Good documentation leads users to successfully deploy the project -- potentially leading to adoption.

This session highlights key strategies, factors, and attributes that aided the success of the Kubernetes documentation. Some of these include the importance of writing from a second-person perspective and accepting PRs that are "good enough" and not perfect, which creates a lower barrier to entry for new contributors to improve the docs. This talk will review many more strategies, factors, and attributes of the Kubernetes documentation that can be adopted by other projects and are helpful for future Kubernetes documentation contributors.

Speakers

Divya Mohan

Principal Technology Advocate, SUSE

Divya is a Senior Technical Evangelist at SUSE, where she contributes to Rancher’s cloud native open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes & LitmusChaos projects & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure... Read More →

Natali Vlatko

Open Source Lead Architect, Cisco

Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Architect at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, and governance, and is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time. Her academic background is in Egyptology and Archaeology; specifically... Read More →

Rey Lejano

Solutions Architect, CNCF Ambassador, K8s SIG Docs co-chair, Red Hat

Rey Lejano is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat and is the co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Docs. He contributes to Kubernetes SIG Security, Release, & Contributor Experience. He is a member of seven Kubernetes Release Teams including serving as the 1.23 Release Lead and 1.25 Emeritus Adviser... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 1-2

Maintainer Track, Kubernetes