KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Full Schedule

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

First Day Foresight: Anomaly Detection for Observability - Prashant Gupta & Kruthika Prasanna Simha, Apple

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Picture this! You are deploying an application on a cloud platform, and you want to ensure seamless performance for the application from day one. Early anomaly detection is crucial for identifying issues before they escalate and maintaining system reliability. Ideally, you will leverage historical data to train an ML model for real-time anomaly detection. However, the complexity of training and deploying ML models makes them impractical at launch. What if you could skip training and still spot anomalies in your application health metrics the moment your system is live?

In this session you’ll learn about the benefits of using pre-trained ML models for day one anomaly detection. We’ll discuss how to deploy lightweight, unsupervised pre-trained models using cloud-native tools like Kubeflow for model fine-tuning. Attendees will learn techniques to setup and refine models to detect anomalies and observe application health from the first deployment.

Speakers

Kruthika Prasanna Simha

Machine Learning Engineer, Apple

Kruthika is a software engineer at Apple specializing in building ML enabled observability solutions. She holds a Masters in Computer Engineering and has specialized in ML. Kruthika is on a mission to identify how the ML and cloud-native worlds converge towards bigger and better ML... Read More →

Prashant Gupta

Senior Software Engineer, Apple Inc

Prashant is a software engineer at Apple, specializing in building ML-enabled observability solutions focused on reducing MTTD and MTTR. He holds a master’s degree in Machine Learning and NLP and enjoys exploring how these domains intersect with Observability, Automation, and Root... Read More →

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Any

12:00 BST

Expanding eBPF’s Reach: From Batteries-Included Auto-Instrumentation To E2E Observability Pipelines - Dom Del Nano, Cosmic

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Traditional monitoring and o11y were defined by the painstaking process of manual instrumentation—an inconsistent and error-prone effort, especially with the rise of cloud environments. eBPF promised a breakthrough, introducing auto-instrumentation that could eliminate these challenges. When the magic of eBPF works, it’s transformative, but there are times where its auto instrumentation comes up empty. Rigid, black box tooling is frustrating—at its best it’s magical and at its worst it’s distrusted quickly.

What if eBPF provided a “batteries included but removable” experience, enabling engineers to customize o11y to their needs? In this talk, we’ll discuss how CNCF Pixie and Inspektor Gadget provide the right abstraction for unlocking eBPF’s full potential with their powerful post-processing and k8s enrichment capabilities. We’ll also explore how this vision transformed Pixie’s data collector into a universal agent that can power observability pipelines like Fluentbit and Vector.

Speakers

Dom Delnano

Pixie core maintainer, Cosmic

Dom is a core maintainer of the Pixie open source project and founder/CEO at Cosmic. He previously worked at Crowdstrike, focusing on the eBPF Linux sensor, and at New Relic, working on Pixie full-time. Dom first began building observability tooling at Twitter, where he scaled the... Read More →

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

14:30 BST

Enhancing Database Observability With OpenTelemetry - Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

With the recent stabilization of the OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for databases, it's an excellent time for OSS libraries to provide users with the observability they've been seeking. This talk dives into how you can instrument your application with OpenTelemetry SDKs to improve observability and collect actionable telemetry data from your databases. Learn about the SDK implementations that are currently available by language and database, their current gaps and how you can contribute and develop missing instrumentation.
Whether you're an SRE, developer, or database administrator, this talk will equip you with the tools and knowledge to bring clarity and efficiency to your database systems.

Speakers

Marylia Gutierrez

Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Marylia is a Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, focusing on Observability with OpenTelemetry. In the OpenTelemetry project, she is an approver for Database Semantic Conventions, JS SDK and Portuguese localization and also a maintainer for Contributor Experience. Before that... Read More →

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

15:15 BST

Deep Dive To AI Agent Observability - Guangya Liu, IBM & Karthik Kalyanaraman, Langtrace AI

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful framework for observability in cloud-native applications, but how does it apply to the intricate needs of AI Agent observability? This session explores the journey of leveraging OpenTelemetry to monitor, trace, and analyze AI Agents. We’ll cover key challenges such as capturing metrics for multi-agent systems, tracing inference workflows, and correlating AI-specific data like model performance and decision latency.

Attendees will gain insights into extending OpenTelemetry to address AI-specific requirements, integrating with popular observability tools, and building actionable insights for production-grade AI systems. Through practical demonstrations and real-world use cases, this talk will showcase how OpenTelemetry provides transparency, reliability, and optimization for AI-driven architectures running on Kubernetes. Join us to unlock the potential of OpenTelemetry for AI Agent observability.

Speakers

Guangya Liu

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

Guangya Liu is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) for IBM Instana. He is the technical leader driving the IBM Instana development and customer support. He is also the open source leader for IBM Instana team, driving the cloud-native open source contribution to integrate with... Read More →

Karthik Kalyanaraman

Co-Founder & CTO, Langtrace AI

Karthik Kalyanaraman is the co-founder and CTO of Langtrace AI. Prior to Langtrace, Karthik built and scaled products at Coinbase, HP and VMware. Karthik is a thought leader and has deep experience in infrastructure and observability.

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Any

16:15 BST

Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics: Observability for AI - Nicole van der Hoeven, Grafana Labs

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

A robot may not harm humans. A robot must obey humans. A robot must protect its own existence. These are Isaac Asimov's three Laws of Robotics, created to govern the ethical programming of artificial intelligences. From the Butlerian Jihad to Skynet to cylons, we've been immortalizing our collective nightmares about artificial intelligence for years. But there's an unmentioned law that comes as a prerequisite to all of that: a robot must be observable.

In this talk, I discuss the different types of AI, the factors that make observing AI different from observing applications, and the telemetry signals specific to AI that we might want to listen to. How do we deal with large data sets? How do we observe for model drift? How do we take into account the costs of LLMs? How can we use distributed tracing to follow event sequences? Part cautionary tale and part technical demo, this talk shows how to instrument and monitor AI apps using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, OpenLit, and more.

Speakers

Nicole van der Hoeven

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs

Nicole is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs and a performance engineer with over a decade of experience in breaking software and learning to build it back up again. She has lived in the Philippines, the US, Australia, the Netherlands, and Portugal, helping teams all over... Read More →

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Any

17:00 BST

An Exemplary Path: Leveraging EBPFs and OpenTelemetry To Auto-instrument for Exemplars - Charlie Le & Kruthika Prasanna Simha, Apple

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Have you already adopted eBPF to unlock powerful, dynamic observability at the kernel level? Are you looking to take the next step by integrating exemplars seamlessly into your observability workflows? If so, you’ve likely encountered the challenge of manually instrumenting applications for exemplar support—an approach that’s often tedious, error-prone, and difficult to maintain. But what if you could leverage your existing eBPF setup to automate exemplar creation for your applications without touching your application code?

eBPF's in-kernel aggregation capabilities, paired with OpenTelemetry's flexible observability framework, enable automatic generation of exemplars. We’ll dive into how eBPF dynamically collects metrics and traces, processes them at the source, and works with OpenTelemetry to correlate kernel-level and application-level observability—all with minimal overhead and maximum convenience.

Speakers

Charlie Le

Software Engineer, Apple

Charlie is a software engineer at Apple, specializing in building and scaling cloud native observability solutions and infrastructure. Deeply inspired by the collaborative spirit of open source, he actively contributes to projects like Cortex and OpenTelemetry, shaping the future... Read More →

Kruthika Prasanna Simha

Machine Learning Engineer, Apple

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

17:45 BST

How Green Is My OpenTelemetry Collector? - Nancy Chauhan, Student & Adriana Villela, Dynatrace

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

We live in a world heavily dependent on technology, and this comes at an environmental cost. For example, data centres consume 2% of global power. As our systems become more complex, that power consumption will only increase. We strive to understand our systems through Observability, and yet the very telemetry that our systems emit and is ingested by our favorite Observability backends contributes to an increasing global tech carbon footprint.

How can we mitigate this? One way is via the Kepler project. The Kepler Exporter exposes statistics, including power consumption metrics, from an application running in a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster.

In this talk, attendees will learn about:
- Kepler - what is is and what it does
- How to deploy Kepler
- Demo showing Kepler tweaking the power consumption of OTel Collectors in k8s

Attendees will walk away with an understanding of how to deploy greener Collectors, thereby reducing power consumption and costs.

Speakers

Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace

Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale... 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 →

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:00 BST

Debugging Envoy Tunnels: A Deep Dive - Carlos Sanchez & Alexandra Stoica, Adobe

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Envoy is a powerful proxy for modern microservices architectures that can securely connect services using encryption and mutual authentication with certificates. However, when Envoy tunnels don't work as expected, troubleshooting can become a complex and time-consuming task.

At Adobe, we use Envoy to connect pods running in Kubernetes with customer-dedicated infrastructure, such as on-premise services and databases. This setup allows different pods to have their own dedicated egress IP, or to connect from pods to multiple customer on-premise services using VPN. This relies heavily on Envoy tunnels and mTLS, and we've encountered numerous situations where things can and do go wrong.

Join us as we challenge you through a series of interactive demos to solve various cases of tunnel failures. Are you ready to crack the case and become an Envoy troubleshooting expert?

Speakers

Carlos Sanchez

Principal Scientist, Adobe

Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Experience Manager, specializing in software automation, from build tools to Continuous Delivery and Progressive Delivery. Involved in Open Source for over 20 years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a member of... Read More →

Alexandra Stoica

Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe

Alexandra Stoica is a Site Reliability Engineer at Adobe, specializing in cloud infrastructure, automation, and continuous delivery. With extensive experience in building and maintaining Kubernetes Operators, Alexandra has developed tools to automate networking infrastructure provisioning... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:45 BST

Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing Into Infrastructure? - Lin Sun, Solo.io & Ahmed Bebars, The New York Times

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

At The New York Times, we manage a multi-tenant Kubernetes architecture across diverse regions, leveraging projects like Istio, OPA, and Karpenter. With Istio ambient mode now generally available, we’re exploring whether it’s time to eliminate sidecars in our production environment and allow the service mesh to integrate seamlessly into our infrastructure for multiple teams.

In this talk, we’ll take you through our journey of collaborating with the Istio and cloud-native community to build a sidecar-less architecture from scratch, utilizing the broader cloud-native stack we already have. We’ll share the technical challenges we encountered, practical tips for adopting Istio ambient mode, and the tangible benefits we’ve realized along the way. Join us to discover how we’re reshaping our cloud-native architecture for simplicity and efficiency.

Speakers

Ahmed Bebars

Principal Engineer, The New York Times

As a Principal Engineer on the Developer Platforms mission at The New York Times, I specialize in Cloud Infrastructure technologies, focusing on developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is crafting a secure runtime environment that empowers service... 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 →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Any

14:15 BST

How We Moved Spotify To a Proxyless gRPC Service Mesh - Erik Lindblad & Erica Manno, Spotify

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

This talk tells the story of how Spotify transitioned its service network from a decade old DNS based service discovery to a modern service mesh built on the xDS API’s from the Envoy project. The talk covers the research and design considerations for this new system, and how it draws full advantage of native support in gRPC for both xDS and proxyless load balancing to support Spotify’s scale (2 million kubernetes pods) without the performance impact of traditional service mesh setups. The audience will learn how this setup was used to build three important mesh capabilities at Spotify: dynamic traffic splitting, a service call graph and zone aware routing.

This is a case study, so the talk will also cover operational considerations like safe rollouts using fast fallback mechanisms, and how to use gRPC’s custom load balancer support to do a centrally managed rollout that’s transparent to teams using your platform.

Speakers

Erik Lindblad

Staff Engineer, Spotify

Erik works as a Staff Engineer in Spotify's Infrastructure department since 2018, and at Spotify since 2013. He has led work on several major infrastructure projects, like global load balancing, service mesh and cloud cost performance.

Erica Manno

Senior Software Engineer, Spotify

I am Senior Software Engineer at Spotify based out of Italy, working in Core Infrastructure. I am passionate about distributed systems, reliability at scale and solving infrastructure-related challenges. Prior to Spotify, I worked at Verisign as a tech lead building the registry for... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

15:00 BST

Encryption, Identities, and Everything in Between; Building Secure Kubernetes Networks - Lior Lieberman, Google & Igor Velichkovich, Stealth Startup

Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

As the scale of your clusters grows, so does the complexity of securing your networks. The stakes are high: inadequate encryption or identity management solutions can leave clusters vulnerable to a range of security risks.

In this session, Lior and Igor will explore the landscape of network encryption, AuthN and AuthZ solutions grounded in the principles of defense-in-depth and least privilege. Starting with the current projects in the ecosystem, they’ll highlight the principles and design requirements essential for building resilient, secure networks. The session will then dive into real-world scenarios where you’ll learn security strategies at scale. Finally, they’ll highlight how the community can work together to standardize and simplify encryption and identity management, making security more accessible and robust for all users.

Join us! We’d also love your feedback to help drive the future of Kubernetes network security.

Speakers

Igor Velichkovich

Software Engineering Lead, Stealth Startup

Igor is an engineering lead at a stealth startup focused on accelerated infrastructure and high performance compute. He has worked with sig-api-machinery (CEL) and continues work with various projects of kubernetes-sigs used in accelerated infrastructure environments.

Lior Lieberman

Site Reliability Engineer, Google

Lior is site reliability engineer at Google working on Google Compute Engine and Cloud Service Mesh. He is a leading maintainer of ingress2gateway, and an active contributor to Kubernetes SIG network focused on Gateway API.

Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

17:30 BST

Workload Identity for Humans: A Twelve-Factor Approach - Vish Abrams, Heroku

Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Workload identity in cloud-native systems has largely focused on platform tools. Kubernetes Service Accounts and SPIFFE/SPIRE provide powerful identity primitives, but their flexibility results in bespoke implementations of workload identity from the perspective of the application. This forces application developers to implement custom identity mechanisms for each platform. This talk introduces a more developer-friendly approach. We layer an application-focused workload identity on top of existing CNCF solutions, focusing on simplicity and usability. Drawing on the principles of Twelve-Factor Applications, we will explore how to integrate workload identity into cloud-native applications in a way that feels natural and productive for developers. Attendees will learn practical patterns for incorporating workload identity, gain a clearer understanding of workload identity concepts, and leave with actionable strategies to improve security without sacrificing developer experience.

Speakers

Vish Abrams

Chief Architect, Heroku

Vish Abrams is Chief Architect at Heroku, a subsidiary of Salesforce. Formerly he helped Oracle create their cloud, where he focused on virtualization, containerization, and machine learning. He was also NASA Nebula Technical Lead during the creation of Nova, one of the founding OpenStack... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Application Development

Content Experience Level Beginner

11:00 BST

Beyond Kubernetes: Adapting To Specialized Application Workloads - Rags Srinivas, Independent; Dawn Chen, Google; Sachi Desai, Microsoft; Vara Bonthu, AWS; Erin Boyd, Nvidia

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

AI workloads have taken the Kubernetes world by a storm, but that is only the tip of the iceberg as even more specialized workloads in the realm of high performance compute, for example, need to be optimized and simplified on Kubernetes.

Attend this panel to learn from Kubernetes and cloud experts well versed in different infrastructure and containerized workloads about the existing challenges around Kubernetes today, and strategies for building out the platform to bootstrap these specialized workloads.

Attendees will be able to walk away with an understanding of how the Kubernetes ecosystem continues to evolve, and open-source tools like KAITO and Kueue that enable this growth and automate many of the processes involved. Attendees will also learn from these experts about compute optimizations, scheduling mechanisms, and workload performance enhancements that drastically reduce their time-to-value on Kubernetes.

Speakers

Rags Srinivas

Multi-Cloud Architect, Independent

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas (@ragss) is an Architect enabling developers to build scalable and available systems. With a background in app development and infrastructure, he has gravitated towards distributed systems. He specializes in Cloud Computing, specifically multi-cloud. Rags... Read More →

Erin Allen Boyd

Distinguished Cloud Architect, Nvidia

Erin is currently a Distinguished Cloud Architect at Nvidia. Prior to this role she was the Director of Emerging Technologies and Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat in the Office of the CTO. Erin was previously an Apple Cloud Services Engineer at Apple. Erin is a Kubernetes contributor... Read More →

Dawn Chen

Principal Software Engineer, Google

Dawn Chen is a principal software engineer at Google. Dawn has worked on Kubernetes and Google Container Engine (GKE) before the project was founded. She has been one of tech leads in both Kubernetes and GKE. Prior to Kubernetes, she was the one of the tech leads for Google internal... Read More →

Vara

Principal OSS Specialist SA, AWS

Vara Bonthu is a dedicated technology professional and Worldwide Tech Leader for Data on EKS, specializing in assisting AWS customers ranging from strategic accounts to diverse organizations. He is passionate about open-source technologies, Data Analytics, AI/ML, and Kubernetes, and... Read More →

Sachi Desai

Product Manager, Microsoft

Sachi Desai is product manager in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team at Microsoft. She works with a range of AI users and enthusiasts in building the KAITO CNCF Sandbox project and is interested in different GPU workloads on Kubernetes.

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

Application Development

Content Experience Level Beginner

11:45 BST

Into the Shopfloor: Moving Manufacturing Execution Systems To Kubernetes - Manuel Peuster & Andrei Traian Cucuruzac, Bosch Connected Industry

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Kubernetes is breaking boundaries, entering the manufacturing sector and powering mission-critical systems on production floors. This case study explores Bosch Connected Industry’s journey to modernize a manufacturing execution system (MES) into a cloud-native ecosystem. From containerization to evolving from Docker-Compose and Ansible-driven Kubernetes manifests to a a streamlined Helm-based setup, we’ll share how we overcame challenges step by step.

The operator pattern became our secret weapon, automating workflows and enabling scalability. However, no two plants are identical, making versatile parameterization crucial. Manufacturing setups demand support for diverse environments, from public cloud to air-gapped, on-premise edge clusters, often managed by engineers with limited DevOps expertise.

This session is for DevOps engineers, architects, and tech enthusiasts eager to tackle the real-world challenges of bringing Kubernetes into diverse and demanding operational contexts.

Speakers

Andrei

Junior DevOps Engineer, Bosch Connected Industry

Andrei Cucuruzac, a Junior DevOps Engineer at Bosch and graduate of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in Industrial Engineering, focuses on Kubernetes for container orchestration. He explores advanced features like dynamic scaling, workload automation, and multi-cluster management... Read More →

Manuel Peuster

Senior DevOps Engineer, Bosch Connected Indurstry

Manuel Peuster holds a PhD in computer science and his research interests include network softwarization, industrial IoT, as well as benchmarking of distributed systems. He was an active contributor to OpenSource MANO and founded several open-source projects, such as Containernet... Read More →

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

Application Development

Content Experience Level Intermediate

13:45 BST

Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting - Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, The Linux Foundation

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

This session is a panel discussion moderated by Chris Aniszczyk with members of the Technical Oversight Committee. Feel free to come with questions, but we'll be doing an overview of the Technical Oversight Committee's governance structure, scope, mission and processes.

To learn more about the TOC, visit https://github.com/cncf/toc

Speakers

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, Linux Foundation (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 →

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

Cloud Native Experience

14:30 BST

Breaking Barriers: Bringing Application Developers Closer To the CNCF - Thomas Vitale, Systematic & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Being an application developer in the cloud native age is challenging. Developers new to cloud native who land on the CNCF Landscape feel overwhelmed. When using a platform that doesn’t consider the developer experience, things can get even worse. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The solution lies in the cloud native ecosystem itself.

This session covers 5 friction points that developers face and presents solutions with cloud native tools.

- Unreproducible Dev Environment. Do you need a cloud environment? Or can you run everything locally?
- Inefficient Project Onboarding and Collaboration. How do teams share configurations, tools, and common practices?
- Cumbersome Inner Dev Loop. How do you achieve efficient development workflows?
- Complex Service Integrations. How can you integrate external services without worrying about infrastructure concerns?
- Kubernetes Steep Learning Curve. Do you need Kubernetes in your local environment? How can you build production-ready containers?

Speakers

Mauricio Salatino

Ecosystem Engineer, Diagrid

Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He published a book titled... Read More →

Thomas Vitale

Software Architect, Systematic

Thomas is a software engineer focused on building cloud native solutions. He is the author of the "Cloud Native Spring in Action" book and plays an active role in the community as a CNCF Ambassador and Co-Chair of the CNCF App Development Working Group. A strong advocate of open... Read More →

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

Application Development

Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

Wait! Can Your Pod Survive a Restart? - Aya Ozawa, CloudNatix Inc.

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Restartability is key for cloud-native applications to leverage Kubernetes' core capabilities, including self-healing, automated rollouts, autoscaling, and maintenance eviction. However, achieving robust restartability requires careful application design and precise Kubernetes manifest configurations.

In this session, we will dive into Pod restartability with two practical demonstrations: "HTTP Server" and "Operator with Leader Election". Key topics include:
- The Pod lifecycle focuses on request handling during startup and termination.
- How health probes (readiness, liveness, and startup) change Pod behavior.
- Signal handling and a graceful shutdown implementation.
- Best practices for Pod Disruption Budgets (PDBs) and their common pitfalls

By the end, you’ll gain actionable insights to make your cloud-native applications more resilient, fully aligned with Kubernetes’ self-healing capabilities, and ready for seamless restarts with minimal downtime.

Speakers

Aya Ozawa

Member of Technical Staff, CloudNatix Inc.

Aya Ozawa is a member of technical staff at CloudNatix. She has been working on platform development based on Kubernetes since 2016. Aya is passionate about open-source technologies, focusing on cloud-native projects. She is also a co-organizer of the Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo, which... Read More →

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

Application Development

Content Experience Level Any