KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Full Schedule

In-person
1-4 April 2025
Learn More and Register to Attend

The Sched app allows you to build your schedule but is not a substitute for your event registration. You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 to participate in the sessions. If you have not registered but would like to join us, please go to the event registration page to purchase a registration.

Please note: This schedule is automatically displayed in British Summer Time (BST) (UTC +1). To see the schedule in your preferred timezone, please select from the drop-down menu to the right, above "Filter by Date." The schedule is subject to change and session seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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

Starting and Scaling a Platform Engineering Team - Camille Fournier, Independent & Ian Nowland, Junction Labs

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

This talk will take highlights from our book to discuss the basics of starting and scaling Platform Engineering teams. We will cover highlights including: when to start, the skills the team needs, how to set out a successful product and execution strategy, and dealing with challenging stakeholders in order to create success. The audience will leave this talk with concrete takeaways that will help them wherever they are on the platform engineering journey, and clear ideas for what success looks like.

Speakers

Camille Fournier

Author, CTO, Open Athena AI

Camille Fournier is a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur, who has held technology executive positions at companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 50. She has participated in numerous open source foundations and projects including CNCF, FINOS, and Apache ZooKeeper, and is the... Read More →

Ian Nowland

Co-founder, Junction Labs

Ian Nowland has been in the software industry for 25 years. He is currently a co-founder at a seed stage startup, Junction Labs, building tools for platform teams. Prior to that, he co-authored a book on Platform Engineering with Camille Fournier. This included his learnings from... Read More →

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

11:45 BST

Platform Engineering Loves Security: Shift Down To Your Platform, Not Left To Your Developers! - Maxime Coquerel, Royal Bank of Canada - RBC & Mathieu Benoit, Humanitec

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

In the evolving cloud native landscape of software development, the paradigm of "shifting left" has championed embedding security, and its complexity into the development lifecycle (SDLC). A well-designed platform security threat model underpins this strategy. By mapping out potential attack surfaces such as API vulnerabilities, misconfigured RBAC, unscanned container images, and lack of runtime anomaly detection.
Platform Engineering promotes a "shift down" approach, embedding a robust security posture directly into the platform. By integrating governance and scalable security controls into the infrastructure, platform teams enable developers to focus on delivering code and business value without being burdened by security complexities or productivity blockers.
With this talk, attendees will walk away with real life examples based on successful implementations for regulated entities like financial companies, including actionable best practices for security controls and threat models.

Speakers

Mathieu Benoit

Cloud Native Ambassador & Customer Success Engineer, Humanitec

I’m passionate about Cloud Native Computing technologies driven by Open Source, Cloud, Security, SRE, Containers, DevOps, Platform Engineering and Kubernetes. Based on my past experiences as software engineer, IT consultant, solution architect and customer success engineer, I now... Read More →

Maxime Coquerel

Principal Cloud Security Architect, Royal Bank of Canada - RBC

In my current role at RBC - Royal Bank of Canada, I lead the Kubernetes Security program, overseeing security architecture, cloud threat research, threat modeling, and risk assessment of cloud designs and patterns. Additionally, I collaborate closely with our strategic partners, cultivating... Read More →

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Beginner

14:15 BST

Simplify Kubernetes Operator Development With a Modular Design Pattern - Mostafa Hadadian & Alexander Lazovik, University of Groningen

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Kubernetes operators automate complex application management. However, building and maintaining them poses significant challenges. Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) are painful to evolve once established, and controllers’ logic becomes increasingly complex over time. We learned these lessons the hard way through years, but you don't have to.

We present a design pattern that simplifies Kubernetes operator development by decomposing CRDs into manageable pieces and controllers into more focused microcontrollers. This pattern decouples K8s instructions from controllers' logic by leveraging Helm charts for translating CRD specifications into Kubernetes resources. As a result, our solution reduces code and maintenance complexities, accelerates iteration, and provides an efficient development workflow.

Finally, we share a real-world implementation of our design in the Netherlands' water sector that accelerates AI stream processing application delivery.

Speakers

Mostafa Hadadian

AI/MLOps Innovator| Founder & CEO, University of Groningen | CAIDEL

Mostafa is Founder and CEO of CAIDEL: Continuous AI Deliver. He is also completing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Groningen. His work lies in cloud native and machine learning development, emphasizing MLOps. Complementing his academic pursuits, he brings a wealth... Read More →

Alexander Lazovik

Professor in Distributed Systems, University of Groningen

Alexander Lazovik, Professor of Distributed Systems at the University of Groningen since 2009, specializes in AI, optimization in distributed environments, cloud computing, and scalable IT infrastructures. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Trento in 2006 on the topic of Interaction... Read More →

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

15:00 BST

Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Operator - Cat Morris & Jake Klein, Syntasso

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Running multi-cluster Kubernetes environments introduces significant operational complexities that challenge even skilled engineering teams. In developing Kratix, an open source platform framework to manage these complexities, we encountered technical, organisational, and strategic challenges that reshaped our approach to building reliable, customer-centric software.

As founding engineer and product manager of Kratix, we have found that while technical expertise is crucial, it often falls short in solving complex, cross-cluster issues. We learnt the importance of diverse perspectives, customer involvement, and embracing existing CNCF projects.

By sharing our successes and setbacks, we aim to equip you with a holistic approach to managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, fostering resilience and adaptability in an evolving technological landscape.

Speakers

Cat Morris

Staff Product Manager, Syntasso

Cat is the Product Manager at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. She has worked in tech for over 10 years, the last 6 have been in Platform Engineering across all kinds of domains. She specialises in bringing Product... Read More →

Jake Klein

Staff Software Engineer, Syntasso

Jake has over five years of experience working in the Kubernetes and the platform space. He started his career working on CloudFoundry, a popular CNCF Platform as a Service project. He then went on to work at Weaveworks where he worked on the open source project EKSctl, which is a... Read More →

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

16:00 BST

Practical Zombie Hunting for Kubernetes Users - Holly Cummins, Red Hat

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Zombies? Yup, zombies. Zombies are servers which aren’t doing useful work. They’re everywhere, costing money, eating electricity, and belching carbon. And they’re useless! Sadly, the cloud has *not* helped our zombie problem, and even Kubernetes hasn't helped.

One of the reasons zombies don’t get switched off is that no one knows they’re there. So how do we get rid of our pesky zombies? In this talk, Holly will explain the underlying technical and organisational factors that lead to zombies, and introduce a range of real-world zombie-hunting strategies. These include getting to grips with elasticity and utilisation, LightSwitchOps, FinOps, and the eco-monkey (it’s like the chaos monkey, but greener). Technologies covered include absurdly simple scripts, DailyClean, Kruize Autotune, and Backstage.

Speakers

Holly Cummins

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team. Before joining Red Hat, Holly was a long time IBMer, in a range of roles from cloud consultant, full-stack javascript developer, WebSphere Liberty devops architect, JVM performance engineer, to innovation... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

16:45 BST

From Hours To Minutes: The Evolution of Platform Engineering at Decathlon - Adrien Gillard & Christophe Furmaniak, Decathlon

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

The platform engineering mindset is spreading like wildfire. As a way to accelerate business and empower developers, it is quickly becoming a “must-have”.

However there are still few real world feedbacks of the process. That’s why we offer attendees a look at Decathlon’s journey into platform engineering.
From its inception (when we did not call it platform engineering yet), to its current state where users are able to deploy infrastructure (including workloads, databases, service exposure) to host their applications, in full autonomy, while keeping strong standardization.

We will share how we can now provide our internal users with their environments in 20 minutes, and discuss the challenges we faced and the choices we had to make. We will also look into the next steps and improvements we intend for the future.

Speakers

Adrien Gillard

Senior Ops Engineer, Decathlon

After a dozen years in the IT industry and nearly half working with containers and Kubernetes, for IT hosters and service providers, Adrien acquired experience on a spectrum from on-premises datacenters to serverless functions in public clouds. He currently works at Decathlon, the... Read More →

Christophe Furmaniak

Staff Engineer, Decathlon

Christophe started as a passionate and responsible developer and this led him to pay close attention to all aspects of the project lifecycle, from the developer's workstation right through to deployment on production environments. His current main areas of interest are related to... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

17:30 BST

From Metal To Apps: LinkedIn’s Kubernetes-based Compute Platform - Ahmet Alp Balkan & Ronak Nathani, LinkedIn

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

What does it take to design a Kubernetes-based fleet management stack that bridges the gap between bare-metal servers in data centers and a platform capable of hosting thousands of microservices, large-scale stateful applications, and a GPU fleet running AI workloads?

At LinkedIn, we use Kubernetes as a foundational primitive in our compute platform. We run thousands of microservices, manage large stateful applications with our custom scheduler, manage a large fleet of GPUs –all while performing regular maintenance on the bare metal hosts with no downtime or manual intervention.

In this talk, we’ll talk about how we architected and built an API-driven, Kubernetes-based compute stack with a large-scale microservices platform, a workload-agnostic stateful scheduler, and a multi-tenant ML/batch jobs platform. We’ll share insights on scaling Kubernetes for diverse workloads while maintaining tenant isolation, resilience, flexibility, and ease of use for developers.

Speakers

Ahmet Alp Balkan

Sr.Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Ahmet is working on building LinkedIn's next generation compute cluster management stack using Kubernetes. In the open source he maintains projects like Krew (kubectl plugin manager), and kubectx.

Ronak Nathani

Sr. Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Ronak leads the Kubernetes team at LinkedIn, spearheading the company's transition to Kubernetes over the past few years. Prior to this role, he contributed to the development and management of LinkedIn's home-grown scheduler and internal private cloud. In addition to his day job... Read More →

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

15:15 BST

Taming the Beast: Advanced Resource Management With Kubernetes - Lucy Sweet, Uber & Dawn Chen, Google

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

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Are you struggling to optimize resource utilization for demanding workloads like databases?

Kubernetes 1.30 to 1.32 introduced a list of powerful new features to help you tame resource-hungry applications and achieve peak cluster efficiency. In this session, Dawn Chen (Software Engineer at Google & Tech Lead SIG Node) and Lucy Sweet (Software Engineer at Uber) will guide you through the latest advancements in pod resource management, including in-place pod resizing, pod-level resource limits, and node swap memory.

Learn how to leverage these features to reduce infrastructure costs, improve application performance, and prevent resource contention in your clusters. Discover best practices for resource allocation, QoS configuration, and troubleshooting, and get a glimpse into the future of pod resource management in Kubernetes.

Speakers

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 →

Lucy Sweet

Senior Software Engineer, Uber

Lucy is a Senior Software Engineer at Uber Denmark who works on platform infrastructure

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate