KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Full Schedule

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1-4 April 2025
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11:15 BST

Advancements in AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes From WG Serving and Ecosystem Projects - Yuan Tang, Red Hat & Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) has introduced new challenges and demands in AI/ML inference, necessitating advanced solutions for efficient serving infrastructures. The Kubernetes Working Group Serving (WG Serving) is dedicated to enhancing serving workload on K8s, especially for hardware-accelerated AI/ML inference. This group prioritizes compute-intensive inference scenarios using specialized accelerators, benefiting various serving workloads such as web services and stateful databases.

This session will dive into recent progress and updates on WG Serving's initiatives and workstreams. We will spotlight discussions and advancements in each workstream. We are also actively looking for feedback and partnership with model server authors and other practitioners who want to utilize powers of K8s for their serving workloads. Join us to gain insight into our work and learn how to contribute to advancing AI/ML inference on K8s.

Speakers

Eduardo Arango Gutierez DE

Senior Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Eduardo is a Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA, working on the Cloud Native Technologies team. Eduardo has focused on enabling users to build and deploy containers on distributed environments.

Yuan Tang

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Yuan is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenShift AI. He has led AI infrastructure and platform teams at various companies. He holds leadership positions in open source projects, including Argo, Kubeflow, and Kubernetes. He's a maintainer and author of many popular... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Serving

12:00 BST

SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Damien Grisonnet & Pranshu Srivastava, Red Hat; Yongrui Lin & Richa Banker, Google

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation is responsible for ensuring high quality and consistent instrumentation across the Kubernetes project. We will begin with an introductory overview of the efforts the SIG Instrumentation has worked on in the past and is currently working on. This deep dive session will go into detail about currently ongoing efforts happening within SIG Instrumentation to share with the audience concrete pieces of work to encourage future collaboration. Software engineering and operations are both disciplines practiced in SIG Instrumentation, and any experience will help the special interest group's mission. Join this session to learn how to get involved in SIG Instrumentation to make instrumentation even better!

Speakers

Pranshu Srivastava

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

I work on improving O11y for Red Hat's OpenShift cloud platform, and Kubernetes' instrumentation APIs, as well as its sub-projects, as a SIG Instrumentation co-chair.

Damien Grisonnet

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Damien Grisonnet is a Software Engineer at Red Hat, he is very active in the monitoring ecosystem of Kubernetes for which he serves as a technical lead for Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation as well as a maintainer for projects such as kube-state-metrics, metrics-server, and prometheus-adapter... Read More →

Richa Banker

Software Engineer, Google

Co-chair for SIG Instrumentation, with some ongoing contributions to SIG API machinery. Working on GKE upgrades at Google.

Yongrui Lin

Software Engineer, Google

Software Engineer since 2018.

Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Instrumentation

14:30 BST

A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata; Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Joe Betz, Google

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Policies play a critical role in ensuring Kubernetes security, compliance, and governance in your clusters. However, navigating the evolving array of options and implementation strategies can be overwhelming.

Join Rita (Gatekeeper, SIG-Auth), Joe (ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, SIG-API-Machinery), Jim (Kyverno, Policy WG), and Andy (Goldilocks, Policy WG) as they share their collective expertise to help you build a robust Policy as Code (PaC) solution for your organization.

In this session, they’ll explain what PaC is, why it’s essential, and demonstrate how to effectively use built-in Kubernetes features like ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and MutatingAdmissionPolicy alongside CNCF policy engines such as OPA/Gatekeeper and Kyverno to manage your PaC lifecycle.

Speakers

Jim Bugwadia

Founder and CEO, Nirmata

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →

Rita Zhang

Principal software engineer, Kubernetes SIG Auth co-chair, Security Response Committee, Microsoft

Rita Zhang is a Principal software engineer at Microsoft, based in San Francisco bay area. She leads the Azure Container Upstream team of maintainers and contributors building features for Kubernetes upstream and CNCF projects. She is a Kubernetes sig-auth chair, a member of the Kubernetes... Read More →

Joe Betz

Staff Software Engineer, sig-api-machinery TL, Google

Joe Betz is a tech lead of the Kubernetes api-machinery SIG. Joe has contributed to extensibility features including custom resources, admission webhooks, and CEL. Joe has also contributed to etcd as a project maintainer.

Andy Suderman

CTO, Fairwinds

Andy Suderman is CTO at Fairwinds, a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider. Andy has worked with cloud native technologies for the last eight years helping organizations adopt and manage Kubernetes. Andy is the creator and primary developer of Goldilocks—an open source tool that... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Policy

15:15 BST

Simplifying the Networking and Security Stack With Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon - Bill Mulligan & Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent at Cisco; Dorde Lapcevic, Google; Amir Kheirkhahan, DBSchenker

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Join us as we celebrate nearly a decade of Cilium, now the de-facto standard CNI for Kubernetes and a cornerstone of cloud native networking, observability, and security. This session provides updates on the latest Cilium release and showcases how its unified eBPF-powered stack is transforming Kubernetes environments by replacing fragmented toolchains with seamless, secure, scalable, and simplified solutions.

We’ll explore features like multi-cluster networking, scaling to 65,000 nodes, and service mesh use cases and dive into sub-projects Hubble for network observability and Tetragon’s security observability and runtime enforcement. Hear from contributors and adopters DB Schenker, Google, and Isovalent about how Cilium is simplifying the cloud native stack and solidifying its role as the comprehensive networking and security solution for modern cloud native architectures.

Speakers

Bill Mulligan

Community Builder, Isovalent at Cisco

Bill Mulligan is a cloud native pollinator and community builder. He has given talks, written articles, and appeared on podcasts on a wide range of topics around cloud native. While at CNCF he restarted the Kubernetes Community Day program. He is currently at Isovalent growing the... Read More →

Amir Kheirkhahan

Platform engineer, DBSchenker

Amir is a platform engineer at DB Schenker, responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure solutions for development squads.His key responsibilities encompass the deployment and maintenance of a comprehensive toolchain within Kubernetes environments, the optimization of... Read More →

Dorde Lapcevic

Senior Software Engineer, Google

Dorde is a software engineer at Google, working on networking performance and scalability of GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine). The main part of the work is designing scalable networking features, optimizing their performance and reliability and testing the system to the limits, to be... Read More →

Anna Kapuścińska

Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Anna is a software engineer at Isovalent, focusing on eBPF-based observability and security. Her previous roles span the industry: she wore both developer and SRE hats, and worked in AdTech, FinTech, public healthcare, end-user SaaS company and a hosting provider. On good weather... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Cilium

16:15 BST

Kubernetes Data Protection WG Deep Dive - Dave Smith-Uchida, Veeam

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Data Protection WG is dedicated to promoting data protection support in Kubernetes. The Working Group is working on identifying missing functionalities and collaborating across multiple SIGs to design features to enable data protection in Kubernetes. In this session, we will discuss what is the current state of data protection in Kubernetes and where it is heading in the future. We will also talk about how interested parties (including storage and backup vendors, cloud providers, application developers, and end users, etc.) can join this WG and contribute to this effort. Details of the WG can be found here: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-data-protection.

Speakers

Dave Smith-Uchida

Technical Leader, Veeam

Dave has been a leader in data protection for Kubernetes for the last several years. In addition to his work at Veeam on K10, he is a founding member of the Kubernetes Data Protection Working Group and was formerly the architect for the Velero Open Source Kubernetes backup project... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Data Protection

17:00 BST

Leveraging the Little Known Features of Artifact Hub - Matt Farina, SUSE

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Artifact Hub has numerous special features that sit right below the surface. Did you know that Artifact Hub can notify you when an artifact has a new release? Did you know that artifacts can expose special metadata to Artifact Hub that can be used to show more rich information? These are just a taste of some of the more interesting things about Artifact Hub.

In this session you'll learn about the parts of Artifact Hub that sit below the surface. Those extras you might want to take advantage of in your own use, from delivering artifacts to finding and keeping up with the ones you use.

Speakers

Matt Farina

Distinguished Engineer, SUSE

Matt works as a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE as the chief architect of the Rancher team, focusing on cloud native technologies. He is also a maintainer on Helm and Artifact Hub. Matt is an author, speaker, and regular contributor to open source.

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, ArtifactHub

17:45 BST

Attesting and Verifying Your Software Supply-Chain With In-toto - Alan Chung Ma, Keytos & Justin Cappos, New York University

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

in-toto is a framework that allows users to protect their software supply chain. The framework achieves this by providing two key capabilities: cryptographically attesting steps along the supply chain and enforcing policies that govern the relationships between the attestations.

This talk aims to introduce new users to in-toto and provide a brief overview of the progress made by all the subprojects and working groups.

Speakers

Justin Cappos

Professor, New York University

I am a professor at NYU who has been working on software supply chain security for more than 20 years. I am a maintainer / creator of the TUF, Uptane, and in-toto projects, which are all under the LF.

Alan Chung Ma

Software Engineer, Keytos

Alan is passionate about open software and has contributed to software supply chain security projects such as in-toto and sigstore. He is a software engineer at Keytos and graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering.

Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, in-toto

11:00 BST

Expanding the Contributor Pipeline Through Inclusion - Khallai Taylor, E.ON Digital Technology; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen; Stéphane Este-Gracias, ITQ; Nancy Chauhan, Independent

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

The growing demand for maintainers and contributors to sustain and evolve projects is an ongoing challenge. Yet, an untapped talent source—individuals from underrepresented groups—is often overlooked. Systemic barriers and a lack of inclusive practices most project members may not even realize.

This panel brings together members of TAG Contributor Strategy initiatives, including BIPOC, Women in Cloud Native, Blind and Visually Impaired, and Deaf and Hard of Hearing, to discuss how fostering inclusivity can unlock this potential. Panelists will share firsthand experiences of the barriers they’ve faced and discuss what a welcoming environment looks like from their perspectives.

Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to create more inclusive project spaces that attract and retain underrepresented contributors, ultimately ensuring the sustainability and vibrancy of open source for years to come.

Speakers

Khallai Taylor

Tech & Security Consultant, E.ON Digital Technology

On a day to day, I advise on OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and Observability architecture and integration at E.ON. I'm always open for a chat about all things OllY and belogining with in the CNCF community, starting with BIPOC! Let's Talk!

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 →

Stéphane Este-Gracias

CNCF Ambassador, ITQ

As an advocate for free and open-source software, I am dedicated to promoting innovation and collaboration. My passion has led me to participate in various initiatives, educating others about the benefits of using open-source software. Leveraging my expertise in cloud-native technologies... Read More →

Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)

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

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Contributor Strategy

11:45 BST

Wasm Whiplash: WasmCloud's Wild Ride To Standards - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Everybody loves a standard. The CNCF contains many products and projects that integrate with well-defined standards—allowing them to focus on their own goals. See OpenTelemetry (OTEL) for example, the widely used standard for traces, logs and metrics and the second-most contributed to project in the CNCF (only behind Kubernetes).

In 2019, wasmCloud started as a hand-crafted WebAssembly (Wasm) application platform. We used our own IDL, codegen, and FFI protocol. Over the last five years we’ve broken down these proprietary bits one by one, rebuilding them around WASI 0.2 to become the incubating platform we are today.

This talk will use wasmCloud as a backdrop to explore innovative new standards in the cloud and Wasm-native spaces, and why they matter. You’ll learn why a platform built on standards leads to greater collaboration and the pitfalls of not using those standards based on what we learned from wasmCloud’s evolution towards being the best platform to run Wasm in production.

Speakers

Brooks Townsend

Senior Software Engineer, Cosmonic

Brooks is a Lead Software Engineer at Cosmonic, focusing on harnessing WebAssembly to alleviate the pains of modern software development. Brooks started his software development career with Critical Stack, a Kubernetes container orchestration platform that is now open source. He joined... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, wasmCloud

14:15 BST

SIG Network Intro and Updates - Dan Winship & Nadia Pinaeva, Red Hat; Bowei Du, Google; Daman Arora, Broadcom

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

SIG Network is responsible for networking for Kubernetes clusters, and there's never a shortage of interesting problems to solve in this space. In this session we'll provide some updates about SIG Network as a whole, including:

* status and progress of core networking components
* status and progress of sub-projects
* considerations for the future

If you're interested in hearing about what's going on in the networking space, or maybe even interested in joining the SIG and finding a place to contribute, please join us!

Speakers

Bowei Du

Senior Staff Engineer, Google

Bowei is a lead on Kubernetes Networking at Google. He has worked on various topics in SIG-NETWORK, the most recent being helping shepard the new Gateway APIs (https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/)

Nadia Pinaeva

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Nadia Pinaeva is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat working on Openshift Networking. She collaborates with the SIG-network-policy to improve network security for Kubernetes clusters, and works on ovn-kubernetes network plugin.

Daman Arora

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Trying to maintain kube-proxy.

Dan Winship

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Dan is a Tech Lead for Kubernetes SIG Network and has been working on Kubernetes and OpenShift networking for 7 years at Red Hat.

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Network

15:00 BST

Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q&A - David Ko, SUSE

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Join us for an exploration of Longhorn, the cloud-native storage solution revolutionizing block storage for Kubernetes environments. This session will delve into Longhorn's architecture, showcasing the transition from v1 to v2 data engine, powered by SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit).

We'll highlight the upcoming release 1.8's groundbreaking features, including enhanced online replica rebuilding with snapshot checksum, volume auto salvage, volume live migration, live upgrade, disaster recovery volume, etc. Discover how these innovations position Longhorn as a performance-driven, versatile storage solution for cloud-native infrastructures.

Speakers

David Ko

Engineering Director, SUSE, SUSE

A hands-on engineering leader and architect with over 15 years of software development experience, specializing in Microservices, distributed system design, CI/CD, automation, DevOps, containers, WASM, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos), cloud computing, cloud-native solutions... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Longhorn

16:00 BST

Driving Chaos Engineering Forward: What’s New and Next With LitmusChaos - Sarthak Jain & Saranya Jena, Harness

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Join the maintainers of LitmusChaos, a CNCF Incubating project, to explore the latest advancements in chaos engineering for cloud-native systems. This session will cover key updates from recent releases, including enhanced resilience testing, observability, and scalability features, while showcasing how they address real-world challenges faced by Developers and SREs.
We’ll also share insights into the project’s growth, governance updates, and contributions from the community that are driving LitmusChaos forward. Get a sneak peek into the roadmap, featuring upcoming initiatives aimed at making chaos engineering more accessible and impactful.

Speakers

Saranya Jena

Senior Software Engineer, Harness

Saranya is a Senior Software Developer at Harness and is a maintainer of LitmusChaos, a Chaos Orchestration framework designed for implementing chaos engineering in cloud-native environments. She likes contributing to the Open Source community, where her primary focus involves architecting... Read More →

Sarthak Jain

Senior Software Engineer, Harness

Meet Sarthak Jain, Senior Software Engineer at Harness! For over three years, he’s been maintaining open source tools like LitmusChaos and LitmusCtl, to make softwares more resilient. Sarthak loves exploring new ideas in tech and making things work better.

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Litmus

16:45 BST

Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive - Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Kubernetes SIG Storage is responsible for ensuring that different types of file and block storage are available wherever a container is scheduled, storage capacity management (container ephemeral storage usage, volume resizing, etc.), influencing scheduling of containers based on storage (data gravity, availability, etc.), and generic operations on storage (snapshotting, etc.). SIG Storage also has a project that provides APIs for object storage support in Kubernetes. In this session, we will deep dive into some projects that SIG Storage is currently working on, provide an update on the current status, and discuss what might be coming in the future.

Speakers

Jan

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Jan is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working on storage aspects of Kubernetes. He started developing Kubernetes more than 8 years ago, and is one of the founding members of SIG-Storage. He’s the author of PersistentVolume controller, dynamic provisioning and StorageClass... Read More →

Xing Yang

Tech Lead, VMware by Broadcom

Xing Yang is a Tech Lead in the Cloud Native Storage team at VMware by Broadcom. She is a co-chair of CNCF Storage TAG, a co-chair of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, a co-chair of the Data Protection WG, and a maintainer in Kubernetes CSI. Before joining VMware, Xing was the Lead Architect... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Storage

17:30 BST

Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session - Orlin Vasilev, SUSE & Vadim Bauer, 8gears Container Registry

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

In Harbor v2.12.0, we've introduced significant enhancements and new features to elevate performance, security, and usability for developers and DevOps professionals. Key updates include the integration of SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) to improve compliance and security, alongside a revamped robot account functionality that strengthens CI/CD automation with advanced access controls and configuration options.

A notable addition is the ability to configure speed limits for proxy cache projects, enabling precise control over network bandwidth during artifact pulls.
Other improvements include exporting Harbor statistics as Prometheus metrics and UI updates for better usability. With support for Prometheus metrics and enhanced SBOM management, including TLS support and fixes, this release prioritizes security, automation, and operational efficiency.

Join our maintainers to dive deeper into these updates and explore exciting community-driven projects that complement Harbor’s evolution.

Speakers

Vadim Bauer

Harbor Maintainer, 8gears Container Registry

Vadim Bauer is a Container Silverback with over a decade of experience in running containers in production. As a maintainer of the CNCF project Harbor, he focuses on extending the boundaries of OCI artifact management, adoption, and developer experience. At 8gears, Vadim helps cloud... Read More →

Orlin Vasilev

Principle Open Source Technology Advocate, SUSE

Orlin Vasilev is Principal Open Source Technology Advocate and Community Manager for Project Harbor as part of the Cloud Native team at SUSE. Second term CNCF Ambassador and driving the biggest Meetup Group in Bulgaria. KubeCon CfP review board member and co-chair for Track 101 and... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Harbor

11:00 BST

CNCF TAG Network and Cloud Native Network Landscape - Zhonghu Xu, Huawei

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

In this talk, we will introduce the CNCFNetwork TAG, discuss how we work with TOC and CNCF Network projects, and highlight the work we have done to better serve cloudnative ecosystem. Join us to find out how to contribute and participate in the CNCF network community.

Speakers

Zhonghu Xu

Principal Engineer, Huawei

Zhonghu currently serves as Istio Steering Committee and core maintainer and also istio TOP 3 contributors. He is also the CNCF TAG-Network Tech Lead, which helps networking project evolve healthily. He is also the maintainer of many CNCF projects, kmesh and volcano, etc. Zhonghu... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Network

11:45 BST

How We Tackle KubeVirt’s Growth and Scalability - Ľuboslav Pivarč, Red Hat & Alay Patel, NVIDIA

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

KubeVirt continues to grow at a considerable pace, and combined with our focus on Graduation, KubeVirt has had to evolve our processes and community structure to scale with the project size and community needs.
How we can test VMs at scale is part of this: minimising infrastructure requirements while maximising the limits that we can test and measure. After all, with great growth comes greater infrastructure responsibility.

In this talk we will follow up on the vision we shared in 2022, and how we have now enhanced our CI testing with Kwok, which allows us to create cluster simulations of 1000 nodes in seconds, without adding to our infra cost.
You can expect a comparison of our current approach of testing scalability with Kwok, challenges we had to overcome, and the advantages gained.

But life isn’t just testing and benchmarks. We will also cover our recent community structure changes, recent achievements, features, and engagements in the wider ecosystem.

Speakers

Ľuboslav Pivarč

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Ľuboslav Pivarč, Seminar Tutor & Software engineer at Red Hat. I have been working on Kubevirt for almost 3 years. I have been working with containers and Kubernetes since 2018. Within my free time, I worked as a seminar tutor (on and off) at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk... Read More →

Alay Patel

Senior Software Engineer, Nvidia

Alay is a Senior Software Engineer at Nvidia where he works on cloud gaming service, managing infrastructure for GPU workloads. He is passionate about open source with a focus on Kubernetes and platform engineering.

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, KubeVirt

13:45 BST

KubeEdge DeepDive: Architecture, Use Cases, and Project Graduation Updates - Fei Xu, Huawei & Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

In this session, KubeEdge project maintainers will provide an overview of KubeEdge's architecture and its industry-specific use cases. The session will begin with a brief introduction to edge computing and its growing importance in IoT and distributed systems. The maintainers will then delve into the core components and architecture of KubeEdge, demonstrating how it extends Kubernetes' capabilities to manage edge computing workloads efficiently. They will share success stories and insights from organizations that have deployed KubeEdge in various edge environments, such as smart cities, industrial IoT, edge AI, robotics, and retail, highlighting the tangible benefits and transformational possibilities. Additionally, the session will introduce the certified KubeEdge conformance test, hardware test, discuss advancements in technology and community governance within the KubeEdge project, and share the latest updates on the project's graduation status.

Speakers

Fei Xu

Senior Software Engineer, Huawei Cloud

Huawei Cloud, Senior Software Engineer KubeEdge TSC Member, Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Cloud. Focusing on Cloud Native,Kubernetes, EdgeComputing, EdgeAI and other fields. Currently maintaining the KubeEdge project which is a CNCF graduated project. And has rich experience... Read More →

Hongbing Zhang

KubeEdge TSC Member, Chief Operating Officer, DaoCloud

Hongbing Zhang is Chief Operating Officer of DaoCloud. He is a veteran in open source areas, he founded IBM China Linux team in 2011 and organized team to make significant contributions in Linux Kernel/openstack/hadoop projects. Now he is focusing on cloud native domain and leading... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, KubeEdge

14:30 BST

Evolving OpenID Connect and Observability in Keycloak - Ryan Emerson, Red Hat & Takashi Norimatsu, Hitachi

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

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

OpenID Connect and observability have evolved a lot over the past year in the Keycloak project.

Keycloak's OAuth Special Interest Group has contributed security features related to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. We will demonstrate OAuth 2.0 Demonstrating Proof of Possession to make single page applications and native applications more secure, and OpenID Federation 1.0 support for building trust relationships between OpenID Providers and Relying Parties.

For better observability Keycloak now provides a full guide on how to use metrics for Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service Level Objectives (SLO), troubleshooting and sizing, together with example Grafana dashboards. Users will learn how they can utilise the Keycloak metrics and Grafana dashboards to identify excess request latencies that breach their SLO, we will then demonstrate how OpenTelemetry tracing can help debug the root cause of such breaches.

Speakers

Takashi Norimatsu

Senior OSS Specialist, Hitachi, Ltd.

Takashi Norimatsu, Senior OSS Specialist, Hitachi, Ltd. is a maintainer of Keycloak. He has been implemented and contributed security features like Financial-grade API (FAPI) security profiles, W3C Web Authentication (WebAuthn) API support. He leads Keycloak's community "OAuth SIG... Read More →

Ryan Emerson

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Ryan Emerson is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and a member of the Infinispan and Keycloak open-source product teams. He works on evolving Keycloak's HA architectures and improving day 2 operational capabilities, in addition to leading the development of the Infinispan Kubernetes... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Keycloak