KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

April 1-4, 2025 · London, UK · 338 talks

The flagship conference of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, bringing together adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. Kubernetes, containers, service mesh, observability, and cloud-native security.

→ See editor’s top picks at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

• Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

  Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), delivered the opening keynote at KubeCon Europe in London, marking a significant milestone for the organization. This year, the…

• Keynote: Into the Black Box: Observability in the Age of LLMs - Christine Yen — Christine Yen

  In this KubeCon EU keynote, Christine Yen, co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb, addresses a critical challenge facing modern software development: how to maintain reliability and debug systems built…

• Keynote: AI Enabled Observability Explainers - We Actually Did Something With AI! - Vijay Samuel — Vijay Samuel

  In this insightful KubeCon EU keynote, Vijay Samuel, a Principal MTS Architect in reliability engineering at eBay, unveiled a pragmatic approach to integrating Artificial Intelligence into the…

• Sponsored Keynote: Evolving the Kubernetes User Experience - Andrew Randall — Andrew Randall

  In this thought-provoking keynote, Andrew Randall addresses a critical challenge facing the Kubernetes ecosystem: how to broaden its appeal beyond early adopters and reach the "next 10 million…

• Keynote: Rust in the Linux Kernel: A New Era for Cloud Native Performance and... Greg Kroah-Hartman — Greg Kroah-Hartman

  In a compelling keynote at KubeCon EU, Greg Kroah-Hartman, a venerable Linux kernel maintainer and developer, illuminated the ongoing integration of the Rust programming language into the Linux…

• Keynote: Empowering Accessibility Through Kubernetes: The Future of Real-Time Sign Langu... Rob Koch — Rob Koch

  In a compelling keynote presentation at KubeCon EU, Rob Koch, a Principal Data Engineer at Slalom, unveiled a groundbreaking project aimed at revolutionizing real-time sign language recognition…

• Keynote: The Observability Platform Engineering Advantage: From Zero-Code to M... Kasper Borg Nissen — Kasper Borg Nissen

  Kasper Borg Nissen, in his final address as co-chair for KubeCon Cloud Native Con, delivered a compelling keynote that reframed the fundamental challenges of modern observability. Moving beyond the…

• Keynote: Mind the Gap: Bridging Cloud Native Innovation with Real-World Use

  This keynote presentation, titled "Mind the Gap: Bridging Cloud Native Innovation with Real-World Use," brought together leaders from diverse industries—finance, biotech, platform development, and…

• Keynote: Awards Ceremony

  This keynote address from KubeCon EU served as a comprehensive update on the state of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem, highlighting its growth, strategic partnerships, and the…

• Keynote: Driving Innovation at Michelin: How We Scaled Cloud & On-Prem In... G. Quennesson & A. Pons — G. Quennesson, A. Pons

  This KubeCon EU keynote, delivered by G. Quennesson and A. Pons from Michelin, provides an insightful look into the tire manufacturing giant's ambitious journey to scale its Kubernetes footprint…

• Sponsored Keynote: The Weight of Data: Rethinking Cloud-Native Systems f... V. Caldeira & H. Cummins — V. Caldeira, H. Cummins

  In a keynote address at KubeCon EU, V. Caldeira and H. Cummins illuminated the profound paradigm shift required within cloud-native architectures, particularly Kubernetes, to effectively support the…

• Keynote: CNCF at 10: Navigating Challenges, Embracing Opportunit... J. Sandoval, L. Rice, K. Gamanji — J. Sandoval, L. Rice, K. Gamanji

  This keynote address, delivered by J. Sandoval, Liz Rice (Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, Cisco), and Katie Gamanji (Senior Field Engineer at Apple) at KubeCon EU, offered a profound…

• Sponsored Keynote: Hand Meet Glove: Why Kubernetes Will Become the Platform o... I. Levine & K. Babo — I. Levine, K. Babo

  This keynote presentation, delivered by I. Levine and K. Babo, outlines a significant evolution in the cloud-native landscape, asserting that the foundational components for modern networking are…

• Keynote: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Gover... H.K. Flaatten & A.F. Strand — H.K. Flaatten, A.F. Strand

  This keynote presentation by H.K. Flaatten and A.F. Strand from **NAV** (the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) chronicles their remarkable journey in building a robust **Platform as a…

• Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes: A New Era of Effici... Clayton Coleman, Jiaxin Shan — Clayton Coleman, Jiaxin Shan

  This keynote address by Clayton Coleman from Google and Jiaxin Shan from ByteDance introduces a groundbreaking project within the Kubernetes ecosystem: the **Gateway API Inference Extension**…

• Sponsored Keynote: The Science of Winning: Oracle Red Bull Racing’s Formula with O... Sudha Raghavan — Sudha Raghavan
• Keynote: Cloud Native Evolution in Telec... Faseela K, Tom Kivlin, Philippe Ensarguet & Joel Studler — Faseela K, Tom Kivlin, Philippe Ensarguet, Joel Studler
• Keynote: Cutting Through the Fog: Clarifying CRA Compliance in C... Eddie Knight & Michael Lieberman — Eddie Knight, Michael Lieberman

  The European Union's **Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)** is poised to fundamentally reshape the landscape of cybersecurity for **products with digital elements** across the globe. In this KubeCon EU…

• Sponsored Keynote: Lessons Learned in LLM Prompt Security - Jakub Suchy — Jakub Suchy

  In this insightful keynote at KubeCon EU, Jakub Suchy from Haroxy Technologies delved into the critical, yet nascent, field of **Large Language Model (LLM) prompt security**. Drawing a stark…

• Keynote: 221B Cloud Native Street - Ricardo Rocha & Katie Gamanji — Ricardo Rocha, Katie Gamanji

  In this insightful keynote from KubeCon EU, Katie Gamanji, a Senior Engineer at Apple, and Ricardo Rocha, a Computer Engineer at CERN, both prominent members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation…

• Keynote: Science at Light Speed: Cloud Native Infrastructure for Astronomy Wor... Carolina Lindqvist — Carolina Lindqvist
• Fluent Bit v4: A Decade of Innovation and What’s Next - Leonardo Alminana, Chronosphere — Leonardo Alminana, Chronosphere

  In this insightful KubeCon EU presentation, Leonardo Alminana, a maintainer of the **Fluent Bit** project, offered a comprehensive look at the evolution and future trajectory of this critical…

• Contributing To Kubernetes in Its... Nabarun Pal, Mario Fahlandt, Madhav Jivrajani & Priyanka Saggu — Nabarun Pal, Mario Fahlandt, Madhav Jivrajani, Priyanka Saggu

  The KubeCon EU talk "Contributing To Kubernetes in Its..." delivered by Nabarun Pal, Mario Fahlandt, and Priyanka Saggu, delves into the critical role of the Kubernetes Special Interest Group…

• Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Jared Watts & Nic Cope — Jared Watts, Nic Cope

  This talk provides a comprehensive overview and deep dive into Crossplane, an open-source **cloud-native control plane framework**. Presented by Jared Watts and Nic Cope, key leaders in the…

• Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: Advancing Cloud-Native Innovation from AI to Edge

  This talk, presented by key leaders from the CNCF TAG Runtime, offers a comprehensive look into the group's current structure, its diverse contributions to the cloud-native ecosystem, and a…

• Bridge the Gap To OSS Adoption With Documentation: A Kubernetes Story - Natali Vlatko & Divya Mohan — Natali Vlatko, Divya Mohan

  In this insightful KubeCon EU presentation, Natali Vlatko and Divya Mohan, both co-chairs of the Kubernetes SIG Docs special interest group, delved into the critical role of high-quality…

• Beyond Classical Cryptography: Building Quantum-Resistant Cloud Native... Andrés Vega & Hugo Landau — Andrés Vega, Hugo Landau

  This talk, presented by Andrés Vega and Hugo Landau, delves into the critical and increasingly urgent need for quantum-resistant cryptography within cloud-native environments, specifically focusing…

• Ensuring Quality in Kubernetes: The Graduation Process From Alpha T... Antonio Ojea & Benjamin Elder — Antonio Ojea, Benjamin Elder

  This talk, presented by Antonio Ojea and Benjamin Elder, both from Google and active members of Kubernetes' SIG Testing and Steering committees, delves into the critical processes and recent…

• Authz as a Dev Workflow: Architecting Better Cloud Native Apps - Dan "phrawzty" Maher, Cerbos — Dan "phrawzty" Maher, Cerbos

  In this KubeCon EU 2025 talk, Dan "phrawzty" Maher, an open-source advocate at Cerbos, challenged the conventional perception of authorization. He argued compellingly that authorization, often…

• Data Processing Efficiency: Optimizing Batch Workloads on Kubernetes With Custom... Hichem Kenniche — Hichem Kenniche

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Hichem Kenniche, a seasoned data and machine learning engineer, delves into the critical challenge of efficiently running batch workloads like **ETL (Extract…

• Don't Let Your Kubernetes Cluster Go Wild: Ensuring Etcd Reli... Arka Saha & Chun-Hung (Henry) Tseng — Arka Saha, Chun-Hung

  This talk, "Don't Let Your Kubernetes Cluster Go Wild: Ensuring Etcd Reliability," delves into the critical importance of data consistency in **Etcd**, the distributed key-value store that serves as…

• Data Gravity and Kubernetes: Managing Large-Scale Data Ingest... Abhishek Bhattacharjee & Arya Soni — Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Arya Soni

  In an era defined by ever-increasing data volumes, the concept of **data gravity** has emerged as a critical consideration for organizations managing complex, distributed systems. This talk…

• Consistent Volume Group Snapshots, Unraveling the Magic - Leonardo Cecchi, EDB & Xing Yang — Leonardo Cecchi, EDB, Xing Yang

  In the dynamic and often chaotic world of cloud-native infrastructure, ensuring robust **data protection** and **disaster recovery** for stateful applications remains a paramount concern. This talk…

• SIG Scheduling Intro & Updates - Maciej Skoczeń, Google; Kensei Nakada, Tetrate.io — Maciej Skoczeń, Google, Kensei Nakada, Tetrate.io

  This session, presented by Maciej Skoczeń from Google and Kensei Nakada from Tetrate.io, offered a comprehensive overview and update on the Kubernetes SIG Scheduling. The talk delved into the…

• Notary Project: The Key To Secure Software Supply Chain - Yi Zha & Guillaume Gill — Yi Zha, Guillaume Gill

  The rapid adoption of cloud-native technologies and the increasing reliance on open-source components have amplified the criticality of software supply chain security. This talk, presented by Notary…

• Cloud Native AI: Harness the Power of Advanced Scheduling for High-P... William Wang & Xuzheng Chang — William Wang, Xuzheng Chang

  This talk, presented by Xuzheng Chang (Kevin Juan) and Shu Jun (Zir), delves into the latest advancements within the **Volcano project**, a **Kubernetes-native batch scheduler** designed to optimize…

• CubeFS in Action: Empowering Users Through Case Studies - Leon Chang, OPPO — Leon Chang, OPPO

  This talk, presented by Leon Chang from OPPO, a maintainer of the open-source project CubeFS, offers a comprehensive exploration of CubeFS as a next-generation cloud-native storage system. The…

• The NATS Stack - Libraries Extensions and the Execution Engine - Tomasz Pietrek & Jordan Rash — Tomasz Pietrek, Jordan Rash

  This talk, presented by Tomasz Pietrek and Jordan Rash, delves into the evolution and capabilities of the **NATS** messaging system, particularly highlighting its recent 2.11 release and the…

• Managing Data at Scale: Best Practices and Evolution of SIG-Apps - Maciej Szulik & Janet Kuo — Maciej Szulik, Janet Kuo

  In this comprehensive KubeCon EU presentation, Maciej Szulik, a lead for the Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) for Applications (SIG-Apps), provided an in-depth look into the group's recent…

• Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Updates - John Belamaric, Google & Davanum Srinivas, AWS — John Belamaric, Google, Davanum Srinivas, AWS

  This talk provides a comprehensive introduction and update on the pivotal role of the Kubernetes **Special Interest Group (SIG) Architecture**. Presented by co-chairs John Belamaric of Google and…

• Cortex: Insights, U... Friedrich Gonzalez, Daniel Sabsay, Charlie Le, Alolita Sharma & Daniel Blando — Friedrich Gonzalez, Daniel Sabsay, Charlie Le, Alolita Sharma, Daniel Blando

  This KubeCon EU session provided a comprehensive update on Cortex, the horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant long-term storage solution for Prometheus. The talk, delivered by a team…

• Evolving OpenID Connect and Observability in Keycloak - Ryan Emerson & Takashi Norimatsu — Ryan Emerson, Takashi Norimatsu

  This talk, presented by Takashi Norimatsu and Ryan Emerson, delves into the significant advancements made in Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution. The presentation is…

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

  This talk provides a comprehensive deep dive into KubeEdge, a pioneering cloud-native edge computing project, covering its architecture, diverse use cases, and significant milestone of achieving…

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

  This talk, delivered by Daniel Hill from Red Hat (filling in for Ľuboslav Pivarč) and Alay Patel from NVIDIA, delves into the strategies and technical advancements employed to manage the rapid…

• Lessons Learned From Architecting the Highest-scale Operational Systems in the World - Artur Bergman — Artur Bergman

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Artur Bergman, founder and CTO of Fastly, shared invaluable lessons gleaned from over a decade of architecting and operating one of the world's highest-scale…

• CNCF TAG Network and Cloud Native Network Landscape - Zhonghu Xu, Huawei & Nic Jackson, Hashicorp — Zhonghu Xu, Huawei, Nic Jackson, Hashicorp

  This talk, presented by Zhonghu Xu of Huawei and Nic Jackson of Hashicorp, delves into the current state and future evolution of the **CNCF TAG Network** (Technical Advisory Group Network). It…

• Failure Is Not an Option: Durable Execution + Dapr = 🚀 - Marc Duiker, Diagrid — Marc Duiker, Diagrid

  In the realm of distributed systems, failure is not merely an option; it's an inevitability. This insightful talk by Marc Duiker, a Developer Advocate at Diagrid, delves into the critical challenge…

• Tutorial: Hacking up a Storm With Kubernetes - Rory McCune, Datadog; Marion McCune & Iain Smart — Rory McCune, Datadog, Marion McCune, Iain Smart

  This tutorial, "Hacking up a Storm With Kubernetes," presented primarily by Rory McCune of Datadog, offers a compelling journey into the intricacies of Kubernetes security through the lens of a…

• Tutorial: Workshop: Developing as a Team for Kubernetes With Nix an... Leigh Capili & Tanja Ulianova — Leigh Capili, Tanja Ulianova

  This talk, presented as a hands-on tutorial by Leigh Capili and Tanja Ulianova at KubeCon EU, delves into the powerful synergy of **Nix** and **GitOps** principles to revolutionize the development…

• From Chaos To Control: Migrating Access Control... Jo Guerreiro & Poovamraj Thanganadar Thiagarajan — Jo Guerreiro, Poovamraj Thanganadar Thiagarajan

  This talk, "From Chaos To Control: Migrating Access Control," delves into the complex journey undertaken by Grafana to modernize its authorization infrastructure by migrating to **OpenFGA**, a…

• Compliance at the Speed of Innovation: Leveraging AI-Driven Automation for Real-Time Regulatory Read

  This KubeCon EU session, "Compliance at the Speed of Innovation: Leveraging AI-Driven Automation for Real-Time Regulatory Read," explored the critical shift from traditional, manual compliance…

• Smooth Scaling With the OpAMP Supervisor: Managing Thousands of OpenTe... Evan Bradley & Andy Keller — Evan Bradley, Andy Keller

  In the dynamic landscape of modern distributed systems, managing vast fleets of observability agents is a critical yet complex challenge. The "Smooth Scaling With the OpAMP Supervisor" talk at…

• The State of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Interoperability - Arthur Sens & Juraj Michálek — Arthur Sens, Juraj Michálek

  The talk "The State of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Interoperability" by Arthur Sens and Juraj Michálek at KubeCon EU dives deep into the complex, yet increasingly crucial, relationship between two…

• The Missing Metrics: Measuring Memory Interference in Cloud Native Systems - Jonathan Perry — Jonathan Perry

  In the increasingly complex landscape of cloud-native systems, maintaining high availability and cost efficiency while delivering superior user experience remains the "holy grail" for Site…

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

  In the dynamic world of cloud-native applications, **Kubernetes** orchestrates workloads with powerful features like self-healing, rolling upgrades, and auto-scaling. Central to these capabilities…

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

  In this compelling KubeCon EU talk, Lucy Sweet from Uber and Dawn Chen, Tech Lead of Kubernetes SIG Node at Google, delved into the evolving landscape of resource management within Kubernetes. The…

• Demystifying Why the World Is Built on Kubernetes: Learning To Lev... Abby Bangser & Sebastien Blanc — Abby Bangser, Sebastien Blanc

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Abby Bangser and Sebastien Blanc delve into the often-overlooked developer persona of Kubernetes, arguing that its true power lies in its extensibility as an…

• Surviving Day2 : Picking the Right Tool To Secure Your... Bruno Gabriel da Silva & Henrique Santana — Bruno Gabriel da Silva, Henrique Santana

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native security, the sheer volume of available tools can be overwhelming. Henrique Santana and Bruno Gabriel da Silva addressed this challenge head-on in…

• Public End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Town Hall

  This KubeCon EU town hall provided a comprehensive look into the mission, achievements, and future directions of the **CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB)**. Established just over a year…

• Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting - Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk — Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk

  This KubeCon EU session provided a unique opportunity for attendees to engage directly with members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) **Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)** in an "Ask…

• Into the Shopfloor: Moving Manufacturing Execution Syste... Manuel Peuster & Andrei Traian Cucuruzac — Manuel Peuster, Andrei Traian Cucuruzac

  This talk, "Into the Shopfloor: Moving Manufacturing Execution Systems to Kubernetes," delves into the ambitious journey undertaken by Bosch Connected Industry to modernize its complex Manufacturing…

• Beyond Kubernetes: Adapting To Spe... Rags Srinivas, Dawn Chen, Sachi Desai, Vara Bonthu & Erin Boyd — Rags Srinivas, Dawn Chen, Sachi Desai, Vara Bonthu, Erin Boyd

  This insightful panel discussion from KubeCon EU delves into the critical evolution of Kubernetes to effectively support specialized, high-performance application workloads, particularly in the…

• EVAPorating Kubernetes Security Risk: Adopting Validating Admission P... Kaitlyn Lee & Jordan Conard — Kaitlyn Lee, Jordan Conard

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Kaitlyn Lee and Jordan Conard from DataDog shared their extensive experience in migrating Kubernetes admission control from **OPA Gatekeeper** to the native…

• Do Your Containers Even Lift – A Hardening Guide for K8s Containers - Cailyn Edwards & Daniel Murphy — Cailyn Edwards, Daniel Murphy

  In their KubeCon EU talk, "Do Your Containers Even Lift – A Hardening Guide for K8s Containers," Cailyn Edwards and Daniel Murphy, both Senior Security Engineers at Ozero by Octa, present a…

• Fresh Secrets From the Docks: Lessons Learnt From Analyzing 180,000 Public Dock... Guillaume Valadon — Guillaume Valadon

  In this compelling KubeCon EU talk, Guillaume Valadon, a security researcher at GitGuardian, unveiled the alarming prevalence of leaked secrets within public Docker images. Titled "Fresh Secrets…

• Container Runtimes... on Lockdown: The Hidden Costs of Multi... Lewis Denham-Parry & Caleb Woodbine — on Lockdown: The Hidden Costs of Multi... Lewis Denham-Parry, Caleb Woodbine

  In an era where cloud-native architectures dominate enterprise infrastructure, the talk "Container Runtimes... on Lockdown: The Hidden Costs of Multi..." by Lewis Denham-Parry and Caleb Woodbine…

• Why Don’t We Have Both? Track Build- and Run-time Information for S... Jeff Mendoza & Ben Hirschberg — Jeff Mendoza, Ben Hirschberg

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of software supply chain security, understanding the true risk posed by vulnerabilities remains a significant challenge. This talk, "Why Don’t We Have Both? Track…

• Transparent, Infra-Level Checkpoint and Restore for Resil... Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan & Bernie Wu — Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan, Bernie Wu

  This talk by Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan from Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team and Bernie Wu from Meverge delves into a critical challenge facing large-scale AI/ML workloads running…

• Thousands of Virtual Kubelets: 1-to-1 Mapping a Supercomputer To Kubernetes With... Dennis Marttinen — Dennis Marttinen

  Dennis Marttinen's KubeCon EU talk, "Thousands of Virtual Kubelets: 1-to-1 Mapping a Supercomputer To Kubernetes With... Superetes," delves into the increasingly critical convergence of High…

• Testing AI Containers for Digital Twins in Science: A Cloud-HPC... Matteo Bunino & Diego Ciangottini — Matteo Bunino, Diego Ciangottini

  This talk, presented by Diego Ciangottini from the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Matteo Bunino from CERN Openlab, delves into the creation of a pioneering platform designed to…

• Quantum-Ready Kubernetes: How Do We Get There?

  This KubeCon EU panel delves into the complex and rapidly evolving intersection of **quantum computing** and **Kubernetes**. Moderated by Nikita from Broadcom, the discussion brought together…

• How To Supercharge AI/ML Observability With OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit - Celalettin Calis — Celalettin Calis

  In this insightful KubeCon EU session, Celalettin Calis, a Senior Software Engineer at Chronosphere, presented a compelling case for enhancing AI/ML observability within Kubernetes environments. The…

• Unlocking How To Efficiently, Flexibly, Manage and Schedule Seven AI Chi... Xiao Zhang & Mengxuan Li — Xiao Zhang, Mengxuan Li

  This session, presented by Xiao Zhang and Mengxuan Li from Dynamia Point AI, delves into critical challenges faced by organizations leveraging AI workloads in Kubernetes: persistently low GPU…

• Kubernetes and AI To Protect Our Forests: A Cloud Native Infrastructure for Wildf... Andrea Giardini — Andrea Giardini

  Andrea Giardini, an SRE at Overstory and a Sens ambassador, presented a compelling talk at KubeCon EU detailing how cloud-native technologies, specifically Kubernetes and artificial intelligence…

• Kubernetes Meets Climate Science: Building Large-scale Feature De... Armagan Karatosun & Roope Tervo — Armagan Karatosun, Roope Tervo

  This talk, presented by Armagan Karatosun of EUMETSAT, with contributions from Roope Tervo and a team of climate scientists, delves into the ambitious endeavor of building a large-scale…

• Optimizing Model Serving on Kubernetes With Model Streaming - Ekin Karabulut & Ronen Dar, Run:ai — Ekin Karabulut, Ronen Dar, Run:ai

  In the realm of modern AI deployments, efficiently serving large language models (LLMs) and other deep learning models presents significant challenges, particularly within dynamic, cloud-native…

• Are You Covered? Falling in Love With E2E Testing - Scott McAllister, ngrok — Scott McAllister, ngrok

  In this KubeCon EU talk, "Are You Covered? Falling in Love With E2E Testing," Scott McAllister, then a Developer Advocate at ngrok and now with Loft Labs, presents a comprehensive approach to…

• AI Beyond Autocomplete: Using LLMs To Create 1000 Kubernetes... Justin Santa Barbara & Walter Fender — Justin Santa Barbara, Walter Fender

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Justin Santa Barbara and Walter Fender from Google delve into their innovative approach to scaling Kubernetes controller development by leveraging Large Language…

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

  In the dynamic and rapidly expanding world of cloud native technologies, the success of open source projects often appears to be solely attributed to the brilliance of their code. However, Nancy…

• Stateful Connections in Kubernetes: The Scaling Secrets Nobody... André Mocke & Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer — André Mocke, Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, André Mocke and Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer from Miro unveil the intricate journey of migrating Miro's critical real-time collaboration backend, specifically its…

• Breaking Barriers: Bringing Application Developers Cl... Thomas Vitale & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino — Thomas Vitale, Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino

  In "Breaking Barriers: Bringing Application Developers Closer to Cloud Native," Thomas Vitale and Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino tackle a pervasive challenge in modern software development: the…

• How Millennium Bcp Leverages Radius To Empower Developer + Operator... Nuno Guedes & Jonathan Smith — Nuno Guedes, Jonathan Smith

  This talk, presented by Nuno Guedes from Millennium BCP and Jonathan Smith from Microsoft, introduces **Radius**, an open-source, cloud-agnostic **cloud-native application platform** designed to…

• Type-safe Feature Flagging in OpenFeature: Lessons Learned F... Michael Beemer & Florin-Mihai Anghel — Michael Beemer, Florin-Mihai Anghel

  This talk, delivered by Florin-Mihai Anghel from Google and Michael Beemer from DynaTrace and OpenFeature, delves into the critical topic of **type-safe feature flagging** and the significant…

• Zero Trust at Shopify Scale: Automating MTLS Across Thousands of Serv... Dani Santos & Michelle Mali — Dani Santos, Michelle Mali

  In this insightful talk, Dani Santos and Michelle Mali pull back the curtain on Shopify's extensive journey to implement **mutual TLS (MTLS)** at an unprecedented scale. Addressing an audience at…

• Green AI in Cloud Native Ecosystems: Strategies for Sustainability... Vincent Caldeira & Tamar Eilam — Vincent Caldeira, Tamar Eilam

  In an era defined by the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, the environmental impact of AI systems has emerged as a critical concern. This talk, delivered by Vincent Caldeira of Red Hat…

• From High Performance Computing To AI Workloads on Kubernetes: M... Andrey Velichkevich, & Yuki Iwai — Andrey Velichkevich,, Yuki Iwai

  This talk, "From High Performance Computing To AI Workloads on Kubernetes," presented by Andrey Velichkevich and Yuki Iwai, addresses a critical challenge in modern machine learning operations…

• From Chaos To Control: Building ML Platform - George Markhulia & Steve Larkin, Volvo Cars — George Markhulia, Steve Larkin, Volvo Cars

  This talk, "From Chaos To Control: Building ML Platform," presented by George Markhulia and Steve Larkin from Volvo Cars, details the journey and architecture behind Abacus, their internal Machine…

• Empowering AI-Driven Drug Discovery: Overcoming Challenges... Marius Tanawa Tsamo & Gustav Rasmussen — Marius Tanawa Tsamo, Gustav Rasmussen

  This presentation, delivered by Gustav Rasmussen and Marius Tanawa Tsamo from Novonordisk Research and Development, delves into the critical endeavor of extending Kubernetes with advanced AI…

• Using eBPF for Non-invasive, Performant, Instant Network Monitoring - Mario Macías & Marc Tudurí — Mario Macías, Marc Tudurí

  In this insightful KubeCon EU session, Mario Macías and Marc Tudurí from Grafana Labs unveiled how **eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter)** is being leveraged to deliver non-invasive, performant…

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

  This talk, presented by SIG Docs Technical Leads Kat Cosgrove and Xander Grzywinski at KubeCon EU, delves into the critical but often overlooked process of generating API reference documentation for…

• Unlocking the Future of Kubernetes Policy as Code With Kyverno - Vishal Choudhary & Frank Jogeleit — Vishal Choudhary, Frank Jogeleit

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native security and governance, Kubernetes policy as code has become an indispensable tool for maintaining compliance and operational integrity. This talk…

• Emissary-ingress: Version 4 and the Road Ahead - Flynn, Buoyant — Flynn, Buoyant

  This talk, presented by Flynn, a maintainer of **Emissary-ingress** at Buoyant, provides a comprehensive update on the project's current status, its journey to becoming a fully community-driven…

• Linkerd Update: Gateway API, Client-Specific Policy, Federated Services, Multicluster... Alex Leong — Alex Leong

  This article details the latest advancements and strategic direction of the Linkerd project, as presented by project maintainer Alex Leong at KubeCon EU. The talk, titled "Linkerd Update: Gateway…

• SIG Security: Succession Pla ...Cailyn Edwards, Iain Smart, Rory McCune, Tabitha Sable & Mahé Tardy — Cailyn Edwards, Iain Smart, Rory McCune, Tabitha Sable, Mahé Tardy

  This talk, "Succession Planting for a Flowering Future," presented by key maintainers of Kubernetes SIG Security, delves into the critical, community-driven efforts to enhance the security posture…

• The Immediate and Lasting Benefits of TAG Security Assessments - Brandt Keller & Ben Hirschberg — Brandt Keller, Ben Hirschberg

  This talk, presented by Brandt Keller and Ben Hirschberg at KubeCon EU, delves into the critical role and tangible benefits of security assessments conducted by the Technical Advisory Group for…

• Open Source Malware or a Vulnerability?... Brian Fox, Madelein van der Hout & Santiago Torres-Arias — Brian Fox, Madelein van der Hout, Santiago Torres-Arias

  This insightful panel discussion at KubeCon EU, featuring industry veterans Brian Fox, Madelein van der Hout, and Santiago Torres-Arias, meticulously dissects the evolving landscape of software…

• How We Solved TLS at Scale: Self-Service, Multi-Tenant Cert-manager - Erik Godding Boye & Tim Ramlot — Erik Godding Boye, Tim Ramlot

  This presentation by Erik Godding Boye and Tim Ramlot, both maintainers of the CNCF-graduated cert-manager project, delves into the intricate challenges and sophisticated solutions for managing…

• Generative AI Model Data Pre-Training on Kubernetes: A Use Case St... Alexey Roytman & Anish Asthana — Alexey Roytman, Anish Asthana

  This talk, presented by Anish Asthana from Red Hat and Alexey Roytman from IBM Research, delves into the intricate world of **foundation model data engineering** on Kubernetes. It addresses the…

• Tutorial: Rock, Paper, Scissors! Build an AI-powered Interactive Game With Argo CD and Kubeflow

  This KubeCon EU tutorial showcased the practical application of **Argo CD** and **Kubeflow** to build and deploy a real-time, AI-powered interactive game: Rock, Paper, Scissors. While the provided…

• Tutorial: Mind Your Pod's Business: Netwo... Surya Seetharaman, Miguel Duarte Barroso & Keith Burdis — Surya Seetharaman, Miguel Duarte Barroso, Keith Burdis

  In modern cloud-native environments, robust network segmentation is paramount for security, compliance, and multi-tenancy. The KubeCon EU tutorial "Mind Your Pod's Business: Network Segmentation…

• From Hours To Minutes: The Evolution of Platform Engineerin... Adrien Gillard & Christophe Furmaniak — Adrien Gillard, Christophe Furmaniak

  Adrien Gillard and Christophe Furmaniak from Decathlon presented an insightful talk at KubeCon EU, detailing the sports retailer's extensive journey in **platform engineering**. The presentation…

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

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Holly Cummins of Red Hat tackles a pervasive yet often overlooked problem in modern IT infrastructure: the proliferation of "zombie" and "underutilized" servers…

• Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cl... Cat Morris & Jake Klein — Cat Morris, Jake Klein

  In their KubeCon EU talk, "Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Operator," Cat Morris and Jake Klein from Centasto delve into the complex journey…

• Simplify Kubernetes Operator Development With a Modular Desi... Mostafa Hadadian & Alexander Lazovik — Mostafa Hadadian, Alexander Lazovik

  This talk, presented by Mostafa Hadadian and Alexander Lazovik at KubeCon EU, delves into a novel approach for developing Kubernetes operators, addressing the common pitfalls of complexity and…

• Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro & Deep Dive - Charlie Egan & Anders Eknert, Styra — Charlie Egan, Anders Eknert, Styra

  This talk, presented by Charlie Egan and Anders Eknert, both maintainers of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project and members of the developer relations team at Styra, provides a comprehensive…

• Vitess: Schema Changes at Scale - Rohit Nayak & Shlomi Noach, PlanetScale — Rohit Nayak, Shlomi Noach, PlanetScale

  This talk by Rohit Nayak and Shlomi Noach from PlanetScale provides an in-depth exploration of how Vitess, a robust database clustering system for MySQL, addresses the notoriously complex challenge…

• Kubespray: Driving Cost-Efficiency for AI on Kubernetes - Antoine Legrand & Mohamed Zaian — Antoine Legrand, Mohamed Zaian

  In an era where Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads are increasingly critical for enterprise innovation, the underlying infrastructure costs and vendor lock-in present significant challenges…

• In the Eye of Falco: Tr... Luca Guerra, Jason Dellaluce, Aldo Lacuku, Leonardo Grasso, Aurélie Vache — Luca Guerra, Jason Dellaluce, Aldo Lacuku, Leonardo Grasso, Aurélie Vache

  Falco, the pioneering cloud-native runtime security tool and a graduated CNCF project, is akin to a security camera for your cloud environments, diligently detecting security threats and delivering…

• Multi-cluster Orchestration System: Karmada Updates and Use Cas... Hongcai Ren & Joe Nathan Abellard — Hongcai Ren, Joe Nathan Abellard

  This session provides a comprehensive update on Karmada, an open-source project designed for multi-cluster application management and orchestration, alongside a detailed exploration of its…

• TUF-en up Your Software Supply Chain - Marina Moore, Edera & Kairo De Araujo, Independent — Marina Moore, Edera, Kairo De Araujo, Independent

  In an era of increasing software supply chain attacks, ensuring the integrity and authenticity of distributed software is paramount. This talk, "TUF-en up Your Software Supply Chain," delivered by…

• SIG API Machinery: Project Updates and Release Planning - Joe Betz, Google — Joe Betz, Google

  In this comprehensive KubeCon EU session, Joe Betz, Technical Lead for SIG API Machinery at Google, delivered an insightful update on the Kubernetes 1.33 release cycle, delving into the critical…

• SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep... Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson, Laura Lorenz, Stephen Kitt & Ryan Zhang — Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson, Laura Lorenz, Stephen Kitt, Ryan Zhang

  The "SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive" talk at KubeCon EU provided a comprehensive update on the essential work being done within the **SIG-Multicluster** community to address the escalating…

• Guiding Kubernetes: The Steering Committee's Role in Project Evo... Maciej Szulik & Stephen Augustus — Maciej Szulik, Stephen Augustus

  In this insightful KubeCon EU session, Maciej Szulik and Stephen Augustus, both integral members of the Kubernetes Steering Committee, demystified the intricate governance structure underpinning one…

• Redesigning Ingress: Docker’s Transition To the Next-Gen Gate... Kateryna Nezdolii & Ryan Hristovski — Kateryna Nezdolii, Ryan Hristovski

  In this KubeCon EU talk, Kateryna Nezdolii and Ryan Hristovski from Docker share their extensive journey in redesigning the company's critical ingress system. The presentation details Docker's…

• Istio: The Past, Present and Future of the Project and Communi... Lin Sun, Louis Ryan & Raymond Wong — Lin Sun, Louis Ryan, Raymond Wong

  This talk provides a comprehensive journey through the evolution of **Istio**, the popular open-source service mesh, from its inception to its current state and exciting future developments…

• WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next? - Marcin Wielgus, Google — Marcin Wielgus, Google

  Marcin Wielgus, an organizer of the Kubernetes Batch Working Group, presented a comprehensive update on the group's efforts to enhance Kubernetes' support for batch workloads. This presentation…

• Kubeflow Ecosystem: What’s Next for Cloud Native AI/ML and LLMOps

  This talk provides a comprehensive update on the Kubeflow ecosystem, a collection of open-source projects designed to make AI and Machine Learning (ML) simple, portable, and scalable on Kubernetes…

• Helm 4 You - Matt Farina, SUSE & Andrew Block, Red Hat — Matt Farina, SUSE, Andrew Block, Red Hat

  In this KubeCon EU session, Helm maintainers Matt Farina and Andrew Block unveiled the ambitious plans and progress for **Helm 4**, the next major iteration of the Kubernetes package manager. After…

• etcd V3.6.0 and etc... Benjamin Wang, Ivan Valdes Castillo, Siyuan Zhang, Arka Saha & Ciprian Hacman — Benjamin Wang, Ivan Valdes Castillo, Siyuan Zhang, Arka Saha, Ciprian Hacman

  This talk provides a comprehensive update on the long-awaited etcd 3.6.0 release and introduces the nascent etcd operator 0.1.0. Presented by a diverse team of etcd maintainers and contributors…

• Kubernetes WG Device Management - GPUs, TPUs, NICs and More With DRA - Kevin Klues & Patrick Ohly — Kevin Klues, Patrick Ohly

  This talk provides a comprehensive update on the Kubernetes Working Group Device Management, primarily focusing on the significant advancements and ongoing development of **Dynamic Resource…

• Securing the Gateway: A Deep Dive Into Envoy Gateway's Advanced Security Pol... Huabing (Robin) Zhao — Huabing

  This talk, presented by Huabing (Robin) Zhao, a maintainer of the Envoy Gateway project and a contributor to Envoy, delves into the advanced security policies offered by Envoy Gateway. The session…

• Strengthening Auth in Kubernetes: Image Pulling, DRA Admin Acces... Rita Zhang & Stanislav Láznička — Rita Zhang, Stanislav Láznička

  This talk, presented by Rita Zhang and Stanislav Láznička of Microsoft and **SIG Auth** co-chair and contributor respectively, provides a comprehensive update on the latest advancements and future…

• From the Observability TAG: Designing a Common Query... lolita Sharma, Pereira Braga & Chris Larsen — lolita Sharma, Pereira Braga, Chris Larsen

  The KubeCon EU talk "From the Observability TAG: Designing a Common Query..." addresses a critical challenge in modern cloud-native environments: the overwhelming complexity arising from the…

• Platform Engineering Loves Security: Shift Down To Your Platform... Maxime Coquerel & Mathieu Benoit — Maxime Coquerel, Mathieu Benoit

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Maxime Coquerel and Mathieu Benoit tackle the perennial challenge of integrating robust security practices within the fast-paced, complex landscape of…

• Starting and Scaling a Platform Engineering Team - Camille Fournier & Ian Nowland — Camille Fournier, Ian Nowland

  This talk, delivered by Camille Fournier and Ian Nowland at KubeCon EU, delves into the critical strategies and common pitfalls associated with establishing and growing effective platform…

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

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Vish Abrams, Chief Architect at Heroku, tackles a pervasive and costly security challenge in modern application development: the management of workload identities…

• Encryption, Identities, and Everything in Between; Building Se... Lior Lieberman & Igor Velichkovich — Lior Lieberman, Igor Velichkovich

  In their KubeCon EU talk, "Encryption, Identities, and Everything in Between; Building Secure Kubernetes Networks," Lior Lieberman and Igor Velichkovich address critical shortcomings in current…

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

  In this KubeCon EU talk, Erik Lindblad and Erica Manno from Spotify delve into the monumental task of evolving Spotify's service discovery infrastructure. They recount how the company outgrew its…

• Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing I... Lin Sun & Ahmed Bebars — Lin Sun, Ahmed Bebars

  This talk delves into the New York Times' extensive journey with service mesh technologies, culminating in their exploration and adoption of Istio Ambient Mesh. Presented by Lin Sun from Solo.io and…

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

  In the increasingly complex landscape of cloud-native applications, **Envoy Proxy** has emerged as a cornerstone for managing service-to-service communication, load balancing, and edge routing…

• Image Snapshotters for Efficient Container Execution in Particle P... Clemens Lange & Valentin Volkl — Clemens Lange, Valentin Volkl

  This talk, presented by Clemens Lange and Valentin Volkl, delves into the critical role of **image snapshotters** in optimizing containerized workloads, with a particular focus on the demanding…

• GPU Sharing at CERN: Cutting the Cake Without Losing a Slice! - Diana Gaponcic, CERN — Diana Gaponcic, CERN
• Get WITty: Evolving Kubernetes Scheduling With the WebAssembly... Dejan Pejchev & Jonathan Giannuzzi — Dejan Pejchev, Jonathan Giannuzzi

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Dejan Pejchev and Jonathan Giannuzzi of G Research explore their journey to enhance the **Kubernetes scheduler** by leveraging the **WebAssembly Component…

• Dynamic Multi-Cluster Controllers With Controller-runtime - Marvin Beckers & Stefan Schimanski — Marvin Beckers, Stefan Schimanski

  This talk, presented by Marvin Beckers and Stefan Schimanski, introduces `multicluster-runtime`, a novel project designed to extend the popular `controller-runtime` framework with native…

• eBPF and Wasm: Unifying Userspace Extensions With Bpftime - Yusheng Zheng, eunomia-bpf — Yusheng Zheng, eunomia-bpf

  In this KubeCon EU talk, Yusheng Zheng, a PhD student and maintainer of several eBPF-related open-source projects under the eunomia-bpf organization, introduced **Bpftime**, an innovative userspace…

• Beyond the Limits: Scaling Kubernetes Controllers Horizontally - Tim Ebert, STACKIT — Tim Ebert, STACKIT

  In the realm of Kubernetes, controllers and operators are fundamental to achieving the desired declarative state management. They are the workhorses that observe, react, and enforce the…

• A Cloud Native Workflow for Hardware-in-the-Loop Software Development - Miguel Angel Ajo, Red Hat — Miguel Angel Ajo, Red Hat

  In a KubeCon EU presentation, Miguel Angel Ajo from Red Hat unveiled the **JumpStarter** project, an innovative open-source framework designed to bring **Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)** testing into…

• Weaving a VEX Feed Through the Kubernetes Project - Adolfo García Veytia, Stacklok — Adolfo García Veytia, Stacklok

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Adolfo García Veytia, a key figure in both Kubernetes Release Engineering and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) OpenVEX project, delved into the…

• Redefining Access Control: Scaling Policy as Code for Humans and AI Agents - Raz Cohen, Permit.io — Raz Cohen, Permit.io

  In an era witnessing the rapid proliferation of AI-driven products and an increasing reliance on Large Language Models (LLMs), the discourse around security and control has intensified. This talk by…

• ​​SPIFFE in Practice: Universal Identity for WebAssembly Workloads - Joonas Bergius & Colin Murphy — Joonas Bergius, Colin Murphy

  This talk, presented by Joonas Bergius and Colin Murphy, delves into the practical application of **SPIFFE** (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone) for establishing universal identity…

• Mind the Gap: Bridging Supply Chain Policy With Git-less GitOps... Michael Lieberman & Andrew Martin — Michael Lieberman, Andrew Martin

  In an era defined by accelerating software delivery and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, securing the software supply chain has become a paramount concern for organizations worldwide. This…

• IAM, Agent: Identity for Autonomous AI - Matthew Bates, Cofide — Matthew Bates, Cofide

  In this insightful talk from KubeCon EU, Matthew Bates, a founder at Cofide, delved into the critical and rapidly evolving domain of Identity and Access Management (IAM) for autonomous AI agents. As…

• Identity-based Trust - Till Death Do We Part? - John Kjell & Kairo De Araujo — John Kjell, Kairo De Araujo

  In "Identity-based Trust - Till Death Do We Part?", John Kjell and Kairo De Araujo delivered a critical examination of modern software supply chain security, highlighting the evolution from…

• Building & Operating a Large-scale HPC AI Cluster on Kubernetes - Kalyan Saladi & Chandan Avdhut — Kalyan Saladi, Chandan Avdhut

  This KubeCon EU talk, presented by Chandan Avdhut and Kalyan Saladi from Meta, delves into the intricate process of constructing and operating a high-performance computing (HPC) AI cluster at a…

• Balancing Cost and Efficiency: Day2 Optimization of Multi-Cluster AI Infrastructure - Kevin Wang — Kevin Wang

  In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the deployment and management of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads are increasingly moving towards distributed…

• AI Pipelines With OPEA: Best Practices for Cloud Native ML Operati... Ezequiel Lanza & Melissa McKay — Ezequiel Lanza, Melissa McKay

  This talk, "AI Pipelines With OPEA: Best Practices for Cloud Native ML Operations," delivered by Melissa McKay from JFRog and Ezequiel Lanza from Intel at KubeCon EU, delves into the complexities…

• A Practical Guide To Benchmarking AI and GPU Workloads in Kubernetes - Yuan Chen & Chen Wang — Yuan Chen, Chen Wang

  This talk, presented by Yuan Chen from Nvidia and Chen Wang from IBM Research, offers a comprehensive guide to benchmarking AI and GPU-intensive workloads within Kubernetes environments. The session…

• Chaos Engineering Practice Under Ultra-large-scale Cloud Native Edge Computing - Yue Bao & yue li — Yue Bao, yue li

  This talk, presented by Yue Bao on behalf of yue li, delves into the critical challenges and solutions for achieving stability and scalability in **ultra-large-scale cloud-native edge computing**…

• Defusing the Kubernetes API Performance Minefield - Madhav Jivrajani & Marek Siarkowicz — Madhav Jivrajani, Marek Siarkowicz

  This talk, presented by Marek Siarkowicz, SIG lead of API Machinery and contributor to etcd, delves into the critical and often overlooked realm of **Kubernetes API performance**. While Kubernetes…

• A Huge Cluster or Multi-Clusters? Identifying the Bottleneck - Paco Xu & Saiyam Pathak — Paco Xu, Saiyam Pathak

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Paco Xu and Saiyam Pathak delve into the perennial question facing Kubernetes architects: should organizations opt for a single, massive Kubernetes cluster or…

• Dancing With the Pods: Live Migration of a Database Fleet While Serving... Jayme Bird & Manish Gill — Jayme Bird, Manish Gill

  This technical article delves into the intricate process of performing live, zero-downtime migrations for a large fleet of ClickHouse databases running on Kubernetes. Presented by Jayme Bird and…

• Cloudy With a Chance of Kubernetes: Going From One To Three... Laurent Bernaille & Maxime Visonneau — Laurent Bernaille, Maxime Visonneau

  This talk, "Cloudy With a Chance of Kubernetes: Going From One To Three...", presented by Laurent Bernaille and Maxime Visonneau from DataDog, delves into the intricate journey of migrating and…

• How Do You Measure Devel... Jennifer Riggins, Cat Morris, Akshaya Aradhya, Laura Tacho & Helen Greul — Jennifer Riggins, Cat Morris, Akshaya Aradhya, Laura Tacho, Helen Greul

  The KubeCon EU panel discussion, "How Do You Measure Devel...", moderated by Jennifer Riggins and featuring industry leaders Cat Morris, Akshaya Aradhya, Laura Tacho, and Helen Greul, delved into…

• How We Progressively Deliver Changes To Kubernetes Using Canary Deployments and Featur... Bob Walker — Bob Walker

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Bob Walker, Field CTO at Octopus Deploy, delves into the intricate challenges and innovative solutions his company adopted for progressively delivering changes to…

• Breaking Free From the Cloud: Banking on Self... Kārlis Akots Gribulis & Per Hedegaard Christiansen — Kārlis Akots Gribulis, Per Hedegaard Christiansen

  In this insightful KubeCon EU presentation, Kārlis Akots Gribulis and Per Hedegaard Christiansen from Saxo Bank shared their ambitious journey of migrating critical components from a public cloud…

• Set Your Developers Free: Fleet Management at Spotify - Stefan Särne, Spotify — Stefan Särne, Spotify

  In this KubeCon EU talk, Stefan Särne from Spotify delves into the critical evolution of **fleet management** within their vast microservices ecosystem. The presentation highlights how Spotify…

• Building a 5* Kubernetes Hotel - Dean Fuller & Rachael Wonnacott — Dean Fuller, Rachael Wonnacott

  In "Building a 5\* Kubernetes Hotel," Dean Fuller, Lead of Developer Platform Engineering, and Rachael Wonnacott, Technical Product Owner for the Kubernetes platform at Fidelity International, delve…

• Extending Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) Beyond Kubernetes Work... Mangirdas Judeikis & Nabarun Pal — Mangirdas Judeikis, Nabarun Pal

  This talk, presented by Mangirdas Judeikis (MJ) and Nabarun Pal, delves into the evolution of the **Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM)**, exploring how it can be extended beyond traditional Kubernetes…

• Automating Kubernetes Cluster Updates: Achieving Z... Haitao Zhang, Ling Ling, Wei Jiang & Baofa Fan — Haitao Zhang, Ling Ling, Wei Jiang, Baofa Fan

  Keeping Kubernetes clusters updated is a foundational yet often challenging aspect of cloud-native operations. This KubeCon EU talk, presented by Haitao Zhang, Ling Ling, Wei Jiang, and Baofa Fan…

• A Journey To Modernizing a Regulated Cloud Control Plane - Pranita Praveen & Steven Borrelli — Pranita Praveen, Steven Borrelli

  This talk, presented by Pranita Praveen of Macquarie Group and Steven Borrelli of Upbound, details Macquarie's ambitious journey to modernize its cloud control plane within a highly regulated…

• A Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Engineer

  This panel discussion at KubeCon EU, titled "A Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Engineer," offered a candid and insightful look into the often-unseen challenges faced by the individuals responsible…

• Can You Maintain 1000 Apps? WasmCloud & K8s: The Ultimate Golden Template - Liam Randall, Cosmonic — Liam Randall, Cosmonic

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Liam Randall, founder and CEO of Cosmonic and co-creator of CNCF WASMCloud, addresses a critical challenge facing modern platform engineering teams: the…

• Conveying the Importance of Platform as a Product in the Cloud Native Ecosystem

  This KubeCon EU panel discussion, "Conveying the Importance of Platform as a Product in the Cloud Native Ecosystem," delves into a critical paradigm shift in modern software development: treating…

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

  This talk, "From Metal To Apps: LinkedIn’s Kubernetes-based Compute Platform," presented by Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani from LinkedIn's central compute team, delves into the intricate…

• How To Rename Metrics Without Impacting Somebody’s Observabili... Bartłomiej Płotka & Arianna Vespri — Bartłomiej Płotka, Arianna Vespri

  Renaming metrics, a seemingly innocuous refactoring task, is a pervasive and often dreaded challenge in modern observability systems. This talk by Bartłomiej Płotka and Arianna Vespri at KubeCon EU…

• Dapr in 2025: Durable Execution for AgenticAI System... Yaron Schneider, Diagrid & Roberto Rodriguez — Yaron Schneider, Diagrid, Roberto Rodriguez

  This talk, presented by Dapr core maintainer Yaron Schneider and Dapr maintainer Roberto Rodriguez, delves into the evolution of **Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime)**, highlighting its growing…

• What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson, Google — Kevin Nilson, Google

  This talk, presented by gRPC maintainers Kevin Nilson, Gina, and Richard from Google at KubeCon EU, provides a comprehensive update on the latest developments, features, and community initiatives…

• Scalable DNS With CoreDNS Plugins: A Deep Dive - Yong Tang, Ivanti & John Belamaric, Google — Yong Tang, Ivanti, John Belamaric, Google

  This technical article delves into the architecture and advanced capabilities of **CoreDNS**, the default DNS server for **Kubernetes**. Presented by Yong Tang from Ivanti and John Belamaric from…

• KEDA: Unlocking Advanced Event-Driven Scaling for Kubernetes - Zbynek Roubalik & Jorge Turrado — Zbynek Roubalik, Jorge Turrado

  In this insightful KubeCon EU session, KEDA maintainers Jorge Turrado and Zbynek Roubalik delved into the capabilities and advanced use cases of **Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA)**. The…

• Rook: Intro and... Travis Nielsen, Madhu Rajanna, Artem Torubarov, Deepika Upadhyay & Sebastien Han — Travis Nielsen, Madhu Rajanna, Artem Torubarov, Deepika Upadhyay, Sebastien Han

  This talk provides a comprehensive exploration of **Rook**, an open-source Kubernetes operator designed to automate the deployment and management of **Ceph** distributed storage within cloud-native…

• Flux Ecosystem Evolution - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane & Sanskar Jaiswal, Kong — Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane, Sanskar Jaiswal, Kong

  This talk by Stefan Prodan from ControlPlane and Sanskar Jaiswal from Kong delves into the significant advancements and new tools within the **Flux** ecosystem, a leading **GitOps** continuous…

• What's New in Knative Eventing: Security, Discovery, Int... Pierangelo Di Pilato & Christoph Stäbler — Pierangelo Di Pilato, Christoph Stäbler

  This talk, presented by Pierangelo Di Pilato and Christoph Stäbler from Red Hat, provides a comprehensive update on the latest advancements in Knative Eventing, a crucial component for building…

• Prometheus Deep Dive: What’s New in v3.0 and Beyond - Saswata Mukherjee & Fiona Liao — Saswata Mukherjee, Fiona Liao

  This talk provides a comprehensive deep dive into Prometheus v3.0, a landmark release marking seven years since the previous major version. Presented by Fiona Liao from Grafana Labs and Saswata…

• What's New With Kubectl and Kustomiz... Eddie Zaneski, Maciej Szulik, Marly Salazar & Yugo Kobayashi — Eddie Zaneski, Maciej Szulik, Marly Salazar, Yugo Kobayashi

  This talk, presented by the Special Interest Group (SIG) CLI leads Eddie Zaneski, Maciej Szulik, Marly Salazar, and Kustomize maintainer Yugo Kobayashi, offers a comprehensive update on the latest…

• Mastering Efficiency in Argo CD: Scaling Smarter, Not Costlier - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity — Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity

  This talk, "Mastering Efficiency in Argo CD: Scaling Smarter, Not Costlier," delivered by Alexander Matyushentsev, a co-creator of the Argo project and co-founder of Akuity, delves into the…

• Buildpacks: Pragmatic Solutions To Quick and Secure Image Builds - Juan Bustamante & Aidan Delaney — Juan Bustamante, Aidan Delaney

  In this insightful KubeCon EU presentation, Juan Bustamante and Aidan Delaney, both maintainers of the Cloud Native Buildpacks project, illuminated how this open-source initiative offers a…

• How To Gateway With Ingress - 140 Days InGate - Marco Ebert & James Strong — Marco Ebert, James Strong

  This talk, "How To Gateway With Ingress - 140 Days InGate," delivered by Marco Ebert and James Strong, delves into the critical juncture facing the widely adopted Kubernetes Ingress NGINX controller…

• The State of Backstage in 2025

  This talk, presented by Backstage maintainers from Spotify, offers a comprehensive update on the project's significant advancements and strategic direction in 2025. Celebrating its 5th anniversary…

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

  This talk provides an insightful introduction and deep dive into the intricate world of resource management within Kubernetes, as handled by the **SIG-Node** special interest group. Presented by…

• Enhancing CRI-O With CDI: Streamlining Device Integration in Kubernetes - Harshal Patil, Red Hat — Harshal Patil, Red Hat

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of container orchestration, integrating specialized hardware devices like GPUs, FPGAs, or custom network cards into Kubernetes pods has historically presented…

• Wasm I Right or Wasm I Wrong? a Review of the Wasm Ecosystem - Taylor Thomas & David Justice — Taylor Thomas, David Justice

  In this insightful talk, "Wasm I Right or Wasm I Wrong? a Review of the Wasm Ecosystem," Taylor Thomas and David Justice, both co-chairs of the CNCF WASM working group, present an unvarnished truth…

• OpenTelemetry Project Update

  This talk provides a comprehensive update on the OpenTelemetry project, highlighting its significant growth, ongoing developments, and strategic roadmap. Presented by key members of the…

• Optimizing Training Performance for Large Language Model(LLM) in Kubernetes - Klaus Ma & Peng Gu — Klaus Ma, Peng Gu

  This talk, presented by Klaus Ma from Nvidia and Peng Gu from an unnamed technical startup, delves into the critical area of optimizing **Large Language Model (LLM)** training performance within…

• Beyond CloudEvents: Endpoints, Messages, Schemas – CNCF XRegistry - Manuel Ottlik, HDI Global SE — Manuel Ottlik, HDI Global SE

  This talk, presented by Manuel Ottlik of HDI Global SE, delves into the evolution of event-driven architecture tooling within the CNCF ecosystem, specifically focusing on **CloudEvents** and the…

• Jaeger V2: OpenTelemetry at the Core of Modern Distributed Tracing - Jonah Kowall, Paessler — Jonah Kowall, Paessler

  Jonah Kowall, a maintainer of the Jaeger project, delivered an insightful talk at KubeCon EU, unveiling Jaeger version 2 – a monumental multi-year effort to re-platform the distributed tracing…

• Simplifying Apache Kafka on Kubernetes With Strimzi - Paolo Patierno & Gantigmaa Selenge, Red Hat — Paolo Patierno, Gantigmaa Selenge, Red Hat

  This talk, delivered by Paolo Patierno and Gantigmaa Selenge (Tina), both Software Engineers at Red Hat and core maintainers of Strimzi, provides an in-depth look at the evolution of running Apache…

• SIG Cloud Provider Deep Dive: Testing Cloud Cont... Michael McCune, Bridget Kromhout & Walter Fender — Michael McCune, Bridget Kromhout, Walter Fender

  This talk, presented by Michael McCune, Bridget Kromhout, and Walter Fender, provides a comprehensive deep dive into the current state and future direction of the **SIG Cloud Provider** within the…

• Cloud Native Storage and Data: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Te... Raffaele Spazzoli & Alex Chircop — Raffaele Spazzoli, Alex Chircop

  This session, presented by Alex Chircop, Jing, and Raffaele Spazzoli, offers a comprehensive exploration of cloud-native storage within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem. It…

• Standardizing CI/CD Observability With OpenTelemetry: Insights Fr... Dotan Horovits & Adriel Perkins — Dotan Horovits, Adriel Perkins

  The modern software development lifecycle is increasingly reliant on robust **CI/CD pipelines**, yet a significant challenge persists: the lack of standardized **observability** within these…

• OpenFeature Update From the Maintainers - Thomas Poignant, Lukas Reining & Alexandra Oberaigner — Thomas Poignant, Lukas Reining, Alexandra Oberaigner

  This session provides a comprehensive update on OpenFeature, a CNCF incubating project dedicated to standardizing feature flagging. Presented by core maintainers Thomas Poignant, Lukas Reining, and…

• Attesting and Verifying Your Software Supply-Chain With In-toto - Alan Chung Ma & Justin Cappos — Alan Chung Ma, Justin Cappos

  In an era of escalating software supply chain attacks, securing the integrity and provenance of software artifacts has become paramount. This talk by Justin Cappos, a professor at NYU and creator of…

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

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Matt Farina, a Staff Software Engineer at SUSE and a long-time Helm maintainer, delved into the powerful, yet often underutilized, capabilities of…

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

  The "Kubernetes Data Protection WG Deep Dive" session at KubeCon EU provided a comprehensive update on the ongoing efforts to mature data protection capabilities within the Kubernetes ecosystem…

• Simplifying the Networking and Secur... Bill Mulligan, Anna Kapuścińska, Bowei Du & Amir Kheirkhahan — Bill Mulligan, Anna Kapuścińska, Bowei Du, Amir Kheirkhahan

  This KubeCon EU maintainers track session, "Simplifying the Networking and Security Stack with Cilium," delves into the transformative capabilities of **Cilium**, an eBPF-powered cloud-native…

• A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code - Jim Bugwadia, Rita Zhang, Andy Suderman & Joe Betz — Jim Bugwadia, Rita Zhang, Andy Suderman, Joe Betz

  This talk, "A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code," presented by a panel of distinguished experts from Google, Microsoft, Fairwinds, and Nurmada, delves into the critical role of policy in…

• SIG Instrumentation Introduction... Damien Grisonnet, Pranshu Srivastava, Yongrui Lin & Richa Banker — Damien Grisonnet, Pranshu Srivastava, Yongrui Lin, Richa Banker

  Operating and debugging complex distributed systems like Kubernetes at scale demands robust observability. The Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Instrumentation is at the forefront of…

• Advancements in AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes From... Yuan Tang & Eduardo Arango Gutierrez — Yuan Tang, Eduardo Arango Gutierrez

  This KubeCon EU talk provided a comprehensive update from the Kubernetes Working Group Serving (WG Serving), a crucial initiative dedicated to enhancing Kubernetes for the unique and demanding…

• Kubernetes CRD Design for the Long Haul: Tips, Tricks, and... Christian Schlotter & Fabrizio Pandini — Christian Schlotter, Fabrizio Pandini

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Christian Schlotter and Fabrizio Pandini, both maintainers of **Cluster API**, delve into the intricacies of designing robust and extensible **Custom Resource…

• Tutorial: Exploring Multi-Tenant Kubernetes APIs and Controllers With Kcp

  This tutorial, presented at KubeCon EU, delves into **KCP**, an open-source, horizontally scalable **Kubernetes-like control plane** designed for building and managing custom APIs across…

• Reliable K8s Resource Submission & Bookkeeping - Tiancheng Yin & Yao Lin, Bloomberg — Tiancheng Yin, Yao Lin, Bloomberg

  This talk, presented by Tiancheng Yin and Yao Lin from Bloomberg's Workflow Orchestration team, addresses the critical challenges of reliably submitting and tracking Kubernetes resources in a highly…

• How the SIG-Multicluster API Specifications Are Used for Real World... August Simonelli & Ryan Zhang — August Simonelli, Ryan Zhang

  The proliferation of Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments has introduced significant operational complexities, particularly in managing applications and infrastructure consistently. This…

• gRPC: 5 Years Later, Is It Still Worth It? - Konstantin Ostrovsky, Torq.io — Konstantin Ostrovsky, Torq.io

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Konstantin Ostrovsky, Chief Architect at Torq.io, offers a comprehensive retrospective on his team's five-to-six-year journey utilizing **gRPC** in a production…

• Building WebAssembly Like It's 2011 - David Justice, Microsoft & Terence Lee, Heroku/Salesforce — David Justice, Microsoft, Terence Lee, Heroku/Salesforce

  This talk, "Building WebAssembly Like It's 2011," delivered by David Justice of Microsoft and Terence Lee of Heroku/Salesforce at KubeCon EU, delves into the challenges of building and composing…

• From 0 To Production-Grade With Kubernetes Native Development - Thomas Vitale & Kevin Dubois — Thomas Vitale, Kevin Dubois

  This talk, "From 0 To Production-Grade With Kubernetes Native Development," by Kevin Dubois and Thomas Vitale, delves into the evolving landscape of software development for **Kubernetes**…

• Dapr + Score: Mixing the Perfect Cocktail for an Enhanced Develope... Mathieu Benoit & Kendall Roden — Mathieu Benoit, Kendall Roden

  This talk, "Dapr + Score: Mixing the Perfect Cocktail for an Enhanced Developer Experience," delivered by Kendall Roden and Mathieu Benoit at KubeCon EU, delves into how the **Distributed…

• Museum of Weird Bugs: Our Favorites From 8 Years of Service Mesh Debugging - Alex Leong, Buoyant — Alex Leong, Buoyant

  In this insightful talk, Alex Leong, a long-standing maintainer of the Linkerd project at Buoyant, takes attendees on a journey through the "Museum of Weird Bugs." Leong shares some of the most…

• Why Allyship Matters and Your Role in Creating a More Diverse Cloud Native Community

  This panel discussion, moderated by Katherine Paganini, delves into the critical importance of **allyship** in fostering a more diverse and inclusive cloud-native community, with a specific focus on…

• OSS = Open Source ... Strategy!? Google Is Doubling Down on K8s in the AI Era, and Yo... ago Macleod — Strategy!? Google Is Doubling Down on K8s in the AI Era, and Yo... ago Macleod

  This talk, delivered by Macleod at KubeCon EU, provides a comprehensive look into Google's strategic approach to open-source software, particularly its unwavering commitment to Kubernetes in the…

• The Bricks That Make Us – How the LEGO Group Avoids 50 Medio... Thomas Øther Rasmussen & Paul Farver — Thomas Øther Rasmussen, Paul Farver

  In a compelling KubeCon EU talk, Thomas Øther Rasmussen and Paul Farver from the LEGO Group unveiled their strategic approach to platform engineering, demonstrating how a large, decentralized…

• Navigating the Waters: Balancing Open Source Activities in Corporate... Kim McMahon & Amanda Katona — Kim McMahon, Amanda Katona

  In the dynamic landscape where open source innovation meets corporate imperatives, the KubeCon EU talk "Navigating the Waters: Balancing Open Source Activities in Corporate Environments" by Kim…

• KubeEdge Graduation Journey: Creating a Diverse and Collaborative Open S... Yue Bao & Hongbing Zhang — Yue Bao, Hongbing Zhang

  In this insightful KubeCon EU presentation, Yue Bao and Hongbing Zhang delved into the remarkable journey of KubeEdge, the industry's first cloud-native edge computing framework, culminating in its…

• A Comparative Analysis of Kueue, Volcano, and YuniKorn - Wei Huang, Apple & Shiming Zhang, DaoCloud — Wei Huang, Apple, Shiming Zhang, DaoCloud

  This talk provides an in-depth, comparative analysis of three prominent Kubernetes batch schedulers: **Kueue**, **Volcano**, and **YuniKorn**. Presented by Wei Huang from Apple AML, a co-chair and…

• Logs, Metrics, Traces and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure... Jay Clifford & Tom Glenn — Jay Clifford, Tom Glenn

  In an engaging and unconventional KubeCon EU session, Jay Clifford and Tom Glenn, Developer Advocates at Grafana Labs, took attendees on an "Interactive Observability Adventure." This talk…

• Learning Kubernetes Through the Lens of Metrics - Priyanka Saggu & Mario Jason Braganza — Priyanka Saggu, Mario Jason Braganza

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Priyanka Saggu and Mario Jason Braganza presented a unique methodology for understanding the intricate workings of Kubernetes: by dissecting the vast array of…

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

  In his KubeCon EU talk, "K8s in Wonderland: Why? Many of Unknown Code in My Workload?", Hoon Jo from Megazone invites attendees to "down to the Kubernetes hole," echoing Alice's journey into…

• "Izzy Saves the Birthday" - A Story-Driven Live Demo Exploring the Ma... Lin Sun & Faseela Kundattil — A Story-Driven Live Demo Exploring the Ma... Lin Sun, Faseela Kundattil

  In an engaging and highly accessible presentation at KubeCon EU, Lin Sun and Faseela Kundattil unveiled "Izzy Saves the Birthday," a unique talk that blended storytelling with a live technical…

• Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platf... Whitney Lee & Viktor Farcic — Whitney Lee, Viktor Farcic

  In the sprawling landscape of cloud-native technologies, developers often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer number of choices and the complexity of integrating them. This talk, "Choose Your…

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

  In this KubeCon EU talk, Google Cloud's Abdel Sghiouar and Mofi Rahman tackle a pressing question for many organizations: how to effectively deploy and manage Large Language Models (LLMs) on…

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

  In this KubeCon EU session, Carlos Santana, a Solutions Architect at AWS and a CNCF Ambassador, demystifies the intricate process of integrating Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) with Kubernetes…

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

  In an era where the environmental impact of technology is under increasing scrutiny, the talk "How Green Is My OpenTelemetry Collector?" presented by Adriana Villela and Nancy Chauhan at KubeCon EU…

• An Exemplary Path: Leveraging EBPFs and OpenTelemetry To Aut... Charlie Le & Kruthika Prasanna Simha — Charlie Le, Kruthika Prasanna Simha

  In the complex landscape of modern distributed systems, debugging performance issues and identifying root causes remains a significant challenge. Traditional observability stacks often present data…

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

  In this insightful talk, "Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics: Observability for AI," Nicole van der Hoeven, a Senior Developer Advocate and performance engineer at Grafana Labs, explores the critical…

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

  This talk, presented by Karthik Kalyanaraman from Langtrace AI (with contributions from Guangya Liu of IBM), provides a comprehensive exploration of **AI agent observability**. It addresses the…

• Enhancing Database Observability With OpenTelemetry - Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs — Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Marylia Gutierrez, a Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, delves into the critical area of **database observability** and how it can be significantly enhanced…

• Expanding eBPF’s Reach: From Batteries-Included Auto-Instrumentation To E2E Observab... Dom Del Nano — Dom Del Nano

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Dom Del Nano, CEO and founder of Cosmic and a CNCF Pixie core maintainer, delves into the evolving landscape of observability in modern cloud-native environments…

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

  In the fast-paced world of cloud-native development, ensuring the reliability and performance of services from their inception is paramount. This talk, "First Day Foresight: Anomaly Detection for…

• Flink on Karmada: Building Resilient Data Pipelines on Multi-Cluster K8s - Michas Szacillo & Wang Li — Michas Szacillo, Wang Li

  This talk, presented by Michas Szacillo and Wang Li from Bloomberg, delves into the critical challenges of operating large-scale, stateful streaming applications like Apache Flink in a multi-cluster…

• Unleashing the Power of Init Containers: Reducing Database Management To... Muhammad Junaid Muzammil — Muhammad Junaid Muzammil

  In this insightful talk from KubeCon EU 2025, Muhammad Junaid Muzammil, a Tech Lead in the Database Reliability Engineering group at Yelp, illuminated the often-underappreciated power of Kubernetes…

• Trino and Data Governance on Kubernetes - Sung Yun & Aki Sukegawa, Bloomberg — Sung Yun, Aki Sukegawa, Bloomberg

  This talk by Sung Yun and Aki Sukegawa from Bloomberg delves into the sophisticated deployment of **Trino** as a managed service on **Kubernetes**, specifically addressing the complex requirements…

• The Future of Data on Kubernetes... Rob Strechay, Nimisha Mehta, Gabriele Bartolini & Brian Kaufman — Rob Strechay, Nimisha Mehta, Gabriele Bartolini, Brian Kaufman

  This talk, presented as a panel discussion at KubeCon EU, delves into the rapidly evolving landscape of data management on **Kubernetes**, specifically focusing on its critical role in fueling…

• Streamlined Efficiency: Unshackling Kubernetes Image Volumes for Rapid A... Esteban Rey & Yifan Yuan — Esteban Rey, Yifan Yuan

  This talk, presented by Esteban Rey from Microsoft and Yifan Yuan from Alibaba Cloud, addresses a critical bottleneck in modern AI/ML workloads running on Kubernetes: the inefficient loading of…

• Stateful Superpowers: Explore High Performa... Alex Chircop, Chris Milsted & Alex Reid, Lori Lorusso — Alex Chircop, Chris Milsted, Alex Reid, Lori Lorusso

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, "Stateful Superpowers: Explore High Performance Cloud Native Storage," Alex Chircop, Lori Lorusso, Alex Reid, and Chris Milsted challenged the common…

• Scaling Shopify's Search: Enhancing Elasticsearch Resilience With Kubernetes and KE... Leila Vayghan — Leila Vayghan

  In this insightful talk from KubeCon EU, Leila Vayghan, a Site Reliability Engineer in Shopify’s resiliency organization, detailed a critical project aimed at dramatically improving Elasticsearch…

• The Next Generation of DaemonSet Autoscaling - Adam Bernot & Bryan Boreham — Adam Bernot, Bryan Boreham

  This talk, presented by Adam Bernot of Google Cloud and Bryan Boreham of Grafana Labs, addresses a long-standing challenge in Kubernetes: efficiently managing resource requests for **DaemonSets**…

• The Life (or Death) of a Kubernetes API Request, 2025 Edition - Abu Kashem & Stefan Schimanski — Abu Kashem, Stefan Schimanski

  This talk, "The Life (or Death) of a Kubernetes API Request, 2025 Edition," delivered by Abu Kashem and Stefan Schimanski, provides an exhaustive technical deep dive into the intricate journey of a…

• Superpowers for Humans of Kubernetes: How K8sGPT Is Transforming Enter... Alex Jones & Anais Urlichs — Alex Jones, Anais Urlichs

  The rapid adoption and increasing complexity of Kubernetes environments present significant challenges for platform engineering and SRE teams. In their KubeCon EU talk, Alex Jones, a Principal…

• The API Gateway Maturity Matrix: Where Do You Rank? - Joel Hans, ngrok — Joel Hans, ngrok

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Joel Hans, a Developer Advocate at ngrok, introduced the **API Gateway Maturity Matrix**, a practical framework designed to help organizations self-assess the…

• The Explorer's Guide To Cloud Native GenAI Platform Engineering - Max Körbächer & Alexa Griffith — Max Körbächer, Alexa Griffith

  This talk, "The Explorer's Guide To Cloud Native GenAI Platform Engineering," presented by Max Körbächer and Alexa Griffith, a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, provides a comprehensive journey…

• The GPUs on the Bus Go ‘Round and ‘Round - Natalie Bandel & Ryan Hallisey, NVIDIA — Natalie Bandel, Ryan Hallisey, NVIDIA

  In the highly dynamic and resource-intensive world of cloud infrastructure, managing the reliability of specialized hardware like Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) presents a significant operational…

• A Fork to Reckon With: Minimizing Friction When Adopting... Alexander Perlman & Narayanamurthi Mari — Alexander Perlman, Narayanamurthi Mari

  In today's fast-paced technological landscape, the adoption of open-source software (OSS) is almost a prerequisite for innovation and efficiency. However, for organizations operating in highly…

• Don't Write Controllers Like Charlie Don't Does: Avoiding Common Kubernetes Controller... Nick Young — Nick Young

  This article delves into the critical and often challenging domain of writing Kubernetes controllers, particularly those interacting with **Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)**. Presented by Nick…

• Day-2’000 - Migration From Kubeadm+Ansible To ClusterAPI+Talos: A Swiss Bank’s... Clément Nussbaumer — Migration From Kubeadm+Ansible To ClusterAPI+Talos: A Swiss Bank’s... Clément Nussbaumer

  In this insightful KubeCon EU presentation, Clément Nussbaumer, a software engineer at the Swiss bank Post Finance, detailed a significant operational challenge: the in-place migration of…

• Dashboards & Dragons: Crafting SLOs To Tame the AI Platform Cha... Alexa Griffith & Ankita Chaudhari — Alexa Griffith, Ankita Chaudhari

  In "Dashboards & Dragons: Crafting SLOs To Tame the AI Platform Chaos at Scale," Alexa Griffith and Ankita Chaudhari from Bloomberg delve into the critical role of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in…

• Orchestrating AI Models in Kubernetes: Deploying Ollama as a Nati... Samuel Veloso & Lucas Fernández — Samuel Veloso, Lucas Fernández

  This talk, presented by Samuel Veloso and Lucas Fernández at KubeCon EU, delves into an innovative approach for deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) models within Kubernetes environments…

• Production-Ready LLMs on Kubernetes: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Performa... Priya Samuel & Luke Marsden — Priya Samuel, Luke Marsden

  In an era where the landscape of Artificial Intelligence evolves at an astonishing pace, organizations are increasingly seeking robust, secure, and cost-effective ways to deploy large language…

• More Nodes, More Problems: Solving Multi-Host GPU/TPU Scheduli... John Belamaric & Morten Torkildsen — John Belamaric, Morten Torkildsen

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and machine learning, workloads are continually growing in scale and complexity, often demanding vast arrays of specialized hardware such…

• Slinky: Slurm in Kubernetes, Performant AI and HPC Workload Management in Kubernetes - Tim Wickberg — Tim Wickberg

  In this KubeCon EU talk, Tim Wickberg, CTO of SKTMD, introduced **Slinky**, an ambitious open-source project designed to bridge the long-standing gap between traditional High-Performance Computing…

• Scaling GPU Clusters Without Melting Down! - Alay Patel & Ryan Hallisey, NVIDIA — Alay Patel, Ryan Hallisey, NVIDIA

  In an era where Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming exponentially more powerful, enabling complex AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads, the challenge of scaling…

• Making the Leap: What Gateway API Needs To Support Ingress-NGINX Users - Rob Scott & James Strong — Rob Scott, James Strong

  This talk, presented by Rob Scott of Google and James Strong of Isovalent (now Cisco), addresses the critical transition facing a vast segment of the Kubernetes community: the migration of users…

• Uncharted Waters: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Networking - Miguel Duarte Barroso & Lionel Jouin — Miguel Duarte Barroso, Lionel Jouin

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto orchestrator for containerized workloads. However, its historically opinionated…

• Taming the Traffic: Select... Spencer Hance, Arko Dasgupta, Christine Kim, Kate Osborn & Mike Morris — Spencer Hance, Arko Dasgupta, Christine Kim, Kate Osborn, Mike Morris

  This panel discussion, "Taming the Traffic: Selecting the Perfect Gateway API Implementation for You," addresses a critical challenge faced by organizations adopting Kubernetes: navigating the…

• The Great Sidecar Debate - William Morgan, Buoyant — William Morgan, Buoyant

  In "The Great Sidecar Debate," William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and a driving force behind the Linkerd service mesh, presents a thought-provoking analysis of service mesh architectures, challenging…

• Was Leslie Lamport Right? - Sarah Christoff, Edera & Nic Jackson, Hashicorp — Sarah Christoff, Edera, Nic Jackson, Hashicorp

  In this engaging KubeCon EU talk, "Was Leslie Lamport Right?", Sarah Christoff and Nic Jackson take attendees on a journey through the foundational concepts of distributed systems, as pioneered by…

• The Ultimate Container Challenge: An Interactive Trivia Game on OC... Aurélie Vache & Sherine Khoury — Aurélie Vache, Sherine Khoury

  This KubeCon EU session, "The Ultimate Container Challenge," transcended a typical presentation by engaging the audience in an interactive trivia game designed to test and deepen their understanding…

• Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Sign and Verify All the Things - Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft — Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native development, securing the software supply chain has become a paramount concern. Jeremy Rickard, a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure and…

• Securing AI Workloads: Building Zero-Trust Architecture for LLM Appl... Rohit Ghumare & Joinal Ahmed — Rohit Ghumare, Joinal Ahmed

  In an era where Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly integrating into virtually every sector, the security implications of these powerful AI applications are becoming increasingly critical. This…

• Trust No One: Secure Storage With Confidential Containers - Aurélien Bombo, Microsoft — Aurélien Bombo, Microsoft

  In his KubeCon EU talk, Aurélien Bombo from Microsoft presented a comprehensive overview of securing storage within **Confidential Containers** (often referred to as **CoCo**), a critical…

• Project Lightning Talk: Capsule: Launching Multi-Tenancy to New Kubernetes Hor... Dario Tranchitella — Dario Tranchitella

  Dario Tranchitella, the creator of Project Capsule, delivered an insightful lightning talk at KubeCon EU, introducing Capsule as a pivotal solution for managing multi-tenancy within Kubernetes…

• Project Lightning Talk: Sailing Multi-Host Inference with LWS - Kante Yin, Maintainer — Kante Yin, Maintainer

  The rapid ascent of large language models (LLMs) has introduced a significant operational challenge: their sheer size often exceeds the capacity of a single computational node, necessitating…

• Project Lightning Talk: Stir to Combine: Creating Porter Mixins - Sarah Christoff, Maintainer — Sarah Christoff, Maintainer

  In this KubeCon EU lightning talk, Sarah Christoff, the lead maintainer for **Porter**, introduced attendees to this cloud-native, tool-agnostic project. Porter is a CNCF sandbox project designed to…

• Project Lightning Talk: You Can Score It! Shift Down to the Platform. Do Not Shift... Mathieu Benoit — Mathieu Benoit

  In this KubeCon EU lightning talk, Mathieu Benoit, representing the CNCF Score project, introduced an innovative approach to workload specification and deployment designed to abstract away…

• Project Lightning Talk: OpenFGA: The Cloud Native Way to Implement Fine Grained Aut... Andres Aguiar — Andres Aguiar

  In the realm of modern cloud-native applications, managing access control with precision and scalability is a formidable challenge. Andres Aguiar's KubeCon EU talk introduces **OpenFGA**, an…

• Project Lightning Talk: Flux - What is it & What's New? - Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer — Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer
• Project Lightning Talk: Extend Large Language Model Training Beyond Single Kubernetes Cl... Klaus Ma — Klaus Ma

  In this concise yet impactful lightning talk at KubeCon EU, Klaus Ma, a prominent figure in the Kubernetes community and founder of the Volcano project, addressed the critical challenges associated…

• Project Lightning Talk: Quick Intro to CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry - Dotan Horovits — Dotan Horovits

  In this insightful lightning talk at KubeCon Europe 2025, Dotan Horovits, a long-standing advocate for robust software delivery insights, introduced the critical advancements in **CI/CD…

• Project Lightning Talk: Empowering Data Protection for Stateful Applications on Kuberne... Mark Lavi — Mark Lavi

  In an era where Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for deploying containerized applications, the landscape of data management within these dynamic environments has grown increasingly…

• Project Lightning Talk: Project Copacetic - Jeremy Rickard, Maintainer — Jeremy Rickard, Maintainer

  In the dynamic and often perilous landscape of cloud-native security, managing vulnerabilities within container images remains a perennial challenge for organizations. Jeremy Rickard, a maintainer…

• Project Lightning Talk: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Lori Larusso & Gerald Venzl — Lori Larusso, Gerald Venzl

  In a KubeCon EU lightning talk, Lori Larusso and Gerald Venzl presented "Project Lightning Talk: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape," offering attendees a concise yet comprehensive tour of…

• Project Lightning Talk: Kubeflow Helm Chart - Krzysztof Romanowski, Maintainer — Krzysztof Romanowski, Maintainer

  Krzysztof Romanowski, a lead Kubernetes engineer at Roche, presented a focused talk at KubeCon EU on a critical development for the **Kubeflow** ecosystem: a new **Helm chart** designed to…

• Project Lightning Talk: What's New in k8gb: CNCF's Multicluster Global Balancer - Bradley Andersen — Bradley Andersen

  In this lightning talk at KubeCon EU, Bradley Andersen, Community Manager for k8gb, provided a comprehensive update on k8gb, a **Global Service Load Balancer (GSLB)** for Kubernetes. The project…

• Project Lightning Talk: Kubernetes Ontologies With Meshery - Yash Sharma, Maintainer — Yash Sharma, Maintainer

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native infrastructure, managing Kubernetes deployments efficiently and securely remains a significant challenge. Yash Sharma, a developer advocate at…

• Project Lightning Talk: Scheduling AI Workload Among Multiple Clusters - Josh Packer, Supporter — Josh Packer, Supporter

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native computing, managing and orchestrating workloads across multiple Kubernetes clusters has become a critical challenge, especially for…

• Project Lightning Talk: Multi-Arch KubeVirt and CDI - C. A. Fillekes, WG Chair — C. A. Fillekes, WG Chair

  In a concise yet impactful lightning talk at KubeCon EU, C. A. Fillekes, a WG Chair and Red Hat partner engineer at IBM Systems, presented a critical advancement in cloud-native virtualization: the…

• Project Lightning Talk: API Management in the CRD World: What Linkerd Has Learned - Phil Henderson — Phil Henderson

  In this insightful lightning talk from KubeCon EU, Phil Henderson, a Customer Success Engineer at Buoyant, shared Linkerd's hard-won lessons in navigating the complex landscape of API management…

• Project Lightning Talk: What's New in Istio? - Mitch Connors, Maintainer — Mitch Connors, Maintainer

  This talk, initially framed as "What's New in Istio?", quickly pivots to a more fundamental exploration: "What is Istio?". Delivered by Mitch Connors, a Principal Engineer at Microsoft and a…

• Project Lightning Talk: Protect your Kubernetes Clusters with Ratify and Attestations - Yi Zha — Yi Zha

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native development, securing the software supply chain has become a paramount concern. Yi Zha, a maintainer of the Notary Project and now Ratify, delivered…

• Project Lightning Talk: external-secrets: Zero Trust Secrets Management with ESO - Moritz Johner — Moritz Johner

  In the dynamic landscape of cloud-native applications, managing sensitive data like API keys, database credentials, and certificates within Kubernetes clusters presents a persistent security…

• Project Lightning Talk: Maturing Bare Metal Provisioning With Metal3 - Ádám Rozmán, Maintainer — Ádám Rozmán, Maintainer

  In this lightning talk at KubeCon EU, Ádám Rozmán, a maintainer of the Metal3 project, provided a comprehensive update on the project's journey towards maturity and its significant advancements in…

• Project Lightning Talk: Notary Project: Securing Binary Artifacts with Fine-grained Control - Yi Zha — Yi Zha

  In an era marked by escalating cyberattacks targeting the software supply chain, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of digital artifacts has become paramount. This talk, delivered by Yi Zha, a…

• Project Lightning Talk: A Security Engineer’s Guide to TAG Security - Brandt Keller, Technical Lead — Brandt Keller, Technical Lead

  In an era where the cloud-native landscape is expanding at an unprecedented rate, securing its foundational projects has become a critical challenge that necessitates a collective and scalable…

• Project Lightning Talk: ORAS: Create and Distribute a Multi-platform Image with Secu... Andrew Block — Andrew Block

  In this lightning talk at KubeCon EU, Andrew Block, a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat and a maintainer of the ORAS project, delved into the capabilities of ORAS for managing and distributing…

• Project Lightning Talk: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landsc... Katherine Druckman & Lori Lorusso — Katherine Druckman, Lori Lorusso

  The cloud-native ecosystem has experienced explosive growth over the past decade, transforming how organizations develop, deploy, and manage applications. This rapid expansion, while fostering…

• Project Lightning Talk: Opening + Welcome - Jorge Castro, CNCF — Jorge Castro, CNCF

  Jorge Castro, a seasoned CNCF staffer, delivered the opening and welcome address for the Project Lightning Talks at KubeCon EU. Far from a traditional technical presentation, this talk served as a…

• Scale Smarter Not Harder: How Extending Cluster Autoscaler Saves Mi... Rahul Rangith & Ben Hinthorne — Rahul Rangith, Ben Hinthorne

  In this insightful talk from KubeCon EU, Datadog software engineers Ben Hinthorne and Rahul Rangith unveil a sophisticated approach to Kubernetes node autoscaling that has yielded millions in cost…

• Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects (Redux) - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso — Daniel Bryant, Syntasso

  Daniel Bryant’s KubeCon EU talk, "Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects (Redux)," delivers a comprehensive and insightful exploration into the evolving landscape of platform…

• Making CRDs Delightful: Beyond the Pitfalls - Evan Anderson, Stacklok, Inc — Evan Anderson, Stacklok, Inc

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Evan Anderson, a founder of the Knative project and an experienced engineer from Stacklok, VMware, and Google Cloud, tackles a critical yet often overlooked…

• Leveraging Internal Knowledge: Building AiKA at Spotify - Majd Salman & Jofre Mateu Matesanz — Majd Salman, Jofre Mateu Matesanz

  This talk, presented by Majd Salman and Jofre Mateu Matesanz, platform engineers in Spotify's Platform Developer Experience (PDX) department, details the creation and impact of **AiKA** (Artificial…

• Optimizing Metrics Collection & Serving When Autoscaling LLM Workloads - Vincent Hou & Jiří Kremser — Vincent Hou, Jiří Kremser

  This talk, delivered by Vincent Hou from Bloomberg and Jiří Kremser from Kify, addresses the critical challenge of efficiently autoscaling Large Language Model (LLM) workloads within Kubernetes…

• Observability Pipeline Query Languages: Present and the Future - Jacek Migdal, Quesma — Jacek Migdal, Quesma

  In this insightful talk from KubeCon EU, Jacek Migdal, founder of Quesma, tackles the pervasive fragmentation within observability pipeline query languages. Drawing from his decade-long experience…

• Limitless Possibilities, Consistent Design: Crafting Dashboards... Nicolas Takashi & Antoine Thébaud — Nicolas Takashi, Antoine Thébaud

  This talk, presented by Nicolas Takashi and Antoine Thébaud, introduces **Perses**, an innovative open-source **observability visualization tool** designed to standardize and streamline dashboard…

• How To Adopt OpenTelemetry in an Enterprise Where Incumbent Vendor Tools Reign Supre... Chris Weldon — Chris Weldon

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Chris Weldon, Director of Platform Engineering at Wolters Kluwer, Tax & Accounting North America, shares the company's transformative journey from a heavily…

• Pushing the Limits of Prometheus at Etsy - Chris Leavoy, Etsy & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs — Chris Leavoy, Etsy, Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs

  This article delves into the intricate challenges and innovative solutions Etsy encountered while operating one of the largest single Prometheus servers in the industry. Presented by Chris Leavoy…

• OTel Sucks (But Also Rocks!) - Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden & Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace — Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden, Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace

  In a candid and highly engaging presentation at KubeCon EU, Juraci Paixão Kröhling from OligGarden and Daniel Dyla from Dynatrace tackled the complexities and contradictions of OpenTelemetry (OTEL)…

• Challenges of and Solutions for Migrating Spark From Legacy Hadoop Clu... Neha Singla & Rasik Pandey — Neha Singla, Rasik Pandey

  This talk, presented by Neha Singla and Rasik Pandey from Apple, delves into the intricate journey of migrating large-scale Apache Spark workloads from traditional bare-metal Hadoop clusters to a…

• OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons... Reese Lee & Adriana Villela — Reese Lee, Adriana Villela

  In this insightful KubeCon EU session, Adriana Villela and Reese Lee, both prominent maintainers of the **OpenTelemetry (OTel)** End User **Special Interest Group (SIG)**, shared their comprehensive…

• Navigating the Inevitable: Kubernetes Breaking Changes Behind the Scenes - Marko Mudrinić — Marko Mudrinić

  In this insightful KubeCon EU session, Marko Mudrinić, a Senior Software Engineer at Kubermatic and a prominent figure in the Kubernetes community, including his roles as SIG K-infra Tech Lead and…

• Hot Takes: Kubernetes Paintainers Bring the Heat

  The KubeCon EU session "Hot Takes: Kubernetes Paintainers Bring the Heat" delivered a unique and highly engaging format, transforming a traditional panel discussion into a "Hot Ones"-style…

• Building a Ubiquitous Cloud Native: Beyond the Intersectionality

  This talk delves into the critical, often understated, work of building and sustaining cloud-native communities around the globe. Presented by Audrey Montenegro, a core CNCF employee focused on…

• A Practical Guide To Cloud Native Solutions: Demonstrating ROI and... Danielle Cook & Simon Forster — Danielle Cook, Simon Forster

  In this KubeCon EU session, Danielle Cook and Simon Forster, both **CNCF Ambassadors** and co-leads of the **Cartographist Working Group**, addressed a critical challenge facing technologists today…

• Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session - Orlin Vasilev & Vadim Bauer — Orlin Vasilev, Vadim Bauer

  This talk, delivered by Orlin Vasilev and Vadim Bauer at KubeCon EU, provides a comprehensive update on the **Harbor project**, a graduated cloud-native container registry within the CNCF ecosystem…

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

  The Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive session at KubeCon EU provided a comprehensive update on the state of storage within Kubernetes, delivered by two of its key leaders: Xing Yang from…

• Driving Chaos Engineering Forward: What’s New and Next With LitmusCha... Sarthak Jain & Saranya Jena — Sarthak Jain, Saranya Jena

  This talk, presented by Sarthak Jain and Saranya Jena, both Senior Software Engineers and maintainers of the project at Harness, provides a comprehensive update on LitmusChaos, a **CNCF incubating…

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

  This talk, delivered by David Ko, Engineering Director at SUSE, provides a comprehensive overview and deep dive into Longhorn, a distributed block storage solution specifically designed for…

• SIG Network Intro and Updates - Dan Winship, Nadia Pinaeva, Bowei Du & Daman Arora — Dan Winship, Nadia Pinaeva, Bowei Du, Daman Arora

  The "SIG Network Intro and Updates" session at KubeCon EU provided a comprehensive overview of the crucial work being undertaken by Kubernetes' Special Interest Group (SIG) Network. As the group…

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

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, "Wasm Whiplash: WasmCloud's Wild Ride To Standards," Brooks Townsend, a Senior Software Engineer at Cosmonic and a maintainer of the CNCF incubating project…

• Expanding the Contributor Pipeline Through Inclusion

  The KubeCon EU session, "Expanding the Contributor Pipeline Through Inclusion," delivered a compelling panel discussion on the critical role of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in fostering…

• Autonomous Al Agents for Cloud Cost Analysis - Ilya Lyamkin, Spotify — Ilya Lyamkin, Spotify

  In an insightful presentation at KubeCon EU, Ilya Lyamkin from Spotify delved into the transformative potential of **autonomous AI agents** for navigating the increasingly complex landscape of cloud…

• KubeCon FamilyFortune, Episode 2 - Tim Hockin, Google & Lucy Sweet, Uber — Tim Hockin, Google, Lucy Sweet, Uber

  "KubeCon FamilyFortune, Episode 2" was a highly anticipated and entertaining session at KubeCon EU, departing from traditional technical presentations to host a Kubernetes-themed game show. Hosted…

• Lightning Talk: High Availability With '503: Unavailable' - Robert-Jan Huijsman, Reboot — Robert-Jan Huijsman, Reboot

  In a world where engineers meticulously craft complex architectures to avoid returning a **503 Unavailable** error, Robert-Jan Huijsman of Reboot presented a provocative counter-narrative at KubeCon…

• Lightning Talk: Kueue: Save Some QPS for the Rest of Us! How To Manage 100k Updates Pe... P. Bundyra — P. Bundyra

  This lightning talk, delivered by P. Bundyra, a Google engineer, introduces **Kueue**, a cloud-native queuing system specifically designed for managing **AI workloads** within Kubernetes clusters…

• Lightning Talk: Observability Diet: Your 5-Step Plan To Trim the Data Fat - Pranay Prateek, SigNoz — Pranay Prateek, SigNoz

  In this insightful lightning talk, Pranay Prateek, co-founder and maintainer at SigNoz, addresses a pervasive challenge in modern software development: the ever-growing volume and cost of…

• Lightning Talk: Resource Roulette: Winning the Kubernetes Allocation Game - Daniele Polencic — Daniele Polencic

  In his KubeCon EU lightning talk, "Resource Roulette: Winning the Kubernetes Allocation Game," Daniele Polencic, an instructor from Learn Kubernetes, delves into one of the most persistent and…

• Lightning Talk: Rust Here, Rust There, Rust Everywhere! How a Crab Conquers the Cl... Sascha Grunert — Sascha Grunert

  Sascha Grunert's KubeCon EU lightning talk, "Rust Here, Rust There, Rust Everywhere! How a Crab Conquers the Cloud Native Landscape," provides a compelling overview of Rust's burgeoning presence and…

• Lightning Talk: There Is a New Volume Type in Town! - Mario Loriedo, Red Hat — Mario Loriedo, Red Hat

  In a concise yet impactful lightning talk at KubeCon EU, Mario Loriedo, a software engineer on the Podman team at Red Hat, unveiled a groundbreaking new feature coming to Kubernetes: **volumes of…

• Many Cooks, One Platform: Balancing Ownership and Contribution for the Perfect Broth - Lian Li — Lian Li

  In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Lian Li, a freelance platform engineer and co-chair of the CNCF TAG App Delivery, delves into the intricate challenges of building and evolving an internal…

• More Data Please: Hands on Green Cloud Experiments - Leonard Pahlke & Antonio Di Turi — Leonard Pahlke, Antonio Di Turi

  In "More Data Please: Hands on Green Cloud Experiments," Leonard Pahlke and Antonio Di Turi from KubeCon EU delve into the often-overlooked environmental impact of cloud computing. The talk…

• Cloud Native Wheel of Fortune: 5 Spins for 5 Topics! - Steve Wade, & Matteo Bianchi — Steve Wade,, Matteo Bianchi

  In a refreshing departure from traditional conference formats, Steve Wade and Matteo Bianchi presented "Cloud Native Wheel of Fortune," an interactive session at KubeCon EU designed to address the…

• Containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive - M. Pavlenko, A. Suda, L. Brehm, S. Karp, J. Zhou — M. Pavlenko, A. Suda, L. Brehm, S. Karp, J. Zhou

  This talk provides a comprehensive update on **Containerd**, the industry-standard container runtime, delivered by a panel of its core maintainers. The discussion spans recent advancements in…

• Project Lightning Talk: Vitess: Unlimited Database Scalability - Shlomi Noach, Maintainer — Shlomi Noach, Maintainer

  In this insightful lightning talk at KubeCon EU, Shlomi Noach, a long-standing maintainer of Vitess and an engineer at PlanetScale, presented a compelling case for **Vitess** as the ultimate…

• Tutorial: "Working Code Wins": Win Big With a Cloud Native Hackathon Start... P. Morton & A. Bangser — P. Morton, A. Bangser

  This KubeCon EU tutorial, "Working Code Wins: Win Big With a Cloud Native Hackathon Start," presented by P. Morton and A. Bangser, delves into the transformative power of platform engineering in…

• Tutorial: Build, Operate, and Use a Multi-Tenant AI Cluster Base... C. Misale, O. Tardieu & D. Grove — C. Misale, O. Tardieu, D. Grove

  In this comprehensive KubeCon EU session, Olivier Tardieu, Dave Grove, and Claudia Misale from IBM Research presented a detailed tutorial on building, operating, and effectively utilizing…

• Cloud Native Communities in Action: How Japan Shaped Its Path To KubeCon

  This insightful panel discussion, "Cloud Native Communities in Action: How Japan Shaped Its Path To KubeCon," brought together key figures instrumental in fostering the cloud-native ecosystem in…

• Beyond Security: Leveraging OPA for FinOps in Kubernetes - Sathish Kumar Venkatesan — Sathish Kumar Venkatesan

  In the dynamic landscape of cloud-native environments, managing costs effectively has become as critical as ensuring robust security. This talk, "Beyond Security: Leveraging OPA for FinOps in…

• AI Workload Preemption in a Multi-Cluster Scheduling System at Bloomberg - Leon Zhou & Wei-Cheng Lai — Leon Zhou, Wei-Cheng Lai

  This talk, presented by Wei-Cheng Lai and Leon Zhou from Bloomberg, delves into the sophisticated strategies employed by the financial technology giant to manage and prioritize thousands of AI…

• Extending Kubernetes for AI | Lessons Learned From Platform... - Susan, Lucy, Andrea, Etienne, Tim — Susan, Lucy, Andrea, Etienne, Tim

  This KubeCon EU panel discussion, "Extending Kubernetes for AI," brought together a diverse group of experts from Google Cloud, Uber, Weaviate, Overstory, and SchedMD to explore the intricate…

• Efficient Transparent Checkpointing of AI/ML Workloads in Kub... R. Stoyanov, A. Reber, V. Spišáková — R. Stoyanov, A. Reber, V. Spišáková

  This talk delves into a critical challenge facing modern cloud-native infrastructures, particularly those supporting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) workloads: the inefficient…

• Streamlined Efficiency: Unshackling Kubernetes Image Volumes for Rapid AI Model... E. Rey & Y. Yuan — E. Rey, Y. Yuan

  This talk, presented by E. Rey from Microsoft's Azure Container Registry team and Y. Yuan from Alibaba Cloud, addresses a critical bottleneck in modern AI/ML workflows: the inefficient loading of…

• Quantum-Ready Kubernetes: How Do We Get There?

  This panel discussion at KubeCon EU delves into the burgeoning intersection of **quantum computing** and **Kubernetes**, exploring the critical steps required to prepare cloud-native ecosystems for…

• Taking Care of Your Control Plane With API Priority and Fairness an... Matteo Ruina & Ayaz Badouraly — Matteo Ruina, Ayaz Badouraly

  In this comprehensive talk, Ayaz Badouraly and Matteo Ruina, software engineers at DataDog, delve into the critical challenges of maintaining the stability and reliability of the Kubernetes control…

• Taming 50 Billion Time Series: Operating Global-Scale Prometheus Dep... Orcun Berkem & Alan Protasio — Orcun Berkem, Alan Protasio

  This talk, presented by Orcun Berkem and Alan Protasio from AWS, delves into the intricate challenges and innovative solutions involved in operating a global-scale, **Prometheus**-compatible…

• Where’s All My Memory Gone? Mapping K8s Memory Metrics To Physical Resources - Mahé Tardy — Mahé Tardy

  Mahé Tardy, a software engineer at Isovalent (Cisco) working on the eBPF-based runtime security project **Tetragon** (part of **Cilium**), delivered a highly informative talk at KubeCon EU…

• Enhancing Software Composition Analysis Resilience Against Contai... Agathe Blaise & Jacopo Bufalino — Agathe Blaise, Jacopo Bufalino

  In the rapidly evolving landscape of containerized applications, **Software Composition Analysis (SCA)** tools are indispensable for identifying vulnerabilities within container images. However, a…

• Kubernetes Backup Legitimized: CSI Changed Block Tracking Has Arrived- M. Lavi, C. Braganza, X. Yang

  The KubeCon EU talk "Kubernetes Backup Legitimized: CSI Changed Block Tracking Has Arrived" delivered by Shing Yang, Mark Lavi, and Carl Braganza, introduced a pivotal advancement in Kubernetes data…

• Lightning Talk: Scheduling Success: Precision Updates for Continuous Manufacturing Op... J.C. Orozco — J.C. Orozco

  In this insightful lightning talk at KubeCon EU, J.C. Orozco, a DevOps Manager at Bosch Connected Industry, illuminated a critical operational challenge faced by large-scale manufacturers leveraging…

• C.A.L.L.I.N.G. Now I'm Calling You, Calling You Now - Mario Macías & Terra Tauri, Grafana Labs — Mario Macías, Terra Tauri, Grafana Labs

  This talk, "C.A.L.L.I.N.G. Now I'm Calling You, Calling You Now," presented by Mario Macías and Terra Tauri from Grafana Labs, delves into a critical operational challenge encountered when deploying…

• Resilient Multi-Cloud Strategies: Harnessing Kubernetes, Cluster API, and... T. Rahman & J. Mosquera — T. Rahman, J. Mosquera

  In a compelling presentation at KubeCon EU, Javier Mosquera Sanchez and Tazik from New Relic unveiled their innovative approach to managing a massive multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure. The talk…

• Graduated Project Updates - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
• BoF | Fueling Cloud Native: The Data We Have, the Data We Need - Hilary Carter, SVP Research — Hilary Carter, SVP Research

  In this Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at KubeCon EU, Hilary Carter, SVP Research at the Linux Foundation, illuminated the critical role of data-driven insights in navigating the complexities of…