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Staff Product Manager of Platform and Open Source, Intuit
Katie Lamkin is a Staff Product Manager of Platform and Open Source at Intuit, who works with application development teams to achieve operational excellence through CICD platforms and progressive delivery strategies. Katie has been a Cloud Architect and held Engineering Management... Read More →
Balaji is the Head of Product, Developer Tools at Red Hat, where he leads the development of products to address the needs of developers, including Red Hat Developer Hub (based on Backstage.io) and Podman Desktop. Before joining Red Hat, Balaji served as the Executive VP of Product... Read More →
Denis is Senior Director of the Product Excellence team at Solo.io, a company building application networking solutions for the edge and service mesh. Denis is a passionate engineer who has spent his career in technical roles working directly with customers and users in architecting... Read More →
Adam enjoys using his experience as a Platform Engineer. With 20 years of experience, Adam has an extensive database background, including SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Mongo, and Cassandra. He has built platforms using Cloud technologies and Gitops. When not working, you will find... Read More →
Matt is a software engineer at Tetrate, working on Istio-related products, and loves sharing the latest tech and trends with everyone. He's been doing Dev, sometimes with added Ops, for over a decade. His idea of "full-stack" is Linux, Kubernetes, and now Istio too. He's given many... Read More →
Argo Maintainer, Open GitOps Co-Creator, VP Open Source, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy
Dan Garfield is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo. As an Argo Maintainer, he works parmiarily on Argo CD and Argo Rollouts. He helped create the GitOps Working Group and Open GitOps Principles. He helped create the... Read More →
In this talk, we will explore how to unlock the full potential of Backstage by leveraging your greatest asset—your developer community. The first step in this journey is adoption and we’ll delve into proven strategies for driving users to Backstage across organizations, ensuring that it becomes an integral part of your engineering ecosystem. By presenting a phased maturity model, we will demonstrate how to engage users, foster continuous improvement, and empower teams to become active contributors, thus maximizing the benefits of “innersourcing”.
Additionally, we will share real-world success stories and lessons learned from various adopters, providing valuable insights and actionable takeaways. Whether you are just getting started, or looking to enhance your current implementation, this talk will equip you with the tools and knowledge to elevate your Backstage journey.
Joining Spotify in 2023 as a Senior Customer Success Engineer, Stanley helps organizations maximize the value of Backstage focusing on adoption and empowering engineering teams to collaborate. With over a decade of experience in software engineering, product strategy, and customer... Read More →
Sure, internal portals promise order and consistency, but what happens when you’re left with a Rube Goldberg machine of half-baked integrations? Join the founder of Northflank at KubeCon for a wake-up call: what’s trendy may not be what’s right for your organization. It’s time to focus on what really matters—delivering workloads. For realz.
In this talk, you’ll hear why gluing together countless widgets and screens can leave you with an unwieldy UI that merely documents your workloads, rather than actively driving them forward. A new coat of paint doesn’t make your foundation sturdy. Sure, a system of record is helpful when you want to know who owns which service, but it doesn’t do much to accelerate deployments, avoid infrastructure toil, or streamline your developers’ experience. Why settle for an incomplete solution pioneered by a music-streaming service, leaving you to fill in the missing pieces?
Focus on what matters: enabling your engineers to ship workloads with ease—because customers don’t pay you to write YAML.
We’ll explore how the evolution of infrastructure-as-code paves the way for a proper app platform—one that handles everything from automated deployments across preview, staging, and production. You’ll discover how a platform for workload delivery can give your team the confidence to move fast while retaining the flexibility to pivot across clouds or on-prem, all with a consistent experience that developers actually enjoy using.
By the end of this session, you’ll have a blueprint for a platform that’s not just a pretty interface, but a true system of action—one that supports containers, databases, microservices, and even batch jobs, all accessible through a UI, GitOps, CLI, or API. If you’re ready to shift from endless portal-building to true workload delivery, this talk is for you. Get ready to unleash a new era of developer empowerment.
In this 5-minute session, Jabed Amin, Developer Relations at Cortex.io, will explain how platform engineers can enhance their impact by treating their Internal Developer Portal as a product. By understanding internal customers’ needs, prioritizing features, and ensuring a seamless developer experience, platform engineers can 10x their team’s productivity. Join us to discover how adopting this mindset can transform your platform engineering efforts into a high-impact, developer-centric initiative that empowers your teams and drives organizational success.
Jabed Amin represents Developer Relations at Cortex.io. With over 10 years of experience in various software roles and as a developer, he has worked with hundreds of companies, delivering enterprise solutions, providing technical leadership, and contributing thought-provoking insights... Read More →
As multi-cloud architectures evolve; Kubernetes has become essential for managing containerized workloads across diverse cloud compute providers. But how does this paradigm shift extend to the AI-native application landscape?
In this keynote, Nathan Goulding of Vultr explores how Kubernetes serves as a critical abstraction layer for running containerized AI models across GPU providers while simultaneously managing application logic across CPU providers. Discover a cutting-edge, serverless cloud compute platform purpose-built for AI-native applications. This innovative approach ensures code and model portability, delivering unparalleled freedom, flexibility, and choice for developers and businesses navigating the future of AI and multi-cloud architecture
Nathan Goulding is an entrepreneurial-minded, product-focused technical leader with over 20 years of infrastructure, platform, and software as-a-service experience. As SVP, Engineering at Vultr, Nathan leads the engineering and technical product management teams. Prior to Vultr, Nathan... Read More →
AI development agents are changing enterprise software, and the infrastructure decisions platform teams make today will determine their readiness for this change.
This session will cover the agentic enterprise maturity model, covering key dimensions across: -Security, identity, and access controls. -Testing and quality assurance. -Hardware and compute resources. -People resourcing and change management.
We'll address: -Building secure infrastructure for human and AI developers. -Critical technology choices and decisions for your next 18 months. -How not to make compromises across productivity, security, and compliance. -Lessons for platform teams from early adopter
Lou is a PM at Gitpod, working with enterprise customers from some of the world's largest financial, insurance, and healthcare providers. Previously, Lou has worked across developer experience and platform teams, serving 10M+ users globally.
In this session we present best practices around advanced cloud-native application delivery and different GitOps promotion strategies across multi-cloud and edge. Whether you are a Platform Engineer, an Application Developer, or DevOps, this session will share the insights gained from the co-creators of the Argo project.
Christian is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and product management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. He is currently... Read More →
The Future is Backstage: Building a better platform from the framework up Every business is now a software business…and every company is now a technology company. The world of technology has become more fragmented than ever before — with workflows distributed across tons of tools, systems, and services. Additionally, teams are now distributed, and asynchronous collaboration has become the norm.
At Spotify, we believe that teams are most effective, and happiest, when the chaos is controlled so they can focus on innovating. That’s why we open sourced Backstage in 2020, and continue to invest in its future today. With Backstage, teams can spend more time innovating and delivering value to your organization — and a lot less on the noise.
Backstage’s success in open source — and its evolution as a mission-critical tool for Spotify’s R&D teams — has shown us that there’s opportunity to make that true not only for engineering teams, but for all the folks involved in developing software across your organization. In this keynote, we’ll dive into how Spotify is investing in the future of Backstage, and leading the way toward development best practices at-large.
Pia is Spotify’s Senior Director of Engineering and Head of Platform Developer Experience, working tirelessly to provide the best experience for Spotify’s developers. She started her career as a backend engineer for 14 years working across telecom, pharma, retail, banking, and... Read More →
Just like Kubernetes, Argo is deploying and winning everywhere, in the datacenter, behind the firewall, and at the edge. In our experience, we’ve seen every kind of deployment imaginable (and some that would truly surprise you) and we’ll share patterns for success along with what we’re doing to keep Argo working securely in all these diverse use cases.
As cloud-native development accelerates, observability is no longer a nice-to-have, but a necessity. This session explores key trends shaping the observability space, including the role of AI in transforming monitoring practices, the rise of open standards like OpenTelemetry, and how platforms like New Relic are adapting to meet the needs of developers and SREs to monitor traffic, microservices and cloud infrastructure or your AI/LLM integrations. Join us for a brief overview into the future of observability and how to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry
Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Main focus on cloud-native software architectures and all major cloud environments. Passion for model-driven development, application modernization and Dapr. Observing... Read More →
OpenTofu is just over a year old, and registry requests have already reached more than 6 million per day. That kind of phenomenal growth would be impossible without the foundation of community governance and impartiality that underpins OpenTofu.
In this keynote, OpenTofu Technical Lead Christian Mesh celebrates the role these principles have played in fueling OpenTofu’s innovation and rapid adoption. He’ll set the stage for a day of technical discussions led by community users and experts and share insights into OpenTofu’s future.
With over a year of OpenTofu development under his belt, Christian is a Core Engineer and Tech Lead of OpenTofu. He is generously sponsored by SpaceLift.
Backstage, has emerged as a powerful solution to centralize these resources, improving developer productivity and efficiency. However, achieving robust observability for an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) built on Backstage is critical to monitor its usage, health, and performance. OpenTelemetry (OTel), a vendor-neutral observability framework, offers the perfect toolkit for achieving this goal.
In this session, we will demonstrate how to instrument and extend Backstage to collect custom observability metrics using OpenTelemetry. Attendees will gain practical insights into setting up and integrating an OpenTelemetry metrics service with the Backstage backend to push metrics to an OpenTelemetry Collector.
Key Takeaways: 1. Foundational Concepts 2. Hands-On Implementation 3. Integration and Visualization Using OpenTelemetry 4. Practical Applications
By the end, Participants will get equipped with the knowledge and tools to instrument observability for their Backstage deployments.
Haardik is currently working as a Software Developer at Civo. Before joining Civo, he worked with the Kubernetes Working Group Policy as part of the Linux Foundation Mentorship. Haardik is passionate about all things cloud-native and open-source software. When he is not working, he... Read More →
Ekansh is a Software Development Engineer, with active involvement in various open-source and cloud native communities for upwards two years now. He was previously an SDE Intern at SteamLabs. He is also a speaker for a couple of talks at PyCon, KubeCon and MozFests. Ekansh is a Google... Read More →
In the rapidly evolving generative AI landscape, KServe has emerged as a pivotal platform for deploying and managing LLMs at scale. KServe simplifies deploying ML models on Kubernetes, but there’s so much more to the story than predictor pods and YAML files. With its newly expanded capabilities, KServe is ready to host the next generation of AI workloads, including LLMs and other generative AI applications. As both maintainers of KServe and daily practitioners running it in Bloomberg’s clusters, we bring firsthand insights into how users utilize KServe to deploy advanced LLM features in production across hybrid environments. This session will delve into KServe's latest features tailored for generative AI. We will offer insights into its enhanced serving runtimes, scalability improvements, and integration strategies. Attendees will gain practical knowledge about deploying and scaling generative models using KServe, informed by real-world experiences and the lessons we’ve learned.
Alexa Griffith is a Senior Software Engineer on Bloomberg’s Cloud Native Compute Services organization. She works on building an inference platform for ML workflows and the open source project KServe. She enjoys solving engineering challenges at scale and writing code in Go. She... Read More →
Tessa Pham is a Senior Software Engineer on Bloomberg's Cloud Native Compute Services organization. She works on building an inference platform for Bloomberg’s Data Science Platform, used by engineers and data scientists for training, deploying and serving ML models. Tessa is a... Read More →
Cloud native AI/MLOps span a vast ecosystem of tools, architectures, and patterns that can be overwhelming for data scientists and developers alike. Many engineers are asked to implement AI/ML without an understanding of how fundamentally different models operate. Likewise, data scientists struggle to operationalize their work, lacking a background in engineering and DevOps practices. This session will be a field guide to AI/MLOps tools and systems using the ML lifecycle as our map. At each stage of the ML lifecycle, we’ll identify the open source tools, DevOps practices, and cloud native infrastructure that support best practices in both data science and engineering. Developers will gain an understanding of how to implement performant and efficient end-to-end AI/ML. Data scientists will gain an appreciation of how MLOps can enable rapid experimentation, model drift detection, and model integrity. All attendees will leave with take-home labs to begin their AI/ML deployment journeys.
Zara is a bridge between academia, industry, and government, having collaborated through research and development across several universities, countless companies, and representatives from U.S. federal and state departments. She is a senior security data scientist at DigitalOcean... Read More →
After releasing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model, the CNCF Platforms Working Group is now studying how companies enhance their platform maturity. One approach is treating platforms as products—viewing users as customers and ensuring the platform meets their needs.
To explore this, we conducted interviews and created a survey to gather information from various organizations. Our goal was to determine if they apply product thinking principles in their platform engineering efforts.
In this presentation, we will outline our research objectives and data collection methods. We will then share our initial findings, highlighting common strategies, challenges, and best practices in platform engineering. Attendees will learn how other companies build their platforms and how to apply these lessons to improve their own platforms.
Join us to discover our early findings and see how they can help you develop more effective, user-focused platforms in your organization.
Dominik is a Technical Product Manager at Giant Swarm and on a mission to simplify developers' lives by delivering intuitive developer platforms. He has been in the IT industry for over 9 years, starting his journey as a Full Stack Software Engineer falling in love with DevOps and... Read More →
I've spent most of my career focused on external products across startups, scaleups, and enterprises. From new product development to growth and optimization. As someone who's focused on overall business success, my focus has shifted towards helping companies develop a successful... Read More →
At Focke & Co, our packaging machines are a critical part of operations in factories around the world. Downtime is serious. There’s also a necessity to process information in locations without any K8s expertise. It’s dictated by the cost of sending traffic for analysis to the cloud and by data governance. Combined with the mandatory EU resilience act, K8s on the edge becomes almost required to stay compliant.
Like many manufacturers, we found it costly to send field engineers to provide support at customer sites. So we set out to connect our machinery for remote monitoring and servicing, looking to build an IoT platform that could handle scale — and be easy to deploy in the factory.
We’ll explore how we reduced time to edge K8s deployment from two days to 15 minutes and achieved centralized remote management for a fleet of various 20k+ packaging machines. We’ll share a success story of the last two years, from our pilot project to deploying devices in production.
Dmitry Shevrin is an infrastructure specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the open source software and cloud native world, and he's currently a Senior Solutions Architect at Spectro Cloud. He spent a number of years with Red Hat, then with Rancher/SUSE. In his free time... Read More →
Alexandre Boutet is a Technical Lead in digitalization with extensive experience in automation and industrial IT. He has driven innovation across leading organizations like FOCKE & CO, OAS AG, and Broetje Automation, specializing in process control systems and digital transformat... Read More →
In the complex world of modern cloud infrastructure, how does a small platform team enable 60+ developers to manage infrastructure safely and autonomously?
This talk describes the comprehensive approach to platform engineering used at Sweden's largest commercial video streaming service (TV4 Play) that uses OpenTofu through CDKTF, policy-as-code, strategic tooling, and an obsession over the developer experience to implement self-service infrastructure while maintaining rigorous security and compliance standards.
David is a DevOps Cloud Engineer at TV4 Media AB, where he spearheads the platform engineering work for TV4 Play, Sweden's largest commercial video streaming service. He has a background in software engineering and has worked in various roles in the tech industry, including as a software... Read More →
LLMs moving beyond data centers to edge devices. While this migration promises reduced latency and enhanced privacy, challenges come: maintaining accuracy within limited resources, and cross-device deployment problems.
The integration of KubeEdge and WasmEdge addresses the challenge. WasmeEdge is a lightweight, portable runtime (less than 50MB) without external dependencies. The KubeEdge Sedna orchestrates the edge-cloud collaboration. It monitors inference accuracy and automatically routes requests to cloud-based models when edge processing doesn't meet accuracy thresholds.
This session will demo that small LLMs provide quick, local inference at the edge. When higher accuracy is needed, Sedna seamlessly transitions to larger models in the cloud. The inference workload is built in Rust and compiled to Wasm, enabling deployment across edge and cloud without any changes.
The solution has been implemented in production across multiple industries like aerospace and bank branches.
Huawei Cloud, Senior Software Engineer KubeEdge TSC Member, Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Cloud. Focusing on Cloud Native,Kubernetes, EdgeComputing, EdgeAI and other fields. Currently maintaining the KubeEdge project which is a CNCF graduated project. And has rich experience... Read More →
Vivian Hu is a Product Manager at Second State and a columnist at InfoQ. She is a founding member of the WasmEdge project. She organizes Rust and WebAssembly community events in Asia.
Code hygiene is important. One or two "code smells" that appear in the course of solving a problem is expected, but if they are not addressed as part of a followup step, the smells can build up and invite all sorts of unexpected activity. One major code smell is the overuse or misuse of local variables in OpenTofu projects. Oftentimes, these are both difficult to interpret on their own and used in composition with other local variables, compounding obscurity. In this lightning talk, we will present a series of common scenarios describing the use of local variables. We will review examples both that are appropriate and those that are dizzyingly dense to disentangle, including alternative approaches or ways to mitigate obfuscation, as well as how these phenomena arise.
Robbie Glenn is an enterprising entrepreneur and thought leader.He has a focus on automated infrastructure as code (IaC), DevOps, and container orchestration. Previously, he has developed solution accelerators that have been used for multiple client deliveries, and provided guidance... Read More →
Being in a Nigerian university, depending on what state you school sometimes means that your education falls short in terms of the problems we are exposed to and the topics we explore in class. To fill this gap we formed NARSDA, a small group primarily focused on astronomy based research, this semester we decided to take our heads out of the cloud and focus on some local problems facing your school. In this session we will discuss how we built an edge device to monitor atmospheric conditions in our school, how we leveraged Prometheus, grafana and MQTT to collect and generate meaningful insights from the data and finally how we plan on using the data to cut down emissions and possibly save an endangered bird native to our local.
Hadijat Sanni is a Computer Science student and cloud native technology enthusiast who loves tackling diverse projects that pique her interest. Passionate about learning and technology, she also advocates for climate change and supports the SDGs through the Millennium Fellowship... Read More →
Organizations often ask themselves when building a new solution whether to develop everything from scratch or integrate existing tools into an end-to-end solution. Kubeflow’s journey was exactly at this crossroads when it started. Part of CNCF as an incubating project, Kubeflow integrates a series of leading open source tools such as Knative, Istio, KServe amongst other AI/ML tools for both predictive and GenAI/LLM applications.
In this panel we will discuss the trade-offs between building a product based on existing tools vs. a DIY approach. We will delve into the key considerations of adding new enhancements and components, based on the developments in the industry and user adoption. The panel will highlight the challenges of being an official distribution of such a product and customer use cases and the influence they had over the project’s roadmap. We will talk through the trials and tribulations that paid off in a win-win outcome for the Kubeflow community and our users.
Yuan is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenShift AI. He has led AI infrastructure and platform teams at various companies. He holds leadership positions in open source projects, including Argo, Kubeflow, and Kubernetes. He's a maintainer and author of many popular... Read More →
Andrey Velichkevich is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple and is a key contributor to the Kubeflow open-source project. He is a member of Kubeflow Steering Committee and a co-chair of Kubeflow AutoML and Training WG. Additionally, Andrey is an active member of the CNCF WG AI. He... Read More →
I help organizations drive scalable transformation projects with open source AI. I lead AI at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu. With a background in data science across industries like retail and telecommunications, I help enterprises make data-driven decisions with AI. I am passionate... Read More →
Johnu George is a Technical Director at Nutanix with a background in distributed systems and large-scale hybrid data pipelines. He is an active in open-source and has steered several industry collaborations on projects like Kubeflow, Apache Mnemonic and Knative. His research interests... Read More →
Organizations face a critical challenge: data is growing exponentially across distributed locations, but traditional centralized processing approaches are becoming unsustainable.
Specifically, the challenges of massive data transfer costs, regulatory compliance issues, and network reliability problems are slowing the adoption of ML infrastructure. This is particularly acute in scenarios like processing data from distributed deployments or analyzing real-time sensor edge data.
This talk demonstrates implementing compute over data with Kubernetes - bringing ML compute to where data is being created. Using real-world examples, including an energy company managing 15,000 microgrids, we demonstrate processing data in place, ensuring regulatory compliance, reducing costs, and improving reliability while maintaining centralized control. We'll showcase implementation using open-source tools like Bacalhau, providing attendees with practical patterns for modernizing their ML infrastructure.
I am CEO and co-founder of Expanso, the company behind the distributed compute platform Bacalhau. This means I spend most of my time helping humans to convince machines to be smarter. I am only moderately successful at this. Previously, I led Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched... Read More →
The OpenTofu community continues to roll out features that elevate the IaC experience beyond expectations. This talk dives into the unique and much-awaited capabilities exclusive to OpenTofu, designed to address real-world challenges and enhance flexibility, security, and efficiency in IaC workflows.
Discover how State Encryption ensures sensitive data is protected natively, without the need for external solutions. Explore the game-changing Static Evaluation, enabling unparalleled flexibility by decoupling backend configurations from runtime execution. Learn how the Exclude directive simplifies resource management by letting you ignore specific resources during deployment. Dive into Per-Provider Configuration, a feature that allows you to customize behaviors for each provider in your stack, ensuring optimal performance. Join us to get these features in action, and to get a sneak peek at an upcoming addition designed to further cement OpenTofu’s position as a leader in the IaC space.
Ronny Orot is a Senior Software Engineer at env0 and an OpenTofu core developer team member. She has created various TACOS solutions for different companies over the past four years and is passionate about DevOps and IaC.
Denis is Senior Director of the Product Excellence team at Solo.io, a company building application networking solutions for the edge and service mesh. Denis is a passionate engineer who has spent his career in technical roles working directly with customers and users in architecting... Read More →
Matt is a software engineer at Tetrate, working on Istio-related products, and loves sharing the latest tech and trends with everyone. He's been doing Dev, sometimes with added Ops, for over a decade. His idea of "full-stack" is Linux, Kubernetes, and now Istio too. He's given many... Read More →
Kubernetes is packed with powerful features, but many of its lesser-known capabilities often go unnoticed. This lightning talk highlights hidden gems like Network Policies, Pod Disruption Budgets, and Horizontal Pod Autoscaling. In just a few minutes, you’ll discover how to unlock the full potential of Kubernetes for better performance, security, and resilience.
MSc Student | Product Marketer, University of Leicester | Taikun
Saranya is currently pursuing an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Leicester and is a former Software Engineer at LTIMindtree, where she gained significant experience in MLOps and Cloud Native projects. Passionate about open source contributions, she advocates for diversity... Read More →
What does it take to succeed in building an internal developer platform from scratch? Are you even ever truly starting "from scratch"? Join our panel of industry experts as they explore the messy, exhilarating, and sometimes frustrating early stages of IDP adoption in a playful, clickbait-style format.
We’ll tackle provocative topics like: * 5 Common Adoption Mistakes You’re Probably Already Making * Think You're in Control? The Shocking Truth About Ready-Made Solutions You Need to Know! * Your Platform Was Doomed From the Start—Here’s Why * Life-Changing Platform-Building Tools (Including One That Will Shock You) * We Thought We Didn’t Need a Product Owner—Here’s How It Went * You Built It. They Didn’t Come
Whether you’re looking to sidestep rookie mistakes or a seasoned pro, this lively discussion will be packed with real-world insights, actionable advice, and a touch of humour that will address the questions you need to ask as you take the leap into building better platforms.
Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across... Read More →
Whitney is a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, she has created and delivered two KubeCon keynotes, a VMware Explore keynote, and countless fun, funny, and informative community conference keynotes. You can... Read More →
Leena is a Senior Engineer at Chainalysis, the Blockchain data platform. With a strong focus on reducing friction and cognitive load for Chainalysis engineers, Leena is at the coal-face of DevProd and DevEx daily. When she's not busy optimising workflows, Leena enjoys playing the... Read More →
Ana Margarita Medina is a Sr. Staff Developer Advocate, she speaks on all things SRE, DevOps, and Reliability. She is a self-taught engineer with over 14 years of experience, focusing on cloud infrastructure and reliability. She has been part of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.25... Read More →
We often hear about the usage and benefits of Platform as a Product and Internal Developer Portals to reduce cognitive load on developers and increase velocity, but we rarely hear about the benefits to other teams.
Come listen to this talk and hear from different people and perspectives involved in NatWest Bank’s Platform as a Product journey over the last 2 years.
The Transformation Lead, the Architect/Product Owner, the Lead Engineer/Private Cloud IaaS Expert, the AWS Engineer/expert and the Partner/Supplier will be onstage talking about their individual experiences and journey. Is it a panel talk, is it a case study? Actually it’s both!
Each persona will spend a couple of minutes each talking about their own adventure before the session is opened up to audience participation in choosing which topics and questions are put to the panel to answer.
Enterprise Architect and joint Product owner for Platform as a Product initiative within the Bank, NatWest Bank
Chris Plank is a Enterprise Architect working for NatWest Bank in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been leading a Platform as a Product initiative within the Bank over the last year looking to radically change the Banks approach to provisioning and maintaining services. Outside of work... Read More →
Sapphire is a Software Engineer at Syntasso working on the Kratix, an open-source platform framework for building composable internal developer platforms (IDPs). She made the transition from software engineering after a career in charity sector communications. She has since worked... Read More →
Argo CD has unlocked a GitOps revolution for deploying and keeping our applications synced. The next big problem to be solved is how to manage promoting changes between environments. CI-driven updates, Image Updater, Progressive Sync, Kargo, Environment and Promotions, and Rendered Manifest Pattern all propose different ways to tackle the basic problem of how to get changes from one environment into another.
In this talk, we’ll review the current state of application promotion across environments and how the different approaches work with pitfalls and benefits. To keep it honest, DevOps grump and professional detractor Viktor Farcic will bring his honest take as we look at the seemingly endless nuances of environment promotion and change management.
Argo Maintainer, Open GitOps Co-Creator, VP Open Source, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy
Dan Garfield is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo. As an Argo Maintainer, he works parmiarily on Argo CD and Argo Rollouts. He helped create the GitOps Working Group and Open GitOps Principles. He helped create the... Read More →
Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.
Flynn is a technical evangelist at Buoyant, educating developers about Linkerd, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development in general. He has spent 40+ years in software, with a common thread of communications and security throughout, and is a coauthor of Linkerd: Up and Running from... Read More →
If you’re a large organisation with thousands of employees who use Backstage everyday, you have undoubtedly encountered performance challenges at the database and network level at that scale. And guess what? Spotify does too!
In this talk, we will be sharing Spotify’s vast expertise in scaling and optimising Backstage for thousands of engineers and their systems. Tune in to learn more about - supporting over 100 custom plugins - horizontally scaling plugin backends - preventing rate limiting woes - preparing and testing your Backstage’s ability to handle failure scenarios
Jack is a Staff Engineer at Spotify, working across all things Backstage. He is actively working on Spotify’s Portal product with a strong focus on improving adoption for the community. Previously, he has been involved with maintaining Spotify’s internal implementation of Backstage... Read More →
In this session I’m going to take you on a journey of Delivery Hero - an international food delivery company - towards the goal of becoming observability vendor-independent. This journey will be long and hard and will take our hero through the forest of the unstable OpenTelemetry contrib components and the swamp of high memory and CPU consumption. It will require them to find new allies to overcome the challenge of routing for stateful collector components in non-federated environments and fight the metric temporality conversion monsters. I am going to demonstrate what keeps our hero motivated after all these hurdles and why they are still convinced that OpenTelemetry is the right tool for them to accomplish this mission.
Elena is a Swiss Army knife of an engineer. Whether backend or data engineering, MLOps or DevOps - she’s been there and she’s been there at scale. At the moment of writing she enjoys navigating technical and organisational complexity as a Principal Software Engineer at Delivery... Read More →
In this talk, Cail will explore a multi-year process of how the Octopus Deploy team tried to tame the reliability of the 18,000+ CI tests for their monolithic product. We begin with a company just starting to rapidly grow, and will end with a warts-and-all look at how SLOs not only tell you when action is required, but also when the right thing to do is sit back and watch things fail. We'll talk about goal conflicts, prioritisation, safety models, and professional growth.
Cail has spent the last couple of decades working at the intersection of people and technology: in the performing arts, in the motion picture industry, and now in the field of software operations. He is fascinated by learning from incidents - large and small - and will gladly trade... Read More →
At StackGen, we found ourselves asking, "Are we actually getting better at delivering software?" With a growing team and mounting complexity, we turned to DORA metrics for clarity—and what a ride it’s been! In this talk, we’ll take you behind the scenes of how we used deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recovery, and change failure rate to level up our engineering game.
Expect a blend of candid tales, technical tricks, and cultural ah-ha moments as we share the highs, lows, and lessons learned. From team skeptics to data enthusiasts, everyone walked away with something—and you will too. Whether you’re DORA-curious or already charting metrics, you’ll leave with actionable strategies to measure and improve performance in your organization.
If you’re ready to move from gut feelings to data-driven confidence, join us for a fresh take on turning DORA metrics into meaningful change.
Cesar Rodriguez is VP of Engineering at appCD. In the past, he has worked on architecting, developing, and security cloud-native environments as a Security Engineer and Architect. His expertise extends to building cloud security tools, notably contributing to the open-source community... Read More →
Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and... Read More →
Let's hear from the Release Team all updates about the recent releases and new components to the project that is growing in users and contributions. We'll talk about the features the Release Team helped bring in Kubeflow 1.10, and discuss the roadmap for the next releases.
At Earnin, we transformed our deployment processes by migrating nearly 600 microservices to Argo CD. The cornerstone of this transformation was our adoption of Linkerd as our service mesh, which helped enabled us to implement Progressive Canary and Blue/Green rollouts within our infrastructure.
In this talk, We'll share how Linkerd became the catalyst for our advanced deployment strategies. We'll deep dive into how we utilized Linkerd's seamless integration with the Gateway API to achieve traffic shifting and mirroring, to help us integrate with Argo Rollouts in GitOps way. Core to our success was developing a platform tool that empowers developers to easily configure their own canary deployment parameters.
Kush is a seasoned Senior Platform Engineer with over six years of experience in cloud-native technologies and DevOps. He has made significant contributions to the Kubernetes and Istio communities, serving as a maintainer for three CNCF projects. At EarnIn, he leads platform engineering... Read More →
Joe Brinkman is an engineering leader specializing in platform services and cloud infrastructure. With extensive experience in cloud-native technologies, Joe has been instrumental in driving the adoption and implementation of cutting-edge solutions at EarnIn.
At Dynatrace, feature flags have been integral to our workflows for years. However, our homegrown solution has increasingly become a fragmented collection of flags rather than a comprehensive management tool. This has led to challenges such as unclear use cases, legacy flags with unknown or unintended uses, and complexity compounded by team transitions and shifting assignments. To address these issues, we embraced OpenFeature to standardize and enhance feature flag observability—not just for our benefit but for the broader developer community. By integrating OpenFeature with OpenTelemetry, our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) now have actionable insights, enabling them to confidently assess potential impacts and side effects across our systems. Join us as we share our journey with OpenFeature at Dynatrace and how it’s transforming the way we manage feature flags.
I am Simon, a Software Developer, a Father, and a passionate Couchsurfer. My big goal is to make the lives of other developers easier. It doesn't matter if I am the CI guy or working on documentation tools as long as they help others shine and grow in their adventures.
Todd is a software engineer and information security specialist. He's led development on a variety of enterprise software products, including those pertaining to IAM, CI/CD, and enterprise messaging. He has a keen interest in developing and implementing open standards to improve software... Read More →
Building on the foundations of Argo CD UI ephemeral access introduced in our previous talk, this session takes a deeper dive into implementing and configuring this extension and fine-grained RBAC in production environments. While the initial focus was on mitigating risks associated with powerful actions in the Argo CD UI, scaling these practices in production has revealed new challenges, unexpected complexities, and opportunities for refinement. If you’re curious about the practicalities of running ephemeral access and fine-grained RBAC in production or eager to learn how to refine your own approaches, this talk will provide valuable insights and actionable takeaways. Join us to continue the conversation on enhancing safety, compliance, and efficiency in dynamic, high-stakes environments.
Staff Product Manager of Platform and Open Source, Intuit
Katie Lamkin is a Staff Product Manager of Platform and Open Source at Intuit, who works with application development teams to achieve operational excellence through CICD platforms and progressive delivery strategies. Katie has been a Cloud Architect and held Engineering Management... Read More →
Leo is a staff member of the core Argo team at Intuit responsible for improving and operating Argo CD and Argo Rollouts in the company. He is an active Argo maintainer sharing his time between open-source and internal development. Leo is passionate about native cloud applications... Read More →
Every organization, regardless of what they do, collects and relies on data. Our focus on Observability has largely been relegated to software engineering, operations, and other IT-focused roles. As such, data needs for sales, marketing, finance, HR, support, and other roles and groups are often overlooked or feel inaccessible to them. It only takes a good experience with something to change your relationship with it.
In this talk, Adriana and Tim will use real-life experiences and everyday examples to show how giving people a good experience with something with which they are unfamiliar can ignite a curiosity and appreciation. They will also explain why giving these experiences to everyone who collects and utilizes data can allow them to leverage it in new ways, unlocking new insights, new innovations, new approaches to everything they do.
Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale... Read More →
Tim’s tech career spans over 25 years through large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, and operations for large cloud-based datastores. Today, Tim leverages his years in data, DevOps, and Site Reliability... Read More →
Train companies know the importance of platforms and infrastructure, but what do we focus on while building platform services for critical systems that so many people rely on every day?
At BaneNOR, we have all the bells and whistles, and platforms of all sorts. Application, data, integration, and everything from state of the art technology, to legacy systems. How this is structured is a continuous work in progress and evolves in tandem with what the community discovers. Every day try to give developers a good place to run applications, while keeping stakeholders up to date, while keeping everything secure and compliant.
In this presentation we want to go through some of our strategic technical and sociotechnical choices, as well as pain points, pitfalls and low-hanging fruits. All on board the Platform Engineering express train!
Roberth is a self-proclaimed "cloud automator", and works primarily with Platform Engineering, DevOps and Cloud Native technology. Microsoft Azure MVP, CNCF Ambassador, and previously HashiCorp Ambassador. Additionally, he is active in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as co-chair... Read More →
Principal Cloud Enterprise Architect, Sopra Steria
Azure Cloud architect and C# developer with a passion for integration and automation. But wait, it's more! Passion does not only have to be in tech! There is also a burning passion for neurodiversity and diversity in tech, across ages, genders, identities, etc... Loves integration... Read More →
How do you know you have what it takes to contribute to a Cloud Native project? While courses and books can provide you with the knowledge needed, it’s daunting to go it alone. Entrusting others from the community to participate in your education, through formal study groups or informal gatherings, can take the guesswork out of knowing when you are ready to contribute back.
In this panel discussion, we’ll bring together a global group of experts for a conversation on the characteristics of a productive learning community, how external engagement can support a culture of resource sharing, and why being able to learn effectively may be a developer’s most important skill. Community-based learning supports a safe environment to take risks, opportunities for greater breadth of learning, and an on-ramp for newcomers to contribute to a project. Join us to discuss the intersection of open source and education, and walk away with the knowledge of how to build and leverage a learning community.
Lisa Tagliaferri is Senior Director of Developer Enablement at Chainguard and a maintainer on Sigstore, a tool suite that supports open source security. Lisa is the author of “How To Code in Python,” a Linux Foundation course developer, and also teaches graduate-level courses... Read More →
Divya is a Senior Technical Evangelist at SUSE, where she contributes to Rancher’s cloud native open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes & LitmusChaos projects & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure... Read More →
Transitioning from legacy monolithic applications to a modern service mesh comes with its own set of challenges, especially at scale. In this session, Yashwanth and Venkat will take you behind the scenes to explore how eBay adopted Istio for business-critical use cases previously reliant on hardware load balancers. They’ll share hard-earned insights and lessons learned from operating Istio across hundreds of clusters, tackling unique challenges in traffic distribution, and ensuring seamless business continuity during the transition. The talk will dive into technical details, including the shift from hardware to Istio-powered service mesh, OS and kernel-level optimizations for scaling Istio to meet demanding business needs, and solutions to common pitfalls. This session offers an invaluable opportunity to learn from real-world implementations of Istio and gain practical insights on what works,and what doesn’t, when deploying service mesh at scale.
Yashwanth is leading the product for eBay cloud, especially in Traffic and AI products. He works with various internal partners to transform eBay's business using cloud native products and technologies.
Venkat Gattupalli is a Traffic Engineering Lead at eBay, focusing on end to end traffic management of eBay applications running on multiple Kubernetes clusters. He is currently working on enabling service mesh at eBay’s scale and helping the company to transition to cloud native... Read More →
Choosing a service mesh can be a daunting task. While the modern meshes aren't interchangeable, they do generally offer the same broad table-stakes features to add security, reliability, and observability to applications. There are very important differences, though! and it can be very tricky indeed to work out a sane way to evaluate multiple meshes to make this critical decision.
Compare the Market had to tackle this issue recently, deciding between Linkerd, Istio, Kuma Mesh, and App Mesh. In this session, you'll join the engineers responsible for recommending a mesh to learn how they went about making their decision, starting with their primary use case of mTLS and metrics, continuing into performance and time to production, finishing with how they viewed support and maintenance costs and how they balanced wants and needs when making their decision (Linkerd, of course!).
A former IT operations and data centre network engineer turned cloud-native enthusiast, now championing DevOps practices and crafting scalable platforms as a staff engineer at Compare the Market. Equal parts collaborator, innovator, hyrox athlete wannabe and occasional skier.
How do you bootstrap Argo CD? Is it Terraform? Kubectl apply? Or have you set it to auto with Autopilot? Installing Argo CD to play around is easy but setting it up for a scalable, well-organized, and well-managed software delivery experience requires know-how and a bit of elbow grease. In this session, we’ll show how Argo CD Autopilot works and can serve as the basis for your GitOps pattern. This has benefits like easy disaster recovery, better user experience, more predictability in organization and adoption, and an overall streamlined experience.
But Autopilot is just the beginning! It’s easy to customize (with or without a K) and set up to do much more than what you get out of the box. Don’t reinvent the wheel, it’s time to use autopilot.
Migrating observability infrastructure for a 5,000-person financial services company is daunting enough - doing it with just four engineers might seem impossible. This session details MSCI's journey from a traditional Splunk infrastructure to a modern cloud-native observability stack built on OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger, Grafana, and Elasticsearch. We'll share our architectural decisions, implementation strategy, and critical lessons learned while maintaining observability during the transition. Through real-world examples, we'll demonstrate how we overcame scaling challenges, managed the cultural shift, and achieved better visibility while significantly reducing costs. Learn practical strategies for planning your own observability migration, including how to phase the transition, train teams effectively, and avoid the pitfalls we encountered.
Aftab Khan is a Vice President at MSCI Inc. and a Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert with over 10 years of experience in software development and cloud technologies. He specializes in Kubernetes, monitoring solutions, and DevOps practices, with deep expertise in tools like... Read More →
Zach Arnold is Executive Director of Index Engineering at MSCI Inc., where he architects next-gen Kubernetes platforms in hybrid cloud environments. A Kubernetes contributor since 2018, he has transformed multiple organizations' engineering cultures through cloud-native practices... Read More →
We are about 8 billion people on Earth right now and we’re all different, but we have to get into boxes, go through the same educational program, and we all have to learn the same way.
Is sharing differently simple? Can we change things? Why? For whom? Are there any tips to know?
What if I told you that it is possible to learn and share differently, to appeal to your imagination and creativity and that it is beneficial for everyone?
In this talk, I tell a story, I tell you my story. How I went from a person who had lost her passions to the creation of articles, videos, sketchnotes, conferences that are out of the ordinary and even technical illustrated books.
Despite my stuttering, I am a speaker, a mentor, a conference organizer, a book author and reviewer, invested in women in tech and tech communities and I love to create and share things. Since a certain day in 2020 I can do it my way and I want to show you that now it can be your turn :-).
Aurélie Vache is a Developer Advocate at OVHcloud. She is Docker Captain, CNCF ambassador, Cloud GDE, WTM Ambassador & GitPod Hero. Developer and Ops for over 19 years. Mentor and promote diversity and accessibility in technology. She created a new visual way for people to learn... Read More →
As the demand for scalable machine learning (ML) workloads increases, efficient training in distributed environments has become crucial. This talk will delve into Kubeflow innovations that advance distributed training on Kubernetes with JAX and automate hyperparameter optimization for Large Language Models (LLMs). JAX, known for high-performance large-scale computations, requires Kubernetes integration for efficient scaling. Additionally, hyperparameter optimization for LLMs has been manual and time-intensive, with existing tools lacking seamless Kubernetes integration. To address these gaps, we extended Kubeflow to support distributed JAX workloads and developed a high-level API to automate LLM hyperparameter optimization. These advancements make complex, resource-intensive training more efficient. The speakers will highlight how these capabilities streamline end-to-end ML workloads, establishing Kubeflow as a powerful platform for modern AI development.
Sandipan enjoys collaborating with people on developing software. He is a Member of Kubernetes and Kubeflow and a CNCF Ambassador. Sandipan has been a Mentee at CNCF under the Linux Foundation Mentorship Program, where he worked on Cilium, and a Google Summer of Code Contributor at... Read More →
Hezhi Xie is a master’s student in computer science at University of California, Davis, and an active contributor to the Kubeflow open-source project. During Google Summer of Code 2024, she developed a hyperparameter optimization API for Large Language Models (LLMs) in Kubeflow’s... Read More →
In this session we are going to discover how we, at Neo4j integrated Spotify’s Backstage with Argo Workflows to transform a single click in our Aura Portal into powerful Kubernetes events for integration and Chaos Testing. This talk delves into our journey of linking Backstage actions to automated workflows, enabling Cloud Engineers, and Application Developers to effortlessly trigger complex testing environments directly from our internal developer portal. Learn about the technical challenges, the solutions we implemented, and the transformative impact on our testing processes—streamlining integration tests and introducing Chaos Engineering practices that fortify our Kubernetes environments.
Based in Brighton, UK, Chris is a Senior Platform Engineer at Neo4j with a background in SRE. He is a regular speaker at tech conferences. With a heavy focus on enhancing Developer Experience, leveraging his expertise to streamline workflows and empower engineers in adopting and scaling... Read More →
The telecommunications industry is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by the need for scalable, cloud-native solutions that enable seamless integration of advanced network capabilities into modern applications. CAMARA, an open source project under the Linux Foundation, is addressing this challenge by standardizing APIs to simplify access to telco capabilities such as quality of service (QoS), device location, and identity management among others. In this talk, Markus Kümmerle of Deutsche Telekom and chair of the CAMARA Outreach Committee, will provide an overview of how CAMARA is fostering collaboration between telcos, developers, and hyperscalers. Attendees will gain insights into the project’s mission and value in simplifying telco network complexity with APIs, and making the APIs available across telco networks and countries. Focus will be on cloud APIs, but also how cloud capabilities are used to implement APIs. By reducing complexity and enabling interoperability across telco networks and countries, CAMARA is accelerating innovation, creating new revenue opportunities for telcos, and empowering developers to deliver next-generation applications. This session will inspire participants to join the growing CAMARA community, to use CAMARA APIs and contribute to shaping the future of telecommunications
Jill leads marketing communications for LF Networking, LF Edge, and several other related projects at the Linux Foundation. As an experienced tech communications and marketing leader with nearly 20 years’ of experience across both open source and corporate environments, she brings... Read More →
Tribe Lead, Magenta API Engineering & CAMARA Marketing Outreach Chair, Deutsche Telekom
Markus Kümmerle is responsible for the 5G Network Exposure Program at Deutsche Telekom. Since 2014 Markus has been responsible for Quality for the System Integration / Digital Solutions unit of T-Systems. In parallel, he continues driving large projects and programs. In 2020 he took... Read More →
As Cloud Native technologies continue to evolve, Open Telemetry(OTel) has emerged as a pivotal technology in the ecosystem. However, a significant education gap exists, hindering widespread adoption and understanding. This talk presents a comprehensive approach to teaching OTel in the context of Cloud Native education, drawing from experiences of community members creating a full-fledged Cloud native Otel courses , to dedicated workshops / hands on Labs from projects like Wasmcloud / Spin and Spinkube.
We'll discuss: The importance of OTel in the Cloud Native landscape, Key components of a well-rounded OTel curriculum, Practical approaches to teaching complex concepts and Integrating hands-on examples using tools like Spin etc.
Utimately the goal is to inspire educators and training professionals to incorporate OTel into their Cloud Native curricula, thereby preparing the next generation of professionals for the future of cloud computing.
Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked... Read More →
Shivanshu is a Founding Engineer at SigNoz, working on building an OTeL native observability product. He has a keen interest in deep tech and OSS. He is a CNCF ambassador and a member of CNCF projects like OTeL, k8s, and Istio. He has had the opportunity to mentor contributors in... Read More →
What does the future hold for Linkerd, the world’s lightest, fastest, and simplest service mesh? Come find out in this session with Linkerd’s creator Oliver Gould! Linkerd is moving faster now than ever before, and though we are absolutely holding true to Linkerd’s guiding principles of simplicity, security, and speed, there are a lot of exciting things on the roadmap to discuss
Learn how upcoming innovations in Linkerd will help teams streamline Kubernetes workflows, achieve unparalleled reliability, and embrace simplicity without compromise. From refinements and bugfixes to major new features, this talk will provide a sneak peek into what Linkerd is building to help ease your cloud-native journey in 2025 and beyond. Don't miss this chance to hear directly from Linkerd's creator and engage in the conversation about what’s next for the service mesh that started it all.
The Argo CD CLI has been a cornerstone for managing GitOps workflows, but until now, it lacked support for extending its capabilities through plugins. This talk introduces plugin support to the ArgoCD CLI, enabling users to create custom plugins and use them as subcommands, extending the ArgoCD CLI functionality like kubectl.
In this talk, we’ll demonstrate the new plugin system’s real-world application by showcasing a plugin we developed: mta (Migrate to Argo CD). This plugin bridges the gap between Flux and Argo CD by exporting Flux components into Argo CD-compatible Custom Resources (CRs), simplifying migrations from Flux to Argo CD.
Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity and a CNCF Ambassador. In the past, Nitish has served as a Linux Foundation Mentee under the Kubernetes Release Engineering Team, where he built a library that is used by the Kubernetes project internally. Nitish has given various talks in the... Read More →
Consistent and accurate resource labeling is essential in cloud environments. However, manual or inconsistent practices often result in labels that are incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate.
Learn how to restructure and label infrastructure using Backstage components as the source of truth for metadata. With an open-source Terraform provider for Backstage, metadata and labels are automatically injected, keeping them consistent and up-to-date with every plan. To ensure reliability, a metadata wrapper module was developed, and the provider’s resiliency enhanced, preventing Backstage outages from disrupting deployments.
This session will provide a clear understanding of how to integrate Terraform with Backstage to enable automated label injection by structuring infrastructure around components. Attendees will also gain actionable insights to bridge the gap between infrastructure management and the Backstage metadata catalog.
Michael is a Senior Platform Engineer at 1KOMMA5°, leveraging over ten years of experience building developer-centric platforms. Michael has pioneered Helm-based deployments for Google Cloud Run, introduced service catalogues, and implemented Backstage in multiple organizations... Read More →
As Cloud Native technologies become the backbone of modern industry, it’s important to prepare computer science students for the challenges and expectations they’ll face in their careers. Traditional curricula often focus on small, theoretical projects and assignments, while the real world is more about working on large-scale projects, collaborating with diverse teams, and utilizing concepts such as DevOps, none of which students had prior contact with.
Marko was part of the team building a Cloud Native curriculum focused on DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and open source for a 13-week course. The team quickly ran into problems, such as designing assignments big enough to cover these concepts practically. They also discovered that students were not well-versed in Linux, Bash, and working with the CLI. But 13 weeks is a little time to teach all of that. Marko will share how they overcame these problems, and created a course that received very positive feedback from 300+ students.
Senior Software Engineer, Kubermatic GmbH & University Union
Marko is a Senior Software Engineer at Kubermatic, working on the development of Kubernetes, kcp, and platforms for managing Kubernetes clusters at scale. He currently serves as a Subproject Lead for Kubernetes Release Engineering, a Senior Release Manager, and a Tech Lead for SIG... Read More →
Struggling to monitor and debug Windows containers on Kubernetes? You’re not alone! Unlike Linux, managing Windows workloads often feels like solving a puzzle with missing pieces. But it doesn’t have to be this way. With Kubernetes now supporting HostProcess containers on Windows nodes, a lot more monitoring and troubleshooting is now possible. We’ll show you how to implement a complete monitoring stack using Windows Exporter on a Windows node in Kubernetes. We’ll start by exploring the metric collectors in Windows exporter, their functionalities, and practical use. Next, we’ll demonstrate deploying the Windows exporter as a HostProcess pod, configuring a ServiceMonitor, and setting up Prometheus to collect and visualize metrics. Finally, we’ll elevate your debugging game by exploring the newly added kubectl debug support for Windows nodes, enabling you to diagnose and resolve issues faster at the node level. You'll be ready to troubleshoot Windows nodes in no time.
Mansi is a Senior software engineer at Red Hat, where she brings her expertise to the Windows Containers project on the OpenShift platform. As an active contributor to Kubernetes SIGs like SIG-Windows and SIG-Instrumentation, she is deeply involved in the ecosystem. She has also worked... Read More →
With a knack for transforming chaos into seamless solutions Ritika Gupta creates technologies to bind Kubernetes, Windows Containers and Azure ecosystem leveraging cloud native tooling. She actively contributes to Kubernetes as an sig-windows member. At Microsoft, Ritika works on... Read More →
Are your deployments stuck in the past? Fear no more! Feature Flags are here to bring agility, control, and creativity to your Kubernetes workloads. In this fun and insightful talk, we’ll explore how feature flags can enable dynamic, fearless experiments and scalable deployments in modern applications.
This talk will show you the path to smoother, smarter deployments. We'll cover how to: 1. Dive into OpenFeature, and see how it pairs perfectly with Kubernetes to orchestrate deployments. 2. Integrate feature flags in Kubernetes to leverage tools like ArgoCD, Flagger, and Prometheus, 3. Real-world stories of flagging triumphs (and a few hiccups)
Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Searce, and is currently positioned at Forrester Research as a DevOps Engineer II. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He is a CNCF Ambassador... Read More →
Anshika is a passionate DevOps/SRE Engineer who is always eager to learn & implement cloud-native solutions, , she has contributed to streamlining deployment processes and enhancing system reliability. Actively participates in building cost-effective and scalable solutions, including... Read More →
Edge AI leverages local data processing and millisecond-level response times, unlocking vast application potential. With cloud-native advancements, it is evolving into edge-cloud collaborative AI, enabling flexible AI task deployment across cloud and edge via coordination algorithms to meet diverse demands for real-time performance, accuracy, and privacy. KubeEdge has introduced the distributed edge-cloud collaborative AI framework, Sedna, which supports seamlessly deploying existing AI applications to the edge. To address the management and scheduling challenges of distributed edge-cloud collaborative AI applications, this presentation will demonstrate how to integrate the KubeFlow training-operator into KubeEdge's Sedna framework, extending distributed training capabilities to the edge. Using training-operator's group scheduling, tasks are dynamically allocated across cloud and edge, optimizing resource use and enhancing edge-cloud AI efficiency.
Bincheng Wang is a cloud native engineer at Huawei and a core member of the KubeEdge community, who has in-depth research in fields such as cloud-native edge computing and IoT. Have participated in KubeEdge’s technical live broadcast with nearly 40,000 viewers, and has rich speaking... Read More →
DaoCloud cloud-native backend R&D engineers have worked in the field of edge computing for many years, especially in the KubeEdge community, won the 2023 KubeEdge Rising Star Award. I also have a certain understanding of the field of artificial intelligence, and hope to inject more... Read More →
Workflow specs can be pretty complicated, involving references to many different templates and WorkflowTemplates with nested container or script definitions. Outside of using argo lint, how do you make sure your complicated Workflow definition is valid and legit? The community has raised similar questions/concerns in Issue #13503.
In this talk, we'd like to share how we utilize Kubernetes' Validating Webhooks and Argo Workflow's validating function to address this concern to make sure every Argo Workflow resource submitted into our system not only uses valid specifications, but also references valid templates with the correct parameters.
Will Wang is a software engineer at Bloomberg. He has worked on the Workflow Runtimes engineering team since July 2021, where he is focused on building a platform that offers Workflow Orchestration as a Service using Argo Workflows. In his prior job, Will spent most of his time building... Read More →
This talk will cover how the Multi-Provider for OpenFeature works, enabling seamless integration of multiple feature flag providers within a single application.
We will cover use cases such as hybrid environments where teams leverage different providers for specific projects or systems, gradual migrations from one provider to another to minimize deployment risks, and improving interoperability by integrating in-house solutions with external providers.
We will explore how OpenFeature’s evolving ecosystem drives interoperability, improves developer experience, and fosters vendor-neutral feature flagging.
Jonathan Norris is the CTO and Co-Founder of DevCycle, a Feature Management Platform built with developer experience in mind. An industry veteran with more than a decade of experience building high-performing engineering teams, Jonathan is passionate about building technologies that... Read More →
Better developer experience. Release faster. Save costs. Cuts time to market.
We have heard it all. Is it really true?
Are purchase decisions (or green-lighting) made based on these promises? What makes an organization commit to Platform Engineering? Let's find out.
This lightning talk is about talking to a room full of engineers about the non-technical aspects of Platform Engineering, particularly sales. In my (limited) experience, engineers spectacularly fail to understand certain things beyond the programming realm, and sales is one of them.
Dissecting some sales techniques and applying them to platform projects, both internal and external, will help engineering teams justify platform efforts better. The few techniques highlighted in this talk will aid in bringing about a shared understanding of why a platform is needed and how best to communicate the impact of using one.
Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent... Read More →
Upgrading Backstage is a crucial part of maintaining a modern developer portal, but it can be daunting. As a team actively maintaining Backstage in our organization, we’ve tackled challenges like managing breaking changes, plugin compatibility, and anticipating new features.
This session shares a practical guide to upgrading, focusing on tools like backstage-cli for version checks, nightly builds to test individual packages without a full upgrade, and leveraging Backstage Enhancement Proposals (BEPs) to stay ahead of changes. We’ll cover real-world strategies for incremental upgrades, automation, and minimizing disruptions, alongside lessons learned from navigating unexpected pitfalls.
By the end of the session, you’ll have a clear roadmap to streamline your upgrades, reduce risk, and stay ahead of breaking changes—all while keeping your catalog and team sanity intact.
I'm a DevRel Engineer at Harness's IDP team. I have been contributing to open source for the last four years, previously part of the Kubernetes Release team, and contributed to sig-contribex.
I am Jenil Jain, a Staff Software Engineer at Harness, where I currently work on the Internal Developer Portal. I've been with Harness for almost 4.5 years, primarily focusing on frontend development throughout my career. Before joining Harness, I was part of Flipkart's Mobile Web... Read More →
This session will share insights from two seasoned Kubernetes trainers who have collectively trained hundreds of participants from curious individuals to teams in large enterprises—each bringing unique challenges and expectations.
From individual enthusiasts to small project teams and participants from large corporations, it’s essential to strike a balance between technical depth, conceptual clarity, and hands-on practice.
Through concrete experiences and practical examples, this talk wants to help trainers, educators, wannabe trainers and DevOps professionals to deliver sessions that maximize impact, engagement, and learning outcomes for each individual.
Joseph has 12 years of experience working across all layers of IT systems, from system engineering to full-stack development, with a focus on architecture and security. Over the last five years, he has been also a trainer specializing in Kubernetes, helping teams master Cloud-Native... Read More →
I have been an IT Engineer and DevOps Enthusiast for 6 years across different consulting firms. For the last 4 years, I have given through Octo Academy dozens of training mainly around Kubernetes principles, DevOps philosophy and technical overviews of the CNCF ecosystem. I strongly... Read More →
Kubeflow exemplifies the power of community by bringing different unique components together to provide a simplified user experience to build, train, and deploy AI/ML at scale. Combining complementary roles and skills is critical for any community. We all play different roles, sometimes more than one. The community is heterogeneous, open to newcomers, and growing quickly. This session will discuss how different skills and roles can be valuable to any community. Every contribution matters, from updating a code snippet in the documentation to managing a release, building a course training, or contributing to the source code of any of the Kubeflow ecosystem's components. The speakers will share their unique experiences from lessons learned to develop a new skill and how this connects to the Kubeflow ecosystem. How contributing to an open source can bring career growth, opportunities to explore and learn a new role, and how to get started from technical to non-technical contributions.
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, focusing on the developer journeys in Kubernetes and emerging technologies. She loves contributing to the community, such as co-organizing KCD NY, and the industry and has spoken at conferences such as O'Reilly... Read More →
Chase is the author of the Linux Foundations: Introduction to AI/ML Toolkits with Kubeflow course and is a people-prioritized, open-source-harmonized, and impact-driven machine learning solutions engineer. He finds great satisfaction in learning about people, helping them solve problems... Read More →
Lead of the Kubeflow Platform (Manifests & Security) working group with a master degree in theoretical computer Science. I do Kubeflow releases here https://github.com/kubeflow/manifests/releases, but I also work on individual Kubeflow components, Ray, Spark etc. for around 5 yea... Read More →
As a lead data platform engineer with almost 10 years of experience, I specialize in data engineering and analytics infrastructure, worked in the financial and telecom sectors.I have been using Kubeflow platform for over 2 years. Started contributing to Kubeflow components since almost... Read More →
Open Source Community Advocate and Leader, Kubeflow Project
Amber Graner is an open source leader with experience in communities like Ubuntu, Linaro, Open Compute Project (OCP), Zeek, and Kubeflow. A decorated U.S. Army combat veteran, she blends leadership and inclusivity to empower individuals and organizations, fostering collaboration and... Read More →
Multicluster Kubernetes is becoming more and more common. Unfortunately, while it brings fascinating new opportunities to the table, fairly simple things like resilience and progressive delivery often become dramatically more complex when they need to span multiple clusters. Federated services are a new Linkerd feature aimed at providing operational simplicity for multicluster. A federated service appears exactly the same from anywhere in your multicluster setup, while being able to reach everywhere in your multicluster setup, and Linkerd pushes the work of making that happen deep into the mesh so that the users of the mesh needn’t think about it: traffic will stay local where it can, route seamlessly across clusters where it can’t, and routing primitives just work as you expect. Join us for a deep dive into what federated services are, how they work, and how to use them, and a live demo of what they can do!
Alex is a software engineer at Buoyant and core maintainer of Linkerd, the open source service mesh for cloud native applications. Prior to Buoyant, she worked at Twitter on core API infrastructure. She enjoys roller derby, woodworking, and type safety.
Explore a cutting-edge approach to enhancing observability for serverless applications on solutions like Google Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. This session delves into creating a scalable metrics pipeline using Shopify's internal app platform for seamless container configuration and a ingestion system capable of handling millions of datapoints per minute.
We'll dive into the architecture featuring OpenTelemetry collectors as sidecars and a regional workloads to ingest and manage metrics with varying temporality models. Discover how we integrated OTLP with our ingestion layer, transforming exponential histograms into DD Sketches for optimal performance and accuracy.
Gain insights into the challenges and solutions in building this comprehensive observability pipeline. This talk provides valuable lessons for teams aiming to enhance serverless monitoring in Kubernetes environments, leveraging Shopify's philosophy of efficient, resilient, and cost-effective cloud utilization.
Pedro is an engineer working in Production Engineering at Shopify. Currently working on Cloud Observability, he values upstream participation and contributes to open-source projects related to Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies, like Thanos and KEDA. Outside of work he is a... Read More →
Join us exploring OpenTelemetry profiling's evolution and future. We'll examine the changes in OTLP profiling protocol, highlighting how moving beyond pprof wire compatibility enables individual profiling events with timestamps and thread timeline visualizations. Discover the practical implementation of profiling across the observability stack using the OTel Collector. Learn about its sophisticated capabilities in receiving, processing, and exporting profile data, along with data augmentation tools and community contribution opportunities. This collaborative presentation from the Profiling SIG showcases achievements and future directions in profiling, offering practical insights for comprehensive profiling solutions.
[Felix Geisendörfer](https://twitter.com/felixge) is a Senior Staff Engineer at Datadog where he works on Continuous Profiling for Go. Before that he was working on manufacturing systems for Apple, herding big PostgreSQL clusters. In his spare time he's usually working on [open source](https://github.com/felixge... Read More →
Ever pushed a container to prod only to discover it had more CVEs than your morning coffee had beans? That was us - averaging 90+ critical vulnerabilities per week across 980 container images, with patch cycles slower than Windows XP updates. Worse? Our traditional scanning tools were flagging issues after images hit production, turning our registry into a vulnerability museum.
Join this lightening talk where Prerit will talk about how they built a game-changing platform that leverages Copa for real-time vulnerability scanning and hot-patching. Now they scan 100+ images daily, applying patches within 180 seconds of CVE detection, and stopping vulnerable containers before they even dream of production. The kicker? They reduced our vulnerability response time from 5 hours to under 5 minutes, while maintaining 99.99% deployment success rate.
Prerit is working as a Software Architect, directing his expertise towards harnessing Cloud Native Technologies to design resilient architectures that can seamlessly scale in the future, all while prioritizing technical cost, security, availability and end-user experience. As the... Read More →
Kubernetes is widely adopted for inference workloads, but distributed ML training still presents challenges, such as dynamic resource scaling, GPU scheduling, and efficient inter-node communication. Recent advancements, including KubeRay, Kubeflow, and Slurm integration, have expanded Kubernetes' capabilities for training workloads, making it a more viable option for complex, large-scale ML tasks.
This session focuses on the next step: benchmarking these tools to evaluate and optimize their performance for distributed ML training. We’ll review existing solutions, discuss the design and implementation of our benchmarking platform, and demonstrate how it provides actionable insights to improve throughput, scalability, and efficiency.
Liang Yan is a senior software engineer at Coreweave, specializing in AI Infra, heterogeneous architecture acceleration and distributed machine learning systems from the cloud base. He collaborates closely with upstream communities and leading vendors like NVIDIA, AMD and ARM, delivering... Read More →
So you have Istio questions and you're looking for help? Good news! There's a large Istio community out there with considerable experience you can draw on. Bad news! It's full of very busy people who have jobs and deadlines and places to go and dogs to walk. So how can you get the answers your need? In the this ten minute talk we'll tour the places you can go to engage the community, and talk about the best ways to frame your questions so you can get the information you need and get back to what you were doing.
Flux is a great GitOps tool, and like any great GitOps tool, it can handle in-place upgrades without breaking a sweat – but things can be different when across breaking changes, and especially when jumping by two major versions at once! That's the situation that Compare the Market faced in 2024: going from Linkerd 2.14.10 to Linkerd 2.16.0 in a single step using Flux... all while keeping secrets out of Git.
In this session, you'll get a good look behind the curtain at what the upgrade involved, what went well, and what caused some pain. You'll hear about where the documentation fell short, where the gotchas were lurking, and why it took 13 experiments with ephemeral clusters to get to the point that the platform engineers were able to pull the trigger one evening, and have a quiet morning at work the next day!
40 years of experience, from ZX Spectrums and the BBC micro, detouring via the joys of disk drives the size of washing machines and on-prem racked and stacked servers, all the way to Kubernetes and the Cloud. And my terminal is still green on black.
Haydn is a cloud platform engineer at Compare the Market, specialising in Kubernetes and service mesh technologies. With experience in implementing and upgrading Linkerd in production environments, Haydn has worked on optimising observability, enhancing security, and streamlining... Read More →
Are you using GitOps to manage increasing numbers of Kubernetes clusters without going insane? Great!
GitOps is widely used to manage 1000s of Kubernetes resources in large numbers of clusters with numerous Kubernetes manifests in Git repositories. These are difficult to handle manually, requiring human approval of 100s of git pull requests.
Better GitOps automation is essential to manage Kubernetes workloads, especially towards 10s or 100s of thousands of Cloud-RAN far-edge clusters. Kubernetes-native automation with operators is well-supported but reconciling Kubernetes YAML manifests in Git repositories is a challenge. That is, until now! Let us introduce you to Porch, which simplifies this process significantly.
Porch allows human-machine collaboration on infrastructure/application configuration data stored in Git, transforming generic blueprints to fully specified deployable packages. This “hydration” process pioneered in Nephio is a novel approach to platform engineering.
Liam Fallon is a practitioner delivering Network Automation in open source. He is building the software frameworks needed to realize the promise of automation in modern Telco systems.He helped to develop the Policy Framework in ONAP, and led the implementation of Automation Composition... Read More →
Istvan is a senior researcher and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Nokia Bell Labs with 10+ years of experience in telco research. His main research focus is in cloud-native telco network automation.
Service meshes have become an essential part of cloud-native infrastructures around the world, managing secure, reliable communication between services serving healthcare systems, financial data, real-time analytics platforms, and global e-commerce applications. But not all service meshes are created equal and as service meshes promise low latency, minimal overhead, and robust reliability, are these claims always true to their word?
Benchmarking service meshes like Linkerd, Istio, and others can reveal key differences between them due to the impact of technological and design choices. But creating fair, reproducible benchmarks requires careful setup and a deep understanding of both the workloads and the mesh technologies themselves.
Join Dominik for a deep dive into the art and science of benchmarking service meshes. We’ll uncover insights into what makes a service mesh fast, lightweight, and production-ready and whether the promises that each make really hold up.
DevOps Engineer/Solutions Architect with a focus on driving impactful solutions in cloud environments. Specializing in data solutions development using AWS services. Currently contributing expertise to enhance efficiency and scalability.Also an OSS enthusiast, committed to contributing... Read More →
The OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) is a powerful way to customize telemetry data transformation with the OpenTelemetry collector, but it can be daunting for new and experienced users alike. Enter the OTTL Playground (https://ottl.run), a powerful and user-friendly tool designed to allow users to experiment with the OTTL effortlessly.
The playground provides a rich interface for users to create, modify, and test statements in real-time, making it easier to understand how different configurations impact the OpenTelemetry data transformation. Users can instantly validate OTTL transformations, from input to output, along with diffs. This allows new users to explore the nuances of OTTL without the risk of disrupting production environments.
This session provides a quick introduction to OTTL, and a live demo on how the OTTL Playground can help users to create, test and troubleshoot OTTL statements. Offering ideas for enhancements and community contributions.
Edmo is an experienced software engineer with a passion for emerging technologies. He currently works at Elastic, where he helps develop robust data processing solutions. Proficient in various programming languages, he has a proven track record of designing and deploying scalable... Read More →
Running 20+ concurrent experiments across your product can sound like playing roulette with production. Feature combinations grow exponentially (2^20 possible states!), while the A/B testing may sound more like A/Z chaos.
Join this lightening talk as we talk about how to develop a feature experimentation framework using OpenFeature that prioritizes experiments based on business impact, cut the number of failed experiments by 70% while increasing successful feature adoption by 45%.
Prerit is working as a Software Architect, directing his expertise towards harnessing Cloud Native Technologies to design resilient architectures that can seamlessly scale in the future, all while prioritizing technical cost, security, availability and end-user experience. As the... Read More →
William is the co-founder and CEO of Buoyant, the creator of the open source service mesh project Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he helped move Twitter from a failing monolithic Ruby on Rails app to a highly distributed, fault-tolerant... Read More →
