CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

Cilium’s out-of-the-box default settings prioritize compatibility over performance, making it easy to deploy and get started. However, for production-grade environments, it’s essential to tune the settings to unlock Cilium’s full potential for performance and scalability.

In this talk, we’ll explore settings and options that make a real difference, from eBPF-based host routing and kube-proxy replacement, to eBPF map sizing and multi-cluster setups. We’ll also look at cutting-edge features like BIG TCP and Netkit, and future performance features the project has on the roadmap. Whether you’re looking to optimize your performance or scale to the next level, we’ll provide the tools to get your Cilium environment running at top speed—without “waiting for the kettle to boil”!

Speakers

Neha Aggarwal

Principal Software Engineer Manager, Microsoft

Neha is a Principal Group Engineering Manager in Azure Core Organization and is a leader in enabling Container Networking for cloud native applications. She drives critical initiatives, such as enhancing networking capabilities in cloud native applications, ebpf powered Cloud native... Read More →

Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent at Cisco

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, now part of Cisco. Currently on the boards of the CNCF and OpenUK, she was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is an award-winning speaker, and the author... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

CiliumCon, Technology

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks CiliumCon

09:10 BST

The State of GenAI & ML in the Cloud Native Ecosystem - Alejandro Saucedo, Zalando SE

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, Multimodal AI

The growth of GenAI & ML has brought new emerging challenges; in this talk we dive into the state of production of GenAI & ML in the cloud native ecosystem, where we provide an overview of trends, challenges, opportunities and tooling that the ecosystem is standardizing towards.

As part of this session, we will provide a snapshot of the current state of the ecosystem, as uncovered by recent surveys, which highlights the gaps in tooling and skills [1]. We will then cover the best practices and tooling that are arising from production use-cases of LLMOps/MLOps at scale to tackle domain-specific challenges such as agentic-workflows, AI guardrails, efficiency requirements - between others. These include the OSS frameworks [2] that are supporting the end-to-end LLMOps / MLOps lifecycle across pipelining, optimization, productionisation, monitoring/observability and ML safety.

[1] https://ethical.institute/state-of-ml-2024
[2] https://bit.ly/ml-list

Speakers

Alejandro Saucedo

Director of Engineering, Science & Product, Zalando SE

Alejandro is Director of Engineering, Science & Product at Zalando SE, where he is responsible for central systems that power Supply and Demand across the group, including Zalando's central data and State-of-the-Art ML systems. He is also Chief Scientist at the Institute for Ethical... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

09:10 BST

Postgres on Kubernetes for the Reluctant DBA - Karen Jex, Crunchy Data

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST

Data on Kubernetes Day, DoK Use Cases and Best Practices

As an old-school DBA, maybe you still don’t like the idea of running mission-critical databases on Kubernetes.

I can understand that – you’ve spent decades learning your trade, honing your database expertise and putting together your database administration toolbox. You’re confident in your ability to implement and maintain a reliable, secure, performant database environment. Why would you risk upsetting that by migrating to a completely different architecture?

Also, everyone tells you that Kubernetes is only for stateless applications. Why on earth would you want to run your databases there?

The database landscape is changing. For several years now, I’ve been working with many customers who run mission-critical, multi-terabyte databases on Kubernetes. Some of them look after many hundreds or even thousands of databases.

The aim of this session is to show you how Kubernetes can enhance your database expertise and give you powerful new tools to solve old challenges.

Speakers

Karen Jex

Senior Solutions Architect, Crunchy Data

Karen was a database administrator for over 20 years and was once described as "quite personable for a DBA", which she decided to take as a compliment! She's now a Senior Solutions Architect, helping customers to design and manage their PostgreSQL database environments. She gives... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Data on Kubernetes Day

09:10 BST

Securing Every Bit at Uber - David Bell & Ronak Jain, Uber

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST

EnvoyCon, Envoy in production case studies

At Uber, we give service owners the autonomy to build and deploy what they think is right to get the job done. However, this comes with the challenge of applying a consistent baseline of encryption and authorization across dozens of languages, frameworks, and off-the-shelf software. To solve this problem, we needed to re-orient from targeting individual applications and frameworks to a foundational solution that worked regardless of application type.

This talk will cover Uber's journey from having targeted encryption, authentication, and authorization deployed internally to 100% coverage in the span of 2 years by transparently encrypting, authenticating, and authorizing billions of connections. We will cover how Envoy enabled and accelerated this transformation as well as our operational learnings from development, deployment, and our first year with Uber fully onboarded.

Speakers

David Bell

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Uber

David Bell is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber focused on the Software Networking stack that powers all of Uber's service to service communication. Prior to Uber, David worked at AWS on their cloud native container orchestration and application networking services.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks EnvoyCon

09:10 BST

Chaos To Control: Kubernetes Resiliency at the Edge - Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam & Candida Valois, Scality

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST

Kubernetes on Edge Day, Kubernetes for Retail Edge

Edge computing with Kubernetes is powerful but comes with challenges like limited resources, unreliable connectivity, and ransomware threats. Keeping systems running at the edge is critical, but how do you make that happen?

In this session, we'll share how a global retail chain used Kubernetes-native tools to recover from a ransomware attack. With 500+ stores relying on Kubernetes for inventory and sales they couldn't afford any downtime. Using immutable backups and S3-compatible storage, they fully recovered in under 10 minutes, avoiding major disruption.

Learn how to build secure and resilient Kubernetes environments at the edge, ensuring your systems are prepared for the unexpected.

Speakers

Julia F Morgado

Global Technologist, Veeam

Julia is a Global Technologist on the Product Strategy team - Office of the CTO at Veeam Software. Her passion is making Cloud and Cloud Native technologies easier to understand by sharing her knowledge and experiences. She is also committed to empowering communities as a CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Candida Valois

Field CTO, Scality

Candida Valois is an accomplished technology strategist with deep expertise in data protection, cloud storage, and enterprise IT solutions. With years of experience working with cutting-edge technologies, she is a trusted advisor to organizations seeking to modernize their infrastructure... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

09:15 BST

Breaking Down the TofuLith. How We Reduced Lead Times for Multi-Tenant Infra Changes by 90% - Mike Hodgins, FundApps

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:15 - 09:40 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Previously, the biggest constraint in our engineering department was the time it took to make infrastructure changes. In this talk I'll describe the changes we made to both our codebase, and our ways of working to remove that constraint entirely, enabling us to optimise flow across our entire engineering department, and increasing the number of active contributors to our codebase five-fold.

We'll cover how to break apart large codebases to reduce plan and apply time, how to design patterns that are easy to repeat and share, and what we did to handle shared concerns across service boundaries. We'll talk about providers in the hundreds, and workspaces in the thousands.

We'll also briefly touch on how we used this pattern to enable more engineers to work on infra code quickly, and how we enable them to do so safely, and finish up with a few points about what we'd have done differently, and sharing some metrics to illustrate the impact this had.

Speakers

Mike Hodgkins

Staff Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer turned developer, FundApps

Mike (he/him) is the Platform Team lead and Staff Engineer at FundApps, where he’s responsible for automating things for product teams so they can quickly and safely automate things for FundApps users.Having arrived at platform engineering via the sysadmin track, Mike’s most fluent... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:15 - 09:40 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

OpenTofu Day, Community Insights

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks OpenTofu Day

09:40 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Backstage Way of Cost Engineering: How To Save 30k USD and More - Long Zhang & Kristina Kondrashevich, Electrolux Group

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:40 - 09:50 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

Electrolux has successfully adopted Backstage and developed numerous plugins to enhance their development workflow. One of their most significant plugins, designed for infrastructure management, has proven to be highly popular among developers. However, this success brought a new challenge: the potential for uncontrolled cloud spending as developers over-provisioned infrastructure.

To address this issue, Platform Team decided to integrate cloud cost visibility directly into Backstage. By developing the InfraWallet plugin, developers now can monitor their cloud spending within the familiar Backstage environment. This plugin, now open-sourced, offers a transparent view of cloud costs, enabling developers to make informed decisions and optimize their resource usage.

In this presentation, we will dive into the details of Electrolux's journey, exploring how they harnessed the power of Backstage helping developers to manage cloud costs efficiently.

Speakers

Long Zhang

Senior SRE, Electrolux

Long Zhang is now a senior SRE at Electrolux working on its IoT system’s observability and reliability. Long holds a Ph.D. degree in software reliability from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research work focuses on self-healing software, chaos engineering, and a... Read More →

Kristina Kondrashevich

SRE Product Manager, Electrolux Group

In my life, I have been responsible for writing code, managing teams, and improving delivery processes. Today, as a PM, I support Platform and SRE teams to bring traditional product management practices into the way of working. We treat our developers as consumers and our main goal... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:40 - 09:50 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

BackstageCon, Technical deep dives on Backstage topics customizing+scaling+securing+plugin development+etc

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks BackstageCon

09:45 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Scalable and Observable RAG for Question-Answering in a Box - Selvi Kadirvel, Elotl

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 09:55 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, RAG

Enterprises have critical operational and product data distributed in a variety of sources that includes public documentation, internal wikis and various ticketing systems. With the rising capabilities of Large Language Models, enterprises & SMBs are looking to LLMs to help achieve valuable insights from these diverse data sources accessible via natural language querying.

In this talk, we illustrate how we can build a self-hosted RAG system to answer questions across these data sources powered by LLMs hosted on a scalable and observable Kubernetes cluster. Auto-scaling and observability are incorporated into our Question-Answering-in-a-Box stack both at the application and infrastructure level to ensure that GenAI app developers can start with pilot deployments and then systematically move through an Iterate-and-Improve cycle to eventually deploy their stack in production in a cost-effective fashion.

Speakers

Selvi Kadirvel

Engineering Lead, Elotl

Selvi is the Engineering Lead at Elotl where she works on building multi-cluster Kubernetes solutions. As an engineer in the infrastructure space for 15 years, she has worked on Kubernetes & container platforms at Cisco and ContainerX. In a prior avatar, she implemented machine-learning... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 09:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

09:45 BST

Streamline Your App Development With the Power of Cloud Native Tools - Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam & Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

As an app developer, your plate is already full trying to build awesome features and deliver top-notch value to users. But then toss in all these new cloud-native tools and workflows? It can definitely feel overwhelming!

In this session, you will learn how to navigate the cloud-native ecosystem, choose the right tools for your development teams, and understand how these integrate with your development process. We’ll cover key projects and specifications like OpenTelemetry, CloudEvents, Buildpacks, Knative functions, Dapr, and more.

This will help you work more effectively with the teams supporting these technologies, aligning efforts across functions to build scalable and sustainable solutions. Spend more time innovating and less time struggling with unfamiliar tools.

Speakers

Julia F Morgado

Global Technologist, Veeam

Mauricio Salatino

Ecosystem Engineer, Diagrid

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

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

Cloud Native University, Core Curriculum: Cloud native solution architecture

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native University

09:45 BST

Mastering Kafka Workload Balancing With Strimzi’s Cruise Control Integration - Paolo Patierno, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST

Is your organization scaling Apache Kafka on Kubernetes with the need for efficient resource management and automated balancing? Strimzi, an open-source solution for running Kafka on Kubernetes, integrates with Cruise Control to offer advanced workload rebalancing, monitoring, and optimization. This integration provides you with production-grade automation for workload distribution and resource efficiency, reducing manual intervention and improving resiliency in a cloud-native environment.
This session is for Kafka operators, SREs, and DevOps engineers seeking to optimize Kafka on Kubernetes. We’ll cover the setup of Cruise Control, automated rebalancing strategies, and real-world examples demonstrating dynamic traffic scaling, rapid failure recovery, and optimized resource usage. Attendees will also see a live demo of Cruise Control rebalancing a Kafka cluster to maximize performance and stability.

Speakers

Paolo Patierno

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Paolo is a Senior Principal Software Engineer working for Red Hat on the messaging and data streaming team. He is maintainer of Strimzi, a CNCF incubating project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes using operators. He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Data on Kubernetes Day, DoK Day 2

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Data on Kubernetes Day

09:45 BST

Adventures in Rate Limiting: Spotify’s Journey Writing a Scalable Envoy Rate Limiter (in Golang!) - Oliver Soell & Peter Marsh, Spotify

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST

EnvoyCon, Extensibility (including gRPC APIs and WASM plugins) and novel Envoy extensions

Envoy has great support for rate limiting, but as you scale up you’ll undoubtedly face serious cost and operational challenges.

Envoy’s global rate-limiting makes decisions on the request hot path, leading to an unavoidable latency increase, and a linear increase in requests to your rate limiting cluster. Spotify had noticed that the cost of running the rate limiting cluster was roughly equivalent to running the Envoys themselves!

Spotify addressed these scaling challenges by writing a new distributed Envoy rate limiter, and did so as an Envoy filter written in golang, and a backing Java service.

Do you have similar challenges? Learn about why Spotify chose to develop a new rate limiting approach, how the approach scales to meet Spotify’s needs, and the experience of writing a non-trivial filter in golang.

Speakers

Peter Marsh

Spotify

Oliver Soell

Staff Engineer, Spotify AB

Compute and Networking at Spotify

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks EnvoyCon

09:45 BST

Seamless List-Watch Improvements Across Data Center and Massive Unstable Network Edge - Fei Xu, Huawei Cloud & Huan Wei, Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technologies Co., Ltd

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST

Kubernetes on Edge Day, Kubernetes mobile devices-low resource hardware

Many enterprises, such as new energy vehicle and smart campus, are deploying cloudnative workloads to edge nodes. However, these nodes often exist in highly distributed and high-latency network environments, bringing challenges to manage them.

However, as some maintainers of K8s have also pointed out, there're challenges in distributed and high-latency network with K8s, including: 1) the impact of the List-watch mechanism on server-side due to data retransmission(re-list frequently) in scenarios with frequent node online/offline 2) how to recover apps when nodes go offline and restart.

This topic will introduce how KubeEdge optimizes the K8s List-watch in unstable network, avoiding the impact on the server-side bandwidth by re-list frequently. Notably, users can in the data center manage workloads on massively discrete edges without awareness. Moreover, real-world user cases such as those in new energy vehicles and smart campuses will be presented to demonstrate the effect and value.

Speakers

Fei Xu

Senior Software Engineer, Huawei Cloud

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

Huan Wei

Senior Technical Director, Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technologies Co., Ltd

Huan is an open source enthusiast and cloud native technology advocate. He is currently the CNCF ambassador, and TSC member of KubeEdge project. He is serving as experienced technical director for HarmonyCloud.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Kubernetes on Edge Day

10:40 BST

Defining SLOs and SLIs for ArgoCD: A Metrics-Driven Approach To Observability - Eve Ben Ezra & Serhiy Martynenko, The New York Times

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

ArgoCD offers an extensive set of metrics that provide invaluable insights into its health and performance. However, as of now, there are no standardized guidelines or recommendations for defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) or Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for ArgoCD. SLOs serve as a critical foundation for ensuring the reliability and quality of ArgoCD services, guiding teams to proactively address issues before they impact users.

In this talk, we will:
- Explore the wealth of metrics provided by ArgoCD components (API server, application controller, repo server, and more).
What is an SLO / SLI
- Propose actionable SLOs and SLIs tailored to ArgoCD operations, such as deployment success rates, reconciliation time, and resource health checks.
- Demonstrate how these SLOs can help identify early signs of service degradation, enabling teams to maintain high service quality.

Speakers

Eve Ben Ezra

Software Engineer, The New York Times

Eve Ben Ezra is a Software Engineer with The New York Times Company. Coming from a data and mathematics background, Eve has built a career on using logic to apply solutions to broad business problems while considering necessary outliers. In their free time, Eve makes jokes about kubernetes... Read More →

Serhiy Martynenko

Senior Software Engineer, The New York Times

HI! I'm a Ukrainian who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. My team at The New York Times is responsible for Application Delivery experience of engineers. We are part of Delivery Engineering - group of teams who build Internal Developer Platform called DVSP. Prior to The New York... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

ArgoCon, Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

10:40 BST

Improving Network Efficiency: The Power of Integrating Delegated IPAM With Cilium - Tamilmani Manoharan & Will Daly, Microsoft

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

Curious how Azure integrated our native IPAM implementation with Cilium through the power of open standards? The secret is "Delegated IPAM", a widely used part of the CNI specification. Unlike other IPAM implementations that embed vendor-specific code in Cilium itself, delegated IPAM allows seamless integration with any platform using out-of-tree plugins. Azure users benefit from fast, scalable IPAM and native routing that avoids the encapsulation overhead of Cilium tunnel mode. Delegated IPAM acts as a bridge combining the benefits of both worlds without any compromises. Session participants will learn how to leverage delegated IPAM to provide similar integrations for cloud or on-prem environments with zero changes in the Cilium code.

Speakers

Will Daly

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Will is a software engineer at Azure Kubernetes Service working on container networking.

Tamilmani Manoharan

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Tamilmani is Software engineering Manager who leads container networking dataplane team in Azure. His experience and interests are centered around Container Networking, datapath, building efficient and scalable service. Outside of work, he enjoys playing Tennis and Badminton.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

CiliumCon, Technology

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks CiliumCon

10:40 BST

Pains and Gains: Lessons From Orchestrating Volumes for Remote Storage in Cloud Native AI Scenarios - Zhihao Xu & Yashi Su, Alibaba Cloud

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

Data on Kubernetes Day, DoK Application Development

Developers of AI applications usually find thmeselves stuck in unexpected errors when migrating testing workload onto Kubernetes. One of the main reasons is that accessing remote storage is complicated and unstable. More specifically, developers are often puzzled by the following questions:
- Why significant extra resource is required, such as memory and disk I/O?
- Why do workloads that seem work well suddenly fail to access remote storage and hard to recover.
- Why can't I add another data source for new experiments without restarting online IDE?
Fluid is a CNCF project focusing on data accessing and workload orchestrating for AI applications. Fluid aims to assist users in building AI platforms based on Kubernetes. In this talk, we'll discuss why the questions are frequently asked based on Fluid users' feedback and how Fluid try to solve them.

Speakers

Zhihao Xu

Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud

I am currently a software engineer at Alibaba Cloud focusing on infrastructure for AI model training and large-scale model inference. Also, I am now a Maintainer of the CNCF sandbox project Fluid, which is designed for data orchestration for data-intensive applications running on... Read More →

Yashi Su

Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud

Yashi Su is a software engineer at Alibaba Cloud, focusing on Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) for object storage. She maintains OSSFS (a FUSE daemon for Alibaba Object Storage Service) used in Cloud-Native scenarios and researches how to improve the read-write performance... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Data on Kubernetes Day

10:40 BST

Envoy Proxy: Evolved for Serving LLMs - Vaibhav Katkade & Andres Guedez, Google

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

EnvoyCon, Extensibility (including gRPC APIs and WASM plugins) and novel Envoy extensions

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently in production environments presents unique challenges. This talk explores how Envoy proxy, a popular open-source edge and service proxy, has been enhanced to address these challenges. We'll delve into new features and techniques in Envoy that optimize LLM serving, improve performance, and simplify integration into Kubernetes-native architectures.

Key Takeaways:
Understand the specific challenges of deploying and scaling LLMs in production.
Learn how Envoy's latest features address these challenges, including:
** Advanced load balancing for LLM inference: Discuss how Envoy can intelligently route requests to optimize resource utilization and minimize latency.
** LLM Model Awareness: Explain how Envoy can be instrumented for compatibility with popular LLM serving specifications such as OpenAI API specifications.
** Security considerations for LLMs: How you can attach AI Safety frameworks in the Envoy proxy dataplane .

Speakers

Vaibhav Katkade

Product Manager, Google

Vaibhav is a Product Manager at Google working on enhanced LLM serving on Kubernetes and related projects. Vaibhav brings 10+ years of experience working with large enterprises on their networking and security architectures. Most recently, he has been driving new product capabilities... Read More →

Andres Guedez

Software Engineer, Google

Andres is currently a Load Balancing Technical Lead at Google focusing on GCP Networking; he has led efforts to modernize Google's proxy by migrating to Envoy Proxy, and is currently focused on optimizing generative AI workload serving. Prior to that, he worked on Enterprise Networking... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks EnvoyCon

10:40 BST

The Past, the Present, and the Future of Platform Engineering - Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid & Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

Platform Engineering Day, Building platforms for day 2 operations

Do you think platform engineering is too hard? Or is it just a buzzword? Is the CNCF landscape too tricky to visualize? If you’ve been in this industry long enough, you should know that platform engineering has been around for a long time.

Most of us have been trying to build developer platforms for decades, and most of us have failed at that. That begs the questions: “What is different now?” “Why will this time be different?” and “Do we have a chance to succeed?”

We’ll take a look at the past, the present, and the future of platform engineering. We’ll see what we were doing in the past, what we did wrong, and why we failed. Further on, we’ll see what we (the industry as a whole) are doing now and, more importantly, where we might go from here.

Get ready for the hard truths and challenges you will face when trying to build a platform based on Kubernetes. Join us for a pain-infused journey filled with challenges teams will face when building platforms to enable other teams.

Speakers

Mauricio Salatino

Ecosystem Engineer, Diagrid

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate, Upbound

Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

10:45 BST

Beyond Root Cause Analysis for K8s: What Your Logs Should Be Telling You - Ronit Belson, Sawmills

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:45 - 11:10 BST

Observability Day, Managing the Ever-increasing Volume of Observability Data

Logs are a goldmine of information, which is why they have become the backbone of business-critical monitoring and observability systems. Yet like gold, mining this value requires significant effort – sifting through endless entries is time-consuming, tiring, and costly. To reduce operational overhead and minimize mean time to resolution (MTTR), this talk explores advanced techniques for log summarization, offering methods to reduce log volume without losing critical insights for modern cloud-native and K8s environments.

We'll discuss the use of key attributes and metrics to make logs more meaningful and enable more rapid root cause analysis (RCA). The presentation will demonstrate semantic log understanding using advanced AI and contextual log analysis powered by large language models (LLMs) to automatically extract actionable insights and understand the deeper context of system behaviors and application flows.

Speakers

Ronit Belson

CEO & Co-Founder, Sawmills

Ronit Belson is a seasoned tech executive and entrepreneur, currently serving as the Co-Founder and CEO of Sawmills. With over two decades of experience, Ronit has a proven track record of scaling startups and driving growth. She has held key leadership roles, including COO at Testim.io... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:45 - 11:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

10:45 BST

Operationalizing Observability: The Invisible Parts - Hazel Weakly, Nivenly Foundation

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:45 - 11:10 BST

Observability Day, Making a Case for Observability Within Your Organization

Observability is increasingly becoming a differentiator in developer experience and in sustaining system health. Despite this, vendor bills are higher than ever, infrastructure budgets are lower, and the ROI is increasingly harder to sell.

Join Hazel in this talk as she takes you through:
- What it takes to get buy-in, what what that looks like, and when to not
- What happens after procurement: Going from zero to day one
- Achieving ROI beyond the engineering function

This talk will be be packed full with actionable insights for employees wanting to implement observability, vendors wanting to sell, and OSS projects working to make the system better.

Speakers

Hazel Weakly

Fellow, Nivenly Foundation

Hazel spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. One of her favorite things is... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:45 - 11:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

11:15 BST

Automated Resilience: Using Argo Events for Real-Time Incident Remediation - Darko Janjić, Pipekit

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST

In today’s dynamic cloud environments, system reliability is crucial, and downtime can be costly. Automated remediation powered by Argo Events introduces a paradigm shift in incident response, enabling real-time detection and resolution of issues. This session dives into how Argo Events can be leveraged to build event-driven workflows that automatically remediate failures, minimizing downtime and human intervention.

Attendees will learn:
- The architecture and capabilities of Argo Events.
- How to integrate Argo Events with other Kubernetes-native tools for seamless automation.
- Real-world examples of automated remediation pipelines.
- Best practices for ensuring secure and effective event-driven automation.

Whether you're managing microservices, Kubernetes clusters, or CI/CD pipelines, this session will equip you with the knowledge to improve system reliability through automation.

Speakers

Darko Janjić

Senios Software Engineer, Pipekit

Darko is a Senior Software Engineer at Pipekit, a control plane for Argo Workflows that enables massive data pipelines in minutes. He has extensive experience with distributed systems, virtualization, and cloud engineering across a variety of industries. Besides engineering, Darko... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

ArgoCon, Observability

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

11:15 BST

Simplifying Multi-Cluster Networking With Cilium and MCS-API: A Technical Deep Dive - Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre, Ledger & Marco Iorio, Isovalent at Cisco

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST

Multi-Cluster Services API (MCS-API), a standard driven by SIG Multicluster, extends Services across multiple clusters and is now supported in Cilium. While Cilium already enables multi-cluster services via annotations, MCS-API support brings it to the next level: create a ServiceExport resource referencing an existing Service to make it available to all clusters, enjoy DNS integration through the clusterset.local domain, and support for advanced features like Gateway API. All complemented by EndpointSlice synchronization, to enable external ingress controllers and more.

In this deep dive talk, expect to learn about the Cilium Cluster Mesh architecture, how we implemented MCS-API support, and all the lessons we learned along the way. We’ll also demo scenarios unlocked by MCS-API support and hidden secrets like how we (ab)used the Kubernetes EndpointSlice controller to reconcile EndpointSlices from remote clusters with very minimal code changes.

Speakers

Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre

Site Reliability Engineer, Ledger

Arthur works as a Site Reliability Engineer at Ledger. He has always been keen to adopt and contribute to various open source software in order to build reliable high performance infrastructures and improve developers productivity. He is a Kubernetes and container enthusiast and... Read More →

Marco Iorio

Senior Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Marco Iorio is a software engineer at Isovalent, which is now part of Cisco, working on cloud-native networking, with specific focus on multi-cluster solutions. Marco holds a PhD in computer engineering. In his spare time, he loves traveling and relaxing with crossword puzzles.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

CiliumCon, Meshes

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks CiliumCon

11:15 BST

Write-Through Object Cache for Fleets of Global Edge Clusters - Ryan Beisner, NVIDIA

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST

Data on Kubernetes Day, DoK Application Development

GPU-focused workloads such as cloud gaming and AI inference jobs demand access to data at scale, which is often challenged by prohibitive egress costs and latency. This talk introduces a system and strategy designed to accelerate and optimize S3 object storage performance across a global fleet of edge Kubernetes clusters. The solution is built on Kubernetes, leveraging AIStore with OVN, Metallb, and many other common OSS components. Attendees will gain insights into the architecture, implementation challenges, and measurable impacts of the system.

Speakers

Ryan E. Beisner

Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure, NVIDIA

Global-scale GPU clouds at NVIDIA. Enabling cloud gaming and generative AI workloads on Kubernetes. I enjoy building teams, empowering developers, and solving complex problems.Former OpenInfra Foundation Board Director. Former Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph Engineering Manager at Canonical... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Data on Kubernetes Day

11:15 BST

Panel: Native OCI Integration - Leveraging Argo CD Source Content in a Brand New Way - Andrew Block & Ishita Sequeira, Red Hat; Michael Crenshaw, Intuit; Blake Pettersson, Akuity; Shiwei Zhang, Microsoft

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:50 BST

One of the most exciting recent enhancements to Argo CD is native OCI (Open Container Initiative) integration support. No longer are you limited to Git or Helm as a storage backend, but Argo CD now natively integrates with a piece of infrastructure you already have available: an OCI registry. And the best part: all of your existing Argo CD content can be reused in a brand new way!

Join members of the Argo CD community that brought native OCI integration to life in this panel session as they share everything that you need to know to effectively take advantage of this new capability.

In particular, they will discuss:

* The development process and community collaboration involved
* The technical details associated with native OCI integration in Argo CD
* The business value and how it unlocks the benefits of Argo CD like never before
* Common methods for managing OCI content including integration into existing workflows
* Examples that you can use to get started in your own environment

Speakers

Andrew Block

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat

Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat that works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies with a focus on security to reducing the overall... Read More →

Michael Crenshaw

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Michael Crenshaw is a Staff Software Engineer on the Argo CD team at Intuit. He is the most active contributor to the Argo project, focusing on security and performance improvements in Argo CD. He helps maintain Intuit’s ~50 Argo CD instances and ~20k Argo CD applications.

Blake Pettersson

Senior Solutions Architect, Akuity, Akuity

Blake Pettersson is a Senior Solutions Architect at Akuity, where he works making customers successful with Kubernetes and Gitops. He has well over a decade of experience working in the intersection of development and ops, having previously worked for a number of companies in Sweden... Read More →

Shiwei Zhang

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Dr. Shiwei Zhang is a Principal Software Engineering Manager of the Azure Container Registry team in Microsoft. With a Ph.D. degree in the field of cryptography, he specializes in Containers Secure Supply Chain and has applied his expertise by maintaining multiple CNCF projects, including... Read More →

Ishita Sequeira

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Senior Software Engineer

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:50 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

11:20 BST

From Logs To Insights: Real-time Conversational Troubleshooting for Kubernetes With GenAI - Tiago Reichert & Lucas Duarte, AWS

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:20 - 11:45 BST

Observability Day, Managing the Ever-increasing Volume of Observability Data

In today’s distributed microservices landscape, Kubernetes environments generate vast volumes of logs, making troubleshooting complex and time-consuming. Operators often sift through massive data to identify issues, leading to prolonged downtime—a challenge that intensifies with multiple clusters. Discover how GenAI optimizes troubleshooting by transforming traditional logs into conversational insights. This session covers building an AI-driven observability solution with Large Language Models (LLMs). We start by configuring Fluent Bit collectors to gather systemd logs, Kubernetes events, and application logs, which are then streamed to a scalable object storage. By constructing a vector database, we enable users to query and interact with logs in natural language. We will provide a step-by-step guide that equips attendees with actionable knowledge to implement GenAI observability in their Kubernetes clusters.

Speakers

Tiago Reichert

Sr. Specialist SA, Containers, AWS

Tiago is a Solutions Architect at AWS, focused on helping startups across Latin America to optimize their container strategies. With a deep passion for Containers, DevOps, and SaaS, he collaborates with businesses to design scalable and efficient cloud solutions. Tiago also actively... Read More →

Lucas Duarte

Sr. Specialist SA, Containers, AWS, AWS

Lucas is a Sr. Containers Specialist SA at AWS, dedicated to supporting ISV customers in AMER through AWS Container services. Beyond his Solutions Architect role, Lucas brings extensive hands-on experience in Kubernetes and DevOps leadership. He's been a key contributor to multiple... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:20 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

11:45 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Dynamic Modules: A New Era of High-Performance Envoy Extensions - Takeshi Yoneda, Tetrate

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:45 - 11:55 BST

EnvoyCon, Extensibility (including gRPC APIs and WASM plugins) and novel Envoy extensions

For years, the Envoy community has eagerly awaited support for dynamic modules as an extension mechanism – a feature that remained unaddressed until recently. A dynamic module is a shared library that can be loaded by Envoy at runtime, offering an alternative to existing extension mechanisms like Lua, External Processing, or Wasm.

Our early benchmark results in a production environment demonstrate that dynamic modules perform almost identically to native C++ extensions, which was nearly impossible before. Developing native C++ extensions requires rebuilding the Envoy binary and entails significant maintenance. In contrast, dynamic modules can be developed in almost any programming language, hence greatly benefits vendors and end users who require performance-sensitive custom business logic with the minimum maintenance.

In this talk, as the maintainer of dynamic module support in Envoy, I will provide an overview of this feature, share recent updates, and discuss future developments.

Speakers

Takeshi Yoneda

Open Source Software Engineer, Tetrate

Creator of wazero Wasm runtime | Contributor of various open source projects such as Envoy Proxy, Istio, Go, TinyGo, Zig, V8, etc.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:45 - 11:55 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks EnvoyCon

12:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Introducing ORCA: Load Balancing With Endpoint Provided Load Data - Misha Efimov, Google

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:00 - 12:10 BST

EnvoyCon, Using and Integrating with Envoy (for both cloud native and legacy infrastructures)

Recent changes to Envoy provide a way to utilize load reports obtained from backends via Open Request Cost Aggregation (ORCA).

The initial implementation supports direct (inline) load reports from backends in the form of response headers and used in two different ways.
1. Load Reports are provided to the xDS control plane server via xDS LRS API.
2. Load reports are used by a new Client Side Weighted Round Robin load balancing policy to dynamically calculate host weights on the client side. Inline reporting enables sub second load balancing reaction times, a critical requirement for customers with coordinated and spiky traffic workloads.

Using these load reports, Envoy proxies are able to implement load balancing policies that vary endpoint load balancing weights according to backend load reports.
This talk discusses some high level changes that ORCA load reporting introduces as well as potential enhancements down the line.

Speakers

Misha Efimov

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Misha is a veteran software engineer with wide experience in application networking. Currently Misha is working on Envoy-based L7 application load balancers in Google Cloud. In the past Misha has created Cronet library which made modern protocols like HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 over QUIC... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:00 - 12:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks EnvoyCon

12:15 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: High Availability for Cilium Egress Gateway - Angelo Conforti, Corner Banca SA

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:15 - 12:25 BST

Cilium is a leading CNCF project that has become the de-facto standard for Kubernetes networking. Among its many features is the Egress Gateway, which allows routing outgoing traffic from one or more workloads to a specific egress IP.
However, this feature lacks built-in high availability, and the egress IP must be managed externally. The Cilium HAEgress Operator (https://github.com/angeloxx/cilium-haegress-operator) addresses this limitation by providing a high-availability solution for egress traffic, ensuring continuity even in the event of node failures through dynamic virtual IP migration between nodes.
This lightning talk introduces the project, its current state, and future developments aimed at extending this standard Cilium feature.

Speakers

Angelo Conforti

System Engineer, Corner Banca SA

Angelo is a System Engineer at Corner Banca SA. He embraced Kubernetes and container technology starting in 2017, but his experience spans IoT, VoIP, and highly available systems for Internet Service Providers. He loves technology, is a big fan of home automation, and can't stop integrating... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:15 - 12:25 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

CiliumCon, Technology

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks CiliumCon

12:15 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Navigating the Complexities of Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes: The Essential Role of Software-Defi - Padmarajan Narayanan, Rakuten Cloud

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:15 - 12:25 BST

Data on Kubernetes Day, DoK Use Cases and Best Practices

Stateful workloads in Kubernetes come with unique challenges that go beyond what stateless applications face. From data persistence and high availability to scalability and cost optimization, deploying stateful applications like Postgres, MongoDB, and Cassandra requires robust infrastructure and management tools. Relying on local volumes can lead to pitfalls like limited flexibility, poor resilience, and increased operational complexity.

This lightning talk explores how Software-Defined Storage (SDS) can address these challenges by providing a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solution. Attendees will learn about the critical role SDS plays in ensuring data persistence, optimizing performance, and simplifying operations in Kubernetes environments. Through a relatable analogy and real-world insights, this talk will help Kubernetes practitioners understand the essential considerations for running stateful workloads effectively.

Speakers

Padmarajan Narayanan

Mr., Rakuten Cloud

Padmarajan Narayanan, Global Head of Presales and Solutions at Rakuten Cloud, leads a team delivering innovative cloud and edge solutions to enterprises worldwide. With over 20 years of experience in engineering, software sales, and business development, he specializes in driving... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:15 - 12:25 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Data on Kubernetes Day

12:55 BST

Autoscaling and Progressive Delivery - A Match Made in Heaven - Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group & Kostis Kapelonis, Codefresh by Ocotopus Deploy

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST

Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller for Progressive Delivery deployments. In the most basic scenario, Argo Rollouts supports advanced Kubernetes deployments such as blue/green and canaries. While this is great, the main selling point of a Kubernetes cluster is the autoscaling facilities it offers. Can you use canary deployments while still taking advantage of Horizontal (and Vertical) autoscalers?

The answer is yes! In this talk, we will see how you can combine these two worlds - progressive delivery and autoscaling - and explain how to perform advanced deployments even in the presence of autoscalers.

Speakers

Kostis Kapelonis

Developer Advocate, Octopus Deploy

Kostis is a software engineer/technical-writer dual class character. He lives and breathes automation, good testing practices and stress-free deployments with GitOps.

Anastasiia Gubska

SRE/DevOps Engineer, BT Group

Anastasiia Gubska, a Deaf CNCF Ambassador and SRE/DevOps Engineer at BT Group, develops and implements best practices for software delivery at the UK-based multinational telecommunications company. Passionate about discovering new communities and embracing diverse cultures, Anastasiia... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

ArgoCon, Progressive Delivery

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

12:55 BST

Encrypted Telemetry in Transit - Jason Plumb, Splunk

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST

Observability Day, Uses of Open Source Tooling to Achieve Observability

In some high-security or compliance-regulated environments, we sometimes need to guarantee that data is encrypted while in transit. In this talk, we will show you how to accomplish this using existing off-the-shelf OpenTelemetry components. We will walk you through the detailed technical process generating certificates and configuring the Collector to receive encrypted telemetry from the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation agent.

Speakers

Jason Plumb

Software Engineer, Splunk

Jason Plumb (he/him) is a hacker, artist, experimenter, polyglot programmer, and dad from Portland, OR, USA. He is co-maintainer of OpenTelemetry Android and an approver in various OpenTelemetry java projects. When not at work, Jason volunteers with Futel to install and maintain a... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

12:55 BST

From Sampling To Full Visibility: Scaling Tracing To Trillions of Spans - Sonam Gupta, SigLens & Sudeep Kumar, Salesforce Inc

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST

Observability Day, End-user Talks about Observability Implementations

Salesforce handles billions of transactions daily, generating over 50 trillion spans. These transactions represent a complex ecosystem. Failure of even a single transaction, can leave users frustrated while everything appears “green” in the system. Why? Sampling-based tracing often misses such edge cases.
In this talk, we unveil how SF overcame this challenge by enabling 100% sampling for critical flows, all while keeping costs low. We’ll share our groundbreaking migration from Zipkin to OTel and the lessons learned along the way
Discover how we equipped SF developers with a 360-degree view of service and API performance. With OTel, they can now pinpoint RED metrics, diagnose issues faster, and achieve visibility beyond the limits of logs and metrics
We’ll also dive into the backend challenges of scaling OTel, from managing high data volumes to optimizing storage and query performance. We’ll share the pros and cons of various approaches, and our experiences with open-source tools

Speakers

Sonam Gupta

Software Engineer, SigLens

Sonam Gupta is a Software Engineer at SigLens. With a B.Tech in Information Technology, she works with the UI team to build great user experiences.

Sudeep Kumar

Principal Engineer, Salesforce Inc

A Principal Engineer at Salesforce, having 18+ years of experience in building scalable distributed systems managing petabytes of data daily. He has led architecture of cloud-native SaaS solutions across E-commerce, Embedded systems, & Telecom. A speaker at global conferences, Sudeep... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

12:55 BST

Panel: Are We There Yet? Native Kubernetes Networking for Telecom Workloads - Gergely Csatari, Nokia; Lionel Jouin, Ericsson; Doug Smit & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:30 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

Kubernetes and the cloud native paradigm is beneficial not for web services, but for telecom and networking workloads also. These telecom and networking workloads have more special requirements for the platform due to the nature of their functionality. One big area for these extra requirements is networking. The cloud native ecosystem responded to these needs with a couple of additions to Kubernetes, but these can not provide complete functionality without modifications in Kubernetes itself. In this panel leading experts in Kubernetes networking who are in the forefront of developing and providing these additional features will discuss what are the still missing features, how to find a balance between modifying Kubernetes and providing an add-on components, and what are the limitations of modifying Kubernetes.

Speakers

Doug Smith

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Doug Smith is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. Focusing on Network Function Virtualization and container technologies, Doug integrates new networking technologies with container systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. He is a member of the Network... Read More →

Gergely Csatari

Senior Open Source Specialist, Nokia

Working in the telecom industry in the last two decades it was possible for Gergely to see the evolution from vendor specific hardware to virtualisation and cloud and a to cloud native. Currently Gergely is part of the OSPO team of Nokia CTO which is responsible for open source. In... Read More →

Surya Seetharaman

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc

Surya is an Open Source advocate and contributor, active in the Kubernetes SIG-Network working group. She is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat in the OpenShift Networking team. Her areas of interest include Cloud Infrastructure and Networked Services and Systems... Read More →

Lionel Joiun

Software Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology

Lionel Jouin is a Software Engineer at Ericsson Software Technology, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He actively contributes to Kubernetes with a focus on bringing native support for secondary networks and its ecosystem including services and policies…. His contributions span SIG Network... Read More →

Antonio Jimenez Martinez

Tech Lead Software Engineer, Cisco ThousandEyes

I am a Tech Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes, specializing in observability to ensure our customers can effectively monitor their products. My recent work involves using OpenTelemetry to stream telemetry data, enhancing network visibility and performance for our clients.I... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:55 - 13:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

13:30 BST

One Engine To Rule Them All: Unifying Cloud Workloads With Argo Workflows - Sebastian Beyvers, Giessen University

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST

Public cloud providers attract organizations with a promise: every computing service you need, neatly packaged under one roof. Yet those seeking to break free from vendor lock-in and build a sovereign infrastructure face a different reality - navigating a maze of specialized tools: Airflow for data pipelines, SLURM for HPC, Spark for analytics, and a variety of solutions for serverless functions - all using a different interface. We're here to challenge this fragmentation. What if Argo Workflows could be your universal scheduling engine? Through practical examples, we'll demonstrate how the Argo ecosystem - with its container-native workflow engine and robust event system - can consolidate most, if not all, of your compute infrastructure. We'll share our journey of integrating and/or replacing most of our existing scheduling systems with Argo, revealing concrete patterns that preserve workload-specific requirements while drastically simplifying our architecture.

Speakers

Sebastian Beyvers

Distributed Systems Researcher, Giessen University

Sebastian Beyvers is a distributed systems researcher in bioinformatics and a cloud-native Rust developer at Giessen University. Sebastian's current work focuses on cloud-native data storage and processing solutions that try to harmonize existing national and international data ecosystems... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

ArgoCon, Data Processing

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

13:30 BST

Scale GitOps With the Argo CD Agent and Open Cluster Management - August Simonelli, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST

If you’re running a multicluster environment—and really, who isn’t?—you can face challenges scaling deployments across your fleet no matter how big. Agent-based solutions can often be the best option to solve this.

The Argo CD Agent is a lightweight solution that helps Argo CD deployments scale more easily. The agent is quite notable in that it doesn’t require a permanent network connection and is lightweight and extensible allowing workload clusters to stay autonomous. In this session we will take a technical deep dive into the agent architecture.

We will demonstrate how to deploy the agent using the implementation of the Sig-Multicluster specification found in the Open Cluster Manager (OCM-io) project. Using OCM-io’s Add-on framework and the Argo CD Agent you’ll see how these two community tools and open standards help you with managing your GitOps at scale more reliably.

Speakers

August Simonelli

Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

August Simonelli is a Principal Product Manager at Red Hat. He has worked with customers around the world to help them adopt, use, improve, and implement open source technologies. Raised in Boulder, Colorado, August now lives in Sydney, Australia and is a strong advocate for using... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

13:30 BST

Accelerate Your AI/ML Workloads With Topology-Aware Scheduling in Kueue - Michał Woźniak, Google & Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, inc

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, AI Ops

Optimizing execution time of AI training and inference is crucial in the era of LLMs. The workloads often exchange huge amounts of data between pods, making the network throughput a bottleneck.

Data centers have hierarchical organization with multiple layers, such as racks or blocks, however, leveraging this fact in vanilla Kubernetes is challenging as the scheduler needs to be aware of both workloads and the cluster topology. Kueue, as a Job-level scheduler, is already workload-aware. To tackle the second challenge, we propose a convention for labeling nodes by cloud-providers or cluster administrators. Leveraging this information, Kueue optimizes Pod placement within a cluster, ordering Pods by indices to enhance the performance of AI frameworks using NCCL.

In this session, we introduce the key concepts and machinery behind Topology-Aware Scheduling (TAS) in Kueue. We also compare TAS with alternatives and present results on how using it improves execution time of AI workloads.

Speakers

Michał Woźniak

Software Engineer, Google

Michał is a software engineer with background in computer science, a PhD in computational biology, and 5+ years of professional experience. In his current role he is focusing on enhancing the support for batch workloads in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Outside of work he enjoys playing... Read More →

Yuki Iwai

Software Engineer, CyberAgent, inc

Yuki is a Software Engineer at CyberAgent, Inc. He works on the internal platform for machine-learning applications and high-performance computing. He is currently a Technical Lead for Kubeflow WG AutoML / Training. He is also a Kubernetes WG Batch active member, Job API reviewer... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

13:30 BST

Platform Abstractions an Asset or Liability? - Let’s Understand the Abstraction Debt Trap - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Developers often spend hours configuring Kubernetes manifests, wrestling with CI/CD pipelines, or implementing the right network policy. Platforms help solve this by providing abstractions—simple interfaces that hide complexity. But here’s the challenge: the more we abstract, the more rigid our platforms become.

When teams need to deploy slightly differently, they either fight the platform or work around it. This is the Abstraction Debt Trap, where yesterday’s simplification becomes today’s bottleneck.

In this talk, I’ll introduce the concept of Abstraction Elasticity, a measurable way to build platform capabilities that bend without breaking. I’ll also show ways to implement composable abstractions, build APIs that adapt to team maturity, and create flexible guardrails.

Using examples and code, I’ll show you how to measure your platform’s abstraction health, implement adaptable interfaces, and build platforms that grow with your teams and not restrict them.

Speakers

Atulpriya Sharma

Sr Developer Advocate | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies

Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – & host Twitter spaces and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth. In addition, I'm also a... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:30 - 13:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering Day, Using platforms to drive developer experience

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

13:35 BST

A Telco Game Changer: Sylva Embraces GitOps - Guillaume Nevicato, Orange & Cedric Yhuel, Oracle

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 BST

The adoption of a mutualized Telco Cloud for hosting multiple network functions presents significant opportunities in terms of common tooling. We will present GitOps best practices in configuration management, and reliability for large-scale production environments.
Then how we the open-source project Sylva helps to implement GitOps for CNF and Kubernetes.

After this intro, we will show in a demo with a Oracle CNF, Sylva LCM based on FluxCD and ClusterAPI. The aim is to show how Gitops approach ease to manage NF and Cloud
1st step Deployment of the CNF
2nd Upgrade the Kubernetes Cluster with Gitops without impacting the NF
3rd NF configuration changes
Takeways :
The audience will leave with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities in Telco cloud management, the role of GitOps.
The audience will have demo with materials released in open source.
We will open the door to the audience if they want deeper collaboration on Gitops adoption via Sylva

Speakers

Guillaume Nevicato

Telco Cloud Product Manager & Sylva Cochair, Orange

Guillaume Nevicato is a passionate cloud-native advocate since ten years.As Product Manager for Orange Telco Cloud, he leads the deployment of services that support a diverse range of Network Functions across 18 Orange affiliatesGuillaume is also an active participant in the Telco... Read More →

Cedric Yhuel

5G Architect - Orange account, Oracle

Seasoned presales consultant with over 20 years of experience in telecommunications and working at Oracle France. He specializes in 5G signaling & Voice over IP, supporting French service providers. Currently, Cédric is actively engaged in product-level support for Orange’s 5G... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Cloud Native Telco Day, Integrate

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

13:35 BST

A New Frontier: Sidecarless Service Mesh on Windows With Istio's Ambient Mesh - Keith Mattix & Mitch Connors, Microsoft

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 BST

BackstageCon, Lessons learned from standing up + deploying + driving Backstage adoption + etc.

Over the past 8 years, service meshes have provided the Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystems with the networking capabilities necessary for a robust microservice architecture. However, Windows container users have often been unable to take advantage of these features because of the deep Linux dependencies. Until now.

In this talk, you'll learn about past efforts to bring service mesh to Windows, and how Istio's ambient mesh opened the door for a maintainable path forward for a sidecarless deployment topology. We'll learn how Rust, Envoy, and maybe even eBPF can bridge the gap between Linux and Windows for service mesh.

Speakers

Keith Mattix

Senior Software Engineer Lead, Microsoft

Keith Mattix is an Engineering Lead at Microsoft focused on Istio, Envoy, Gateway API, and other networking projects.

Mitch Connors

Sr Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mitch Connors is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, and serves on the Istio Technical Oversight Committee. Over the past 19 years, Mitch has worked at Google, F5 Networks, Amazon, an Industrial IoT startup, and State Farm Insurance, giving him a broad perspective on the needs... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Istio Day, New Features

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Istio Day

14:05 BST

Exemplar-y Backstage Templates - Brent Swisher, ITHAKA

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

Backstage templates are an incredibly powerful tool. They are also one of the hardest to get right. You create a template - all the best practices and tooling, it’s PERFECT! Then two days pass, and it’s out of date. The next time you use it, there are outdated dependencies, CVEs and broken tests.

Why is maintaining templates so painful? For all their power, the development cycle can be excruciatingly slow. Package managers and CI/CD pipelines break when they encounter a filename containing a templated string. You have to validate changes by running the entire template and examining the output.

At ITHAKA, we’ve solved this with something we call “exemplar” templates. With a shockingly simple custom action, we create templates from running, deployable example projects - our “exemplars”. Then we can use standard tooling like Yarn and Renovate to proactively maintain them. In this talk I will share our templating journey and how you can start using “exemplar” projects for your templates.

Speakers

Brent Swisher

Senior Software Engineer, ITHAKA

Hi! I’m Brent Swisher, a Senior Software Engineer currently working at ITHAKA, a nonprofit focused on improving access to education. I work on the Platform Experience & Shared Components team, where I explore Backstage best practices, maintain our micro-frontend infrastructure... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks BackstageCon

14:05 BST

Cluster Management for Large Scale AI and GPUs: Challenges and Opportunities - Claudia Misale & David Grove, IBM

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, AI Ops

There are new challenges in managing large GPU clusters dedicated to cloud native AI workloads. The workload mix is diverse, and GPUs must be effectively utilized and dynamically shared across multiple teams. Furthermore, GPUs are subject to a variety of performance degradations and faults that can severely impact multi-GPU jobs, thus requiring continuous monitoring and enhanced diagnostics. Cloud native tools such Kubeflow, Kueue and others, are the building blocks for large scale GPU clusters used by teams across IBM Research for training, tuning, and inference jobs. In this talk, IBM Research will share and demonstrate lessons learnt on how they configure large scale GPU clusters and the development of Kubernetes native automation to run health checks on GPUs and report health. Finally, will show the use of diagnostics to enable both the dynamic adjustment of quotas to account for faulty GPUs, and the automatic steering of new and existing workloads away from nodes with faulty GPUs.

Speakers

Claudia Misale

Staff Research Scientist, IBM Research

Claudia Misale is a Staff Research Scientist in the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Software group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (NY). Her research is focused on Kubernetes and targets monitoring, observability and scheduling for HPC and AI training workloads. She is mainly interested... Read More →

David Grove

Distinguished Research Scientist, IBM Research

David Grove is a Distinguished Research Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson, NY, USA. He has been a software systems researcher at IBM since 1998, specializing in programming language implementation and scalable runtime systems. His current research focuses on cloud-related technologies... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

14:05 BST

From Chaos To Clarity: Scaling Observability at Dropbox With Centralized Logging Solution - Alok Ranjan, Dropbox Inc

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST

Observability Day, End-user Talks about Observability Implementations

At Dropbox, managing observability for systems producing terabytes of logs daily posed a unique challenge. Initially, developers accessed logs by logging into individual servers, a process further complicated when we moved to containers. Containers are short-lived, which caused logs to disappear on termination. This highlighted the need for a scalable, persisted, centralized solution using open-source tools.

In this session, I’ll discuss our journey to build a robust observability framework centered on Loki as our logging solution. Scaling Loki to Dropbox’s data volume required extensive optimizations for reliable, efficient query performance. I’ll cover our deployment, challenges, and strategies for achieving high-performance logging.

We also integrated Grafana to unify logs and metrics in a single view, enhancing troubleshooting and security. Join us to learn how Dropbox scaled its observability with open-source solutions and key lessons from our experience.

Speakers

Alok Ranjan

Software Engineering Manager, Dropbox Inc

Hello, I’m Alok Ranjan, an Engineering Manager focused on observability and reliability in high-scale systems. Recently, I led the implementation of Dropbox’s first unstructured logging solution using Loki, centralizing log access and optimizing query performance for terabytes... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

14:05 BST

The Story of Lemonade's T-env: Scaling a Platform To Improve the Velocity of Hundreds of Developers - Ramiro Berrelleza, Okteto & Nir Gilboa, Lemonade

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST

Platform Engineering Day, Platform adoption stories

Lemonade is one of the world's top-rated insurance companies, succeeding in a tough industry with well-established players.

As Lemonade scaled its engineering organization, the team adopted a highly distributed, services-oriented architecture to support rapid growth. While Kubernetes played a central role in this evolution, the shift also brought challenges—most notably, the disparity between Docker Compose-based local development environments and Kubernetes-based production environments.

In this session, Lemonade engineers will share their hands-on experience building and scaling t-env, Lemonade's internal platform powered by Kubernetes, Okteto, Grafana, and other open-source technologies. Attendees will learn why Lemonade invested in a platform, key lessons from addressing real-world challenges, the benefits of running both development and production environments in Kubernetes, and how a small platform team achieves all this while keeping maintenance costs surprisingly low.

Speakers

Ramiro Berrelleza

Founder, Okteto

Ramiro Berrelleza is one of the founders of Okteto. He has spent most of his career (and his free time) building cloud services and developer tools. Before starting Okteto, Ramiro was an Architect at Atlassian and a Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure. Originally from Mexico, he... Read More →

Nir Gilboa

Sr. Software Engineer, Lemonade

Nir Gilboa is a Senior Engineer on Lemonade's Cloud Infrastructure team, with experience as a Team Lead on one of Lemonade's product teams. Before Lemonade, Nir worked as a Software Engineer at Intel on an internal cloud platform. Nir loves to talk about developer experience, productivity... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

14:10 BST

Kubenet: Harnessing Kubernetes for Network Automation - Wim Henderickx, Nokia & Ashan Senevirathne, Swisscom

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

In this session we will introduce Kubenet, a community-driven initiative leveraging Kubernetes principles for automation and orchestration of networking systems (no CNI revolution). While Kubernetes has revolutionized container orchestration, its capabilities extend far beyond, offering powerful tools to automate and manage physical, virtual, and containerized Network Operating Systems (NOS). This talk will highlight how network engineers can leverage Kubernetes to simplify, standardize, and scale network automation.

We’ll discuss the motivations behind Kubenet, its architecture, and its practical applications in diverse networking scenarios such as datacenter networking, WAN, peering, campus networking, and cloud environments.

This session will also introduce open-source extensions developed by the Kubenet community, designed to tackle real-world networking challenges across Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 operations.

Speakers

Wim Hendrerickx

Head of Technology and Architecture, Nokia

Wim is head of technology and architecture in Nokia’s IP division, where he works with partners and customers to provide consultancy advise in IP technology, Cloud and Automation. He has over 25 years of experience in the telco and enterprise communication and networking industry... Read More →

Ashan Senevirathne

Product Owner, Swisscom

Experienced Product Owner and Senior DevOps Engineer with a proven track record in driving innovation and efficiency in telecommunications. Currently with Swisscom, leading the development of a cloud-native orchestration framework for 5G Core using Kubernetes. Adept at optimizing... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

14:10 BST

Speed up Your ML Workloads With Kubernetes Powered In-memory Data Caching - Rasik Pandey & Akshay Chitneni, Apple

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 BST

Kubeflow Summit, LLMOps and Generative AI with Kubeflow

ML workloads require repetitive access to data for model training. This repetitive access can be both slow and costly in cloud environments further slowing down model training and leaving GPU resources idle waiting for data to load. As datasets and training workloads become larger and more sophisticated in the era of GenAI, efficient data access is crucial to improving training workload speed and efficiency. In this talk, we will discuss optimized data caching for ML workloads using Apache Iceberg, Apache Arrow Flight, and Kubernetes. We will demonstrate a distributed in-memory cache of an Iceberg table across a fleet of Kubernetes pods used to load data more efficiently into Kubeflow training workloads.

Speakers

Rasik Pandey

Head of Interactive Data Science, Apple

Rasik is an engineering leader at Apple with 13 years of experience in Big Data, Cloud, Data Science, and ML.

Akshay Chitneni

Staff Software Engineer, Apple

Aditi Gupta, Software Developer at Disney and Hotstar

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Kubeflow Summit

14:30 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Look Into the Hooks of OpenFeature! - Saurav Jain, Apify

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:30 - 14:40 BST

OpenFeature Summit, Feature flag lifecycle

Hooks in OpenFeature are a powerful mechanism for adding custom behavior at well-defined points in the feature flag evaluation life cycle.

They allow developers to automate repetitive tasks and streamline workflows, such as validating resolved flag values, enriching evaluation context, logging, telemetry, and tracking feature usage.

In this session, we’ll explore how hooks work, their role in the evaluation life cycle, and the types of behavior they can implement. Designed for developers seeking clean and efficient feature flagging practices, this talk provides insights into how OpenFeature hooks simplify and enhance flag evaluation without cluttering your application logic.

In the end, attendees will learn how to implement OpenFeature Hooks in their projects.

Speakers

Saurav Jain

Developer Community Manager, Apify

Saurav Jain, Apify's Developer Community Manager, excels in community building and devrel. With a history of growing Amplication's community to 40K, he now enhances Apify's developer engagement. An international speaker, he has contributed to PyCon Ireland, PyCon Italy, and more... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:30 - 14:40 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks OpenFeature Summit

14:40 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: What Operators are Looking for in a Cloud Native Data Plane - Benoit Gaussen, Orange

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 14:50 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

As an operator, we are convinced that Kubernetes is the platform to build our infrastructure and run our B2B, wholesales and Telco services.

But how do we manage those ever-lasting VNFs, with all their networking constraints and performance requirements, in a Cloud Native way?
How do we isolate networks of our many B2B services of our many customers?
How can we provide each customer's CNFs with inter-connectivity and with the expected service exposition features ?
How do we ensure this UPF pod will automatically get its connectivity, without being too greedy with our nodes' NICs, while ensuring its security?

If you're also wondering how to tackle these challenges, you might be interested in the solution we intend to share with you.

Speakers

Benoit Gaussen

Cloud Native Technical Leader, Orange Innovation

Benoit Gaussen works at Orange Innovation as a technical leader on Cloud Native ecosystems, in IT & Network projects. He has been promoting the use of Kubernetes in many fields for years, latest playground being CDN, networking and telco cloud services.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 14:50 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

14:40 BST

Multi Cluster Magics With Argo CD and Cluster Inventory - Nick Eberts, Google & Christian Hernandez, Akuity

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST

You probably have more than one cluster and there is a decent chance you are using Argo CD. Additionally, it is quite likely that you have a few other variations of Kubernetes cluster lists. We posit that writing glue code to stitch together these clusters lists is not an awesome use of your time. Thankfully the good folks in SIG-Multicluster built this super cool api for cluster lists, cluster profile/cluster inventory! We are going to show you how to use said fancy new list with Argo CD along with other multi-cluster tools across Kubernetes clusters hosted by different providers. There will be demos. Possibly Mustaches. And a decent amount of awful puns. So come on down to bear witness to some sweet multi-cluster abstractions that will surely get your heart rate up.

Speakers

Nick Eberts

Product Manager, Google

Nick is currently the product manager for GKE Fleets & Teams focusing on multi-cluster capabilities that streamline GCP customers experience while building platforms on GKE. He also is a Kubernetes contributor, participates in SIG-Multicluster, and has been part of the community since... Read More →

Christian Hernandez

Head of Community, Akuity

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 →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

14:40 BST

Objection! AI Security Mistakes on Trial With Kubeflow and Confidential Computing - Annie Talvasto, Waovo & Karl Ots, EPAM Systems

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, LLMs

Enter the courtroom of cloud-native justice, where the most pressing AI security mistakes are put on trial. From exposed sensitive data to flawed model training and insecure pipelines, the prosecution will lay bare the vulnerabilities threatening AI deployments. But don’t worry—Kubeflow, confidential computing, and other powerful open source projects will take the stand to defend your AI infrastructure. Learn how these technologies work together to enforce robust security guardrails, protect sensitive data, ensure compliance, and mitigate the risks that come with AI operations. This session blends technical depth with courtroom drama to help you identify, understand, and address common AI security mistakes, so you can build secure, scalable AI pipelines with confidence. Join us for a verdict that ensures the protection of your AI workloads!

Speakers

Annie Talvasto

CNCF Ambassador & CTO, Waovo

Annie Talvasto is an award-winning international technology speaker and leader. She has spoken at over 60 tech conferences worldwide, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. She has been recognized with the CNCF Ambassador, Azure & AI Platform MVP awards. She has co-organized the Kubernetes... Read More →

Karl Ots

Head of Cloud Security, EPAM Systems

Karl Ots is a cloud security leader and author with over 15 years of experience in the technology industry. He has been advocating for open source technologies for over 15 years, and OSS technologies in his Linkedin Learning courses as an instructor. He is also a prolific author... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

14:40 BST

Transmissions From the Tweet Factory: How Observability Transformed Mobile Performance at Twitter - Hanson Ho, Embrace

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST

Observability Day, Observability Success Stories and Misfortunes

Twitter realized a decade ago that the biggest performance issues impeding usage occurred outside its data centers. But observability, taken for granted by backend devs and SREs, didn’t exist meaningfully on Android and iOS. Issues that don’t show up in profilers or end in crashes were practically invisible.

Stone by stone, the team built tooling that performantly and judiciously extracted telemetry on the client side. Using this newly discovered treasure trove of failure points and bottlenecks, performance was greatly improved – and in a verifiable way that shows how it can directly impact company KPIs like user growth and revenue.

Hanson Ho was there in 2015. For 7+ years, he helped build observability into the Android app and org. Listen as he describes how observability changed mobile at Twitter: what was recorded, how it was used, what results were achieved – and how the lessons learned can be applied by anyone that operates mobile apps, both in the tech and in the org.

Speakers

Hanson Ho

Android Architect, Embrace (this is not a talk about the company)

Hanson was the former Tech Lead of Android Performance and Stability at Twitter, where he spent a lot of time on collecting and interpreting performance data in order to improve the app experience for all Twitter users on all Android devices all around the world. He is now at Embrace... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

14:40 BST

Platform Perseverance: Taming 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters - Marcy Paramonova & Stéphane Cusin, Banque Pictet & Cie SA

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST

Platform Engineering Day, Building platforms for day 2 operations

Imagine orchestrating the technological backbone for 650 engineers working across various products- all with a team smaller than a typical startup’s founding team. This is not just their challenge; it’s their daily reality.

This talk will describe how a team of three platform engineers navigated regulatory landscapes, operational hurdles, and demanding change management requirements to manage 1,000 Kubernetes clusters for a private Swiss bank. Their approach: deploying a platform solely with CNCF components, custom operators, and a homemade managed Kubernetes service.

Top achievement? They can now update all clusters within a two-day window.

The session will share their journey, focusing on the emotional highs and lows that came with such a monumental challenge. From the initial overwhelming scope to the satisfaction of system-wide automation, you will learn how they managed not just technology but also the human emotions involved in transforming pressure into productivity.

Speakers

Marcy Paramonova

DevOps Engineer & Product Owner, Pictet

I am Marcy, a DevOps engineer and Product Owner with a diverse and dynamic background. I began my career as a front-end dev, specializing in UX research, before transitioning into a deep back-end role, managing Kubernetes platform. This unique path, from user-facing design to the... Read More →

Stéphane Cusin

Senior DevOps Engineer, Banque Pictet & Cie SA

I’m Stéphane, an engineer with a focus on depth and detail. My varied experiences have helped me become a steady presence in our team, where I aim to thoughtfully explore possibilities and contribute to decisions that blend innovation with wisdom. In my role as the Product Manager... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

14:50 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Troubleshooting Istio Ambient With Kiali 2.0 - Josune Cordoba & Hayk Hovsepyan, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:50 - 15:00 BST

We will showcase how Kiali 2.0 enhances support for Istio Ambient Mesh and the Gateway API through a demo, providing advanced observability and management for Kubernetes environments. Deploying a sample application with traffic and network policies, we’ll use Kiali's interface to gain insight into traffic paths, Ambient Mesh components, and Istio configurations. With Kiali's new configuration wizards, managing Gateway API routing is streamlined, making it simple to set up and adjust traffic routes. By the end of the session, you'll gain a clear, simplified understanding of mesh infrastructure using Istio Ambient, demystifying the complexity of the Service Mesh.

Speakers

Josune Cordoba

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Josune studied computer enginnering at the University of Vigo (Spain). Upon completion, she started working in the system architecture department at Inditex, focusing mainly in Java and Javascript. Later, she worked for the Australian company Opmantek, which clients such as NASA or... Read More →

Hayk Hovsepyan

Senior Software engineer, Red Hat

Hayk is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with eighteen years of overall experience in IT. An open source programmer, former QE and a father of four kids with a Master's Degree graduated from State Engineering University of Armenia. He likes a good whisky, hiking, and spending... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:50 - 15:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Istio Day, Istio Recipes

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Istio Day

14:50 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Meshin’ With WebAssembly: Taking Linkerd Beyond Containers - Joonas Bergius, Cosmonic

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:50 - 15:00 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Much in the same way that Service Meshes have (as originally pioneered by Linkerd) accomplished for seamlessly connecting, observing and securing service-to-service communication between applications deployed in containers, WebAssembly on the server side is looking to revolutionize the way we think about and enable application development and delivery of the future.

This session explores our efforts to bring together the two cutting edge CNCF projects, Linkerd and wasmCloud, to enable end-users to expand their mesh to service an entirely new class of workload in the form of WebAssembly without having to leave their existing investments in tooling behind.

Based on the content, you will leave this talk with the understanding of how you can extend your Linkerd deployments to support WebAssembly workloads in order to leverage the emerging paradigm on the server-side without compromising on security or observability.

Speakers

Joonas Bergius

Senior Software Engineer, Cosmonic

Joonas Bergius is a veteran of the Cloud Native community, having been part of the Kubernetes ecosystem as a contributor and end-user since the early days (circa 2015) of Kubernetes.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:50 - 15:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Linkerd Day, Linkerd in practice

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Linkerd Day

14:50 BST

Canary Deployments Are a Myth - True Progressive Delivery Occurs Via OpenFeature - Bob Walker, Octopus Deploy

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:50 - 15:15 BST

OpenFeature Summit, Feature flag lifecycle

Based on two decades of deploying and rolling back software and seven years of helping customers achieve their CD goals, this session debunks myths about canary deployments. While they are viewed as essential to progressive delivery, they are far from a universal solution.

Canary deployments rarely uncover last-minute issues in strong CI/CD pipelines. They demand significant investment in deployment processes, database compatibility, and rollback strategies—often outweighing the benefits. Most importantly, they lack precision, requiring workarounds for targeting subsets of users.

This session shows that OpenFeature meets progressive delivery goals without overhauling your build and deployment processes. It allows you to separate deploying new versions from releasing functionality. Rollbacks require a simple toggle instead of redirecting to an old version. With segmentation, OpenFeature enables targeted rollouts to specific users or groups, gathering feedback over time.

Speakers

Bob Walker

Field CTO, Octopus Deploy

Bob Walker is a Field CTO Octopus Deploy. Bob started as a developer in the early days of .NET when web forms were the hottest new thing, and manual deployments were the norm. After one too many five-hour 2 AM Saturday deployments, he searched for any automation to stop that pain... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:50 - 15:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks OpenFeature Summit

15:20 BST

Challenges in Distributed Feature Flag Evaluation and How To Solve Them - Lukas Reining & Christopher Bohlen, codecentric AG

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:20 BST

OpenFeature Summit, Feature flagging fundamentals

Many of us are familiar with the challenges of distributed computing that result from the properties of real networks, such as unexpected latencies, dropped connections or dynamic network topologies. These challenges also need to be considered when trying to ensure consistent and reliable feature flag evaluations across multiple downstream services in distributed systems.

We will introduce an exemplary distributed systems architecture and illustrate and discuss the potential issues that can arise when attempting to implement feature flag evaluations under various consistency requirements. We will then present several potential solutions that address these issues discussing their pros and cons, and evaluate how well they satisfy the given requirements.

Finally, we will examine how OpenFeature can support the implementation of these potential solutions and provide insights into the current state of discussion on this topic within the project.

Speakers

Lukas Reining

OpenFeature TC Member and IT Consultant & Developer, codecentric AG

Lukas is a software developer and IT consultant at codecentric. His main interest is centered around software architecture and cloud native applications.

Christopher Bohlen

Solution Architect & IT Consultant, codecentric AG

Christopher is a architect and it consultant with 10+ years of industry experience in topics such as software development and platforms engineering. He is currently focused on helping their customers designing and building robust and scalable cloud-native solutions and platforms... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:20 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks OpenFeature Summit

15:20 BST

Scaling Argo CD: From Symptoms To Solution - Alexandre Gaudreault, Intuit

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Have you ever found yourself increasing the Argo CD controller CPU? Give it more memory? The answer is most likely yes, multiple times! But there comes a time when enough is enough. In this talk, we will go over as many scalability symptoms as possible, understand why they happen and how to mitigate them. You will learn that most of the time, increasing the resources is only a temporary fix. Our goal will be to dive deeper into each problem to find the underlying root cause, and apply a solution that addresses the problem at its source to have a lasting fix.
CPU consumption, reconciliation cycles, operation queues, cluster watches, monorepos and much more are on the agenda.

Speakers

Alexandre Gaudreault

Senior Software Developer & Argo CD Maintainer, Intuit

Alexandre is a Senior Software Developer at Intuit working on the core Argo team. He is a maintainer of the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD. He thrives on building internal developer platforms using open-source technologies to increase development velocity. Outside of work, you may... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

15:20 BST

The Hidden Dangers of Defaults: Securing Multi-Tenant Argo CD Installations - Regina Voloshin, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy & Dag Bjerre Andersen, Doubble ApS

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

As companies expand their usage of Argo CD and its powerful UI, robust security in multi-tenant environments becomes critical. Thus, misconfiguring Argo CD can lead to significant security vulnerabilities.

This session will provide a technical deep dive into securing Argo CD installations for multi-tenant environments. We’ll examine the building blocks for establishing effective security controls—like Application Projects, security policies, and user roles—and highlight best practices for defining access controls using Argo CD’s RBAC policies, and restricting deployments to specific clusters and namespaces and structuring Application Projects.

Through real-world examples, Argo CD admins will learn to configure their installations securely, manage permissions, and tailor the environment to meet organizational needs without compromising usability or productivity. The talk will also provide practical strategies to avoid common pitfalls in permission management.

Speakers

Regina Voloshin

OSS Tech Lead, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy

Regina is a GitOps fan, an ArgoCD maintainer and a CNCF Ambassador. She is working with K8s and its eco-system extensively during the last 6 years. She is also a public speaker.

Dag Bjerre Andersen

Infrastructure Engineer, Doubble ApS

Dag is an Infrastructure Engineer at Doubble. He is passionate about nearly everything related to Kubernetes and has worked extensively with Argo CD, Flux, and Kubernetes over the past few years

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

15:20 BST

From Toil To Triumph: Harnessing Agentic AI To Streamline Infrastructure as Code - Jodee Varney, Outshift by Cisco

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, Customization

This talk will explore the transformative potential of GenAI agentic frameworks, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as a key example relevant to the CNCF community. While IaC offers benefits in modularity and control, it also presents challenges like maintaining code consistency, managing multiple environments, and troubleshooting IAM policies, creating toil for development teams.

We'll demonstrate how open-source agentic GenAI frameworks can be applied to OpenTofu repositories to streamline pull requests - enhancing consistency and reducing toil. We'll focus on how to construct GenAI agentic teams for each function to achieve useful quality high-context results, emphasizing cost management by allocating resources based on function complexity and impact. By sharing insights, we aim to highlight its broader applicability and seek collaborators for a CNCF project aimed at developing new agentic tools that aid in managing cloud-native environments.

Speakers

Jodee Varney

Principal Product Manager, Outshift by Cisco

Jodee Varney is a veteran product manager focused on developing tools to enhance DevOps processes. As a passionate advocate for open collaboration, she looks forward to every opportunity to work with other members of the CNCF community. She has a knack for transforming complex problems... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

15:20 BST

Navigating the Maze of Multi-Cluster Istio: Lessons Learned at Scale - Pamela Hernandez, BlackRock

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Considering an Istio multi-cluster setup? Hear real-world lessons on balancing security with operational complexity, scaling configurations to hundreds of clusters, and designing for resilience and observability. Lessons learned from managing 244 clusters serving 570 million requests per day.

Adopting Istio in Kubernetes deployments often starts as an exciting journey, but challenges arise when scaling to support millions of services—issues not covered in basic guides.

This talk dives into the complexities of implementing a multi-cluster Istio service mesh at scale, covering a hub-and-spoke model. Key challenges include: ensuring secure client isolation; load balancing across different types of clusters; managing failover; and automating cluster lifecycle.

Whether you're planning your first multi-cluster Istio deployment or struggling with management at scale, this talk will provide actionable strategies to overcome the pitfalls of large-scale service mesh implementations.

Speakers

Pamela Hernandez

Software Engineer, BlackRock

Pam Hernandez is an Associate Software Engineer at BlackRock on the Software Defined Networking team. She specializes in Kubernetes, with a focus on Ingress, External DNS, and Istio service mesh, supporting stakeholder operations across hundreds of clusters. Pam worked on the design... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Istio Day, Case Studies

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Istio Day

15:20 BST

Streamlining Competitive Data Science at CERN: Running ML Challenges With Kubeflow - Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu & Hannes Hansen, CERN

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Kubeflow Summit, End-to-end product experience for AI/ML

Competitive challenges in machine-learning serve as the central point for researchers to interact with their community. Nowadays popular services like Kaggle are used to share, exchange and compete on such challenges. But they are bound by resource constraints that block scalable model training by its participants, and are not suited for setups where data is kept internal or internal tooling is needed. Running your own infrastructure can help tackle these problems but requires management and scalable orchestration of workloads. As KubeFlow is the ideal tool for orchestration and distributed training on Kubernetes, it can be leveraged for running submissions. In this setup, user code is executed as a pipeline where data loading, distributed training and scoring is managed, allowing participants to focus solely on their model code. A case study for running particle physics based challenges at CERN will show how this framework is set up and which challenges were faced during development.

Speakers

Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu

DevOpsEngineer @ CERN, CERN

Raulian Chiorescu is a DevOps Engineer at CERN. He works within the Kubernetes team and handles Machine Learning Operations. Prior to this he was working as a DevOps Engineer at an AI company based in Cambridge.

Hannes Hansen

Hannes Hansen, CERN

Hannes Hansen is a computing engineer at CERN where he works on machine learning operations on Kubernetes. Prior to this, he helped develop the grid data management for the experiments.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Kubeflow Summit

15:20 BST

Customize Your Own OpenTelemetry Collector: An Introduction To OCB - Evan Bradley, Dynatrace & Pablo Baeyens, Datadog

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Observability Day, Project specific-Observability+Prometheus+OpenMetrics+OpenTelemetry+Jaeger+Thanos+Fluentd+Cortex+etc

Do you enjoy using the OpenTelemetry Collector, but can’t find a distribution with the right set of components included? Do you want to write your own components for that niche use case that only you have? Or maybe you just want a Collector that has your name on it? Give the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB) a try!

OCB is developed by the Collector maintainers and is purpose-built for easily building your own Collector. This session will cover the basics of how OCB works, then will cover a wide range of use cases, including creating release pipelines using OCB, publishing Docker images, hotfixing upstream components when a change is needed immediately, and using your own components. To tie it all together, we’ll also show how OCB is used in the wild to publish popular Collector distributions.

Speakers

Evan Bradley

Senior Software Engineer, Dynatrace

Evan helps maintain the OpenTelemetry Collector, where he is a primary contributor to the OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL), and helps drive adoption of the OpenTelemetry Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) to enable users to manage fleets of Collectors. Evan has a background... Read More →

Pablo Baeyens

Software Engineer, Datadog

Pablo Baeyens is a Senior Software Engineer working at Datadog. He lives in Granada, Spain and since late 2020 he has been involved in the OpenTelemetry project, where he is part of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and maintains the OpenTelemetry Collector. Outside of open source... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

15:20 BST

Platform Engineering and DevEx for Your On-Prem LLM - Hannah Foxwell, Kortensia

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Platform Engineering Day, Designing paved paths

Your CEO wants AI and they want it now. They want it now BUT you can’t just hand over all your confidential data to a Cloud or SaaS provider. Your CISO is losing sleep.

What options do you have to keep your CEO, your developers and security happy?

We’ll tell the story of how we set up an internal development platform (IDP) AROUND a self-hosted LLM on Kubernetes. From the outset our goal was to use Platform Engineering practices, so our engineers could benefit from "paved paths" for:

- Knowledge integrations (commonly known as RAG)
- API integrations, so you can connect your LLM to business applications
- Quality assurance tooling such as the LLM-as-a-judge pattern

This will be a live demo of how to stand up an entire IDP for GenAI apps that you can replicate yourself using open source tools. During the demo we’ll share the lessons learned along the way and how we ended up with the solution we use in production today.

Happy CEO? Yes. Happy CISO? Yes. Happy Developers? Hell Yes!

Speakers

Hannah Foxwell

Independent Consultant, Kortensia

With over a decade of experience in technology transformation Hannah has always advocated for the human impact of change. Hannah now works as an independent adviser and consultant at the intersection of Platform Engineering, Security and AI. As founder of AI for the rest of us... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

15:20 BST

Scaling the Sound: Fleet Management at Spotify - Sanjana Seetharam, Spotify

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Spotify operates at a scale where billions of requests and countless user experiences depend on the seamless performance of its backend infrastructure. This talk delves into Spotify's journey toward a "fleet-first" mindset, an evolution designed to simplify and enhance the management of its vast and diverse software fleet. We’ll explore the principles behind Spotify’s shift to declarative infrastructure, which allows teams to define the desired state of their services with clarity and consistency, minimizing operational complexity.
Additionally, we'll examine the strategies employed for fleet-wide refactoring, enabling Spotify to implement large-scale changes across its infrastructure with minimal disruption. Learn how Spotify leverages automated pipelines, standardized tooling, and organizational alignment to transform challenges into opportunities for innovation.

Speakers

Sanjana Seetharam

Senior Product Manager, Spotify

Sanjana is working on Fleet Management and Version Control Systems. She's passionate about reducing fragmentation in tech ecosystems, building innovative solutions for developers, and collaborating with diverse and talented teams. She helped expand the Fleet Management program at... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:20 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering Day, Using platforms to drive developer experience

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

15:50 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Scaling Time Series Analysis With Argo Workflows: Patterns and Practices - Anjelica Ambrosio, Akuity

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:50 - 16:00 BST

Time series data is exploding across industries - from IoT sensors and financial markets to application monitoring and user behavior analytics. As organizations grapple with processing these massive datasets, many overlook a powerful solution hiding in plain sight: Argo Workflows. This talk demonstrates how Argo Workflows transforms time series analysis from a resource-intensive challenge into a streamlined, scalable process in Kubernetes environments.

We'll dive deep into real-world architectures that leverage Argo Workflows' DAG-based execution model for efficient time series processing. You'll learn practical patterns for data partitioning, parallel processing, and resource optimization that we've battle-tested with petabyte-scale datasets. Through live demos and code examples, we'll explore how to build resilient pipelines that can handle everything from real-time sensor data to historical trend analysis.

Speakers

Anjelica Ambrosio

Technical Evangelist, Akuity

Anjelica Ambrosio is a Technical Evangelist at Akuity, where she creates educational content for developers, including guides and tutorials on GitOps, Argo CD, and Kargo. She can simplify complex technical concepts across all skill levels.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:50 - 16:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

ArgoCon, Data Processing

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

15:55 BST

AI, CERN, and the Quest for GPU Custody: How CERN Leverages DRA for Efficient GPU Sharing - Diana Gaponcic, CERN & Jan-Philip Gehrcke, NVIDIA

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, Customization

Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) is quickly gathering momentum to become the go-to way of advertising GPUs on Kubernetes clusters. In this talk, we will present the current state of the project, the latest implementation updates, and feature additions. We will walk through how to get started with DRA, and why this is relevant for any engineer trying to improve the GPU offering on their clusters. We continue with configuring time-slicing, MPS, and MIG, and explain how to build more custom layouts on top.

Next, we will show how DRA is used at CERN to colocate machine learning workloads on the same GPU. We start by explaining how to choose the best-fitted sharing mechanism depending on the performance requirements. We present extensive training and inference benchmarking results, and how DRA comes into play to make the system flexible and easy to use. Lastly, we go through GPU sharing tradeoffs, and how in the end this approach can help save resources.

Speakers

Diana Gaponcic

Computing Engineer, CERN

Diana is a Computing Engineer in the CERN IT department. After an internship at CERN focusing on containerization of ETL applications she later joined the Kubernetes team, working on the GitOps and monitoring infrastructure. Her current focus is on optimizing the usage of GPUs and... Read More →

Jan-Philip Gehrcke

tbd, NVIDIA

tbd

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

15:55 BST

With Great Networks Come Great Carbon Savings: OpenSource + AI for RAN Optimization - Marco González, Ericsson & Prakash Rao Bethapudi, Accenture

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day, Sustainability

Telecom networks, especially with 5G expansion, are major energy consumers. What if we could cut energy use and carbon emissions without compromising performance? In this session, we’ll show how Kubernetes and OpenSource tools can transform Radio Access Networks (RAN) into energy-efficient systems.

We’ll walk through deploying AI/ML pipelines to predict network traffic and optimize energy in real-time. Using Kubernetes for scalability, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, and open-source tools for automation, we’ll demonstrate how these technologies come together to tackle energy challenges.

The session ends with a live demo, starting with a RAN simulator, integrating AI workloads, and visualizing energy-saving results. You’ll see the power of OpenSource in action and leave with practical tips, reusable code, and a clear vision for making telecom networks more sustainable.

Speakers

Marco González

5G Solutions Architect, Ericsson

Marco Gonzalez is an international speaker and patent creator 5G Solutions Architect at Ericsson Japan who has more than 12 years of Designing and Integrating 3G, 4G, and 5G networks worldwide. During this tenure, he has performed strategic and innovative roles in supporting critical... Read More →

Prakash Rao Bethapudi

Cloud Architect, Accenture

Prakash Rao is a Cloud Architect with an impressive tenure designing advanced cloud-based solutions. Currently excelling at Accenture Japan, Prakash showcases his expert knowledge in automation and configuration management in cloud platforms, notably AWS. He is highly experienced... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

15:55 BST

Abstracting Multi-Cluster Topologies With CAPI and Linkerd for Internal Developer Platforms - William Rizzo, Mirantis

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

As organizations scale their Kubernetes adoption, multi-cluster architectures are becoming the backbone of resilience, scalability, and compliance. However, building a unified developer experience across these clusters while abstracting operational complexities is a significant challenge.
In this session we’ll demonstrate how Cluster-API (CAPI), a declarative tool for Kubernetes lifecycle management and Linkerd, the powerful yet lightweight service mesh, can work together to simplify multi-cluster topologies for Internal Developer Platforms (IDP). By combining CAPI's robust cluster management with Linkerd’s seamless cross-cluster service communication, platform teams can deliver a streamlined and intuitive experience for developers, enabling them to focus on building and deploying applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure.

Speakers

William Rizzo

Consulting Architect, Mirantis

William is a CNCF Ambassador and currently working at Mirantis as a Consulting Architect. Focused in helping customers designing and building, and running their Internal Developer Platforms. He wore many hats, in Engineering, Pre-Post sales, Product Owner and Consulting. from HPC... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Linkerd Day, Delivering concrete business value

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Linkerd Day

15:55 BST

OTel-y Oops: Learning From Our Observability Blunders - Joe Stephenson & Rodney Karemba, Akamai Technologies

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST

Observability Day, Observability Success Stories and Misfortunes

Learn how, in our quest for observability, we accidentally sent 300 million time series to our stack, repeatedly crashed our OTel agents due to cascading failures, and generally made our Observability SRE's lives miserable. In this talk, we'll share the key lessons learned from our missteps, including best practices for scaling observability in complex systems, avoiding common pitfalls, and building resilient monitoring pipelines (using OTel, VictoriaMetrics, Loki and Tempo). Join us to understand how a combination of over-ambitious instrumentation and lack of foresight can lead to chaos — and how to prevent it in your own organization. By the end, you'll have actionable insights to optimize your observability strategy without breaking the system (or the team).

Speakers

Joe Stephenson

Principal Software Engineer, Akamai Technologies

Joe is a seasoned expert in cloud native technologies. They specialize in solving complex problems at scale, seamlessly navigating the realms of observability, developer experience and user-facing services

Rodney Karemba

Platform Engineer, Akamai Technologies

Rodney is a Platform Engineer at Akamai Technologies, focused on the internal developer platform for storage at scale. Rodney has background experience with Linux, container security, Kubernetes and working with enterprise customers to solve their cloud native challenges.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

15:55 BST

Building Platforms With Empathy and YAML at the LEGO Group - Mads Høgstedt Danquah & Christian Trolle Mikkelsen, The LEGO Group

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST

Platform Engineering Day, Platform product management practices

Delivering platforms as products is no easy feat—it’s like assembling a set with missing instructions and an endless pile of YAML bricks that don’t quite click together.

Two enthusiastic engineers from the LEGO Group share their story of building and leading Kubernetes-based platform teams—platforms that provide the foundational studs that keep the factories running smoothly and power cloud services supporting one of the world’s most cherished brands.

In this talk, you will learn how groups of platforms collaborated to deliver a coherent user experience via APIs and Baseplate—an internal development portal. You’ll discover how standardized telemetry enables end-users’ operations and how empathy and collaboration enables engineers to deliver great products.

Great platforms are like great LEGO builds: with the right bag of golden bricks that fit together in a system, you can enable users’ creativity and curiosity, letting them dream big and build even bigger.

Speakers

Mads Høgstedt Danquah

Lead Engineer, the LEGO Group

Mads is a Lead Engineer for the Edge Platform Team at the LEGO Group and KCD Denmark organizer. He has been building Kubernetes based platforms at several companies and loves to focus the discussion away from the tech, and over to the human aspects of building and operating platforms... Read More →

Christian Trolle Mikkelsen

Lead Engineer / Product Manager, The LEGO Group

"Fall in love with the people and their problems, not the solution." Christian have a background in automating tedious task away teams and have worked dedicated in the CI/CD space since 2007. He is convinced that good human relations and communication is the key to unlocking the... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

16:05 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mitigating Privilege Escalation in Multi-Tenant Argo CD - Anand Francis Joseph, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:05 - 16:15 BST

Argo CD supports a multi-tenant operation model. Cluster scoped Argo CD instance is the widely used approach wherein it uses a single service account to manage resources across multiple tenant namespaces and this brings in the security challenge of privilege escalation. When a cluster scoped Argo CD instance is used to manage resources across multiple tenant namespaces, it violates the principle of "least privilege" providing escalated privileges to all the tenants.

In this talk we will be looking at some of the best practices for handling privilege escalation in multi-tenant scenarios and how the recent feature of decoupling application syncs using a service account per tenant can be a real game changer in improving the security posture of Argo CD for mult-tenant scenarios.

Speakers

Anand Francis Joseph

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Have around 17 years of Industry experience. Contributed to several open source projects like Verrazzano, ArgoCD, GlassFish JavaEE, JavaEE TCK.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:05 - 16:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:20 BST

Argo at Scale: Navigating Complex Multi-Dimensional Deployments Across Hundreds of Clusters - Carlos Santana, AWS & Mike Tougeron, Adobe

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:20 - 16:45 BST

In order to manage a Kubernetes fleet of more than 400 clusters across 7 different types of cloud providers in over 22 regions, Adobe’s Kubernetes team has embraced GitOps at a massive scale. Leveraging Cluster API (CAPI), Amazon Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Prometheus and other Kubernetes controllers, fleet management was changed from a heavy burden to a tactical advantage. This talk covers what are top learnings of using GitOps in a way that is able to be used in production across a large organization, integrating CNCF projects have helped them scale the operations with a relatively small staff of engineers. You’ll see how through an exclusively open source toolchain Adobe was able to deploy thousands of changes a month, safely, securely, and with confidence.

Speakers

Mike Tougeron

Lead Cloud Engineer / Architect, Adobe

With a passion for automation and developer engagement, Mike works on continuously improving development pipelines to take the complication out of managing services on large-scale infrastructure across multi-cloud Kubernetes environments. Mike is a lazy programmer who'd rather write... Read More →

Carlos Santana

Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS leading Container solutions in the Worldwide Application Modernization (AppMod). He is experienced in distributed cloud application architecture, emerging technologies, open source, serverless, devops. kubernetes, gitops. He is CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:20 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:20 BST

Continuous Delivery & Resource Health for SpinKube/WASM Applications With ArgoCD - Luke Philips, The New York Times & Radu Matei, Fermyon

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:20 - 16:45 BST

As WebAssembly (WASM) and serverless technologies like SpinKube gain traction, they introduce new paradigms for lightweight, fast, and secure application deployments. However, the unique characteristics of SpinKube/WASM applications—such as custom resource definitions (CRDs) and unconventional health signals—pose challenges for Continuous Delivery.

In this talk, we’ll explore how to leverage ArgoCD to seamlessly deliver SpinKube-based WASM applications. We will demonstrate how ArgoCD’s built-in and custom health checks can monitor resource health, ensure smooth deployments, and surface critical insights for SpinKube workloads. Key takeaways include:

- How to integrate SpinKube/WASM applications with ArgoCD for Continuous Delivery.
- Practical examples of creating custom health checks for CRDs or non-standard resource types

Join us to discover how combining SpinKube and ArgoCD simplifies and scales Continuous Delivery for next-generation serverless applications.

Speakers

Radu Matei

Chief Technology Officer, Fermyon

Radu is the co-founder and CTO of Fermyon, building the next generation of cloud computing using WebAssembly. He is passionate about WebAssembly, distributed systems, and artificial intelligence. In the past he worked at Microsoft Azure in the DeisLabs research and development team... Read More →

Luke Philips

Staff Software Engineer, The New York Times

Luke Philips is a Staff Engineer and Software A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Custodian with The New York Times Company. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously a long career in Telecom, at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:20 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:25 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Save Thousands of DevOps Hours: Unleashing the Power of Self-Service - Ofir Sharony, MyHeritage

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:25 - 16:35 BST

Platform Engineering Day, Designing paved paths

Are you tired of waiting for DevOps to provision complex AWS, GCP, or Azure stacks? No more! At MyHeritage, we tackled this pain by creating a self-service platform that empowers developers to provision resources independently, freeing DevOps for more meaningful work. We’ll reveal how our Golden Path approach streamlines resource creation, enabling developers to focus on coding and solving business challenges instead of wrestling with infrastructure.

We’ll showcase pre-configured recipes that effortlessly provision cloud resources while embedding organizational standards, defaults, and compliance checks. Developers use high-level code to customize IaC recipes to their needs. GitOps then converts this code into OpenTofu, with IAM policies and configurations prepared by the platform team, and delivers it to production. Join us to discover how this approach eliminates delays and boosts cloud productivity.

Speakers

Ofir Sharony

BE Platform Lead, MyHeritage

Ofir leads the BE infrastructure at MyHeritage, and manages ApacheKafkaIL meetup group, the largest Kafka community worldwide (over 2000 members). Ofir writes and speaks about topics he's passionate about, such as engineering leadership and distributed systems. Link In Bio: https://linktr.ee/ofirsharony... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:25 - 16:35 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

16:30 BST

Just Claim It: Simplifying Network Automation with NetBox Operator - Lea Brühwiler & Joel Studler, Swisscom

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day, Networking in and with Kubernetes

As part of Swisscom's cloud-native transformation, we developed the open-source NetBox Operator to bridge the gap between network management and Kubernetes. Leveraging the Kubernetes API, the NetBox operator enables users to adopt GitOps practices for IP address management.

The operator uses the same "claim" model found in Kubernetes – e.g. in the PersistentVolume Controller – to differentiate desired and observed states. The user only defines a high-level intent which the operator will process to reserve a resource, like IPs, in NetBox.

In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how the NetBox Operator simplifies the automation of MetalLB IP Address Pools, enabling zero-touch configuration for ingress networking in your Kubernetes clusters. We’ll also highlight advanced features like sticky IP assignments for power users. By simplifying resource management, the operator lets engineers focus on higher-level tasks, enhancing scalability and agility across infrastructures, including the 5G core.

Speakers

Joel Studler

DevOps Engineer and System Architect, Swisscom

Joel is a DevOps Engineer currently in a team that builds the cloud native 5G core at Swisscom. He is experienced in infrastructure automation, software defined networking and highly available databases and passionate about automation. He is CK* certified and has written several CRD/Operator... Read More →

Lea Brühwiler

DevOps Engineer, Swisscom

Lea is a DevOps Engineer at Swisscom, with a focus on automation for cloud-native 5G core.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native Telco Day

16:30 BST

GenAI Platform: Challenges of Authentication and Authorization in a Multi-Tenancy Environment - Lize Cai & Ahmad Hassan, SAP

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST

As enterprises increasingly embrace generative AI, the necessity for secure, scalable cloud platforms grows. Our session explores the intricacies of traffic management, authentication and authorization within multi-tenant environments and how we addressed these through open-source tools.
Discover how Istio played a pivotal role in managing traffic and ensuring data security, ultimately enabling a secure and efficient AI platform that meets enterprise standards.

Speakers

Lize Cai

Senior Software Engineer, SAP

Lize is a senior software engineer at SAP, based in Singapore. With a strong product mindset, Lize has extensive experience in building enterprise-grade machine learning platforms. A passionate advocate for open source technology, Lize actively contributes to various projects, including... Read More →

Ahmad Hassan

Senior AI Developer, SAP

Software Engineer with over 18 years of experience. I started my career as a C++ developer and later became skilled in Java Enterprise. For the past six years, I've been working on Cloud-native applications. Currently, I hold the position of Senior AI Developer and Platform Architect... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Istio Day, Case Studies

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Istio Day

16:40 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: 10 Quick Tips on How To Internally Market Your Platform - Christina Kraus, meshcloud

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 BST

Platform Engineering Day, Platform product management practices

With platform-as-a-product becoming more and more popular, platform teams realize that marketing and sales are part of the job. In this talk I'll share some hands-on tips on how to market your platform internally without a designated budget for it. Leverage free tools, creative ideas and the power of communities to drive adoption, spread the word and accompany the change in operating model.

Speakers

Christina Kraus

Co-Founder, meshcloud

Christina Kraus is Co-Founder of meshcloud, a platform engineering company enabling enterprises to build digital products faster with its meshStack platform. She holds degrees in Computer science and Business and is Chairwoman of the board for the Working Group on Cloud Services and... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

16:50 BST

No More Pipelines: Reconciling Environment Promotion Via Commit Statuses With Argo CD - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller, Intuit

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 BST

We’ve learned to think of environment promotion in terms of deployment pipelines. But in the age of Kubernetes and everything-declarative, we need to abandon the imperative pipeline mode of thinking. According to the Kubernetes model, environment state should be declared, and an operator ought to drive towards that state. To achieve this, we need GitOps Promoter and its CommitStatus API.

GitOps Promoter is a new environment promotion tool that adheres strictly to GitOps principles. Promotions are handled through automated PRs, and promotion gates are implemented as commit statuses. This talk will demonstrate how to use the GitOps Promoter’s CommitStatus API to gate promotions on Argo CD application health. We’ll show how the only prerequisite to enabling a fully declarative GitOps promotion experience is “having an opinion about a commit.”

Speakers

Michael Crenshaw

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Zach Aller

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Zach Aller is a software engineer at Intuit and a lead maintainer of Argo Rollouts. He has 15+ years of software development experience with a strong focus on SRE/Platform tooling. He has a strong background in Kubernetes and has managed large scale Kubernetes clusters for multiple... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

16:55 BST

Panel: Building Thriving Communities in Platform Engineering: Collaboration, Innovation, and Growth - Matteo Bianchi, GitHub; William Rizzo, Mirantis; Cortney Nickerson & Kelly Revenaugh, Kubeshop; Bart Farrell, Learnk8s

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:55 - 17:25 BST

Platform engineering goes beyond building internal tools—it’s about creating a culture that inspires collaboration, excitement, and a sense of ownership. This panel will explore how fostering these elements across teams accelerates platform adoption and drives impactful outcomes like innovation, stability, and long-term growth.
Panelists will share real-world strategies for engaging engineers, gathering actionable feedback, and building alignment between platform teams and users. Whether you are starting fresh or scaling an established platform, join us to discover how community-driven enthusiasm can break down silos, spark advocacy, and create platforms that truly deliver value.

Speakers

Matteo Bianchi

Solutions Engineer, GitHub

Matteo is a CNCF Ambassador and Cloud Native aficionado, a former startup CTO, DevRel and current Solution Engineer. Kubernetes open source contributor, part of the release team since v.1.31, Comms Release Lead for v.1.32 and Release Lead Shadow for v.1.33Hacker, builder and problem... Read More →

William Rizzo

Consulting Architect, Mirantis

Cortney Nickerson

Developer Advocate & Solutions Architect, Kubeshop

Cortney is a Developer Advocate at Kubeshop and a co-organizer of the CNCF Bilbao Community. Initially, a non-techie turned tech lover, she began her career as employee number 7 at a DevSecOps startup (acquired by DataDog) and wrote the newsletter and other content for the Data on... Read More →

Bart Farrell

Content Creator, Learnk8s

Bart Farrell is a CNCF Ambassador and Freelance Content Creator, event host, and community consultant. He brings creativity and passion to everything he does, whether it's rapping about Kubernetes or producing creative videos to bring technical concepts to life. Bart engages with... Read More →

Kelly Revenaugh

Developer Relations, Kubeshop

Kelly Revenaugh is the Developer Relations lead at Kubeshop, an open source accelerator building tools for developers and testers in the Kubernetes & cloud native space. She enjoys bringing members of the Cloud Native community together by organizing events such as Kubernetes Community... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:55 - 17:25 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering Day, Examples of internal platform evangelism

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

17:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How Silverflow Uses Backstage To Streamline Engineering and Compliance - Daniel O'Neill, Silverflow B.V.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

At Silverflow, Backstage has become an essential tool for enabling better engineering practices, improving compliance workflows, and simplifying service discovery.

Code Health: Backstage and SoundCheck provide a platform to measure and monitor code health using quality standards. This helps our teams maintain robust engineering practices and focus on continuous improvement.

Compliance Management: By integrating compliance standards and automating evidence collection, Backstage has significantly reduced the time and effort required for audits, allowing teams to focus more on building, reducing cognitive load.

Service Discovery: Backstage serves as a central hub where all service-related information can, breaking down silos and making it easier for teams to collaborate and access critical details.

Our implementation of Backstage not only simplifies complex processes but also fosters a culture of accountability, transparency, and excellence across our engineering organisation.

Speakers

Daniel O'Neill

Senior Platform Engineer, Silverflow B.V.

Excited about technology and making an impact. Always striving to bring value to every piece of work I am involved in. Finding joys in working together to a common success.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

BackstageCon, Lessons learned from standing up + deploying + driving Backstage adoption + etc.

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks BackstageCon

17:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Kubeflow Profiles Automation for Declarative User-management at Scale - Kimonas Sotirchos & Manos Vlassis, Canonical

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST

Kubeflow Summit, Best practices for Cloud Native AI infrastructure

Managing users in platforms on top of Kubernetes, like Kubeflow, is always challenging.

The source of truth is usually defined in an OIDC Provider, yet necessary changes need to be applied in the cluster to reflect the corresponding permissions.

In this talk we'll explore how in Canonical we managed to bridge the gap between defining users in one place, an OIDC Provider, and reflecting the corresponding changes to Kubeflow's Profiles and their contributors.

Lastly we'll also cover how the above solution should be generalised and be a more Kubeflow-native implementation and further establish best-practices and reduce the moving pieces. From Istio and K8s RBAC resources, all the way to performing efficient group support in Kubeflow.

Speakers

Kimonas Sotirchos

Software Engineer, Canonical

Kimonas Sotirchos is the Senior Software Engineer responsible for driving all AI/ML and MLOps engineering initiatives at Canonical. Believing that open source will always prevail the test of time, he is actively keeping up to date with the latest open source landscape. Kimonas... Read More →

Manos Vlassis

Software Engineer, Canonical

Manos is a Software Engineer at Canonical, focusing on MLOps. He strongly believes in the power of Open Source, and advocates for the democratization of knowledge. His goal is to continuously make AI and ML more accessible and efficient. Manos also has a keen interest in open... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Kubeflow Summit

17:15 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Numbers and Narrative of Cloud Native Growth - Thiago GIl, Dotted

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:15 - 17:25 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

In today’s dynamic cloud environments, organizations often over-optimize cloud costs, exceeding diminishing returns while neglecting key drivers of positive free cash flow (FCF). This lightning talk explores how integrating FinOps principles, econometric methods, and cloud-native tools enables effective scaling without compromising growth. Drawing inspiration from Aswath Damodaran’s Numbers and Narrative philosophy, this session bridges financial storytelling with actionable insights.
By leveraging Jupyter Books for collaborative analysis and data storytelling, attendees will learn to optimize resource allocation and craft data-driven narratives to justify investment decisions. These strategies align operational realities with valuation goals and drive innovation in emerging markets, where resource constraints and volatility demand adaptive and sustainable solutions. Leave this session ready to make informed cloud financial decisions that fuel business growth.

Speakers

Thiago GIl

Staff ML Engineer, Dotted

Thiago, a founding member of the FinOps community in Brazil and an Emeritus Ambassador, specializes in corporate finance, ML Ops, and bringing complex econometric applications into production. With extensive experience in multi-cloud public sector projects, he addresses the demand... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:15 - 17:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

Cloud Native University, Core Curriculum: Business Outcomes

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Cloud Native University

17:15 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimise Your Mesh With Istio Sidecar - Maggie Slukova, GetYourGuide

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:15 - 17:25 BST

In an Istio service mesh, all workloads have to be continuously kept up to date with the latest cluster configuration. However, only few or no workloads communicate with every other workload. Keeping superfluous information up to date across the whole cluster creates unnecessary load and increases the cluster convergence time, which results in errors.

One way to optimise this behaviour is by leveraging the Istio Sidecar resource. Workloads specify egress hosts for the services they need to communicate with, updates are then sent only when an egress host IP address changes.

This talk will cover GetYourGuide’s adoption of the Istio Sidecar resource - trade offs of the implementation; rolling out high criticality configuration changes in a live cluster.

We will showcase how we reduced cluster convergence by 10x and eliminated all lag related networking errors by rolling out the Istio Sidecar resource across ~300 services without any incidents and with very little time investment.

Speakers

Maggie Slukova

Site Reliability Engineer, GetYourGuide

Maggie is a backend engineer turned SRE with a background in Mathematics. Her areas of focus are Kubernetes, Istio, cluster optimisation, autoscaling and automation. She loves building things, be it software, infrastructure, furniture or games.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:15 - 17:25 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Istio Day, Case Studies

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Istio Day

17:15 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: From HAR To OpenTelemetry Trace: Redefining Your Observability - Antonio Jimenez Martinez, Cisco ThousandEyes

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:15 - 17:25 BST