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This session explores how KServe, a CNCF incubating project, continues evolving to meet these challenges head-on.\r\n\r\nWe're excited to walk through latest releases of KServe. These releases introduce multi-node inference without requiring a Ray head node, LeaderWorkerSet-based autoscaling for distributed workloads, and an upgrade to llm-d v0.6 for disaggregated prefill/decode serving. It also adds OpenAI Responses API routing, namespace-scoped ModelCache for multi-tenant model caching, and all the latest vLLM features, alongside meaningful security hardening across the platform.\r\n\r\nJoin us to see how KServe is simplifying production-grade LLM serving, one release at a time.", "startsAt": "2026-11-09T10:06:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-09T10:11:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "f2594a9d-b2f4-4bb2-8ba7-0299072bcf98" ], "categoryItems": [ 496288, 497641 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82957, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289915", "title": "Extending the Immutable OS: Adding Tools to Flatcar with Systemd-Sysext", "description": "Immutable operating systems make Kubernetes nodes much more predictable, but they also introduce a problem for new users: a read-only root filesystem. When you need to install debugging tools, eBPF tracers, or custom storage drivers, the usual habit of running a package manager just does not work.\r\n\r\nThis 5-minute talk shows a practical way to solve this using system extensions (systemd-sysext) in Flatcar Container Linux. I will explain how system extensions let platform teams dynamically overlay binaries onto a read-only OS at runtime. This keeps the atomic update model intact and respects the rules of immutability. You will walk away knowing how to keep your host OS strictly versioned while still having the flexibility to handle day-to-day debugging and hardware enablement.", "startsAt": "2026-11-09T10:13:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-09T10:18:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "6dc92ce0-8df2-4c2e-b5ff-7303ca379c47" ], "categoryItems": [ 496288, 497680 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82957, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289870", "title": "Monitoring Power at Planet Scale with Kepler", "description": "Kepler is a CNCF Sandbox project that monitors power usage and attributes it to Pods and other resources in Kubernetes clusters. Adoption is growing: it is used by leading Linux Foundation Project Sylva's telco carriers to optimize CNFs on bare metal, and by CERN to optimize the environmental impact of their MLOps against their sustainability KPIs. 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Five minutes on what that actually changes for a maintainer: what the agents handle well, what they consistently get wrong, and why the failures are almost never the code they write.", "startsAt": "2026-11-09T10:27:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-09T10:32:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "9287a29e-8acb-48cc-afa9-f5598856bede" ], "categoryItems": [ 496288, 517207 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82957, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1336214", "title": "KubeAuto Day North America with Kelsey Hightower Hosted by Cast AI | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED", "description": "Location: Clark Planetarium, 110 South 400 West Salt Lake City, UT 84101\r\n\r\nKubernetes doesn't run itself, no matter what the marketing says. Kubernetes Automation Day is a practitioner-led day on making Kubernetes smarter: automation, platform engineering, FinOps, and lessons from the field, not conference-slide theory.\r\nKelsey Hightower delivers the keynote in Salt Lake City. You've probably watched his talks. Now you can argue with him in person over coffee, the day before KubeCon kicks off. \r\nAlso speaking: Bret Fisher (course instructor, YouTuber, podcaster), Pablo Fredrikson (Principal Engineer, Bitso), and Justin Garrison (Field CTO, Sidero Labs).\r\nEnjoy talks and hands-on workshops all day, under the dome at the Clark Planetarium. You'll compare notes with SREs, DevOps leads, and platform folks who deal with the same headaches you do, comparing notes on what actually works.\r\nIf you're tired of fighting the same fire every week, spend the day with us before KubeCon starts.\r\nTo learn more, please visit https://kubeauto.day/north-america \r\nFor questions regarding this event, please contact: olga@cast.ai \r\n\r\nPlease note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.", "startsAt": "2026-11-09T10:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-09T19:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 496291 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 137006, "answerValue": "https://kubeauto.day/north-america" } ], "roomId": 88756, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1289872", "title": "From Kernel to Kubectl in 30 Seconds: eBPF Observability with Inspektor Gadget", "description": "Something is misbehaving inside a pod: an unexpected outbound connection, a file read no one can explain, a process that dies without a trace. Your logs stop at the application boundary, but the answers live in the kernel. In this lightning talk, we will show how Inspektor Gadget uses eBPF to surface kernel-level activity across a running cluster in seconds, without redeploying workloads, installing sidecars, or writing any C. We will live-demo tracing DNS, file, and network events with kubectl gadget, each one automatically enriched with Kubernetes context: pods, containers, and namespaces. We will then show how every Gadget is packaged as an OCI image, so eBPF programs can be built, signed, pushed to any registry, and run anywhere, just like containers. 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We’ll also introduce Fluent Bit 5.2, released during KubeCon North America, and share the roadmap and engineering priorities shaping the next generation of the project.\r\n\r\nWhether you’re already running Fluent Bit or discovering it for the first time, you’ll leave with an overview of where the project stands today, what’s new, and what’s coming next.", "startsAt": "2026-11-09T10:41:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-09T10:46:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "95825526-249c-4052-aba0-4d1567e4ee9c" ], "categoryItems": [ 496288, 497681 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82957, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289875", "title": "LitmusChaos 2026: What’s New & What’s Next", "description": "Chaos engineering has evolved from simple pod-deletes to complex, automated resilience orchestration. 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In this 5-minute project lightning talk, we will show how Cadence helps make agentic workflows more secure, reliable, and recoverable by giving them persisted state, retries, timeouts, human checkpoints, worker failure recovery, and observable execution history.\r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with a simple mental model for when an agent should become a durable workflow, where Cadence fits in the AI-native cloud native stack, and how to get involved with the project through docs, samples, developer tooling, and AI workflow examples.", "startsAt": "2026-11-09T11:17:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-09T11:22:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c60c7f97-46e2-4be2-9b06-b3a6bdf680b0" ], "categoryItems": [ 496288, 497651 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82957, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289878", "title": "Scaling Across the Horizon: Dynamic Hardware Composability for Distributed LLM Inference via CoHDI", "description": "As LLMs scale, we face a stark reality: specialized AI data centers are costly, and existing facilities are constrained by power and physical footprint. 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Hertz's platform engineering team rolled this out entirely through Terraform, from pre-dev to production. Sonal will show the real numbers: where the extra savings hid, how infrastructure-as-code made onboarding repeatable, and what it takes to automate cost optimization at fleet scale — and you'll leave with a playbook for making your autoscaler smarter, whichever one you run.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. 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We'll share real test patterns, the architecture that makes it work, and the lessons from operationalizing infrastructure testing at a fintech company where \"it worked in staging\" is not good enough.\r\n", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T12:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T12:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "8189627a-c4a4-48a9-80ab-93bc402827c7" ], "categoryItems": [ 465811, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82951, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1247300", "title": "Signed, Sealed, Denied: Attestation-Driven Admission with Kyverno + CEL at AT&T", "description": "Your image is signed. But does its evidence meet deployment requirements, and can you prove that to an auditor? 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This deep dive highlights Kyverno 1.19 and 1.20 capabilities for mixed-source verification and admission performance, plus patterns for exceptions, failure handling, and evidence retention.\r\n", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T12:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T12:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "a7cac96d-54b1-49e3-8d78-2673276babfc", "4d00442d-3380-4477-9ec0-30a726534111" ], "categoryItems": [ 465814, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82952, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1248038", "title": "LTS, EOL, CVEs: Solutions for Stress-Inducing Scenarios", "description": "Everybody wants the latest and greatest bits, right? But for the essential infrastructure that powers our world, shiny new releases may bring shiny new bugs. Where stability is top priority, the frenetic pace of an upgrade treadmill may not match your real needs.\r\n\r\nMore time for upgrades is appealing, though when looking at an LTS support cycle versus the release schedules of ancillary software installed on your systems, the fault lines start to show. If part of your system goes EOL before the rest can be changed, you risk having a CVE-shaped problem.\r\n\r\nIn an LTS environment, relicensing or forks can limit your ability to ingest necessary patches. And if your upstreams aren’t patching any more, you have a maintainability problem, where AI-fueled zero-days can appear faster than AI-assisted patches.\r\n\r\nResolving these conflicts is complex; we’ll detail how to approach it. 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To protect sensitive workloads from data exfiltration, the speaker's org runs Kubernetes nodes in cloud VPCs with zero egress - no NAT Gateway, no route to the API server - making Konnectivity unusable.\r\n\r\nThis talk presents a fork that replaces the gRPC link with cloud object storage, accessed via private endpoints, as a rendezvous medium. The speaker walks through cluster network design and bucket transport architecture; how kubectl exec and kubectl logs sessions are multiplexed as sequenced bucket objects; and how proxy-server and proxy-agent coordinate ordered, reliable delivery without a persistent connection.\r\n\r\nObject storage introduces hard tradeoffs in latency, cost, and cluster networking. The talk covers design choices made to reduce cloud costs at scale and achieve sub-second interactive latency over a store-and-forward medium. 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Platform teams now need APIs and workflows designed for both humans and AI systems.\r\n\r\nThis talk explores how internal platforms must evolve from infrastructure-centric interfaces toward intent-driven platform capabilities that encode organisational policy, security, and operational knowledge.\r\n\r\nDrawing on lessons from real-world platform implementations, we’ll examine the new failure modes AI introduces to platform engineering, why traditional abstraction layers break down, and how workflow-centric capabilities can scale effectively.\r\n", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T12:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T12:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c2fbedcc-20a0-4e06-891a-ed075825fa9b" ], "categoryItems": [ 465811, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82955, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1250838", "title": "If It's Shared, It's Vulnerable: Is Kubernetes the Right Platform for Confidential Compute?", "description": "Confidential computing can verify a Kubernetes workload launched with expected measurements, but it cannot verify the entire sharing topology beneath it. Kubernetes still shares control planes, schedulers, kernels, image layers, nodes, devices, caches, buses, and roots of trust across tenants.\r\nThis talk builds a Kubernetes-specific threat model for confidential workloads: where attestation helps, where it stops, and which risks are patchable bugs versus structural consequences of sharing. Attendees learn a practical three-tier isolation model: shared namespaces and nodes; per-tenant control planes with dedicated node pools; and dedicated clusters per tenant.\r\nThe goal isn't to argue that Kubernetes is the wrong platform for confidential computing. It's to help platform and security teams ask the right questions before calling a deployment confidential: who is shared with whom, what is actually verified, and which gaps require topology changes rather than more cryptography.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T12:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T12:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "4d2a68f8-5859-49d1-9caa-e488d11baa9b" ], "categoryItems": [ 465814, 465819 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82956, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1202627", "title": "I Packaged My Application in a Container Image, and Now What?", "description": "Have you managed to build your application as a container image, with Docker or Podman, and push it into an image/artifact registry? Congratulations... but the work is not finished 🙂.\r\nNow it’s time to implement the best practices of Supply Chain Security Software!\r\n\r\n- Why and how to sign an image?\r\n- Why and how to generate the inventory of my image?\r\n- Does my image have vulnerabilities? Are they exploitable?\r\n- What is the purpose of attestations?\r\n- How to automate all this?\r\n\r\nIn this talk, step by step, with a mix of slides and live demos, we will see all that, and much more.\r\n\r\nYou will know how to implement these best practices, locally and even in your CI/CD pipelines.\r\n\r\nAnd bonus track, after this talk terms like 'cosign', 'sbom', 'vex', 'in-toto'... will no longer have any secrets for you!", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T12:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T12:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "24cbeef1-2467-4bd6-9a0e-a931b625f3d5" ], "categoryItems": [ 465813, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82957, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289670", "title": "Beyond Model Serving: Running Production LLMs on Kubernetes with KServe", "description": "Running an LLM on Kubernetes is easy. 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We'll discuss how inference engines, AI gateways, autoscaling, distributed serving, and traffic management work together through Kubernetes-native APIs to simplify running LLM workloads at scale.\r\n\r\nWe'll share lessons learned from building and operating these capabilities, including practical deployment patterns and design decisions from real production environment", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T12:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T12:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "dcf598cc-c21b-4411-b720-a1e7a68103f2", "87add04d-1b5c-4811-ac37-29682f867cfb" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497641 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87421, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289704", "title": "The Latest in GPU, TPU, NIC and Other Device Support - WG Device Management", "description": "WG Device Management continues to make great progress in enhancing support for GPUs, TPUs, NICs, and other specialized hardware in Kubernetes.\r\n\r\nWith the 1.34 release, Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) reached General Availability, making it easier than ever to configure, allocate, and share advanced hardware resources efficiently. 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As adoption grows, platforms need to be ready to support AuthZEN based architectures.\r\n\r\nIn this session, Yoshiyuki Tabata presents how Keycloak can serve as a unified platform for both authentication and authorization, providing an OAuth/OIDC based identity foundation alongside emerging AuthZEN based authorization capabilities.\r\nThe session demonstrates an end to end scenario including token issuance, authorization evaluation, and enforcement. 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Fortunately, you can get rich observability across your entire stack without touching application source code.\r\n\r\nIn this session, we cover every automatic monitoring option available across Kubernetes and plain Linux systems. We will break down the OpenTelemetry Operator, the OpenTelemetry System Packages, eBPF auto-instrumentation, Go compile-time instrumentation, and more!\r\n\r\nYou will leave with a practical roadmap to boost your OpenTelemetry journey without changing a single line of code.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. 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The key to deploying and running them successfully in production is tracking what they’re doing and evaluating the quality, accuracy, and relevance of responses in real time without breaking the bank. Evaluations need to be trustworthy and fall within predetermined guardrails to stop bad responses from affecting users.\r\n\r\nEasy, right? \r\n\r\nLearn how Splunk Agent Observability enables all of this in our demo and overview. You’ll see how small language models unlock these evaluation capabilities and keeps your agent compliant with the guardrails that you give it. You’ll leave with access to a free edition of Splunk Agent Observability, powered by OpenTelemetry, so you can test it and learn it yourself. \r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. 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Demand is growing for programmable, scalable data planes, with projects like agentgateway building new proxies to run custom, memory-safe logic. Envoy now meets this need with Dynamic Modules: in-process Rust extensions for custom data-plane logic.\r\nThis talk presents two production case studies at Databricks, where Envoy serves tens of millions of VMs daily at nearly a million QPS across a multi-cloud, multi-tenant fleet. A custom cluster: Envoy’s built-in cluster types cannot model connectivity to a massive, constantly churning fleet of per-tenant VMs. A Rust dynamic module discovers endpoints and selects upstreams per request, enabling secure routing. Replacing callout sidecars: Governance logic often runs in separate services reached over the network. 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In this session, we use kagent to run an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude to investigate Karpenter configuration, events, and workload metrics, explain what is blocking consolidation, and propose a targeted fix for human approval.\r\n\r\nLive, we'll watch the agent diagnose real misconfigurations: overly conservative NodePool disruption budgets blocking consolidation, restrictive instance requirements limiting Spot capacity choices, and TTL settings causing scale-up/down thrash. It then proposes (or, with approval, applies) concrete NodePool fixes in plain language. Attendees leave with a practical pattern for AI-assisted Kubernetes operations and a clear understanding of where agent reasoning helps and where deterministic controls must remain in charge.\r\n\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. 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Making it something thousands of application teams can safely use on day one is the hard part.\r\nThis talk walks through a six-month journey to bring Envoy Gateway into a large enterprise Kubernetes platform — from the architecture decision record that chose it, to the design choices that decided how much rope application teams actually get.\r\nWe’ll cover the central platform-engineering question: how much of the Gateway API surface do you expose, and how much do you constrain? Too many guardrails and teams route around you; too few and you’ve handed out privilege escalation as a self-service feature. We’ll look at how policy-restricted CRDs, an approved baseline configuration and ready-made example configs turned a steep Gateway API learning curve into a paved road.\r\nWe’ll also get specific about the constraints that don’t appear in any Getting Started guide: exposing Envoy when your environment won’t let you provision cloud load balancers on demand, and integrating with an identity provider that doesn’t behave like the spec says it should.\r\nIf you’re planning an Ingress-to-Gateway-API migration in an environment with real rules, this is the map.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T13:29:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T13:39:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "5cd206b4-58b2-4a12-a3d8-c8415e01d6cb" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512406 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1334797", "title": "ListenerSets: Ingress → Gateway API", "description": "Running a single proxy for many teams is one of the most common asks in Kubernetes networking — and one Ingress never answered cleanly. 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While predictable, hard-coded queueing makes it difficult to introduce adaptive LIFO, controlled delay, priority scheduling, or tenant-aware fairness. Existing counters reveal how many requests are pending, but cannot fully explain how queueing contributes to latency or when a backlog becomes unhealthy. This talk follows the evolution from an early adaptive-LIFO and CoDel prototype to Envoy’s new generic queue-policy extension. 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The session focuses on the platform patterns, Kubernetes primitives, and operational considerations involved in extending cluster capacity beyond a conventional node pool model.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. 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This talk follows a Cilium L7 policy from Kubernetes intent to enforcement: how policy is translated, how traffic is redirected from eBPF to a node-local Envoy, and how policy decisions are made for HTTP, DNS, TLS/SNI-aware use cases, and other L7 protocols. We will highlight the Envoy features Cilium relies on, including xDS, HTTP connection manager, access logging, original destination and Cilium-specific policy extensions. 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You'll leave knowing how to spot the work that fits this AI moment, and to do it in a way maintainers welcome.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "6c6ad390-ed14-40dc-92e8-07530552726e" ], "categoryItems": [ 465817, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82949, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1205589", "title": "Turning Apple Silicon into Production GPU Nodes for LLM Inference on Kubernetes", "description": "Organizations in regulated industries need AI inference on infrastructure they control, but NVIDIA GPUs are expensive and scarce. Apple Silicon devices with large unified memory pools sit underutilized.\r\n\r\nThis talk shows how we extended Kubernetes to schedule AI inference across heterogeneous GPU hardware, including Apple Silicon via Metal, using pluggable runtime backends. We cover a controller-runtime operator managing model lifecycle, multi-GPU layer sharding, and health probing across runtimes like llama.cpp for text generation and Moshi for speech-to-speech.\r\n\r\nAttendees learn patterns for reconciling inference workloads with CRDs, pre-flight memory validation for GPU nodes, Prometheus metrics via PodMonitors, and multi-runtime inference behind an OpenAI-compatible API. 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The call came from inside the cluster—through your own operator.\r\n\r\nI discovered confused deputy vulnerabilities (CWE-441) across Config Connector, ACK, ASO, and Crossplane. The pattern is universal: operators trust user-controlled CRD fields and act with elevated credentials. Your namespace user writes a manifest; the controller escalates them to cloud admin.\r\n\r\nYou'll see:\r\n- Demo: namespace user → GCP Org admin in 60 seconds\r\n- Why audit logs blame the controller, not the attacker\r\n- A 3-step pattern to audit any operator for confused deputy flaws\r\n- Architectural fixes you can deploy immediately\r\n\r\nThis research is also accepted at Black Hat USA 2026. 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Grounded in the principles found in the OpenGitOps Working Group, we demonstrate how to leverage their unique architectural strengths: Argo CD’s application-centric control plane with strong visibility, and Flux CD’s modular, controller-driven system with native Helm lifecycle management. We will showcase real-world hybrid patterns, and explore tools and best practices on how to manage the two tools together in one single platform. \r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with a practical framework for deciding when to use a single tool is sufficient, and when combining them unlocks a more resilient, flexible platform. \r\n", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "b7541db4-ccd8-42f8-8d81-53a75ae4e07c", "f28a398f-e76c-404a-983e-9b22973cd504" ], "categoryItems": [ 465811, 465819 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82953, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1247277", "title": "From Bytes to Traces: A Deep Dive into OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation Internals", "description": "Auto-instrumentation has long been a major topic in observability. eBPF introduced a new approach: instrumentation is no longer confined to userspace agents and technology-specific SDKs. By leveraging visibility from the Linux kernel, eBPF-based instrumentation can capture kernel and application runtime events and model them into traces, metrics, profiles, and service topology.\r\nThis talk takes a ground-up look at OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI), following the path from eBPF programs at the Linux kernel level into the userspace pipeline where events are correlated, enriched, converted into OpenTelemetry data, and emitted. We will examine how OBI combines kprobes, uprobes, socket and cgroup instrumentation, runtime-specific instrumentation, process discovery, context propagation, and Kubernetes metadata enrichment.\r\nThis session is for engineers interested in how zero-code eBPF instrumentation works under the hood. Attendees will leave ready to debug, extend, or contribute.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ae4f029e-93cf-4da8-8dc2-33a86212e2a8", "9b763f89-1a6f-4fff-9d7d-8cfc9e51c975" ], "categoryItems": [ 465815, 465819 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82954, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1243089", "title": "The Prompt Layer: What Platform Engineering Has to Own Next", "description": "Everyone said AI would reduce developer cognitive load. In some ways, it did. But a different pattern emerged: developers stopped worrying about deployments and started worrying about models, tokens, context windows, and agent behaviour. \r\n\r\nThe load did not go away; it just moved.\r\n\r\nThe platform has no opinion on any of it. Every developer figures it out alone, every day.\r\n\r\nThat is prompt fatigue. And it is a platform problem.\r\n\r\nThis session introduces the Prompt Layer: the surface area every IDP needs to own. We'll walk through five components: capability interfaces that abstract model selection, context templates as AI golden paths, token governors as resource limits, agent permission policies using OPA or Kyverno, and AI observability through OpenTelemetry. \r\n\r\nThese are not new tools - they are the same abstraction patterns platforms already apply to infrastructure, extended to cover AI decisions.\r\n\r\nPlatforms solved the infra floor. 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This is the most uncomfortable corner of day-2 on Kubernetes, and most teams have no declarative answer for it.\r\n\r\nWe'll show how Kubescape, the CNCF incubating project for Kubernetes security, makes runtime detection a Kubernetes resource: a Rule CRD you review in a PR, version in Git, deploy via Argo or Flux, and roll back like any other manifest. Using the TeamPCP Trivy compromise as an example, we'll cover what the eBPF sensor sees, how to turn an advisory/IoC into a Rule CRD live on stage, how SBOB profiles keep the signal trustworthy, and a CI/CD workflow that gets from \"CVE published\" to \"rule deployed\" in under an hour. 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We show a different foundation, running in production on Kubernetes: keep data columnar end-to-end with Apache Arrow, and move it once over Arrow Flight. One write from a producer becomes durable, then lands everywhere it's needed — into GPU memory with no copy, into Delta Lake and Iceberg tables, and into serving systems like Pinot and ClickHouse. Because nothing is re-serialized on the hot path, moving data barely uses CPU; the real work is durability and commit. We cover the fundamentals — columnar transport, decoupling acks from slow sinks, idempotent commits, recovery after pod failure — and share real numbers from a multi-tenant cluster.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0446009f-4e8f-401e-8cb4-15d1c7d669e8", "b2fbaaf0-c0ca-4037-a8aa-4f63e8a53295" ], "categoryItems": [ 465810, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82957, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1250324", "title": "Beyond One Model per GPU: Agent-Driven Placement for Maximum GPU Utilization on Kubernetes", "description": "Inference clusters today waste expensive accelerators by handing each LLM a whole GPU, even when many models could safely share one. 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You'll leave with practical patterns for reducing container maintenance, simplifying vulnerability management, and enabling developers to safely extend containerized environments without becoming container experts.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "1bde5a58-7de7-4818-b57a-04515ec89759", "cb67bcae-2254-4a8d-9b20-1d73c0fa6cb1" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497650 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87421, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1289635", "title": "How Kubernetes Handles AI Generated Security Reports", "description": "The AI boom created a distinct operational challenge for open source security. 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We will also detail our internal OPSEC practices, specifically why the SRC relies on simple, local, air gapped LLMs to safely process embargoed vulnerability data.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "1fa15a24-8877-449b-845f-d8e8fdd4a46a", "647b60d3-22c0-4c4c-9ba5-377a09c0474e" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497649 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87422, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1289633", "title": "AI Found a 0-Day in Metal3. What Happens Next?", "description": "AI-powered vulnerability discovery is here, and in 2026 it is no longer just a noise generator. These pipelines can uncover real 0-days, but a plausible finding is only the start. 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Users will see the work behind a security response, while researchers and contributors will learn what turns pipeline output into an actionable report.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "d6541046-2114-431c-bcd0-52a5e77e4505" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497614 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87423, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289636", "title": "HAMi Levels up: Smarter Scheduling, Wider Hardware Reach and a DRA-Native Lightweight Future", "description": "Since this is the first maintainer track after incubating, First i'll give a brief introduction about HAMi. 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Emissary 4 has been a big change to the way one of the first Kubernetes-native, self-service API gateways and ingress controllers gets built and maintained, and we'd like to share what's been going on and what's coming up. \r\n\r\nIn this session, we'll start with a quick overview of the need for ingress controllers in general, the benefits of self-service developer workflows, and how Emissary-ingress can help with these issues. We'll also cover what Emissary 4 brings to the table and how to get involved as a contributor. Emissary's maintainer sessions are always great opportunities to talk directly with Emissary-ingress maintainers and make sure your voice is heard when it comes to the project's future -- looking forward to seeing you there!", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c74b27cd-28e1-453b-8bc7-16857ee29370" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497606 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87425, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1294760", "title": "Podman Contribfest", "description": "Join us to contribute to a growing community that is building local container tooling for developers and administrators! Attend the Podman Container Tools contribfest and help a CNCF Sandbox project! This is a hands-on workshop where project maintainers will help you make a contribution to the project. First-time contributors are welcome!\r\n\r\nThis ContribFest will be focused on improving the Podman Container Tools community. We will have a curated list of issues where you can contribute to Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo, with varying levels of difficulty and different areas to contribute. These will include features, bugfixes, documentation changes, and helping with our websites.\r\n\r\nNo prior experience with Podman is needed, but we recommend bringing a Linux laptop if you intend to contribute to Podman (Windows and Mac are fine for working on the website!)", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T16:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "75afde6d-3b7f-43a8-b16a-5cd8754091db", "971f4139-c746-4cce-844d-4fc4b87aed28" ], "categoryItems": [ 496284, 498152 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87426, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1294759", "title": "Set Sail with Istio: Developing a Production Service Mesh", "description": "Want to contribute to Istio but feel overwhelmed just setting up the local environment? You're not alone. 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From there, we'll pair up to tackle a curated list of entry level tasks, like adding unit tests or fixing open issues.\r\n\r\nWhether you want to fix a bug or just see how maintainers validate code daily, you'll leave this session with everything you need to start contributing regularly.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T16:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "9235a799-bc39-4014-9d4b-7f47c6b1aac5", "759511ae-6d16-4847-b4b3-ada7e852d0c0", "6fb85012-8f2f-4698-8134-06070c8f46e9", "fc157dc5-5ec0-4e05-927b-5ba7849b0b98" ], "categoryItems": [ 496284, 498153 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87427, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1306051", "title": "Becoming an Impactful CNCF Member", "description": "This session is your guide to becoming an impactful and effective CNCF member. We’ll cover the tangible benefits and responsibilities of membership, including providing project support, contributing code, fostering diversity, and participating in governing bodies. We will debunk common misconceptions and provide a clear framework for how a company, large or small, can actively shape the future of cloud native technologies. You will walk away with actionable steps and a deeper appreciation for the collaborative \"movement\" that drives innovation at the CNCF.", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ee53e4bd-00d0-46f2-af99-5c20b8251333" ], "categoryItems": [ 496286 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 88637, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1333748", "title": "KyvernoCon Opening Remarks", "description": null, "startsAt": "2026-11-10T15:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T15:05:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "7183f972-9602-48c2-80ce-9bdac7d70c36", "73ae172a-d107-418a-97b0-84611ebdd3a1" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512409 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362558", "title": "Demo Theater: Agent Substrate: Secure, High-Density Sandboxing for AI Agents", "description": "Running untrusted AI agents requires balancing strict isolation with rapid, cost-effective scaling. 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This demo starts inside that kind of pod, shows what the agent can read and reach, then locks it down with five controls: gVisor isolation through agent-sandbox, a dedicated ServiceAccount, a credential broker, egress NetworkPolicy enforced by Cilium, and per-session limits and revocation. Most of the time goes to credentials: how the pod proves its identity with a ServiceAccount token, how the broker adds API keys to outbound requests so they never enter the agent's environment, and how access ends when the pod is deleted. It closes with common pitfalls and ways to extend the setup. Projects covered: Kubernetes, agent-sandbox (Kubernetes SIG Apps), Cilium, and gVisor, with Infisical Agent Vault as the credential broker.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. 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This gathering brings together diverse community members and allies to share practical tips and discuss how pathways differ globally, as barriers in Europe or Africa differ from those in the US.\r\n\r\nWe'll start with an icebreaker to build connection, move into open conversations, and close with a structured contribution mapping exercise to map ecosystem opportunities.\r\n\r\nAllies are welcome and will leave with actionable ways to sponsor, amplify, and open doors for underrepresented peers.\r\n\r\nDeep Roots community page: https://ocgroups.dev/cncf/group/deep-roots", "startsAt": "2026-11-10T16:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-10T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "d5c0f316-da4a-40dd-9506-ab91d79a240c" ], "categoryItems": [ 496287, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90387, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1334820", "title": "Agentic Ops: Building Guardrails for Autonomous AI with Policy-as-Code", "description": "AI agents can remediate outages in seconds, but giving non-deterministic systems write-access to production risks turning minor incidents into P0 disasters. 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But executing untrusted AI output safely requires an evolution in isolation technology.\r\n\r\nIn this session, we will explore the Spin Agent Sandox - a brand new open-source Agentic Sandbox built entirely on the CNCF Spin framework and underlying WASI. Designed for engineers and security teams, this tool creates hyper-fast, secure environments with strict runtime boundaries tailored specifically for agentic execution.\r\n\r\nWatch live as we configure granular sandbox boundaries, unleash an AI agent to write code, and execute it securely within milliseconds—proving how WebAssembly’s capability-based model is the perfect choice for the next generation of AI-driven software engineering.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. 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Standard Kubernetes RBAC cannot govern non-deterministic actions driven by unvalidated prompts. This session presents a cloud-native architecture that integrates the Envoy AI Gateway with Kyverno’s declarative policy model to govern autonomous AI intent before execution. The session demonstrates how Envoy acts as a specialized data plane for LLM traffic, using Envoy’s External Processing API to \"de-frame\" Model Context Protocol (MCP) payloads. The Kyverno service then intercepts these extracted intents, applying declarative, YAML-based policies to authorize or block model actions in real time. 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While the public cloud platform team were building leadership internally and credibility in the cloud native community, Adobe’s private cloud teams were busy focusing on other efforts. When business needs shifted, it needed to move quickly to a cloud-first architecture.\r\n\r\nIn this session, learn how a team managing traditional infrastructure rapidly pivoted their technology stack and approaches using solutions such as Kubernetes, Argo CD, and KubeVirt. We’ll highlight the traits that made their journey successful, including developing reusable assets, establishing strong partnerships, and community engagement. 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You end up paying for a whole GPU so one pod can use a fraction of it. The Kubernetes scheduler never knew better: one pod, one whole GPU, end of story.\r\n\r\nTwo things just changed that. Dynamic Resource Allocation went GA in Kubernetes 1.34, the biggest shift in device scheduling since 2017. The scheduler can finally see what a GPU offers, not just count cards. And NVIDIA's Multi-Instance GPU splits one card into isolated partitions. Combined, you get real, hardware-level sharing. No time-slicing hacks, actual isolation.\r\n\r\nSo we built the stack from zero: cluster, GPU operator, DRA driver, MIG partitioning, ML workloads on one GPU. It's open source, ready to lift onto your platform. I'll walk the architecture and run a live demo. 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Maybe you're in it right now.\r\nDenial: \"Our namespace isolation is fine.\" Anger: \"Why does everything touch the kernel?\" Bargaining: \"What if we just add a Pod Security Policy?\" Depression: \"The CVE dropped on a Friday.\" Acceptance: You can't bolt on isolation; you have to build it in from the start.\r\nThis talk is a dual-perspective journey through the 5 stages of K8s security grief. Kavi brings the kernel-level technical reality: the shared surfaces, the subsystems nobody's watching, the failures that leave no CVE and no alert. Ann brings what folks actually say: the rationalizations, the moment the mental model breaks.\r\nIt's structured as a comedy, but the content is real. Every stage maps to genuine failure modes, real conversations, and the hard lessons that only land after you've done the grieving. 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But something subtler was at play; service account tokens were being issued in the future, container name reservations were piling up, and kubelet was trapped in an endless loop, recreating containers that were already running. The root cause? A clock skew during system bootstrap that quietly broke assumptions in the kubelet containerd contract.\r\n\r\nThis talk is a real world debugging journey from the cloud native stack down to the hardware system clock. We walk through each wrong assumption, the evidence that broke it, and the systematic approach that uncovered the issue. 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Attackers now point AI at open-source code to find and exploit these bugs with or without a CVE, so a clean scan is no protection.\r\n\r\nChainguard Libraries for Java backports known-CVE fixes into source-built artifacts, so you remediate without a disruptive upgrade. Chainguard Athena stacks the silent bugs on top: the same AI, on defense, finds the bugs that never got a CVE and ships them fixed through the same artifacts.\r\n\r\nIn this live demo we take a Maven project with one of these silent bugs, confirm no scanner warns you, then switch to Chainguard Libraries and rebuild to see it remediated.\r\n\r\nUpgrading to the latest is still the real goal, and too often wishful thinking. AI finally makes doing it now realistic. Stop shipping vulnerable Java code.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. 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We’ll cover the fundamentals of how KubeRay works, including its core RayCluster, RayJob, and RayService custom resources; common patterns for deploying and autoscaling distributed AI and machine learning workloads; and how KubeRay fits into the broader Kubernetes ecosystem.\r\n\r\nThe session will also be an opportunity to meet KubeRay maintainers, ask questions, discuss real-world deployment challenges, and learn how to get involved in the community. With KubeRay currently applying for donation to the CNCF, we’ll also discuss the project’s community and governance and what CNCF stewardship means for its next phase.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T11:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0f293b30-fbb9-49b6-b018-b5ea95f41cd9", "77f82689-901e-4554-943a-feb77494e767", "cac3985d-bdd3-4003-b864-79ce1f0b86ae", "d190c3d7-5cdd-4050-911a-97a690f83e32", "d7d2be74-bfb9-4098-a545-b2f5ebb8bb70" ], "categoryItems": [ 496286, 515763 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87425, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1294766", "title": "etcd Contribfest", "description": "With the opening of 3.8 development and new momentum on etcd's multiple subprojects including raft, bbolt, operator, documentation, and benchmarking, there are many new opportunities to contribute to etcd. Come ready to work with your laptop and favorite code (or docs) editor, and five etcd approvers will be on hand to help you get started working on one of etcd's many open issues and roadmap priorities.\r\n\r\nThis is a working session. Attendees will be given a very brief orientation and then set to doing supervised work on open project issues. 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As adoption climbs, that ecosystem needs more people building functions, and every maintainer starts by writing their first one.\r\n\r\nWriting a function can look harder than it really is, but this ContribFest session will walk you through the whole thing. We'll tour the ecosystem, then build a new real function together that the community will actually want to use. With maintainers beside you, you'll go from an empty repo to a working, PR-ready function in a single session.\r\n\r\nBut that’s just the first step of the journey. You'll leave with the skills to keep going, pick up a curated issue, make your next contribution, and grow into a Crossplane function maintainer yourself. Let's build something together!", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0e3b87da-5dd4-47ec-b43e-20959bcdc2b3" ], "categoryItems": [ 496284, 497656 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87427, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1336587", "title": "Building a Developer Community That the Business Can’t Ignore", "description": "In 2025, Coder set out to build a dedicated community around its open source developer audience: building authentic relationships, growing awareness, and delivering value without turning it into a sales channel.\r\n\r\nOver two years, we scaled programs across Discord, GitHub, meetups, partnerships, content, and advocacy. We learned to connect engagement to product adoption and pipeline, giving us a clear picture of community impact.\r\n\r\nIn this talk, I’ll share:\r\n\r\nWhat worked, what didn’t, and what we learned building from scratch\r\n\r\nHow we moved beyond member counts and attendance to measure impact\r\n\r\nHow we connected community activity to product adoption and pipeline\r\n\r\nWhy proving business value doesn’t mean turning your community into a sales funnel\r\n\r\nThis is the story of building a developer community that creates value for its members while becoming a function the business can’t ignore.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T11:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "9a043648-d645-432c-bbd2-c467b349dc5c" ], "categoryItems": [ 496287, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90387, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362606", "title": "Demo Theater: From Observability to Autonomous Infrastructure", "description": "What happens when observability stops at telling you what’s wrong? The next step is infrastructure that can use production context to continuously make better decisions.\r\n\r\nIn this session, groundcover co-founder and CEO Shahar Azulay will explore the path from observability to autonomous infrastructure. See how high-fidelity application and infrastructure data gives engineers and AI agents the context to understand production, investigate problems, and increasingly act on what they learn. \r\n\r\nUsing Kubernetes workload optimization as a real-world example, Shahar will show how dynamic workload behavior can inform continuous decisions about CPU, memory, and scaling. \r\n\r\nThe result is a new model for operating production: collect the context → understand what’s happening → act on it.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies._", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T11:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "2f60e5f5-5f05-4c7b-9ee8-0aac713f95eb" ], "categoryItems": [ 518734, 514809 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 91537, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1334849", "title": "The Healthy Cluster, The Unhealthy VM:Why Infrastructure Metrics Are Only Half the Story in KubeVirt", "description": "Every virtualization administrator has seen it: the cluster looks healthy, yet users report slow, unresponsive, or crashing VMs.\r\n\r\nWhile investigating production Linux and Windows workloads on KubeVirt, we repeatedly found that infrastructure telemetry alone could not explain workload behavior. Windows Event ID 129 appeared with causes ranging from storage contention to FC path instability and storage subsystem defects, while Linux guests exposed filesystem and OS failures that infrastructure signals did not immediately explain.\r\n\r\nThis session shares what these incidents taught us: infra telemetry explains platform health, while guest OS telemetry shows how workloads experience that infrastructure. We’ll show how correlating both perspectives speeds troubleshooting, reveals workload impact, identifies noisy neighbors, improves VM placement and right-sizing, and informs capacity planning. We’ll also share how these lessons shaped our open-source work on KubeVirt guest observability.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:15:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T11:35:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "02480892-d0c7-46f4-b121-f7f602af208e" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512410 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362623", "title": "Demo Theater: Your Agent Needs a Kernel of Its Own: Hardware-Isolated VM Pods on EKS", "description": "AI agents now write and run their own code, which puts untrusted, model-generated workloads right next to your production services. The emerging pattern separates reasoning from execution: an external control plane runs the agentic loop while the code runs in a sandbox you own, inside your own cluster. The real question is how strong that boundary is.\r\n\r\nThis talk makes the case for giving every agent its own kernel. Each session runs in a pod backed by a hardware-isolated microVM on Amazon EKS, so isolation is enforced in hardware, not shared with the host. It stays Kubernetes-native: a runtime class on a normal pod spec, scoped egress, and scoped credentials.\r\n\r\nIn the live demo we start an agent, give it real work, then checkpoint it, move it to another node, and restore it with its in-memory state and open work intact. You will leave with a hardware-isolated blueprint for running AI agents on EKS.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. 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The same operation can fan out a read-only PVC-backed dataset, such as an AI model, to multiple eligible VMs at once.\r\n\r\nThis talk will introduce attendees to a design using per-PV checkpoints, libvirt attach-device via virt-handler, to provide measured outcomes and will finalize by discussing open gaps and contribution opportunities.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:40:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "cae43af6-c93c-42cc-8995-e120076e3532", "3874b6c6-d39e-4f47-80ad-de08bd502313" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512410 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1251004", "title": "Hardening Kubernetes for GovCloud: A 3-Year Journey to FedRAMP Moderate Authorization", "description": "Building and running Kubernetes in production is a challenge; doing so in AWS GovCloud while hunting for a FedRAMP Moderate Authorization to Operate (ATO) is a multi-year marathon. In this talk, we trace our 3-year journey from an initial design to a fully authorized, compliant platform, pulling back the curtain on what it actually takes to survive federal audits without destroying developer velocity.\r\n\r\nWe'll cover our initial design choices and the lessons learned when cloud-native assumptions collided with rigid federal regulations. Next, we will discuss the changes required to scale environment access to more engineers as we got our first customers.\r\n\r\nFinally, we will deep-dive into the two most critical operational hurdles of our journey:\r\n- why standard CI/CD tools fell short, and how we engineered a dedicated deployment system to meet strict regulatory isolation and access controls.\r\n- how we tackled the required patching and reporting mandates of FedRAMP for open-source software.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "e6c575ba-4465-4947-9762-04a2de4bb44e", "9b12d0fa-57d5-41bb-b9b4-a7b9c7c68e1d" ], "categoryItems": [ 465814, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82948, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1247840", "title": "Ship Faster, Ship Safer: A K8s-Native Canary Pipeline for Critical Cluster Services", "description": "At LinkedIn, some of our most critical Kubernetes platform services deploy multiple times a week, including infrastructure components that affect every pod and data-processing job in the cluster. Traditional canary tools based on traffic splitting don’t work well for these services because there is no user-facing L7 traffic to gradually shift.\r\nIn this talk, we’ll share how we built a Kubernetes-native canary pipeline to safely validate cluster-critical services before production rollout. By combining admission controls, isolated canary environments, GitOps workflows, and automated end-to-end validation, we reduced deployment verification from days of manual testing to under an hour.\r\nAttendees will learn practical patterns for deploying infrastructure services safely at scale when traditional service-mesh canary approaches are not enough.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "7d0e46d3-44bf-4241-b486-639a9172e958", "3195a84e-d0a0-437e-a028-35f4c712114d" ], "categoryItems": [ 465818, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82949, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1247612", "title": "How Anthropic Almost Melted GKE (And the PRs That Saved It)", "description": "At 50,000 nodes, component failure is a statistical certainty—but total control-plane collapse shouldn't be. When Anthropic and Google pushed GKE to these limits on production AI workloads, the real threat wasn't the initial faults; it was the catastrophic loss of graceful degradation. Default upstream mechanics frequently turned localized anomalies into cascading, fleet-wide stalls.\r\nThis talk explores six joint war stories where Kubernetes' built-in self-healing broke down: from a CNI startup probe that couldn't outlast its own informer sync, to an APF cost-misestimation that triggered master OOMs.\r\nWe will detail the exact failure modes, the joint debugging, and the upstream PRs that enforced blast-radius isolation. 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They are opened and closed by autonomous coding agents.\r\n\r\nPodium built a Kubernetes-native agent orchestrator: each agent runs as an isolated pod, picks up a task, writes code, and tests its own changes against a real environment before opening a PR. Kubernetes handles the scheduling and isolation, letting hundreds of agents run concurrently without stepping on each other or the production system.\r\n\r\nThe key insight: agent reliability is not about the model. It is about the feedback loop. Agents that can test against real systems catch their own bugs before a human ever sees the PR.\r\n\r\nDrew Bowman, Sr Eng Manager for SDLC at Podium, shares the architecture, the task taxonomy (what agents handle reliably vs. where they still fail), and what changes in an engineering org when 3 in 10 PRs no longer needs a human author.\r\n", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ab2814a3-2a58-400e-ac33-b23cc0dd975c" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82951, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1243680", "title": "Legacy-Free, Zero-Maintenance Bare Metal Kubernetes Clusters With RISC-V and Immutable Linux", "description": "x86 and ARM carry decades of legacy cruft: The IME, firmware blobs, outdated downstream kernels and on ARM an absence of standards that make using mainline Linux on anything other than pricey server hardware almost impossible. RISC-V, a new open ISA, is finally a real alternative in 2026: RVA23 chips are catching up to Intel, AMD, and ARM on performance, virtualization works, and RISC-V vendors mainline SoC support before shipping; even modern Fedora runs out of the box.\r\n\r\nThis changes what metal clusters can look like: You own more of your stack, with open boot firmware, open chip designs you could fab yourself, and no license or patent encumbrances. Combining RISC-V with immutable Linux (via `bootc`/`composefs` or `systemd-sysupdate`) and k8s creates near zero-maintenance, legacy-free bare-metal.\r\n\r\nThe session includes a live demo where a Milk-V Jupiter 1 (RVA22) and Jupiter 2 (RVA23) Kubernetes cluster migrates a workload with CRIU between the boards, then to a managed RISC-V VPS.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "1b2b4b4c-b963-426e-aa5e-345c02512794" ], "categoryItems": [ 465816, 465819 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82952, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1238718", "title": "Following the Evidence with HolmesGPT: Troubleshooting Kubernetes Apps and Underlying Infrastructure", "description": "Kubernetes incidents rarely stay politely inside the cluster. 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We will show how an AI-powered SRE agent can gather context, reason across multiple operational layers, and help teams move from \"the pod is broken\" to \"here is the likely root cause and why.\" Along the way, we will contrast this broader incident-investigation model with CNCF diagnostic approaches, such as k8sgpt, and highlight where each fits.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "4df937d9-565b-48db-94d3-efd4e5d15c62", "06e1a8e9-55a6-468a-8a87-10163e974367" ], "categoryItems": [ 465812, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82953, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1246681", "title": "Least-Privilege by Default: Standardizing Identity-Aware AI Agent Access into a Golden Path", "description": "MCP makes it easy to connect AI agents to internal tools. 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It then packages these approaches as a reusable Golden Path that platform teams can adopt.\r\n\r\nLeave with a security model for least-privilege AI agent access and a Golden Path ready to ship as a platform.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "5972f8ed-5e56-4c5c-aa57-64999d545da0" ], "categoryItems": [ 465811, 465819 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82954, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1250683", "title": "Groundhog Pod: Scaling AI Inference with Kata Pod Snapshots", "description": "When a Kubernetes cluster needs another inference replica, the clock starts. Image pull, model download, CUDA initialization, tensor loading. For large models, that takes minutes. The alternative, pre-warming GPU pods, trades latency for cost. Neither scales.\r\n\r\nThis session presents a better path. The speakers show how they extended Kata Containers and Cloud Hypervisor to snapshot an entire pod VM, including GPU state, after model initialization. New pods restore in seconds. Because Kata runs each pod in a VM, the snapshot captures everything at once, a clean boundary that process-level checkpointing cannot match.\r\n\r\nThe talk covers snapshot-capable Kata architecture, GPU state capture, and tradeoffs in snapshot size and restore latency. Attendees will see startup times move from minutes to seconds and learn how copy-on-write keeps density high. The session also explores how VM isolation opens a path to confidential containers, keeping model weights invisible to infrastructure operators.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "dd063431-a9a1-49ca-91b1-6c90223fe4bc", "1df2def4-9f9c-4893-b36d-8840c39b1447" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82955, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1247159", "title": "Welcome to the Vulnpocalypse!", "description": "We've shifted left, generated SBOMs, and signed artifacts, but we’re drowning in more vulnerability data than ever before. 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We‘ll explore the transition from static analysis to runtime insight, the role of reachability analysis, and the latest open source tooling to help build a resilient security posture.\r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with insight & ideas for cutting through the CVE noise, and levelling the playing field against AI-accelerated attacks.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "e48a182b-1cac-4e51-93b5-5e82408a6116", "463ce4de-045d-4af7-8744-d58855743871", "d104468d-ac62-4cb2-9f50-e01c51657c33", "30968699-c1ac-4eb9-8866-71cefe09a983" ], "categoryItems": [ 465814, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82956, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1246179", "title": "Sample Smarter, Not Harder (Or Not At All!)", "description": "Think sampling is just about reducing your vendor bill? Think again! 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We'll cover recent developments including Gateway API features such as TCPRoute and ListenerSet, new eBPF datapath plugins that make kernel networking more extensible, and the architectural work shaping the next generation of cloud native networking, observability, and security. 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SIG Node is responsible for Pod lifecycle from allocation to teardown, shared resource management, topology alignment and device access via plugins. We work with container runtimes, kernels, networking, storage, and more; anything between the pod and the underlying hardware that runs them is in SIG Node’s purview!\r\nThe session will be interesting for end users, seasoned contributors, and people seeking to get involved. Attendees will leave the session with a better understanding of the latest developments like Dynamic Pods, DRA, PSI, pod level resources, in-place resize and restart and more, as well as understand the roadmap in these days of AI/ML and other workloads adoption.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ddb4fd96-a4ef-4f1a-8eeb-325dcd5bf538", "8a701c5e-7f2b-4757-9b7f-c2f01b80b73e", "e9aa5e95-4dbb-434f-ab4b-800a96234342", "4b9cef18-b94e-4a4c-9f3a-44baefa9b3cb", "36278c20-dc5f-4f48-a2c7-02e737adbc42" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497687 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87424, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1356649", "title": "BoF | Let’s Discuss: The Future of Apple Containers with Cloud Native Tooling", "description": "Apple's open source Containerization framework lets developers run Linux containers on macOS in lightweight virtual machines. 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Security scanners give you lists: 14 container escapes, 32 privilege escalations, 72 lateral movements. But a list cannot answer the question that matters most: which of those findings can be used to access critical assets in your cluster? \r\n \r\nKubeHound takes a different approach. Instead of treating each finding as an isolated problem, KubeHound builds a graph showing how misconfigurations—like an over-privileged service account or a hostPath mount—chain together into exploitable attack paths. \r\n \r\nThis is how an attacker sees your cluster: not as a list of problems, but as a map of opportunities. \r\n \r\nThe speaker will demo how KubeHound works, connecting common misconfigurations to industry-standard MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and chaining those attacks together. Attendees will leave ready to run KubeHound on their own clusters—the same tool used by security teams across Datadog.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies._", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "42357fbd-4b43-4232-9c62-c50dbba064f0" ], "categoryItems": [ 518734, 514809 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 91537, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1336509", "title": "Neurodivergent Minds with Wings: Engineering Independence at Work", "description": "Rather than focusing on individual coping strategies, this session shifts toward engineering better workplaces. Small, intentional process and culture changes dramatically improve independence, confidence, and long-term success for neurodivergent professionals while creating a more effective environment for entire teams.\r\n\r\nWe'll examine a neuroinclusive onboarding blueprint: from documentation and communication patterns to mentorship, feedback loops, and meeting culture—reducing cognitive overhead for everyone. We'll also cover how leaders and teammates act as enablers: building predictable systems, removing friction, and fostering psychological safety without singling people out.\r\n\r\nAttendees will gain proven collaboration patterns for onboarding, team practices, and engineering culture—creating workplaces where neurodivergent minds don't just fit in, but have the freedom to spread their wings.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T12:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "f22272a3-c974-4261-9846-8ae441a9d4e5", "4b0bfc2f-598d-46c9-ae52-640756a3094a" ], "categoryItems": [ 496287, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90387, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1334855", "title": "Optimized Switchover Timing for Live Migration of Memory-Intensive Workloads", "description": "Most migrations just work: pre-copy converges, downtime targets hit, and nobody notices. The painful ones are growing more common: write-heavy databases, AI workloads, and large in-memory caches where remaining bytes plateau and oscillate, wasting bandwidth and extending migration time.\r\n\r\nMigration orchestrators today use blunt tools: static timeouts, stepwise downtime ramps, or other naive heuristics. None ask: \"when is the best time to trigger switchover?\"\r\n\r\nLi et al. proposed using a local minimum in remaining dirty data to decide switchover timing, but assumed a static workload and left phase shifts as future work. We extend their idea with three key extensions: a stall margin, iterative relaxation, and a time-based window. On write-heavy Redis workloads, this cut switchover downtime by up to 5x with lower variance; gains are workload-dependent. Attendees leave with a reusable pattern for timing switchover in any KVM-based orchestrator.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T12:05:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:25:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "6916a77e-5227-4dd0-84c5-db616aba1bfa" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512410 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362631", "title": "Demo Theater: ClickHouse Observability: Full-fidelity observability for AI agents and SREs", "description": "See how easy it is to get started with ClickHouse Observability, the new self-service product built on open source ClickStack by ClickHouse. We'll connect OpenTelemetry data and start investigating, with ingestion, storage, optimization, and scaling handled for you.\r\nWatch AI agents investigate using ClickHouse's fast analytical queries and full SQL access. See how low unit costs make long-term retention affordable, giving agents the historical context to test hypotheses across logs, metrics, and traces. With fast responses and no API limits, agents can pursue investigations without rationing queries.\r\nBring your preferred models and agent harnesses. We'll show how purpose-built MCP tools make investigations faster, more accurate, and more efficient, then capture the queries, evidence, and reasoning in shared AI notebooks so teammates can review findings and continue the investigation together.\r\n\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. 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If you’re curious about contributing to Kubernetes, looking for a SIG that matches your interests, or hoping to expand your involvement in the community, this is the perfect place to start conversations and make connections.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T12:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 515265 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90804, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1334856", "title": "KubeVirt Summit Closing Remarks", "description": null, "startsAt": "2026-11-11T12:25:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "99fe91c0-7a01-4e59-8655-e15b20fd4f0f", "0850c229-f1bf-438e-935d-d521dc55848c" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512410 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362635", "title": "Demo Theater: Unifying Kubernetes and Datacenter Networking with Isovalent and Cisco Nexus One", "description": "This demo shows how Isovalent Private Networks (IPNs) connect Kubernetes workloads to a datacenter network solution built on Cisco Nexus One. Using Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN), we’ll show how workload routes reach the fabric, how Endpoint Security Groups support traffic segmentation and multi-tenancy, and how operators can monitor application traffic flows in Timescape and fabric operations in Nexus Dashboard. The demo highlights the benefits of this unique integration for NetOps and Platform teams.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies._", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T12:39:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:59:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ea16bcc2-5244-459e-a765-735f172a9644" ], "categoryItems": [ 518734, 514809 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 91537, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1333702", "title": "Kubeflow Summit Opening Remarks", "description": null, "startsAt": "2026-11-11T12:45:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T12:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "d2462872-1ca2-4a95-a111-2ec722768036" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512411 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1333705", "title": "The Missing Front-Door to Your AI Supercomputer – Kubeflow Workspaces", "description": "Kubernetes has become the “operating system” for the world’s most powerful supercomputers — from NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 to Google TPU v8 — yet the interface for end-users remains stuck in the kubectl era.\r\nThis session introduces Kubeflow Workspaces, a new initiative within Kubeflow — backed by Google, NVIDIA and Red Hat. Workspaces are the new “front door” to your clusters, with everything researchers need to run training, inference and data generation jobs on their scheduler of choice, be it SLURM, Ray, Kubeflow Trainer, or anything else that runs on Kubernetes. They provide familiar interfaces like JupyterLab and VS Code in the browser. But users are not limited to their web-browser, they can SSH directly into Workspaces to easily connect their local Agentic tools like Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code. Attendees will see a live demonstration on a real cluster and leave with a concrete blueprint to give their users self-service Workspaces for the “AI on Kubernetes” era.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T12:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T13:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "abb92c57-23bc-42e1-9f40-b46f70871625", "678e81a3-8572-4818-9c9e-7244485be0d7" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512411 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1341038", "title": "Project Pavilion Tour", "description": "Explore the Project Pavilion, a hub of innovation and discovery! Take part in daily tours, interact with project maintainers at their kiosks, gain insights on community engagement and KCD event organization, and learn more about certification opportunities to showcase your expertise.\r\n\r\nThis tour will include an introduction to the Pavilion, making introductions, interacting with maintainers, and ensuring you end up talking to the right projects!", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T12:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T13:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 514861 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90682, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362638", "title": "Demo Theater: The World's Smallest and Largest Kubernetes Clusters", "description": "Kubernetes is usually run within a well-defined range of supported sizes, but its limits reveal a lot about how the system works. This demo pushes Kubernetes to both extremes: a cluster on the smallest hardware that can still run a functional control plane, and a cluster scaled well beyond the project's documented limits. Attendees will see each cluster running and learn which components hit their limits first, along with the configuration changes needed to keep each one stable. Neither cluster is meant for production, but the lessons transfer directly: understanding these bottlenecks helps platform teams right-size edge deployments, tune large clusters, and plan capacity with confidence. CNCF projects covered: Kubernetes and etcd. \r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies._", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:05:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T13:25:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "951bac91-8060-4862-bdf4-36d172eaa498" ], "categoryItems": [ 518734, 514809 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 91537, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1333708", "title": "OptimizationJob: Hyperparameter Optimization at Scale with Kubeflow Trainer", "description": "Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is often what unlocks a model's real performance but as training scales to distributed, multi-node, tuning it efficiently becomes a real bottleneck. OptimizationJob is a new CRD that brings HPO to Kubeflow Trainer by running each trial as a TrainJob. So each trial is a full distributed training job - multi-node, multi-GPU, any framework (PyTorch, DeepSpeed, JAX), gang-scheduled on shared clusters. You define your search space, algorithm, and budget in one resource and the best trial surfaces right in the job's status. With multi-objective optimization, pruning, and early stopping on the roadmap, this talk goes deeper into the design decisions and tradeoffs behind OptimizationJob so you leave knowing both what it offers and how to build modern HPO on Kubernetes.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:15:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T13:35:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "64c1f869-5168-40b5-8010-8598c7c1af55", "a705a3e4-33f5-46f9-ba38-64ef4814b7f4", "428c4519-f933-4b96-93ec-5ea7d10baca0" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512411 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1204401", "title": "2,000+ Customer Calls About AI In Production - Here's What You Need To Know", "description": "As an AI Architect, I'm on 20+ calls per week with customers implementing AI in production. 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Cost and performance optimization\r\n\r\nThe goal of this session is for everyone to leave knowing exactly what organizations are looking to implement with Agentic today.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "f70e9434-fd09-4381-8ea2-6453afe66d15" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465820, 496281 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1242966", "title": "Beyond Harnesses and Sandboxes: Runtime Protection for AI Agents with eBPF", "description": "As AI agents increasingly access sensitive data at scale, the agent harness, including prompt loops, tools, permission logic is becoming a complex, often third-party layer that should not be treated as the sole security boundary. Sandboxes may also be provider-managed, which creates an accountability gap similar to cloud infrastructure’s shared-responsibility model: platform teams remain responsible for data protection, yet current agent infrastructures often lack independent observability and enforcement.\r\n\r\nWe introduce a runtime data security solution positioned around existing harnesses and sandboxes. Using eBPF for zero-instrumentation OS/network observability, continuous scanning of misconfigured cloud storage, data anonymization, and anomaly detection, it offers automated, independent visibility and control of agent activity. This transparently provides enterprise-grade data protection, compatible even with opaque runtimes, effectively closing the critical agent security gap.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "545289b2-68d8-43ed-9245-5fff4a505de8", "3d5e0f04-706e-4cc9-97cd-f4adcbeb78ac" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465820, 496279 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1246812", "title": "Beyond HPA: An Explainable, Agentic Autoscaler for Kubernetes", "description": "Kubernetes HPA scales on CPU and memory — but production incidents start in logs: connection-pool exhaustion, timeout storms, retry cascades. By the time the metric moves, the on-call is already paged.\r\nThis session walks through building an Agentic Autoscaler — a Go operator that reads the same signals SREs read (Prometheus metrics, Loki or Kafka log streams), routes them through a pluggable reasoning step (rule-based by default, optional Claude / OpenAI / Ollama), and emits an explainable scale decision that nests safely inside any existing HPA.\r\nThe case study is an API gateway under a timeout storm. HPA reacts late on CPU. The operator detects connection-pool-exhausted across three consecutive log windows and scales preemptively — then annotates Grafana: \"Scaled due to timeout error rate exceeding threshold across 3 consecutive log windows.\"\r\nYou'll leave with concrete patterns for log+metric fusion, AI inside a control loop, and natural-language explainability for SREs.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "dbaeaa98-df5f-440d-9ac2-5fde55889b91" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465819, 496281, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1239786", "title": "Beyond QEMU/KVM: Re-Architecting KubeVirt for Heterogeneous Virtualization Backends", "description": "KubeVirt brought VMs to Kubernetes, but it’s hard dependency on QEMU/KVM limits support for modern heterogeneous infrastructure. As organizations adopt memory-safe VMMs like Cloud Hypervisor and specialized stacks such as Microsoft’s MSHV for novel scenarios, KubeVirt must evolve beyond a single hypervisor. This session presents the Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (VEP-97, shipped in v1.8), that decouples the core control plane from the virtualization backend. We will share the technical journey: introducing extension points for spec validation, default, conversion between KubeVirt and backend virtualization API and runtime tuning of VMs. We will cover the challenges of standardizing VM lifecycle while preserving Kubernetes semantics, and the design enabling future out-of-tree plugins. We will show the architecture that allows bringing your own VMM or hypervisor to KubeVirt without forking or modifying the core. 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Standard review catches syntax and style, but agent code introduces new failure modes: confident incorrectness, fabricated claims, and broken implementations that appear structurally sound.\r\n\r\nWe present a methodology for AI contributions grounded in structured experimentation, with examples from llm-d, a CNCF sandbox project. Agents contribute via hypothesis-driven workflows with built-in evidence, while project invariants become machine-checkable contracts. On the review side, convergence protocols run independent perspectives in parallel and trust-tier classification tells maintainers which outputs to verify, catching bugs standard review misses.\r\n\r\nAttendees leave with patterns for structuring experiments, codifying invariants, and reviewing agent work with calibrated trust for any CNCF project.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "b3d06d73-eb50-4c01-a9bc-3201a2b32c2b", "5223d859-6312-44d6-b449-a22e51eccbb6" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465820, 496271 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1249358", "title": "Extending NetworkPolicy to RDMA: Hardware-Enforced Tenant Isolation for AI Clusters", "description": "Every Kubernetes network policy engine runs in the kernel. RDMA bypasses the kernel entirely. On multi-tenant AI clusters sharing GPU nodes, no software layer can enforce per-pod isolation on RDMA traffic: NetworkPolicy, Cilium, Calico, all blind.\r\nThis talk presents a production-validated pattern that closes the gap. A namespace-scoped CRD with NetworkPolicy-shape selectors makes each pod the subject of a tenant policy. A controller resolves selectors at admission and programs the NIC's hardware access control before the first RDMA verb fires. Same-tenant pods communicate freely. Cross-tenant traffic is dropped at the NIC\r\nWe walk through the full flow live: apply the CRD, start cross-tenant RDMA traffic, watch it drop at the NIC, then permit it with a selector change. Enforcement applies within 1 second with no throughput degradation. We cover the CRD design, selector-to-hardware translation, failure modes, and how this could inform NetworkPolicy extensions for kernel-bypass transports", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "284ef408-0501-4e75-b14c-1449241f5b9c", "74cc57c3-e476-40ac-bbc8-56b036ef08d3" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465822, 496273 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1241128", "title": "GitOps for AI Infrastructure: The Operational Gaps Nobody Talks About", "description": "Large language models fit naturally into Kubernetes demos. Operating them reliably is a different problem.\r\n\r\nMost operational challenges AI workloads introduce have individual mitigations: model caching, GPU autoscaling, persistent storage, artifact replication. The operational gap is how they compound. Solving them individually still leaves platform teams with unreliable deployments.\r\n\r\nThis poster examines the assumptions GitOps and Kubernetes tooling quietly depend on that AI inference workloads break: artifacts are small enough for standard operations, pods start fast enough for default probes, sync completion implies readiness, infrastructure state is disposable between deploys, and dependencies are visible and explicit.\r\n\r\nDrawing from operating multi-cluster AI inference infrastructure across multiple environments, this poster presents deployment lifecycle diagrams, failure-mode taxonomies, and practical operational patterns for improving AI infrastructure reliability.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "9409d5c4-d649-41f9-bb30-7ff5b8a0ef74" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465822, 496277 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1230983", "title": "Many Agents, One Platform: Production Multi-Agent Apps on K8s with CNCF Building Blocks", "description": "Multi-agent setups are easy to sketch on a whiteboard and painful to run on a cluster. If you've watched agents chase each other in circles or ship traces that stop at the model boundary, you already know why \"more agents\" isn't the hard part, but the operations are. Daniel Oh focuses on the boring-but-important layers such as isolation and scaling on Kubernetes, handoffs with CloudEvents, tracing/metrics with OpenTelemetry across model calls and tools, plain gRPC/HTTP between services, guardrails with OPA, SPIFFE/SPIRE where identity actually matters, and KEDA when work piles up asynchronously. Then we run a live Kubernetes demo using cloud-native microservices (Java/Quarkus-style) wiring multiple agents together end-to-end, with traces you can actually follow in Grafana or Jaeger. Walk away with a short implementation checklist, a handful of failure modes worth catching early, and a simple mental model for keeping multi-agent systems maintainable without bolting on bespoke glue.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "4b82436a-947c-45bb-9d5d-3b94c02c8faa" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465822, 496271 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1250944", "title": "Snapshot, Replay, Verify: A KWOK CI Pattern for Kubernetes Platform Operators", "description": "Kubernetes control-plane changes are hard to validate before production. Scheduling policy, autoscaling, admission rules, custom controllers, and capacity-management logic can behave differently once many pods, nodes, and API objects interact. Running these scenarios against real staging clusters on every change is rarely practical because of time and cost.\r\n\r\nThis poster presents a KWOK-based CI pattern for testing control-plane behavior without real kubelets or workloads. The workflow captures snapshots from production clusters, replays those objects into KWOK-backed simulation clusters, applies proposed changes, and verifies the resulting placement, scale-up/down, utilization, and failure-mode behavior.\r\n\r\nAttendees will see where KWOK simulation fits between unit tests and real-cluster validation, what regressions it can catch early, and where simulation boundaries remain.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "b45571ab-c6cb-47e0-864e-4cd39fd8d63a" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465819, 496275, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1244682", "title": "Your GPU Dashboard Is Lying: Per-Tenant Blind Spots in MIG, MPS, and HAMi", "description": "Your GPU dashboard shows 80% utilization. Whose 80%? When tenants share a GPU, the observability stack reports a single number, and that number is lying. It cannot say which tenant caused the noisy neighbour, who is paying for leaked bandwidth, or where the next OOM comes from.\r\n\r\nThis session audits GPU observability on Kubernetes in 2026. The core demo traces a noisy-neighbour inference incident across MIG, MPS, and HAMi, comparing DCGM, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry views to show which tenant signals are visible, misleading, or missing. It separates what DCGM and the NVIDIA GPU Operator expose from what OpenTelemetry GenAI can attribute at the request and model layer, then highlights the remaining gaps: per-token cost attribution, correlation between GenAI spans and GPU counters, and thermal/RAS signals that rarely make it into tenant dashboards.\r\n\r\nAttendees leave knowing which tenant-level signals their dashboards miss today, and a checklist of what to instrument next.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "886ef1e9-cb8b-45ac-aafd-4be179cf87d4", "68cdaa2a-6879-4cce-bb00-b2b4ed495d75" ], "categoryItems": [ 496285, 465819, 496276 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1336610", "title": "Sign Language Crash Course", "description": "Did you know the CNCF Cloud Native Glossary includes a section for sign language? If you’ve ever wondered how to sign Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, or Linkerd—or simply how to say, “Hi, how are you?”—this hands-on crash course has you covered.\r\n\r\nLed by members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group, this session will teach you basic signs to start a conversation and key cloud native terms to boost your accessibility awareness. Whether you are collaborating on a project, interviewing a candidate, or meeting a new colleague, knowing a few signs can make a massive difference in making someone feel truly welcome. ", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "95fcbe4f-2543-48b7-bd9a-986700de8b94", "69688d5b-a8c7-4af8-a480-9bfad934da4c" ], "categoryItems": [ 496287, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90387, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362663", "title": "Demo Theater: Agent Sandboxing with OpenShell on OpenShift", "description": "As recently announced, OpenShell has been accepted as a Sandbox project. This live demo will show effective restraint of an AI agent running inside OpenShell on OpenShift. We will share how an OpenShell sandboxing harness is deployed on OpenShift, and then unleash an AI agent prompted to obtain unauthorized resources. You will see how the agent is unable to access backends and APIs not permitted by policy. Attendees will learn how they can deploy OpenShell to secure their own AI agent platforms.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies._", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T13:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "8a701c5e-7f2b-4757-9b7f-c2f01b80b73e" ], "categoryItems": [ 518734, 514809 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 91537, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1333709", "title": "Building Reproducible AgentOps Pipelines with Kubeflow and MLflow", "description": "The role of AI agents across the software development lifecycle has exploded recently – but every step of an agent feedback loop incurs inference costs that can limit the viability of an agentic application at scale. Reproducible AgentOps workflows are a valuable option for automating the model optimization that improves both agent productivity and cost.\r\nThis talk presents a pipeline-driven approach to AgentOps, highlighting the Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP) MLflow integration. We use the KFP to build a workflow that loads a model, evaluates baseline performance, applies compression techniques and then reevaluates agent performance for the updated model. We then deploy our optimized model with KServe and use MLFlow to track the complete experiment/pipeline.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:40:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T13:53:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "b943053b-74f6-4e76-80e0-e064109ab379", "1c94e536-e75f-49eb-8725-2ff8ad6fdac8" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512411 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362669", "title": "Demo Theater: Do you trust your AI agent? Pod Sandboxing on OKE ", "description": "Kubernetes gives teams a familiar production platform to orchestrate long-running, tool-using AI agents alongside their applications. These agents can write and run code, install packages, and use tools with limited human oversight. On shared infrastructure, that code can affect the host or neighboring workloads if compute isolation is weak. Join us for a live demo of OKE Pod Sandboxing and see how it provides compute isolation for these workloads without requiring teams to build and maintain their own sandboxing infrastructure. \r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies._", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:55:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:15:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "18849f9c-6b2c-459d-9365-afac354d4b9f", "c4c85e0a-7c44-41ed-9593-104e3d3a2c0b" ], "categoryItems": [ 518734, 514809 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 91537, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1333710", "title": "Stop AI Agents from Guessing SQL with Semantic Operator on Kubernetes", "description": "If you are building AI agents or BI applications that help analysts and business leaders answer questions from enterprise databases, we would value your feedback on a new open source project called Semantic Operator. AI agents can generate plausible SQL while misunderstanding business metrics, choosing incorrect joins, or bypassing governance rules. Semantic Operator addresses this by running Apache Ossie semantic models as Kubernetes resources. It provides agents and applications with certified metrics and dimensions, then generates deterministic, governed SQL for StarRocks or Trino. In this live demo, we will show how to manage semantic models through a Kubernetes operator, validate schemas and detect physical drift, enforce row, column, and metric governance, plan deterministic queries, and expose MCP and REST access for AI agents and applications. We will also walk through the end to end architecture and potential integration points.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T13:58:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:03:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "00407ab5-f8e4-4d04-b154-551208836c96" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512411 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1333711", "title": "End-User Panel – KubeFlow Enterprise Use Cases-Solutions", "description": "Panelists will discuss how their organizations leverage Kubeflow to orchestrate AI workloads on Kubernetes—from distributed training to low-latency serving—while overcoming enterprise challenges such as scalability, pipeline automation and hybrid-cloud integration. Attendees will gain actionable insights into architecture design, lessons learned from scaling AI workloads on Kubernetes, and proven patterns for accelerating model deployment from experimentation to production.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T14:08:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:28:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "531b8bfa-efc4-46f8-96fe-618ad8c3dac0", "5a24b964-bf9f-44a9-9ae2-21fea2d1cd92", "9d75f1a3-bb8d-4d46-9de6-731feaa29028", "0bab4841-8e90-4d40-8295-80b7a116918e" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512411 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1251049", "title": "In-Place Pod Resizing Like I'm 5: Scaling Without Restarts", "description": "Every Kubernetes user has faced this: your Pod needs more CPU or memory, but changing resource requests means restarting it — dropping connections, losing in-memory state, and disrupting your workload. What if Kubernetes could resize Pods in place, like dragging a window corner to make it bigger?\r\n\r\nIn-Place Pod Resize lets you change CPU and memory requests and limits on running containers without restarting them. This talk uses the \"explain like I'm 5\" approach to break down how it actually works — from the API changes in Pod spec, to how the kubelet negotiates the resize with the container runtime, to what happens when a resize can't be granted. You'll understand resize policies, status conditions, and how VPA can now autoscale your workloads without the restart tax. We'll share production lessons learned and common gotchas from early adopters. By the end, you'll know exactly when to use this feature and when a restart is still the right call", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c4d0b0ae-1554-46b1-8d16-e2d7b25e97f3" ], "categoryItems": [ 465813, 465820 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82947, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1247684", "title": "How We Are Enabling Feature Flagging At Scale", "description": "At CVS Health, we have many engineers working to deliver the latest innovations in health services. In the DevEx organization, we understand that these engineers need feature flagging.\r\n\r\nWe researched what was already available within DevEx and found that two types of solutions existed: expensive vendor-driven platforms and home-grown tooling with very limited feature sets.\r\n\r\nAfter examining these options, we looked to open source software and discovered OpenFeature, a vendor-agnostic API which would enable us to build a flexible, open source standardized platform to create and manage feature flags.\r\n\r\nWe collaborated with the OpenFeature Project, to understand their plans for the future of their Feature Flagging ecosystem and also to understand how we can contribute back to the community and include what we’re building in that future.\r\n\r\nWe're excited to share that we are bringing this effort to the open source community. We'd like to share it, and our journey of how we got here, with you.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "94f7d7b8-9550-4538-a2ed-3398755ec657" ], "categoryItems": [ 465818, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82948, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1250982", "title": "Progressive Delivery for Trust: How Agents Earn the Right to Merge", "description": "As agentic systems become more effective, human review becomes the next scaling bottleneck. This talk presents a Kubernetes-native model of earned autonomy, where authority expands through demonstrated performance rather than static permissions.\r\nAs agents generate more pull requests, they consume an increasingly scarce resource: human attention. The goal is to spend that attention deliberately, by auto-merging work where tests and a track record justify it, and reserving human review for cases that require judgment.\r\nBorrowing from progressive delivery, agents begin in shadow mode, with their proposals graded against real outcomes, earning authority only after sustained success within narrowly defined classes of work. The pace of delegation is set by how reliably outcomes can be evaluated. Objective verifiable outcomes enable trust to build quickly, freeing up human judgement for evaluation where it is most needed.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "a9ff6498-7232-4dad-bc5e-8d0070915313" ], "categoryItems": [ 465811, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82949, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1250728", "title": "Hidden Pod Startup Latency: Container Image Pull", "description": "Container startup latency directly impacts service responsiveness, autoscaling speed, and incident recovery on Kubernetes. Yet much of that latency is dominated by the image pull step; which is mostly hidden.\r\n\r\nDrawing on a real LinkedIn production case study — over 500K bare-metal hosts, 25M cores, and pod density averaging beyond 50 per host in our densest clusters — we’ll show how we cut the long tail of pod startup latency by 72% at P99 by 72% and 75% at P50. We'll examine how container image pulls contribute to startup latency: taking a deep dive into the image pull path to identify bottlenecks and build a mental model, then covering the practical levers we have — compression, kubelet and containerd configuration, and P2P caching.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "65170aa7-002d-4689-bfba-d8ceadb19739" ], "categoryItems": [ 465812, 465819, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82950, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1249844", "title": "Kubernetes The Hard Way - Live", "description": "Come behind the scenes of how Kubernetes actually works! 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This session walks through this feature in full, along with the rest of features introduced in 2.20. This includes a tremendous refactor that cuts memory usage by up to 85% in enterprise environments. After deep diving into 2.20, we’ll cover what is upcoming in 2.21. Whether you are a Linky-lover or are taking your first steps in service mesh, this session will leave you with the knowledge on how these features make your workloads more reliable and easier to manage.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T14:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "61e8f997-08dd-47e0-9eea-92e65593ff3f" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497644 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87423, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289693", "title": "etcd from 3.7 to 3.8 and Beyond", "description": "etcd 3.7 was released in June and we're planning and working on version 3.8. Join the SIG-etcd team to learn about the features in 3.7, the 3.8 roadmap, new subprojects and special efforts, and how you can get involved contributing to etcd. 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The session will start with a short overview of Cadence and the available issues, then split into small groups to make docs PRs, sample updates, or issue triage progress.\r\n\r\nThe project benefit is a better contributor onramp and more practical examples for developers building reliable agent workflows with Cadence.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T14:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T15:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c60c7f97-46e2-4be2-9b06-b3a6bdf680b0", "042ee031-1829-4859-b908-6873ddd1b930" ], "categoryItems": [ 496284, 497651 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87427, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1362678", "title": "Demo Theater: Building an Agent-Centric Cloud Platform: Lessons from Nutanix", "description": "What does a cloud platform need to provide when applications can reason, invoke tools, execute code, and act on a user’s behalf? Drawing on our work evolving the enterprise platform for agentic workloads, this talk examines the necessary infrastructure requirements across the stack.\r\n\r\nWe follow an agent through its lifecycle -- from receiving a task and assuming a delegated identity to accessing models, executing in a sandbox, preserving state, and recovering from interruptions. We connect IDM, authz, credential handling, isolation, network controls, sessions, observability, and resource management into a coherent architecture. We also examine where existing Kubernetes and cloud capabilities apply, where adaptations are needed. \r\n\r\nWe share engineering lessons, trade offs, and open questions, emphasizing component interactions and responsibilities. Platform architects will leave with a practical framework to assess their platforms and plan capabilities for agentic applications.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. 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You leave with a migration sequence and a reference architecture to apply at home.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. 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Kueue and MultiKueue provide a single submission point with cross-cluster RayJob dispatch, tiered per-team quotas (guaranteed, borrowing, opportunistic), priority preemption, and data-locality-aware routing with automatic fallback. Dragonfly, a CNCF graduated P2P system, caches datasets and checkpoints in-cluster, turning cross-region downloads into local peer reads. Together, they optimize where jobs run, who gets capacity, and how data arrives. 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Join us to learn how to achieve dynamic multi-host topology scheduling and build a scalable, zero-trust environment for your most critical AI workloads.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T17:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T17:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "65593ad4-2423-4a95-aff5-2dcf5f9bdf5a", "eb04e59c-4d77-4be7-bc12-1c1d26cdd266" ], "categoryItems": [ 465812, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82950, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1247666", "title": "Running Secure Agents at Scale", "description": "Building secure and scalable agents at scale is hard. From multi-tenancy and noisy-neighbor risk to tool access and data boundaries, teams need more than a prompt and a container image—they need a deliberate execution model.\r\n\r\nAt Adobe, we are running agents on the CNCF Agent Sandbox project: a sandboxed runtime for AI agents that manages their full lifecycle—provision, execute, observe, and tear down—while keeping workloads isolated from the rest of the platform. Sandboxes enforce resource limits, reduce blast radius, and give operators a consistent place to apply policy.\r\nWe have applied optimizations so that development teams can run agents without the need to understand the sandboxing mechanism or worry much about the increased complexity of single tenant agent execution.\r\n\r\nIn this session we’ll share the problems we hit running agents for real customers, how Agent Sandbox addresses them, and what we’d do differently next time.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T17:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T17:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "efce0e79-3d0c-47cf-98d2-1bb8884c1e10" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465819, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82951, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1248422", "title": "CoHDI: Bridging Kubernetes and Disaggregated Memory for Memory-Aware LLM Inference", "description": "LLM inference is becoming memory-centric, where capacity, bandwidth, and data movement dominate performance and cost. 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We will walk through the architecture (management cluster, multi-tenant control planes, bare-metal provisioning) and all the abstraction we built on top of it, then dive into the surprises: scaling etcd past 4,000 nodes, assisting in the arm64 support on Metal3, fleet monitoring, network management, and the operational reality of BMCs, Redfish, and NVL72 racks when you come from a \"cloud-native\" background. 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Even with model weights cached, kernels are recompiled from scratch on every new pod, even on every pod restart\r\nIn this talk, we share a practical KServe-based solution that captures the compiled GPU kernels during the initial cold start, stores them as signed OCI artifacts, and caches them alongside the LLMInferenceService.\r\nNew pods can then load these pre-compiled kernels at runtime, skipping redundant compilation during scale-out. In our tests under burst traffic, this approach reduced vLLM pod readiness time by 30–70%, depending on model size and GPU type.\r\nIf you're an AI platform engineer who is running large language models on Kubernetes, you will learn how kernel-level caching can be integrated into your serving stack.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T17:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T17:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "87add04d-1b5c-4811-ac37-29682f867cfb", "bf166363-eb93-420a-b58c-1df29ca8e919" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82955, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1250972", "title": "Stop Writing Secrets Into YAML: A Rotation-First Identity Pattern for Kubernetes", "description": "The goal is not to hide long-lived credentials better; it is to need fewer of them, issue them later, and rotate them automatically. 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Rather than presenting a vendor parade, the talk shows where each layer belongs, how to reduce “secret zero” risk, and how to move from static\r\ncredentials toward short-lived, auditable access.", "startsAt": "2026-11-11T17:00:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-11T17:30:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "4a56aa9e-b98a-489b-9180-e5d25096fb32" ], "categoryItems": [ 465814, 465820 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82956, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1243852", "title": "Clueless About The Cost of AI Model Usage? OpenCost+llm-d = first of a kind inference cost tracking", "description": "Your GPU bill is rising, your models are serving billions of tokens but what does each token actually cost? GPUs suffer from the same problems as other k8s resources like CPU and RAM: teams size resource requests based on estimates and guesses of anticipated usage, then move on to the next project. Are those GPUs actually used in production? Come learn how OpenCost, a CNCF incubating project, is integrating with llm-d, a CNCF sandbox project, to address these questions and more.\r\nWe will show how llm-d integrated with OpenCost turns GPU, vLLM, and llm-d metrics into per-model and per-token cost visibility. We will introduce two essential views: reservation-based cost, and usage-based cost. Combining this with idle detection logic enables comparison of self-hosting with SaaS APIs, intelligent routing of LLM workloads, optimization, and fair AI chargeback across shared infrastructure. 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To balance performance and cost, these agents rely on warm-pooling for fast allocation and enter hibernate states when idle. However, Agents struggle with state persistence, where critical agent memory and skills is often lost during restarts. Furthermore, poor backward compatibility between versions complicates migrations, and the lack of specialized workload support makes it difficult to manage the lifecycle of multiple agents. \r\n\r\nOpenKruise Agents is an operator designed to manage the sandbox lifecycle. It employs enhanced pre- and post-upgrade hooks, in-place upgrades, and checkpoint-based recreation to ensure seamless agents upgrades. The solution addresses three critical upgrade scenarios: warm pool refresh, in-place upgrades during warm pool allocation , and updates for allocated sandboxes. 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Linky (Linkerd's lobster) and Pam (Teleport's robot) need cluster detectives.\r\n\r\nSolve one challenge first to earn your entry code. On-site, teams of 3-4 debug a real Kubernetes cluster; each solve unlocks the next room. Skip the puzzles? Two solves gets you to the main floor — bar, catering, DJ. First 3 teams to save Phippy win prizes.\r\n\r\nNo Linkerd or Teleport experience needed, just kubectl basics. 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Scaling them means running every kind of workload on the same infrastructure: multi-modal data processing, training, reinforcement learning, and inference serving.\r\n\r\nAll of it runs on Ray, deployed and autoscaled by KubeRay. But Ray is not only our runtime — it is also our resource management layer, with MultiKueue governing GPU capacity across every cluster we operate. This keynote covers how that fits together.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T09:12:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T09:17:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0f293b30-fbb9-49b6-b018-b5ea95f41cd9", "17b4633f-6f03-4ccc-8a51-550fd8c7d0a4" ], "categoryItems": [ 496573 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82947, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1293929", "title": "Standardized Yet Adaptable: How Nutanix is Evolving Cluster API with CAREN", "description": "Cloud native innovation has always been driven by the community. From Mesosphere's role as a CNCF founding member to D2iQ's continued Kubernetes leadership and now Nutanix's active contributions across multiple CNCF projects, the mission has remained the same: build together in the open.In this session, we'll revisit that journey and explore how those experiences led to CAREN (Cluster API Runtime Extensions - Nutanix), an extensible framework that enables dynamic cluster configuration and lifecycle management while preserving the simplicity and consistency of Cluster API's declarative model. As we look to the future of Kubernetes fleet management, standardization via Cluster API (CAPI) and the ClusterClass feature has brought immense consistency to cluster provisioning. However, real-world enterprise deployments often hit a wall: they require dynamic customization that strict standardization struggles to accommodate.CAREN bridges the critical gap between strict declarative blueprints and real-world adaptability. 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Multi-tier offloading moves evicted KV blocks from GPU HBM to CPU memory to storage, extending effective capacity without recomputation. Peer-to-peer sharing goes further: llm-d tracks cluster-wide locations of reusable prefix data, and the P2P tier in vLLM transfers KV blocks directly between pods — turning the fleet itself into a distributed cache layer. Benchmarks show P2P transfer beats recomputation beyond ~2,000 shared tokens (up to 11x for reused prefixes), and multi-tier caching gave 1.77x capacity and 2.15x throughput on a saturated 16-server deployment. 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Using the MCP 2026-07-28 Mcp-Method and Mcp-Name headers and NGINX's new native JSON module, NGINX checks that the headers match the request body, so a caller can't route to one tool and run another, then routes each tool to its own backend. We give each tool its own rate limit and circuit breaker, so one noisy or failing tool doesn't take down the rest. Then we follow a tool call end to end with OpenTelemetry traces, Prometheus metrics, and searchable audit logs in Grafana, including tool errors hidden inside HTTP 200 responses. We close with OAuth token validation and per-tool permissions using F5 NGINX Enterprise.\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. 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DRA Driver for NVIDIA GPUs is one of the early implementations of this and is evolving far beyond simple GPU allocation. This talk is a deep dive into the latest capabilities that we have added this year and what comes next for supporting large-scale AI infrastructure.\r\n\r\nWe will cover the latest on GPU sharing models including MIG, time-slicing, MPS, and vGPU along with topology-aware scheduling across GPUs, NICs, and Data Direct (DMA) interfaces. 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The model still has to know which tool to use, what has to happen first, and what the nouns in your product actually mean.\r\n\r\nWe shipped MCP for OpenChoreo, our CNCF Sandbox developer platform, and watched it fail in normal use: the agent picked the wrong tool, looped on broken paths, and skipped steps it had no way to know about.\r\n\r\nAgent Skills closed most of that gap, but not every Skill helped, long prose buried the useful context, API-reference-style Skills mostly got ignored, and the ones that worked were short and shaped around decisions, closer to how you would onboard a new teammate than how you would write public docs.\r\n\r\nThis talk is an experience report from doing that work, what we tried, what we deleted, which patterns held up under real agent loops, and how we keep Skills honest in CI.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "abe1d55a-cb85-4362-a872-239f29d84f6d", "452376c8-9689-49b9-ac07-7b151f0abc42" ], "categoryItems": [ 465811, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82957, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289718", "title": "SIG Scheduling Update: Multi-Level and Topology-Aware Workload Scheduling", "description": "Over the last year, SIG Scheduling has focused on advancing the foundational Workload-Aware Scheduling API and making it generally available. 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We will also share key updates from related sub-projects, including Kueue and the Descheduler.\r\n\r\nTo conclude, we will discuss the roadmap for upcoming releases, outline community contributions, and detail opportunities for you to help shape the future of Kubernetes scheduling.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "818b58fb-584f-4e21-b6e5-5803352c9338" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497670 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87421, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1289724", "title": "WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next?", "description": "The Kubernetes AI/ML workload orchestration ecosystem is maturing from a collection of isolated tools into a unified, high-scale computing suite. \r\n\r\nIn this session, WG Batch maintainers will present a comprehensive status report on our interconnected projects, including Job, Kueue, and JobSet. We will highlight What's New in recent releases, focusing on core API stability, advanced fair-sharing algorithms, and seamless multi-project integrations that power modern AI platforms. \r\n\r\nLooking ahead, we will preview the working group's plans, revealing our long-term vision for scalability and resource optimization through 2027. Whether you are a platform engineer or a prospective contributor, this session equips you with insights into the future of cloud-native AI/ML workloads orchestration.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T11:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T12:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "55748f0f-a64a-43e7-9211-4ae3de376fbd", "653d9ce8-74a5-4cec-b934-772be6476abb", "eef550d7-a48e-4e36-80a9-538df895a4cf" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497632 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87422, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289717", "title": "Rook: Intro and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage", "description": "The Rook project will be introduced to attendees of all levels and experience. Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph to natively integrate with Kubernetes. 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This session covers both sides of visibility. First, llm-d Observability: a component-level audit of metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, and alerts — what already works (EPP and vLLM OTel, Prometheus scrapers, inference-sim for GPU-free CI) and the critical gaps (cross-component trace linkage, missing dashboards, opaque P/D KV transfers). Then, cost: OpenCost's first-of-a-kind inference cost tracking turns those same metrics into per-model, per-token economics — allocation vs. usage cost, split input/output pricing, and KV cache hit rate as a tunable lever. 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DisaggregatedSet, built with the LWS maintainers in Kubernetes SIG-Apps, manages the whole disaggregated stack as one logical unit: coordinated rollouts, lockstep upgrades and per-role autoscaling. It recently went GA and is already powering production traffic at Mistral. The routing layer must scale just as well. High availability and horizontal scaling call for an active-active mode, where multiple EPPs serve requests simultaneously. To enable this, we developed the CrossReplicaSyncer interface, which lets plugins opt in to cross-replica syncing. 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Facing constant rejection and isolation early in his journey, his career shifted when he began leveraging his unique background as his greatest asset.\r\n\r\nIn this session, Divine shares his journey from learning to code at 16 in an isolated environment to becoming a CNCF Ambassador and CEO of a London-based startup at 24. He discusses the pivotal decisions, programs, and open-source ecosystems—including CNCF and AWS—that helped him navigate obstacles and achieve his goals.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T12:15:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T12:45:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "6fba21bb-3f80-48e4-ac44-e9d8926b30a8" ], "categoryItems": [ 496287, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90387, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1289747", "title": "🍲 Lunch ", "description": null, "startsAt": "2026-11-12T12:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T13:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 496575 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87451, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1334872", "title": "llm-d Closing Remarks", "description": null, "startsAt": "2026-11-12T12:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T12:32:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "1557b5aa-c1d4-4c1e-9d5b-10759c03c2c0" ], "categoryItems": [ 512413, 512412 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 90363, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1362649", "title": "Demo Theater: When Should Your Cluster Fix a Failing GPU?", "description": "GPUs are notoriously unreliable at scale. Run thousands in a K8s cluster and manual remediation becomes unsustainable, but naive self-healing only solves the easy case: a failure that stops a workload outright.\r\n\r\nConfirming the fault is real, deciding whether it is safe to act on a node running someone else's workload, and choosing the least disruptive fix are distinct challenges for platform and ML engineers.\r\n\r\nThis session, drawn from production experience operating large GPU fleets, examines the decision layer between failure detection and remediation on K8s. We'll break down the principles behind an auto-remediation system that extends its own detection with NVIDIA's NVSentinel and combines signals from inside and outside the cluster to decide when to act automatically, when to loop in the workload owner, and when to escalate.\r\n\r\nAttendees will leave understanding the trade-offs in keeping a GPU fleet healthy without adding more disruption than the failure itself.\r\n\r\n\r\n_In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies._", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T12:40:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T13:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "4f9cbc15-eb3b-4cfa-bec3-219ae3eb1a06" ], "categoryItems": [ 518734, 514809 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 91537, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1228453", "title": "Anthropic’s Kubernetes Scheduler for Frontier AI: What Worked, What Broke", "description": "A TPU on the wrong torus coordinate is worthless. So is one GPU placed outside its NVLink island. For frontier training, where a pod lands matters as much as whether it lands at all. And they have to land as a gang: every pod in the job on contiguous hardware, or none at all. The default scheduler scores pods one at a time and has no vocabulary for \"all 256 of these, on contiguous hardware, or none.\"\r\n\r\nThis is Anthropic's account of building the scheduler that does and how we kept it fast as clusters grew toward GKE's 65K node limit. Part one is design: modeling interconnect topology as first-class scheduling domains, gang admission with graceful eviction, capacity allocation, and defragmentation. Part two is the performance story - the optimizations that brought average processing time to under 3ms per job: gating expensive affinity checks behind cheap predicates, efficient resource accounting, and caching infeasibility verdicts.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T13:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "2a916b53-a85f-4e7b-9694-8b49be85b86d" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465819, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82948, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1249553", "title": "BurritoBot Said Let's Dance, the Platform Said No", "description": "In 2026, a developer asked a burrito chain's chatbot to reverse a linked list before ordering their meal. The bot delivered a solution, then asked what they wanted.\r\nA user does not need to be malicious to embarrass an enterprise, just a little bit weird. The model will help, enthusiastically. But that burrito bot sits in a production cluster that someone (probably you) is responsible for, wired into real tools and data. More than reputation is at stake.\r\nIn this session we build a chatbot for a fictional burrito chain connected to an under-protected MCP server and deploy on a full IDP (internal developer platform). It starts wide open, and we let the audience hack it live.\r\nWe show you the relevant Kubernetes security layers you should already have. Then we turn on LLM-specific guardrails, like pre- and mid-inference prompt analysis. Finally we show good GenAI observability practices. By the end the chatbot is selling burritos. 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Reframing ML serving as a classic distributed computation problem rather than a unique paradigm allowed us to eliminate complex secondary ML schedulers and feature bloat. Instead, we composed native, scalable components anchored on the simplest primitives: a stateless worker pod and an asynchronous queue.\r\n\r\nThis talk breaks down the mechanics of our \"frameworkless\" infrastructure. We will detail exactly how we deploy thousands of unique models as stateless pods, leveraging GCP Pub/Sub for asynchronous message routing, KEDA for true scale-to-zero autoscaling, and native K8s pod priority and preemption to guarantee real-time interactive research traffic over massive background batch workloads. 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Some need persistent volumes for source-of-truth data, while others use them as cache.\r\n\r\nUsers shouldn't need a new platform every time a dimension changes, nor should they care which cluster serves their compute needs.\r\n\r\nThis talk shares how LinkedIn built a composable, natively multi-cluster API for both stateless & stateful workloads. Users express intent once: the platform places & rebalances replicas globally. 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Managing these paths together raises practical questions around routing, reliability, scheduling, and protocol compatibility.\r\n\r\nThis session explores these challenges through a Kubernetes gateway implementation. We start with model routing across providers, including fallback when a provider becomes unavailable. We then look at self-hosted models and how Gateway API and its Inference Extension can connect application traffic to inference pools.\r\n\r\nFor inference scheduling, we compare an embedded endpoint picker with an external Endpoint Picker (EPP), such as the one used by llm-d. We discuss the trade-offs between these approaches, their deployment and scheduling implications, and how they behave when inference instances become unavailable. 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You probably don't need one — what you need to know is how to compose the CNCF projects you already are running to get headless agents running safely in your clusters.\r\n\r\nWe identify challenges: cold-start identity gap (the agent egresses before SPIRE issues an SVID), trust-scope drift (egress allowlist decided at deploy, stale by wake), unverified delivery (the event broker hands off events before signature check), and unbound audit (completion not chained back to the signed wake).\r\n\r\nWe'll walk through one reference pattern: KEDA scaling deployments from queue depth, signed CloudEvents (SPIFFE source + JWS) as the wake contract, sidecar policy reading SVIDs at runtime, and the event broker log as tamper-evident audit. 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We'll show how we used custom resources and controller-based workflows where a resource model fit naturally, and custom routes or aggregated API servers where it did not.\r\n\r\nUsing our 3-year journey to a stable dashboards v1 API as a case study, attendees will leave with a rubric for when these patterns are worth the investment, how to handle the parts of an application that do not fit neatly, and what this model unlocked for infrastructure-as-code workflows and new product capabilities.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T13:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ce932ee4-23d2-4ab0-bbc0-20f5adb365d1", "7dab462f-f052-4756-b322-bce05d817c50" ], "categoryItems": [ 465818, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82954, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1246166", "title": "The Race to Standardize AI Observability", "description": "GenAI is moving fast, and the fragmentation of AI observability is moving just as fast. Vendors, frameworks, and platforms all capture GenAI telemetry differently. Many advertise OpenTelemetry support, but that can mean anything from OTLP export to SDK integration to partial semantic convention compliance. Without consistency across all layers, telemetry is portable in theory but inconsistent and difficult to use in practice.\r\n\r\nThis talk demonstrates how OpenTelemetry is fighting that fragmentation. The session covers how GenAI semantic conventions and vendor-agnostic instrumentations are developed, how designs are validated, how conformance testing keeps the ecosystem honest, and how AI itself is utilized to accelerate the work without sacrificing rigor. The ultimate goal is to make GenAI telemetry portable, comparable, and useful across all tools.\r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with a clear understanding of what genuine OpenTelemetry support for GenAI actually entails.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T13:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T14:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "a016e3b4-3779-4b38-a40c-1ae086c404d4", "03d2ff9b-99c6-476f-af2b-ab4be046a644" ], "categoryItems": [ 465815, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82955, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1241974", "title": "Fixing GPU Time-Slicing on Kubernetes: Dynamic, Memory-Safe Sharing for AI Inference", "description": "Time-slicing is often the only viable way to share GPUs on commodity hardware or in cloud environments where MIG and MPS are unavailable. 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The solution lives at the intersection of inference-layer optimization and Kubernetes-native autoscaling.\r\n\r\nThis session walks through the architecture end to end: QLoRA fine-tuning with Unsloth, vLLM for inference and dynamic batching, speculative decoding for throughput gains at no additional GPU cost, and Karpenter, a CNCF project, for real-time GPU capacity right-sizing. \r\n\r\nAttendees leave with a practitioner blueprint for elastic, open-source LLM inference.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T14:40:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T15:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0238fae4-0686-4078-87ec-2856427f45ac" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465822 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82956, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1247294", "title": "Fencing Tokens and the Three-Party Contract: What Most Distributed Locks Get Wrong", "description": "Distributed coordination — locks, leader election, barriers — sounds solved. But “usually works” and “correct by design” are very different things.\r\n\r\nThis talk shares lessons from building distributed coordination primitives on etcd. A common failure mode: a process acquires a lock, gets paused by GC or a network partition, then resumes still believing it owns the resource. Without fencing, zombie clients can corrupt shared state.\r\n\r\nThe solution is a three-party contract: the lock service issues monotonically increasing fencing tokens, the client forwards them, and the resource rejects stale operations. Together they prevent zombie writes by design.\r\n\r\nWe then zoom out from locks to coordination as a broader discipline. An extensible provider model — etcd today, ZooKeeper and Redis later — lets one abstraction support different stacks.\r\n\r\nLive demos cover zombie scenarios over HTTP and gRPC. 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We will also talk about how interested parties (including storage and backup vendors, cloud providers, application developers, and end users, etc.) can join this WG and contribute to this effort. Details of the WG can be found here: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-data-protection.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T14:40:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T15:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "6e7affd2-8380-4fe1-9f99-7c0a997cdfd4" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497601 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87421, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289713", "title": "Open Policy Agent. (OPA) Intro & Deep Dive", "description": "Come to this session to learn about the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. OPA is a general-purpose policy engine that solves a number of policy-related use cases for Kubernetes, API Authorization, AI Tool Guardrails, infrastructure permissions, and more. During this session OPA maintainers will introduce the project for newcomers and then provide updates on noteworthy new features landing in OPA projects and the wider ecosystem. If you are interested in policy as code and security as it relates to cloud native technology, this session is for you. 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With the Operator now production-ready, deploying and managing Falco across Kubernetes clusters is simpler than ever, and the projects around it keep expanding what teams can do once an event leaves the engine.\r\n\r\nJoin the maintainers for a look at what has changed since we last met, an honest view of where the project stands today, and a preview of the directions we are most excited about for the releases ahead.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T14:40:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T15:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "84b5bdb1-b427-454a-bbae-1c7e0b8e950a", "6a085980-af6b-4b84-8543-87c461843349" ], "categoryItems": [ 496153, 497679 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 87424, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1339180", "title": "Peer Group Mentoring", "description": "Peer Group Mentoring allows participants to meet with experienced open source veterans across many CNCF projects. 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Managing 40-minute provisioning cycles with a single-server executor meant that infrastructure instability often resulted in stalled workloads and inconsistent states. This session provides a technical deep dive into our migration to Cadence. We’ll discuss the development of the Lease API for distributed locking and how we utilized an intermediary Async Executor to transition to Cadence’s workflow/activity model without a complete rewrite. \r\nThe scope of this talk is narrowed to the practical implementation of fault tolerance: how we refactored long-running tasks to be fault tolerant with the help of Cadence. We will present a real-world case study where a severe memory leak and subsequent node rescheduling - which would have previously caused service disruptions - resulted in zero downtime for user workloads. \r\n", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T15:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T16:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "b0e399cf-3c3d-4d6d-b2f2-d9f93bea24aa", "560c728b-bf45-4f55-aeea-f47ed1dd8f83" ], "categoryItems": [ 465818, 465819, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82949, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1250888", "title": "From Proxy to Platform: Building a Multi-Tenant AI Gateway", "description": "AI model gateways start simple: route requests to LLMs, centralize access, and log usage. The harder problem comes later - how does an organization turn single-team proxies into shared platform infrastructure without making model access slow, opaque, or developer-hostile.\r\n\r\nThis case study traces the evolution of LLM access from users sharing long-lived tokens to a multi-tenant gateway platform serving 20+ teams and users managing 200+ models. Each stage came from a real use case: virtual keys and team-scoped access for isolation, self-service onboarding and discovery for velocity, and legal approval workflows for governance. As adoption scaled, the gateway grew beyond highly available model routing into cost governance: budgets, savings attribution, and cost-optimization intelligence.\r\nAttendees will leave with a maturity model for AI gateways on Kubernetes: what belongs in the gateway, what belongs in platform automation, and which tradeoffs appear only after many teams depend on it.", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T15:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T16:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "b45571ab-c6cb-47e0-864e-4cd39fd8d63a", "d69dff10-6603-4520-afd0-fe9d5e7b4862" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465822, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82950, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1251069", "title": "From Vibe to Live: Building for the Real World", "description": "A dental cabinet manufacturer in Texas now runs their corporate website and systems on a globally distributed CDN, autoscaling serverless compute, and a managed NoSQL datastore. They have no engineers. They vibe-coded it.\r\n\r\nThis story is only possible because of fifteen years of cloud-native work. Managed platforms are opinionated wrappers around primitives the CNCF community made boring: container orchestration, serverless compute, federated identity, managed observability. Vibe coding is the cloud-native community's success story, even if most of its users will never know we exist.\r\n\r\nIn this talk, we will share what it took to get from prompt to production, what the cloud-native foundation gave us, and where it left edges that still required human judgment. What is \"production-ready\" when the platform team is an LLM and how should cloud-native builders think about the wave of AI-assisted, non-engineer-built apps now landing on our infrastructure?", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T15:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T16:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "e3f77f05-c692-44ef-8627-f3f22a9e3007", "ed6c17d6-edf0-413b-9618-5821b9fbe6a5" ], "categoryItems": [ 465818, 465820, 496398 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82951, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1245937", "title": "Simulate, Evolve, Validate, Ship: AI-Discovered Algorithms for LLM Serving Stacks", "description": "Improving LLM serving platforms like llm-d, a CNCF Sandbox project for Kubernetes-native distributed LLM inference, requires testing choices across routing, admission control, flow management, and scheduling. But GPU-cluster experiments take days and cost thousands of dollars, leaving promising strategies unexplored.\r\n\r\nWe present an AI-assisted evolution loop for inference serving: simulate, evolve, validate, ship. It uses a CPU-based simulator to evaluate serving policies against SLO-oriented objectives, searches over variants offline, validates candidates on real GPU clusters, and translates winners into production-ready llm-d code.\r\n\r\nWe ground this talk in three llm-d contributions: a probabilistic admission controller that reduced p90 TTFT by 97% under load, a flow-control mechanism, and a prefill-decode disaggregation strategy. Attendees learn to turn exploratory ideas into testable hypotheses, evaluate SLO behavior before spending GPU time, and apply this to any LLM serving stack", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T15:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T16:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "d02f6b57-3505-408f-98df-9aba1b5f2c71", "b3d06d73-eb50-4c01-a9bc-3201a2b32c2b" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465820 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82952, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1251009", "title": "Platform-First AI Agent Security: Zero-Trust Patterns for Kubernetes", "description": "Every platform team faces the same challenge: securely running AI agents that execute arbitrary code with shell access. Most teams use ad-hoc containers with overprivileged secrets—a security nightmare.\r\n\r\nThis talk presents a production-validated zero-trust architecture using kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox with gVisor/Kata runtime enforcement, KRO for declarative abstractions, and GitOps provisioning. Security is layered: kernel-level syscall interception prevents escape even with root access; credential proxies eliminate secret exposure; NetworkPolicy blocks metadata endpoints; warm pools deliver sub-second startup without weakening boundaries.\r\n\r\nPlatform teams learn to define KRO-based CRDs that abstract consumers from rapid AI framework changes—when the underlying agentic stack evolves, the platform interface remains stable. Attendees discover why treating AI agents as untrusted tenants—not trusted services—is the only scalable security pattern. 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Cilium is changing that by bringing native Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) support to manage hardware resources for Pods.\r\n\r\nThis talk unveils how we built two new DRA drivers for Cilium: an SR-IOV flavor as well as a new hardware queue leasing mechanism recently merged into the Linux kernel’s networking stack and the DRAgons we faced along the way. We’ll dive deep into how queue leasing proxies real physical NIC queues directly to virtual netdevs, how we integrated it into netkit, Cilium’s eBPF datapath, and the tradeoffs between the two flavors.\r\n\r\nThis architecture brings native io_uring TCP zero-copy into Pods for the first time, enabling high-speed memory-mapped networking. 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We'll separate the three identities teams conflate, user, agent, and workload, and show how familiar building blocks like OAuth 2.1, scopes, and short-lived credentials extend to non-human callers. We'll trace how identity travels across multi-step workflows, carrying the chain of \"who is acting on whose behalf\" through every hop.\r\n\r\nThen we'll look at the protocols agents use today (MCP, A2A) and the practical risks they bring: external model calls, replayed tokens, and unbounded automation. We'll touch on CNCF building blocks like SPIFFE/SPIRE and agentgateway, and the simple guardrails that prevent the most common failures.\r\n\r\nYou'll leave with a clear mental model and a checklist you can apply Monday morning.\r\n", "startsAt": "2026-11-12T15:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-11-12T16:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "78022095-450e-4b1b-a952-ea0840d456fc", "94997a47-44bb-4316-add8-4b91ee0fb94e" ], "categoryItems": [ 465809, 465820 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 82958, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1289734", "title": "SIG API Machinery in the Era of AI: Updates", "description": "We will cover the last 3 releases of Kubernetes in terms of features added to the Kubernetes Control Plane, and will have an exploration of the future at the light of AI / ML needs. 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