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Platform engineering¶

212 talks across 31 events, oldest first: 59 case studies where an organization reports its own experience, plus concept talks and tutorials.

Keywords: platform engineering, internal developer platform, backstage, developer experience, crossplane, self-service, golden path, multi-tenancy, multi-tenant (edit under categories: in wiki.yaml).

Over time¶

Year	Talks	Case studies
2016	1	0
2017	4	2
2018	7	2
2019	14	2
2020	13	2
2021	15	7
2022	20	4
2023	33	11
2024	32	8
2025	39	7
2026	34	14

Organizations with case studies¶

Adobe (3), Spotify (3), Salesforce (2), Lunar (2), Kolide, Fidelity Investments, Shopify, IBM, Grafana Labs, Skyscanner, Kognic, Amazon Web Services, Autodesk, Itaú Unibanco, Apple, Voiceflow, Decathlon, Norwegian public sector, OVO Energy, Cash App, Toyota, Uber, Beneva, Credit Karma, Hyundai, Netflix, ClickHouse, Cisco

Talks by event¶

2016 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 (Seattle)¶

concept · Weave Cortex: Horizontally Scalable, Multitenant Prometheus as a Service by Tom Wilkie, Weaveworks. Presents Cortex, a horizontally scalable multitenant Prometheus as a service.

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)¶

case study · Kubernetes in the Datacenter: Squarespace’s Journey Towards Self-Service Infrastructure
case study · Evolving and Supporting Stateful, Multi-Tenant Decisioning Applications in Production
concept · Building a Secure, Multi-Protocol and Multi-Tenant Cluster for Internet-Facing Services [A]
concept · Multi-Tenancy Support & Security Modeling with RBAC and Namespaces - Fred Vong & Michael Y. Chen

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)¶

concept · Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes: Best Practices Today, and Future Directions - David Oppenheimer
concept · Multi-Tenancy WG Deep Dive – David Oppenheimer, Google (Intermediate Skill Level)

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)¶

case study · Using a Kubernetes Operator to Manage Application Tenancy in a B2B SaaS App - Mike Arpaia, Kolide — Kolide. Kolide describes using a Kubernetes operator to manage per-customer tenancy in its B2B SaaS application.
case study · Towards Trading on Kubernetes: Operating Multi-Tenant and Se... - Andrew Kochut & Javier Diaz-Montes. Describes operating multi-tenant, secure Kubernetes for trading workloads.
concept · Observability is the Key Tenet of Running a Multi-Tenant K8s Environment - Thom McCann
concept · Fine-Grained Cost Allocation in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters - Yang Guan, Google
concept · Container Security & Multi-Tenancy Tales from Kata & Nabla - Ricardo Aravena & James Bottomley, IBM

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 (Shanghai)¶

concept · Multi-tenancy & Blockchain: Deploying Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes - Tong Li, IBM
concept · Manage Multi-tenant ML Workloads Using Istio - Wencheng Lu & Limin Wang, Google

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)¶

concept · Reenforce Kubernetes Image Isolation in Multi-Tenant Service - Eric Lin, Alibaba
panel · Panel Discussion: Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes: Current State and Future Roadmap

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)¶

case study · Fidelity’s Move to “Finance Grade” Kubernetes with... Alexis Richardson & Rajarajan Pudupatti SJ — Fidelity Investments. Fidelity describes moving to finance-grade Kubernetes operated with GitOps practices.
case study · Krane: A Developer-Centric Deploy Tool - Daniel Turner & Katrina Verey, Shopify — Shopify. Shopify presents Krane, the deploy tool it built to give developers a better Kubernetes deployment experience.
concept · Lightning Talk: What Makes a Good Multi-tenant Kubernetes Solution? - Victor Varza, Adobe. A lightning talk on the qualities a good multi-tenant Kubernetes solution should have.
concept · Containing the Container: Developer Experience vs Strict... Brian Bagdzinski & Sharat Nellutla
concept · Intro to the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-tenancy - Tasha Drew, VMware. Introduction to the Kubernetes Multi-tenancy Working Group and its goals.
concept · Kubeflow: Multi-Tenant, Self-Serve, Accelerated Platform for Practitioners- Kam Kasravi & Kunming Qu
concept · Deep Dive: Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-tenancy - Sanjeev Rampal & Adrian Ludwin
concept · Identity Bootstrapping in Multi-tenant Multi-cluster Kubernetes - Manish Mehta & Derek Suzuki
concept · Developer Experience on CD: Build a CD Platform to K8s that Develop... Euccas Chen & Tobi Ogunnaike
concept · OpenFaaS Cloud + Linkerd: A Secure, Multi-Tenant Serverless Platform - Charles Pretzer & Alex Ellis

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual ¶

concept · Managing Multi-Cluster/Multi-Tenant Kubernetes with GitOps - Chris Carty, Independent
concept · Multi-Tenant Clusters with Hierarchical Namespaces - Adrian Ludwin, Google
concept · Virtual Cluster - A Practical Kubernetes Hard Multi-tenancy Solution - Fei Guo, Alibaba. Alibaba presents Virtual Cluster, a design for hard multi-tenancy in Kubernetes.
concept · A Hard Multi-tenancy Solution: Use Case, Challenges and Work - Xiaoning Ding & Qian Chen, Futurewei
concept · Effective Kubernetes Onboarding - Kathleen Juell, DigitalOcean. Offers guidance on how to onboard newcomers to Kubernetes effectively.
concept · gRPC Easy - Richard Belleville, Google. Presents ways to make using gRPC easier.
concept · Mesh in a Mesh: A Model for Stronger Multi-tenancy of Kubernetes Wo... Nitish Malhotra & Akash Baid. Proposes a mesh-in-a-mesh model for stronger multi-tenancy of Kubernetes workloads.
concept · Deep Dive Into Building a Secure & Multi-tenant SaaS Solution with NATS - Wally Quevedo, Synadia

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual ¶

case study · The Cloud Native Journey at Adobe - Carlos Sanchez, Adobe — Adobe. Adobe recounts its own cloud native journey and the lessons learned adopting Kubernetes and related tooling.
case study · Managing Developer Workflows with the Kubernetes API - Colin Murphy, Adobe — Adobe. Adobe describes how it manages developer workflows using the Kubernetes API in its own platform.
concept · Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-Tenancy Project Overview - Tasha Drew. Overview of the Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy working group's projects.
concept · Contour, A High Performance Multitenant Ingress Controller for Kubernetes - Michael Michael. Explains how Contour provides a high-performance multitenant ingress controller for Kubernetes.
tutorial · Tutorial: Building an Enterprise Infrastructure Control Plane on Kubernetes - Daniel Mangum. Tutorial on building an enterprise infrastructure control plane on Kubernetes.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021 ¶

case study · Beyond Infra/Service Provision: The Crossplane Essentials and Adoption - Guang Ya Liu & Ying Mo, IBM — IBM
concept · Kubernetes Multi-Cluster and Multi-Tenancy With RBAC and KubeFed - Hongming Wan, QingCloud
concept · Crossplane: Compose Infrastructure and Services Into... Viktor Farcic & Aaron Eaton & Muvaffak Onuş

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 ¶

case study · Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes: How We Avoided Clusters Sprawl W... Dario Tranchitella & Maksim Fedotov
case study · Better Scalability & More Isolation? The Cortex “Shuffle Sharding” Story - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs — Grafana Labs. Grafana Labs tells how shuffle sharding in Cortex improved scalability and tenant isolation.
concept · Multi-tenancy vs. Multi-cluster: When Shou... Tasha Drew, Ryan Bezdicek, Adrian Ludwin, Jim Bugwadia
concept · Cortex: Multi-tenant Scalable Prometheus - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks & Jacob Tlisi, Grafana Labs
concept · Flux: Multi-tenancy Deep Dive - Philip Laine, Xenit

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 ¶

case study · Testing Kubernetes Clusters - Building Confidence in Your Changes - Guy Templeton & Matteo Ruina — Skyscanner. Skyscanner engineers describe how they test Kubernetes cluster changes to gain confidence before rolling them out.
case study · Shifting Spotify Engineering from Spreadsheets to Backstage - Johan Haals & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify — Spotify
case study · Scaling Kubeflow for Multi-tenancy at Spotify - Keshi Dai & Jonathan Jin, Spotify — Spotify
case study · How Salesforce built an extensible PaaS using CRDs saving devs 4200 hours - Mayank Kumar, Salesforce — Salesforce. Salesforce built an extensible PaaS on Kubernetes CRDs, saving developers 4200 hours.
concept · The Future of Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes - Tasha Drew, VMware; Adrian Ludwin, Fei Guo, Jim Bugwadia
concept · NATS-Sync: Secure, Multi-Tenant, Cross Cluster Message Routing - Brian Mason, NetApp
concept · Beyond Namespaces: Virtual Clusters are the Future of Multi-Tenancy - Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 ¶

case study · From Student to SRE That Loves CNCF in No Time - Jacob Valdemar Andreasen, Lunar — Lunar. A Lunar engineer describes going from student to an SRE using CNCF tooling.
concept · GitOpsify Everything: When Crossplane Meets Argo CD - Ying Mo & Ken Murray, IBM. Shows how Crossplane and Argo CD can be combined to GitOpsify all infrastructure and applications.
concept · Writing Crossplane Providers with Code Generation - Muvaffak Onuş & Hasan Türken, Upbound
concept · Crossplane Intro & Deep Dive - Compose Your Custom Cloud Platform
concept · Backstage: Restoring Order To Your Chaos - Dave Zolotusky, Spotify
concept · Learnings From Providing A Platform API With Kubernetes And Crossplane - Hannes Blut & Jan Willies
concept · No Docker, No YAML and a Polyglot Developer Experience on Top o... Thomas Vitale & Mauricio Salatino
concept · Building Digital Twins for DFDS With Crossplane and Kubernetes - Tobias Andersen & Matthias Luebken

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 ¶

case study · Multi-Tenancy For Argo Workflows And Argo CD At Adobe - Srinivas Malladi, Adobe — Adobe
case study · How We Revolutionized Developer Experience With 3.5 Platform Engineers - Jessica Andersson, Kognic — Kognic. Kognic shows how a 3.5-person platform engineering team transformed developer experience.
case study · Building Multi-Tenant Routing And Scaling With Envoy - Yiming Peng, Amazon Web Services, Inc. — Amazon Web Services. AWS describes building multi-tenant routing and scaling with Envoy.
concept · 73,000 Pods a Day, Lessons From Misadventures In Multi-Tenant - Shane Corbett & Wil Reed
concept · Backstage: Shaping the Future Of Developer Experience - Ben Lambert & Francesco Corti, Spotify
concept · Crossplane Intro And Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane... - Jared, Matthias & Nic, Bob
concept · Like Peas And Carrots: Argo CD And Crossplane For Infrastructure Manag... Jesse Suen & Viktor Farcic
concept · Secure Multi-Tenant GitOps Application & Infrastructure Rollouts...- Vikram Sethi & Manabu McCloskey
concept · Cloud Governance With Infrastructure As Code (IaC) With Kyverno And Crossplane - Dolis Sharma
concept · Multi-Tenancy: Tips, Tricks, Tools And Tests - Adrian Ludwin, Tasha Drew, Ryan Bezdicek, Fei Guo
concept · Content Addressable CRDs: Type Uniqueness Across Kubernetes Clusters - Daniel Mangum, Upbound. Proposes content-addressable CRDs to guarantee type uniqueness across clusters.
tutorial · Tutorial: Build Your Own Heroku With Cloud... - Muvaffak Onus, & Sidarta Oliveira, Grupo Boticário. A hands-on tutorial building a Heroku-like platform using Crossplane and cloud native tools.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023 ¶

case study · How will the trend towards platform engineering adoption reshape the developer... - Chris Yang
concept · Kubernetes Namespaces Unleashed: Unlocking the Full Potential of You... Victor Varza & Adrian Aneci. Explores how to get the most out of Kubernetes namespaces.
concept · Psychological Safety for Your Platform Engineering - Shinya Yanagihara, VMware. Discusses how psychological safety supports effective platform engineering teams.
concept · Large-Scale Financial-Grade Platform Engineering Practice in China... - Jiahang Xu & Qingguo Zeng
concept · Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Ying Mo, IBM

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 ¶

case study · How We Securely Scaled Multi-Tenancy with VCluster, Crossplane... Ilia Medvedev & Kostis Kapelonis
case study · Operate Multi-Tenancy Service Mesh with ArgoCD in Production - Lin Sun & Faseela K
case study · Building a Platform Engineering Fabric with the Kube API at Autodesk - Jesse Sanford & Greg Haynes — Autodesk
case study · Using DevSpace to Usher in an Era of Peace for Our Developers - Rajsimman Ravichandiran. Talk on using DevSpace to improve developer workflows on Kubernetes, based on title only, with no transcript available.
case study · How We Migrated Over 1000 Services to Backstage Using GitOps and Survived to... - Shmaram & Mansoor. The speakers describe migrating over 1000 services to Backstage using GitOps and the lessons learned.
case study · Show Me the Metrics: How a Huge Bank Does Observability with Multi-Tenancy... - Inacio & Costa — Itaú Unibanco. A large bank describes running multi-tenant metrics observability at scale for its own teams.
case study · Paved Paths Leading the Way to Compliance - Kasper Borg Nissen & Brian Nielsen, Lunar — Lunar. Lunar describes how paved paths helped it achieve compliance.
concept · Emissary-Ingress: Self-Service APIs and the Kubernetes Gateway API - Lance Austin & Flynn
concept · Let’s Go Backstage: IDP Security for Platform Engineers - Rotem Refael & Suzanne Daniels
concept · The State of Backstage in 2023 - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify
concept · Minikube from CLI to GUI ! - Medya Ghazizadeh, Google. Overview of Minikube's evolution from a CLI tool to a graphical interface.
concept · Cortex: How to Run a Rock Solid Multi-Tenant Prometheus - Friedrich Gonzalez, Adobe & Alan Protasio
concept · Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - the Cloud Native Control Plane... - Jared Watts & Christopher Haar. Intro and deep dive on Crossplane as a cloud native control plane for provisioning infrastructure.
concept · Bring Elastic and Resilient Multi-Tenancy to TiKV - Ping Yu & Shuning Chen, PingCAP
concept · Experience with “Hard Multi-Tenancy” in Kubernetes Using Kata Containers - Shuo Chen, Databricks

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023 ¶

case study · Self-service Stream Processing Platform on Kubernetes at Apple - Chenya Zhang, Apple Inc. — Apple. Apple describes its self-service stream processing platform on Kubernetes.
case study · Building, Scaling, and Growing Internal Developer Platfor... Joshua Bezaleel Abednego & Giri Kuncoro. Speakers describe building, scaling and growing their own internal developer platform.
case study · How We Optimized Our Developer Experience with Telepresence - Frank Gu, Voiceflow — Voiceflow
concept · Streamlining Infrastructure with Crossplane: A Transformation Story - Clément Blaise & Jared Watts
concept · Multi-Network, New Level of Cluster Multi-Tenancy - Maciej Skrocki, Google & Doug Smith, Red Hat
concept · Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - the Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Jared Watts & Nic Cope
concept · Emissary-Ingress: Self-Service APIs and the Kubernetes Gateway API - Hamzah Qudsi & Flynn
concept · Empowering Users Through Platform Engineering: Unleashing... Ana Margarita Medina & Adriana Villela. Discusses how platform engineering can empower users and improve developer experience.
concept · Simplifying Backstage - Breaking the Code Barrier - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify
concept · Automate Production-Ready Cluster Using Crossplane Compositions and Kyverno - Dolis Sharma, Nirmata
concept · Beyond the Cluster: Harnessing the Power of Kubernetes Namespaces - Victor Varza & Aneci Adrian. Explores how Kubernetes namespaces can be used beyond a single cluster for isolation and tenancy.
concept · Lightning Talk: Choose Your Own Abstraction: Iterating on Developer Experience - Rosemary Wang
concept · Lightning Talk: Generative AI for Platform Engineering - Jeremy Lewi, Sailplane AI. Lightning talk on applying generative AI to platform engineering.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China 2024 ¶

concept · Testing and Release Patterns for Crossplane | 跨平面的测试和发布模式 - Yury Tsarev & Steven Borrelli, Upbound

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 ¶

case study · Assessing Service Mesh's Net Worth: A Pragmatic Onboarding - Adrien Gillard, Decathlon — Decathlon. Decathlon assesses the value of a service mesh and describes its pragmatic onboarding approach.
case study · State of Platform Maturity in the Norwegian Public Sector - Hans Kristian Flaatten — Norwegian public sector. Reports on the state of platform maturity across the Norwegian public sector.
case study · How Crossplane is Accelerating Your Cloud Native Control Plane Journey | Project Lightning Talk
case study · Lightning Talk: How Did We Get Here? Why You Need Platform Engineering - Ettie Eyre, Ovo Energy — OVO Energy. OVO Energy's Ettie Eyre explains how their organization arrived at needing platform engineering and the lessons learned.
concept · Keeping Kubernetes Safe: The Lowdown on Locked Namespaces - Marco De Benedictis, ControlPlane. Explains how to lock down Kubernetes namespaces to isolate tenants and keep clusters safe.
concept · Why Kubernetes Is Inappropriate for Platforms, and How to Make It Better. Argues Kubernetes is a poor fit for platforms directly and suggests how to improve it.
concept · Keeping the Bricks Flowing: The LEGO Group's Approach to Platform Engineering for Manufacturing
concept · The State of Backstage in 2024 - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify
concept · Cultural Shifts: Fostering a Chaos First Mindset in Platform Engineering
concept · Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - the Cloud Native Control Plane Framework
concept · Backstage's new auth system - avoiding foot-guns and config overload | Project Lightning Talk
concept · SlimToolkit: Improving Developer Experience with Containers: Making it Easy to Understand, Optimi...
concept · Kubernetes-style APIs for SaaS-like Control Planes with kcp | Project Lightning Talk. Lightning talk on using kcp to provide Kubernetes-style APIs for SaaS-like control planes.
concept · Crossplane Observability &Traceability for Effective Multi-Cloud... - Katharina Sick & Viktor Farcic
concept · Cortex Intro: Multi-Tenant Scalable Prometheus - Ben Ye & Friedrich Gonzalez

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024 ¶

concept · Lightning Talk: Non-Intrusive Multi-Tenant Auth & Authz with Istio, OAuth2Pr... - Adarsh Kumar Singh

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City ¶

case study · Cash App's Journey Into a Multi-Cluster Ecosystem - Rachel Sheikh, Cash App — Cash App. Cash App shares its journey to a multi-cluster Kubernetes ecosystem.
case study · Shifting Gears: Leveraging CNCF Tools to Streamline Operations at Toyota C... B. Phillips, R. Heckel — Toyota. Toyota describes how it used CNCF tools to streamline its own operations.
case study · Share the Ride: Robust Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes at Uber - Sashank Appireddy & Apoorva Jindal — Uber
case study · This Platform Goes to 11: Boost Developer Productivity with Lessons from Salesforce - Joe Kutner — Salesforce. Salesforce shares lessons from its internal platform for boosting developer productivity.
concept · Cortex Intro: Multi-Tenant Scalable Prometheus - Charlie Le, Apple & Daniel Blando, Amazon
concept · Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso
concept · Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane Fram... J. Watts, M. Anderson-Trocme. Introduction and deep dive into Crossplane as a cloud native control plane framework.
concept · Crossplane: The Many Layers of Crossplane - A Lightning Tour | Project Lightning Talk. Lightning tour of the layered architecture and components of Crossplane.
concept · Micro-Segmentation and Multi-Tenancy: The Brown M&Ms of Platform Engine... J. Bugwadia, R. Wonnacott
concept · Kubernetes Workspaces: Enhancing Multi-Tenancy with Intelligent Apiserver... J. Munnelly, A. Tosatto
panel · Creating Paved Paths for Platform Engineers - Panel. Panel discussing how to create paved paths for platform engineers.
panel · End User TAB Town Hall - Moderated by Taylor Dolezal. Town hall discussion with the CNCF End User TAB.
panel · Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Oh My! What Is the TAG App Delivery Doing to Su... Panel. A panel on what the TAG App Delivery group is doing to support applications, platforms and infrastructure.
panel · The State of Cloud Native Business Value in 2024 - Panel. Panel discussing the state of cloud native business value in 2024.
panel · Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel - Panel

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 (Hong Kong)¶

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London ¶

case study · How We Solved TLS at Scale: Self-Service, Multi-Tenant Cert-manager - Erik Godding Boye & Tim Ramlot
case study · Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cl... Cat Morris & Jake Klein. Shares lessons learned building a multi-cluster platform framework.
concept · Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Jared Watts & Nic Cope. Intro and deep dive into Crossplane as a framework for building cloud native control planes.
concept · Platform Engineering Loves Security: Shift Down To Your Platform... Maxime Coquerel & Mathieu Benoit
concept · The State of Backstage in 2025
concept · Dapr + Score: Mixing the Perfect Cocktail for an Enhanced Develope... Mathieu Benoit & Kendall Roden. Shows how combining Dapr and Score improves the developer experience for building and deploying applications.
concept · The Explorer's Guide To Cloud Native GenAI Platform Engineering - Max Körbächer & Alexa Griffith. A guide to the landscape and building blocks of cloud native GenAI platform engineering.
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Capsule: Launching Multi-Tenancy to New Kubernetes Hor... Dario Tranchitella. A project lightning talk on Capsule and its new directions for Kubernetes multi-tenancy.
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Expanding Crossplane’s Reach - Providers, Bridges, and Exten... Ariel Septon. Lightning talk on expanding Crossplane's reach through providers, bridges and extensions.
concept · Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects (Redux) - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso
tutorial · Tutorial: Exploring Multi-Tenant Kubernetes APIs and Controllers With Kcp
tutorial · From 0 To Production-Grade With Kubernetes Native Development - Thomas Vitale & Kevin Dubois. Walks through taking an application from zero to production-grade using Kubernetes-native development practices.
tutorial · Tutorial: Build, Operate, and Use a Multi-Tenant AI Cluster Base... C. Misale, O. Tardieu & D. Grove. Hands-on tutorial on building, operating and using a multi-tenant AI cluster.
panel · Starting and Scaling a Platform Engineering Team - Camille Fournier & Ian Nowland. Two engineering leaders discuss how to start and scale a platform engineering team.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 ¶

concept · Introducing Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud. Introduces KRO for defining and orchestrating groups of Kubernetes resources as single APIs.
concept · Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments wi... Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy
concept · To Succeed in Platform Engineering, Build Infrastructure Knowledge Graphs - Safeer C M, MoEngage

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025 (Tokyo)¶

concept · Platform Engineering Day 2: Why Service Iterations Are the Crux of Developer Platfor... Puja Abbassi

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 ¶

case study · Harmonizing Strategy and Engineering: Lessons Learnt in Buildin... S. Chandrasekaran & K. Klymkovska. Speakers share lessons learned from aligning strategy and engineering while building a platform.
case study · The Journey of Deploying Backstage in a Large Organization - Mathieu Girard & Teddy Poingt, Beneva — Beneva
case study · Unlocking Financial Progress: Credit Karma's AI Assista... Raj Kiran Gupta Katakam & Sukanya Moorthy — Credit Karma. Credit Karma describes building and running its AI assistant for financial guidance on its cloud native platform.
case study · Adopting a Fleet-first Mindset - Andy Beane, Spotify — Spotify. Spotify explains how adopting a fleet-first mindset and its Fleetshift platform enabled fleet-wide changes at scale.
case study · Models as Microservices, Platforms as Partners: Collaboratively Building ML Inf... Stephanie Pavlick. Describes how a platform team and ML teams collaborate to build ML inference, treating models as microservices.
concept · Mapping the Next Phase: Updating the Cloud Native Ma... Danielle Cook, Simon Forster & Robert Glenn. Updates the Cloud Native Maturity Model to reflect the next phase of adoption.
concept · Backstage Celebrations: Stable Foundations and MCP Innovations - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg
concept · GitOps and the Manifest Dilemma: Helm, Kustomize, Crossplane, Kro, and Beyond - Dag Bjerre Andersen
concept · Ulysses’ Odyssey Through Platform Engineering - William Rizzo, Mirantis
concept · How Comcast Leverages Radius in Their Internal Developer Platform - Nick Beenham & Jonathan Smith
concept · Composable Platforms in the Wild: Patterns That Work (and Fail) - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso. Daniel Bryant of Syntasso describes patterns that work and fail when building composable internal platforms.
concept · Component Contributor Architecture: Democratizing Platform... Anoop Gopalakrishnan & Jerome Guionnet. Describes a component contributor architecture that lets many teams contribute to a shared platform.
concept · Making Platform Engineering Accessible: From Newcomer To Power... Luke Philips & Julia Furst Morgado. Explains how newcomers can approach platform engineering and grow into advanced practitioners.
concept · Crossplane - The Cloud Native Framework for Platform Engineering - Jared Watts & Nic Cope, Upbound
concept · Platform Engineering in Action: Test-Driven Development App... Charles-Edouard Brétéché & Sara Qasmi
concept · Platform Engineering: Day Zero, The Origin Story - Murriel McCabe, Google
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Catch Up With Crossplane v2 - Scott Rosenberg, Contributor
tutorial · Tutorial: Build Your Internal Developer Platform With the Experts: A Hands-On... Multiple Speakers

2026 · Keynotes - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 ¶

case study · Out of the Box, at Multi-Region Scale: How Hyundai Scales Its Platform - Jaewoo Choi, Hyundai — Hyundai. Hyundai describes how it scales its platform across multiple regions.
concept · Building a Multi-Tenant AI Platform with the CNCF Ecosystem - Aya Igarashi, Preferred Networks, Inc.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 ¶

case study · What We Learned Securing AI Agents at Scale on Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters - Pengfei Ni
case study · 8 Million Tasks Daily: Driving Efficiency in Multi-Tenant Data... JIanxiang Sun & Shuangkun Tian. Reports on running 8 million tasks daily in a multi-tenant data platform and the efficiency gains achieved.
concept · Evolving Argo Workflows for AI: New Features, Tuning, and Multi-Tenant... Shuangkun Tian & Yashi Su

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 ¶

case study · Project Lightning Talk: What Can Crossplane Actually Do? A Real World Fiel... Jonasz Łasut-Balcerzak
case study · Is the Agent in the Room with Us Right Now? - Nick Rutigliano & Andrew Halaney, Netflix — Netflix. Netflix engineers share their own experience with AI agents operating in their environment and the challenges of knowing what agents are doing.
case study · Scaling Platform Engineering: Lessons From Europe’s Larges... Cat M, Stéphane C, Anna K & Gayathri T. Practitioners from one of Europe's largest organizations share lessons from scaling platform engineering.
case study · How To Break Multi-Tenancy Again and Again ...and What We Can Learn F... Lorin Lehawany & Sven Nobis
case study · Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI (G/H2... Luca Berton
case study · When Multitenancy Goes Wrong: A Deep Dive Into Kcp’s First CVE - Marvin Beckers, ClickHouse — ClickHouse. ClickHouse's maintainer walks through kcp's first CVE, a multitenancy failure, and its lessons.
concept · Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Platform Engineering - About Tools... Max Körbächer
concept · Project Lightning Talk: kcp: Scaling The Kubernetes Control Plane For The Multi-Clust... Jan Willies. Lightning talk introducing kcp, a horizontally scalable lightweight Kubernetes-style control plane that gives isolated API experiences without full clusters.
concept · Project Lightning Talk: Namespace Multi-Tenancy, But All The Problems Related To It - Hristo Hristov. A lightning talk on the problems with relying on namespaces alone for multi-tenancy.
concept · The Shared Service Blueprint: A Guide to Multi-Tenancy, Illustrated With KEDA - Aya Igarashi
concept · Kill the Ticket Queue: A CNCF Blueprint for Self-Service Platfor... Bhavani Indukuri & Aparna Prabhu
concept · AI Agents & Platform Engineering: Efficiency Boost... Hasith K, Vincent C, Sara Q, Idit L & Carlos S
concept · Three Shades of Isolation: A Multi-tenancy Fortress - Braulio Dumba & Paolo Dettori, IBM. IBM presents three levels of isolation for building multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.
concept · Platform Engineering 2.0: Just-Enough Kubernetes and AI-Native DevOps - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com
concept · The State of Backstage in 2026 - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify
concept · The Next Chapter of Developer Experience: TAG De... Julien S, Graziano C, Mona B, Kevin D & Daniel O
concept · Choose Your Own Adventure: AI Meets Internal Developer Platform - Whitney Lee & Viktor Farcic
concept · Crossplane - The Cloud Native Framework for Platform Engineering - Jared Watts & Adam Wolfe Gordon
panel · Amplifying End User Voices: Platform Architects on the... Rajas K, Zach S, Kevin K, Elias T & Dawn C. Platform architects discuss their experiences and amplify end user voices in the cloud native community.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 ¶

case study · Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents - Shuva Jyoti Kar, Cisco Systems — Cisco. Cisco describes building a self-service platform for running stateful AI agents.
case study · From API Events To Production in Minutes: Backstage as the Front Door... Aditya Soni & Atul Bhardwaj
case study · Kubernetes Ate the Budget: How We Made Cost a Platform Responsibi... Bhavani Indukuri & Aman Chandna. Speakers explain how they made cost a platform responsibility after Kubernetes costs got out of hand.
concept · K8s Complexity Tamed: One Interface To Rule Them All With CNCF Incubat... Jerrin Francis & Gowtham S. Presents a single interface, built on a CNCF incubating project, for taming Kubernetes complexity.
concept · Scaling the Developer Frontier: The TAG DevEx Roadmap for 2026 - Daniel Oh & Kevin Dubois, IBM. Presents the TAG DevEx roadmap for 2026 and its plans for improving developer experience.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 ¶

case study · Shared Yet Isolated at Scale: Building Multi-Tenant Inference Platform on… Y. Hiraki & Y. Tanaka
case study · From 165 Days To 30 Minutes: Breaking Enterprise Silos With… A. Nishijima & M. Okamura & K. Yamamoto. Japanese enterprise team reports cutting delivery lead time from 165 days to 30 minutes by breaking down silos.
concept · Turning Platform Engineering Work Into Business Value Leadership Understands - D. Cook & S. Forster
concept · Evolving Platform Primitives: Beautiful Platforms With Kro - Jakob Möller & Adam Crowder. Shows how kro lets teams build evolving platform primitives and platforms.
concept · The Evolution of GitOps in Platform Engineering - Artem Lajko, iits