Case studies

Every talk where an organization reports its own experience, by event, oldest first. Use wiki find "topic" to narrow this down to one topic.

2016 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 (Seattle)

• Case Study: Kubernetes at Comcast by David Arbuckle, Comcast VIPER — Comcast
• How Box Runs Containers in Production with Kubernetes by Sam Ghods, Box — Box
• 2000 Nodes and Beyond: How We Scaled Kubernetes to 60,000-Container Clusters
• Migration of NCSOFT Game Servers to Kubernetes by Kang Jeongsik
• Migrating Configuration to Kubernetes with Container-Transform by Micah Hausler, Skuid
• Evolving Dev and Ops with Kubernetes: Enterprise Adoption for Security, Speed, and Ease
• Managing a Multi-Tenanted Kubernetes Cluster in Production by Josh Bowen, Apigee
• Delivering Services at DigitalOcean by Mac Browning, DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Managing Production Systems with Kubernetes. A practitioner account of the good, bad and ugly of running production systems on Kubernetes.
• Migrating Legacy Infrastructure to Kubernetes: Olark’s Lessons From the Trenches

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017 (Berlin)

• Scale Kubernetes to Support 50,000 Services [I] - Haibin Xie & Quinton Hoole — Huawei. Huawei describes scaling Kubernetes to support 50,000 services and the changes required.
• Case Study Conrad Electronic – From a Static Infrastructure to Continuous Delivery and the Cloud
• Load Testing Kubernetes: How to Optimize Your Cluster Resource Allocation in Production [I]
• Cisco's Devnet Goes Cloud Native: A Case Study on Transforming to Cloud Native [I] - Matt Johnson
• How We Run Kubernetes in Kubernetes, aka Kubeception [I] - Timo Derstappen, Giant Swarm — Giant Swarm
• Switching From External Load Balancing to consul & ingress [I] - Dan Wilson, Concur — Concur
• How We Built a Chargeback System for Twitter’s Compute Platform (Mesos/Aurora) — Twitter. Twitter describes how it built a chargeback system for its Mesos/Aurora compute platform.
• Tales from Lastminute.com Machine Room: Our Journey Towards a Full On-Premise Kubernetes
• Scaling Organizations Using Kubernetes [I] - Richard Fliam, Comcast VIPER — Comcast. Comcast VIPER shares lessons and mistakes from scaling its engineering organization and microservices with Kubernetes.
• Kubernetes from Dev to Prod at GoEuro [I] - Subhas Dandapani, GoEuro — GoEuro
• A Staging Environment Per Pull Request: Building Our Own Controller! [B] - Kamal Marhubi, Heap — Heap. Heap built its own Kubernetes controller to give every pull request its own staging environment.
• When Failure is Not an Option: Processing Real Money at Monzo with Kubernetes and Linkerd [I] — Monzo
• Kubernetes at DigitalOcean: Building a Platform for the Future [B] - Joonas Bergius, DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean
• How Google Cloud Hosts and Manages Kubernetes at Scale [I] - David Aronchick, Google — Google
• From Heroku to Cloud Native in 7 Weeks [B] - Ivan Pedrazas, Soho House — Soho House
• Managing Lifecycle of Microservices at Scale [I] - Micheal Benedict, Pinterest — Pinterest
• Lessons Learned From Maintaining Continuous Delivery While Migrating From a Static Infrastructure
• Kubernetes Scheduling Features or How Can I Make the System Do What I Want? [I] - Marek Grabowski

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)

• Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes at Box [I] - Greg Lyons, Box — Box
• The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of Migrating Hundreds of Legacy Applications to Kubernetes
• Would You Like Some Tracing With Your Monitoring? - Yuri Shkuro, Uber Technologies — Uber. Uber explains how it combines distributed tracing with monitoring, drawing on its experience building Jaeger.
• Establishing Container Trust at Scale [I] - Tim Mackey, Black Duck Software — Black Duck Software
• How We Built a Framework at Twitter to Solve Service Ownership & Improve Infrastructure Utilization — Twitter
• The Mechanics of Deploying Envoy at Lyft - Matt Klein, Lyft — Lyft
• Bottoms-Up Adoption of a Microservices Workflow Using Kubernetes & Envoy - Rafael Schloming
• Pinterest's Journey from VMs to Containers [I] - Michael Benedict, Pinterest — Pinterest
• DevOps Friendly Doc Publishing for APIs & Microservices - Amanda Whaley, Cisco DevNet — Cisco DevNet. Cisco DevNet describes its DevOps-friendly approach to publishing API and microservice documentation.
• Continuous Integration at Scale on Kubernetes [B] - Karthik Gajjala, eBay — eBay
• Next Generation Services at Indeed Using gRPC [I] - Jaye Pitzeruse, Indeed.com — Indeed, Indeed.com
• Scaling to 5000+ Unique K8s Deployments, How We Did It [I] - Nicole Hubbard, WP Engine — WP Engine
• Load Testing Kubernetes: How to Optimize Your Cluster Resource Allocation in Production. Shows how load testing Kubernetes can be used to tune cluster resource allocation in production.
• kubeadm Cluster Creation Internals: From Self-Hosting to Upgradability and HA [A] - Lucas Käldström
• Using Custom Resources to Provide Cloud Native API Management - Frank B Greco Jr — Northwestern Mutual. Northwestern Mutual presents Kanali, its open source Kubernetes-native API gateway built on custom resources, with a demo of how it manages APIs.
• Extending Kubernetes: Our Journey & Roadmap [I] - Daniel Smith & Eric Tune, Google — Google
• Preventing Attacks at Scale [I] - Dino Dai Zovi, Capsule8 — Capsule8
• Moving from Mesos to Kubernetes Without Anyone Noticing [I] - Anubhav Mishra, Hootsuite — Hootsuite
• Kubernetes in the Datacenter: Squarespace’s Journey Towards Self-Service Infrastructure
• Persistent Storage with Kubernetes in Production - Which Solution and Why? [I] - Cheryl Hung
• Evolving and Supporting Stateful, Multi-Tenant Decisioning Applications in Production
• From Monolith to Microservices with Kubernetes and Linkerd - Mason Jones, Credit Karma — Credit Karma
• Cost-effective Compute Clusters with Spot and Pre-emptible Instances - Bich Le & Arun Sriraman. Speakers share how they ran cost-effective Kubernetes compute clusters on spot and pre-emptible instances.
• One Chart to Rule Them All: Continuous Deployment with Helm at Ticketmaster - Michael Goodness — Ticketmaster
• From Screen to Pods: Bootstrapping a Cloud Agnostic System using Kubernetes [I] - Patrick McQuighan. Speaker describes bootstrapping a cloud agnostic system on Kubernetes from scratch.
• ''Hot Dogs or Not" - At Scale with Kubernetes [I] - Vish Kannan & David Aronchick, Google — Google
• eBay Geo-Distributed Database on Kubernetes [A] - Chengyuan Li & Xinglang Wang, eBay — eBay. eBay describes running a geo-distributed database on Kubernetes.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)

• Kube-Liveboard: Make Your Cluster Visible - Xinkun Xu, JD.COM — JD.COM. JD.COM presents Kube-Liveboard, a tool it built to make its Kubernetes clusters visible.
• Canary Deployment With Prometheus - Andrey Markelov, Infobip — Infobip. Infobip shows how it runs canary deployments using Prometheus metrics.
• Kubernetes CI/CD Practices at Meetup - Rui Chen, Meetup — Meetup. Meetup describes how it built and runs its Kubernetes-based CI/CD practices for its own services.
• From Enterprise Image Registry to Chart Repository - Tan Jiang, VMware — VMware
• Migrating Enterprise Microservices From Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes – T. Erwin & J. Schweikhart
• When Distributed Database Meets Cloud - Lessons Learned - Yanqing Weng, Pivotal — Pivotal. Pivotal shares lessons learned from running a distributed database in the cloud.
• Kubeflow From the End User’s Perspective: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Xin Zhang
• Experiences From Running Istio in a K8s Production Environment - Line Moseng & Johnny Horvi. Speakers share their experiences running Istio in a Kubernetes production environment.
• From Containerized Application to Secure and Scaling W/ Kubernetes - Shikha Srivastava & Erica Brown
• Kubernetes on Supporting 1 Million Bike-Taxi Drivers in Indonesia - Giri Kuncoro & Iqbal Farabi — Gojek. Gojek describes running Kubernetes to support one million bike-taxi drivers in Indonesia.
• From Mesos to Kubernetes - Yin Sun, Xiaomi Inc. — Xiaomi Inc.
• PetroChina: Big Oil’s Information System on Cloud Native Technology – Hui Chi & Kai Chen — PetroChina. PetroChina describes building its information system on cloud native technology.
• Running Vitess on Kubernetes at Massive Scale: JD.com Case Study - Jiten Vaidya & Xin Lv — Massive
• Istio in Production: Real Customers, Real Solutions - Craig Box, Google — Google
• Cluster API Deep Dive With a Tencent Case Study - Feng Min, Google & Zhiguo Hong, Tencent — Google, Tencent
• Compliance as Code - Lessons Learned From Regulated Organizations - Sergiu Bodiu, Standard Chartered — Standard Chartered
• How HP Uses Istio to Manage Network Traffic - Xi He & Zhoujian Zhang, HP — HP
• Evolving Sigma: Adapting Kubernetes at Alibaba - Xiang Li, Alibaba — Alibaba

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)

• Continuously Deliver your Kubernetes Infrastructure - Mikkel Larsen, Zalando SE — Zalando. Zalando explains how it continuously delivers updates to its Kubernetes infrastructure.
• The Journey of Adidas to a Global Kubernetes Rollout - Daniel Eichten & Oliver Thylmann
• Introducing Envoy-Based Service Mesh at Booking.com - Ivan Kruglov, Booking.com — Booking.com
• Evolving Systems Design: From Unreliable rpc to Resilience with Linkerd - Edward Wilde, Form3 — Form3. Form3 describes how its systems design evolved from unreliable RPC to resilience using Linkerd.
• How We Built Contour, and What You Can Learn From Our Experience - Dave Cheney, Heptio — Heptio. Heptio's Dave Cheney shares the experience and lessons from building the Contour ingress controller.
• Global Container Networks on Kubernetes at DigitalOcean - Andrew Sy Kim, DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean
• How We Used Jaeger and Prometheus to Deliver Lightning-Fast User Queries - Bryan Boreham
• Lightning Talk: What I Wish I’d Known about Fluentd with Kubernetes - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks — Weaveworks
• Case study: How Containers Makes Security and Compliance Instantly Easier - John Morello
• Achieving High Security at Scale with Microservices - Zachary Arnold & Austin Adams — Zachary Arnold & Austin Adams' employer. Speakers describe how they achieved high security across a large microservices deployment in their own organization.
• Building cert-manager: Migrating Thousands of Users from kube-lego to use CRDs - James Munnelly
• Building Applications to Increase Kubernetes Adoption, and Make Life Easier - Kate Kuchin, Heptio — Heptio
• From PaaS to Kubernetes: Combining the Power of Kubernetes with the Most Innovative Features
• Istio - The Weather Company's Journey - Nick Nellis & Fabio Oliveira, IBM (Any Skill Level) — The Weather Company, IBM. The Weather Company (IBM) shares its journey adopting Istio service mesh in production.
• From Kubelet to Istio: Kubernetes Network Security Demystified - Andrew Martin, ControlPlane — ControlPlane
• Building a Kubernetes on Bare-Metal Cluster - Alexandros Kosiaris & Guiseppe Lavagetto — Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia describes building a Kubernetes cluster on bare metal.
• Feeding Realworld Data into Prometheus Microservice Apps on Kubernetes - Burkhard Noltensmeier. Shows how real-world data was fed into Prometheus for monitoring microservice applications running on Kubernetes.
• Federated Prometheus Monitoring at Scale - Nandhakumar Venkatachalam & LungChih Tung
• Serving ML Models at Scale with Seldon and Kubeflow - Clive Cox, Seldon.io — Seldon.io
• Container Isolation at Scale (Introducing gVisor) - Dawn Chen & Zhengyu He, Google — Google
• Kubernetes and Taxes: Lessons Learned at the Norwegian Tax Administration - Bjarte S. Karlsen
• How we Orchestrate 7M+ Builds/Month with Kubernetes - Danielle Tomlinson
• You Ever Wonder Why We're Here? - Sarah Christoff, Cloudreach (Beginner Skill Level) — Cloudreach (Beginner Skill Level)
• From Data Centers to Cloud Native - Dave Zolotusky & James Wen, Spotify — Spotify

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)

• Lightning Talk: Optimizing Kubernetes Networking at Datadog - Laurent Bernaille, Datadog — Datadog
• Lightning Talk: Cloud TPU? Don’t Mind If I Do - Nathan Murthy, Tesla — Tesla. Tesla's lightning talk on using Google Cloud TPUs for its own ML workloads.
• Hardening Kubernetes Setups: War Stories from the Trenches of Production - Puja Abbassi, Giant Swarm — Giant Swarm
• Migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes Broke Our Brains - Jonathan Hess & Loren Trout, SAP — SAP. SAP recounts the difficulties and lessons from migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes.
• Kubernetes and The GitOps Face-Off - Ricardo Aravena & Javeria Khan, Branch Metrics — Branch Metrics. Branch Metrics compares GitOps approaches on Kubernetes based on its own experience.
• Don’t Forget the Data When Embarking on Your Journey to Service Meshes - Shriram Rajagopalan, VMware — VMware
• Behind Your PR: How Kubernetes Uses Kubernetes - Sen Lu & Benjamin Elder — Kubernetes
• How Symlinks Pwned Kubernetes (And How We Fixed It) - Michelle Au, Google & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat — Google, Red Hat
• Clusters All the Way Down: Crazy Multi-cluster Topologies - Matt Caulfield, Oort — Oort. Oort walks through unusual multi-cluster topologies it has run, including clusters nested within clusters.
• 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.
• From Zero to Production with Kubernetes - Daniel Lopez Ridruejo & Gus Lees, Bitnami — Bitnami
• Do it Live: Measuring your Applications in Production - Jason Keene, Pivotal — Pivotal
• Adopting Prometheus the Hard Way - Tim Simmons, DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean
• Abstracting Heavy Lifting: How K8s Speeds Up Multi-Cloud Solution Delivery - Rob Zuber, CircleCI — CircleCI. CircleCI describes how Kubernetes abstractions sped up its multi-cloud solution delivery.
• Evolving Legacy Systems into Kubernetes at Lyft: A Hybrid Environment - Lita Cho & Jose Nino, Lyft — Lyft
• Automating Research Workflows at BlackRock - Matthew Magaldi & Vaibhav Page, BlackRock — BlackRock
• Towards Trading on Kubernetes: Operating Multi-Tenant and Se... - Andrew Kochut & Javier Diaz-Montes. Describes operating multi-tenant, secure Kubernetes for trading workloads.
• How Atlassian Built Our Own Kube Clusters and Why You Shouldn’t Do the Same - Nick Young, Atlassian — Atlassian Built, Atlassian
• Kafka on Kubernetes - From Evaluation to Production at Intuit - Shrinand Javadekar, Intuit — Intuit. Intuit describes taking Kafka on Kubernetes from evaluation to production.
• How We Survived Our First PCI/HIPAA Compliant Check with Kubernetes - Travis Jeppson, Nav — Nav. Nav shares how it passed its first PCI/HIPAA compliance check while running on Kubernetes.
• Instrumenting and Scaling Cloud-Native Databases with Envoy - Daniel Hochman, Lyft — Lyft. Lyft shows how it uses Envoy to instrument and scale its cloud-native databases.
• How T-Mobile Built and Scaled Kubernetes On-Prem for the 2018 Retail Season - James Webb, T-Mobile — T-Mobile. T-Mobile describes building and scaling its own on-prem Kubernetes platform to handle the 2018 retail season.
• Migrating Internet Archive to Kubernetes - Tracey Jaquith & David Van Duzer, Internet Archive — Internet Archive
• The Telco Networking Journey to Cloud Native: The Good, Bad, and Ugly - Heather Kirksey
• T-Mobile Store Locator Serverless Journey with Knative and Kubernetes - Ram Gopinathan, T-Mobile — T-Mobile
• Vitess at HubSpot: How We Moved Hundreds of MySQL Databases into... - Tom Petr & Alex Charis — HubSpot
• Automated Kubernetes Scalability Testing - Sebastian Jug & Naga Ravi Chaitanya Elluri, Red Hat — Red Hat. Red Hat engineers present how they automated Kubernetes scalability testing in their own testing process.
• Managing Addons with Operators (Or How We Dropped Untested... - Jeff Johnson & Justin Santa Barbara
• Shopify’s $25k Bug Report, and the Cluster Takeover That Didn’t... - Greg Castle & Shane Lawrence — Shopify. Shopify recounts a $25k bug report that could have led to a cluster takeover and how it was found and fixed.
• Our Journey to Service 5 Million Messaging Connections on Kubernetes - Dylan O'Mahony & Dave Doyle
• Enterprise Machine Learning on K8s: Lessons Learned and the Road... - Timothy Chen & Tristan Zajonc
• Kubernetes at Reddit: An Origin Story - Greg Taylor, Reddit, Inc — Reddit, Reddit, Inc

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 (Shanghai)

• Lightning Talk: How We Use Istio and OPA for Authorization - Lin Tao, HP — HP
• Lightning Talk: 7 Tips for Tricks to Enjoy Your Kubernetes Journey - Daniele Polencic, Learnk8s Ltd — Learnk8s Ltd
• Adapt to Unified and Pluggable Cluster Management Platform at LinkedIn - Tengfei Mu & Abin Shahab — LinkedIn
• Two Years with Vitess: How JD.com Runs the World's Largest Vitess - Xuhaihua & Jin Ke Xie , JD.com — JD.com
• No More Chaos: Audit and Inspect Kubernetes at Scale - 陈杰, 阿里云 & 马金晶, 蚂蚁金服（杭州）网络技术有限公司 — Alibaba Cloud, Ant Financial. Alibaba Cloud and Ant Financial present how they audit and inspect Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Real World Architecture - Building a Global Cross-Cloud Monitoring... Dominic Green & Yifan Zhao
• From Secure Container to Secure Service - Xu Wang & Fupan Li, Ant Financial — Ant Financial
• Some Lessons We Learned from Moving E-business Giant to Cloud Native - Lei Zhang & Siyu Wang
• Service Governance in Production-ready Containerized Cloud Foundry... - Gong Zhang & Xuexiang Cui
• Storage Version Migrator: Never Worry About Stale API Objects Again - Chao Xu, Google — Google
• Open Source Networking Technology in Inspur Cloud - Yanjun Li, Inspur — Inspur. Inspur describes using open source networking technology in its own cloud.
• How I Teach my Second Grade Kid what AI is and How this Relates to BI that Impact... Cupid Chan
• How Baidu Adopt InnerSource - Tan Zhongyi, Baidu — Baidu
• Alibaba Digital Driven Open Source Community Exploration - Frank Zhao, Alibaba — Alibaba. Alibaba describes how it explores and runs its open source community using a data-driven approach.
• Lessons Learned from Cultivating Open Source Projects and Communities - JJ Asghar, IBM — IBM
• EROFS, an Introduction and our Smartphone Practice - Xiang Gao, Huawei — Huawei. Huawei introduces the EROFS filesystem and reports its use on its smartphones.
• How Linux Took Over the World of Finance - Christoph H Lameter, Jump Trading LLC — Jump Trading. Jump Trading explains how Linux came to dominate its finance and trading infrastructure.
• Performing Infrastructure Migrations at Scale - Melanie Cebula, Airbnb — Airbnb
• CITIC Bank's Containerized Exploration Road - Jia Xing, Alauda — CITIC Bank. CITIC Bank's journey adopting containers and Kubernetes, presented with Alauda.
• Java Developer’s Journey in Kubernetes - Arun Gupta, Amazon Web Services — Amazon Web Services
• Dynamic Pod Resource Boundary Adjustment in Web Scale Clusters - Cheng Wang & Xiaoyu Zhang, Alibaba — Alibaba. Alibaba describes dynamically adjusting pod resource boundaries in its web-scale clusters.
• Use Cases and Lessons Learned From Kata Container Deployment in Production - Cheng Li & Jian Huang

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)

• Lightning Talk: Cloud Native Wales: How We Contributed to the Community... - Lewis Denham-Parry — Cloud Native Wales. Cloud Native Wales describes how its community contributed and grew locally.
• Lightning Talk: Oh Sh*t! The Config Changed! - Joel Speed, Pusher — Pusher. Pusher shares lessons from handling unexpected configuration changes.
• Lightning Talk: Kubernetes Jobs and the Sidecar Problem - James Wen, Spotify — Spotify. Spotify explains the problem of sidecars preventing Kubernetes Jobs from completing and how it dealt with it.
• Kubernetes Failure Stories and How to Crash Your Clusters - Henning Jacobs, Zalando SE — Zalando. Zalando shares real Kubernetes production failures and what it learned from them.
• From Snowflake Servers to Snowflake Clusters - The GitOps Journey - Allison Richardet
• JustFootball’s Journey to gRPC + Linkerd in Production - Ben Lambert, & Kevin Lingerfelt
• Service Meshes: At What Cost? - Lee Calcote, Layer5 & Girish Ranganathan, SolarWinds — What, Layer5, SolarWinds
• Grow with Less Pains - Meshing From Monolith to Microservices - Leo LIang
• How We Used Kubernetes to Host a Capture the Flag (CTF) - Ariel Zelivansky & Liron Levin, Twistlock — Twistlock
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: From Cloud Native to Dark Energy - Fabrice Jammes
• Securing Cloud Native Communication, From End User to Service - Daniel Bryant & Nic Jackson
• GPU Machine Learning From Laptop to Cloud - Mark Puddick, Pivotal — Pivotal
• Migrating South East Asia's Biggest Payments Company to Kubernetes - Akashdeep Singh
• Koping with Change: What kops Learned Adopting etcd3, cluster-api and CRDs - Justin Santa Barbara
• Going from 5s to 5ms: Benefits of a Node-Local DNSCache - Pavithra Ramesh & Blake Barnett
• The Story of Why We Migrate to gRPC and How We Go About It - Matthias Grüter, Spotify — Spotify
• From New Cluster to Insight. Deploying Monitoring and Logging to Kubernetes - Eddie Zaneski
• M3 and Prometheus, Monitoring at Planet Scale for Everyone - Rob Skillington, Uber — Planet, Uber
• The Spotify Story: Moving from NIH to an Active CNCF Community Member - Jim Haughwout, Spotify — Spotify
• Accelerating the Journey of an AI Algorithm to Production with OpenFaaS - Joost Noppen & Alex Ellis
• 5 Simple Steps To Simplifying Your Compliance Journey With a Service Mesh – Granville Schmidt
• How Does Google Release Kubernetes in GKE - Kobi Magnezi & Josh Hoak, Google — Google. Google explains how it qualifies and releases Kubernetes versions in GKE.
• Istio on Knative Lessons Learned: How Istio is Fit for Serverless Platform - Ying Chun Guo
• Ouch! What I Learned From Being Hit by a Serverless, Ruby Boomerang! - Ewan Slater, Oracle — Oracle
• Uber x Security: Why and How We Built Our Workload Identity Platform - Tyler Julian & Daniel Feldman
• Democratizing MySQL: From Cloud Managed to Kubernetes Managed - Sachin Manpathak
• Scaling Edge Operations at Onefootball with Ambassador: From 0 to 6000 rps - Jonathan Juares Beber — Onefootball. Onefootball scaled its edge operations with Ambassador from zero to 6000 requests per second.
• Running Kubernetes on Ephemeral Infrastructure - Greg DeArment & Vlad Ungureanu — Greg DeArment & Vlad Ungureanu's company. Speakers share their experience running Kubernetes on ephemeral infrastructure in production.
• Oops!...I Did It Again — I Reinvented gRPC - Austin Lamon & Dave Zolotusky, Spotify — Spotify. Spotify recounts how its in-house RPC approach ended up reinventing gRPC and what it learned.
• Lessons Learned Migrating Kubernetes from Docker to containerd Runtime - Ana Calin, Paybase — Paybase
• Scaling and Securing Spark on Kubernetes at Bloomberg - Ilan Filonenko, Bloomberg — Bloomberg
• Moving People and Products with Machine Learning on Kubeflow - Jeremy Lewi, Google & Willem Pienaar — Google, Gojek. Google and Gojek (Willem Pienaar's team) show how they use Kubeflow to run machine learning for moving people and products.
• Kubernetes Networking at Scale - Laurent Bernaille, Datadog & Bowei Du, Google — Datadog, Google
• Peribolos: How Kubernetes Uses GitOps to Manage GitHub Communities at Scale - Christoph Blecker — Kubernetes
• Laying the Foundation: Real World Kubernetes Deployment Patterns - Josh Rosso & Craig Tracey, VMware — VMware
• Managing Machine Learning in Production with Kubeflow and DevOps - David Aronchick, Microsoft — Microsoft
• Production GPU Cluster with K8s for AI and DL Workloads - Madhukar Korupolu, NVIDIA — NVIDIA. NVIDIA describes running production GPU clusters on Kubernetes for AI and deep learning workloads.

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

• Lightning Talk: How the Observability Team at Spotify Radically Decreased... Lauren Muhlhauser — Spotify. Spotify's observability team describes how it radically decreased observability costs or usage.
• Kubernetes at Cruise: Two Years of Multitenancy - Karl Isenberg, Cruise — Cruise
• From Issue to PR Merged: A Fluentd “Tail” - Jordan Hamel, Amgen — Amgen
• Living with the Pathology of the Cloud: How AWS Runs Lots of Clusters - Micah Hausler, Amazon — AWS, Amazon
• Measuring and Optimizing Kubeflow Clusters at Lyft - Konstantin Gizdarski & Richard Liu — Lyft
• Running Istio and Kubernetes On-prem at Yahoo Scale - Suresh Visvanathan & Mrunmayi Dhume, Verizon — Yahoo, Verizon
• Scaling Resilient Systems: A Journey into Slack's Database Service - Rafael Chacon & Guido Iaquinti
• Towards Continuous Computer Vision Model Improvement with Kubeflow - Derek Hao Hu & Yanjia Li. Describes using Kubeflow to build a continuous improvement pipeline for computer vision models.
• Building a Database as a Service on Kubernetes - Abhi Vaidyanatha & Lucy Burns, PlanetScale — PlanetScale. PlanetScale describes building its database as a service on Kubernetes.
• Only Slightly Bent: Uber’s Kubernetes Migration Journey for Microservices - Yunpeng Liu, Uber — Uber. Uber describes its migration of microservices to Kubernetes and the lessons learned.
• A Peek Inside the Enterprise Cloud at Salesforce - Xiao Zhou & Thomas Hargrove, Salesforce — Salesforce
• Managing Helm Deployments with Gitops at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN — CERN
• How to Migrate a MySQL Database to Vitess - Sugu Sougoumarane & Morgan Tocker
• Kubernetes Policy Enforcement Using OPA At Goldman Sachs - Miguel Uzcategui & Tim Hinrichs — Goldman
• Kubernetizing Big Data and ML Workloads at Uber - Mayank Bansal & Min Cai, Uber — Uber
• Kubernetes at Reddit: Tales from Production - Greg Taylor, Reddit, Inc — Reddit, Reddit, Inc
• Envoy on Fire: A Practical Look at Debugging a Service Mesh - Lita Cho & Ryan Cox, Lyft — Lyft. Lyft shares how it debugs Envoy and its service mesh in production.
• A Toolkit for Simulating Kubernetes Scheduling at Scale - Yuan Chen, JD.com — JD.com
• Case Study: AI-as-a-Service on Kubernetes at Scale and In Production - Itay Gabbay
• Building and Managing a Centralized Kubeflow Platform at Spotify - Keshi Dai & Ryan Clough, Spotify — Spotify
• 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.
• The Elephant in the Kubernetes Room: Team Interactions at Scale - Manuel Pais, Independent — Independent
• How Yelp Moved Security From the App to the Mesh with Envoy and OPA - Daniel Popescu & Ben Plotnick — Yelp
• Gone in 60 Minutes: Migrating 20 TB from AKS to GKE in an Hour with Vitess - Derek Perkins, Nozzle — Nozzle
• Improving Performance of Deep Learning Workloads With Volcano - Ti Zhou, Baidu Inc — Baidu. Baidu shows how Volcano improved performance of its deep learning workloads.
• Serverless Platform for Large Scale Mini-Apps: From Knative to Production - Yitao Dong & Ke Wang
• Moving from Legacy Infrastructure to the Cloud in a Government Organization - Chris Carty
• Running Large-Scale Stateful Workloads On Kubernetes at Lyft - Surinder Singh & Anmol Khurana, Lyft — Lyft
• Balancing Power and Pain: Moving a Startup From a PaaS to Kubernetes - David Sudia & Toni Rib
• From Brownfield to Greenfield: Istio Service Mesh Journey at Fred... Shriram Rajagopalan & Lixun Qi — Fred...
• There's a Bug in My Service Mesh! What Do You Do When the Mesh is At Fault? - Ana Calin & Risha Mars — Fault
• Sharing is Caring: How to Begin Speaking at Conferences - Jenny Burcio & Ashlynn Polini, Docker — Conferences, Docker
• Cruise’s Self-Driving Networking Journey - Bernard Van De Walle & Jon Yucel, Cruise — Cruise
• NHD - A Topology-Aware Scheduler for K8s for Low-Latency & HPC Applications - Cliff Burdick, ViaSat — ViaSat. ViaSat describes NHD, its topology-aware Kubernetes scheduler for low-latency and HPC workloads.
• 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.
• The Great Cardinality Disasters of Our Time - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks & Chris Marchbanks, Splunk — Weaveworks, Splunk. Weaveworks and Splunk engineers recount real Prometheus high-cardinality disasters and lessons learned.
• How Spotify Migrated Ingress HTTP Systems to Envoy - Erica Manno & Vladimir Shakhov, Spotify — Spotify

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual

• 34 Truths We Learned About Kubernetes and Edge - Saiyam Pathak, Walmart Labs & Karthik Gaekwad — Walmart Labs. Walmart Labs shares 34 lessons from running Kubernetes at the edge.
• From Minikube to Production, Never Miss a Step in Getting Your K... Horacio Gonzalez & Kevin Georges
• Autoscaling at Scale: How We Manage Capacity @ Zalando - Mikkel Larsen, Zalando SE — Zalando SE
• Observability at Scale: Running OpenTelemetry Across an Enterprise - Jonah Back & Kranti Vikram
• Running K3s, Lightweight Kubernetes, in Production for the Edge & Beyond - Darren Shepherd, Rancher — Rancher
• Scaling Prometheus: How We Got Some Thanos Into Cortex - Thor Hansen, HashiCorp & Marco Pracucci — HashiCorp
• Banking on Kubernetes, the Hard Way, in Production - Miles Bryant & Suhail Patel, Monzo Bank — Monzo Bank
• From Alert Notification to Comparison of Good and Bad Requests in One Click - Shreyas Srivatsan
• Open Source Adulthood: What We Learned About Growing Up - Jean-Philippe Evrard & Kendall Nelson
• Migrating to OpenTelemetry From a Custom Distributed Tracing Pipeline - Francis Bogsanyi, Shopify — Shopify. Shopify describes migrating from a custom distributed tracing pipeline to OpenTelemetry.
• Managing Applications in Production: Helm vs ytt & kapp - Dmitriy Kalinin & Shatarupa Nandi, Pivotal — Pivotal
• KubeVirt Intro – Using KubeVirt to Run VMs at Scale - Fabian Deutsch & Marcus Sorensen
• Help! Please Rescue Not-ready Nodes Immediately - Xiaoyu Zhang, Alibaba & Di Xu, Ant Financial — Alibaba, Ant Financial. Alibaba and Ant Financial share how they detect and rescue not-ready nodes in their clusters.
• Going Containerless with WebAssembly - Kevin Hoffman, Capital One — Capital One. Capital One describes its exploration of running workloads with WebAssembly instead of containers.
• Still Writing SQL Migrations? You Could Use A (Schema)Hero. - Marc Campbell, Replicated — Replicated
• Speed Racer: Local Persistent Volumes in Production - Matt Schallert, Chronosphere — Chronosphere. Chronosphere shares its experience running local persistent volumes in production for performance.
• When the Tekton Cat Misbehaves – Pitfalls, Mistakes, and Lessons Learned - Mark Nuttall, IBM — IBM
• Lesson Learned on Running Hadoop on Kubernetes - Chen Qiang, LinkedIn — LinkedIn
• Monitoring GPUs at Scale for AI/ML and HPC Clusters - Bharti L Agrawal, NVIDIA — NVIDIA
• Vitess Intro: How to Migrate a MySQL Database to Vitess - Sugu Sougoumarane & Morgan Tocker
• Stateless Fluentd with Kafka - Steven McDonald, Usabilla — Usabilla. Usabilla describes running a stateless Fluentd logging pipeline with Kafka.
• Why We Are Choosing Cloud Native Buildpacks at GitLab - Abubakar Siddiq, GitLab — GitLab
• Booting 5 K8s Clusters on Every Git Push: How Linkerd Leveled Up Its CI - Andrew Seigner, Buoyant — Buoyant. Buoyant explains how Linkerd's CI now boots five Kubernetes clusters on every git push.
• SpoK - Running Big Data Applications @ Scale on K8s - Srivathsan Canchi & Nagaraj Janardhana, Intuit — Intuit. Intuit describes running big data Spark applications at scale on Kubernetes with its SpoK platform.
• Operating Enterprise Grade Kubernetes Clusters at Salesforce on Bare... Anubhav Dhoot & Mayank Kumar — Salesforce. Salesforce shares its architecture and four and a half years of war stories operating enterprise Kubernetes on bare metal.
• How We Migrated Our Monolith to K8s and Became a High Performin... Mauricio Salatino & Tracy Miranda
• Migrating Transactions Worth Billions of $ to Service Mesh With N... Mahendra Kariya & Shishir Joshi
• A Journey Through Kubernetes Admission Controller Taxanomy - Morgan Bauer & Srinivas Brahmaroutu
• Live Migration of Production Workloads from Apache Mesos PaaS to Ku... Maria Camacho & Gufran Lutful
• Escaping the Jungle - Migration to Cloud Native CI/CD - Anton Weiss, Otomato Software — Otomato Software
• Controllers at Chaos - Kesavan Subramanian & Gaurav Gupta, SAP — Chaos, SAP
• Multi-cluster Made Reasonable: Envoy Service Mesh Control Plane - Ashley Kasim & Paul Fisher, Lyft — Lyft. Lyft describes the Envoy-based control plane it built to run its service mesh across multiple clusters.
• Where's My Container? Visualizing the GitOps Container Journey at Mi... Andre Briggs & Samiya Akhtar — Mi...

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual

• Kubernetes IoT Edge Working Group: Using Event Driven Architecture at Edge - Steven Wong, VMware — Edge, VMware
• Building a Global Supercomputer with Virtual Kubelet - Dmitry Mishin & Adrien Trouillaud — Admiralty. Describes building a global supercomputer across clusters using Virtual Kubelet.
• A Future Journey: How to Migrate 100 Clusters Between Clouds Without Downtime? - Tobias Schneck
• 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.
• Building, Managing and Automating Clusters at Scale With Prow - Michael Splain, Sonos, Inc. — Sonos, Inc.
• Analyzing Operational Data at Scale Using ML at Intuit - Amit Kalamkar & Vigith Maurice, Intuit — Intuit
• Observability Brings Clarity in 5G World - Yamini Sridaran & Praveen George, Affirmed Networks — Affirmed Networks. Affirmed Networks describes how it applies observability to run its 5G network workloads.
• MLOps at Snapchat: Continuous Machine Learning with Kubeflow & Spinnaker - Kevin Dela Rosa, Snap Inc — Snapchat, Snap Inc
• How H-E-B Curbside Adopted Linkerd During a Pandemic - Justin Turner & Garrett Griffin, H-E-B — H-E-B
• CNCF End User Tech Radar, November 2020 - Cheryl Hung, Jackie Fong, Mya Pitzeruse, Smaïne Kahlouch — Jackie Fong, Mya Pitzeruse, Smaïne Kahlouch
• Cloud Native Machine Learning Systems at Day Two and Beyond - Sophie Watson & William Benton — Day
• Kubernetes CronJobs - Does Anyone Actually Use This [in Production]? - Kevin Yang, Lyft — Lyft
• App Testing at Scale: How Bitnami Tests Thousands of Releases Per Month - Juan Jose Martos Castro
• 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.
• Machine Learning on Kubernetes at Shell: A Kubeflow Journey - Alex Iankoulski & Vangelis Koukis — Shell
• 10 More Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes - Jian Cheung & Joseph Kim, Airbnb — Airbnb. Airbnb shares weird failure modes and outages it hit running Kubernetes in production and the lessons learned.
• The Building Blocks of DX: K8s Evolution From CLI to GitOps - Katie Gamanji
• High Performance Networking for Distributed DL Training in Production K8s - Nivedita Viswanath
• Codename VIFL - How to Migrate MySQL Database Clusters to Vitess - Guido Iaquinti & Rafael Chacon
• Case Study: Integrating Azure IPv6 PrivateLink with Kubernetes - Meixing Le & Michael Wiederhold
• An SLO-Driven Approach to Enhance Kubernetes Cluster Reliability - Qian Ding & Cong Chen. Speakers describe an SLO-driven approach to improving the reliability of their Kubernetes clusters.
• Improved TiKV Observability: How We Trace Events under Nanoseconds Latency- Wish Shi & Zhenchi Zhong — PingCAP. PingCAP engineers describe how they improved TiKV observability to trace events at nanosecond latency.
• Sponsored Lightning Talk: Why You Need Observability to Adopt Kubernetes at Scale - Shreyans Parekh

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021

• Online Video upgrades resilience from SC Circuit Breaker to Service Mesh - Xu Shiyu & Zhang Chaomeng
• How We Discover and Locate k8s Cluster Problems Before Users at Alibaba - Peng Nanguang, Alibaba — Alibaba
• How To Migrate Kubernetes Cluster With Zero Downtime - Jing Gu & Yaoyao Xie, Alibaba — Alibaba
• How to Efficiently Manage Tens of Thousands of etcd Clusters? - Cong Tang & Chaofan Wang, Tencent — Tencent. Tencent describes how it manages tens of thousands of etcd clusters in production.
• Envoy Mesh Acceleration: From Iptables to Fully BPF - Xiyao Zhang & Xu Liu, Tencent — Tencent
• DGL Operator: Distributed Graph Neural Network Training with DGL and K8s - Xiaoyu Zhai, Qihoo 360 — Qihoo 360. Qihoo 360 presents a DGL Operator for distributed graph neural network training on Kubernetes.
• Creating a Unified Network Plane across Kubernetes with Kube-OVN - Cheng Chen, PingCAP — PingCAP. PingCAP shows how it created a unified network plane across Kubernetes clusters using Kube-OVN.
• Beyond Infra/Service Provision: The Crossplane Essentials and Adoption - Guang Ya Liu & Ying Mo, IBM — IBM
• Best Practice: DNS Failure Observability and Diagnosis in Kubernetes - Yuning Xie, Alibaba — Alibaba. Alibaba shares its best practices for observing and diagnosing DNS failures in its Kubernetes clusters.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021

• How Cloud Native Tech Helped Peloton Ride to Exponential Growth - Jim Haughwout, VP, Peloton — Peloton. Peloton explains how cloud native technology helped it scale through exponential growth.
• How Deutsche Telekom Technik Built Das Schiff for Sailing the Cloud Native Seas - Vuk Gojnic — Deutsche Telekom
• CNCF End User Partner Summit - Hosted by Cheryl Hung and Katie Gamanji
• Ghosts in the Runtime: Who Ate My Capabilities & Other Mysteries- Laurent Bernaille & Eric Mountain, — Datadog. Datadog engineers walk through debugging a mystery where container processes lost Linux capabilities in their production clusters.
• Traces from Events: A New Way to Visualise Kubernetes Activities - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks — Weaveworks
• How We are Dealing with Metrics at Scale on GitLab.com - Andrew Newdigate, GitLab — GitLab. GitLab explains how it handles metrics at scale on GitLab.com.
• CERN's 1500 Drupal Websites on Kubernetes: Sa... Konstantinos Samaras-Tsakiris & Rajula Vineet Reddy — CERN. CERN describes running its 1500 Drupal websites on Kubernetes and the lessons from doing so.
• Event Processing at Optum, the Cloud Events Way - Janani Pathangi & Murugappan Chetty, Optum — Optum
• How DoD Uses K8s & Flux to Achieve Compliance & Deployment Consistency - M. Medellin & G. Tillman — DoD
• From Zero to Hero: Outcomes from Cloud-Native El Salvador Comm... Raul Flamenco & Mauricio Quevedo
• Sidecars at Netflix: From Basic Injection to First Class Ci... Rodrigo Campos Catelin & Manas Alekar — Netflix
• Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes: How We Avoided Clusters Sprawl W... Dario Tranchitella & Maksim Fedotov
• Resource Requests and Limits Under the Hood: The Journey of a Pod Spec - Kohei Ota & Kaslin Fields
• Running Cache-Efficient Builds at Scale on Kubernetes with BuildKit - Gautier Delorme, Apple Inc. — Apple Inc.
• Building a Community: How Cortex Went from a Vendor Project to a Community - Goutham Veeramachaneni
• What Do You Mean K8s Doesn't Have Users? How Do I Manage User Access Then? - Jussi Nummelin — Do
• Compliance Beyond Security: a Cloud Native GDPR Implementation Experience - Johan Tordsson — Elastisys. Elastisys shares its experience implementing GDPR compliance on a cloud native platform.
• Kubernetes on Windows - A Journey - Jerry Lozano, RX-M LLC — RX-M LLC
• From Tweet to BadIdea: Creating an Embeddable Kubernetes Style API Server - Jason DeTiberus
• 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.
• Lessons Learned from Operating ETCD - Pierre Zemb, OVHcloud — OVHcloud
• Operationalizing Kubernetes Sidecars in Production at Salesforce - Mayank Kumar, Salesforce — Salesforce. Salesforce shares how it operates Kubernetes sidecars in production and the lessons learned.
• Lessons Learned Deploying Traditional Web Applications on Top of Kubernetes - Marcos Bjoerkelund
• High Throughput with Low Resource Usage: A Logging Journey - Eduardo Silva, Calyptia — Calyptia

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021

• 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.
• Implementation Challenges: From HPC to Containers in the Academy - Lukáš Hejtmánek & V Spišaková
• Building a Successful Open Source Community as an End-user Company - Henrik Blixt & Kareena Hirani
• How We Built a Cloud On K3s: The Learnings Of Growing Up Fast - Alex Jones & Anaïs Urlichs, Civo — Civo
• Improving Dev Experience: How We Built a Cloud Native Dev St... Srinidhi S & Venkatesan Vaidyanathan
• How We Reduced Write Latency in TiKV? - Liqi Geng, PingCAP — PingCAP. PingCAP explains how it reduced write latency in its own TiKV storage engine.
• Homebrewing a Kubernetes Bootcamp: From College to K8s Support Engineer - Alice Wasko
• Cloud Native Global Load Balancer for Kubernetes - Yury Tsarev & Zak Anderson, Absa Group — Absa Group. Absa Group presents its cloud native global load balancer for Kubernetes, k8gb, and its use in multi-cluster setups.
• What We Learned from Reading 100+ Kubernetes Post-Mortems - Noaa Barki & Shimon Tolts, Datree — Datree
• Container Checkpoint/Restore at Scale for Fast Pod Startup Time - Ritesh Naik, MathWorks — MathWorks
• Case Study : Improving Resilience of Applications in Telco Environme... Uma Mukkara & Samar Sidharth
• Shifting Spotify Engineering from Spreadsheets to Backstage - Johan Haals & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify — Spotify
• What You Need to Know Before Using Local Persistent Volumes - Sebastien Guilloux, Elastic — Elastic. Elastic shares what it learned using local persistent volumes in Kubernetes.
• Scaling Kubeflow for Multi-tenancy at Spotify - Keshi Dai & Jonathan Jin, Spotify — Spotify
• Migrating to Service Mesh at Scale to Support Billions of $ Transactions - Imre Nagi & Giri Kuncoro
• Serving Machine Learning Models at Scale Using KServing - Animesh Singh, IBM — IBM
• From Storming to Performing: Growing Your Project's Contributor Experience- Matt Butcher & Karen Chu
• Building a Multi Cluster/Env Service Mesh at Airbnb - Weibo He & Stephen Chan, Airbnb — Airbnb. Airbnb describes how it built its multi-cluster, multi-environment service mesh.
• Sigstore: How We Started, Where We Are, Where We are Headed - Bob Callaway & Dan Lorenc
• What Kind of CPU is it Anyways? Airbnb's Journey to Heterogeneous... - David Morrison & Evan Sheng
• Cloud Provider Extraction: What We’ve Done, Where We Are and What's Left- W Fender, S Wong, N Turner
• Large-Scale Practice of Persistent Memory in Alibaba Cloud - Junbao Kan & Qingcan Wang, Alibaba — Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud reports on its large-scale production use of persistent memory with Kubernetes.
• Deploying Unikernels in Production with Kubernetes - Alex Jung, Lancaster University — Lancaster University
• Context Aware Traffic Routing for Stateful Services using Envoy - Renana Yacobi & Piaw Na, Niantic — Niantic. Niantic describes using Envoy for context-aware traffic routing of its stateful services.
• Migrating GitLab.com to Kubernetes: How Multiple Clusters Saved Cost - John Skarbek, Gitlab — Multiple Clusters, Gitlab
• Everything Wrong with K8s Authentication and How We Worked Around It - Mo Khan & Margo Crawford
• AuthN and AuthZ at Cruise: Crawl, Walk, Run - James Barclay & Roman Porter, Cruise — Cruise
• From Network Engineer to K8s Developer: Lessons Learned via Telepresence - Peter ONeill, Ambassador — Ambassador
• 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.

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

• Threat Hunting at Scale: Auditing Thousands of Clusters With Falco + F... Furkan Türkal & Emin Aktaş
• From Cloud Naive to Cloud Native – Avoiding Mistakes Everyone Does - Max Körbächer, Liquid Reply — Liquid Reply
• Making Sense of Chaos: Implementing Chaos Engineering in a Fintech... Iqbal Farabi & Giovanni Sakti. Speakers describe implementing chaos engineering at a fintech company and what they learned.
• Observing Fastly’s Network at Scale Thanks to K8s and the Stri... Fernando Crespo & Daniel Caballero
• From Monitoring to Observability: Left Shift your SLOs with Chaos - Michael Friedrich, GitLab — GitLab
• 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.
• Kubernetes Everywhere: Lessons Learned From Going Multi-Cloud - Niko Smeds, Grafana Labs — Grafana Labs
• Lightning Talk: What I’ve Learned by Running Local CNCF Chapter Cloud-native Islamabad - Saim Safdar
• Transparent Live Migration of Services Between Kubernetes Cluster - Adam Janikowski & Jörg Schad
• Case Study: Bringing Chaos Engineering to the Cloud Native Develo... Uma Mukkara & Ramiro Berrelleza
• How to Migrate 700 Kubernetes Clusters to Cluster API with Zero D... Tobias Giese & Sean Schneeweiss
• Service Mesh at Scale: How Xbox Cloud Gaming Secures 22k Pods with Linkerd - Christopher Voss
• Kubernetes as a Substrate for ATLAS Compute - Fernando Barreiro Megino & Lukas Heinrich — ATLAS, CERN. ATLAS experiment at CERN describes using Kubernetes as a substrate for its compute workloads.
• Understanding Kubernetes Through Real-World Phenomena and Analogies - Lucas Käldström
• From docker push to Bytes on Disk: Inside Distribution - Wayne Warren & Adam Wolfe Gordon
• Choosing Cloud Native Technologies for the Journey to Multi-cloud - Adelina Simion, Form3 — Form3
• Fun with Continuous Compliance - Ann Wallace, Shopify & Zeal Somani, Google — Shopify. Shopify, with Google, shares how it approaches continuous compliance for its Kubernetes infrastructure.
• KubeEdge: From Fixed Location to Movable Edge, Latest Updates and... Kevin Wang (Zefeng) & Yin Ding
• From Kubernetes to PaaS to … Err, What’s Next? - Daniel Bryant, Ambassador Labs — Ambassador Labs
• Accelerating High-Performance Machine Learning at Scale i... Alejandro Saucedo & Elena Neroslavskaya
• Scaling Open Source ML: How Wolt Uses K8s To Deliver Great Food to Mill... Stephen Batifol & Ed Shee — Wolt. Wolt explains how it uses Kubernetes and open source tools to scale ML for food delivery.
• Automated Progressive Delivery Using GitOps and Service Mesh - Yasen Simeonov & Henrik Blixt, Intuit — Intuit. Intuit shows how it automates progressive delivery with GitOps and a service mesh.
• Real World SPIFFE Scenarios and Outcomes - Andres Vega & Frederick Kautz, SPIFFE Steering Committee — SPIFFE Steering Committee

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

• Multi-Tenancy For Argo Workflows And Argo CD At Adobe - Srinivas Malladi, Adobe — Adobe
• Migrating From PodSecurityPolicy - Tim Allclair & Sam Stoelinga, Google — Google
• How Adobe Planned For Scale With Argo CD, Cluster API, And VCluster - Joseph Sandoval & Dan Garfield — Adobe
• Migrating From Single-Node Kubernetes Control Plane To HA In Product... Cong Yue & David Oppenheimer — Google. Describes migrating a single-node Kubernetes control plane to HA in production.
• DoorDash’s Journey From StatsD To Prometheus With 10 Million Metrics/Second - Emma Wang & Ben Raskin
• 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.
• 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.
• Building Container Images In Kubernetes: It’s Been a Journey! - Laurent Bernaille & Eric Mountain — Datadog. Datadog engineers describe their journey building container images inside Kubernetes and lessons learned.
• What's Going ARM: Adopting ARM64 At Airbnb - Melanie Cebula, Airbnb — Airbnb
• Customer Centric Observability: How Intuit Reduced Time To Detect... - Vinit Samel & Nagaraja Tantry — Intuit
• Multi-Cluster Stateful Set Migration: A Solution To Upgrade Pain - Peter Schuurman & Matt Schallert
• How We Make TiKV- a Distributed Storage, More Cost-Effective On the Cloud - Sunny Bains & Yang Zhang
• Lessons Learned From Etcd the Data Inconsistency Issues - Marek Siarkowicz & Benjamin Wang
• How Intuit Manages Cloud Resources Via GitOps - Jerome Kuptz & Ameen Radwan, Intuit — Intuit
• What We Learned From the Gateway API: Designing Linkerd’s New Policy CRD - Matei David, Buoyant, Inc — Buoyant, Inc
• KubeEdge: From Fixed Location To Movable Edge, Latest Updat...Zefeng (Kevin) Wang, Huawei & Yin Ding
• How the Argo Project Transitioned From Security Aware To Security First - Henrik & Michael Crenshaw
• FinKube – Making the Business Case For Kubernetes At Your Company - Somik Behera, CloudNatix — Your, CloudNatix
• Tamland: How GitLab.Com Uses Long-Term Monitoring Data For Capacity Forecasting. - Andrew Newdigate — GitLab. GitLab shows how Tamland uses long-term monitoring data to forecast capacity for GitLab.com.
• Energizing the Manufacturing Industry With Kubernetes And Cloud Native - Marcel Wagner, Intel — Intel. Intel describes applying Kubernetes and cloud native technologies in its manufacturing industry work.
• From Pre-Population To Disasters: Manage And Protect the State Of VMs - Michael Henriksen, Red Hat — Red Hat
• SIGs Aren’t Silos: A Case Study Into Solving Inter-Domain... Swetha Repakula & Antonio Ojea Garcia
• From Security Testing To Deployment In a Single PR - Sarah Khalife, GitHub & Grant Griffiths — GitHub
• Lightning Talk: A Puzzling Solution. How To Be Better At Accepting Others Experienc... Duffie Cooley — Accepting

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023

• From Zero to Infinity: How AI-Powered Hedge Fund Build Cloud-Native AI Platfo... Yang Che & Zhiyi Li
• KubeVirt v1.0: What It Means from an End-User Perspective - Howard Zhang, ARM — ARM
• When FinOps Meets Cloud Native – How We Reduce Cloud Cost with Cloud... - Qiming Hu & Jesse Meng
• Accelerating AI Application: NAVER's Journey from Model to Application - Eric Liu, BentoML — BentoML
• How We Scale up to 2k Nodes for Batch Jobs Using Cluster Autoscaler - Lei Qian, ByteDance — ByteDance
• How will the trend towards platform engineering adoption reshape the developer... - Chris Yang
• How We Build Production-Grade HPA: From Effective Algorithm to Risk-Free... - Ziqiu Zhu & Yiru Guo. Shares how the speakers built a production-grade HPA, from the scaling algorithm to risk-free rollout.
• Container Live Migration in Kubernetes Production Environment - Yenan Lang and Hua Liu, Tencent — Tencent
• Live CNI Migration in Production Environments - Yike Wang and Yanzhao Li, VMware — VMware

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

• From SBOMs to IBOMs - Know What's Happening in Your Clusters - Ido Neeman, Firefly — Firefly
• Adopting Network Policies in Highly Secure Environments - Raymond de Jong, Isovalent — Isovalent
• How to Turn Release Management from Duty to Fun: Lessons... - Yuvaraj Kakaraparthi & Joe Kratzat
• Grow Your Own Community! Lessons Learned from Running Kubernetes Community Days Across Europe
• How We Securely Scaled Multi-Tenancy with VCluster, Crossplane... Ilia Medvedev & Kostis Kapelonis
• Operating CERN SaaS at Scale with Operators — CERN. CERN describes operating its SaaS offerings at scale using Kubernetes operators.
• Operate Multi-Tenancy Service Mesh with ArgoCD in Production - Lin Sun & Faseela K
• Distributing Pod Disruption Budgets Across Multiple Clusters - Illya Chekrygin, Apple — Apple. Apple describes how it distributes Pod Disruption Budgets across multiple clusters in its own environment.
• What Happened to the Service Catalog? - Adam Wolfe Gordon, DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean looks at what happened to the Kubernetes Service Catalog and the lessons from its experience with it.
• Building a Platform Engineering Fabric with the Kube API at Autodesk - Jesse Sanford & Greg Haynes — Autodesk
• Hazardous Defaults: Managing Cardinality and Performance for Your Lo... Derek Cavanaugh & Sara Moore. Discusses managing cardinality and performance pitfalls from hazardous defaults in logging and observability setups.
• Multi-Cluster Observability with Service Mesh - That Is a Lot of Moving Parts!? - Ryota Sawada. The speaker shares their experience operating multi-cluster observability across a service mesh and the complexity involved.
• Tales from on-Call: Fun with Operating Etcd at Scale - Geeta Gharpure & Chao Chen, Amazon — Amazon
• It Is More Than Just Correlation - A Debug Journey - Simon Pasquier & Vanessa Martini, Red Hat — Red Hat
• Image Signing and Runtime Verification at Scale: Datadog's Journey - Ethan Lowman, Datadog — Datadog
• InSPIREing Progress: How We're Growing SPIFFE & SPIRE in 2023 & Beyond- Daniel Feldman & Andrés Vega
• TAG Contributor Strategy: What We Get Out of It... - Catherine, Dawn, Nate, Dave Sudia, Josh Berkus — Dawn, Nate, Dave Sudia, Josh Berkus
• 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.
• Tips from the Trenches: GitOps at Adobe - Larisa Andreea Danaila & Ionut-Maxim Margelatu, Adobe — Adobe
• Using CNCF Projects for Adding Music and Announcements to My Home Elevator - Erwin de Keijzer. Erwin de Keijzer describes using CNCF projects to add music and announcements to their home elevator.
• From Community to Customers - Kelsey Hightower, Google Cloud — Google Cloud
• 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.
• Telepresence Case Studies: From First Experience to Fast Feedback at Scale - Edidiong Asikpo
• How to Develop a Robust Operator for Day-2 (Lesson Learned on KubeVirt/HCO) - Simone Tiraboschi
• Scaling Databases at Activision - Greg Smith & Vladimir Kovacik, Activision/Blizzard — Activision, Activision/Blizzard
• 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.
• Tilt Your World! Lessons Learned in Improving Dev Productivity with Tilt - Kakaraparthi & Muchhal
• Collaboratively Building App Manifests at Scale in Complex Organizations - Wim Henderickx, Nokia — Nokia
• Recovering from Regional Failures at Cloud Native Speeds - Yury Tsarev, Upbound & Nuno Guedes — Cloud, Upbound
• Our Journey Through Cloud-Native as Mentee and Mentor - Brad McCoy, Basiq & Meha Bhalodiya, Student — Basiq. A mentor and mentee share their experience learning and contributing to cloud native.
• Paved Paths Leading the Way to Compliance - Kasper Borg Nissen & Brian Nielsen, Lunar — Lunar. Lunar describes how paved paths helped it achieve compliance.
• Continuous Profiling Your Production Kubernetes Deployments Running a... Vijay Samuel & Nick Pordash — eBay. Describes how continuous profiling was run on production Kubernetes deployments at scale.
• Intuit’s Customer Centric Observability Journey Using AIOps - Vigith Maurice & Amit Kalamkar, Intuit — Intuit

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023

• Journey Of Building Our Kubernetes Platform: Successes, Failures, And Valuable L... Maryam Tavakkoli
• Self-service Stream Processing Platform on Kubernetes at Apple - Chenya Zhang, Apple Inc. — Apple. Apple describes its self-service stream processing platform on Kubernetes.
• 15,000 Minecraft Players Vs One K8s Cluster. Who Wins? - Justin Head & Cornelia Davis — Minecraft community. Tests how a single Kubernetes cluster holds up under 15,000 Minecraft players.
• A Practical Guide to eBPF Licensing: Or How I Learned to Stop Worryin... Jef Spaleta & Bill Mulligan
• From Non-Tech to CNCF Ambassador: You Can Do It Too! - Julia Furst, Veeam — Veeam
• From Classroom to Cluster: Embracing Kubernetes as a Student and Contributing to Its Development
• Journey to Becoming an OpenTelemetry Approver - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io — Honeycomb.io
• The Future of Interactive Data Science at Scale with Jupyter... Andrey Velichkevich & Zachary Sailer
• Reducing AI Job Cold Start Time from 15 Mins to 1 Min - Tao He, Google — Google
• Observing a Large Language Model in Production - Phillip Carter, Honeycomb — Honeycomb
• Deploying Kubernetes in Classified Environments - Vlad Ungureanu & Ali Monfre, Palantir Technologies — Palantir. Palantir shares how it deploys and operates Kubernetes in classified environments.
• Sponsored: From Desktop to Production, Build Applications Everywhere, Al... Matt Farina & Rey Lejano
• How the Record-Breaking, Cloud Native AI Supercomputer Was Built - Peter Salanki, CoreWeave — CoreWeave. CoreWeave describes how it built a record-breaking cloud native AI supercomputer on Kubernetes.
• Zero-Downtime Live Migration of Stateful VMs on Kubernetes - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs — Loophole Labs
• Open and Secure: Lessons Learned in Five Years of TAG Security Assess... Justin Cappos & Andres Vega
• Securing Kubernetes: Migrating from Long-Lived to Time-Bound Tokens Wi... Yuan Chen & James Munnelly
• Adopting Server Side Apply in Knative - a Case Study - Dave Protasowski, VMware — VMware. VMware's Knative team reports on adopting Server Side Apply in Knative controllers and the lessons learned.
• Building, Scaling, and Growing Internal Developer Platfor... Joshua Bezaleel Abednego & Giri Kuncoro. Speakers describe building, scaling and growing their own internal developer platform.
• On the Right Tack: Kubernetes at Uber Scale - Aditya Bhave & Apoorva Jindal, Uber Technologies — Uber, Uber Technologies
• Kube-Costbusters: Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters for Efficiency... Rachel Leekin & Antoinette Mills. Talk on optimizing Kubernetes clusters for cost efficiency, likely sharing practitioner lessons.
• Software Delivery in Regulated Environments: Critical Infrastructure... Austen Bryan & Steven Ollek. Speakers share experience delivering software in regulated, critical-infrastructure environments.
• Everything Is Code: Embracing GitOps at Spotify - Tim Hansen, Spotify — Spotify
• Mastering LLM Delivery in Private Clouds: A Journey to Seamless Dep... Autumn Moulder & Marwan Ahmed
• Migrating Hybrid Big Data Platforms at Scale to Kubernetes - Sunil Govindan, Cloudera — Cloudera. Cloudera describes migrating its hybrid big data platforms to Kubernetes at scale.
• KubeEdge: Extending Kubernetes to the Edge with Real-World Industry Examples - Yin Ding & Kevin Wang
• Scale Your MySQL Database by Migrating to Vitess - Matt Lord & Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale — PlanetScale
• Five Years of Cloud Native Rust - Alex Leong, Buoyant — Buoyant. Buoyant reflects on five years of building the Linkerd data plane in Rust and the lessons learned.
• How We Optimized Our Developer Experience with Telepresence - Frank Gu, Voiceflow — Voiceflow
• Insights and Gotchas from the Zero-Downtime Migration of 10000+ Cloud Hosted... Prabhakar Palanivel
• The Cluster Killer Bug: Learning API Priority and Fairness the Hard Way - Eddie Zaneski, Independent — Eddie Zaneski. Describes an incident in which a Kubernetes cluster was brought down and what was learned about API Priority and Fairness.
• Rapidly Scaling for Breaking News with Karpenter and KEDA - Mel Cone & Deepak Goel. Shows how a news organization rapidly scales for breaking-news traffic spikes using Karpenter and KEDA.
• Revolutionizing Kube Scalability Testing with KWOK - Wei Huang & Weiwei Yang, Apple — Apple. Apple describes using KWOK to simulate large clusters and test Kubernetes scalability.
• Today, Not Tomorrow: Scalable Strategies for Migrating to Open... Jason Anderson & Kevin Broadbridge
• Service Mesh Journey at DoorDash: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Hochuen Wong, DoorDash — DoorDash
• Kubernetes DoS Protection at Google Scale - Andrew Sy Kim, Google — Google. Google describes how it protects Kubernetes control planes from DoS at GKE scale.
• The Journey Along the Way to Data-locality on Cloud for AI/ML - Shawn Sun & Lu Qiu, Alluxio — Alluxio
• Real-World Knative: Success Stories from Production Environments.... Four guest speakers describe how their organizations use Knative in production.
• Cilium: From Service Mesh to Kubernetes and... James McShane, Hemanth Malla, Liz Rice & Thomas Graf
• Kubernetes SIG Docs: Docs Drive Adoption -- Help Wanted - Divya Mohan, SUSE & Natali Vlatko, Cisco — SUSE, Cisco
• How and Why You Should Adopt and Expose OSS Interfaces Like Otel... - Daniel Hrabovcak & Shishi Chen
• Kubernetes Confessions: Tales of Overspending and Redemption - Becky Pauley & David Collom — Cast AI. Talk recounting real Kubernetes overspending stories and how costs were reduced.
• Challenge to Implementing “Scalable” Authorization with Keycloak - Yoshiyuki Tabata, Hitachi, Ltd. — Hitachi. Hitachi describes the challenges it faced implementing scalable authorization with Keycloak.
• Lightning Talk: From Novice to Keptn Contributor: Empowering My Journey in Cloud... - Yash Pimple
• Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, & What We’re Doing About It - Tim Hockin
• Journey Through Time: Understanding Etcd Revisions and Resource Versions in... - Priyanka Saggu
• From Māori to Deaf Engineers, Welcoming all Contributors
• SECURITY HUB: From Threats to Trust: Safeguarding Sensitive Data in K8s - Moritz Eckert
• SECURITY HUB UNCONFERENCE: Seccomp policy usage: why there is no adoption?

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

• Rollout Patterns: Smoothly Migrating and Rolling Out Your Microservices - Tim Xiao
• Ensuring Success with Kyverno in Production: What You Must Know - Shuting Zhao
• KuaiShou's 100% Resource Utilization Boost: 100K Redis Migration from... - XueQiang Wu & YuXing Liu
• Expanding Cloud Native Capabilities with WASM: A Case Study of Harbor... - Chenyu Zhang & Yan Wang
• Leveraging Multi-Cluster Architecture for Resilient and Elastic H... - Feng Xiong, 小红书 & Hongcai Ren — 小红书 (Xiaohongshu). Xiaohongshu describes how it uses a multi-cluster architecture to make its workloads resilient and elastic.
• The Journey of Next-Gen FinTech IDP at China Merchants Bank | 中国招商银行下一代金融科技IDP之旅 - Jiahang Xu — China
• Understanding the Buzz Around Cilium: Introduction and in Production at... - Bo Kang Li & Liyi Huang
• OS Migration Solution on Cloud | 云上操作系统迁移解决方案 - Jianlin Lv, eBay — eBay
• Empower Large Language Models (LLMs) Serving in Production with Cloud Native...- Lize Cai & Yang Che
• KubeEdge DeepDive: Extending Kubernetes to the Edge with Real-World Ind...- Yue Bao & Hongbing Zhang
• A Decade of Cloud-Native Journey: The Evolution of Container Technology and the Kub...- Jintao Zhang
• Addressing Challenges of Cross-Architecture Dynamic Migration Over Heterogeneous... - Yanjun Chen
• Strengthening Container Security: A Collaborative Journey - Yi Zha & Beltran Rueda Borrego

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

• GitOps Continuous Delivery at Scale with Flux - Stefan Prodan
• Tackling Configuration Management at Scale with Flux, CUE and OCI at... Alec Hothan & Stefan Prodan
• Squeeze Your K8s: How We Adopt Time-Series Forecasting Models in FinOps... Irvin Lim & Nicholas Kwan
• Precision Matters: Scheduling GPU Workloads on Kubernetes - Amit Kumar & Gaurav Kumar, Uber — Uber. Uber describes how it schedules GPU workloads on Kubernetes with attention to precision and resource fit.
• Search at Shopify: Highly Available Platform for Data Resilience and Compliance - Leila Vayghan — Shopify
• Lessons Learned from Generating 100M SBOMs: Google’s Approach to SBOM Compliance
• Rapid IDP Capability Development and Automated Testing at Autodesk - Jesse Sanford & Greg Haynes — Autodesk
• KubeEdge: Extending Kubernetes to the Edge with Real-World Industry Use Case
• Hacking Kubernetes to Migrate in-Tree Volumes to CSI - Baptiste Girard-Carrabin & Antoine Gaillard
• From Chaos to Control: Cloud Native Governance with Kyverno! — DE-CIX. DE-CIX describes using Kyverno policies to govern its Kubernetes environment, plus recent additions and the project roadmap.
• 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.
• No 'Soup' for You! Enforcing Network Policies for Host Processes via eBPF - Vinay Kulkarni, eBay — eBay. eBay describes enforcing network policies on host processes with eBPF in its own infrastructure.
• How I Met Your Software – an Image’s Sitcom of Consuming and Securing Software in Cloud Native!
• Deploying with Confidence: Lessons Learned Navigating Deployments of a 100-Strong Development Team
• Container Image Workflows at Scale with Buildpacks - Juan Bustamante & Aidan Delaney
• From Insanity to Ingenuity: Seven Practical Tips for Navigating the AI Storm in DBaaS Evolution
• From Bash Scripts to Kubeflow and GitOps: Our Journey to Operationalizing ML at Scale
• The Journey of Organizing an Kubernetes Community Days Events – Our Odyssey Unveiled
• Lessons Learned from Let's Profile - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals — Polar Signals
• From RUM to Front-End Observability with OpenTelemetry - Purvi Kanal, Honeycomb — Honeycomb
• Reimagining Knative: A Case Study on How Designers Shape Better Documentation
• Reducing Cross-Zone Egress at Spotify with Custom gRPC Load Balancing — Spotify. Spotify reduced cross-zone egress costs by implementing custom gRPC load balancing.
• Fantastic Ordinals and How to Avoid Them: Auto-Scaling Challenges in a Cloud Database. Describes auto-scaling challenges with StatefulSet ordinals when operating a cloud database.
• Bloomberg's Journey to a Multi-Cluster Workflow Orchestration Platform - Yao Lin & Reinhard Tartler
• DRAcon: Demystifying Dynamic Resource Allocation - from Myths to Facts - Kevin Klues & Patrick Ohly
• 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.
• Securing the Supply Chain with Sigstore Artifacts Signatures at Scale
• Architecting Resilience: Lessons from Managing 7K+ Kubernetes Clusters at Scale
• From UI to Storage: Unraveling the Magic of Thanos Query Processing
• Building Confidence in Kubernetes Controllers: Lessons Learned from Using E2e-Framework
• How We Are Moving from GitOps to Kubernetes Resource Model in 5G Core
• Sponsored Session: American Airlines Increases Velocity by Leveraging K8s at Scale and Autonomous...
• Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks | Project Lightning Talk
• Accelerate Your Modernization Journey with Konveyor! | Project Lightning Talk
• How Crossplane is Accelerating Your Cloud Native Control Plane Journey | Project Lightning Talk
• 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.
• From Configurations to Conclusions: Lessons from Fine-Tuning Open Telemetry’s... - Vijay & Aishwarya

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024

• Pick Cilium! Lessons Learned From Writing 20+ Cloud Native Case Studies about Cilium
• Taking a Quick Look at New Features in Argo CD v2.13 | Project Lightning Talk — New
• From Chaos to Control: Building Resilience with Effective Backup and Disaster Recov... - Yash Pimple
• Scaling Private LLM Model Services with Kserve and Modelcar OCI: A Real-World... - Mayuresh Krishna
• From Three Pillars to More with OpenTelemetry - Steve Flanders, Splunk — Splunk
• Contributing to Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - How ContribEx Enhances the Journey! - Panel
• Empower Your Platform Journey with Platforms Working Group - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Tech... — InfraCloud Tech...
• Rapper's Delight- A Hip Hop Journey Through Cloud Native - Bart Farrell & Anushka Saxena
• From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: EarnIn's Network Evolution with Link... K. Trivedi & S. Chakraborty — EarnIn. EarnIn recounts how its network evolved by adopting Linkerd.
• A Debugging Journey from CoreDNS to Coreutils - Akhil Mohan & Humble Devassy Chirammal, VMware — VMware
• Scaling Beyond Autoscaling: How We Grew Our Kubernetes Clusters - Bhavin Gandhi & Ruturaj Kadikar
• Stay Ahead of Disruptions : Experience Robust DNS Failover for API Ga... G. Yadav & V. K. M. Vadrevu. Speakers describe building robust DNS failover for API gateways to stay available through disruptions.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City

• Engineering a Kubernetes Operator: Lessons Learned from Versions 1 to 5 - Andrew L'Ecuyer
• From Chaos to Harmony, Transforming ML Engineering: A Kubernetes Adoption Journey - P.N. Kejser
• From Silicon to Service: Ensuring Confidentiality in Serverless GPU Cloud Functions - Zvonko Kaiser
• All-Your-GPUs-Are-Belong-to-Us: An Inside Look at NVIDIA's Self-Healin... R. Hallisey & P. Prokop PL — NVIDIA
• From Standards to Practice: The Journey to Container Maturity - Carmen Chow & Thomas Robinson, Yelp — Yelp
• 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.
• Lessons Learned Adopting OpenTelemetry at Scale - Alex Arnell, Heroku / Salesforce — Heroku, Salesforce. Heroku/Salesforce shares lessons learned adopting OpenTelemetry at scale.
• Automated Multi-Cloud Large Scale K8s Cluster Lifecycle Management - Sourav Khandelwal, Databricks — Databricks. Databricks describes automating lifecycle management of large-scale Kubernetes clusters across clouds.
• How Google Built a New Cloud on Top of Kubernetes - Jie Yu & Prashanth Venugopal, Google — Google. Google describes how it built a new cloud platform on top of Kubernetes.
• Yahoo’s Kubernetes Journey from on-Prem to Multi-Cloud at Scale - N. Venkatachalam, P. Patel — P. Patel
• Multi-Tier Security in WasmCloud: From Developer Constraints to Platform Extensibility - B. Townsend
• How to Move from Ingress to Gateway API with Minimal Hassle - Keith Mattix, Microsoft — Microsoft
• How We Made OpenTelemetry Be Our Fitness Tracker for Your CI/CD Pipelines! - N. Woerner, A. Grabner — A. Grabner
• From Chaos to Calm: Building a Unified and Scalable CI/CD Pipeline at Akamai - Tomer Patel — Akamai
• GitOps at Production Scale with Flux - Leigh Capili, Flox & Priyanka Ravi, G-Research — Production, Flox, G-Research
• Understanding How OpenTelemetry Network Uses eBPF for Network Observab... S.R. Shrivastava, J. Perry — OpenTelemetry Network
• From Observability to Enforcement: Lessons Learned Implementing eBPF R... A. Kapuścińska, K. Kourtis
• Bridging Clouds: TikTok’s Blueprint for Unified OIDC Access on Multi-Cloud Kubernetes - N. Mogulla — TikTok. TikTok describes its blueprint for unified OIDC-based access across multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters.
• Watching the Watchers: How We Do Continuous Reliability at Grafana Labs - Nicole van der Hoeven — Grafana
• Towards Zero Change Incidents: Intuit's Strategy for Implementing AI... A. Basu, S. Balasubramanian — Intuit. Intuit describes its strategy for using AI to move toward zero change-caused incidents.
• From Observability to Performance - Nadia Pinaeva, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google — Red Hat, Google
• Production AI at Scale: Cloudera’s Journey in Building a Robust Inference Pl... Z. Thanga, P. Ableda
• Container Image Workflows at Scale with Buildpacks - Jesse Brown & Terence Lee, Heroku — Heroku
• Cloud Native Sustainability Speedrun: Tools from Infrastructure to Applicati... S. Pathak, S. Narang
• Operationalizing High-Performance GPU Clusters in Kubernetes: Lessons Learned fr... W. Gleich, W. Wu
• 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.
• WASM + KWOK Wizardry: Writing and Testing Scheduler Plugins at Scale - D. Pejchev, J. Giannuzzi — J. Giannuzzi
• Bloomberg’s Journey to Improve Resource Utilization in a Multi-Cluster Platform- Yao Weng, Leon Zhou
• Share the Ride: Robust Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes at Uber - Sashank Appireddy & Apoorva Jindal — Uber
• 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.
• Zero Downtime Upgrades at Scale: How Okta Manages Hundreds of Clusters Daily - J. Albuixech, K. Lei — Okta, K. Lei
• Migratory Patterns: Making Architectural Transitions with Confidence and Grace - Pete Hodgson
• Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: From AI, WASM, OS, Edge to Workloads in the Heart of Salt Lake City
• Vitess: Introduction, New Features & Running in Production- D. Sigireddi, D. Perkins, S. Vijayakumar
• Bloomberg's Journey to Manage a Multi-Cluster Training Application with Karmada - Y. Zhang, W. Lai — W. Lai
• Thousands of Gamers, One Kubernetes Network - Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Girish Moodalbail — Red Hat, NVIDIA. Red Hat and partner engineers show how one Kubernetes network was built to serve thousands of gamers.
• The Node Tetris Rabbit Hole: Why Your Binpacking Might Be Underperforming - Hannah Taub, Adobe Inc. — Adobe. Adobe investigates why its node binpacking underperforms and what it learned.
• Buildpacks: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks | Project Lightning Talk
• OpenTelemetry: The OpenTelemetry Hero’s Journey: Working with Open Source Observability | PLT
• Lightning Talk: Future-Proofing Kubernetes: Impact of Storage Version Migration and... N. Chaudhari
• Accelerating Adoption: What’s New in Envoy Gateway and Why It Matters | Project Lightning Talk
• From Vectors to Pods: Integrating AI with Cloud Native - Panel
• ARM-Wrestling: Overcoming CPU Migration Challenges to Reduce Costs- Laurent Bernaille, Eric Mountain
• Conquering Configuration Constraints: Real-World Patterns for Distributing Data... Daniel Hrabovcak
• Dapr's Road Ahead: GenAI APIs, Distributed Scheduling at Scale and What It Means for... Y. Schneider
• Lightning Talk: Is Everyone O-KEDA? “Exciting” Lessons Learned in Our Journey to Use KED... B. Davis
• Kubernetes at Scale: Practical Solutions for Enhanced CNI and Kubelet P... H. Santana, B.G. da Silva
• How We Scale a Distributed SQL Database to 1 PB - Jinpeng Zhang, PingCAP — PingCAP
• Unlocking Potential of Large Models in Production - Yuan Tang, Red Hat & Adam Tetelman, NVIDIA — Red Hat, NVIDIA
• KubeSlice: Migrate Kubernetes Services With Confidence! | Project Lightning Talk

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 (Hong Kong)

• From Bottleneck To Breakthrough: Conquering Applications Star... Hexi Guo, Rentian Zhou & Zhuoqi Liu
• Building Custom GPU Clusters at Scale: Using Kubespray To Create High-Perfor... Kay Yan & Rong Zhang

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London

• Bridge the Gap To OSS Adoption With Documentation: A Kubernetes Story - Natali Vlatko & Divya Mohan
• Managing Data at Scale: Best Practices and Evolution of SIG-Apps - Maciej Szulik & Janet Kuo
• How We Tackle KubeVirt’s Growth and Scalability - Ľuboslav Pivarč, Red Hat & Alay Patel, NVIDIA — Red Hat, NVIDIA
• Lessons Learned From Architecting the Highest-scale Operational Systems in the World - Artur Bergman
• From Chaos To Control: Migrating Access Control... Jo Guerreiro & Poovamraj Thanganadar Thiagarajan
• Public End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Town Hall
• EVAPorating Kubernetes Security Risk: Adopting Validating Admission P... Kaitlyn Lee & Jordan Conard
• Kubernetes and AI To Protect Our Forests: A Cloud Native Infrastructure for Wildf... Andrea Giardini. Presents a cloud native infrastructure built on Kubernetes and AI for detecting wildfires to protect forests.
• No Code Needed: From Emojis To Glory on the Contribution Ladder - Nancy Chauhan & Carol Valencia
• Type-safe Feature Flagging in OpenFeature: Lessons Learned F... Michael Beemer & Florin-Mihai Anghel
• Zero Trust at Shopify Scale: Automating MTLS Across Thousands of Serv... Dani Santos & Michelle Mali — Shopify
• From High Performance Computing To AI Workloads on Kubernetes: M... Andrey Velichkevich, & Yuki Iwai
• From Chaos To Control: Building ML Platform - George Markhulia & Steve Larkin, Volvo Cars — Volvo Cars
• How We Solved TLS at Scale: Self-Service, Multi-Tenant Cert-manager - Erik Godding Boye & Tim Ramlot
• From Hours To Minutes: The Evolution of Platform Engineerin... Adrien Gillard & Christophe Furmaniak
• Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cl... Cat Morris & Jake Klein. Shares lessons learned building a multi-cluster platform framework.
• Vitess: Schema Changes at Scale - Rohit Nayak & Shlomi Noach, PlanetScale — PlanetScale
• How We Moved Spotify To a Proxyless gRPC Service Mesh - Erik Lindblad & Erica Manno, Spotify — Spotify. Spotify explains how it migrated to a proxyless gRPC service mesh.
• Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing I... Lin Sun & Ahmed Bebars — New York Times. The New York Times shares its service mesh journey and evaluates whether sidecar-less mesh is replacing sidecars.
• GPU Sharing at CERN: Cutting the Cake Without Losing a Slice! - Diana Gaponcic, CERN — CERN
• Building & Operating a Large-scale HPC AI Cluster on Kubernetes - Kalyan Saladi & Chandan Avdhut. Speakers describe building and operating a large-scale HPC AI cluster on Kubernetes.
• Dancing With the Pods: Live Migration of a Database Fleet While Serving... Jayme Bird & Manish Gill
• Cloudy With a Chance of Kubernetes: Going From One To Three... Laurent Bernaille & Maxime Visonneau
• How We Progressively Deliver Changes To Kubernetes Using Canary Deployments and Featur... Bob Walker
• Set Your Developers Free: Fleet Management at Spotify - Stefan Särne, Spotify — Spotify
• A Journey To Modernizing a Regulated Cloud Control Plane - Pranita Praveen & Steven Borrelli
• From Metal To Apps: LinkedIn’s Kubernetes-based Compute Platform - Ahmet Alp Balkan & Ronak Nathani
• How the SIG-Multicluster API Specifications Are Used for Real World... August Simonelli & Ryan Zhang
• KubeEdge Graduation Journey: Creating a Diverse and Collaborative Open S... Yue Bao & Hongbing Zhang
• Expanding eBPF’s Reach: From Batteries-Included Auto-Instrumentation To E2E Observab... Dom Del Nano
• A Fork to Reckon With: Minimizing Friction When Adopting... Alexander Perlman & Narayanamurthi Mari
• Project Lightning Talk: Revolutionizing Legacy Migrations with Konveyor AI - Jonah Sussman
• Project Lightning Talk: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks - Joe Kutner, Maintainer — Maintainer
• Project Lightning Talk: Chaos Unleashed: LitmusChaos and Its Journey Towards CNC... Vedant Shrotria
• Leveraging Internal Knowledge: Building AiKA at Spotify - Majd Salman & Jofre Mateu Matesanz — Spotify
• How To Adopt OpenTelemetry in an Enterprise Where Incumbent Vendor Tools Reign Supre... Chris Weldon
• Pushing the Limits of Prometheus at Etsy - Chris Leavoy, Etsy & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs — Etsy, Grafana Labs
• Challenges of and Solutions for Migrating Spark From Legacy Hadoop Clu... Neha Singla & Rasik Pandey
• Lightning Talk: Solving Real-World Edge Challenges With K0s, NATS, and Raspberry Pi Clu... P. Ramhit
• AI Workload Preemption in a Multi-Cluster Scheduling System at Bloomberg - Leon Zhou & Wei-Cheng Lai — Bloomberg
• Extending Kubernetes for AI | Lessons Learned From Platform... - Susan, Lucy, Andrea, Etienne, Tim — Lucy, Andrea, Etienne, Tim

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025

• A Journey To Ephemeral Test Environments With EKS and ArgoCD - Tatiana Selezneva & Gazal Gafoor
• Scaling AI Like a Pro-PepsiCo’s LLM Deployment Strategy on K... Praseed Naduvath & Dhanashree Shetty — PepsiCo. PepsiCo describes its strategy for deploying and scaling LLMs on Kubernetes.
• Observability at Scale With Monitoring as Code... Vipin GopalaKrishnapillai & Saiabhinay Bommakanti. Presents practicing observability at scale through monitoring-as-code, based on the speakers' organization's own approach.
• From Slow To Pro: Accelerating Kubernetes Native Devel... Raghu Chandrasekaran & Naveenkumar Kumanan
• Lightning Talk: Unit Testing in Go With K8s Clients & APIs: An Intern’s POV on Why I... Harini Anand
• Running Databases Efficiently at Scale - Case Study of Flipka... Yashpal Choudhary & Akif Ahmed Khan
• How Intuit Streamlined AI/ML Inference Workflows on K8s - Yashash H L & Sreekanth P R, Intuit — Intuit. Intuit explains how it streamlined its AI/ML inference workflows on Kubernetes.
• Minimal OS, Maximum Impact: Journey To a Flatcar Maintainer - Sayan Chowdhury, Microsoft — Microsoft

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025 (Tokyo)

• Streamlined Baremetal Deployment: A Journey of Custom Controll... Mitsuhiro Tanino & Masanori Kuroha
• A Journey and Lessons Learned To Enable IBM AIU Accelerators in... Takuya Mishina & Tatsuhiro Chiba
• Lightning Talk: From Kernel To Kubernetes: Mapping eBPF-Detected Processes To Pods - Yuki Nakamura
• BGP Peering Patterns for Kubernetes Networking at Preferred Networks - Sho Shimizu & Yutaro Hayakawa — Preferred
• From Moon Prism Power To eBPF Super Saiyan: A Guide To Cloud Native Se... Carla Gaggini & Kenta Tada
• Lightning Talk: Optimizing Web Applications by Offloading Heavy Processing To Kuberne... Asami Okina. Lightning talk on offloading heavy web application processing to Kubernetes.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

• 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.
• Autoscaling Spring Boot Apps in Kubernetes With KEDA - John Coyne, Capital One — Capital One. Capital One shares how it autoscales Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes with KEDA.
• A Journey To Zero-Downtime Upgrades With Keycloak - Martin Bartoš, Ryan Emerson, IBM — Ryan Emerson, IBM
• Public End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Town Hall
• From Pull To Predict: Accelerating AI Model Deployment on Kubernetes - Lucas Duarte & Tiago Reichert
• Help! My LLM Is a Resource Hog: How We Tamed Inference With Kubernetes... Aditya Soni & Hrittik Roy
• From Code To Cluster: Orchestrating 100,000+ Kubernetes Deployments With 1 Pipel... Andrada Raducanu
• The Journey of Deploying Backstage in a Large Organization - Mathieu Girard & Teddy Poingt, Beneva — Beneva
• Fast and the Furious: CICD Pipeline for eBPF Programs at Meta S... Theophilus Benson & Prankur Gupta — Meta
• 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.
• Building Scalable End-to-end Latency Metrics From Distributed Trace - Kusha Maharshi, Bloomberg — Bloomberg. Bloomberg describes building scalable end-to-end latency metrics from distributed traces.
• Authenticating and Authorizing Every Connection at Uber - Yangmin Zhu & Matt Mathew, Uber — Uber
• Designing for Observability: From Noise To Insight - Andrea Chomiak, Dash0 — Dash0
• Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooti... David vonThenen & Yash Sharma — Your
• Taming the AI Hydra: Real-World Lessons in Governin... Brian Fox, Sarah Evans & Christopher Robinson
• Securing Data Applications at Pinterest With Finer Grained Access Cont... Soam Acharya & William Tom — Pinterest
• Rearchitecting Compute at Coinbase: Migrating To Karpenter for Fast, Reliable Scali... Frances Chong — Coinbase. Coinbase rearchitected its compute by migrating to Karpenter for faster, more reliable scaling.
• Node Manager - How Yahoo Manages Thousands of Nodes at Scale? - Payal Patel, Yahoo — Yahoo
• Lightning Talk: How We Used Data Structures When Contributing To the Kubernetes Proje... Arsh Sharma
• 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.
• One Dozen To One Thousand Clusters: How Argo Kept up as We Scaled - Jérémy Albuixech & Kahou Lei. Speakers describe how their Argo CD setup scaled from a dozen to a thousand clusters.
• 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.
• Container Runtime Customization at Netflix: A Case Study With NRI and OCI Hooks - Erikson Tung — Netflix
• Not Forking Around: Leveraging NRI To Extend Kubernetes at Scale - Johan Jensen & Wesley Bermbach
• Managing a Million Infra Resources at Spotify: Designing the Platfo... Oliver Soell & Fredrik Sommar — Spotify
• From Kubestronaut To Production Hero: Turning Study Paths Into Real-W... David Pech & Pedro Célestin
• Prepare for Disruptions: How We Upgrade the Whole ML Training Fleet Bi-week... Cong Gu & Ankit Goyal
• TikTok's IPv6 Journey To Cilium: Pitfalls and Lessons Learned - Giri Kuncoro & Joseph Pallamidessi
• Patch Me If You Can: Tackling Outdated Addons Before They Become... Stevie Caldwell & Andy Suderman. Practitioners share how they handle outdated cluster addons before they turn into security and operational problems.
• AdminNetworkPolicy: From Alpha To Beta... Dan Winship, Surya Seetharaman, Nadia Pinaeva & Bowei Du
• Zero Downtime Migration of Monolith To K8s Using Sidecar and Contai... Deepak Kosaraju & James Dabbs
• Taming Rollout Risks in Distributed Web Apps: A Location-Aware Gradual Deployment... Angela Victorio — Google. Describes a location-aware gradual deployment approach to reduce rollout risk in distributed web apps.
• Kubernetes IP Management: From Core Concepts To Strategic Solutions - Ivy Zhuang & Whitney Jenkins
• GAMMA in Action: How Careem Migrated To Istio Without Downtime - Suren Raju & Sergey Marunich — Careem
• Real-World Strategies for Cutting Kubernetes Costs: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All - Dolis Sharma
• Making Application Rollouts Observable, Actionable and Boring - Vasudev Bongale, LinkedIn — LinkedIn. LinkedIn shows how it made application rollouts observable, actionable and boring.
• From Bespoke To Bulletproof: SPIFFE/SPIRE With ESO for Enterprise Zero... May Large & Ivy Alkhaz
• Taming Telemetry at Scale: Platform Blueprints for Consistent Obser... Aakansha Priya & Marino Wijay
• Shaping LTS Together: What We’ve Learned the... Nikhita R, Nikhila K, Micah H, Jeremy R & Aniket P
• Project Lightning Talk: From Tokens To Partitions: Rethinking Data Distribution In... Daniel Blando

2026 · Keynotes - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026

• 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.

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

• Operating Frontier Intelligence at Scale - Chris Aniszczyk & Xiao Zhang
• From Containers To Agents: The Next Cloud Native - Di Xu, Xiaohongshu — Xiaohongshu
• Serving Qwen at Scale: Multi-Cluster AI Infrastructure on Karmada - Jionghang Cai, Alibaba — Alibaba
• Escaping the Vendor Trap: A Journey for Migrating Legacy... Trong Vinh Nguyen & Quoc Dat Le. Speakers share their journey migrating legacy systems off a proprietary vendor to cloud native open source.
• Write Once, Run Anywhere: PyTorch’s Generalization Journey - Yu Guangye & Eikan Wang, Intel — Intel
• What We Learned Securing AI Agents at Scale on Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters - Pengfei Ni
• End-to-End Observability for LLM Inference: From Token To GPU - Jared Tan, Murphy Chen & Nicole Li — Murphy Chen
• Kubernetes DRA Architecture: Scheduling, Status, and Topology at Scale - Paco Xu & Kang Zhang
• In-Place PVC Re-Binding: Zero-Downtime Disk Migration Using Only... Maxim Nazarenko & Nibir Bora
• From Cloud to AI: How Kata Containers 4.0 Reinvents the Sandbox for the... Fupan Li & Xuewei Niu
• VLLM KV Cache Management: From Cache Reuse To Agent Scenario Optimization - Mengqing Cao & 玺源 王
• Scaling Digital Employees at China Merchants Bank in Production: A Controlled AI... Jiahang Xu — China
• Dragonfly's CNCF Graduation Journey and Large-Scale AI Model Distribution... Fengjun Lyu & Wenbo Qi
• From Chatbots To Agentic AI: Running NVIDIA Dynamo the Kubernetes Way - Xianglong Lu & Bo Chu
• Solving Industrial Challenges with KubeEdge: A Post-Graduation Report - Yue Bao, Huan Wei, Yin Ding — Unknown industrial KubeEdge adopters. A report on industrial challenges solved with KubeEdge after the project's CNCF graduation, based on real deployments.
• 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.
• Project Lightning Talk: From Static Slices To Elastic GPUs: Dynamic MIG With HAMI - 纪飞 王, Dynamia — Dynamia
• Serving AI at Massive Scale: The Cloud Native Inference Plane Behind Huawei... Kevin Wang, Jun Ding — Massive

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

• Lightning Talk: From Learner To Contributor: A LFX Mentee’s Kubernetes Story - Lavish Pal
• Kubernetes Security at Shopify Scale: Automating Security Across an Infrastr... Jie Wu & Pulkit Garg — Shopify
• Scaling Valkey the Right Way: Kubernetes at XL Scale - Sarthak Aggarwal & Madelyn Olson, AWS — XL, AWS
• Project Lightning Talk: From Idle to Ideal: Cross‑Cluster GPU Sharing with CoHDI - Takao Indoh
• Project Lightning Talk: KubeEdge Everywhere: From Graduation To Global Adoption - Yue Bao
• Project Lightning Talk: What Can Crossplane Actually Do? A Real World Fiel... Jonasz Łasut-Balcerzak
• From Logs to Decisions: Autonomous AI Agents for Real-Time Kubernetes Threat R... Willem Berroubache
• An Immersive and Visual Journey Into Kubernetes Networking - Benoit Entzmann, Feesh — Feesh
• From Jenkins to Tekton: Our Journey Toward a Kubernetes-Native CI... Mustafa Barış Ege & Özge Aygül
• 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.
• From Idle to Savings: Building a Global Scheduler for Cost‑Efficient Data P... Rainie Li & Ang Zhang. Speakers describe building a global scheduler that cuts idle cost for their data platforms.
• Making Topology-Aware Scheduling Practical for AI Workloads: From Discovery to Simula... Weizhou Lan
• Spin-Up, Test, Tear-Down: How Trivago Runs Developer Preview Environm... Armin Aminian & Jan Wozniak — Trivago
• From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular Networks - Luis Ariza
• Redis on EC2 to Valkey on Kubernetes: A Zero-Downtime Case Study - Joe Heyburn, Braze — Braze
• Fusing FinOps, Forecasting, and Kubernetes at Scale - Ankur Singh & Satyam Bhardwaj. Presents how FinOps and forecasting are combined to manage Kubernetes costs at scale; the speakers' organization is not named in the title.
• 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.
• Virtualizing Large Scale GPU Cluster for Sovereign AI: Petasus AI Cloud Journey with Kube... Jian Li
• The Shell Awakens: Cloud Native Workflows for Particle Ph... Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu & Hannes Hansen. Describes cloud native workflows applied to particle physics research computing.
• Exploring NRI for Automated CA Trust Injection - Tsuzuki Tsuchiya & Kento Kubo, LY Corporation — LY Corporation. LY Corporation explores using NRI to inject CA trust automatically into containers.
• From Classroom To Container: Teaching Distributed Systems With CNCF & Cloud Na... Matthias Haeussler. An educator reports on teaching distributed systems using CNCF and cloud native projects in the classroom.
• From “No Time for GitOps” to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux... Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei
• How To Break Multi-Tenancy Again and Again ...and What We Can Learn F... Lorin Lehawany & Sven Nobis
• Durable Execution in DevOps: How Uniphar Built Reliable Syst... Alice Gibbons & Vaclav (Oisin) Haken — Uniphar Built
• From Creepers to Clusters: Evolving Minecraft Into a Cloud Native... Jaden Walderich & Alex Mizerak
• Enterprise Challenges with MCP Adoption - Christian Posta, Solo.io — Solo.io
• Building a Kubernetes Platform That Scales From SaaS To Self-Managed - Florian Forster, GitLab — GitLab
• The Accidental Platform Team: Kubernetes Operators at Swisscom - Fabian Schulz & Jelena Malic — Swisscom
• From GitOps to AIOps: Evolving RBI's Kubernetes Platform with Cross... Gabor Horvath & Ewald Überall
• From “It Works!” to “It’s Secure!”: Hardening Your First Kub... Paul Zerdilas-Herrera & Leon Schulze
• From Projects to Products: The Sociotechnical Journey Behind Sony... Eugenia Bergman & Hagen Tonnies
• Serverless GPUs in Production: How Cerebrium Built a Globally... Dave Protasowski & Elijah Roussos — Cerebrium Built
• Fluent Bit V5: Pushing the Limits of Observability at Scale - Eduardo Silva
• LLM Inference at Scale: Orchestrating Prefill-Decode Disaggregation - Zhonghu Xu
• "Will it Kubernetes?" A Tinkerer’s Journey From Curiosity To Career - Niklas Frick
• Driving Adoption and Automation With MCP in Production at Liftoff - Tommy Nguyen, Liftoff Mobile — Liftoff, Liftoff Mobile
• No Pain No Drain: Lessons From Node Drains at Scale - Ryan Hallisey & Natalie Bandel, NVIDIA — NVIDIA
• No Shame, Just Pain: How We Migrated Away From Kubernete... Jannis Relakis & Michael Seiwald-McCarty
• Demystifying the Kubernetes Network Stack (From Pod to Pod) - Simone Rodigari, Microsoft — Microsoft
• Enterprise-Scale Migrations Using Agentic Workflows with Human-in... Alvaro Saurin & Jose M Navarro
• Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI (G/H2... Luca Berton
• Sponsored Session: Performance at Enterprise Cloud Scale: Coupa’s Ku... Peter Irwin & Carl Baumcratz — Enterprise
• 1000 Services, 1 Year, 0 Downtime: Airbnb’s Zonal Cluster Migration - Sunny Beatteay, Airbnb — Airbnb
• From Open Source To Enterprise Scale and Back: A Journey... Michael Kuhnt & Gabriel Adrian Samfira
• Smart Routing at Scale: How Spotify’s XDS Control Plane Cut 75%... Yannick Epstein & Anya Hristova
• From Alert Fatigue To Self-Healing: Building AI-Enabled Control Planes... Nuno Guedes & Yury Tsarev
• From NLB Sprawl To Mesh Efficiency: How Skyscanner Handles 60M Reque... John Clark & Steven Thwaites — Skyscanner. Skyscanner describes moving from NLB sprawl to a mesh to handle 60M requests efficiently.
• 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.
• What Survived Production: Operating Game Backends at Million-Player Scale - Berkay Uckac. Reports lessons on what survived in production when operating game backends at million-player scale.
• From Static Tokens to Attestation: The Evoluti... Ciprian H, Jack Francis M, Josephine P, & Justin B
• How Manual OTel Instrumentation Saves More Than Just Money - Juliano Costa & Yuri Oliveira. Argues that manual OTel instrumentation reduces observability cost and more, based on the speakers' own experience.
• Accelerating Thanos at Scale: Faster and Cheaper Queries With Parquet - Giedrius Statkevičius
• Gateway API: Bridging the Gap from Ingress to the Future - Panel
• Preventing S3 Cost Storms: Applying Cortex’s Efficiency Lessons to I/O-Heav... A. Fishman-Lichterman — Cortex. Applies Cortex's lessons on preventing S3 cost spikes to I/O-heavy workloads.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

• Why We Ditched Kube-proxy: Scaling 10M Daily Browser Sessions With Kubernetes Endpoi... Rajat Khanna
• How We Stopped a Crypto-mining Attack in Kubernetes Caused... Achanandhi M & Tamil Vanan Karuppannan
• From Flaky Builds to Self-Healing Deployments: An OTel-Driven CI/CD... Chamod Perera & Shivay Lamba
• LLMs Behind Bars: Sandboxes at Scale for AI on a Short Leash - Prashanth Pai, CodeRabbit — CodeRabbit
• KServe in Production: Scaling Generative Inference the Cloud Native Way - Johnu George, Nutanix — Nutanix
• Introducing OCI Webhook Support in Argo CD: From Polling To Real-Time - Nitish Kumar, Akuity — Akuity
• Sponsored Demo: Scaling EdTech at Hyperspeed: How PhysicsWallah Red... Avinash Gupta & Gaurang Singh — Hyperspeed
• Re-Architecting Monoliths Into Kubernetes Microservices at Million-User Scale: Hard... Aditya Sharma — Million
• Who Watches the Watchers? From Closed Observability To... Aditi Gupta, Madhu Patel & Sandeep Kanabar
• 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.
• From API Events To Production in Minutes: Backstage as the Front Door... Aditya Soni & Atul Bhardwaj
• 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.
• Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss! - Nitish Kumar, Maintainer — Maintainer
• Project Lightning Talk: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks - Vidhi Shah, Maintainer — Maintainer
• Sponsored Demo: The True Cost of Building at Machine Speed - Dan Lorenc, Chainguard — Machine, Chainguard
• Sponsored Demo: From Local App to Cluster in Minutes with Headlamp and OSS - Sanket Bakshi
• KubeEdge DeepDive: Extending Kubernetes To the Edge With Real-World Industry Use Case - Ronak Raj
• Zero Trust for Fintech: Building Secure Banking Infrastructure Wit... Prasta Maha & Herbert Sianturi. Describes building secure zero-trust banking infrastructure for fintech on cloud native tooling.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026

• From Model Serving To Distributed Inference: How Llm-d Evolves AI Platforms on… K. Yan & L. He
• Conformance for Inference: How We Reduced Bad Deploys on a GPU Platform - Aditya Soni & Hrittik Roy
• The Road To Cilium: Migrating 150+ Kubernetes Clusters at Airbnb - Yifei Sun, Airbnb — Airbnb
• Running OpenSearch at Scale in High-Traffic Gaming Systems - Siddharth Vijay, Baazi Games — Baazi Games
• From User To Contributor: A Quick Guide To Kubectl & Kustomize - Yugo Kobayashi & Maciej Szulik
• Beyond Translation: The Journey of Building the Japanese Kubernetes SIG… A. Takahashi & J. Okabe
• Shared Yet Isolated at Scale: Building Multi-Tenant Inference Platform on… Y. Hiraki & Y. Tanaka
• Repurposing OpenTelemetry Traces as Test Data: Breaking the Cost Barrier in System… Y. Fujikane. Describes reusing OpenTelemetry traces as test data to lower the cost of system testing.
• From Statsd To OpenTelemetry: Atlassian's Metrics Platform Migration… I. Grace Endozo & F. Vazirnia
• Runtime Security at Scale With EBPF: Hybrid Detection and Root Cause… Y. Krishna Kota & R. Waghare
• Taming Billions of Rows: Data Lifecycle Management Lessons From a Cloud Native Database… R. Kadyrov. Lessons learned managing the data lifecycle of billions of rows in a cloud native database, reported from the speaker's own operating experience.
• ⚡Lightning Talk: From First Contribution To Maintainer: An OSS Journey Inside Youki - Yusuke Sakurai
• ⚡Lightning Talk: 1 Year, 15 Certs, Zero Kubernetes at Work: How I Became a Golden… Y. Misaki — Work
• Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss! - Nitish Kumar, Akuity — Akuity
• Changing the Engine Mid-Flight: Zero-Downtime Ceph Upgrades - Cuong Nguyen, Viettel Group — Viettel Group. Viettel Group describes performing zero-downtime upgrades of its Ceph clusters.
• User Namespaces in Production: Enabling Root in Containers With RWX - Kohei Sugihara & Toru Komatsu — Preferred Networks. Describes running user namespaces in production to enable root inside containers with RWX storage.
• From Experiment To Enterprise: Scaling an AI Agent for Code Review - Adam Phan. Describes taking an AI code review agent from experiment to enterprise-scale use.
• Kube-scheduler-evaluator: Evaluating Kubernetes Schedulers at Hyperscaler… R. Bannai & H. Yabuuchi — Hyperscaler
• How To Evolve Your LLM Self-Hosting Platform: A Practical Guide To Adopting… S. Omura & Y. Zhan
• SIG Scheduling Update: Transition From Pod To Workload Scheduling - Kensei Nakada & Yuki Iwai
• 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.
• From Tool Calls To Context Fabric: Building AI-Native Observability for… D. Choudhary & D. Kapur
• I Tested 7 So You Only Need 1: Your First Gateway API Migration in 5 Minutes - Hoon Jo
• Lessons From Five+ Years of Fluent Bit: Building a Global-Scale Observability Agent - Hiroshi Hatake — Fluent Bit. Hiroshi Hatake shares lessons from more than five years of building and operating Fluent Bit as a global-scale observability agent.
• Towards Sustainable Multi-Cluster Management in Real-World Academic Infrastructure - J. Mok & C. Im
• Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes… N. Bora & M. Morrison. Speakers share patterns and lessons from scaling multi-cluster Kubernetes with Cluster API, arguing against starting with hundreds of clusters.