Cloud Native University Europe 2026
2026-03-24
Amsterdam, Netherlands
who it's for
platform engineers, Kubernetes administrators, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, ml platform engineers, observability engineers, security engineers
topics
gitops with Flux and Argo; Kubernetes custom resource controllers; in-place pod resize (KEP 1287); gpu scheduling and fractionation (DRA); KServe model serving; observability with VictoriaLogs and Grafana; OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics; Kubernetes release and KEP process; platform engineering golden path and IDP; Kubernetes security and hardening checklist (Trivy, Keyverno)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How Kube... | Michael Forrester, Mumshad Mannambeth | 20m |
Kubernetes ships three releases a year and feature decisions live in KEPs (look up KEP 1287 for in‑place pod resize to see API changes, SIGs involved, and… | ||
| Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University... Cansu Kavili Örnek and Anneli Sara Banderby | Cansu Kavili Ornek, Anneli Sara Banderby | 15m |
Quick decision map that maps ideas to actions: containers host models (some model images reach gigabytes or terabytes from Hugging Face), GPUs require GPU… | ||
| AI + Kubernetes: What Beginners... | Michael Forrester | 16m |
Kubernetes now supports GPU fractionation and driver selection via DRA, in-place pod resize, and gang scheduling so distributed training stops failing when one… | ||
| A Simple and Practical Guide to Obser... | Virginia Diana Todea | 10m |
Explains a minimal Kubernetes observability baseline: a short list of meaningful metrics (API server latencies, request rates, node CPU/memory, pod restarts… | ||
| Cloud Native vs. Platform Native vs... | Ruckus Voxi | 14m |
Timeline: DevOps (2007–2009), Twelve‑Factor (2011), Docker (2013), Kubernetes (2014), CNCF (2015). Core claim: cloud native requires the four building blocks —… | ||
| Introduction to GitOps | Chris Plank | 07m |
Explains that Git becomes the single source of truth and lightweight in-cluster controllers using CRDs implement a pull model so Kubernetes converges to Git… | ||
| Kubernetes: The API of Everything | Tibo Beijen | 08m |
Kubernetes is framed as an extendable API rather than just a container orchestrator it defines resources via custom resource definitions and drives behavior… | ||
| Platform Engineering - About Tools... | Max Korbacher | 15m |
Platforms fail or succeed mostly for nontechnical reasons and tools are rarely the root cause, Kubernetes, OCI containers, GitOps and OpenTofu are listed as… | ||
| Kubernetes and the Answer is… 42! | Jan Stomphorst | 18m |
A field‑tested checklist of 42 Kubernetes readiness checks that names the exact fixes and tools used: SBOM and image scanning with Trivy, multi‑stage builds… | ||
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