KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
2026-03-23..2026-03-26
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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who it's for
kubernetes operators, platform engineers, cloud-native developers, site reliability engineers, security engineers, open source maintainers, ml infrastructure engineers
topics
container2wasm browser containers; metal3 bare-metal provisioning; falco forensic capture logs; rego string interpolation; kairos immutable node images; interLink slurm kubernetes mapping; k8up restic backup operator; kyverno resource lifecycle automation; ebpf l4 offload; argo workflows 4; fluxcd gitops automation; kcp multi-cluster control plane
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape | Katherine Druckman, Lori Lorusso | 15m |
Walks the CNCF map with concrete tools and numbers: askcncf.io (Docusaurus) for Q&A, the live landscape with clickable project pages, and Clo Monitor health… | ||
| Container2Wasm: Running Containers On Wasm Environments | Kohei Tokunaga | 05m |
container2wasm converts unmodified Linux containers into Wasm blobs and runs them in Wasm runtimes and browsers using CPU emulators, claiming QEMU-based JIT… | ||
| Finally Incubated! What Comes Next For Metal3? | Ádám Rozmán | 06m |
Metal3 reports incubation on August 27, 2025 and steady growth: 36,000 GitHub actions recorded, 59 releases across five components, new adopter Mirantis, more… | ||
| Forensics With Falco | Gerald Combs | 05m |
Falco now records captured activity on rule triggers to timestamped files and integrates with StratoShark for packet‑style investigation; the demo replays a… | ||
| How To Add A New Language Feature To OPA | Charlie Egan | 06m |
Adds string interpolation to Rego in OPA 1.12 and describes exactly what changed: scanner/parser gains two new tokens, the AST gets a template string node, the… | ||
| Opening/Intro | Robert Sirchia | 02m |
Room runs on a strict cadence: a 15-minute opener, then back-to-back 5-minute lightning talks with 2-minute breaks between slots, so timing stays tight and… | ||
| What’s New In Kairos, 2026 Edition | Mauro Morales | 05m |
Kairos v4.03 turns Ubuntu, openSUSE and similar distros into immutable, image-based OSes for K3s or K8s and adds a CNCF-hosted distribution Hadron (musl +… | ||
| How To Run Kubernetes Pods On My Slurm-Based HPC Center | Diego Ciangottini | 05m |
A practical deploy guide for interLink that maps plain Kubernetes pods onto Slurm by translating pod manifests into batch jobs: it uses three core components… | ||
| CNCF Sandbox Project K8Up Under The Hood | Aarno Aukia | 05m |
k8up started in 2018 and launches as a scheduler and Kubernetes-native operator that wires the battle-tested Restic tool into cluster workflows, offering… | ||
| Beyond Guardrails: Resource Lifecycle Automation With Kyverno | Ammar Yasser | 05m |
Most teams use Kyverno just to block bad configs but Kyverno claims full resource lifecycle automation using YAML policies instead of a custom controller… | ||
| Translating Ebpf Into Business Value: Lessons From The Cili... | Bill Mulligan | 05m |
Project scales eBPF into measurable business outcomes by mapping user → use case → industry → outcome, and by building a website that surfaces almost 100 case… | ||
| Optimize Sidecarless Service Mesh With A Brand-New Rust-Base... | Zengzeng Yao | 05m |
Kmesh offloads L4 into the kernel via eBPF kernel L4 offload and routes only complex L7 to a new Rust proxy, Orion, which implements a trimmed set of… | ||
| What's Exciting Now In Bootc, And What's Next? | Colin Walters | 05m |
bootc (CNCF sandbox since 2024) delivers image-based transactional updates with systemd and podman integration, supports soft reboots to switch root without… | ||
| FluxCD - Gitops For All Sizes | Matheus Pimenta | 07m |
Flux reconciles cluster state from Git using lightweight Kubernetes controllers and CRDs and claims production scale across hundreds of clusters at Azure, AWS… | ||
| MCP Routing In Linkerd | Flynn | 05m |
Linkerd becomes the first mesh to support MCP by actually parsing JSON‑RPC bodies inside HTTP, extracting methods from deep in the payload, and enforcing… | ||
| Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform For Both... | Yuan Tang | 05m |
KServe announces a release that extends predictive-serving features to LLMs with a purpose-built llm-d CRD, support for disaggregated inference (separate… | ||
| What Can Crossplane Actually Do? A Real World Fiel... | Jonasz Łasut-Balcerzak | 05m |
Crossplane pairs a Kubernetes control plane with infrastructure APIs so platform teams reuse Kyverno, OPA Gatekeeper policies and Argo deployment flows to… | ||
| Hami: Dynamic, Smart, Stable GPU-Sharing Middleware In Kubern... | Mengxuan Li | 05m |
GPU partitioning middleware that lets multiple containers safely share a single card by injecting a custom CUDA library to enforce hard resource isolation and… | ||
| K3s Lightning Update | Manuel Buil | 05m |
K3s reports concrete changes: upgrade to Go 1.25, new NYX snapshotter, richer kind metrics, and ability to enable secrets encryption post-deploy (no need to… | ||
| Harbor Update | Prasanth Baskar | 04m |
Harbor 2.15 ships with concrete fixes: a new option to disable tags on S3 and other storages to speed garbage collection, upstream proxy cache connection… | ||
| KubeEdge Everywhere: From Graduation To Global Adoption | Yue Bao | 07m |
KubeEdge graduates in 2024 and claims widespread adoption with ~8,000 GitHub stars, ~3,000 forks and 2,000 contributors from 100+ countries. Architecture pairs… | ||
| A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF Landsca... | Katherine Druckman, Lori Lorusso | 15m |
Overview of the CNCF landscape with concrete takeaways: 209 projects across sandbox, incubating, graduated tiers; use askcncf.io for Q&A and the live clickable… | ||
| Envoy Today: What’s New In Managing Cloud-Native And AI Workl... | Karol Szwaj | 04m |
Summary of current Envoy work: core Envoy adds native protocol support, MCP and agent-to-agent, plus request buffering and cross-service failover for… | ||
| Modelpack: Standardizing The Packaging And Distribution Of... | Andrew Block | 05m |
ModelPack standardizes packaging by packaging AI/ML models as OCI artifacts and publishing them to any container registry; it ships a modelctl CLI that… | ||
| Multi-Cluster Configuration Management With KubeStellar | Andy Anderson | 06m |
KubeStellar console manages multiple clusters by deduping kubeconfigs and honoring existing access levels while exposing no human PRs and automating actions… | ||
| Scheduling at the Edge of Reason: Multi-Cluster AI & OCM | August Simonelli | 05m |
Demonstrates a dynamic scoring framework in Open Cluster Management that deploys agents as add-ons to feed a scoring API which generates continuous Placement… | ||
| Urunc: The New Kid In The Block Of Sandboxed Container... | Charalampos Mainas | 05m |
urunc flips the model by running the application over the sandbox instead of inside it, claiming CRI compatibility and seamless container workflow integration… | ||
| Argo Workflows 4, What's New And What's Next | Alan Clucas | 05m |
Argo Workflows 4.0 adds artifact plugins so custom drivers move data in and out of pods, full CRD validation (no more tiny schemas from 3.7), and removal of… | ||
| Still Burning GPUs On Debugging? Scale AI In One Line | Anna Kramar | 05m |
Kubeflow SDK offers one unified Python API installable with pip that runs identically as a local subprocess, a containerized backend (Docker/Podman), or on… | ||
| Argo CD Source Hydrator: Rendered Manifests Made Easy! | Michael Crenshaw | 05m |
Argo CD Source Hydrator automatically renders Helm/Kustomize/plugin outputs and pushes a flat manifest.yaml into Git so Argo CD applies pre-rendered manifests… | ||
| A Maintainer’s Tour Of Tag Security And Compliance | Marina Moore | 05m |
TAG Security and Compliance runs self-assessments for early-stage projects and joint assessments that include code review and concrete remediation guidance… | ||
| Multi-Cluster Orchestration System: Karmada Updates A... | Joe Nathan Abellard | 05m |
Karmada is a Kubernetes-native multi-cluster control plane that swaps a standard kube scheduler for a Karmada scheduler and reuses the kube API server to place… | ||
| Bare Metal Provisioning With Tinkerbell | Jacob Weinstock | 05m |
Kubernetes-native bare metal provisioning that uses CRDs for hardware and template to produce executable workflows that do PXE/ISO boot, partition disks, kexec… | ||
| Let’s Deploy etcd Operator | Arka Saha | 05m |
Shows how etcd-operator v0.2 deploys etcd clusters from a CRD and brings up the controller pod on kind or a cluster image built locally, creating member pods… | ||
| Next-Gen AI Orchestration With Volcano On Kubernetes | Zhonghu Xu | 08m |
Volcano positions itself as a unified AI scheduler that moves beyond batch to coordinate multiple schedulers and workload types, implementing queue and gang… | ||
| Visualize And Manage Your Cloud-Native Infrastructure With Me... | Yash Sharma | 05m |
Meshery v1.0 is announced and demonstrates a visual design surface called Kanvas drag-and-drop canvas that deploys templates to Kubernetes with preflight… | ||
| k0s - CNCF Sandbox Distro Updates | Jussi Nummelin | 05m |
k0s packages Kubernetes into one single binary that’s statically compiled and runs on Alpine, Ubuntu, Red Hat or Windows with a single extra file; CRI… | ||
| Get To Where You're Going With Kgateway | David Jumani | 06m |
K Gateway is an Envoy-based Gateway API implementation that claims 170,000 downloads last month and ships overlays via strategic-merge-patch so Helm-unexposed… | ||
| kcp: Scaling The Kubernetes Control Plane For The Multi-Clust... | Jan Willies | 05m |
kcp presents a horizontally scalable control plane that creates Logical Clusters called workspaces, each a full Kubernetes API without nodes, pods, or kubelets… | ||
| Namespace Multi-Tenancy, But All The Problems Related To It | Hristo Hristov | 05m |
Kubernetes hits scale pain around 200–300 microservices, where namespaces and clusters both fail; Project Capsule wraps multiple namespaces into a tenant that… | ||
| Blocking Vulnerable Workloads Out (And Catching What Got I... | Alessio Greggi | 05m |
Shows a working integration that combines Kubewarden + SBOM scanner to block images at admission based on registry scans and vulnerability reports. Policies… | ||
| Run Your Data Layer In K8s With Vitess | Matt Lord | 05m |
Vitess turns a single MySQL instance into a distributed data layer that scales MySQL to hundreds or thousands of nodes while presenting a single-server façade… | ||
| From Idle to Ideal: Cross‑Cluster GPU Sharing with CoHDI | Takao Indoh | 04m |
CoHDI presents a composable hardware system that attaches/detaches GPUs on demand from a centrally managed shared GPU and memory pool, integrating with Dynamic… | ||
| OpenCost: Cost And Resource Management | Rajith Attapattu | 07m |
OpenCost delivers a unified allocation model that produces per-container and per-node cost metrics for cloud and on‑prem Kubernetes, using a Prometheus backend… | ||
| Safe By Design: AI-Powered Auto-Healing For SREs | Arik Alon | 05m |
An open-source agent called Holmes GPT connects to Prometheus, Loki, Datadog, New Relic and cloud providers to run queries, surface root cause, and execute… | ||
| What's New And Exciting In Kagent? | Peter Jausovec | 04m |
Kagent is an incubating CNCF project that runs AI agents in Kubernetes via a controller, DB, UI and CLI with CRDs for declarative agents or BYO container… | ||
| Scaling Kubescape to Thousands of Nodes | Matthias Bertschy | 05m |
Kubescape hits lock contention at 5,000 nodes when each node sends ~10 MB container profiles, so storing huge CRDs in ETCD becomes impractical. Initial… | ||
| Perses General Overview | Augustin Husson | 05m |
Perses is a CNCF sandbox observability visualization that displays metrics logs traces profiling and adds new sources (Polar Signals, OpenSearch). It ships… | ||
| PipeCDv1 Is Here! Leverage The Power Of Plugin Architecture | Khanh Tran | 06m |
PipeCD v1 alpha introduces a pluggable agent model: the single binary piped offloads platform logic into separately built plugins that communicate over piped… | ||
| Closing | Robert Sirchia | 01m |
A project pavilion sits apart from vendor booths and hosts project tables and short demos; a small stage features live mini-sessions including George Castro… | ||
| OpenFGA For Agents: Safe Delegation In 5 Minutes | Andres Aguiar | 07m |
Shows a concrete OpenFGA relationship model for delegation (human → agent → tool → resource) and a real check flow that enforces ephemeral per-task… | ||
| Konveyor AI for Every Language and the Future of App Moderniza... | Syed Shaaf | 06m |
Konveyor AI now analyzes Java, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript and recently added C#, Python, and Node.js support, using a static code analysis engine + Language… | ||
| Fluent Bit V5 | Eduardo Silva | 06m |
Fluent Bit v5 claims a new performance ceiling with higher throughput and lower CPU and memory than Fluent Bit 4.2 and a baseline OpenTelemetry Collector in… | ||
| Five Minutes by CloudNativePG River | Gabriele Quaresima | 05m |
CloudNativePG is a Kubernetes operator that runs highly available PostgreSQL as primary/standby with native streaming replication, exposing a Cluster CRD that… | ||
| youki: What’s New and What’s Next? | Yusuke Sakurai | 06m |
youki is a Rust OCI runtime with about 7.3k GitHub stars that adds concrete features — net device support and Linux memory policy — and expands OCI conformance… | ||
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