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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026

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From Model Serving To Distributed Inference: How Llm-d Evolves AI Platforms on…K. Yan, L. He31m
Platform teams get a concrete reference architecture: KAITO performs GPU node auto-provisioning, model onboarding, OpenAI‑compatible endpoints and autoscaling…
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Keep Cloud Native Moving: Building Japan's Platform for Open...Jonathan Bryce, Chris Aniszczyk26m
KubeCon Europe draws 13,500 attendees from 3,500 organizations across 100 countries and CNCF reports about 20 million cloud native developers globally with…
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Designing a Hybrid AI Platform on KubernetesAoi Kamide30m
Edge deployment on k3s clusters uses k3s + Rancher to centralize GitOps delivery while GPU inference runs on Nvidia servers with up to 128 GB unified memory…
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Beyond the DC Walls: Building a Nationwide GPU Fabric With KubeVirt and Wide-Area…K. Sato, J. Li30m
Nationwide GPU fabric stitches eight data centers across ~2,000 km over a 100 Gbit wide‑area L2 IOWN APN, runs Kubernetes with KubeVirt and SKT’s Petabyte AI…
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Architecting Secure Agentic Workflows on Kubernetes: A Financial Sector…V. Caldeira, M. Foster31m
Reference architecture uses MCP Gateway, SPIFFE/SPIRE and a transparent proxy (ROSOctl) with Keycloak-backed token exchange to give agents short‑lived, scoped…
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Who's Using That GPU? Identity-Aware Access Control for Kubernetes GPU…P. ONeill, K. Kushwaha27m
An open‑source validating admission webhook intercepts DRA ResourceClaim creation and enforces identity‑aware rules: OIDC via Dex for human auth, group‑based…
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Conformance for Inference: How We Reduced Bad Deploys on a GPU PlatformAditya Soni, Hrittik Roy31m
A seven‑step pipeline enforces separate build conformance (CI checks, pinned image SHA and artifact assurance) and serving conformance (GPU preflight…
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The Road To Cilium: Migrating 150+ Kubernetes Clusters at AirbnbYifei Sun26m
Airbnb migrates 150+ Kubernetes clusters (13,000+ nodes) from AWS VPC CNI to Cilium over eight months, validating at scale with Kubeburner (100 pods/s) and…
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CoHDI: A CNCF Sandbox Project for Dynamic Hardware Composability in KubernetesNaoki Oguchi30m
CoHDI is a CNCF Sandbox project that implements dynamic attachment and detachment of GPUs and other PCI/CXL devices into Kubernetes using three components…
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What Is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) ? : Green Tech and the Modernization of the GridL. Malcom30m
Grid modernization centers on software that marshals distributed assets into marketable capacity: Kubernetes-style controllers use MQTT and CQRS to send…
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Beyond Wasm: How Dynamic Modules Let You Extend Envoy Proxy in Go, Rust, or…R. Agrawal, T. Yoneda26m
Dynamic Modules let Envoy load shared libraries with a C ABI so extensions run in-process from Go, Rust, or any language, avoiding WASM sandboxing or C++…
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Breaking the Single-Network Barrier: A Cross-Domain Look at…L. Jouin, S. Seetharaman, S. Qasmi31m
Kubernetes multi-networking is shown as solved in part but fragmented: a production video AI pipeline at Expo 2025 uses RDMA over secondary network for…
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Pluggable Interception: Using ExtAuthz and ExtProc in gRPC Using XDSPawan Bhardwaj26m
gRPC adds ExtAuthz and ExtProc via xDS so interception runs as side‑channel callouts, not sidecars: the library becomes XDS‑aware and performs real‑time…
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Image-Based Bare-Metal Provisioning With Metal3.io, Cluster API and…K. Khan, G. Vasudevan24m
Production case study using image-based provisioning with Cluster API + Metal3.io and Ironic replaces PXE scripts with Kubernetes APIs and controllers…
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Is Your Kubernetes Disaster Recovery Actually Ready?Saiyam Pathak, Saloni Narang30m
68% of organizations report data loss last year with an average cost of $4.5M and fewer than one third can answer Kubernetes DR specifics. Demos use Velero +…
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Maximizing Launch Reliability: Controlled Lift-off for Reliable Application Startup on…H. Hayakawa30m
Compares two concrete solutions: kube-startup-cpu-boost uses Kubernetes In-place Pod Resize and an admission webhook to temporarily raise CPU/memory then…
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Score-Driven Multi-Cluster Management: An Evaluation Framework for…K. Takeuchi, J. Banerjee30m
They build a new Open Cluster Management add-on called Dynamic Scoring Framework (DSF) that runs lightweight agents on managed clusters, pulls Prometheus…
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Running OpenSearch at Scale in High-Traffic Gaming SystemsSiddharth Vijay28m
Runs OpenSearch as the primary request path for a poker platform ingesting about 3.5 million events/day and ~7TB daily, and shows concrete fixes after queue…
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Dynamic Modules in Envoy Gateway: API Design, Safety, and OperabilityK. Kimura, H. (Robin) Zhao27m
Envoy Gateway exposes Kubernetes-native APIs that register shared libraries in an Envoy proxy CRD and let application teams attach them via Envoy extension…
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SIG API Machinery in the Era of AI: UpdatesFederico Bongiovanni29m
Kubernetes API machinery in 1.36 centers on operational stability: mutating admission policy (GA) and declarative validation via struct tags to generate…
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WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next?Michał Woźniak, Yuki Iwai30m
Kubernetes batch work focuses on concrete changes: Job API reaches suspended jobs beta in 1.36, work creation and PodGroup auto-creation appear in 1.37 alpha…
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Behind the CNCF IAM Whitepaper: AuthN & AuthZ in Cloud Native SystemsY. Tabata, H. Wada26m
CNCF TAG Security and Compliance publishes an IAM whitepaper that defines two concrete reference architectures: a one cluster trust zone Basic pattern that…
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From User To Contributor: A Quick Guide To Kubectl & KustomizeYugo Kobayashi, Maciej Szulik32m
Shows how kubectl commands are structured and how kustomize renders overlays into final manifests with concrete patterns, libraries and code links. Explains…
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Beyond Translation: The Journey of Building the Japanese Kubernetes SIG…A. Takahashi, J. Okabe25m
Japanese SIG Docs maintains kubernetes.io/ja, the style guide, and a localization tracker, and reports 1170 merged PRs last year from about 50 unique…
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Topology-Aware Scheduling for AI Training & Inference With KueueMichał Woźniak, Wei Huang30m
Kueue proves capable as a quota-and-scheduling layer for a migration from bespoke infra to Kubernetes but requires concrete TAS extensions: a multi-layer TAS…
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The Great Doubt: What Building an AI Agent Taught Us About TrustNicole van der Hoeven30m
Built a production AI observability agent called Grafana Assistant that integrates Prometheus, Tempo and K6 and can raise PRs; evaluation uses an internal…
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Shared Yet Isolated at Scale: Building Multi-Tenant Inference Platform on…Y. Hiraki, Y. Tanaka28m
SoftBank runs over 10,000 GPUs (A100, H100, DB200) and builds a vcluster-based platform that gives teams either vcluster virtual clusters with full…
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Shared GPU Scheduling & Proactive Autoscaling: A Production Blueprint for 1000+…J. Kim, R. Jelveh31m
Production platform integrates Hami vGPU virtualization with a KEDA extension exposing a KEDA Consumer Saturation metric (unacked messages / active consumers)…
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One Binary, Two Ecosystems: Embedding Prometheus Exporters With OCBKyle Eckhart, Arthur Silva Sens31m
Shows a working bridge that embeds existing Prometheus exporters directly into a custom OpenTelemetry Collector built with OCB, removing the HTTP scrape hop…
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OTel Meets Wasm: Rethinking OpenTelemetry Collector ExtensibilityKotaro Inoue, Tsuzuki Tsuchiya30m
A proof‑of‑concept called autom proof-of-concept loads OpenTelemetry Collector receivers, processors and exporters as WebAssembly modules using wasmtime/wasm0…
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Repurposing OpenTelemetry Traces as Test Data: Breaking the Cost Barrier in System…Y. Fujikane31m
Repurposes OpenTelemetry traces as ground-truth test fixtures and demonstrates a PoC migration from Java to Go where PoC: Java→Go, 4 CRUD endpoints, E2E tests…
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Designing for High-cardinality MetricsWalther Lee, Aleksandr Krivoshchekov23m
A stateless scrape-time reset algorithm converts cumulative counters into safe aggregates by resetting counters at flush and handling counter resets…
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From Statsd To OpenTelemetry: Atlassian's Metrics Platform Migration…I. Grace Endozo, F. Vazirnia29m
Atlassian migrates a 10-year StatsD pipeline to OpenTelemetry Collectors, replacing go-statsd sidecars with collector-based sidecars and gateways and keeping…
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Standardizing Industrial IoT Observability With OpenTelemetryAlolita Sharma28m
Claims that OpenTelemetry already bridges shop-floor to cloud by configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector with native receivers for MQTT and OPC-UA and…
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AuthZEN in Practice: Standardizing Authorization for Cloud Native Platforms and AgentsY. Tabata30m
AuthZEN Authorization API 1.0 is a standard PEP–PDP interface finalized January 2026 and implemented experimentally in Keycloak (v26.7 demo). The demo runs on…
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Container Forensics for Kubernetes: Building an Evidence Pipeline With Open Source…J. Wu, P. Garg29m
Demonstrates a working open source evidence pipeline: Falco 0.42 writes scap files (continuous syscall capture) that Falco Talon previously provided…
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Sealed for All: Multi-Party Confidential Computing, No TrustRyota Hashimoto, Takahiro Kambara28m
Claim: multiple parties run a joint confidential workload where data, application, and result are all sealed using hardware TEEs and file encryption…
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Runtime Security at Scale With EBPF: Hybrid Detection and Root Cause…Y. Krishna Kota, R. Waghare29m
Claims a kernel-level eBPF pipeline (one agent per node) that captures syscall and network lifecycle signals to see ephemeral activity missed by user‑space…
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Scalable Security and Compliance in the Age of AIEddie Knight28m
Findings from 37,000 AI dependency recommendations and a review of 200,000 malicious OSS packages show more than a quarter of AI suggestions are wrong and…
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SBOMit: Making SBOMs Accurate With AttestationsMarco De Vincenzi, Justin Cappos32m
SBOMit generates SBOMs from in-toto attestations captured by witness at build time, observing filesystem reads/writes, process execution and network fetches…
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OpenTelemetry Celebrates Graduation and the Next Era of Agentic...Alolita Sharma, Ted Young04m
OpenTelemetry celebrates CNCF graduation and claims production-grade security and scale, a unified four-signal fabric (traces, metrics, logs, profiles), and…
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Large-Scale Edge Management with Kubernetes: The Tech Behind Stable Operation of...Ryota Yonekura03m
PowerX runs ~200 EV chargers and builds a hybrid GKE-edge Kubernetes control plane using k0s to support ARMv7 and small memory footprints. Edge nodes join as…
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What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) ? : Green Tech and the Modernization of the GridLeRenzo Malcom05m
Japan runs a split grid at two-frequency 50/60 Hz, imports about 85% of its electricity (33% LNG, 31% coal, 4% oil) and suffers single-point risks that…
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How CNCF Projects United Two Countries' Engineers to Solve AI's Power-and-Land ProblemKazuki Sato03m
NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS and SK Telecom stitch eight data centers across more than 2,000 km over an IOWN APN wide‑area L2 network and operate them as a single…
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Navigating the Identity Abyss in the AI‑Native EraYuichi Nakamura09m
CNCF efforts address concrete gaps: the IAM White Paper classifies cloud native identity into 2 basic and 2 advanced patterns and gives actionable…
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Infinite Agents, Finite KubernetesMohammad Mikal Bin Amrul Halim Gan03m
Argues that agent workloads are exploding as short-lived heavy-compute pods that spike GPU/CPU demand and stress the Kubernetes control plane, while space…
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The Next Evolution of Kubernetes: GPU-Centric Infrastructure for AI WorkloadsTakao Indoh03m
Fujitsu presents a shift from CPU-first clouds to GPU-centric infrastructure that dynamically composes hardware to match AI demand, claiming Codi (open source)…
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Building a Multi-Tenant AI Platform with the CNCF EcosystemAya Igarashi10m
Platform runs multi-tenant AI for internal and external researchers across GPUs and MNcore, balancing cost and isolation with a hybrid model combining…
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How Subaru Accelerated AI Model Development for Next-Generation EyeSight...Ryoji Kobayashi04m
Subaru builds an in‑cluster Harbor registry and uses Envoy Gateway in host mode plus MetalLB to cut 30 GB images pull time from about three hours to three…
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From 5 to 1,300+ Clusters: Declarative Scaling for Private KubernetesShota Yoshimura03m
Kubernetes becomes the infrastructure control plane by modeling clusters as custom resource definitions with controllers that create and manage OpenStack VMs…
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Out of the Box, at Multi-Region Scale: How Hyundai Scales Its PlatformJaewoo Choi03m
Hyundai runs a single Argo CD instance that manages 5,000+ Applications across 300+ Kubernetes clusters, growing by hundreds per month, and scales by using…
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Where Will Cloud Native Take You?Jeffrey Sica13m
Story of Andy Weir shows community-driven improvement rather than gatekept publishing, then ties that lesson to concrete CNCF routes: contribute.cncf.dev and…
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1 Year, 15 Certs, a Raspberry Pi Home Lab: How I Became a Golden KubestronautYu Misaki03m
Builds a Raspberry Pi home lab with three Raspberry Pi 5s clustered with kubeadm, runs real CNCF projects from a public GitHub repo (kansanlove) and converts…
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Take the First Step, Grow with Cloud Native Community JapanZiyi Xie05m
Cloud Native Community Japan starts in 2023 and now has >1,000 followers, 10 topic subgroups and nearly 50 meetups and events; it runs a Japan Community Day on…
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Taming Billions of Rows: Data Lifecycle Management Lessons From a Cloud Native Database…R. Kadyrov28m
Cloud-native migration to TiDB was blocked by dormant rows until a lifecycle strategy moved 40% of a multi‑billion‑row table into BigQuery via CDC→Kafka→Flink…
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Sponsored Demo: MCP Auth Demo: CIMD With KeycloakTatsuya Kurosaka17m
Keycloak implements the MCP authorization model (spec v2025-11-25) by retrieving and validating Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD) hosted at an HTTPS URL…
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Sponsored Demo: Secure, Portable, Operable: A Strategy for Modern ServicesG. Schiano Lomoriello20m
A Canonical toolchain demonstrates building and operating microservices end-to-end: Rockcraft builds Ubuntu OCI images and shrinks a Spring Boot image from 381…
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⚡Lightning Talk: From First Contribution To Maintainer: An OSS Journey Inside YoukiYusuke Sakurai05m
First contribution lands as first PR Nov 2024, then over the next year more than 10+ PRs and 10+ issues lead to reviewer and maintainer roles by changing…
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⚡Lightning Talk: 1 Year, 15 Certs, Zero Kubernetes at Work: How I Became a Golden…Y. Misaki05m
One-year journey earns 15 CNCF/Kubernetes certifications without using Kubernetes at work: first exam fails, second attempt passes with 69 of 100, CKA takes…
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⚡Lightning Talk: Learning Kubernetes From Logs: Building a Foundation for Future…K. Ishii05m
Tracing a kubectl apply through API server audit logs to see the request and response, then following kube-controller-manager logs as it creates a ReplicaSet…
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⚡Lightning Talk: How Writing a Cluster Inventory API Plugin Led Me To MaintainershipKahiro Okina05m
Built a working Secret Reader plugin for KEP-5339’s Cluster Inventory API that implements kubeconfig-from-Secret semantics, discovers that the spec lacks an…
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Project Lightning Talk: Closing RemarksHoon Jo02m
Visit the project pavilion after this session to ask maintainers specific questions and see live demos, because project survival depends on active users and…
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Project Lightning Talk: Lima in 5 Minutes: From Containers To AI SandboxingAnsuman Sahoo07m
Lima runs lightweight VMs on laptops to host containers and AI agents, supports automatic host filesystem sharing and opt‑out port forwarding, and works with…
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Project Lightning Talk: Youki: What's New and What's Next?Yuta Nagai05m
youki ships 0.77 release and a one-line KubeDeploy installer and focuses on becoming a seamless drop-in replacement for runc by implementing core lifecycle…
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Project Lightning Talk: Spiderpool Unlocks Fine-Grained RDMA Observability for AI InferenceW. Lan05m
Spiderpool exposes per-pod RDMA by assigning multiple RDMA devices via SR-IOV and fixed pod IPs so switch-level traffic and per-pod RDMA metrics become…
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Project Lightning Talk: Longhorn: What's New & What's Next for Cloud Native Persistent…D. Mohan05m
Longhorn 1.12 (May 2026) ships with Engine V2 GA delivering production-ready cloud-native storage: incremental snapshots, disaster recovery, RWX support, IPv6…
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Project Lightning Talk: Kairos: Immutable OS and Lifecycle Management for Kubernetes…W. Rizzo04m
Immutable Linux OS built from container images with a released stable 1.0 and a minimal Hadron variant (Hadron) offering systemd+musl, trusted boot, AB atomic…
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Project Lightning Talk: CoHDI: Dynamic Hardware Composition for AI‑Era Kubernetes…N. Oguchi05m
CoHDI presents a concrete approach to make Kubernetes resource‑centric: it runs in the control plane, requests attach/detach of GPUs, memory and accelerators…
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Project Lightning Talk: New Frontiers for OpenTelemetry - A Roadmap for the FutureTed Young05m
OpenTelemetry announces a roadmap with concrete projects: system-wide installs via Linux package via apt/yum that auto-start the collector and auto-instrument…
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Project Lightning Talk: What’s New in K0s: Lightweight Kubernetes Without CompromisePrithvi Raj Venkat Raj06m
k0s 1.35–1.36 adds concrete items: true control-plane vs worker separation, three etcd fixes that auto‑promote caught‑up controllers, and Windows worker…
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Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss!Nitish Kumar06m
Argo CD 3.5 lands August 4, 2026 with five scale-focused features: an ApplicationSet UI for visualizing generated apps and navigation to each app, shallow…
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Project Lightning Talk: Opening RemarksHoon Jo03m
Nine projects get rapid five-minute slots, presenting nine projects and five minutes each from Argo CD to Rima with maintainers on hand; the session runs 70…
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A Practical, Research‑Backed Introduction To Cloud‑Native Kernel‑Bypass NetworkingK. Yasukata31m
Baseline Linux TCP networking tops at 0.6–0.7 MPPS with iperf3 on 10Gb links while a user‑space path using DPDK and testpmd hits 10Gb line rate at 64B frames…
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Changing the Engine Mid-Flight: Zero-Downtime Ceph UpgradesCuong Nguyen29m
Upgrades a 10–50 node bare‑metal Ceph cluster serving 5G core (AMF/UPF) from Reef→Squid (v18→v19) with zero downtime by using a rehearsed sequencing framework…
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Running Wasm Inside Your Storage Cluster With CSI and Gateway APIHo Kim, SangJoon Park29m
A Kubernetes-native storage gateway runs user-defined WebAssembly modules next to NVMe devices, using CSI and Gateway API for volume lifecycle and HTTP…
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Detecting Compromised CI With eBPF and Cilium TetragonLiz Rice33m
Shows a concrete GitHub Actions workflow that installs Cilium Tetragon via eBPF kernel hook and runs example policies in monitor and enforce mode. Demos detect…
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AIOps: (near) Zero-Touch Production Rollout FixesKevin Dubois, Carlos Sanchez31m
A live proof of concept that plugs an AI Metrics plugin into Argo Rollouts and Argo CD to analyze logs and Prometheus metrics for a 10% canary with a 95%…
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User Namespaces in Production: Enabling Root in Containers With RWXKohei Sugihara, Toru Komatsu31m
Kubernetes user namespaces are enabled across a production ML platform (2,000+ GPUs, 400 nodes, 100+ TB of data) by skipping failing idmapped mounts for NFS…
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Beyond Single-Cluster Limits: Scaling GPU Workloads Across Kubernetes With…K. Das, E. Bayramova22m
Cast AI team unifies five heterogeneous clusters using Liqo virtual nodes to make on‑prem A100/H100 and cloud spot GPUs appear as one schedulable topology…
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From Experiment To Enterprise: Scaling an AI Agent for Code ReviewAdam Phan27m
An internal agent called Code Fusion runs as ephemeral Kubernetes pods to perform bounded reviews across 400+ repositories, producing tens of thousands of code…
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Manufacturing Alerts To ReActive Agents: Self-Evolving AI Agents on K8S for Predictive…S. Moon26m
Claims a production pilot cuts diagnosis from days to under an hour with ~90% field acceptance, using an anomaly score (example 0.92) published to Kafka topic…
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Sustainability by Design: Leveraging DRA for Energy-Efficient…S. Choochotkaew, F. Kundattil21m
Demo shows a proof‑of‑concept where vendors expose TDP and runtime watts via a DRA driver so the scheduler can pick nodes labeled…
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Kube-scheduler-evaluator: Evaluating Kubernetes Schedulers at Hyperscaler…R. Bannai, H. Yabuuchi25m
An open-source framework defines large-scale workloads in Go, emulates a cluster as a single binary, and advances an internal virtual time so a 160-day Alibaba…
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How To Evolve Your LLM Self-Hosting Platform: A Practical Guide To Adopting…S. Omura, Y. Zhan34m
On‑prem GPU platform uses Envoy AI Gateway and Athenz for auth, serves 10 models to 30 tenants and handles 650B tokens/month with shared model servers to boost…
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Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q&ADerek Su31m
Longhorn ships a production-ready V2 data engine (SPDK, NVMe-oF) in 1.12.0 released May 2026, claiming multi× higher IOPS and lower latency by assigning…
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SIG Scheduling Update: Transition From Pod To Workload SchedulingKensei Nakada, Yuki Iwai31m
Kubernetes is shifting from pod-centric to Workload-aware scheduling with new Workload and PodGroup APIs, a PodGroup scheduling cycle and PodGroup meanCount…
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Identities and Authentication for Your Agents With KeycloakTakashi Norimatsu, Alexander Schwartz25m
Keycloak acts as a token broker for agent identities, issuing short‑lived OAuth tokens (minutes) from workload identities such as SPIFFE or Kubernetes service…
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Open Source Meets Production MaaS: GMI Inference Engine and Karmada for Global AI…X. Wang25m
GMI Cloud runs a Kubernetes-native inference platform combining GMI Inference Engine with Karmada to govern 40+ regions and 5+ GPU vendors, claiming one global…
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Kubeflow 2026 State of the Union: Orchestrating the Full ML LifecycleY. Pal, V. Rodriguez Sosa31m
Kubeflow reports concrete platform advances: a unified Kubeflow SDK unified clients (trainer, optimizer, Spark, pipelines, model registry) that supports local…
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Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With CephSatoru Takeuchi, Dan van der Ster31m
Rook automates Ceph on Kubernetes and is shown running a 10-region deployment with ~251 storage nodes and 2,800 OSDs providing 37 PB raw capacity today and a…
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A Decade of Cilium Around the WorldLiz Rice, Hiroki Hanada28m
Cilium hits a decade with ~1,100 contributors and ~25k GitHub stars and claims >60% CNI adoption; feature work includes gateway API TCP/UDP, egress IPv6…
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From 165 Days To 30 Minutes: Breaking Enterprise Silos With…A. Nishijima, M. Okamura, K. Yamamoto24m
Claims a reduction from 165 days to 30 minutes by replacing a 15-department, 40+ form provisioning maze with a Backstage developer portal that automates…
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From Tool Calls To Context Fabric: Building AI-Native Observability for…D. Choudhary, D. Kapur29m
An AI-native observability fabric precomputes context graphs and metadata caches so agents query Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints instead of scanning raw…
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I Tested 7 So You Only Need 1: Your First Gateway API Migration in 5 MinutesHoon Jo24m
PoC tests 7 implementations across 17 scenarios and shows a reproducible, minimal path: use ingress2gateway to convert Ingress YAML, apply Gateway API…
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Your First Kubernetes Contribution: A Hands-on Guide To Documentation…I. Y. Choi, W. Hwang01h 08m
Hands‑on guide shows how to make a first Kubernetes contribution by treating docs as code: sign the CLA, fork github.com/kubernetes/website, edit markdown, run…
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Ground Control To Cloud Native: Safe Deployments for a Growing SAR…U. Gurugubelli, M. Arai30m
Synspective replaces manual CI/CD with Argo CD for declarative GitOps, making cluster state auditable and self-healing, and converts per-satellite deployments…
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Beyond Power and Magic: Forging Stable eBPF Tools for the Post-Demon King EraK. Tada, C. Gaggini28m
Compares fragile attachments like kprobes with newer contracts such as fentry/fexit and kfuncs and shows that using BTF and CO-RE lets eBPF programs adapt…
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Lessons From Five+ Years of Fluent Bit: Building a Global-Scale Observability AgentHiroshi Hatake25m
Fluent Bit evolves into a global observability agent after five+ years, adding concrete support for non‑UTF‑8 inputs (GBK, Shift‑JIS, Windows‑31J), a…
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Vulnerability Response for Large Open Source ProjectsJo Guerreiro, Charline Voinot28m
Describes a Grafana account takeover caused by trusting email from multi‑tenant Azure AD and the concrete fix to use provider immutable IDs, with reproduction…
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Turning Platform Engineering Work Into Business Value Leadership UnderstandsD. Cook, S. Forster27m
Shows exact framing and numbers used to win funding: adopt a lightweight centralized platform in six weeks with two engineers to reduce churn from 10% to under…
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Evolving Platform Primitives: Beautiful Platforms With KroJakob Möller, Adam Crowder29m
kro (Kube Resource Orchestrator) turns sets of Kubernetes resources into reusable CRDs by authoring a Resource Graph Definition (RGD) that creates a DAG so…
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Scaling in Kubernetes Safely on On-Prem KaaS Across 1,300+ Clusters and 40,000+ NodesS. Yoshimura28m
A custom controller consolidates underutilized worker nodes across 1,300+ clusters and 40,000+ nodes, reducing capacity by about 20% so far with zero…
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OCI Is Not Git: Rethinking the GitOps Source of Truth for a Kubernetes-Native…M. Crenshaw, R. Lieb29m
Kokumi is an experimental Kubernetes operator that renders Helm and Kustomize input into OCI artifacts, pushes them to a registry (optionally an in-cluster…
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How Community Infrastructure Helped Grow Taiwan’s Open Source ContributorsC. Kuo, C. Yang28m
Community-run Infra Labs gives free, production-like cloud access (OpenStack stack, multi-VM clusters, isolated tenant networks, dual‑stack public IPs, load…
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Beyond the Code: Fostering Shared Vision and Technical Leadership in CNCF CommunitiesKevin Wang30m
Argues that technical leadership means shifting from coding to stewarding: use the CNCF TOC checklist (3–4 years of iteration) to run governance reviews, coach…
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Sandbox for Agentic Application With Cloud Native StackXu Wang, Yu Hu29m
Builds a self-hosted agent sandbox using agent-sandbox, Kata Containers, containerd on Kubernetes plus Dragonfly and Nydus for lazy image distribution and an…
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The State of Cloud Native: The Shift Towards AIKatie Gamanji23m
Kubernetes becomes the de facto orchestration layer for AI workloads with 98% cloudnative adoption and 66% of organizations running some AI on Kubernetes (7%…
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Towards Sustainable Multi-Cluster Management in Real-World Academic InfrastructureJ. Mok, C. Im29m
Lab runs four bare-metal clusters over 100GbE with 2PB Rook-Ceph storage and a 22‑GPU pool (7 accelerator types including L40S and A100) unified as ScaleX‑POD…
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Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes…N. Bora, M. Morrison32m
Two companies adopt Cluster API to automate fleet management and avoid manual toil: one migrates 60 clusters in 3 months and shrinks provisioning from a week…
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Closing Remarks – Yuichi NakamuraYuichi Nakamura01m
The schedule lists a breakout session at 11:30 a.m. and a welcome reception 5:45–7:15 p.m. in the solution showcase. The program committee reports a large…
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Closing Remarks – Aya IgarashiAya Igarashi01m
Keynote block ends and the schedule moves into afternoon activities: breakout sessions begin at 11:30 a.m., the solution showcase closes at 3:50 p.m. and…
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The Evolution of GitOps in Platform EngineeringArtem Lajko29m
Charts the shift from Git as a human collaboration layer to limits at scale: file-based, pull-driven reconciliation creates config sprawl and breaks when…
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026: Yokohama Highlights01m
Two days at Pacifico Yokohama on July 29–30 2026 gather a visibly diverse crowd from many countries and career stages and focus on hands on project engagement…
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