Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe 2025
as the organisers put it
Kubernetes on the Edge Day Europe has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes operators, edge infrastructure engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, embedded systems engineers
topics
immutable backups for edge clusters; S3-compatible object storage with encryption; Kasten and ARTESCA backup integration; KubeEdge cloud Hub list-watch; light kubelet with local metadata DB; container-backed OS updates (Kairos); atomic rollbacks for device upgrades; zero-touch provisioning for factories; declarative cluster templates at scale; Numaflow Kubernetes-native event processing; gRPC over Unix domain socket communications; Bacalhau integrated as Kubernetes CRD
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Katerina Arzhayev | 04m |
Event logistics and behavior rules: captioning via on-screen QR with captioning and translation and headphone audio, questions must use room mics, and the CNCF… | ||
| Chaos To Control: Kubernetes Resiliency at the Edge | Julia Furst Morgado, Candida Valois | 25m |
RetailCo suffers a phishing-triggered ransomware outbreak that encrypts persistent volumes across 500+ edge clusters and corrupts local snapshots. Recovery… | ||
| Seamless List-Watch Improvements Across Data Center and Massive Unstable Network Edge | Fei Xu, Huan Wei | 17m |
KubeEdge replaces direct API server list-watch bursts with a KubeEdge cloud Hub that enqueues objects, sends only the latest state on reconnect, and requires… | ||
| No More Snowflakes: How Kairos Makes Edge Kubernetes Predictable | Saad Malik | 07m |
Kairos converts the OS into an image that is built and delivered like a container, using container-backed updates to enforce immutability, make the root… | ||
| Navigating the Minefield: Common Lifecycle Management Pitfalls at... | Atanas Dinov | 07m |
Warns that a single centralized management cluster becomes a single point of failure and suggests management-of-management splits; calls out Cluster API as… | ||
| From Weeks to Minutes: How to Package Factory Edge K8s Across Thousands of Machines | Dmitry Shevrin | 19m |
Claims a repeatable recipe that cuts factory K8s rollout from two days to minutes by combining zero-touch provisioning, declarative cluster templates, and an… | ||
| Event Processing on the Edge at Scale Using Kubernetes Native Technologies | Sri Harsha Yayi, Derek Wang | |
Numaflow is a Kubernetes-native, open-source event processing platform that autoscaling from zero to N and runs on K3s or EKS, using CRDs named monvertex and… | ||
| Kubernetes Cross-Zone/Region Simplified: Harnessing Bacalhau for Efficient Distributed Compute | David Aronchick | 27m |
Argues that moving compute to data cuts transfer costs and compliance risk, demonstrates an open source platform Bacalhau wired into the Kubernetes CRD so one… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Katerina Arzhayev | 02m |
Program committee reports hundreds of comments used to pick sessions that trace Kubernetes at the edge across real use cases including Inuit (end user) plus… | ||
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