All talks from ContainerDays 2025

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Why are we still talking about containers? - Kelsey Hightower at ContainerDays 2025

This talk features Kelsey Hightower's keynote at the ContainerDays Conference 2025 in Hamburg, where...

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Saxo Service Blueprint: Bridging Old and New World with Kubernetes Operators - Jinhong Brejnholt

This talk addresses the challenges of managing dependencies for traditional applications that operat...

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Engineering Velocity, Building Trust: DevOps in 2025 - Stephan Stapel

This keynote explores the evolving landscape of Modern DevOps, emphasizing the necessity of earning...

33:05

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Getting Started with eBPF Made Easy - Qasim Sarfraz & Michael Friese

This talk explores eBPF, a powerful technology used for troubleshooting, observability, and security...

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The evolutionary journey of a DevOps team towards Platform Engineering - Sergiu Petean

This talk covers the five-year evolution of one of the largest insurance companies toward Platform E...

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Breaking Free with Open Standards: OpenTelemetry and Perses for Observability - Kasper Borg Nissen

This talk explores the importance of observability in modern cloud-native applications and addresses...

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Quo vadis Cloud Native - The step in the second decade

This talk reflects on the last decade of Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)...

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IT Grundschutz/ISO27001 + k8s + real life = 🖤 ??? Marcus Ross and Stephan Detmar

This talk explores the implementation of requirements from the BSI IT baseline protection catalog an...

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Beyond the Surface: Exploring Attacker Persistence Strategies in Kubernetes - Rory McCune

This talk explores the security implications of Kubernetes in managing cloud-native workloads, focus...

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How to provide Kubernetes LoadBalancers with MetalLB and KubeLB? - Fabio Berchtold

This talk covers the architecture of Swisscom's Kubernetes-as-a-Service and its approach to providin...

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Unikernel Deployment Made Easy: A CRI-Compatible Runtime for Secure Cloud Deployments

This talk introduces urunc, an innovative container runtime that allows for the seamless execution a...

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Automating 1000s databases across 100s of Kubernetes Clusters - Julian Fischer

This talk focuses on the challenges of building application developer platforms across multiple Kube...

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Lord of the Rules: The 'You Shall Not Pass!' of Kubernetes Networking - Philip Welz & Christoph Puhl

This talk covers the importance of Cilium Clusterwide Network Policies in securing network traffic w...

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Securing your Kubernetes supply chain with container image signing - Rene Schach

This talk explores the critical topic of securing the Kubernetes supply chain through image signing,...

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Double the Efficiency: Kubernetes Autoscaling with Karpenter and KEDA

This talk covers the benefits of autoscaling in Kubernetes, emphasizing how Karpenter and KEDA can e...

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Stop Googling, Start Exploring! Your Cluster Already Knows the Answers - Thomas Alexander Thomaßen

This talk focuses on navigating Air-Gapped environments, where Thomas Alexander Thomassen shares ins...

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Evaluating Global Load Balancing Options for Kubernetes in Practice - Nicolai Ort & Tobias Schneck

This talk focuses on Load Balancing in modern cloud deployments, particularly within hybrid environm...

35:05

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Introducing Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) - Abdel Sghiouar

This talk explores how to empower application teams by providing a self-service method for deploying...

35:00

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Imagine Secure by Design: Architecting Kubernetes with Trivy and DevSecOps

This talk covers the essential strategies to secure Kubernetes clusters using Trivy, an open-source...

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Kubernetes Networking Horror Stories: Issues, Debugging, and Best Practices - Philip Schmid

This talk addresses the challenges operators face in diagnosing and resolving Kubernetes networking...

36:59

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Container Storage Is More Than Persistent Volumes - Moritz Wanzenböck

This talk provides an in-depth overview of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) and its capabilitie...

36:41

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Building Resilience: Effective Backup and Disaster Recovery for Vector Databases on Kubernetes

This talk covers the rising importance of vector databases, particularly in the context of generativ...

30:09

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Hijacking DNS Port 53 with eBPF & XDP for Remote K8s Access - Misha Bragin

This talk explores the challenges of running a local DNS resolver on a non-standard port, particular...

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OpenSearch: The Open Source Path to Search and Observability - Dotan Horovits

This talk introduces OpenSearch, highlighting its role as a key player in open source search and obs...

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Shrinking Container Images - Security Chaos Engineering with Container Images - Thomas Fricke

This talk addresses the challenges of maintaining security in containerized environments, focusing o...

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Kernel Gossip: What Linux and K8s Are Saying Behind Your Backplane - Nic Vermande

This talk unveils the hidden dialogue between Kubernetes and Linux, leveraging the superpowers of eB...

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Beyond the Limits: Scaling Kubernetes Controllers Horizontally - Tim Ebert

This talk addresses the scalability challenges faced by Kubernetes controllers as infrastructure gro...

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Kubernetes in Transit: Best Practices for Smooth Cross-Cloud Migrations - Federico Fregosi

This talk explores the illusion of liberation from vendor lock-in that managed Kubernetes services p...

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Back to the future with Kubernetes – from cloud to edge in a continuum at Europe's largest retailer

This talk discusses the growing importance of edge computing in relation to AI at the edge, Industri...

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Tracing Vulnerabilities with SBOMs and Cilium in Hybrid Applications - Esra Siegert & Sebastian Graf

This talk focuses on the importance of supply chain security in today's technology landscape. The sp...

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Developer Experience Unplugged: Adventures in Platform Enablement at Deutsche Bahn

This talk explores the critical role of Platform Enablement in driving platform adoption within the...

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Kubenix: Declare Your K8s Workloads Fully Reproducible - Arik Grahl

This talk covers the generation of Kubernetes manifests using Kubenix, which leverages Nix modules t...

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The search for the helm killer - Felix Wenzel

This talk explores whether Helm remains the optimal tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes appli...

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Pipeline Patterns and Antipatterns - Things your Pipeline Should (Not) Do - Daniel Raniz Raneland

This talk explores the significance of automated pipelines in daily workflows and the rising demands...

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Cloud Native: Between Hype and Reality - Kevin Schu

This talk examines the concept of Cloud Native maturity beyond mere tool usage, emphasizing that uti...

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Platform-as-a-Product: First Insights from CNCF Platform Working Group's Ongoing Research

This talk explores the insights gathered by the CNCF Platforms Working Group as they investigate how...

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Kubernetes and the Dragons in Linux Kernel vs. Userspace Tools - Jussi Nummelin

This talk examines the challenges that arise during routine Linux OS updates on Kubernetes nodes, hi...

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From IDP to AIDP: Evolving Your Platform for the Machine Learning Age - Max Körbächer

This talk addresses the evolving challenges faced by Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) in supporti...

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Next Generation of Platform Engineering Using kcp and Crossplane - Simon Bein & Lovro Sviben

This talk explores the integration of KCP and Crossplane in building cloud-native platforms, focusin...

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Ensuring high availability with global load balancing in Kubernetes - Matthias Hauber

This talk explores global load balancing in Kubernetes and strategies for achieving high availabilit...

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Simplifying cluster security with CEL - Victor Cuadrado Juan

This talk covers the Common Expressions Language (CEL), which is designed for high-performance envir...

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Securing AI/ML Workflows: Optimizing Container Images in Kubernetes Environments - Wojciech Kocjan

This talk explores the critical challenges associated with building and managing container images fo...

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From Weeks to Seconds: Scaling Network Automation with Kubernetes Operators

This talk covers the challenges of managing complex networks and presents a solution developed by Sw...

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Smells Like Clean Telemetry: Stop the Noise, Create Better Spans - Juliano Costa

This talk covers best practices for customizing application instrumentation using OpenTelemetry. The...

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13 Kubernetes Hacks You Didn't Know You Needed - Saiyam Pathak

This talk explores 13 powerful hacks that transform the management, scaling, and optimization of Kub...

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Mastering Multi-Cloud: Lessons from Integrating IONOS, STACKIT & OVH

This talk addresses the increasing concerns over cloud provider dependencies amid current political...

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Build a Platform that Matches YOUR Needs! - Nico Meisenzahl

This talk covers how to create a Developer Platform that aligns with specific team requirements, emp...

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KubeVirt on the Loose: Kubernetes-Powered VM Migrations That Defy Gravity - Ronny Issac

This session focuses on freeing workloads from traditional maintenance windows by utilizing KubeVirt...

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Saga of building multi-arch OCI containers for modern apps - Andrii Soldatenko

This talk addresses the "exec /entrypoint.sh: exec format error" message encountered while running c...

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Breaking Barriers with Dapr: Simplified and Portable Cloud-Native Architectures

This session explores how Dapr simplifies the management and integration of multi-stack microservice...

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ML workloads on Kubernetes with Kubeflow: Why and How? - Alexander Krasilnikov

This talk addresses the challenges businesses face in adopting Kubernetes, particularly due to a lac...

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Confidential Containers in action: decoding the peer pod approach - Akash Gautam

This talk covers CNCF's confidential containers project, which integrates confidential computing int...

33:04

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Kubernetes in a Suitcase: Why (and How) I Did It - Gerrit Tamboer

This talk explores the potential of Kubernetes at the Edge, drawing on the speaker's seven years of...

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Where to Hide Your Dirty (Technical) Secrets in Kubernetes

This talk explores advanced secrets management techniques in Kubernetes, highlighting the use of the...

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Calico Whisker: Free Tool for Kubernetes Policy Troubleshooting and Network Visibility

This talk explores the crucial role of network observability in Kubernetes, highlighting its importa...

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Building a secure and trusted platform for AI applications - Jan Bruder

This talk covers the crucial elements of deploying secure and compliant AI workloads in enterprises,...

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Simplifying cross-cluster connectivity with Dapr & Cilium - Manuel Zapf

This talk explores the challenges of cross-cluster connectivity in modern systems, including enforci...

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Kubernetes Distributions at the Edge - Sercan Sari

This talk examines the increasing demand for Kubernetes (K8s) in edge computing environments, highli...

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The Future of Kubernetes Admission Logic - Marcus Noble

This talk explores the role of dynamic admission controllers in enhancing cluster robustness and ada...

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Unleashing the Future of Kubernetes Networking: How GatewayAPI Transforms Pod Exposure

This talk covers the challenges of exposing applications and APIs in Kubernetes and introduces Gatew...

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Kyverno Deep Dive: Debugging, Testing, and Monitoring - Marie Padberg

This talk explores advanced techniques for working with Kyverno, the leading policy engine for Kuber...

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Evolving the Edge: AI, CI, and Hardware-in-the-Loop for Embedded - Michael Friedrich

This talk explores the challenges developers face with embedded systems, particularly in navigating...

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Stop Playing Catch-Up: Secure Your Future Before the CRA Hits! - Mario Fahlandt

This talk addresses the impending challenges posed by the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and emphasizes...

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Breaking Kubernetes for Fun and Profit - Ali Alp

This talk titled "Breaking Kubernetes for Fun and Profit" delves into the security vulnerabilities p...

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Lessons learned: Two years of GitOps with FluxCD in production - Christian Fritz

This talk presents a deep dive into a GitOps setup currently used by the speaker, Christian Fritz, w...

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"I choo-choo-choose you"; or how to build modern platforms in a 200 year old industry

This talk focuses on the development of platform services for critical systems at BaneNOR, highlight...

36:00

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Master of Resources: Building Kubernetes Operators in Go

This talk explores the Kubernetes Operator Pattern and its interaction with Custom Resource Definiti...

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Delightful integration tests in Go applications - Manuel De La Peña

This talk explores the use of Dockerized services as a powerful solution for creating repeatable, is...

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Memory Leaks in Go: Manage Your Resources Better - Alexandre Cabral

This talk explores memory leaks, specifically within the Go programming language, and highlights com...

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Revisiting the Outbox Pattern in Go - Nikolay Kuznetsov

This talk, inspired by Gunnar Morling's article "Revisiting the Outbox Pattern," explores the implem...

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Time to the Backend: The Hidden Delay in Your Application's Request Journey - Andrii Raikov

This talk explores the critical performance aspect of "Time to Backend," revealing how delays from n...

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Demystifying Containers: Building a Container Runtime from Scratch - Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe

This talk delves into the fundamental workings of container technology, explaining their role in mod...

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Terminating elegantly: a guide to graceful shutdowns - Alex Pliutau

This talk covers the critical difference between hard and graceful shutdowns in software, with a par...

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Trash Talk: Stacks, Heaps, and the Art of Garbage Collection - Aleksandr Rybolovlev

This talk examines the intricacies of memory management in Go, focusing on the performance implicati...

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API-First: Because Life's Too Short for Boilerplate - Artur Iablokov & Benedikt Dahm

This talk explores the API-first approach, highlighting its benefits such as reusability, self-servi...

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GitOps Promotion Tools: Why You Need to Add Them to Your GitOps Toolkit in 2025! - Engin Diri

This talk focuses on GitOps as an effective strategy for managing infrastructure and applications in...

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From YAML to Intelligence: Evolving Platform Engineering for the AI Era - Cansu Kavili Örnek

This talk addresses the intersection of generative AI and platform engineering, presenting both a ch...

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How to Build a Multi-Tenancy Internal Developer Platform with GitOps and vCluster - Artem Lajko

This talk focuses on the concept of an Internal Developer Platform and the essential functionality t...

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Securing production with network polices - What can possible go wrong? - Simon Pearce

This talk covers the importance of network policies as a crucial security layer in defining access p...

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Deep Dive into Scaling Pods: Vanilla Kubernetes, Knative and KEDA - David Pech

This talk explores the complexities of autoscaling in Kubernetes, addressing common assumptions and...

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Mainframes Aren't Dead—They're Running Kubernetes and Attesting Confidential Containers

This talk delves into the resurgence of mainframes, highlighting their role in running Kubernetes an...

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Unlocking the Power of Virtual Clusters in Kubernetes - Rossella Sblendido

This talk covers the increasing demand for flexible and on-demand Kubernetes environments as organiz...

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Beyond GitOps: Building Intelligent Drift Detection and Auto-Remediation in ArgoCD

This talk explores how to enhance ArgoCD's capabilities by developing a sophisticated drift detectio...

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The Trials and Tribulations of Disaster Recovery in Kubernetes - Geetha Anne

This talk covers practical insights and actionable strategies for achieving disaster recovery in Kub...

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Running low-latency workloads on Kubernetes: Lessons learned from SpiceDB - Sohan Maheshwar

This talk focuses on optimizing Kubernetes for performance-sensitive workloads, highlighting the cha...

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Revolutionize your OS deploy and management with bootc - Alessandro Rossi

This talk covers the innovative concept of bootc containers, a project that aims to revolutionize OS...

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Just Claim It: Simplifying Network Automation with NetBox Operator - Lea Brühwiler

This talk covers the development of the open-source NetBox Operator, created as part of Swisscom's c...

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Lightweight Distributed Compute: Running Functions & Services with NATS - Luc Juggery

This talk explores how NATS is evolving to support the deployment of distributed applications throug...

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Kubernetes at the Edge – Come see It In Action! - Xavier Avrillier & Antonia von den Driesch

This talk examines the rapidly evolving field of edge computing in the cloud-native technology lands...

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OpenMCP – Enhancing the Development of a Kubernetes-Based Developer Platform

This talk covers how OpenMCP leverages Crossplane to transform Kubernetes into a comprehensive contr...

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The fallacies of Container image scanners - Marius Shekow

This talk examines the limitations of popular vulnerability scanners like Trivy and Grype, which are...

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Building Europe's Cloud Future: NeoNephos and the Platform Mesh - Mirza Kopic & Marvin Beckers

This talk introduces the open source ApeiroRA project, which serves as a reference architecture for...

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Noisy Neighbors Got You Down? Demystifying Kubernetes QoS and Linux cgroup - Tom Wieczorek

This talk covers the intricacies of Kubernetes and the critical role of Linux cgroups in enforcing Q...

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Kubernetes Traffic Engineering Right on Track - Piotr Jabłoński

This session transforms the complex task of managing Kubernetes traffic into a practical process for...

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OCI Hooks: Enhancing Kubernetes Runtime Management - Igor Bezukh

This talk explores the often-overlooked aspect of OCI hooks in the context of developing an alternat...

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Agentic Kubernetes is Here - Meet Kagent! - Anton Weiss

This talk explores the concept of agentic software and its distinct characteristics, providing insig...

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Day-2’000 - Migration From kubeadm+Ansible to ClusterAPI+Talos: A Swiss Bank’s Journey

This talk addresses the complexities of migrating 35 clusters in an air-gapped environment to Cluste...

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Automated & scalable persistent storage - do it the k8s native way - Daniel Paul

This talk addresses the challenges of providing persistent storage in hybrid and large-scale Kuberne...

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Securing Kubernetes Clusters: From Access Control to System Hardening

This talk addresses the security challenges faced by Kubernetes clusters, which are often targeted d...

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Dynamic Multi-Cluster Controllers with controller-runtime - Marvin Beckers & Stefan Schimanski

This talk explores the challenges of building controllers that can reconcile resources across dynami...

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The Cluster API Migration Retrospective: Live migrating hundreds of clusters to Cluster API

This talk discusses the transition from a custom operator-based Kubernetes cluster management system...

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The Edge OS Dilemma: Aligning Host and Container Orchestration - Thore Bahr

This talk explores the vital role of Kubernetes in modern application platforms and its relationship...

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Ephemeral Nodes and How to Run Unprivileged Stateful Kubernetes - Pascal Fries

This talk focuses on the challenges of providing Kubernetes as a service, particularly in managing c...

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Children's Guide to LLMs on Kubernetes - Saloni Narang & Saiyam Pathak

This talk provides an introductory overview of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their significance i...

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The Cloud-Native Advantage: Intent-based Network Automation - Alexander North & Markus Vahlenkamp

This talk delves into the challenges of configuring network devices in the rapidly evolving cloud-na...

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Dynamic OCI Registry - Alvaro Hernandez

This talk explores the concept of dynamic OCI registries, including how they can generate container...

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Many Cooks, One Platform: Balancing Ownership and Contribution for the Perfect Broth - Lian Li

This talk focuses on the challenges faced while building an internal developer platform for the Dutc...

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From VMware to KubeVirt: A Technical Migration Journey - Alexander Schaber and Rene Schramowski

This talk explores the migration from VMware's siloed infrastructure to KubeVirt, focusing on unifyi...