KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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12:00pm IST

Inside Envoy Gateway: Resiliency and Performance at Scale - Rudrakh Panigrahi, Salesforce

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST

204 (Level 2)

Envoy Gateway continues to gain popularity as a fully conformant Kubernetes Gateway API implementation, with over half a million weekly Helm pulls and increasing adoption in production environments. The central theme of this session will be control plane resiliency and performance: automatic failover with leader election and warm standbys, smarter xDS handling and faster convergence. Also expect insights into recent wins, including a 30% reduction in memory footprint, with upcoming initiatives that are expected to improve performance and resiliency further.If you’re operating a production-grade gateway to manage infrastructure and traffic at scale or evaluating one, this session is for you.

Speakers

Rudrakh Panigrahi

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

Software engineer with about 7 years of experience specializing in large scale distributed systems, platform engineering and cloud infrastructure. Currently building the cloud native networking platform at Salesforce, focused on addressing high availability and performance at scale... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
204 (Level 2)

Maintainer Track, Envoy

12:40pm IST

In-toto Attestations for What Really Happens in Your Build Pipeline, With Witness - Vyom Yadav, Canonical & Rahul Vishwakarma, Highlevel

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

204 (Level 2)

State-sponsored supply chain attacks, like the Shai Hulud worm, highlight the urgent need for automated, cryptographically verifiable attestations generated at the moment the supply chain executes, capturing execution details that directly improve the accuracy of secure SDLC documents like SBOMs.

Witness, an in-toto subproject, is one such tool that records various aspects of a system during supply chain execution. Unlike static lock files generated by toolchains, which often miss components and lack cryptographically verifiable metadata, Witness captures a complete and verifiable picture of what was actually executed. New observability features now enable Witness to enrich SBOMs with accurate, runtime-derived data, while also establishing a network baseline for supply chain execution.

Speakers

Vyom Yadav

Security Engineer, Canonical

Vyom is a CNCF Ambassador and was the Kubernetes Release Lead for v1.34. He is also on the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. At Canonical, he focuses on Ubuntu Security and Software Supply Chain Security.

In the past he has worked on other various open source projects including Kyverno, OSSF Minder, in-toto, KuberArmor, Checkstyle... Read More →

Rahul Vishwakarma

Open Source Developer | in-toto / Witness | GSoC & LFX Mentee, Highlevel

Rahul Vishwakarma is an active open source contributor to CNCF's in-toto project, where he has worked on Witness and Archivista — building attestors and policy verification features for supply chain security. He previously contracted with TestifySec and is currently an SDE Intern... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
204 (Level 2)

Maintainer Track, in-toto

2:30pm IST

Introduction To Metal³ — Kubernetes-Native Bare Metal Provisioning - Sunnatillo Samadov, Ericsson

Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST

204 (Level 2)

This talk introduces Metal³, an open-source project that makes it easy to manage physical servers using Kubernetes. Metal³ enables teams to provision, manage, and recover bare metal machines in a cloud-native way, using familiar Kubernetes workflows. We will explore what Metal³ is, its core capabilities, common use cases, and how it supports recovery and day-2 operations. The session is suitable for attendees of all experience levels.
Metal³ was accepted as a CNCF Incubating project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in August 2025

Speakers

Sunnatillo Samadov

Open Source Developer, Ericsson

Sunnatillo is a Kubernetes engineer with 4+ years of experience in cloud-native development. He is a maintainer and contributor to the Metal³ project within the CNCF ecosystem, focusing on Kubernetes operators, bare metal infrastructure, platform engineering, and storage.

He previously served as Release Team Lead for Cluster API and is passionate about DevOps and building resilient, production-grade Kubernetes platforms... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)

Maintainer Track, Metal3.io

3:10pm IST

KubeEdge DeepDive: Extending Kubernetes To the Edge With Real-World Industry Use Case - Ronak Raj, Independent

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST

204 (Level 2)

Following its graduation within the CNCF, KubeEdge has solidified its position as the premier platform for extending Kubernetes to the edge. In this session, project maintainers will explore KubeEdge's evolution, offering a deep dive into the core architecture that enables efficient management of edge workloads.

Attendees will gain insights from real-world deployments across diverse sectors, including Smart Cities, Industrial IoT (IIoT), Edge AI, Robotics, and Retail. Beyond success stories, the talk will cover critical technical updates, including the newly introduced Certified KubeEdge conformance test, recent technological advancements, and the latest updates on community governance.

Speakers

Ronak Raj

LFX Mentee' KubeEdge, Self-Employed

Ronak Raj is an AI Researcher and software developer. He has contributed to multiple open-source communities, including google-deepmind/torax, Learning Equality, LangChain (langchain / langchain-google) etc
He is a recent LFX Mentorship graduate with CNCF KubeEdge, where he worked... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)

Maintainer Track, KubeEdge

4:10pm IST

Longhorn: What's New & What's Next for Cloud Native Persistent Storage - Divya Mohan, SUSE

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST

204 (Level 2)

Longhorn equips clusters with lightweight, cloud native capabilities, including incremental snapshots, disaster recovery, and RWX support—free from vendor dependencies. In this session, Divya Mohan explores this year's project updates and provides structured insights into the roadmap. The session also aims to outline actionable paths for new contributors by highlighting contribution opportunities within the project.

Speakers

Divya Mohan

Principal Technology Advocate, SUSE

Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to its cloud native open source projects. Within the CNCF ecosystem, she is the maintainer for the Kubernetes & Longhorn projects. She has previously worked extensively in systems engineering during her tenure... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)

Maintainer Track, Longhorn

4:50pm IST

No More Secrets With Keycloak's Federated Client Authentication - Rishabh Singh, Red Hat

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST

204 (Level 2)

Keycloak has from day one supported identity brokering, allowing users to authenticate via an external OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0 identity provider. With its latest version, you can use Kubernetes Service Account tokens and other federated client authentication to authenticate OpenID Connect clients.

Depending on the environment the clients is running in this can eliminate the need for managing secrets for clients altogether.

A number of cloud vendors for example support injecting tokens automatically for workloads, Kubernetes have support for service accounts, and last but not least there is SPIFFE that can be leveraged in most environments.

Join this talk to learn about the concepts, see a live demo, and hear what's next on our road map.

Speakers

Rishabh Singh

Principal Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat

Currently Support Engineer at Red Hat, Solving issues around Keycloak, Jboss Enterprise Application Server, Elytron, Openshift, Openshift Pipelines(Tekton), Openshift Gitops(Argo CD).

Overall Experience of 9years in IT industry and have been working in Red Hat for last 5years.
... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)

Maintainer Track, Keycloak

5:30pm IST

Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso; Madhu Rajanna, Rewant Soni, Malay Parida, IBM; Pratik Surve, Red Hat

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST

204 (Level 2)

The Rook project will be introduced to attendees of all levels and experience. Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph to natively integrate with Kubernetes. The panel will discuss various scenarios to show how Rook configures Ceph to provide stable block, shared file system, and object storage for your production data. Rook was accepted as a graduated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in October 2020.

Speakers

Pratik Surve

Red Hat

Madhu Rajanna

Software Architect at IBM, IBM Germany Research & Development GmbH

Software Architect at IBM Storage on the OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) team. He is a maintainer of the Ceph-CSI and CSI-Addons and a reviewer of the Rook project.

Deepika Upadhyay

Ceph Engineer, Clyso

I'm Deepika, a Ceph Engineer at Clyso I'm working on the Rook project. With over 5 COI Ro clusters for enterprises, particularly in

the years in the Ceph community, I specialize in deploying large-scale Rook Ceph in containerized environments. My career started with Ceph Storage Engineering, focusing on RADOS and RBD. I'm passionate about driving innovation in Mopen-source storage solutions and find working i... Read More →

Rewant Soni

Software Engineer, IBM

Malay Kumar Parida

Software Engineer, IBM

Engineer at IBM Storage with 4+ years of experience working with the Data Foundation Team. I specialize in working on operators orchestrating Rook, CSI & Noobaa CRs.

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)

Maintainer Track, Rook

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