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10:12am IST

Keynote: Automating RBI Compliance With Unified Policy-as-Code - Jim Bugwadia, Founder and CEO, Nirmata & Ashwath Kumar, Head of Security, Razorpay

Friday June 19, 2026 10:12am - 10:22am IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

In highly regulated fintech environments like Razorpay, compliance with RBI and PCI DSS mandates is a license to operate. A single misconfiguration can trigger severe penalties or risk payment licenses. However, traditional manual "audit toil" and late-stage production fixes create massive engineering friction and business risk.

This session explores a multi-layered, automated framework to map complex mandates directly into "Policy-as-Code" (PaC) controls. The speakers demonstrate how to move from periodic audit woes to "steady-state ops hygiene" using PaC across three critical layers: Proactive Controls (Shift-Left) to catch issues in CI/CD, Preventive Controls to block non-compliant workloads, and Detective Controls for continuous, automated evidence gathering.

You will learn how to translate abstract compliance standards into enforceable policies and immutable audit trails, reducing technical debt and satisfying regulators without slowing down innovation.

Speakers

Jim Bugwadia

Co-founder and CEO, Nirmata

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →

Ashwath Kumar

Head of Security, Razorpay

Ashwath Kumar is the Head of Security at Razorpay. A seasoned Principal Engineer and Texas A&M alumnus, he specializes in cloud security, architecture reviews, and red teaming. Ashwath has a proven track record of leading large teams to solve complex security hurdles. He is a frequent... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 10:12am - 10:22am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions, Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:00pm IST

A gRPC Transport for the Model Context Protocol - Pawan Bhardwaj, Google

Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

We want to introduce gRPC as native transport for Model Context Protocol.

As we know gRPC is already well establish in microservices, these services are now evolving as tools for AI.

Using gRPC as native transport for MCP have following advantages
1. Authentication and Authorization features of gRPC channels can be used for transport.
2. As gRPC uses protobuf, hence we get the advantage of more throughput and less bandwidth usage.
3. gRPC already has streaming capabilities which can be used for MCP as required.
4. It would be less frictional for micro-services to have their services as MCP using gRPC transport as infra remains the same.
5. Protobuf specification creates strong API contracts between various language implementations.
6. As gRPC supports proxy-less service mesh, MCP servers having gRPC transport can take advantage of it for various features such as load balancing, MTLS etc.

Speakers

Pawan Bhardwaj

Senior Software Engineer, Google

As a senior software engineer specializing in gRPC within Google's open source team, my focus lies in enhancing the performance and usability of networking systems for applications. My previous experience includes working with Cumulus Linux and Cisco NxOS on network forwarding pl... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:40pm IST

GPU Hunter: Architecting Global GPU Availability With MultiKueue - Kishore Jagannath & Ram J A, Google

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

This talk tackles the global GPU shortage and a critical cloud-native reality in batch workload scheduling: "Kueue Quota reserved" does not equal "Capacity available". For production inference, this distinction determines whether workloads succeed or remain stuck indefinitely.

The session explores transcending regional silos using MultiKueue to manage a global federation of worker clusters. Moving beyond basic setup, the speakers address the "Quota vs. Datacenter Capacity" dilemma. They reveal a critical gap discovered through experiments: workloads becoming stranded in regions with exhausted capacity despite available quotas.

The speakers share their collaboration with the community to resolve these scheduling gaps (Issue #8089). This talk demonstrates the configuration aspects of Admission Checks and provisioning classes in Multikueue to force the scheduler to "hunt" for actual capacity in worker clusters across regions rather than relying solely on user-provided quota.

Speakers

Kishore Jagannath

Cloud Engineer, Google

Kishore Jagannath serves as a Cloud Solutions Engineer at Google, where he focuses on cloud infrastructure, large-scale Kubernetes orchestration and AI Platform Infrastructure. Over the past year, he has been architecting global compute planes to address GPU scarcity for production-critical... Read More →

Ram J A

Solutions Architect, Google

Ram J A is an engineer who enjoys learning new things and using technology to solve problems. Their work primarily focuses on Cloud computing and Kubernetes, with a recent interest in AI Infrastructure and building LLM-based agents. Outside of work, Ram spends time catching up on... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:40pm IST

When Kubeflow Fights Cilium: Debugging 60% Idle GPUs in Kubernetes - Ramkumar Nagaraj & Bingi Narasimha Karthik, Adobe

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

We built a research testbed to validate ML workload scalability on Kubernetes with Kubeflow and Cilium. During 500-node stress tests, GPUs sat idle 60% of the time while pods waited for available resources.

Through controlled experiments, we isolated the cause: Kubeflow's pipeline scheduler and Cilium's network-aware pod placement make conflicting decisions. Kubeflow schedules pods without considering network topology. Cilium optimizes networking but can't move scheduled pods. Result? GPUs unused while the scheduler searches for placement that won't happen.

This talk shares our systematic investigation, diagnostic methodology, and scheduling constraints that resolved it. Lab tests show GPU utilization improved from 40% to 85%. You'll see the problem reproduced live, understand why it's hard to detect, and get tested Kubernetes configs. This matters for anyone planning distributed training with Kubeflow or similar orchestrators on network-optimized clusters.

Speakers

Bingi Narasimha Karthik

Senior Cloud Engineer, Adobe

Bingi, a Senior Cloud Engineer at Adobe, is certified in CKA, CKAD, KCNA, PCA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, CSPO, and Machine Learning. He excels in simplifying Kubernetes metrics, transforming data into actionable insights. His innovative namespace metric delivery... Read More →

Ramkumar Nagaraj

Sr Computer Scientist, Adobe

Currently I am working in Adobe Systems Pvt Ltd as a Senior Computer Scientist. Claimed Golden Kubestronaut badge.

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:40pm IST

Conversations With the Kernel: A Netlink Deep Dive - Yash Kumar Singh & Daman Arora, Broadcom

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

The Linux Netlink API is the kernel’s structured communication channel for the user space, enabling interaction with subsystems such as routing, netfilter, and interface management. Introduced as a modern replacement for ioctl, Netlink provides a message-based architecture where the user space and the kernel exchange serialized binary messages through dedicated Netlink families. This session explores how Netlink’s extensible design and attribute-based encoding enable efficient communication between layers of the networking stack.

We’ll then demonstrate how these capabilities can be leveraged in cloud-native systems - showcasing how we are using netlink in kube-proxy to interact with the netfilter accounting (nfacct) subsystem for in-kernel packet counting, and how we recently shifted conntrack cleanup from a user-space binary-based approach to Netlink, significantly reducing connection cleanup time from minutes to seconds.

Speakers

Yash Singh

Senior Software Engineer, Broadcom

Yash Singh is a Software Engineer at Broadcom. He works on Kubernetes core components releases, building and validating the Kubernetes FIPS for Tanzu. He plays an important role in the development of Tanzu Extend Support of Kubernetes and its components. Yash contributes to a host... Read More →

Daman Arora

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Trying to maintain kube-proxy.

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:30pm IST

Run Your Own AI Cluster on a DGX Spark: Kubernetes, GPUs, and DRA - Janakiram MSV, Janakiram & Associates & Shreyas Mocherla, Nirmata

Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

AI engineers often choose between laptops that cannot keep up and expensive shared cloud clusters, which slows iteration. This session shows how to turn a single NVIDIA DGX Spark into a personal AI cluster using Kubernetes, GPU tooling, and Dynamic Resource Allocation.
Starting from a minimal single-node cluster, we add GPU enablement, an AI app stack, and DRA-based GPU sharing. You will learn how the NVIDIA GPU Operator and DRA drivers expose GPU capabilities, how ResourceClasses and ResourceClaims work, and how to enable multiple workloads to share a single device with predictable behavior. A live demo runs an interactive chat or multimodal app beside a background job on the same GPU, using different DRA policies and observing enforcement at runtime.
You leave with a clear mental model, reusable YAML, and patterns that remain portable from a desk-side Spark to multi-node cloud clusters, plus basics for utilization visibility, capacity planning, and multi-tenancy.

Speakers

Janakiram MSV

Principal Analyst, Janakiram & Associates

https://janakiram.com/profile

Shreyas Mocherla

Software Engineer, Nirmata

Shreyas Mocherla is a Software Engineer at Nirmata working on AI Platform Engineering. He built the Kyverno MCP Server, one of the early Model Context Protocol implementations for Kubernetes, and is a CNCF Kubestronaut, among the youngest globally to earn the distinction. Shrey specializes... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:10pm IST

Why We Ditched Kube-proxy: Scaling 10M Daily Browser Sessions With Kubernetes EndpointSlices - Rajat Khanna, CommerceIQ

Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

At CommerceIQ, we scrape 850+ retailers daily through Kubernetes-orchestrated headless browsers — 10M pages, thousands of ephemeral pods per hour.

This talk covers when our networking broke at scale and how we fixed it with native Kubernetes.

At 8K+ concurrent pods, kube-proxy's iptables rules and conntrack exhaustion caused latency spikes. We bypassed kube-proxy with direct pod-to-pod routing via the EndpointSlice API — achieving 40% latency improvement while handling stale endpoints and scale-up race conditions.

We also built custom HPA metrics tied to scrape queues, scaled from 4K to 16K concurrent scrapes with spot VMs, and used MinIO as in-cluster cache to cut egress by 60%.

No fancy tooling — just deep Kubernetes knowledge solving hard problems with what's already there.

Speakers

Rajat Khanna

Senior Tech Lead, CommerceIQ

Senior Tech Lead at CommerceIQ, leading the BOT Evasion team — one of the largest browser automation fleets in e-commerce, orchestrating 10M+ daily scrapes across 850+ retailers on Kubernetes. Contributor to OpenTelemetry JS (Jaeger Remote Sampler). Active CNCF community member... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:10pm IST

When Kubernetes Becomes an Interface, Not a Cluster - Samarth Sharma, DataGenie & Goutam Verma, Expedia

Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST

205 (Level 2)

We often treat Kubernetes as a system you must continuously run and operate. But in practice, many teams interact with Kubernetes primarily as an API contract rather than as an always on control plane.
In this talk we'll explore a different way to think about Kubernetes, what if the Kubernetes API mattered more than the cluster itself?

Instead of running a full control plane with etcd, schedulers, and nodes, workloads are executed locally using lightweight runtimes, while applications continue to interact through Kubernetes-style APIs.

We'll see:

=> Which Kubernetes components are actually required to run workloads
=> Running workloads without etcd, schedulers, or nodes
=> Local-first execution with Kubernetes-compatible APIs
=> Clear limitations and failure modes of this approach
=> What this model enables for edge, disaster recovery, and local development

The goal is not to replace Kubernetes, but to understand which parts of it are essential and which are incidental. with a demo

Speakers

Goutam Verma

SDE II, Expedia

Samarth Sharma

Software Engineer, DataGenie

I am Samarth Sharma, a software engineer and an Opensource enthusiast. I have worked with various tech organizations as a Software Engineer Fellow, including Google Summer of Code' 22 and 23, Geeks for Geeks, MLH and Metafic.

Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
205 (Level 2)

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:10pm IST

Validating RK3588 for KubeEdge: Scalable ARM64 Edge Node Simulation Without Hardware - Sachin Jha, CNCF(KubeEdge)

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST

205 (Level 2)

In this session, I’ll share how I validated support for the RK3588 ARM64 chip in KubeEdge—without using any physical hardware. Instead of relying on real devices, I built a simulation-based setup that mimics how an RK3588-powered edge node behaves inside KubeEdge.

I’ll walk through the practical steps: how the environment was emulated, how pods were tested, and how metrics, node status, and edge-core behavior were verified. Along the way, I’ll also highlight the challenges, what worked, what didn’t, and the key lessons that made the process smoother.

If you’re interested in edge computing, ARM devices, or contributing to KubeEdge without access to specialized hardware, this talk will give you a clear, realistic, and easy-to-follow blueprint.

Speakers

Sachin Jha

LFX Intern, CNCF(KubeEdge)

Sachin is a cloud-native enthusiast and an active contributor to CNCF projects, currently focusing on Kyverno. With a strong background in DevOps, Kubernetes, and containerization, Sachin has been actively involved in open-source communities, collaborating on policy-driven security... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
205 (Level 2)

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:10pm IST

Kubernetes API Server Performance Clinic: Auditing, and Priority & Fairness in Production - Neel Shah, Middleware & Suman Chakraborty, Platform9 Systems

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

The Kubernetes API Server is the heart of your cluster, but at scale, it often becomes a hidden bottleneck, throttling critical controllers, freezing deployments, or crashing under "thundering herd" list-watch storms. This talk is a deep-dive operational clinic for SREs running high-throughput clusters (10k+ pods) who need to move beyond default configurations.

Attendees will learn how to dissect API latency using Audit Logs and Prometheus metrics (apiserver_request_duration_seconds) to identify "noisy neighbor" controllers that starve critical system components. We will dissect the Priority and Fairness (APF) flow control system, replacing legacy-- max-requests-inflight to guarantee that critical system calls (like node heartbeats) never get dropped, even during massive scale-up events. The session includes a live "autopsy" of a real-world API outage caused by unoptimized LIST calls and demonstrates how to fix it using API Streaming (WatchList), proper client-side caching, and more.

Speakers

Suman Chakraborty

Solutions Architect, Platform9 Systems

Suman is a Solutions Architect at Platform9 systems. He is a consultant and advisor for Kubernetes & Cloud Native Solutions, helping Customers and End users in their application modernisation journey and adoption with DevOps best practices. Suman has been a distinguished speaker and... Read More →

Neel Shah

Developer Advocate, StackGen

A DevOps engineer with a great passion for building communities around DevOps. Organiser of Google Cloud Gandhinagar, CNCF Gandhinagar, Hashicorp User Group Gandhinagar and Open Source Weekend. Have mentored 15+ hackathons and open source programs. I have given more than 15 talks... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

The Hidden Cost of ML Data Lifecycles in Kubernetes - Yashasvi Misra, Pure Storage

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

As ML workloads move onto Kubernetes, many teams unintentionally turn their clusters into data platforms storing training data, features, and intermediate artifacts alongside compute. While convenient at first, this approach introduces hidden costs that surface over time.

This talk shares real-world lessons from operating ML pipelines on Kubernetes where data management, not models, became the primary source of failures. We’ll explore common anti-patterns involving PVCs, object storage mounts, and ephemeral volumes, and how they led to rising costs, broken reproducibility, and pipelines training on stale or incorrect data. Finally, we’ll discuss practical cloud-native patterns for managing ML data that respect data lifecycles, improve lineage, and keep Kubernetes focused on what it does best.

Speakers

Yashasvi Misra

Software Engineer, Pure Storage

Yashasvi Misra is a Software Engineer at Pure Storage and Chair of the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Working Group. She has contributed to foundational projects like NumPy & Kubernetes and has been an active part of the Python community since her college days.

Yashasvi is also a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech. She has shared her work and insights at conferences around the world, including PyCon India, PyCon Europe, PyLadiesCon, and PyData Global... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

Kubernetes Workload Resiliency in Action: Beyond Basics - Nabarun Pal & Akhil Mohan, Broadcom

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Kubernetes provides powerful mechanisms to protect and isolate workloads, but many teams deploy applications without leveraging these capabilities. In the context of AI workloads, which are often resource-intensive and long-running, maintaining resilience is more critical than ever.

This talk explores Kubernetes workload protection mechanisms and demonstrates how to combine them strategically for maximum resilience.

We'll examine resource requests/limits, priority classes, resource quotas, runtime classes, and strategies like pod disruption budgets and affinity rules. Through practical examples and real-world scenarios, you'll learn how to configure each mechanism, understand their interactions, and avoid common pitfalls that lead to pod evictions, performance degradation, and cascading failures.

Whether you're running mission-critical services or shared multi-tenant clusters, this session will equip you with a resilience framework that protects your workloads under pressure.

Speakers

Akhil Mohan

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Akhil works as a Software Engineer at Broadcom. An active contributor to projects in cloud native and container ecosystem. Akhil is a reviewer for containerd and a maintainer of kubernetes publishing-bot. He works mostly on container runtimes and kubernetes sig-node aspects.

Nabarun Pal

Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom, Kubernetes Maintainer, Broadcom

Nabarun is a Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee member and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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