KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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12:00pm IST

When LLMs Hit Production: Why You Need an AI Gateway - Gavrish Prabhu, Nutanix

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

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

The surge of Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) is introducing new operational challenges for Kubernetes platforms. Unlike traditional APIs, GenAI traffic is highly variable, token-driven, and cost-sensitive, requiring new approaches to routing, security, and observability.

This session, presented by the project maintainers, examines Envoy AI Gateway, a CNCF-hosted open source project, and its role as a Kubernetes-native control plane for GenAI workloads.. We’ll break down an end-to-end architecture that uses Envoy AI Gateway to manage and govern traffic across multiple LLM backends both self-hosted and cloud-based while enforcing policies such as token-aware rate limiting, authentication, and dynamic model selection.

Attendees will leave with practical insights into designing resilient, scalable GenAI platforms on Kubernetes, and an understanding of how AI-aware gateways fit into modern cloud-native infrastructure.

Speakers

Gavrish Prabhu

Technical Lead, Nutanix

Gavrish Prabhu is a Founding ML Engineer on the Nutanix Enterprise AI team with a background in distributed systems. He is active in open-source projects and is a maintainer of KServe and Envoy AI Gateway Projects. His key interests are systems involving the next generation of AI... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Beginner

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

2:30pm IST

How We Stopped a Crypto-mining Attack in Kubernetes Caused by a Next.js RCE - Achanandhi M & Tamil Vanan Karuppannan

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

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Modern frameworks help teams move fast, but a single vulnerability can quickly escalate into a serious security incident.

In this talk, we simulate a real-world attack scenario where a publicly disclosed RCE vulnerability in Next.js is exploited to deploy crypto-mining workloads inside a Kubernetes cluster. We demonstrate how an application-level vulnerability can quickly escalate into a cluster-wide threat - and how to prevent it before it does.

We’ll break down how such an attack unfolds, the runtime indicators that can expose it, and why patching the application alone isn’t enough.

We’ll then demonstrate how to stop this class of attack using Falco for runtime threat detection and Kyverno for policy enforcement - detecting malicious activity, blocking misuse, and limiting blast radius.

Finally, we’ll share Kubernetes security best practices including resource limits, workload isolation, security policies, and improved runtime visibility to help teams better secure their clusters.

Speakers

Tamil Vanan Karuppannan

Principal Engineer

Tamil vanan is a cloud native Tech lead. He is passionate about finding solutions to problems in the cloud native environment.

He works with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, multi-cloud and networking. He is a passionate supporter of open source and CNCF and actively participates in it... Read More →

Achanandhi M

Developer Advocate

Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Security

3:10pm IST

From Textbooks To YAML: Mapping Your CS Degree To the Cloud Native World - Parvathy Nair, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology & Sudhish Nair, Red Hat

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

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Students graduate with strong OS and Networking knowledge but often feel lost facing the "Wall of YAML" in Cloud Native. They understand "Processes" and "TCP/IP" but struggle to connect them to "Pods" and "Service Meshes."

This session features a University Professor and a Industry Expert strictly mapping standard Computer Science curriculum to Kubernetes primitives. We will translate three core domains live on stage:

Compute: Moving from OS-level fork()/exec() to Containers, and mapping Process Groups to Pods.

Networking: Translating the OSI Model and physical switching to CNIs, Services, and Ingress.

Storage: Mapping Block Devices and File Systems to Persistent Volumes (PVs), Claims (PVCs), and CSI.

Attendees will leave with a mental bridge connecting their academic foundation to modern cloud architecture, realizing they already possess the core knowledge required—they just need to learn the new vocabulary.

Speakers

Parvathy Nair

Assistant Professor, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology

Research Scholar and Assistant Professor with 8+ years of experience in Python, C/C++, and R. Specializes in Theory of Computation, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and Deep Learning. Committed to leveraging academic trends to enhance education and mentor students toward higher-order... Read More →

Sudhish Nair

Senior Software Maintenance Engineer, Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat with 12+ years of experience in cloud-native development and support. Specializing in OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), GitOps (ArgoCD), REd Hat Developer Hub (Backstage), Serverless logic, Openshift, Kubernetes, Quarkus & Java. I'm also... Read More →

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

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:10pm IST

Phippy’s First Steps Into Kubernetes - Hrittik Roy, vCluster & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify

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

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

For many engineers entering the cloud native ecosystem, the journey with Kubernetes begins on their own laptop. They install a local cluster, follow a tutorial, and try to understand how things work. This first step is important, but it is also where confusion often starts.

Today, newcomers face many tools, such as Minikube, Kind, k3d, Vind, Docker Desktop, and Rancher Desktop. All of them promise Kubernetes on your machine, but each one is built for a different purpose. Without clear guidance, people often spend more time fixing setup problems than learning Kubernetes itself.

In this session, we will simplify local Kubernetes for beginners in the cloud native space, guided by Albert Einstein’s idea that “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Through simple demos and practical examples, we will cover how local Kubernetes clusters work behind the scenes, how to avoid common setup mistakes, and how local environments connect to real production systems.

Speakers

Hrittik Roy

TPME, vCluster

Hrittik is a Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, with expertise in cloud native technologies and open source communities. He has contributed extensively to developer advocacy, technical writing, and community engagement. Hrittik has been a featured speaker at events... Read More →

Saloni Narang

Co Founder Kubesimplify, Kubesimplify

Saloni Narang is the Co-founder of Kubesimplify and has previously worked at SAP Labs. She has hands-on experience with multiple cloud platforms, including GCP, Oracle, and AWS. Passionate about the Cloud Native ecosystem, she loves exploring and writing about emerging open-source... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

Zero Trust for Fintech: Building Secure Banking Infrastructure With Cilium - Prasta Maha & Herbert Sianturi, Krom Bank Indonesia

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

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

In the highly regulated world of banking, "security by default" isn't just a buzzword, but it is a compliance requirement. As financial institutions migrate to Kubernetes, they face a critical challenge: How do you enforce strict network segregation, achieve Zero Trust, and maintain deep observability.

This session explores how to leverage Cilium and eBPF to build a battle-hardened banking infrastructure. We will move beyond standard Kubernetes Network Policies, demonstrating how to implement Layer 7 filtering, transparent encryption, and deep observability in service communications.

Attendees will receive a practical roadmap for:
- Enforcing Zero Trust: Using Cilium Network Policies to restrict traffic based on identity and fqdn, not just IP addresses.
- Achieving Compliance: implementing Transparent Encryption (WireGuard/IPsec) to meet data-in-transit requirements.
- Auditing: Utilizing Hubble for deep visibility into dropped packets and flow logs to satisfy security audits.

Speakers

Herbert Sianturi

Senior DevOps Engineer, Krom Bank Indonesia

Herbert Sianturi serves as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Krom Bank Indonesia, where he roles spearheads efforts in enhancing the quality of end-to-end application lifecycle and applying open source platform as a base. With years of expertise in container orchestration and cloud computing... Read More →

Prasta Maha

Senior Devops Engineer, Krom Bank Indonesia

Prasta is passionate about tech, especially Linux, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Data Engineering, Security, and Programming. He also shares his tech experiences and insights on https://medium.com/prastamaha

website: https://prastamaha.dev

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Security

Content Experience Level Any

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