Name: Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier - Vasu Chandrasekhara, NeoNephos & Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIA
Start: 2026-06-18T14:30:00+0530
End: 2026-06-18T15:00:00+0530

18-19 June
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Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier - Vasu Chandrasekhara, NeoNephos & Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIA

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

We first trace the evolution of the "aerodynamics" of the K8s data, control, and work planes. As we dissect the architectural building blocks and controller archetypes of K8s, we discover the kubelet controller pattern as an universal design principle, with which we easily explain the unfolding of K8s Inception with Hosted Control Planes (HCP), where any control plane becomes a recursive workload in K8s itself.

Armed with these concepts we come to the ultimate, supersonic plane: KCP, the pure data and API plane.
Learn how to mentally decouple K8s from its underlying infrastructure and move toward a truly scalable, declarative API-first future. The next evolution in cloud-native. With KCP, and by treating KRM as a universal interface, we will show how you can benefit from the same pattern used to manage a single pod, to engineer global-scale platforms.

At each architecture evolution step, we accompany a demo and use case: from single clusters, vClusters, clusters with HCP, and KCP.

Speakers

Stefan Schimanski

Pinrcipal Engineer, NVIDIA

Stefan is a Principal Engineer at Nvidia, working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, and as a tech-lead in Sig API Machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2x Google Summer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves teaching and helping others learn. Before... Read More →

Vasu Chandrasekhara

NeoNephos Advisor, Independent

Former VP on Cloud Native Strategy at SAP turned NeoNephos Ambassador. After establishing Kubernetes in the enterprise foundation at SAP, he’s now focused on the cloud-native ecosystem and mindset for digital sovereignty.
He previously led SAP's substantial project within EU IPCEI-CIS and established NeoNephos as its "OSS Infrastructure". Vasu holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück but refuses to be tied down to any geography. He prefers it in the cloud... Read More →

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

Stefan Schimanski

Vasu Chandrasekhara

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