KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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12:00pm IST

What Did My Agent Do? Observability and Accountability for AI Agents - Ishan Jain, Grafana Labs

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

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Generative AI systems and AI agents behave very differently from traditional software. Their non-deterministic nature and ability to act across multiple steps make debugging and accountability harder, which increases the need for better observability. Beyond latency and error rates, teams need insight into prompts, responses, and agent actions to understand what an agent did and why.

In this session, I will show how to instrument AI agents using OpenTelemetry and the GenAI Semantic Conventions, with OpenLIT as the native SDK. Through a live demo, I will demonstrate how to capture agent interactions alongside performance telemetry using Prometheus and Jaeger, while keeping sensitive data separate to reduce risk and cost.

I will also show how telemetry can support ongoing evaluations, helping teams reason about agent behavior over time without logging everything. This talk is for engineers building AI agents who want to improve trust and accountability without oversharing data.

Speakers

Ishan Jain

Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

I’m a Developer Experience Engineer at Grafana Labs, focused on making observability practical and accessible. I maintain the Grafana Ansible Collection, Grafana Operator, and OpenLIT, with over 5M downloads. Formerly an SRE, I enjoy working in open source and sharing real-world... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:40pm IST

Re-Architecting Monoliths Into Kubernetes Microservices at Million-User Scale: Hard Lessons - Aditya Sharma, Lumenore

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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Legacy platforms often begin as tightly coupled monoliths running on virtual machines. While workable at small scale, this model breaks down under real production traffic, operational growth, and security demands.

This talk presents a real-world case study of re-architecting a BI and AI analytics platform from a VM-based monolith into Kubernetes-native microservices serving millions of users. It covers a 13 years journey from on-prem bare metal and vertical scaling failures to containerization and a production-grade Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments.

The session focuses on practical challenges such as resource contention, downtime-driven scaling, observability gaps, security audit failures, configuration drift, and manual operations, and explains how these drove decisions around service decomposition, GitOps, defense-in-depth security, and service mesh adoption.

Speakers

Aditya Sharma

Technical Architect, Lumenore

I’m driven by curiosity and a passion for building better systems. With experience across DevOps, DevSecOps and FinOps, I integrate security, automation and efficiency from day one. I help organizations tame complexity and turn technology into a competitive advantage. I believe... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:30pm IST

Who Watches the Watchers? From Closed Observability To Open Control at Scale - Aditi Gupta, JioHotstar; Madhu Patel, Adobe; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen

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

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Observability is your safety net - but at scale, it often fails first. As our Kubernetes platform grew, rising traffic produced more telemetry, overwhelming our stack and leaving us blind during incidents. High-cardinality metrics exhausted memory, and ingestion brownouts became recurring nightmares. We didn't have too much data; we had too little control.
In this talk, we dissect the concrete failure modes and show how we rebuilt observability by treating telemetry pipelines as first-class distributed systems with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo.

We will walk through production fixes:

- Active Traffic Shaping: OTel Collectors for batching and tail sampling.
- Defusing Cardinality Bombs: Prometheus recording rules to stabilise memory.
- Back pressure & Limits: Surviving 10x traffic spikes.

This isn't a tool comparison. It's a blueprint for building observability you can reason about under stress, so your monitoring doesn't become the “next outage” you're explaining.

Speakers

Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)

Hailing from India, Sandeep is a passionate software engineer and individual contributor. A frequent meetup speaker, he loves sharing real-world lessons and insights with the community. He's a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, serving as co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard... Read More →

Aditi Gupta

Software Engineer II @JioHotstar, JioStar India Pvt. Ltd.

I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →

Madhu Patel

Software Engineer 2, Adobe

I'm Madhu Patel, a Software Development Engineer at Adobe, where I work on large-scale distributed backend services supporting Creative Cloud platforms, as well as AI agents designed to enhance user productivity. I am a graduate of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women... Read More →

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

5:11pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Pruning the Kernel CVEs With Code Reachability Analysis - Ashish Bijlani, Ossillate Inc

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:11pm - 5:16pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

The Linux kernel is now a CVE Numbering Authority, a change that has driven an unprecedented increase in reported kernel vulnerabilities. In Kubernetes environments, this shift has amplified compliance requirements that mandate per-CVE tracking, remediation, or justification.

This talk presents a methodology for kernel CVE pruning via static code reachability analysis. We map CVEs to vulnerable kernel functions and evaluate whether those functions are reachable under a specific kernel configuration and execution environment. The analysis incorporates build-time configuration (Kconfig), loadable modules, and inter-procedural call graphs to approximate practical exploitability.

We present an open-source tool that automates this analysis and evaluate it with representative workloads. Our results show that many kernel CVEs are in unreachable code, yielding a high reduction in reported exposure. We also discuss limitations and implications for compliance-driven vulnerability management.

Speakers

Ashish Bijlani

Entrepreneur/Researcher, Ossillate Inc

Ashish is the founder of Ossillate Inc, a cybersecurity startup. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has co-authored peer-reviewed papers in top-tier academic conferences, and has also presented his work at premier industry conferences, such... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:11pm - 5:16pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

Content Experience Level Beginner

5:32pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Why Your Cluster-Wide Policies Are a Risk (And What To Do About It) - Dhruv Puri, Aspora

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

As Kubernetes evolves, so must policy enforcement. ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and MutatingAdmissionPolicy set new standards using CEL for policy logic. Kyverno aligned with these patterns and introduced CEL-based policy types.

However, cluster-scoped resources created challenges: RBAC complexity, isolation concerns, and performance bottlenecks. Kyverno addressed this with namespace-scoped policy types - limiting blast radius, simplifying permissions, and improving admission latency.

Dhruv Puri (Kyverno LFX Mentee) explains why namespace-scoped policies matter, how they secure multi-tenant environments, and how Kyverno internals can help you optimize admission performance.
Attendees leave with actionable strategies for namespace-scoped policies and a deeper understanding of Kyverno's architecture.

Speakers

Dhruv Puri

DevOps Engineer, Aspora

I’m an open-source contributor, with a strong interest in DevOps, cloud-native technologies, and large-scale infrastructure. I’ve worked with Kyverno wherein I implemented the namespace-scoped CEL policies and have previously contributed to Prometheus Operator as GSoC contributor... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

Content Experience Level Beginner

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

12:00pm IST

Inference in Progress… Please Monitor Responsibly - Gaurav Sharma, NVIDIA

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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Running GPU inference on Kubernetes is no longer exotic — it’s becoming the default for modern AI workloads. But while teams obsess over model latency and throughput, the real problems usually hide deeper: GPU under-utilization, memory fragmentation, node-level contention, noisy neighbour, and observability gaps that make debugging feel like guesswork.
In this talk, we’ll walk through a practical, field-tested monitoring approach for GPU inference workloads on Kubernetes. Attendees will learn how to instrument GPU nodes, collect and correlate GPU-specific metrics, build alerting around inference SLOs, and detect performance regressions before they disrupt production. We’ll also cover common anti-patterns and what “good” looks like for GPU observability in 2025.
If you're running (or planning to run) GPU inference at scale, this session will help you monitor responsibly — and keep your cluster healthy, efficient, and fast.

Speakers

Gaurav Sharma

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Nvidia

Currently working as Senior SRE for Nvidia AI.
In the past I have been part of SRE teams for Nvidia cloud gaming, Microsoft Azure Reliability, Adobe Analytics & VMware Cloud Services.

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:30pm IST

Service Networking Within Air-Gapped Environments: Deployment Strategies and Operational Management - Anirban Nandi, Google

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

Lotus 2 (Level 3)

During the development of an air-gapped cloud infrastructure, Google engineering teams encountered a major challenge: the heavy operational burden on each service owner to manage common networking functions like load balancing, authorization, mTLS, rate limiting, etc. This was further complicated by the prevalent use of open-source software stacks with limited customisations for such use cases. Consequently, a collective decision was made to implement an Istio service mesh and in-cluster gateways to abstract these operations. However, operating a mesh in an air-gapped environment introduces unique technical and logistical difficulties.

This talks presents methodologies for reliably scaling meshes and gateways both zonally and globally across diverse bare-metal and KubeVirt clusters spanning multiple networks by integrating with established OSS technologies like MetalLB, Cilium ClusterMesh, etc. as well as OpenTelemetry, Fluentbit, Grafana, etc. for robust operational transparency.

Speakers

Anirban Nandi

Software Engineer, Google

Anirban is working as a software Engineer at Google and has been involved in the Kubernetes ecosystem for the past 3 years while primarily working on Kubernetes networking technologies such as Istio, Envoy, xDS, Gateway API, etc.

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

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:30pm IST

When the Edge Can’t Afford a Third Node: A Storage Solution for Two-Node Kubernetes Cluster - Parth Arora, IBM

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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Edge Kubernetes clusters run under strict constraints—limited hardware, power, and space—where deploying three nodes for storage quorum is often unrealistic. Still, these environments must support stateful workloads and recover safely from failures.

This session focuses on Rook-Ceph as a storage solution for two-node Kubernetes clusters at the edge. It explains why Ceph traditionally expects three nodes, what breaks in minimal deployments, and how recent design patterns make two-node setups practical when combined with fencing.

Attendees will learn how Rook-Ceph behaves in two-node clusters, how floating Ceph MONs and DRBD-backed monitor state help preserve quorum, and why fencing is critical to avoid split-brain during node crashes, power loss, or network partitions.

Speakers

parth arora

Software Engineer, IBM

I am Parth Arora, a software developer specializing in distributed storage systems.
As a Maintainer and developer, I have extensive experience working with Rook, a cloud-native storage orchestrator that enables storage systems like Ceph to be run as a service on Kubernetes. I have contributed to the development of Rook and have worked on projects involving Ceph... Read More →

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

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Beginner

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

So You Want To Run AI Agents on Kubernetes: A 101 Guide - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Your platform team is trying to integrate AI workloads, your developers want to deploy agents and your leadership expects 10x efficiency with AI but when you dig into the specifics, the terminology becomes a maze: AI Agents, MCP Servers, and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA). Where do you even start?

This session is centered around what problem each of these solve. In this hands-on 101 guide I will start by demystifying how AI agents operate on Kubernetes—how they interact with workloads, the role of MCP servers in enabling multi-agent coordination, and the fundamentals of DRA for intelligent resource management. Then, I will bring it all together with a live demo showing how AI agents can dynamically tune DRA drivers to optimize scheduling and resource usage in real time. Whether you’re an engineer, researcher, or just Kubernetes-curious, this session will equip you with the foundational knowledge and confidence to start experimenting with agentic and adaptive systems on Kubernetes.

Speakers

Rajas Kakodkar

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Rajas is a staff software engineer at Broadcom, where he focuses on low level functions of Kubernetes nodes. He is a tech lead of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group, Workload Foundation and a Kubernetes contributor. He has been co-chairing Cloud Native AI Day, a co-located event at... Read More →

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

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:10pm IST

The Leapfrog Upgrade Playbook: Upgrading When You’re Years Behind - Yug Gupta, Walmart Global Tech

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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

This is a story of how Walmart Leapfrogged 11 Kubernetes Releases Without Customer Downtime.

If that sounds impossible, wait untill you see the constraints: Millions of k8s resources, an etcd database nearing ~7GB, and a version gap so wide that “just upgrade” wasn’t a plan. We needed a method that was safe across API removals, predictable under extreme object counts, and repeatable enough to become a standard operating procedure.

Attendees will learn: (1) how to preflight deprecated APIs and CRDs using upstream guidance (2) how to design restore ordering and “selective restore” boundaries to avoid bringing back broken objects, (3) how to tune API server concurrency so backup/restore doesn’t become a self-inflicted outage, and (4) how to validate correctness and plan rollbacks.

This is a field guide for anyone who’s fallen far behind and needs a safe way forward without betting production on a one-shot upgrade.

No secret sauce, just the hard-earned physics of Kubernetes at scale.

Speakers

Yug Gupta

Staff Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech

Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech India
An open source enthusiast, contributing to the kubernetes ecosystem.

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

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:50pm IST

LLMs Behind Bars: Sandboxes at Scale for AI on a Short Leash - Prashanth Pai, CodeRabbit

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

205 (Level 2)

LLMs can write code - and sometimes running that code is the most direct way to deliver product value. The moment you do, you’ve effectively introduced a remote-code-execution surface: the code is untrusted by default, but the system still has to execute it to stay useful.

In this talk, we’ll share what it took to build and operate production sandboxes for LLM-generated code at scale. We’ll cover the isolation model (containers, least-privilege defaults, syscall/filesystem restrictions), the operational reality (startup latency, resource limits, cold starts, observability), and the guardrails that matters when code or users try to misbehave. We’ll also dig into data protection: locking down egress, blocking exfiltration paths, and keeping secrets out of reach.

We’ll cover what worked, what failed, and what we’d do differently - ending with a practical, vendor-agnostic mental model and checklist you can apply.

Speakers

Prashanth Pai

Principal Engineer, CodeRabbit

Prashanth Pai is a Principal Engineer at CodeRabbit, where he builds the infrastructure that powers safe, reliable execution for AI products in production.

He started his career at Red Hat and has been passionate about open source ever since.

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

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Beginner

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