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 - Parth Arora, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso; Madhu Rajanna, Rewant Soni & Malay Parida, 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

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.

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.

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 →

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 →

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

Maintainer Track, Rook

12:00pm IST

Introducing OCI Webhook Support in Argo CD: From Polling To Real-Time - Nitish Kumar, Akuity

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

204 (Level 2)

As GitOps evolves, more teams are adopting OCI-based artifacts for Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests instead of traditional Git repositories. While Argo CD added support for OCI sources, one major gap remained: event-driven updates. Unlike Git repositories, OCI registries historically lacked first-class webhook integration, forcing teams to rely on polling or manual refreshes. For organizations using GHCR, DockerHub, this meant slower feedback loops and reduced automation in production environments.

Argo CD is adding webhook support for OCI-compliant registries. In this session, I’ll present the design and implementation of webhook support, including GHCR and upcoming Docker Hub integration. I’ll also demonstrate how to configure registry webhooks, connect them to Argo CD, and trigger real-time reconciliation securely.

By the end of this talk, you’ll understand not just how OCI webhooks work internally, but how to configure them correctly in production and what pitfalls to avoid.

Speakers

Nitish Kumar

Software Engineer, Akuity

Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity working on the core Argo team. He is a maintainer of the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD and a former Release Team member of the Kubernetes project. Outside of work, Nitish enjoys playing chess and travelling.

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

Maintainer Track, Argo

12:40pm IST

KServe in Production: Scaling Generative Inference the Cloud Native Way - Johnu George, Nutanix

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

204 (Level 2)

KServe has evolved into a powerful, production-ready model serving platform for a wide range of machine learning and generative AI use cases. This Maintainer Track session will provide a comprehensive overview of how KServe supports everything from deploying your first inference service to running advanced, large-scale generative inference workloads in production.

We will highlight the latest feature enhancements, including distributed inference support, KV cache optimized inference, token-based rate limiting, and integration with external model providers. The session will also cover architectural considerations, scaling strategies, and operational best practices for real-world deployments.

Finally, we will share the roadmap for generative inference in KServe and discuss how the community is shaping the future of scalable, efficient, and cloud-native AI serving.

Speakers

Johnu George

Technical Director, Nutanix

Johnu George is a Technical Director at Nutanix, where he leads the AI Systems team. He has driven several industry collaborations across projects such as Kubeflow, KServe, and Knative. His research interests include machine learning systems design, distributed learning infrastructure... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, kserve

2:30pm IST

Scaling the Developer Frontier: The TAG DevEx Roadmap for 2026 - Daniel Oh & Kevin Dubois, IBM

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

204 (Level 2)

As the cloud native ecosystem matures, the focus has shifted from "making it run" to "making it easy." For the maintainers of TAG DevEx, this means moving beyond philosophy into concrete standards and AI-driven automation.

In this session, the TAG Developer Experience Co-Chairs will pull back the curtain on the scope defining the next era of developer productivity. We will dive deep into our key initiatives and subprojects, including the Cloud Native Adoption Framework, Application Integration Dependency Specification, a new standard for declaring how apps interact with cloud services, and our research into Agentic AI’s role in the inner loop. Attendees will gain a clear framework for adopting a "Developer-First" mindset within their own projects, backed by real-world data on secure coding adoption and contributor friction. Join us to see how we are building the blueprints for the next decade of cloud native development.

Speakers

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Kevin Dubois is often featured as a (keynote) speaker at conferences around the world, where he shares his passion and knowledge about developer experience, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

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

Maintainer Track, Developer Experience

3:10pm IST

Using Buildpacks To Reduce Container Bloat and Attack Surface - Sai Bharadwaj Avvari, Salesforce

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

204 (Level 2)

Stop drowning in CVEs for unnecessary components. 87% of container vulnerabilities hide in packages never loaded at runtime, inflating security backlogs and enabling "Living off the Land" attacks.

Adopting minimal base images often triggers the "Middle-Tier Trap" at scale. If 100 microservices share a custom dependency, platform teams must either bloat the global corporate base image or force developers to maintain fragmented, unpatched Dockerfiles.

In this session, we will break the patching treadmill using Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB) to architect a federated "Patching Waterfall." Attendees will learn:
- Tiered Inheritance: Using CNB Custom Builders to compile and cache heavy, domain-specific dependencies exactly once.
- OS Rebasing: Leveraging CNB's superpower to instantly swap the underlying OS for hundreds of apps in milliseconds, flowing security patches without triggering application rebuilds.
- Day-2 Ops: Securely debugging "distroless" builds via Ephemeral Containers.

Speakers

Sai Bharadwaj Avvari

SMTS, Salesforce Developer Productivity, Salesforce

Sai Bharadwaj Avvari is a Software Engineer at Salesforce.com, working as part of the Developer Productivity Cloud. A graduate of IIT Madras with a B.Tech in CSE, he has been working at Salesforce as part of the Software Supply Chain Security Team, responsible for leading the teams... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, Buildpacks

4:10pm IST

Inside Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience (ContribEx) - Prajyot Parab, IBM; Avni Mahajan, Speedybyte; Swathi Rao, Independent ; Pritish Samal, Harness.io; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom

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

204 (Level 2)

When a large open source community feels approachable before you understand how it works, that sense of welcome is shaped by small choices that rarely get the spotlight yet influence how people participate. Within Kubernetes, much of this work lives in SIG Contributor Experience.

This talk brings together contributors from New Contributor Orientation (NCO), community moderation, contributor-site, and contributor-comms. Each area reflects a careful balance: guiding newcomers, caring for shared spaces, and communicating updates in ways people can follow and use.

We center the human moments behind this work.

The first NCO session where someone found the confidence to speak. The responsibility of moderating large public community platforms, and the steady effort behind content and communications that help contributors understand what is changing, why it matters, and where they can step in.

These everyday decisions shape whether people feel supported enough to stay and contribute.

Speakers

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 →

Pritish Samal

Software Engineer, Harness.io

Pritish Samal is a Software Engineer at Harness and an open source contributor in the cloud-native ecosystem. As a Linux Foundation mentee at Cloud Native Computing Foundation, he contributed to Kyverno and Kubernetes, focusing on policy validation, testing frameworks, and developer... Read More →

Avni Mahajan

Software developer, Speedybyte

Avni is a Kubernetes Org Member in SIG ContribEx Comms, where she contributes to LWKD, supports the New Contributor Orientation (NCO), and helps out in other community and communication related areas. She has also contributed to Meshery and enjoys being part of open source communities... Read More →

Prajyot Parab

Senior Cloud Engineer, IBM

Prajyot is a Cloud Engineer with experience in cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes. He contributes to various projects within the Kubernetes and Kubernetes-SIGs organizations, collaborating with the community to enhance the cloud-native ecosystem. His interests include Kubernetes... Read More →

Swathi Rao

Kubernetes v1.35 and v1.36 Comms Shadow | LFX Mentee '24, Independent

Swathi enjoys programming and exploring how systems are built, from infrastructure choices to design trade-offs. She works at the intersection of technology and communication in the Kubernetes Community. As a Release Team Member, she helps simplify complex new features for end-users... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, Contributor Experience

4:50pm IST

etcd in 2026: Enhancements, V3.7 Roadmap, and Community Growth - Lavish Pal, Independent; Arka Saha, Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Guna K Kambalimath, IBM

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

204 (Level 2)

Whether you know it or not, as a Kubernetes user, you are also an etcd user. Join us to learn a little about the SIG and database, followed by recent changes and etcd’s future roadmap.

First, we’ll fill the audience in about etcd and its place in the Cloud Native universe. Then, we'll go over changes to etcd in the last year, including 3.4 downgrade support, the v3store migration (and problems), performance enhancements, livez/readyz, and more. We'll even have a few demos. Next, we'll talk about the v3.7 roadmap, including image registry update, range stream, RAFT async writes, and diagnostic tooling. We'll also provide an update on the robustness tests and Go workspace support. We’ll also share our progress on building the official etcd operator.

Attendees will not only learn about the state of etcd, but also how to contribute.

Speakers

Josh Berkus

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat

Josh Berkus is the Kubernetes Community Manager, working in Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. He's currently involved with Kubernetes, Etcd, Elekto, Podman, and uBlue, but has spent more than 20 years contributing to many projects, including Linux, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, and... Read More →

Guna K Kambalimath

Software Engineer, IBM ISDL

Software engineer at IBM ISDL with a work experience of 5 years. Involved the development of VPC Block CSI driver in IBM Cloud. My expertise is in Golang, C++, systems, monitoring and alerting tools. Contributor to the opensource kubernetes signature community.
Current work involves ODF and ceph deployment/support on IBM PowerVS infrastructure... Read More →

Arka Saha

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Arka Saha, a Broadcom Software Engineer, leads Kubernetes releases & maintenance for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). He manages Broadcom's Prow infrastructure, ensuring long-term support for k8s, etcd, containers, Golang & related components. Previously he managed Red Hat OpenShift... Read More →

Lavish Pal

LFX Mentee @Kubernetes, Independent

Lavish, a computer engineering student from India, is an LFX Mentee who has significantly contributed to Kubernetes An active contributor to etcd, Kubernetes and part of the Kubernetes release team v1.32. He loves deep diving into distributed systems and creating articles on them... Read More →

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

Maintainer Track, etcd

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