CNCF Maintainer Summit North America 2025
2025-11-09
Atlanta, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Opening & Welcome Remarks | Natali Vlatko, Mario Fahlandt, Karena Angell | 19m |
Event logistics and expectations are explicit: room QR codes provide live captioning and translation, unconference sessions open for submission and voting… | ||
| Keynote: Meet the New Technic... | Daniel Oh, Kashif Khan, Marina Moore, Rafael Brito, Rajas Kadodkar | 24m |
Conference announces TAG restructuring and lists concrete initiatives: a Developer Experience TAG builds guidelines for the CNCF landscape and an OCI-compliant… | ||
| Tending the Kubernetes Dependency Tree: Bonsai or Bonfire? | Jordan Liggitt, Davanum "Dims" Srinivas | 32m |
Kubernetes reduces its dependency graph by about 30% in v1.34 and cuts vendor code from the 300–400 range down to ~247 by unraveling GenProto and other… | ||
| Shaping the Future of Developer Experienc... | Daniel Oh, Kevin Dubois, Julien Semaan, Erica Hughberg | 32m |
TAG DevEx defines short initiatives (≤3 months) and longer subprojects to fix concrete developer pain points by producing PRs, docs, sample apps and… | ||
| Navigating the Multi-Version Kubernetes Universe: How Emulation Version Shapes Your... | Siyuan Zhang | 30m |
Kubernetes adds KEP-4330 compatibility versions: an emulated version (n−1 … n−3) flag that makes a binary behave like prior releases and a main compatibility… | ||
| Behind the Proposals... | Robert Pająk, Tyler Yahn, Liudmila Molkova, Trask Stalnaker, Josh Suereth | 33m |
OpenTelemetry uses OTEPs to capture the why, design direction, trade‑offs and migration plan and formally needs four approvers though contentious proposals… | ||
| Unlocking Performance: Topology-Aware CPU Scheduling W... | Praveen Krishna, Marlow Warnicke | 34m |
A Kubernetes DRA-based CPU driver is implemented as a daemonset that publishes per-CPU resource slices with rich attributes and uses a kubelet plugin plus an… | ||
| Technical Leadership Coaching | Emily Fox, Karena Angell, Davanum "Dims" Srinivas | 31m |
CNCF publishes a set of technical leadership principles in the TOC repo principles file and on the website that boil down to Pause, acknowledge, engage as a… | ||
| Awards | 18m | |
Conference organizers announce annual contributor awards with each SIG allowed up to three nominees and a huge shiny placeholder award mailed to winners… | ||
| Keynote: Closing Remarks | Natali Vlatko, Mario Fahlandt, Karena Angell | 03m |
Registration for Amsterdam is open and the CFP is live with guidance on how to submit strong proposals CFP open fill the survey organizers say that lunch hot… | ||
| TAG Workshop | Karena Angell, Mario Fahlandt, Brandt Keller, Dylan Page, Chad Beaudin | 17m |
Continues the London thread by defining a technical community group vs a TAG, treating initiatives as time‑bound artifacts with one tech lead each, and asking… | ||
| Ask the Experts: Kubernetes Steering Committee | 33m | |
Kubernetes Steering Committee answers focus on concrete operational items: the project is staying with Slack and formalizing a CNCF contract, but Slack API… | ||
| Conference‑Driven Development: Discovery Engines or Disappointing Disa... | Brandt Keller, John Kjell | 33m |
Claim: use CFP deadlines as structured R&D sprints so teams submit→prototype→feedback→release→present within a conference cycle. Workflow maps ambition… | ||
| Taming the Beast: The Move To Declarative API Validation in Kubernetes | Yongrui Lin | 37m |
Kubernetes replaces ~19–15k lines of duplicated handwritten Go validation across ~20+ validation.go files with field-attached declarative tags parsed by the… | ||
| Node Lifecycle WorkingGroup - Getting Started | Ryan Hallisey, Filip Křepinský | 38m |
Working Group aims to standardize node and pod lifecycle with concrete proposals: a declarative maintenance API and an eviction request API that lets… | ||
| Simplifying API Review - A Tool Based Approach for Kubernetes and Beyond | Bryce Palmer, Joel Speed | 30m |
Kubernetes API best practices get encoded into tools so reviewers stop policing mechanical issues and focus on user-facing design. A Go plugin kube-api-linter… | ||
| Pathways, Not Roadblocks: TAG‑Led Guardrails for Sustainable, High‑Impa... | Dylan Page, Marina Moore | 32m |
CNCF reorganizes eight TAGs into five TAGs (Infrastructure, Security & Compliance, Operations & Reliability, Workload Foundations, Developer Experience) and… | ||
| Workshop: Maintaining Project Quality and Growth With AI-G... | Liz Rice, Joe Stringer, Bill Mulligan | 36m |
Maintainers discuss concrete policies and tradeoffs: Fedora requires an assisted-by tag and human final signoff; projects try tooling like CodeRabbit reviewer… | ||
| Workshop: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Bot | Justin Santa Barbara, Arnaud Meukam | 25m |
Group settles on concrete problems: contributions generated with Gemini or DeepSeek-like tools must still be submitted by a human and remain under CLA covers… | ||
| State of the Union on Disaster Recovery | Raffaele Spazzoli, Rafael Brito | 27m |
Defines RTO and RPO precisely (how long downtime can be tolerated and how much data can be lost) and maps four concrete DR archetypes: backup-restore, volume… | ||
| Kubernetes for Multi-Host Training and Inference: Workload Aware Sc... | Eric Tune, Dominik Marciński | 38m |
Kubernetes adds a workload API (alpha in 1.35) to represent gangs of pods, node topology groups, and dynamic metadata so the scheduler can make placement… | ||
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