Kubernetes on Edge Day North America 2025
2025-11-10
Atlanta, United States
[Kubernetes on Edge Day North America 2022, Kubernetes on Edge Day North America 2024, Kubernetes on Edge Day North America 2025]
as the organisers put it
Kubernetes on Edge Day North America 2025 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel.
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes operators, site reliability engineers, edge device engineers, iot engineers, ml engineers, security engineers
topics
immutable edge OS; bootable container images; A/B atomic upgrades; TPM trusted boot; k3s edge deployments; Kepler power monitoring; ONNX Runtime inference; Spin Wasm toolkit; Wiser snapshotting for Wasm; MQTT with Prometheus exporter; Kyverno multi-cluster policies; SEAM service-quality manager
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Katerina Arzhayev, Gergely Csatari | 04m |
Opening remarks set expectations: edge has a loose definition but the day centers on Kubernetes at edge and real-world constraints across devices, plus… | ||
| The Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform | William Rizzo, Mauro Morales | 29m |
Argues for replacing mutable OS management with an immutable edge stack that uses bootable container images (kernel + init) built per commit, supports A/B… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Running Energy-Aware AI Inference on Edge Kubernetes With Kepler | Miguel Rojas | 05m |
Deploys a lightweight K3s + Kepler + Prometheus stack on a laptop-emulated edge cluster and runs an ONNX Runtime image classifier while exporting power… | ||
| Breaking the Latency Barrier: Tackling Compute and Network Delay With Globally Distributed Wasm | Kate Goldenring, Sudesh Girdhar | 25m |
Spin is an open source Wasm toolkit that claims sub-millisecond cold starts and portable deployments to Akamai’s global edge; demo shows Spin apps built… | ||
| Thinking Outside the Classroom: Building an Edge Device To Monitor Atmospheric Conditions | Hadijat Sanni, Jubril Oyetunji | 06m |
Built and deployed a school-site edge system using ESP32 with DHT11 and CO/CO2 sensors that publishes via MQTT and a custom Prometheus exporter to a Raspberry… | ||
| Securing the Edge: Multi-Cluster Governance With Kyverno on K0rdent’s Fleets | Dolis Sharma, Prashant Ramhit | 16m |
Demonstrates deploying Kyverno across k0rdent fleets with k0s so policies bootstrap at workload-cluster creation via a service template/Helm chart, enforcing… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Service Quality Management for Critical Edge Applications | Jaime Burbano | 10m |
An open-source service-quality manager called SEAM monitors entire edge chain — device, network, Kubernetes cluster and worker nodes — and centralizes traces… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Katerina Arzhayev, Gergely Csatari | 01m |
Brief closing that announces lunch time and formally ends Kubernetes on Edge Day, while directing attendees to the next flagship event: KubeCon +… | ||
| Edge Kubernetes in Action: From Connected Vessels to Industrial Au... | S. Vasudeva | 06m |
An energy customer deploys thousands of edge gateways on oil rigs and well sites running Kubernetes to collect real‑time telemetry, facing 250 kilobytes to… | ||
| AI Inference at the Edge: Beyond the Hype | Saad Malik | 06m |
AI inference at the edge faces concrete limits: GPUs are scarce and costly, models drift so fast some teams push weekly model updates, and only 11% in… | ||
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