Maintainer Summit Europe 2026
2026-03-22
Amsterdam, Netherlands
who it's for
CNCF project maintainers, Kubernetes maintainers, platform engineers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, documentation engineers, community managers
topics
shared hosted runner platform; packer-generated VM images; KubeVirt pod-to-VM launcher; Dynamic Resource Allocation GA; Kubernetes AI conformance; Prow spawn-pod CI model; Tide merge queue interoperability; Tekton delegated pipelines; dot-project metadata service; agentic Copilot Enterprise workflows; checkpoint and restore APIs; GPU partitioning and scheduler hints
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Opening Remarks | Karena Angell, Mario Fahlandt, Martin Hickey | 11m |
Welcome and housekeeping: venue Wi‑Fi uses password Cloud Native, translation requires personal headphones, and session captions and QR codes handle languages… | ||
| Keynote: Building AI in the Open: How the Cloud Native Community Shapes What Comes Next | Mario Fahlandt | 43m |
Kubernetes adds a production layer: Dynamic Resource Allocation GA is live and vendors must write external drivers, and Kubernetes AI conformance (launched at… | ||
| Ask the Experts: Kubernetes Steering Committee | Kat Cosgrove, Maciej Szulik, Antonio Ojea | 34m |
Kubernetes steering committee says AI is multiplying low‑quality PRs roughly tenfold, will require you must disclose use of AI in PR descriptions, and will… | ||
| Running the Runners: How CNCF Powers GitHub Actions at Scale | Koray Oksay | 34m |
CNCF runs a shared hosted runner platform on donated Oracle Cloud credits using Argo CD, actions-runner-controller and packer to produce packer-generated VM… | ||
| Your Guide To How CNCF Projects Actually Do Documentation | Natali Vlatko, Aidan Delaney, Nate Waddington, Tiffany Hrabusa | 32m |
Panel documents how CNCF projects run docs: one-person bootstraps or small teams form around a shared charter, mentorship fills gaps via LFX mentorship, and… | ||
| It's 2030. What Does Prow Look Like? | Petr Muller | 34m |
Prow runs owners-file enforcement and automated reviewer assignment across 90+ Kubernetes repos, interprets who can give LGTM or approve, triggers and executes… | ||
| Guide Us on Next Steps in Kubernetes Device Manage... | John B, Janet K, Marlow W, Patrick O, Kevin K | 42m |
Kubernetes Device Management reports that Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) is now stable core with multiple alpha/beta caps for resource slice, resource claim… | ||
| Building Bridges: How the OTel End User SIG Helps Foster Community | Adriana Villela, Josh Lee, Reese Lee | 34m |
OpenTelemetry’s End User SIG proves that deliberate, small efforts scale: starting as a three‑person working group it converts to a formal SIG, runs monthly… | ||
| TAG Workshop | Dan Garfield, Dylan Page, Mario Fahlandt, Karena Angell | 38m |
Group works through live Google Drive templates accessed by QR code to rehearse tech review, governance review, and security review workflows; documents are… | ||
| Does Your Project Want a UI in Kubernetes-SIGs/headlamp? | René Dudfield, Santhosh Nagaraj | 25m |
Headlamp is now a Kubernetes SIG UI project offering a production-ready, multicluster real-time web app and desktop clients, packaged for Docker Desktop… | ||
| Agentic AI for Maintainers: Getting the Most From GitHub Copilot Enterprise | Nate Waddington | 45m |
Practical how‑to for using GitHub Copilot Enterprise with concrete configs and pitfalls: shows using agent mode in-editor as a pair programmer, using coding… | ||
| Unconference Session: Checkpoint/Restore BoF | Peter Hunt | 35m |
Working group prototypes an API that supports three concrete cases: suspend/resume, live migration, and warm start (prewarmed JVM/GPU images). Implementations… | ||
| Unconference Session: How Should Maintainers Navigate (and Review) AI-based PRs? | Natali Vlatko, Adrian Moisey | 34m |
Kubernetes now fails CLA checks for commits CLA check fails co-authored-by and asks contributors to disclose AI use in PR template but maintainers report heavy… | ||
| Cluster Autoscaler Evolution | Kuba Tużnik, Jack Francis | 36m |
Cluster Autoscaler outlines concrete changes: DRA and CSI node fixes land and are DRA production ready (v1.35), a unit test framework and benchmark arrive, and… | ||
| Guidelines for Achieving Project Release Maturity | Andrew Block, Carol Valencia, Nabarun Pal | 36m |
An initiative produces a white paper and a checklist across seven release pillars so projects can prove release readiness, with case studies from Kubernetes… | ||
| What We Learned After Mentoring 30+ Mentees | Arthur Silva Sens, Bartłomiej Płotka | 47m |
Mentors report running 30+ mentorships across LFX and Google Summer of Code, find GSoC suits longer 6‑month work, LFX usually 3 months, and observe a ~40%… | ||
| Metal3.io’s Path To CNCF Incubation: Governance, Processes, and Community | Kashif Khan | 33m |
Metal3 moves from code-first to verifiable project hygiene: it centralizes governance into a community repo, defines OWNER files across multiple repos, creates… | ||
| Unconference Session: Node Lifecycle State Needs a Real API | Ryan Hallisey | 37m |
Claim: node lifecycle state needs a structured, discoverable API because current hacks like labels and annotations and ad hoc CRDs are untyped, unowned, and… | ||
| Unconference Session: The Happy Circle: Maintainers and End Users | Jorge Castro | 34m |
Nine months of running the CNCF end‑user program surfaces concrete playbooks: ask projects for meetings, get your logo onto adopters.md, coauthor a reference… | ||
| Building Secure Package Pipelines | André Silva | 23m |
A concrete blueprint shows how to eliminate long‑lived secrets with OIDC authentication, generate automated SBOMs per release, produce signed build… | ||
| The Practices That Made Me Go 'Wow': What Every CNCF Project Can Learn From Envoy | Rohit Agrawal, Kateryna Nezdolii | 31m |
Envoy documents and enforces concrete practices: 350k lines of C++, ~400 extensions, ~1k contributors, a one-day review SLA routed by strict CODEOWNERS, and a… | ||
| Unconference Session: Reliable K8s Operator: How to Survive Eventual Consistency | Marek Siarkowicz | 16m |
Reports of a DaemonSet creating duplicate pods every five minutes and a scheduler stuck two hours behind due to etcd gRPC watch starvation motivate concrete… | ||
| Keynote: Closing Remarks | Karena Angell, Mario Fahlandt, Martin Hickey | 16m |
A lively raffle gives away five shirts and two bags of saltwater taffy with ticket numbers called live and dozens of winners claiming prizes on stage, followed… | ||
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