Join us for an engaging in-person meetup is focused on learning about Cloud Native and Google Cloud, exchanging best practices, and networking. Reserve your spot now and take your cloud skills to the next level!

Agenda

9:30 AM IST

Event registration, Networking

in-person

10:00 AM IST

KCP for Platform Engineers

in-person

A live demo of using kcp workspaces with AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) to provision real AWS infrastructure declaratively without spinning up a cluster per tenant.

SPEAKERS: Suraj D

11:00 AM IST

From Pending Pods to Happy Clusters: Autoscaling with Karpenter

in-person

Discover how Karpenter is transforming Kubernetes autoscaling by provisioning the right compute resources in seconds. In this session, we’ll explore how Karpenter works, how it differs from Cluster Autoscaler, and best practices for building scalable, cost-efficient Kubernetes clusters.

SPEAKERS: Shivam Bhavsar

12:00 PM IST

Serverless or Kubernetes? A Platform Engineer's Decision Framework

in-person

Managed serverless is a great place to start - until multi-team platforms, stateful workloads, GitOps, policy-as-code and self-hosted AI arrive. A production migration story: where the open-source Kubernetes stack (Argo CD, Prometheus, Gateway API, Kyverno, OpenTelemetry) earns its complexity, where serverless still wins and how to decide without dogma.

SPEAKERS: Jenisten Xavier

12:45 PM IST

Networking, Feedback, Closure