Kubernetes

Presenters Alex Speranza Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Streamlining Kubernetes Cluster Management with Backstage 🚀 Managing Kubernetes clusters can quickly become a complex and time-consuming endeavor, especially as the number of clusters grows. In this insightful session, Alex Speranza, a DevOps and Platform Engineer at Informatica, shares how they leveraged Backstage to automate and simplify the process of onboarding Kubernetes clusters, transforming a convoluted workflow into a streamlined, user-friendly experience. The Challenge: Scaling Cluster Management 📈 The core problem Alex and his team faced was the unforeseen rapid growth in their managed Kubernetes clusters. What was initially estimated to be a once-a-year task for the infrastructure team quickly escalated. In just two years, their cluster count surged from a mere three to a staggering 22. This exponential growth highlighted the need for a more efficient and automated approach to cluster onboarding and management. ...

Presenters Kunal Das Hrittik Roy Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 From Over-provisioned to Optimized: Automating FinOps with GitOps In the world of Kubernetes, over-provisioning isn’t just a mistake—it is a structural reality. We often treat it as a “safety tax” to ensure our applications run 24/7, but that tax is becoming increasingly expensive. At a recent talk, Hrittik Roy (Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and CNCF Ambassador) and Kunal Das shared a provocative truth: your massive cloud bill isn’t an architecture problem; it is an automation problem. ...

Presenters Luke Philips Christian Hernandez Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Building an Ironclad Castle: GitOps-Driven Multi-Tenant Isolation in Kubernetes 🚀 Ever dreamed of a perfect platform? One where your Kubernetes clusters hum along, applications sync flawlessly, and tenants coexist peacefully? Well, as Luke Phillips, a Principal Engineer at FICO, and Christian Hernandez, a Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent (and an Argo CD maintainer!), showed us, the reality of multi-tenant Kubernetes can quickly turn that dream into a thrilling challenge! ...

Presenters Caelan Urquhart Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Unleashing the Power of Event-Driven Workflows: The Argo Events Evolution The world of cloud-native automation just got a massive power-up. At the latest ArgoCon, Caelan Urquhart, co-founder and CEO at Pipekit, took the stage to unveil the latest advancements in Argo Events. As the primary engine driving event-driven automation within the Argo ecosystem, these updates mark a significant leap forward in how teams trigger, manage, and scale their workflows. ...

Presenters Zhuang Zhang Ryan Wu Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Beyond Single Clusters: Mastering Multi-Cluster Releases with Progressive Delivery 🚀 Are you tired of the release day jitters, especially when you’re juggling multiple Kubernetes clusters? You’re not alone! As Ryan Wu from TIS Cloud Music and Zhuang Zhang from Huawei shared, Kubernetes deployments quickly evolve from a “cluster problem” to a “coordination problem.” This means orchestrating releases across regions, clusters, and environments becomes the real challenge. ...