Day 1

Day 1 of the main KubeCon event startet with a bunch of keynotes from the cncf themselfes (anouncing the next locations for kubecon - amsterdam and barcelona). The also announced a new sovereign cloud edge initiative (CNCF/LF meets EU and soem german ministry) called “NeoNephos” with members like SAP, StackIt or T-Systems.

This is also the day the sponsor showcase opened - so expect more talking to people and meetings or demos and less straight up talks.

Talk recommendations

• Not that much about gpus with good control plane scaling advice: Scaling GPU Clusters without melting down
• Migrate a cluster to ClusterAPI without downtime: Day 2000 - Migrating from kubeadm + ansible to clusterapi+talos
• Some basic operator tips with good Q&A questions: Don’t write controllers like charlie don’t does: Avoiding common kubernetes controller mistakes

Other stuff I learned or people i talk to

• The crossplane maintainers (Upbound)
• Anynines
• Cloudfoundry/Korifi
• FlatCar
• Cert-Manager
• Flux maintainers
• OVH
• Kubermatic
• Isovalent
• Spacelift: They employ some of the opentofu core maintainers