This is the official post-event archive for KCD Texas 2026, held on Friday, May 15, 2026 at the TCEA Conference Center in Austin, Texas.
Here you’ll find slides, video recordings, code samples, and additional resources from every accepted session. Bookmark this repo, it’s the single place to find KCD Texas 2026 content long after the event.
Speakers: The event has passed. Please submit your talk resources by opening a Pull Request using the speaker submission guide below.
Slides, recordings, and code links are being added as speakers submit their resources. See how to submit.
| # | Time | Room | Title | Speaker(s) | Type | Topics | Slides | Video | Code |
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| 1 | 9:15 AM | Room 1 | The State of Cloud Native: The Shift Towards AI | Katie Gamanji | Keynote | #open-source |
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| 2 | 9:35 AM | Room 1 | Open Source Infrastructure for the AI Native Era | Jonathan Bryce | Keynote | #open-source |
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| 3 | 9:55 AM | Room 1 | Look for the Helpers | Ian Coldwater | Keynote | #open-source |
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| 4 | 10:30 AM | Room 1 | Livin' In the Future: Your Platform's Next Interface Is an AI Agent | Whitney Lee | Session | #platform-engineering |
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| 5 | 10:30 AM | Room 2 | How did that happen? And is it a security Problem. | Duffie Cooley | Session | #security |
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| 6 | 10:30 AM | Room 3 | The 90-Minute IDP: AI Ate My Implementation. Let's Build a Platform Together and Score What's Left. | Michael Forrester | Workshop | #platform-engineering #workshops |
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| 7 | 11:10 AM | Room 1 | The Post-Hypervisor Era: Unifying Brownfield VMs, AI, and Containers on a Single Control Plane | Myroslav Mishov | Session | #kubernetes-core |
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| 8 | 11:10 AM | Room 2 | Hybrid Cloud at Enterprise Scale: Private Kubernetes for Portability and Control | Shravani Gunturu | Session | #kubernetes-core |
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| 9 | 11:50 AM | Room 1 | Enhance Your Agent Accuracy with Agent Skills | Lin Sun | Session | #mlops |
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| 10 | 11:50 AM | Room 2 | AI-Driven DevOps: How LLMs and Agents Are Changing Software Delivery | Kedar Kulkarni | Session | #mlops |
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| 11 | 1:15 PM | Room 1 | Kubernetes-Powered Multi-Cloud Apache Airflow at Scale: The Astro Architecture | Goutam Tadi | Session | #kubernetes-core #batch |
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| 12 | 1:15 PM | Room 2 | Stop Wasting GPUs: How We Built a Golden Path for GPU Sharing on Kubernetes | Engin Diri | Session | #mlops #platform-engineering |
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| 13 | 1:15 PM | Room 3 | Identity-Aware Access Control with Reverse Proxies | Peter ONeill, Chris De La Garza | Workshop | #security #networking #workshops |
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| 14 | 1:55 PM | Room 1 | KServe and the Next Step for LLM Workloads: LLMInferenceService in Context | Jooho Lee | Session | #mlops |
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| 15 | 1:55 PM | Room 2 | Linux for the Cloud Native Engineer | Marina Moore | Session | #kubernetes-core |
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| 16 | 2:35 PM | Room 1 | We Migrated to Karpenter and Our Costs Went Up: A Journey to Real Savings | Abhinav Dahiya | Session | #kubernetes-core |
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| 17 | 2:35 PM | Room 2 | Sandbox Breakouts: Rapid Unscheduled Agentic Assembly | Andrew Martin | Session | #security |
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| 18 | 3:15 PM | Room 1 | Kubernetes at the Edge: Declaring the Indeterminable with Nix and K3s | Cesar Diaz | Session | #edge |
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| 19 | 3:15 PM | Room 2 | Stop Overprovisioning for Application Startup | Graziano Casto | Session | #kubernetes-core |
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| 20 | 3:15 PM | Room 3 | From Zero to Hero: Deploying Production-Ready LLMs on Kubernetes with NVIDIA GPUs | Lucas Duarte, Jairo Martinez Mantilla, Eric Anderson | Workshop | #mlops #workshops |
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| 21 | 3:55 PM | Room 1 | We have the Kure(d): Self Service, Multi-Tenant Infrastructure With Kured and Flatcar Linux | Tyler Auerbeck | Session | #platform-engineering #kubernetes-core |
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| 22 | 3:55 PM | Room 2 | Cracking the OWASP 10 for Kubernetes | Dolis Sharma | Session | #security |
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| 23 | 4:35 PM | Room 1 | Mastering the Dark Arts of OTel Debugging | Julia Furst Morgado | Session | #observability |
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| 24 | 4:35 PM | Room 2 | AGENTS.md and Beyond: Open Standards for AI-Assisted Engineering | Angel Ramirez | Session | #open-source |
Once talks are added, you can find sessions by topic area:
#observability— metrics, logs, traces, profiles#platform-engineering— internal developer platforms, IDPs#networking— CNIs, service mesh, traffic management#kubernetes-core— scheduling, controllers, operators#security— supply chain, policy, zero trust#gitops— delivery pipelines, Argo, Flux#open-source— CNCF projects and ecosystem#mlops— ML infrastructure, data pipelines on Kubernetes#edge— Kubernetes at the edge and in unusual environments#wasm— WebAssembly and Kubernetes#serverless— serverless on top of Kubernetes#workshops— hands-on workshop sessions#batch— batch and job workloads
After the event, accepted speakers are encouraged to share their materials here. This makes your work discoverable by the community long after the event.
- Fork this repository
- Edit
README.mdand add a row to the Talks table with your session info - Open a Pull Request with the title:
Add talk: [Your Talk Title]
In your PR / table row, please provide as many of the following as you have available:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Title | Full title of your talk |
| Speaker(s) | Your name(s) and a link to your GitHub, LinkedIn, or personal site |
| Type | Session (25 min) or Workshop |
| Topics | One or more topic tags from the list above |
| Slides | Link to slides (Google Slides, Speaker Deck, PDF, etc.) |
| Video | Link to recording once published on KCD Texas YouTube |
| Code | Link to a GitHub repo, gist, or other code resource |
| 1 | Observability at Scale with OpenTelemetry | [Jane Doe](https://github.com/janedoe) | Session | `#observability` `#open-source` | [Slides](https://speakerdeck.com/...) | [Video](https://youtube.com/...) | [Code](https://github.com/...) |All session recordings will be published to the KCD Texas YouTube channel after the event:
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- Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
- Venue: TCEA Conference Center, Austin, Texas
- Website: https://kcdtexas.org
- CFP / Speaker Info: https://github.com/kcdtexas/cfp
- Organized by: Volunteers of the CNCF
- Website: https://kcdtexas.org
- X/Twitter: @KCDTexas
- YouTube: @kcdtexas
- LinkedIn: company/kcd-texas
- CNCF Community: community.cncf.io/kcd-texas
- Contact: organizers-texas@kubernetescommunitydays.org
| Year | Archive |
|---|---|
| 2026 | You are here |
| 2025 | Link TBA |
KCD Texas is a community-driven event organized by volunteers and supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).