KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025: Full Schedule

16-17 June
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11:30 JST

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform - Whitney Lee, Datadog & Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Monday June 16, 2025 11:30 - 12:00 JST

Level 1 | Orion

Our hero, a running app in a K8s prod environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They’re serving end users, but the value of the cloud is not realized. Hero’s devs toil on custom integrations, deployment is brittle and slow, and security and governance are HARD. Hero longs for a developer platform with consistent and repeatable system building blocks.

It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero’s transformation from a lost and confused app to one built on a solid foundation that abstracts away complexity and promotes innovation. In their fifth KubeCon ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they build an Internal Developer Platform, enabling the devs to have self-service access to widely used system capabilities. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects and build a platform before the session time elapses?

Speakers

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

Whitney Lee

Senior Technical Advocate, Datadog

Whitney is a CNCF Ambassador who is passionate about cloud native tools. Creative and driven, she has created and delivered two KubeCon keynotes, a VMware Explore keynote, and countless fun, funny, and informative community conference keynotes. You can catch her lightboard show... Read More →

Monday June 16, 2025 11:30 - 12:00 JST
Level 1 | Orion

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any
Presentation Language English

12:10 JST

Safeguarding Your Applications - Achieving Zero Downtime During Kubernetes Upgrades - Kazuki Uchima & Kakeru Ishii, Google Cloud

Monday June 16, 2025 12:10 - 12:40 JST

Level 1 | Orion

Kubernetes cluster upgrades are frequent and can lead to unforeseen problems, including application downtime. Therefore, it is essential to understand the roles of each component that makes up a Kubernetes cluster and how they behave during an upgrade in order to safely upgrade the Kubernetes cluster and achieve zero downtime for your applications.

This session will explain the basics and practical practices to improve safety, and ensure zero downtime for your applications. In 30 minutes, we will provide an easy-to-understand explanation of everything from the roles of the main Kubernetes components to points to note during upgrades and recommended configurations to minimize or eliminate application downtime during the upgrade process. This session is recommended for those who are going to operate Kubernetes in earnest and those who are troubled by upgrades and want to learn how to prevent application downtime during Kubernetes cluster upgrades.

Speakers

Kazuki Uchima

Technical Solutions Engineer, Google Cloud

Kazuki Uchima is a Technical Solutions Engineer at Google Cloud, specializing in Cloud Native technologies with a focus on Kubernetes. He provides consulting, architecture design, and technical support for Cloud Native solutions.

Kakeru Ishii

Technical Solutions Engineer, Google Cloud

Kakeru Ishii is a Technical Solutions Engineer in Japan who helps Google Cloud customers especially when they have troubles with Kubernetes cluster, or applications on it. Background of his technical skills are around computer graphics, but now his enthusiasm is towards infrastructure... Read More →

Safeguarding Your Applications Achieving Zero Downtime During Kubernetes Upgrades pdf

Monday June 16, 2025 12:10 - 12:40 JST
Level 1 | Orion

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner
Presentation Language English

16:30 JST

From Moon Prism Power To eBPF Super Saiyan: A Guide To Cloud Native Security & Observability - Carla Gaggini, Isovalent at Cisco & Kenta Tada, Toyota Motor Corporation

Tuesday June 17, 2025 16:30 - 17:00 JST

Level 1 | Pegasus A-B1

Join us on an anime-powered journey to explore the power of eBPF in cloud native. Inspired by Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball GT, this talk breaks down how eBPF enhances observability, networking, and security, using the Sailor Guardians and Gohan to make eBPF approachable. We’ll break down topics like real-time observability by comparing it to psychic flames.
And just as unchecked power in anime can lead to chaos, eBPF’s immense capabilities need to be used wisely. Drawing from Dragon Ball GT's arc where the Dragon Balls become a threat, we’ll examine best practices for safe deployment of eBPF (e.g., LSM, verifier constraints, Linux Capability restrictions). Spoiler alert: our Sailor Guardians and Gohan will come out victorious, worry not!

By the end, you’ll gain a clear understanding of how to wield eBPF safely and effectively in cloud native environments, no Super Saiyan transformation required!

Speakers

Carla Gaggini

Head of Global Events, Isovalent at Cisco

Carla has been managing events and communities since 2011, producing and running many conferences, meetups, webinars and hackathons. Formerly managing everything “WTF is Cloud Native” and “Software Circus”, she now buzzes around eBPF at Isovalent at Cisco. She is one of the... Read More →

Kenta Tada

Project Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation

Kenta Tada is an experienced Linux engineer and team lead who has worked with various organizations. He has contributed to the Linux kernel and BPF tools and has served as a reviewer for the system validator used in kubeadm. He also reviewed the Japanese translation of the book... Read More →

From Moon Prism Power to eBPF Super Saiyan A Guide to Cloud Native Security & Observability Carla Gaggini and Kenta Tada pdf

Tuesday June 17, 2025 16:30 - 17:00 JST
Level 1 | Pegasus A-B1

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any
Presentation Language English

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025

11:30 JST

Viktor Farcic

Whitney Lee

12:10 JST

Kazuki Uchima

Kakeru Ishii

16:30 JST

Carla Gaggini

Kenta Tada

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