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KubeCrash is Back May 8 — A Crash Course in Cloud Native, Open Source, and Platform Engineering

Lisa-Marie Namphy — Wed, 07 May 2025 00:55:50 +0000

KubeCrash, the community-led, crash course-style cloud native event is back this May 8, and it’s bigger than ever. Whether you’re a platform engineer, developer, or SRE looking to level up your knowledge of Kubernetes, open source tools, and platform engineering best practices, this free, virtual event has something for you.

Why Attend KubeCrash?

Co-hosted by open source leaders like Intuit, Buoyant, Fairwinds, and others, KubeCrash brings you technical deep dives straight from the End Users, CNCF Ambassadors, and Maintainers themselves. This edition features topics ranging from Kubernetes extensibility to platform engineering patterns, cost efficiency, and observability—tailored specifically for practitioners.

For all the platform engineers & SREs, Kubernetes practitioners, DevOps engineers, Open Source enthusiasts: whether you're running production workloads or just beginning your platform journey, you'll walk away with practical strategies and real-world lessons.

See for yourself: check out the recordings from KubeCrash Fall 2024

What’s New This Time?

End User talks from Kubernetes ecosystem giants like Capital One, Bloomberg, Intuit, **and **Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV)
The co-creators of The Platformers community, and KubeFM/Learnk8s
Speakers from CNCF’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing & BIPOC working groups

📅 Program Highlights

Keynotes & Spotlights:

NAV’s journey building a government PaaS (Platform as a Service)
Thought-provoking talks from Nirmata and Akamai on policy-as-code and platform engineering trade-offs
Capital One’s closing keynote on the evolution of enterprise platforms

Observability & Automation:

A deep-dive panel on observability and performance, featuring experts from Intuit, Miro, and more
Talks on OpenTelemetry, Linkerd, and automated deployments for better visibility and faster releases

Developer-Centric Stories:

Lessons from gaming in “Playing Super Mario made me a better Platform Engineer”
Argo CD insights from Intuit on smarter promotions in CI/CD pipelines

Community & Culture:

Intro of The Platformers Community for platform engineers (for those who didn't already know!)
A session on allyship in open source and building inclusive tech communities

Fun Meets Function:

A creative take on SLOs with “Dashboards & Dragons”
Tips on staying current with Kubernetes without information overload

📅 View the full agenda here: kubecrash.io/program

Tune in for these Intuit talks:

Intuit’s engineering team is back with two new sessions designed to help you navigate the complexities of building and operating cloud native platforms:

Argo Promotions: Smarter, Transparent, and Automated Promotions Argo Labs' GitOps Promoter streamlines environment promotions and enhances transparency with a central engine and view, allowing developers to easily track live commits, deployments, and upcoming changes without tool switching.
Observability in Platform Engineering: Balancing Visibility and Performance Platform engineering for scalable, self-service infrastructure faces observability challenges: ensuring deep visibility without overwhelming developers, and balancing real-time insights with cost. Experts will discuss instrumenting platforms, correlating data, and driving actionable insights to improve resilience, leverage AI, and align with business outcomes. Attendees will learn to manage observability at scale, integrate OpenTelemetry, and promote proactive monitoring for IDPs and existing infrastructure. This session offers actionable takeaways for prioritizing observability in platform engineering.

How to Join:

📅 When: May 8, 2024
🌍 Where: Online (free!)
🔗 Register here: kubecrash.io/register

Join live for Q&A with the speakers, or sign up to receive the recordings if you can’t make it.

KubeCrash is community-led, open source-focused, free, and 100% engineer-friendly. Don’t miss your chance to learn from those who are building and scaling the tools you use every day.
See you there!

Join KubeCrash 2024: Your Crash Course on Platform Engineering the Cloud Native Way

Lisa-Marie Namphy — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:59:20 +0000

Platform Engineers let’s unite! Calling all Kubernetes and cloud native enthusiasts to join us at KubeCrash.io!

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 9th, and prepare for a day packed with actionable insights and practical takeaways. We are so excited to participate in the 6th KubeCrash event with the amazing group of platform engineer software experts and open source community members.

What is KubeCrash?

Now in its sixth round, KubeCrash is a female-created and -led, open source conference and is hosted virtually just a few weeks prior to the KubeCon event by six cloud native companies who teamed up to bring you top-notch, crash courses in cloud native tech. Check out the talks from KubeCrash Spring 2024 to get a sense of what to expect.

What's New in Platform Engineering circa 2024

At KubeCrash Fall 2024 you'll learn how to navigate the hype around platform engineering solutions and explore best practices for building and integrating new tools, with deep dives into optimizing and simplifying Kubernetes for developers using AI.

Giving Back with Open Source and Deaf Kids Code

KubeCrash continues its commitment to the open source community and giving back. All KubeCrash sessions focus on open source projects, empowering you to leverage freely available, secure, and customizable technologies.

And the KubeCrash (and sponsors) commitment goes beyond tech. As with previous KubeCrash events, for every registration KubeCrash will donate $1 to Deaf Kids Code, supporting their mission of empowering deaf and hard-of-hearing children through coding education.

Why open source

Intuit believes very strongly in open source technology, and supports and contributes significantly to projects within the CNCF landscape and beyond! When it comes to enterprise-grade cloud native tooling, DevOps teams often drive the technology choices to build Kubernetes production environments. In short, open source has become critical to any modern technology stack.

KubeCrash aims to help engineering teams develop the needed skill sets to leverage these technologies in their production environments effectively. During these knowledge-sharing, virtual learning sessions, developers, reliability engineers, cloud security specialists, and platform engineers will learn directly from the maintainers of some of the most popular open source projects.

The KubeCrash Program:

Get ready for a jam-packed schedule featuring expert talks from leading companies like The New York Times, Intuit, and members of the CNCF Deaf & Hard of Hearing and Blind and Visually Impaired Working Groups.

You'll also hear directly from industry leaders and gain practical knowledge you can implement in your own work. Here's a sneak peek at some of the exciting sessions:

Opening keynote: Platform Engineering at The New York Times
Lighting talk: Introducing the CNCF's Blind and Visually Impaired Working Group
A Lightboard Talk About Platform Engineering
A Lighting Talk Introducing the CNCF Cloud Native AI Working Group
An End User Panel: Avoiding Big Mistakes - Navigating Platform Engineering Challenges
Speed Up Security: Unleash DevOps Productivity with Zero Trust Network Access
Mastering Kubernetes: Strategies for Optimal Performance and Scalability
Fail Smarter, Fix Faster: Gen AI's Role in Streamlining Build Debugging
Closing keynote: Accelerating Developer Velocity at Intuit: Our Platform Engineering Journey with GenAI and Argo

Block your calendars for these Intuit sessions

The team at Intuit was thrilled to be asked to deliver the closing keynote, and share the many learnings we’ve discovered while using GenAI to unlock developer potential. Here are some other sessions you can expect from the Intuit team:

Simplifying Kubernetes for Developers - a talk that will give our end-user perspective on using Kubernetes. Learn why abstracting networking compute infrastructure and utilizing AI-powered application autoscaling, enables developers to focus more on what they excel at: writing code.
An end user panel covering the do’s and don'ts we’ve learned while building our AI-driven platform.
Hear how Argo and other open source technology can be integrated to build your AI-native application platform, increasing developer velocity by 25%.

Don't miss out!

It’s virtual. It’s free! And it’s for a great cause! Register today and join us on October 9th for a day of learning, networking, and staying ahead of the curve in platform engineering.

See you there!