Unifying VMs, AI and Containers on One Control Plane and What Breaks with AI on Kubernetes

🎉 Join us at Zynga Inc. for Food, Drinks 🍕🍻, and Kubernetes ☸️ on April 23, 2026!

👥 Everyone is welcome — whether you're new or experienced, come connect with the community.
We’ll be sharing the latest updates and insights from Kubernetes and CNCF projects 🚀

🎤 Featured Talks:

🔹 Myroslav Mishov
Unifying Brownfield VMs, AI, and Containers on a Single Control Plane

Expect good conversations, practical insights, and a strong community vibe. See you there! 🙌

📍 We’re excited to host the April episode at Zynga Inc. (Domain Area), Austin 🎮

📌 Location:
11501 Domain Dr, Austin, TX 78758

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RdccXGbFL9b5fLgS8

➡️ Arrival Instructions:

• Head to the 2nd floor upon arrival

• We’ll be at the Main Event Room & Entrance Area after 5:45 PM

• Just follow the pull-up banners — they’ll guide you to the right spot 🎯

Looking forward to seeing you there! 🚀

🚗 Parking Garages Near 11501 Domain Dr (The Domain, Austin)

🔵 Blue Garage (Most Convenient)

• Closest and most commonly used for offices around Zynga

• Easy access to 11501 Domain Dr (walkable within minutes)

Venue Sponsored by Zynga Inc. Austin

🌍 Zynga is a leading global mobile gaming company, known for creating social and interactive games played by millions worldwide. Their mission is simple yet powerful: “connect the world through games.”

The Post-Hypervisor Era: Unifying Brownfield VMs, AI, and Containers on a Single Control Plane

The "all-container" future hasn't arrived. In the real world, Platform Engineers are paying a heavy "Platform Tax"—forced to maintain two separate worlds: declarative Kubernetes for modern apps, and imperative virtualization platforms for legacy workloads.

We struggle with this "Two-Stack" reality. Virtualization APIs often break backward compatibility during upgrades, shattering the custom automation and brittle integrations we rely on. We are forced to write code that says "Do This" (Imperative), rather than manifests that say "Ensure This State" (Declarative).

In this session, we present the architecture of the Unified Declarative Platform. Using CozyStack (CNCF Sandbox) as a reference model, we will demonstrate how to eliminate the Platform Tax by wrapping legacy workloads in the stability of the Kubernetes API.

Technical Deep Dive:
• The Death of "Fragile APIs": Replacing brittle integration scripts with standard Kubernetes operators. Manage DBs, VMs, Networks, and Storage using the same stable, declarative patterns (CRDs) as your microservices.
• Extreme Performance: A look at real-world benchmarks achieving 0.030ms - 0.080ms storage latency for high-load databases using LINSTOR, eliminating the multi-millisecond overhead of legacy vSANs.
• AI-Ready Resource Pooling: How to architect a unified hardware layer where GPUs can be dynamically passed through to legacy VMs or tenant Kubernetes clusters for AI inference.
• Democratizing Access: How to provide a simple, cloud-like UI for developers to self-provision infrastructure, hiding the complexity of the underlying bare metal.