Changes in CKA Exams and GKE Control Plane Authority

Join us at the WSO2 office for Food, Drinks, and Kubernetes on Feb 19, 2026!🎉

Everyone is invited to join! We aim to provide the latest news about Kubernetes and CNCF projects. 

We have two special guests: Sandeep Kumar Penchala from Samsung SmartThings and Deepak Verma from Apple. Sandeep will talk about Low-Latency IoT Streams on Kubernetes. Deepak will talk about GKE Control Plane Authority.

We will meet in North Austin for the February episode.

WSO2 was generous to offer their office to host the Kubernetes Austin meetup!

Address: 10900 Stonelake Blvd, Building 2, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78759

Changes in CKA Exam

Who Guards the Guards? Exploring GKE Control Plane Authority

Kubernetes users trust the control plane with their most critical cluster operations — but who controls and audits the control plane itself? In this talk, we explore GKE Control Plane Authority and how Google Kubernetes Engine provides transparency, security, and governance over control-plane actions