Kubernetes Austin

GitOps Kubernetes Golden Path with CNCF Tools & Deployment Validation from 45 to 2 Minutes

Capacity:
in-person
Event date
Jun 25, 26
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM CDT
Location
Zynga Inc - Austin Office, Austin
About this event

🚀 Join us at the Zynga Inc. office for Food, Drinks, and Kubernetes on June 25, 2026!

Everyone is welcome whether you are new to Kubernetes or already experienced, come connect with the Austin cloud native community. We’ll share the latest updates, practical insights, and real world learnings from Kubernetes, CNCF projects, and modern platform engineering.

Featured Talks

🎤 Goutham Kanahasabai

GitOps-Driven Kubernetes Golden Path with CNCF Tools

🎤 Sai Joshitha Kathari

Faster Kubernetes Deployment Validation from 45 Minutes to 2 Minutes

Expect good conversations, practical takeaways, food, drinks, and a strong community vibe.

📍 Venue

Zynga Inc. Austin Domain Area 11501 Domain Dr, Austin, TX 78758 https://maps.app.goo.gl/RdccXGbFL9b5fLgS8

Arrival Instructions

Please head to the 2nd floor when you arrive. We’ll be in the Main Event Room & Entrance Area after 5:45 PM.

Just follow the pull up banners they will guide you to the right place.

Parking

The Blue Garage is the most convenient parking option near 11501 Domain Dr and is commonly used for offices around Zynga. It is within walking distance of the venue.

🍽️ Food and Beer Sponsored by Clowder Space

Clowder Space is a platform for discovering upcoming open-source events, news, and recordings from previous community talks.

🏢 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.”

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Agenda
  1. 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM CDT

    The Declarative Golden Path: Designing a GitOps-Driven Kubernetes Platform with CNCF tools

    in-person

    This talk explores how to build a modern “Golden Path” Kubernetes platform that reduces complexity for development teams while keeping deployments fast, secure, and consistent. It covers a GitOps-driven architecture using CNCF tools such as ArgoCD, Crossplane, Kyverno, Cilium, and Hubble to manage control planes, provision clusters, enforce security guardrails, simplify upgrades, and enable secure OIDC/SSO-based onboarding through GitOps.

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  2. 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT

    We Cut Kubernetes Deployment Validation From 45 Minutes to 2

    in-person

    This talk explains how to reduce Kubernetes release verification time by replacing manual, sequential health checks with automated, parallel validation across large multi-namespace environments. Based on a production AI/ML platform, it shows how batch Kubernetes API polling and concurrent state evaluation reduced verification from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes while improving consistency, reducing operational toil, and detecting failures faster.

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