Cloud Native Budapest June 2026

A quick introduction to Calico Whisker, Calico’s open source flow observability UI. This session explains why Kubernetes network troubleshooting can be difficult, from short-lived pods and changing IPs to opaque NetworkPolicy decisions, and shows how Whisker helps close that visibility gap. We’ll look at how Whisker provides a live, cluster-wide view of network flows with Kubernetes identity and policy context. The session also covers filtering, flow drill-downs, enforced policy verdicts, and staged policy visibility, showing how teams can quickly identify which workload is blocked, which policy caused it, and what would happen before a policy is promoted to production.

When the Platform Becomes the Framework is a visionary 20-minute technical talk about the next step after Kubernetes becomes invisible infrastructure. Kubernetes is not going away. It is becoming more like Linux: a foundational layer that developers increasingly do not touch directly.

The talk explores what happens when this platform layer stops being “just deployment” and starts shaping the application model itself. As a concrete example, I introduce OKWF — Origoss Kubernetes Web Framework, a proof-of-concept full-stack Go web framework that uses Kubernetes for persistence, reconciliation, events, authorization, and deployment primitives, all exposed through a developer-friendly API.

In a live guestbook demo, I will show application code, then use k9s to reveal Kubernetes resources as the app runs, including those being created, updated, and deleted. The goal is to make the central idea tangible: the future of Kubernetes may not be developers writing more YAML. It may be frameworks that turn the platform itself into the software's runtime grammar.