Edgecase 2026 

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The “starter cluster” has evolved from the simple days of kube-up to powering the largest platforms in the world. Kubernetes is the application interface developers expect, but it doesn’t fit everywhere. Justin has spent years trying to meet that challenge. He’s built some of the smallest and largest clusters in the world using old, new, and custom-built hardware. He’ll share lessons learned from putting Kubernetes into places it wasn’t originally designed to run—and how those experiences are shaping a simpler path forward with Talos Linux.

Coffee Break, Networking & Demos

For over a decade, cloud security has been a dashboard discipline. That assumption is breaking, and not because a vendor decided so.

Like their engineering counterparts, the most AI-mature security teams are rebuilding their workflows around the coding agent as the control surface: from posture and identity to runtime data through MCP, defining policy in natural language, and running end-to-end remediation from signal to merged pull request without opening a UI. Enter: Headless cloud security.

This keynote is a field report on that shift. Attendees will explore what these security teams are building, what holds up in production, where it breaks, and what it takes for a headless security platform to meet AI-mature teams where they already work.

With headless cloud security, the dashboard does not disappear, but it does stop being the destination. Keynote attendees leave with a way to evaluate the same evolution in their own program. 

How OpenNebula Systems helps platform teams deliver elastic, multi-tenant, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with sovereignty, simplicity, and cost efficiency.

Lunch Break, Networking & Demos

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Earlier this year at KubeCon EU, a wild live demo appeared: we deployed and upgraded a Talos Kubernetes cluster in a completely air-gapped environment using Zarf, going from bare metal to a running cluster with zero internet connectivity, then upgrading it live on stage. Critical hit, crowd loved it. What we didn't get to show was the training montage behind the scenes: everything that had to go right to make that "magic" actually work.

This time, I'm revealing the moveset. In this session, I'll break down the real automation driving that demo, including how Talos Linux gives you a rock-solid, predictable OS built specifically for Kubernetes, and how Zarf bundles the OS, Kubernetes itself, and your applications into a single portable package you can deploy anywhere. I'll dig into the tooling that evolved "spin up a cluster with zero connectivity" from a flashy one-off into something repeatable and reliable, and where TrueFullstaq is taking this "magic" component next.

Tea Break, Networking & Demos

What if your applications could scale themselves, intelligently, automatically, and ahead of demand?

In this session, we explore the world of event-driven autoscaling with KEDA: starting from the fundamentals and building all the way up to predictive autoscaling powered by Machine Learning. Whether you're just getting started with autoscaling or looking to push beyond traditional reactive approaches, this talk has something for you. 

Building a platform sounds right until every team builds its own. At one of the world’s largest retailers, one platform didn’t fit all, but many siloed platforms did not scale. Different products, constraints, and experience levels drove divergence. 

In this talk, we show how we addressed this by building an Open Source Platform Framework not as a rigid product, but as a shared foundation. It allows teams to own their platforms while sharing common practices, from standard cloud setups to 15,000+ edge locations.

The ultimate tech quiz, with ultimate prizes. 

Perfect ending to the day.