🇺🇸 GKE Day @ KubeCon SLC

Agentic workloads are rewriting how Kubernetes scales. Static node pools, rigid instance templates and centralized control planes are giving way to something new.Join the Google team behind GKE and Kubernetes, together with the Platform Engineering Community, for an afternoon of deep technical sessions and a live lab.GKE engineering leads, upstream maintainers and platform architects will show how they build, run and scale production Kubernetes at planet scale.

🥪 Come in early to get a good lunch and start learning about the latest GKE updates.

👷‍♀️Who it's for: You, if you build, run or architect the platforms your agents will live on. Platform and AI engineers, agent architects, and platform leaders.

📚What you'll learn: Predictive autoscaling and scale-to-zero, Compute Classes and node flexibility, lessons from multi-thousand-node clusters, self-driving Kubernetes operations, and Managed OpenTelemetry.s it safe to turn untrusted, LLM-generated code loose

🏗️What you'll build: Agent runtimes in a dedicated live cluster lab. The day closes with an open AMA with GKE product and engineering leadership.

Agenda

12:00 - 1:00 pm: Arrival, lunch, badge pickup and networking

1:00 - 1:15 pm: Welcome and kickoff

1:15 - 1:45 pm: The new rules of autoscaling: from scale-to-zero to capacity buffers

1:45 - 2:15 pm: The new compute economy: Compute Classes, obtainability and node flexibility

2:15 - 2:45 pm: Evolving the Kubernetes control plane

2:45 - 3:00 pm: Networking and coffee break

3:00 - 3:30 pm: The era of self-driving Kubernetes: distributed operations at scale

3:30 - 4:00 pm: Next-gen o11y: from Managed OpenTelemetry to smart Compute Advising

4:00 - 4:15 pm: Refreshment break and cluster environment setup

4:15 - 5:30 pm: Deep dive lab: agent substrate

5:30 - 6:00 pm: GKE product and engineering panel AMA, closing remarks

💻 Bring a laptop (the one where you can sign in with a personal Google account) and your hardest questions. You'll leave with production blueprints straight from the team that builds GKE 🍸