CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Maintaining the Maintainers

Discover practical strategies for sustaining open source project health over time, including governance, emeritus status, maintainer interactions, and building a pipeline of new contributors based on lessons from containerd.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Driving Monorepo Adoption With Backstage

Discover how to leverage Backstage's features to drive monorepo adoption, enabling rapid application deployment with pre-configured observability and on-call capabilities while supporting migration of existing applications.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Write-Through Object Cache for Fleets of Global Edge Clusters

Discover a system designed to accelerate S3 object storage performance across global edge Kubernetes clusters, optimizing GPU-focused workloads like cloud gaming and AI inference while reducing egress costs and latency.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Security Behind the Curtains With Event Monitoring

Discover how to enhance Backstage platform security with the Auditor service, tracking critical events, categorizing by severity, and integrating with authentication systems for better compliance and insights.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Speed up Your ML Workloads With Kubernetes Powered In-memory Data Caching

Discover how to optimize ML workloads with Kubernetes-powered in-memory data caching using Apache Iceberg, Apache Arrow Flight, and distributed caching techniques to improve training efficiency and reduce GPU idle time.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How to Build Modern Platforms in a 200 Year Old Industry

Discover how to build modern platform services for critical systems in the railway industry, exploring strategic technical choices, pain points, and solutions for developers while maintaining security and compliance.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Taming PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes: Strategies for Dynamic Management

Explore strategies for managing PostgreSQL extensions in Kubernetes environments, overcoming container immutability challenges while maintaining security and best practices.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Adventures in Rate Limiting: Spotify's Journey Writing a Scalable Envoy Rate Limiter in Golang

Discover Spotify's journey in developing a scalable Envoy rate limiter in Golang to address cost and operational challenges at scale, with insights into their distributed approach and implementation.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Techniques and Insights To Test Kubernetes Limits With Kind

Discover practical techniques for testing Kubernetes at scale using Kind, including tips for finding bugs, pushing limits, and solving real-world problems to build more reliable and scalable systems.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Streamlining Competitive Data Science at CERN: Running ML Challenges With Kubeflow

Discover how CERN uses Kubeflow on Kubernetes to orchestrate machine learning challenges, enabling scalable model training and efficient workload management for particle physics research.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Building a Cloud Native Curriculum for Real-World Readiness

Discover how to create a comprehensive Cloud Native curriculum that bridges the gap between academic theory and industry demands, focusing on DevOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and open source for computer science students.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Project Maintainers Guide to TAG Security

Discover how TAG Security can help CNCF project maintainers improve security posture, navigate assessments, and meet requirements for project advancement. Learn about self-assessments, joint security reviews, and resources available for cloud native proj…

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Securing Every Bit at Uber - Transparent Encryption and Authorization Implementation

Discover how Uber achieved comprehensive encryption, authentication, and authorization across diverse systems using Envoy, transforming their security infrastructure to cover billions of connections in just two years.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Open Source Tools to Empower Ethical and Robust AI Systems

Explore open source tools for evaluating and securing AI models, including Garak, LLM Guard, Promptfoo, and frameworks for adversarial robustness, fairness, and compliance to build more ethical AI systems.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Automate Maintainer Tasks With GitHub Actions

Discover how to streamline maintenance tasks using GitHub Actions. Learn best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and get inspired to automate routine maintainer responsibilities for more efficient repository management.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video