Excited for KubeCon India 2025: Our Team, Talks and Plans

KubeCon India 2025 is near, and Improvers (formerly Infranauts) are excited to join this grandeur fair of cloud native technologies and Kubernetes.

KubeCon is the flagship conference organized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that focuses on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies. It serves as a key gathering for developers, IT professionals, and business leaders who are involved in building and operating modern, scalable infrastructure using open-source tools. CNCF organizes multiple KubeCon events every year. In August, the second KubeCon India conference will be held in Hyderabad.

Kubernetes and modern cloud native technologies have always been the core of what we do. InfraCloud (an Improving company) has always been actively supporting interacting and giving back to the community. Our engineers and experts regularly attend and present at various conferences and meetups like Kubernetes Community Day, CNCF Meetups, international and local meetups, and webinars. We will not be missing the largest Kubernetes event in India.

In this blog post, you will get to know the plans of our team for KubeCon India, speakers and their talks, how we are preparing for the event, and insider information about the city where the event is happening - Hyderabad.

TLDR: InfraCloud Speakers and their talks

Here are all the talks that will be given by infranauts.

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Besides speakers, many SREs, product engineers, platform developers, backend programmers, and principal architects from InfraCloud (an Improving company) will be attending the event to be part of this grand Kubernetes festival.

• Bekkem Reddy
• Praveen Pothuganti
• Prashant Nadipati
• Pavan N G
• Sai Reddy
• Faisal Musthafa
• Hiteshwara Panthangi
• Abhishek Valaboju
• Akshay Gaikwad
• Vishal Biyani

Recap of KubeCon India 2024

When the first-ever KubeCon India was announced to take place in Delhi on December 11-12, 2024, we all at InfraCloud were excited, as we have been attending almost all KubeCon events ever since it began. India is one of the most significant contributors to open source, and with all the visa woes, having a KubeCon in India meant that many cloud native enthusiasts could finally attend and experience the KubeCon in person.

Our team, led by Atulpriya Sharma, planned and submitted the CFPs. The four talks were selected:

• Empower Your Platform Journey with Platforms Working Group by Atulpriya Sharma
• Intro to the CNCF App Development Working Group by Sonali Shrivastava
• Keeping the Lights on: Zero Downtime Application Upgrades in Kubernetes by Shashank Pai & Sagar Jadhav
• Scaling Beyond Autoscaling: How We Grew Our Kubernetes Clusters by Bhavin Gandhi & Ruturaj Kadikar

Besides speakers, many team members flew from various parts of India to attend the event.

And we had epic group pictures:

How are we preparing for KubeCon 2025?

During the first KubeCon India 2024, many team members were amazed to learn that their colleagues were giving talks at KubeCon India or attending the event. It inspired them a lot and sparked curiosity in Infranauts who had never participated in such events. The team was already warm and inquiring about the next KubeCon. So, when the KubeCon India 2025 was announced, team members showed interest in joining it.

The KubeCon veterans, including Atulpriya Sharma, Bhavin Gandhi, and Sonali Srivastava, helped the team in preparing and submitting the CFPs. From selecting the topics to creating the engaging pitch of the talk, the team helped each other.

With the event day approaching, our team is excitedly planning the trip to Hyderabad. We have a dedicated Slack channel where folks can ask their doubts and questions, ranging from hotel bookings to sessions they should attend.

InfraCloud’s speakers at KubeCon India 2025 and their talks

Keynote: DX Is the New UX: How Technical Friction Impacts Business Value - Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate

Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:11am - 10:21am IST / Hall 3

Remember how you instantly close that glitchy food delivery app when it freezes mid-order? The same principle now applies to developer tools. Every minute spent battling deployment pipelines or debugging environment issues creates unnecessary friction.

This friction impacts your ability to deliver business value. It affects the things that matter: speed to market, talent retention, and competitive advantage. Leading organizations today are now designing for developer joy with the same intensity they apply to customer experiences.

Let us look at how forward-thinking technology leaders are transforming their platforms into competitive advantages by designing for developer delight. We’ll also learn how community insights can accelerate your DX improvements and why investing in seamless developer workflows is now a strategic priority that directly impacts your bottom line in today’s talent-driven market.

Great DX isn’t just a technical nicety—it’s how you’ll win in today’s competitive market.

Guard Your Network With Kyverno and Envoy - Sanskar Gurdasani, Scoutflo & Swastik Gour

Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST / Hall 6

In today’s complex service mesh environments, ensuring secure and efficient network traffic management is a significant challenge. Many developers struggle with implementing robust, context-aware access control policies without disrupting existing systems. The Kyverno Envoy Plugin offers a solution by integrating with the Envoy proxy and leveraging the Kyverno Authz Server within the cluster, along with a cluster-wide resource called AuthorizationPolicy. This resource utilizes the CEL language to process these requests seamlessly, allowing you to authenticate and enforce policies seamlessly on all traffic.

In this hands-on session, the speakers will leverage this plugin to enhance the security and control of applications, ensuring they are protected from unauthorized access and threats without requiring changes to your microservices. They will also showcase how the plugin seamlessly integrates with various service meshes such as Istio, to extend its functionality across environments.

IDP as a Product: Where Developer Happiness Meets Platform’s Excellence - Ninad Desai & Ruturaj Kadikar

Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm / Hall 1

As a developer, are you overwhelmed by the growing number of tools just to ship code? Struggling with visibility into cost, performance, and reliability? Torn between enabling developer autonomy and enforcing governance? The answer to all these challenges lies in building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) like a real product. With clear ownership, iteration, and a focus on your internal users—you solve for both scale and usability. An IDP unifies onboarding, CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, observability, cost visibility, and more.

You’ll learn how an IDP can streamline the entire developer journey while embedding security and operational best practices by design. We’ll discuss prioritising Developer Experience (DevEx), aligning platform capabilities with developer needs, and avoiding becoming a bottleneck.

Whether you’re a platform engineer or an engineering leader, you’ll walk away with actionable insights to make your platform a true enabler at scale.

Kubernetes Policy as Code for Platform Engineers - Sonali Srivastava, Mohd Kamaal & Kushal Agrawal

Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST / MRG 1-6

Platform engineers are tasked with ensuring Kubernetes environments are secure, compliant, and well-governed with high operational efficiencies. This session will explore the power of “Policy as Code” (PaC) using Kyverno to automate and enforce configurations directly within the Kubernetes control plane.

You will learn how to define, deploy, and manage policies as code, enabling proactive risk mitigation, improved consistency, and reduced operational overhead for your platform. Attendees will gain practical insights into implementing PaC workflows and best practices for platform teams.

The session will also showcase new features in Kyverno and discuss the future of policy as code for Kubernetes.

Security: The Thing That Everyone Loves To Hate - Bhavani Indukuri, Sonali Srivastava, Ram Iyengar, Anusha Hegde

Thursday, August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST / Hall 6

Security often takes center stage—only after “something” goes wrong. When DevOps teams return a DevOops response! Teams scramble after breaches, misconfigurations, and compliance failures only to realize too late that preventive measures had been missing all along.

For the millions of marketing dollars poured into Shift-left and DevSecOps, security shouldn’t be an afterthought—it needs to be woven into every stage of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

In this panel, we will share real-world stories and discuss how to build a more security-conscious team culture. Security issues span a spectrum of causes ranging from communication breakdowns, lack of training, and plain old human error. We’ll cut through the marketing noise and explore the tools and techniques that make a difference. No buzzwords. Just actionable advice you can take home and implement. Honest narratives, shot straight from the heart.

Recommended session to watch by the InfraCloud team

All the sessions you are looking at in the schedule are selected through a highly competitive process. A large team of experts did months of application reviews and research. The final list of talks has been curated to ensure that attendees of all experience levels with cloud-native technologies can find something of interest.

We recommend all the sessions that our team members are presenting. Besides these five, we asked in our Slack which session the Improvers are looking forward to, and here are their responses:

• Scaling ML Smarter: Optimizing Kueue & Volcano With Adaptive Scheduling - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe & Aditi Gupta, Disney + Hotstar (now JioHotstar)
• Keynote: Pushing the Limits: Scaling ArgoCD’s Repo-Server To Handle 30K Applications - Aditya Sharma & Isha Gusai, Expedia Group
• Keynote: Kubernetes for GenAI: The New Operating System of the AI-First World - Janakiram MSV, Principal Analyst, Janakiram and Associates
• Running Databases Efficiently at Scale: Case Study of Flipkart’s Local PV Journey on K8s - Yashpal Choudhary & Akif Ahmed Khan, Flipkart
• ⚡ Lightning Talk: Solving Multi-Region K8s Challenges: Improving Pod Startup Time & Reducing NAT Costs With Zot - Tamil Vanan Karuppannan, Arcesium
• To Succeed in Platform Engineering, Build Infrastructure Knowledge Graphs - Safeer C M, MoEngage
• BoF: Open Source in Kubernetes in the UK and India
• Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments With VCluster and FluxCD - Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy, Siemens Technology

An insider guide to Hyderabad

If you are visiting Hyderabad to attend the KubeCon India, you would like to take a look around the city. And we got the perfect person to give you insider information about food, places, and experiences. Atulpriya has been living in Hyderabad for the last 10 years, covering city life on his blog. Here are his recommendations for food and places to try in Hyderabad.

Food to try

Breakfast

• Panchakattu Dosa: Best for Rayalaseema style dosa and Nannari.
• Taaza Kitchen: Bengaluru-style Dose and filter kaapi, usually crowded during morning hours and parking can be an issue.
• Swach: Similar to Taaza Kitchen, another place that’s quite popular for Dosa, Vada, and coffee.

Lunch/Dinner

• Bawarchi, RTC X Roads: They have no branches; this is the OG Biryani spot in Hyderabad. Famous for its signature Hyderabadi biryani.
• Shadab: Known for its traditional mutton and chicken biryani, Shadab is a must-visit for an authentic Hyderabad dining experience.
• Cafe Bahar: Another well-known spot for biryani lovers, Cafe Bahar is known for its Chicken Dum Biryani and vibrant atmosphere.

Breweries/Lounge

• Zero40: A microbrewery with an array of craft beers and a lively, upbeat vibe​ located within a Mango orchard.
• Red Rhino: A stylish brewery offering a variety of house-made brews and great food.
• Prost: A popular microbrewery with unique craft beers and a rooftop setup.

Places to explore

• Charminar: The iconic monument and symbol of Hyderabad, built in 1591, is a must-visit. Its vibrant surroundings are filled with local bazaars, perfect for a cultural dive into the city.
• Golconda Fort: A historic citadel with grand architecture, this fort once protected the city and offers panoramic views of Hyderabad. The sound and light show held in the evening is a tourist favorite.
• Ramoji Film City: One of the world’s largest film studios, Ramoji Film City is a major tourist attraction offering guided tours, amusement parks, and live performances. PS: This requires one full day.
• Hussain Sagar Lake: Famous for its giant Buddha statue standing in the middle of the lake, it’s a popular spot for boat rides, evening strolls, and views of the city skyline.
• Qutb Shahi Tombs: The royal tombs of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, set in beautifully landscaped gardens, are an architectural marvel and a significant part of Hyderabad’s history.
• Salar Jung Museum: One of the largest museums in India, Salar Jung Museum holds an impressive collection of art, artifacts, and antiques from across the world, curated by the Salar Jung family.
• Chowmahalla Palace: Once the seat of the Nizams, this stunning palace showcases the opulence of Hyderabad’s royal past, with its intricate halls, courtyards, and rich collections.

See you all at KubeCon 2025

KubeCon India 2024 was incredible. The energy, the conversations, and the sense of community inspired us. And now, we’re gearing up for KubeCon India 2025, confident that it will be even better. From engaging sessions to vibrant company booths, from cool swags to amazing food, the two days will be packed with everything we love about the cloud native world.

We’re coming with insightful talks, exciting ideas, and a willingness to connect with all of you. So if you spot anyone from InfraCloud and Improving, don’t hesitate to say hello. Let’s make KubeCon India 2025 an experience to remember.