Kubernetes Contributor Summit North America 2024

Everyone here thinks Kubernetes is great… so shouldn’t it be easier to improve it?

Over the last ten years, Kubernetes has become a force to be reckoned with in infrastructure management, using its powerful container orchestration features to solve problems around the world. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished: this rapid adoption and meteoric growth has brought with it a dramatic rise in the difficulty of effecting change within Kubernetes itself, leaving many in the community around this massively successful, phenomenally useful platform with no sense of how they can fix the issues that a decade of experience is bringing to light.

Fortunately, while we believe that this it's probably inevitable for any project growing so big so fast to land here, we do think that there's a way out! Join us as we dig into the issues with trying to get things done in Kubernetes, with particular emphasis on the KEP process (and what drives projects to go around it), as well as on CRD APIs (and their challenges with versioning and the user experience). More importantly, though, join us to dig into how we can all work together to fix these issues -- even while the platform shifts underneath us.