WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

From Cloud Racks to Control Cabinets: Operating Kubernetes on Edge Devices

Thomas Weinschenk

Can you run Kubernetes in a harsh, dust-filled factory with zero downtime? Discover how to adapt standard IT cloud operations for the strict realities of the industrial edge.

Pause
Mute Enter Fullscreen
#1 about 3 min

Decoupling industrial functionality from physical control hardware

How shifting from physical machinery boxes to software-defined components fundamentally changes available operations in operational technology.

#2 about 4 min

Balancing plant safety operations with mandatory software agility

Why industrial environments struggle to balance long-term operational stability with the need to implement required modern operational changes.

#3 about 4 min

Transitioning from rigid hardware devices to flexible edge containers

How containerization allows logic engineers to modularize complex automation workloads and push logic instead of replacing physical components.

#4 about 5 min

Comparing cloud data centers with constrained edge device environments

Why standard cloud-native setups fail in factory settings that demand localized determinism, segmented connections, and extreme hardware resilience.

#5 about 6 min

Adapting Kubernetes deployment patterns for heterogeneous edge device fleets

How distinct edge network boundaries require mandatory fleet management, pull-based rollouts, and air-gapped security protocols.

#6 about 2 min

Standardizing interoperable edge integration through the open Margo initiative

How the open-source Margo project outlines a vendor-neutral standard to coordinate and scale complex multi-supplier edge ecosystems.

#7 about 6 min

Building operational trust starting incrementally with predictive edge maintenance

How to safely transition out of isolated proof of concepts by adopting modern operations collaboratively without disrupting critical pipelines.

Matching moments

1:54 min

Speaker background and open source Kubernetes edge computing projects

Gaurav Gahlot Gaurav Gahlot · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:02 min

Origins of the edge connectivity platform using Kubernetes

Dean Oren Dean Oren +1 · World Congress 2025

2:48 min

Challenges of application edge deployment and containers

Daniel Brintzinger Daniel Brintzinger · World Congress 2025

3:03 min

Abstracting infrastructure complexity with container orchestration platforms

Aarno Aukia · LIVE

1:01 min

Core principles for building sustainable edge infrastructure topologies

Dean Oren Dean Oren +1 · World Congress 2025

4:43 min

Managing the complexity of bare metal Kubernetes deployments

Josip Stuhli Josip Stuhli · World Congress 2026 Europe

More from World Congress 2026 Europe

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA) thumbnail
29:17
2 months ago

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA)

Michael Kagan, Sead Ahmetović

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote thumbnail
19:41
2 months ago

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote

Christian Heilmann

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend thumbnail
32:06
2 months ago

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend

David vonThenen

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes thumbnail
35:13
2 months ago

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes

Irina Branovic

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬 thumbnail
24:23
2 months ago

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬

Jeremy Murray

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat thumbnail
30:26
2 months ago

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat

Axel Ebert, Karin Krobath

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 9

Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really?

Michal Salanci

Senior Systems Engineer at ESET Cybersecurity

Michal Salanci
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 3

Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production

Jeroen van Erp

Technical Advocate @ SUSE

Jeroen van Erp
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 5

Edge AI: Running Agentic Intelligence Where Internet Can't Reach

Nitin Eusebius

AWS - Principal Solutions Architect

Nitin Eusebius
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Mainstage

Govern the Runtime, Not the Agent: One Control Plane for Every Model, Every Harness

Tushar Jain

Chief Technology Officer, Docker

Tushar Jain
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 09:45–10:15

Mainstage

Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents

Mark Cavage

Mark Cavage President and COO of Docker

Mark Cavage
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 7

Trust, But Verify: Continuous GPU Validation at Scale

Kyle Bell

VP of AI at TensorWave

Kyle Bell

Related videos

From Factory Floor to Kubernetes Core: Building an Edge Platform One Step at a Time thumbnail
17:34
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

From Factory Floor to Kubernetes Core: Building an Edge Platform One Step at a Time

Dean Oren, Stefan Belsch

Simplifying edge app delivery: one workflow, thousands of devices thumbnail
19:01
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

Simplifying edge app delivery: one workflow, thousands of devices

Christian Koep

From Code to Motion: Building an Autonomous Hat-Hunting Robot with Kubernetes & ML thumbnail
30:58
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

From Code to Motion: Building an Autonomous Hat-Hunting Robot with Kubernetes & ML

Daniel Brintzinger

Industrializing your Data Science capabilities thumbnail
43:47
World Congress 2021 • about 5 years ago

Industrializing your Data Science capabilities

Dubravko Dolic, Hüdaverdi Cakir

Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies thumbnail
48:54
LIVE • almost 5 years ago

Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies

Oliver Zimmert

Edge Orchestration for the Physical World: Connecting Cameras, Sensors, and Devices with MQTT thumbnail
5:51
World Congress 2026 Europe • 2 months ago

Edge Orchestration for the Physical World: Connecting Cameras, Sensors, and Devices with MQTT

Irina Terekhova

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.