Testing as a control plane: Kubernetes-native patterns for platform teams

Testing is one of the last platform capabilities still confined to CI pipelines, disconnected from governance, multi-cluster operations, and real platform workflows.

What changes when test execution becomes part of the platform itself?

In this session, we'll explore architectural patterns for moving testing into a Kubernetes-native control plane: distributed runners, multi-cluster orchestration, RBAC enforcement, and centralized result aggregation. Using scenarios like infrastructure validation, resilience testing, and automated promotion gates, attendees will see how testing operates as a policy-aware workload rather than a pipeline step.