Join Adam Gardner as he reveals how and why Dynatrace treats their throwaway demo environments as a product engineering exercise. You'll discover their journey, understanding why this transformation was necessary and why the timing was crucial. Adam will share the organizational and human challenges they've overcome, along with those they're still navigating, covering testing at scale, golden paths, and efficient adoption tracking methods.

This hands-on session walks through their open source code, leveraging numerous CNCF tools. You'll explore the environmental sustainability benefits of this approach and discuss future developments in this space.

You'll leave with access to Git repositories containing the templates, empowering you to begin this transformation within your own organization.

Join Hossein Salahi, Lead Platform Engineer at Liquid Reply, as he demonstrates how CNOE's all-in-one binary can redefine the way IDPs are built, leveraging Kubernetes' native capabilities right on our local machines. This workshop introduces IDPBuilder, a tool that quickly sets up the CNOE framework in minutes with just a container engine; you’ll learn how IDPBuilder simplifies platform development and maintenance, ensuring consistent API compatibility across all environments from local setups to production. Additionally, you’ll explore how it powers automated CI pipeline tests, removing the delays of cloud setup and eliminating fragile scripts.

Platform teams face a critical bottleneck: developers demand rapid project bootstrapping while maintaining security and consistency standards. Manual provisioning creates delays, inconsistent setups, and operational overhead that scales poorly across growing engineering organizations.

Join Derry Bradley, Senior Field Engineer at CircleCI, for a hands-on workshop demonstrating how to leverage end-to-end self-service infrastructure using Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), where developers provision complete software pipelines through standardized templates while platform teams maintain governance and control.

In this workshop, you'll experience live demonstrations of architecting automated workflows that provision GitHub repositories, CircleCI projects, and deployment pipelines through a single interface. We'll explore how Terraform providers, templated configurations, and OIDC security create scalable "paved roads" that accelerate development velocity.

Key Learnings:
Architecture patterns for IDP-driven infrastructure provisioning
Implementing security layers with OIDC and restricted contexts
Creating reusable pipeline templates with flexible override capabilities
Leveraging CircleCI's MCP integration to reduce developer context switching

This approach transforms platform engineering from reactive ticket fulfillment to proactive enablement, allowing developers to self-serve infrastructure while ensuring organizational standards and security compliance remain intact.

Join Piotr Zaniewski, Head of Engineering Enablement at Loft Labs, in this hands-on workshop introducing vCluster and demonstrating how to create and manage virtual Kubernetes environments for multiple development teams. Throughout the workshop, you'll take on the perspective of a platform engineering team, making decisions and implementing solutions to serve various development groups within your organization.

The workshop covers key areas including introduction to vCluster and virtual Kubernetes clusters, setting up and configuring virtual Kubernetes clusters, managing multiple development environments, implementing shared services and optimizing resources, and enhancing developer workflows with self-service provisioning. You'll gain hands-on experience setting up and configuring virtual Kubernetes clusters, learn to manage multiple team environments efficiently, explore resource optimization and cost reduction strategies, implement progressive improvements to virtual cluster setups, and understand vCluster's role in enhancing developer productivity.

Kubernetes provides a uniform API for deploying applications anywhere, making stateless workloads highly portable. However, many organizations still rely on cloud-managed database services for stateful workloads, limiting portability and increasing cognitive load for platform engineers managing multiple environments. This session explores how Kubernetes can manage stateful applications, reducing dependence on managed databases and unlocking true multi-cloud flexibility.

The 20-minute lecture will cover how cloud-managed services increase complexity and limit portability. The 60-minute hands-on lab will guide attendees through deploying a real-world stateful application with persistent storage across multiple clouds, demonstrating that cloud-managed services are not necessary for data. Attendees should bring their own laptops.

Microservices are messy. Ownership gets fuzzy, dependencies are hard to track, and keeping everything performant across a distributed setup? Yeah, that's a constant headache. In this 90-minute hands-on workshop, we'll take a cluttered Kubernetes environment and turn it into something clean, observable, and actually manageable, all using New Relic's Service Architecture Intelligence and enhanced APM tools.
You'll be working with a realistic cluster of 8-10 microservices. We'll walk through how to visualize dependencies with Maps, organize services with Catalogs, define ownership clearly with Teams, and keep everyone aligned using Scorecards. Along the way, we'll dive into New Relic's enhanced APM for Kubernetes: automatic service detection, unified views across infra and app layers, and how to fine-tune your agent setup for better signal and less noise.
By the end, you won't just know what these tools are - you'll know how to use them. You'll walk away with:
A framework for organizing services in large-scale K8s environments
The skills to identify and visualize service relationships and dependencies
Strategies for assigning and managing team ownership across services
Hands-on experience using observability to reduce MTTR and improve collaboration
A clear understanding of how to apply these techniques in your own org, right away
If you're wrangling microservices and tired of flying blind, this workshop will give you the tools (and the confidence) to take control.