We welcome Cylana as a #GoldSponsor of Kubernetes Community Days Istanbul this year
Support from companies like Cylana helps make community events like KCD Istanbul possible
A big thank you to the Cylana team for supporting the Kubernetes community and helping us grow the cloud-native ecosystem ❤️
CFP is closed - thank you to everyone who submitted talks! 🫶
We’re excited to go through all the amazing proposals from the community. Updates will follow soon, so stay tuned!
CFP Kubernetes Community Days Istanbul closes today⏳
Last chance to submit! 🗣️
👉 kcd.ist/cfp/
#CFP for KCD Istanbul closes in less than a week.
If you’ve been procrastinating… it’s officially getting risky 💁♀️
Bizden söylemesi 👀
Submit your talk now! 💥
👉 kcd.ist/cfp/
And if you just want to join us from here you can get your ticket:
👉 kcd.ist/tickets
Can't wait to welcome you !! 🫂
It’s happening! 🎟️
KCD Istanbul 2026 tickets are officially available.
Can’t wait to reunite with this amazing community. 🫶
👉 community.cncf.io/events/detai...
We’re 4 days late - we were out with our valentines and missed celebrating yours.... soooo happy belated Valentines Day you all! 💌
if you are hyped enough, it can be the right time to submit your CFP 🤏
👉 kcd.ist/cfp/
KCD Istanbul 2026 keynote lineup keeps getting stronger 🔥
Our next keynote speaker: Annie Talvasto @annietalvasto.bsky.social, CNCF Ambassador & Sr. Manager – Product Marketing & Community at Upbound!
We honestly can’t wait to welcome her to the stage as a keynote speaker 🤘💥
We’re kicking off Kubernetes Community Days Istanbul 2026 with a bang 💥
Meet our first #keynote speaker 🗣️
We cannot wait to host Abby Bangser @abangser.bsky.social, Founding Principal at Syntasso at KCD Istanbul 2026🫶
#kubernetes #community #event #talk
You bring the talk.
We bring the community.
#CFP for KCD Istanbul is open 🚀
👉 Submit your proposal here:
sessionize.com/kcd-istanbul...
THE WAIT IS OVER!
CFP is finally live 💣 💥
Lessons learned, things that broke, things that worked.... Bring'em all to the stage.
Here is the link:
sessionize.com/kcd-istanbul...
#cfp #community #event #kubernetes #cncf
We know you’ve been waiting 👀
We announced that the #CFP would go live on Jan 12, but due to some technical hiccups, we couldn’t make it happen 🙈
We’ll announce it as soon as it’s ready - and we’ll make it up to you with the best KCD Istanbul so far 🫶
Stay tuned 💥
#KCDIstanbul #CFP #Community
🎤 Mic check ✅
Excited to announce that #CFP for Kubernetes Community Days Istanbul 2026 opens on January 12 💥
Got a Kubernetes / cloud-native story? Get it ready and drop it. Can't wait to host you as our speaker 🫂
#KCDIstanbul #CFP #Kubernetes #kcdist2026
We are super proud to announce our #Platinum #Sponsor: HEPAPI! 🫀
Hepapi’s commitment to innovation, engineering excellence, and developer-first thinking aligns perfectly with what we’re building again as Kubernetes Community Days Istanbul in #Istanbul on 15–16 May 2026!
We’re quietly working in the background to shape next year’s #KCD Istanbul. Nothing to announce just yet - but the preparation energy is definitely here.
If you’re planning to join, speak, or get involved in any way just stay close.
More soon!! 💎
#cncf #cloudnative #kubernetes #event
We’re the Kubernetes Community Days Istanbul organizers powered by community spirit and fair amount of caffeine.
Huge thanks to every speaker, sponsor and attendee who made this possible ❤️🫂
We’re tired. We’re proud. And yes, we’re already thinking about next year.
#KCDIstanbul
Next up: Carlos Mestre del Pino from Microsoft is on stage with one of the best-titled talks ever👌🤝
„The Infinite Hotel“ ♾️
Scaling multi-tenant platforms through a unified API—and yes, it’s just as cool as it sounds. 🏨🔗
Sponsor talk 🌝🙌
At the stage we have Feyza Demirel & Ugur Kazdal from Amazon Web Services (AWS) sharing valuable insights on cost management👌
#KCDIstanbul #cloudnative #kubernetes
Aaaand Celalettin Çalış from Chronosphere is up now exploring telemetry magic with #WASM and #FluentBit — turning logs into insights like a pro🤯📊🧙
#KCDIstanbul #cloudnative
Kicking off Day 2 with a keynote from one of the sharpest minds in the cloud-native space 🤯
Katie Gamanji from Apple is at the stage breaking down interoperability, community, and how to reverse-engineer the cloud-native ecosystem to make it work for everyone.✨🎤☁️
She’ll be around all day 🌝
Now on stage: Abdel SGHIOUAR and Ahmet ÖZTÜRK from Google💣💥
They’re diving into distributed machine learning on Kubernetes with Ray.
Smart workloads, smarter infra.🧠⚡
#KCDIstanbul #cloudnative #kubernetes
Sponsor talk 🙌
Founder of our sponsor Artifact Systems Vedit Fırat Arığ was at the stage💥
Massive thanks to the awesome folks of Artifact Systems who power #KCDIstanbul🥰
Next up: Christian Melendez from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Jan Wozniak from Kedify are doubling the autoscaling magic🤘
They kept it real (and fun) while diving into Kubernetes autoscaling with Karpenter and KEDA.
Smart insights, lots of laugh what else would you expect from a technical talk 🤌⚙️
Back for Day 2! 💥
Breakfast is on, badges are back, and we’re ready to dive into another day full of cloud-native goodness. Let’s go!
☕🥐✨
#KCDIstanbul #cloudnative #kubernetes #vegan
Last but not least:
The lucky winner of HEPAPI ’s raffle was none other than Batuhan Uyar!🎁🤝
Wrapping up quite strong with @frankel.ch
He’s guiding us through end-to-end pull request testing on Kubernetes—because testing in prod isn’t always the answer. ❤️✅🔁
#KCDIstanbul #kubernetes #cloudnative
Antonela Cukurin from Novo Nordisk & Yury Tsarev from Upbound are teaming up for an epic hybrid talk on air-gapped control planes!💥
While we’d love to have Antonela with us in person, the duo synced perfectly tackling secure, cloud-native deployments for global pharma. 🧪🔐🌍
#kubernetes #cloudnative
Çiğdem Kadakoğlu from @epamsystems.bsky.social shows us how to scale smarter and push CI/CD to the next level using KEDA. Efficient and elegant!📈⚙️👏
#KCDIstanbul
Next up: the dark arts of Kubernetes security.
Patrycja Wegrzynowicz is on stage giving us the hacker’s perspective—so we can defend like pros. Don’t blink!⚔️🔓👩💻
#KCDIstanbul #cloudnative #kubernetes #hacker
@systemcraftsman.com from Red Hat taking us into #Rust land!💥
He’s unveiling a shiny new Operator #SDK plugin—rustaceans, rejoice!
🦀🔧📦
#KCDIstanbul
Taking the stage now: Mehmet Kesiktaş from our sponsor GlassHouse!
A big thank you to GlassHouse for supporting #KCDIstanbul and helping us bring the community together.
Let’s hear what they’ve been up to in the cloud-native world! 🎤☁️
#SponsorTalk
