Kubernetes is built to scale—but how do you prove it? Whether optimizing for cost or deploying at hyper-scale, benchmarking is crucial to understanding where your clusters thrive and where they break. Enter Kube-burner and Cluster Loader 2, two powerful tools designed to push Kubernetes to its limits and expose performance bottlenecks before your users do.

But with great power comes complexity. How do you design meaningful benchmarks? What metrics truly matter? And how do you simulate real-world workloads without misleading results? This talk explores how Kube-burner and Cluster Loader 2 generate large-scale workloads, measure stress-induced performance, and uncover cluster-tuning insights. You'll learn best practices, pitfalls, and how to turn raw numbers into optimizations. Whether you're an SRE, platform engineer, or Kubernetes enthusiast, this session will help you set baselines, break limits, and push Kubernetes to its true potential.

In today’s decentralized and cloud-native world, how do you ensure identity is managed securely, seamlessly, and at scale? What happens when your users span across multiple clusters, platforms, and regions—but still expect a unified login experience? Enter Keycloak, the open source identity and access management (IAM) hero we often overlook.

In this session, we’ll explore the Keycloak Chronicles—real-world lessons and hands-on strategies for implementing secure IAM in distributed architectures. Through interactive Q&A-style storytelling, we’ll tackle challenges like federated identity, fine-grained access control, and integrating Keycloak with modern workloads (Kubernetes, APIs, and microservices). Curious how to handle multi-tenant authentication or integrate with GitHub, LDAP, or SSO providers? We’ll answer that too. By the end, you’ll walk away with a clear roadmap to managing identity in a decentralized world—with Keycloak at the helm. Come with questions, leave with clarity.