Salt Lake City · 2026
Hands-on Kubernetes in the morning. Talks in the afternoon. YAML chaos in the evening.
When
Monday, November 9, 2026
Time
10:00–19:00
Where
Hilton Salt Lake City Center
255 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101, USA
Price
Free to attend
Registration is required
LearnKube Day combines a hands-on workshop, technical sessions, lightning talks, open Q&A and a live quiz, so expect to ask questions, meet people and have a laugh along the way.
Monday, November 9
10:00–12:00
A two-hour workshop on Kubernetes observability and AI SRE agents. Bring your laptop and AI subscription.
Break It, Watch It, Fix It (with a little AI help)
Deploy a deliberately broken microservices application, add telemetry, diagnose failures, and explore how an in-cluster AI SRE agent responds.
12:00–13:00
A one-hour break before the technical program begins.
Lunch & refreshments break
13:00–15:15
Talks and walkthroughs based on blueprints, with audience Q&A after each session. All sessions share one track.
Cost Optimization
Practical resource decisions without jumping blindly from dashboards to automation.
Audience Q&A
Bank Grade Kubernetes
Increase developer velocity without losing auditability, resilience, isolation, or control.
Audience Q&A
AI Operations
From noisy signals to safe action: a blueprint-based talk and walkthrough.
Audience Q&A
15:15–15:30
A short break before the lightning talks.
Break out
15:30–16:30
Ten short talks, five minutes each.
10 × 5-minute talks
16:30–19:00
Finish the day with YAML chaos, deliberately silly prizes, and time to meet the community.
YAML Games
Kubernetes questions, broken manifests, memes, audience teams, and prizes.
Drinks & canapes reception
Continue the conversations from the day over drinks and canapes.
Meet some of the speakers taking the mic for five-minute talks.
10:00–12:00 · Hands-on workshop
Deploy a deliberately broken microservices application, add telemetry, and diagnose failures. Then use an AI SRE agent inside the cluster to investigate and respond.
Explore what AI agents can do, where they fail, and why permissions and guardrails matter.
Each exercise provides standalone value, even if you do not complete every stage. The workshop closes with a discussion of agent permissions, safety, and governance.
Bring your own laptop and AI subscription.
Learn from people who teach Kubernetes, work with production teams, and spend their time talking to the practitioners building the ecosystem.
Kubernetes instructor and technical host
Kubernetes instructor
KubeFM host, panel moderator, and YAML Games quizmaster
The afternoon includes ten five-minute lightning talks. Talk to us about a Kubernetes lesson or practical experience to share with the community.
Join the technical program or contribute expertise, useful offers, books, giveaways, or YAML Games prizes.
Yes. The workshop and afternoon program are free, but capacity is limited and registration is required.
Yes. Registration covers the full LearnKube Day. You can attend the morning workshop, the afternoon program and reception, or both.
No. It is one continuous program, so you can attend the Cost Optimization, Bank Grade Kubernetes, and AI Operations sessions without choosing between rooms.
YAML Games is a live Kubernetes and YAML quiz designed to be useful, funny, and occasionally ridiculous. Expect technical questions, broken manifests, memes, audience teams, and silly prizes.
Bring your own laptop and AI subscription. You will deploy a local Kubernetes cluster or use a provided environment. We provide YAML for the application and telemetry exercises.
The event takes place in the Granite Conference Center at Hilton Salt Lake City Center. The address is 255 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101, USA.
Event sponsors
CloudBolt and vCluster support LearnKube Day and the Kubernetes community program in Salt Lake City.
One day. One room. One Kubernetes community.
One registration covers the workshop, technical program, lightning talks, YAML Games, and reception.
