The Platform Revolution: Scaling Automated Infrastructure with Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

EPISODE 5

Thursday | August 20, 2026

10:30 AM IST/ 1:00 PM SGT/ 3:00 PM AEST

This episode continues our exploration of the cloud-native landscape, transitioning from foundational open source to the practical application and future vision of the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP).

Learn how NKP centralizes platform engineering, unifying fragmented open-source projects into a production-ready environment built for scale, security, and next-generation AI automation.

Key Takeaways:

Unified Production Stack: How NKP integrates service mesh, observability, and networking into a single, upgradable lifecycle using pure upstream Kubernetes.
GitOps & Centralized Operations: Managing hundreds of clusters with absolute reproducibility and consistent security, minimizing manual overhead.
Full-Stack & OS Flexibility: Unifying network policies across VMs and containers, featuring optimized OS support (including Ubuntu) for AI workloads.

Reserve your spot to learn how to transition from basic open source to a scalable, AI-ready infrastructure.

This session examines the architectural shift to distributed container environments. We break down the realities of scaling infrastructure and how platform teams standardize production deployments.

Key topics include:

How the container revolution enforced environment consistency from development to production.
How Kubernetes’ evolution and stability drive long tail enterprise adoption.
The full NKP origin story and the mandate for pure upstream Kubernetes to eliminate vendor lock in.
Integrating open source components like service meshes and observability stacks into a single upgradable platform.

Join this session for the technical blueprints needed to build and operate a production ready Kubernetes platform.

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12pm

Welcome

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1pm

Keynote presentation: rhetoric and the art of collaborative discussion

Enjoy a keynote from Jane Robinson.

2pm

Questions and answers

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Maksim Malygin

Director,

APJ Solution Specialists,

Nutanix

Speaker

Dan Ciruli

VP and General Manager of Cloud Native,

Nutanix

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