Presentations, Talks, and Blog Posts¶

This page contains links to presentations, talks, demos, and blog posts about the Karpenter IBM Cloud Provider.

Conference Talks¶

Speaker: Josephine Pfeffer
Date: June 14, 2025
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Resources: Recording
Description: This talk introduces Karpenter as a modern alternative to Kubernetes' Cluster Autoscaler (CAS), designed for real-time, workload-specific node provisioning. Presents the development of a custom IBM Cloud Karpenter provider, highlighting architecture, implementation challenges, and experimental results. Uses scientific benchmarking to compare scaling efficiency, cost savings, and resource utilization between CAS and Karpenter across AWS and IBM Cloud in different scenarios.

This interactive demo showcases the Karpenter IBM Cloud Provider performing automatic node provisioning and scaling based on pod demand.

Author: Josephine Pfeiffer
Date: November 27, 2025
Description: Announcement of the v1.0.0 release of Karpenter Provider for IBM Cloud. Covers key capabilities including smart instance selection, multi-zone high availability, automatic bootstrap configuration, cost optimization through workload consolidation, and flexible deployment options for both self-managed Kubernetes clusters and IBM Kubernetes Service.

Date: September 11, 2025
Meeting: Kubernetes SIG Autoscaling Weekly
Resources: Recording
Description: Presentation and demonstration of the Karpenter IBM Cloud Provider at the Kubernetes SIG Autoscaling weekly meeting.

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