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Presentations and Talks

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

Conference Talks

DevConf.CZ 2025

Beyond CAS: Why the world needs another Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler

  • 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.

Demo Videos

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Community Talks

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