Curated KubeCon EU 2026 picks: agentic AI on Kubernetes, sovereign inference, GPU scheduling with Kueue, and platform engineering under pressure.

Production deployment patterns for NVIDIA Dynamo 1.0 on EKS and GKE — disaggregated serving, KV-aware routing, and gotchas from real deployments.

HAMi (CNCF Sandbox) emerged at KubeCon EU 2026 as the reference implementation for GPU resource management across NVIDIA, AMD, Huawei, and Cambricon accelerators.

Gateway API Inference Extension GA standardizes model-aware routing for self-hosted LLMs with KV-cache-aware scheduling and LoRA adapter affinity.

DRA went GA in Kubernetes v1.34 and continues evolving — replacing Device Plugins with richer semantics including DeviceClass, ResourceClaim, CEL-based filtering, and topology awareness.

Armada treats multiple Kubernetes clusters as a single resource pool for GPU-intensive AI workloads, with global queue management, gang scheduling, and production-scale throughput.

Ingress2Gateway 1.0 provides stable migration from ingress-nginx to Gateway API with 30+ supported annotations and integration-tested translation.

Cloudflare made AI Security for Apps GA with prompt injection protection, while RFC 9457 structured error responses cut AI agent token costs by 98%.

Build teams of specialized AI agents with Docker Agent: declarative YAML config, multi-agent orchestration, and secure execution in sandboxed microVMs with Docker Desktop 4.63+.