Name: Your Network Is Already a Compute Platform. Time To Treat It Like One - Eleni Grosdouli & Josh Halley, Cisco
Start: 2026-10-07T17:25:00+0200
End: 2026-10-07T18:05:00+0200

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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Your Network Is Already a Compute Platform. Time To Treat It Like One - Eleni Grosdouli & Josh Halley, Cisco

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST

South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Network switches and routers are no longer passive packet forwarders. They have been running containers for some time already. But managing them still requires separate tools, CLIs, and workflows, and that creates real operational friction.

Virtual Kubelet eliminates this. Network devices become Kubernetes nodes. Workloads are provisioned with standard kubectl commands. Device configuration is declared as Kubernetes resources with continuous drift detection. Telemetry flows through OpenTelemetry to any OTLP-compatible backend.

This session demonstrates how to converge network and platform operations into a single control plane. We will demonstrate live provisioning of network devices and show how the CNCF ecosystem enables observability, security, and policy enforcement for edge deployments.

Speakers

Eleni Grosdouli

DevOps Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems

Eleni is your go-to DevOps and GitOps expert, passionate about networking, security, and endpoint management. As a DevOps Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, she brings hands-on experience across diverse technical domains. A lifelong learner, Eleni loves experimenting with cutting-edge... Read More →

Josh Halley

Principal Architect, Cisco

Josh Halley, is a Principal Architect and published technical author, in the office of the CTO at Cisco,
focused on next generation technologies and technical transformation for some
of Cisco’s largest global customers. His main focus today is in the domains of AI Operations, leading and supporting multiple teams in their generation of Agentic AI systems to support todays and tomorrows future technologies use cases... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
South Hall 2 A (Floor 2)

Cloud & Orchestration

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OSS + ELC EU 2026

Eleni Grosdouli

Josh Halley

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Eleni Grosdouli

Josh Halley

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