Join Meshery at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah, from November 9–12 and get introduced to collaborative cloud native management and Meshery open source maintainers.
Explore two sessions on Kubernetes relationships and contributing to open source.
Meshery: Your Cluster as a Knowledge Graph, Not a Pile of YAML
Monday, November 9, 12:20–12:25 PM MT
Speaker: Yash Sharma
Format: Lightning talk, Hyatt Regency
Your cluster is not a pile of YAML files. It is a graph: workloads, custom resources, network policies, and RBAC all relate, and many failures live in those relationships rather than in any single file. Meshery models Kubernetes and CNCF resources as an ontology and renders that graph visually in Kanvas.
AI agents are a new consumer of that graph. When asked to design and manage Kubernetes, they often operate without a model of how resources relate, generating files that are individually valid but collectively broken. Meshery maintainer Yash Sharma will show how Meshery exposes its relationship model to agents through MCP (Model Context Protocol), helping agents reason over a map of infrastructure and validate proposals against OPA policies before anything ships.
The knowledge graph that makes clusters visual for humans can also help agents understand infrastructure instead of guessing at it.
Meshery Contribfest: Ship Your First PR to a CNCF Cloud Native Manager
Thursday, November 12, 1:50–3:10 PM MT
Co-speakers: Yash Sharma (UiPath), Lee Calcote (Layer5), Shivay Lamba (Qualcomm), Sangram Rath (OD10 Ventures), and Hussaina Begum (Netskope)
Meshery is a CNCF cloud native manager for designing, deploying, and operating infrastructure across CNCF projects. In this hands-on Contribfest, Meshery maintainers will help participants go from cloning the repository to submitting a pull request in one session.
We have staged good-first issues across four parallel tracks, each with an embedded maintainer: Server (Go) for core API work, UI (React) to extend the Kanvas visual designer, plugin development to build a Meshery extension, and Docs and Designs to contribute cloud native architecture examples.
Ahead of the session, we will publish a setup guide and a labeled issue board so participants can prepare their environment and find issues by difficulty. We will walk through the contribution workflow, then pair participants with a maintainer to land a change. No prior Meshery, Go, or React experience is needed. Bring your laptop and build with the maintainers.
Visit Us at Our Project Pavilion Booth
Meet the Meshery team at the Project Pavilion and learn about Meshery, the CNCF Sandbox project.
Booth Details:
- Project: Meshery
- Kiosk: P-14B
- Location: Solutions Showcase | Level 1 | Hall 5
- Timing: Wednesday, November 11 — 10:15 AM–1:25 PM MST
Project Pavilion Hours (MST):
- Tuesday, November 10: 10:30 AM–7:00 PM
- Wednesday, November 11: 10:15 AM–5:00 PM
- Thursday, November 12: 10:15 AM–2:00 PM
