State management in Kubernetes remains one of the most elusive challenges in cloud-native operations. As clusters grow, managing declarative state across environments, teams, and lifecycles can easily spiral into complexity turning GitOps dreams into YAML nightmares.

This talk explores how Sveltos and k0rdent simplify and modernize Kubernetes State management.

Meet the maintainers of Sveltos and k0rdent State Manager, Simone and Wahab who will provide a deep dive on the service management capabilities of these open source tools.

You’ll learn how these open-source projects enable dynamic reconciliation, multi-cluster consistency, and policy-driven state orchestration all without adding another control-plane headache.

Simone and Wahab will walk you through strategies for taming drift, scaling state safely, and integrating with your existing GitOps and controller frameworks.