KCD San Francisco Bay Area 2026

Kubernetes Community Day San Francisco Bay Area returns for its second year as the metro’s flagship CNCF community gathering for cloud-native and Kubernetes practitioners. The full-day program at the Computer History Museum covers Cloud Native AI, platform engineering, security, observability, and open-source projects, with speakers from companies such as Google, Uber, OpenAI, Intuit, and Microsoft listed on the 2026 page.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at the Computer History Museum, 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View. Registration includes daytime museum access and an evening social hour. Get tickets through the CNCF community event page; confirm schedule blocks and any workshop add-ons there.

Go if you build or operate Kubernetes platforms and want South Bay cloud-native density with a durable CNCF host. Skip if you need Ascend membership socials or a paid founder-investor festival. Same-day Agentic + AI Night in SF is a different builder graph downtown; choose by topic and commute.

Shoreline traffic and museum parking fill on event days; arrive with buffer. Bring questions tied to your cluster or platform stack so hallway time compounds.