Kubeflow Community Showcase19 Aug 2026VirtualKCD x Ceph x OpenInfra Day Korea1 Sept 2026Seoul, KoreaKCD San Francisco Bay Area1 Sept 2026Mountain View, USAseL4 Summit1 to 3 Sept 2026Vancouver, CanadagRPConf North America3 Sept 2026Mountain View, USAAGNTCon + MCPCon China6 to 7 Sept 2026Shanghai, ChinaKubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China7 to 9 Sept 2026Shanghai, ChinaOSPOlogy + OSPO Summit7 Sept 2026Shanghai, ChinaAGL at Automotive World9 to 11 Sept 2026Tokyo, Japan
AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan10 to 11 Sept 2026Tokyo, JapanKCD Washington DC15 Sept 2026Washington DC, USALF Energy Summit Europe15 to 16 Sept 2026Berlin, Germany
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Cloud Foundry Summit21 to 22 Sept 2026Heidelberg, Germany
OpenSearchCon North America22 to 24 Sept 2026San Jose, USAKCD Sao Paulo26 Sept 2026Sao Paulo, BrazilKCD Sofia29 Sept 2026Sofia, BulgariakcpCon1 Oct 2026VirtualLinux Plumbers Conference5 to 7 Oct 2026Prague, CzechiaObservability Summit Europe5 Oct 2026Prague, CzechiaValkeyConf5 Oct 2026Prague, CzechiaMCP Dev Summit Toronto5 to 6 Oct 2026Toronto, CanadaLinux Foundation Member European Forum6 Oct 2026Prague, CzechiaOpen Source Summit Europe7 to 9 Oct 2026Prague, CzechiaCFP closedEmbedded Linux Conference Europe7 to 9 Oct 2026Prague, CzechiaPromCon Europe7 to 8 Oct 2026Munich, GermanyDapr Day8 Oct 2026Virtual
BazelCon13 to 15 Oct 2026Amsterdam, NetherlandsEnvoyCon 10 Year Anniversary Edition14 Oct 2026VirtualKubeVirt Summit15 Oct 2026VirtualCFP closed
PyTorch Conference North America20 to 21 Oct 2026San Jose, USACFP closed
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America22 to 23 Oct 2026San Jose, USAOpen Source in Finance Forum New York4 to 5 Nov 2026New York, USAMaintainer Summit North America8 Nov 2026Salt Lake City, USA
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America9 to 12 Nov 2026Salt Lake City, USACFP closedOpenInfra Day North America17 Nov 2026Chicago, USA
gRPConf India18 Nov 2026Bengaluru, India
MCP Dev Summit Nairobi19 to 20 Nov 2026Nairobi, KenyaOpen Source Summit Japan + Automotive Linux Summit + ELC Asia7 to 9 Dec 2026Tokyo, JapanCFP closes 24 AugOpen Compliance Summit10 to 11 Dec 2026Tokyo, JapanCFP closes 30 AugWelzin Open Source Society
WOSS is Welzin's open source society: plain-English learning, guided first contributions, meetups and talks, and a 30-day residency at our Mohali office where you build beside the team that runs open source in production.
What we run in production
The engineers who mentor you run DevOps, MLOps, and AIOps for clients, in production. This is that work.
DevOps
CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, and infrastructure as code - designed, built, and operated for clients who measure us on uptime, not tickets.
Kubernetes · Infrastructure as code · CI/CD · GitOps
See the servicesMLOps
Training-to-serving pipelines, model registries, and drift monitoring - the machinery that keeps a model earning its keep long after the demo.
Pipelines · Registries · Serving · Drift monitoring
See the servicesAIOps
Observability, intelligent alerting, and automated remediation - so the pager stays quiet and the postmortem gets shorter every quarter.
Observability · Alerting · Auto-remediation
See the services99.95%
uptime across platforms we operate
94%
of clients come back for the next build
6 wks
median time to first measured result
The 30-day residency · Welzin office, Mohali
Come work from the Welzin office in Mohali for thirty days. You contribute to real open source projects, collaborate with the engineers who run them in production, and work toward merged contributions under your name.
Some residents go home with a merged PR. Some don't leave at all.
Prefer to write directly? [email protected]
The landscape
The foundations WOSS organizes under - Linux Foundation, CNCF, Apache - and the projects we ship code to.
Read the stack top-down, open it as a map, search it, or filter by how deeply we engage.
WOSS's pillars map to the real governance hierarchy, read top-down: the language agents speak, the engine room serving the models, the playbook AI runs by, the retrieval underneath RAG, the data plane feeding the models, the guardrails around every repo, the storage floor beside them, and the ground it all runs on - resting on the bedrock that hosts everything. The ASF rail feeds data in from the side. kagent is the keystone: it runs on CNCF, embodies CNAI, and speaks AAIF's MCP.
The language
AAIF
how agents behave and talk
The playbook
CNAI
how AI runs on cloud native (patterns · whitepapers)
The engine room
PyTorch Foundation
the models it serves
The retrieval
OpenSearch Foundation
the context it retrieves
The data plane
LF AI & Data
the features, vectors, lineage and model portability under the models (Feast · Milvus · OpenLineage · ONNX · Flyte)
The guardrails
OpenSSF
the supply-chain practices wrapping every WOSS repo
The storage floor
SODA Foundation
data & storage management - and agent context (Contexture)
The ground
CNCF
the infrastructure it runs on (Kubernetes · Prometheus · OpenTelemetry · kagent)
The bedrock
Linux Foundation
the neutral home that hosts them all (LFX · certs · events)
Second root
ASF · the data layer
The Apache pipeline that feeds every layer above: streaming ingestion, orchestrated DAGs, distributed feature engineering, and the open table and interchange formats underneath them - the stage before training and inference.
Each Apache project is governed by its own PMC under 'the Apache Way'. Our on-ramp guidance: go deep on ONE project - docs, connectors, or a well-scoped bug.
The history
Events & talks
We spoke
Radisson, ChandigarhCloud Native Chandigarh (CNCG) with the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
A full agenda on running agents as first-class Kubernetes workloads: sandboxing, scheduling, gateways and regression-testing prompts the way you would test code.
AAIF in Action: Live Demo of MCP, AGENTS.md and Goose for Cloud-Native Agent PlatformsOurs
Aman Mundra · Welzin
Introduction to Agentgateway on Kubernetes
Sandboxing AI Agents on Kubernetes: Meet the Agent Sandbox Project
Inside Kueue: Powering AI/ML Workloads on Kubernetes and Engineering Faster CI
Trust No Agent: Sandboxing AI with Docker sbx
Did My Prompt Break Production? Golden Dataset LLM Regression Testing on Kubernetes with Argo
Deploying AI Agents Like Pods
Breaking RAG Apart: A Microservices Blueprint for Retrieval at Scale on Kubernetes
Backed byVultr · Gold
We hosted
WorldTech Square, MohaliCloud Native Chandigarh (CNCG)
A full day in our own office: thirteen sessions from containers-as-Linux-processes up to GenAI serving platforms, plus the supply-chain and platform-engineering work that holds it together.
Containers Are Just Linux Processes - Let's Prove It Live
Nikhil Kumar · DevOps & Platform Engineer
Dead Container Walking: Post-Incident Analysis When Your Workload Is Already Gone
Saurabh Mishra · Lead Consultant
Help! My LLM is a Resource Hog: How We Tamed Inference with Kubernetes
Hrittik Roy and Rajani Ekunde · CNCF Ambassador · Senior SRE, Docker Captain
Kubernetes Network Policies Done Right: From Native Policies to Cilium
Yuvraj Verma and Sourabh Mittal · Zscaler
Talking with Kubernetes API in Go: A Deep Dive into client-go
Nitish Kumar · Argo CD Maintainer
GitOps Meets GenAI: When ArgoCD Starts Managing LLM Pipelines
Ravindra Verma · Cloudynamics
Platform Engineering for Kubernetes: Guardrails That Keep Teams Fast
Rajan Sharma · Sr. Principal Architect
OpenClaw on DGX Spark
Saiyam Pathak
Learnings from Building a GenAI Model Serving Platform
Dharmjit Singh · NeevCloud
OpsAI: Incident Investigation, Reimagined with AI Agents
Amit Kumar · Senior Platform and DevOps Engineer
Securing the Kubernetes Supply Chain
Daman Ghatoura · Airev
Backed byLoft Labs · SponsorKubesimplify · Media partner
Field notes
Plain-English writing on Linux, cloud native, and the open source way, from the engineers who run it in production.
WOSS
Your API gateway can't see a single MCP tool call. agentgateway is the Rust proxy that puts policy, security and observability in front of agent traffic - and it just became AAIF's fourth project.
WOSS
Governance is member-gated. Code isn't. Here's exactly where an individual engineer can land a first PR across all four Agentic AI Foundation projects - and the house rules each one will close your PR for breaking.
WOSS
CNAI is the practice of running AI workloads the cloud-native way - on Kubernetes, declaratively, at scale. Here's the definition, the CNCF working group behind it, and where to go deeper.
Write for WOSS
Field notes are written by the community as much as by us. Pitch us a draft - a guide, an explainer, a war story from production - and we'll edit it with you and publish it under your name.
Prefer email? [email protected]
Already live in git? Skip the form - open a PR.
Questions
Everything people ask before joining, answered without the sales gloss.
Yes - that is exactly who the learn track is for. Step one of the pathway assumes nothing beyond curiosity and a laptop. If you can install an app, you can install a VM, and we take it from there in plain English.
A couple of hours a week moves you forward. The pathway is self-paced: some people go install-to-first-PR in a month, others take a season. There are no deadlines and nothing expires.
Yes, entirely. WOSS is how Welzin's engineers give back to the ecosystem their day job stands on. There is no paid tier and nothing to upsell.
No. Everything starts online and asynchronous - the writing, the issues, the reviews. Live sessions and in-person meetups will come as the community grows, and they will always have an async trail.
Join the society
We’re at day zero. Founding members get the field notes first, first invites to events, and a real say in what this society becomes.
Prefer to write directly? [email protected]
Discord: opening soon
GitHub org: opening soon
Every question is welcome here. Everyone in WOSS remembers their own first pull request. We follow the Contributor Covenant.
