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On May 28, 2026, the "Kuber Meetup 2026" from Yandex Cloud was held in Almaty. The meeting brought together DevOps engineers, developers, analysts and testers - everyone who works with the infrastructure in one way or another. We analyzed the real cases of Kubernetes implementation and discussed what tasks it helps to solve in modern products.
What were the reports
The first speaker was Pavel Selivanov, the architect of Yandex Cloud. He explained how Kubernetes turned from a DevOps tool into an operating system for digital products. Today, it is used for ML pipeline orchestration, model training on GPU clusters, and data management. The main idea: Kubernetes no longer answers the question "how to deploy?" - it answers the question "how to deliver value faster?".
Miras Baigashev from Core 24/7 analyzed three real cases. After switching to Kubernetes, the cryptocurrency platform raised the SLA from 80% to 99%, and the MTTR was reduced from 10 minutes to one click. The global marketplace has reduced the cost of infrastructure by 9 times due to car scaling. The Kazakh bank has reduced the time to create a new cluster from 5 hours to an hour.
Kirill Shevchuk from Yandex Cloud spoke honestly: Kubernetes does not work out of the box. This is a construction kit, not a finished product. If you don't build a platform around it, developers will drown in YAML, deployment will take place only through the DevOps team, and onboarding will take months. The solution is to hide Kubernetes from the developer: standardize delivery, automate routine, and provide default observability.
Farukh Bakiyev from Freedom Insurance ended the evening with a story about how he built IDP on top of legacy. The inventory showed chaos: more than 150 repositories with different approaches to deployment. In 4 months, one engineer assembled a working backbone based on Argo CD, Cilium, Kong, Harbor and VictoriaMetrics. The main conclusion is that one hero can move the system, but the target model is a team.
Result
Kubernetes in 2026 is no longer a question of "whether it is needed", but a question of "how to build it correctly". A platform appears where delivery becomes repeatable, observable, and manageable.
28 мая 2026 года в Алматы прошёл Kuber Meetup 2026 - конференция для IT-специалистов, посвящённая практическому применению Kubernetes в бизнесе. Мероприятие объединило DevOps-инженеров, разработчиков, аналитиков и тестировщиков из различных отраслей.
В центре внимания были реальные сценарии внедрения Kubernetes: как технология помогает компаниям выстраивать надёжную инфраструктуру, ускорять разработку и снижать операционные затраты. Участники обсудили, как Kubernetes эволюционировал из инструмента для технических команд в полноценную платформу для ИИ, данных и бизнеса.
Особый интерес вызвали выступления практиков, которые поделились опытом внедрения: от небольших стартапов до крупных банков и маркетплейсов. Докладчики честно рассказали не только об успехах, но и о трудностях - почему Kubernetes требует грамотного подхода и что происходит, когда платформу внедряют без чёткой стратегии.
Kuber Meetup 2026 стал площадкой для обмена опытом и обсуждения актуальных технологических трендов, подтвердив растущий интерес казахстанского IT-сообщества к современным подходам в управлении инфраструктурой.
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