Open Source Summit India 2026

Modern platform teams are overwhelmed by reactive operations where manual escalation, delayed remediation, and siloed automation take over. This session presents Event-Driven Platform Engineering as a framework for the design of platforms from ticket-driven systems to autonomous control loops. With the aid of Kubernetes controllers, event streams, policy engines, and real-time telemetry, platforms can identify, decide, and act without recourse to human intervention. We will also look at how events from observability systems, CI/CD pipelines, policy violations, and runtime signals can be transformed into actionable triggers for automation that powers scaling, remediation, governance enforcement, and developer workflows. The talk presents a reference architecture consisting of Kubernetes operators, Prometheus metrics, event brokers, and policy-as-code frameworks for developing self-adaptive internal developer platforms. Attendees will gain a structured approach to designing event-native platforms such as MTTR reduction, SLA compliance, continuous guardrails enforcement, and developer experience enhancement that align with open-source cloud-native environments.