Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

Open source projects often struggle not with code, but with scale: issue triage, pull request validation, release automation, and community operations all consume maintainer time. Serverless, when built on open standards, offers a powerful way to automate these workflows without adding operational overhead.
This talk explores how open source maintainers can use event‑driven, serverless patterns to automate project workflows such as issue labeling, CI triggers, release orchestration, and contributor notifications. Using open technologies like CloudEvents, CDEvents, OpenTelemetry, and container‑based functions on Kubernetes, we show how to build portable, vendor‑neutral serverless automation that works across environments.
Attendees will learn practical design patterns, common pitfalls, and real‑world examples of using serverless automation to improve project reliability, contributor experience, and maintainer sustainability without locking into any single platform.