About DevOps Stage

What this site is for

Choosing a conference is harder than it should be. Dates sit on one page, prices on another, and the call for papers on a third that disappears the day it closes. We put the facts that decide whether an event is worth your time and budget side by side: dates and location, online or in person, the price range, the topics, how big it is, whether talks are recorded, and the call for papers.

The site is written for three groups of readers:

• engineers deciding which events to attend or watch;
• speakers and developer advocates looking for open calls for papers;
• engineering managers planning a training and travel budget for the year.

We do not organize conferences, sell tickets, or take payment for listings. There are no sponsored placements and no affiliate links.

Which conferences make the list

A conference is listed when DevOps, site reliability, platform engineering, Kubernetes and cloud native, observability or DevSecOps is its main subject, or a close neighbour of them such as infrastructure as code, CI/CD, FinOps, running databases, or running AI workloads in production. A general developer conference with one operations track does not qualify.

• Community events, foundation conferences, independent conferences and vendor user conferences all qualify. A vendor event needs a public programme with speakers from more than one company; sales roadshows and launch tours are left out.
• In-person, hybrid and online events all count, once the official page is public.
• A regular event that has run at least three times, and whose next dates are not published yet, appears with expected dates: the last edition moved forward 52 weeks, so the weekdays stay the same. Those listings are labelled “Expected dates”, are left out of the home page’s “On stage next” strip and have no calendar file until the organizer confirms.
• We do not list events held in Russia or Belarus. This is an editorial decision and applies whatever the topic or organizer.

How listings are researched and checked

Each conference starts from its official website. We record the dates, venue, ticket prices and call for papers as the organizer publishes them, and cross-check them against at least one other public source such as a foundation calendar, a previous edition or the organizer's announcement. The description on each page is written by us, in our own words, from those sources. We do not copy marketing text and we do not guess attendance figures: we quote one only when the organizer publishes it, and say so; otherwise the size of an event is given as a broad band such as "a few hundred people" or "several thousand".

Every conference page lists the sources we used and the day we last checked them, so you can see how fresh each listing is. Call for papers status (open, opening soon, closed) follows the published dates.

How often it changes

We add new events and recheck existing ones in regular batches. Organizers move dates, extend deadlines and change prices without notice, so the official site is always the final word, and every listing links to it.

The speaker archive

The domain used to host a conference called DevOps Stage, which ran from 2018 to 2024. Its speaker pages are still linked from across the web, so we keep them at their original addresses as a record of the talks. We are not connected to that conference or its organizer; the disclaimer explains the details.

Report a correction

If a date, price, link or description is wrong, email hello@devopsstage.com with the page address and a link to the source that shows the right information. To suggest a conference we have missed, send its official page. The contact page explains what helps us act quickly.