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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025: Contracts for Fleets, AI Workload Governance, and Evidence-Driven Operations
Ecosystem

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025: Contracts for Fleets, AI Workload Governance, and Evidence-Driven Operations

Across KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 (spring in London and late year in Atlanta), the ecosystem looks less like a toolbox and more like an operating system: platform contracts become explicit and versioned, AI workloads force governance of scarce resources and network/identity boundaries, and security/observability converge on continuous evidence rather than periodic controls.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024: Platform Contracts, Operational Economics, and AI as a Workload Class
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024: Platform Contracts, Operational Economics, and AI as a Workload Class

Across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 events (spring and late year), the ecosystem’s center of gravity shifts again: platform teams double down on contracts and lifecycle, security becomes “operate trust” across identity and policy, and AI/ML stops being a separate island and starts behaving like a first-class workload category with its own scheduling, networking, and cost constraints.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023: Platform Governance, Standard Interfaces, and the Cost of Signals
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023: Platform Governance, Standard Interfaces, and the Cost of Signals

Across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 events (spring and late year), the ecosystem’s center of gravity shifts again: platform engineering turns into platform governance, standard APIs and semantic conventions matter more than individual products, and observability/security conversations focus on operating costs—data volume, policy lifecycle, and identity—rather than novelty.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022: The Platform Operating Model Becomes the Point
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022: The Platform Operating Model Becomes the Point

Looking across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 events (spring and late year), the ecosystem’s center of gravity shifts again: platform engineering hardens into an operating model, supply chain controls move from “security tooling” to enforceable workflows, eBPF becomes a practical substrate for networking and observability, standard interfaces (Gateway API, OpenTelemetry, Cluster API) start to matter more than individual products, and cost/efficiency turns into a platform design constraint.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021: Security, Standardization, and the Platform Team as Product
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021: Security, Standardization, and the Platform Team as Product

Looking across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021 events (mid-year and late-year), the ecosystem’s center of gravity shifts from adding layers to reducing uncertainty: software supply chain becomes a platform concern, eBPF and policy systems mature into production tools, traffic APIs begin to standardize, and platform engineering solidifies into an internal product discipline.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020: Operating Models Under Pressure
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020: Operating Models Under Pressure

Across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 events (Europe in spring, North America in late year), the cloud-native conversation tightened around one theme: reducing change risk. GitOps becomes an operating baseline, policy and supply-chain controls move closer to runtime, runtimes and isolation mature beyond Docker assumptions, and observability shifts toward shared semantics.

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