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

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

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

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.

K8s Guru