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.
Longhorn 1.0 delivers a CNCF sandbox cloud-native block storage solution with snapshots, backups, and edge-friendly design.
Looking across KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 (Barcelona and San Diego), the Kubernetes ecosystem moved from assembling a stack to operating a platform: supply-chain controls, policy boundaries, multi-cluster fleet management, and standardized telemetry became the center of gravity.
Looking across KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 (Copenhagen and Seattle), the cloud-native ecosystem pivoted from proving Kubernetes works to standardizing how it is operated: runtime modularity, policy and identity, service networking, and software supply chains.
Falco provides runtime security monitoring for Kubernetes, detecting anomalous behavior and security threats in real-time through system call monitoring.
Across KubeCon EU (Berlin) and NA (Austin) in 2017, the ecosystem shifted from 'getting Kubernetes running' to standard interfaces, policy-driven operations, and production-grade day-2 practices—with early service-mesh thinking reshaping how teams design platforms.
Harbor 1.2 delivers role-based access control, vulnerability scanning and replication policies—turning the open-source registry into a production-ready companion for Kubernetes.
With Jaeger’s admission to the CNCF Sandbox, Kubernetes teams gained a vendor-neutral distributed tracing system compatible with OpenTracing and Envoy.
KubeCon 2016 signals: Kubernetes is becoming a shared substrate, and the hard work shifts to release engineering, policy, and day-2 reliability.
Overview of the official Kubernetes 1.0 release — the first stable Kubernetes release from Google, marking the birth of CNCF and cloud-native orchestration.