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Why Open Source?  While exploring CNCF Projects in early 2025, I stumbled upon Kyverno and its community impressed me. The mentors and community members encouraged me to become a part of LFX Mentorship and motivated me...

Attending OpenSearchCon, OpenSSF Day, and the Open Source Summit in Seoul was a truly memorable experience, especially because this was the first-ever Open Source Summit hosted in South Korea.  I have previously attended two KubeCons in...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 lit up Atlanta from November 10–13, bringing together one of the largest gatherings of open-source practitioners, platform engineers, and maintainers across the cloud native ecosystem. For the Istio community, the...

Stepping into my first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, held this year in November in Atlanta, Georgia, felt like entering a world I had been following from afar for years; a world full of brilliant minds, bold ideas,...

We are thrilled to announce a major milestone for our community: GitJobs has reached its 100th job posting last month! As an open source forward job board, our mission has always been to connect talented developers...

Following the success of previous years, CNCF’s Sustainability Month is back — bigger and greener than ever. Organized by the TAG Operational Resilience community, this month-long global initiative brings together practitioners, developers, and advocates to explore...

Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day is welcoming the AI/ML and High Performance Computing (HPC) communities. Since 2022 there have been multiple dedicated events (Batch / HPC and Cloud Native AI days) but given the overlap...

Data on Kubernetes Day (DoK Day) began as a virtual event in 2021 and became an official co-located event for KubeCon + Cloud Native Con in 2023. Since then, it has been a staple at both...

Open Source SecurityCon has always been about bringing people together to strengthen trust in open source. From its beginnings within TAG Security to its growth as a standalone conference, and now returning to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon...

The inaugural Edge Day launched as a co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in 2022, recognizing that data at the edge is here to stay. Once called the ‘Internet of Things’ and later ‘Industry 4.0,’...

BackstageCon has been in existence since 2022, where it made its debut at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Detroit. We want attendees at BackstageCon to leave with a deeper understanding of the latest trends and...

The inaugural Kubeflow Summit 2022 was held at the AMA Conference Center San Francisco, with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Paris 2024 being our first co-located event. Who will get the most out of attending this event? Kubeflow...

CiliumCon began at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam, and this will be our sixth time hosting it. Like Cilium itself, the event has grown significantly since its inception, expanding from its original focus to...

This is the very first KyvernoCon! While Kyverno has been part of the CNCF since November 2020, and has had a strong presence at past KubeCon events through policy as code focused talks, maintainer sessions, and...

OpenTofu Day is the best place to connect with the OpenTofu community. It’s a fantastic place to talk shop with other infrastructure or platform engineers, trade stories, discuss best practices, and maybe even hire / be...

November 10, 2025Atlanta, Georgia Istio Day is the biannual community event for the industry’s most widely adopted and feature rich service mesh, where attendees will find lessons learned from running Istio in production, the latest updates...

Cloud native infrastructure continues to scale, and with it, so does operational overhead. Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern platforms, but as cluster sizes grow past 100 nodes and thousands of workloads, the operational load...

As enterprises run ever-more-complex workloads on Kubernetes, they’re facing a new set of challenges: how to ensure security requirements are met, budgets are deployed efficiently and operational complexity is, well, not as complex. Many are finding...

Deciding between managing Kubernetes in-house or partnering with a managed service provider can be a difficult choice for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud infrastructure. Over the past several years, I’ve been part of the decision...

If you are attending the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 conference in London, check out the CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) member recommendations for their top talk recommendations! 🙂 Ahmed Bebars: With the...