Editor's note
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has concluded the North American leg of its flagship conference, bringing breakout sessions and more engaging experiences for CNCF's open source and cloud-native community.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America took place in Atlanta Nov. 10-13. The event offered more than 10 different session tracks across various topics for attendees of all expertise levels. AI development, and how it ties into cloud-native infrastructure, proved to be a common theme throughout the event's programming, from keynotes to co-located events.
Informa TechTarget's editorial team was on-site, providing live updates from the show floor. Explore this conference guide to catch up on the announcements, plus expert analysis and a look back on previous show highlights.
1Updates from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
With four days of keynotes, breakout sessions, showcases and more, this year's event has much to offer cloud-native novices, DevOps pros and everyone in between. Stay on top of all the info coming out of this year's North American conference with our up-to-date news coverage and expert analysis.
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Article
Kubernetes AI progress in 2025 and the road ahead
Presentations at KubeCon 2025 detailed efforts since last year's conference to enhance support for AI on Kubernetes platforms and previewed what's ahead. Read Now
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Podcast
CNCF surveys highlight cloud-native AI connections
Cloud-native infrastructure aligns closely with AI in two new CNCF surveys, thanks in part to platform engineering and other abstractions that make it more user-friendly. Listen Now
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Article
CNCF Kubernetes AI program faces scrutiny from IT analysts
CNCF is positioning Kubernetes as a standard infrastructure for AI, but analysts questioned the level of participation by one major AI player in its new conformance program. Read Now
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Article
Northrop Grumman, Ford prep AI infrastructure with OpenShift
The defense contractor leaned on OpenShift AI and GitOps as it installed a 30,000-core GPU farm, while the automaker established workload identity federation across clouds. Read Now
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Blog
CNCF: AI is the new workload, cloud-native is the new OS
The great and the good among the (widely open source) cloud-native community gathered together this week for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 (Americas) in Atlanta, Georgia. Read Now
2Prepare for the North American conference
Get ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 by reading this year's news from the CNCF and Linux Foundation.
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Article
Big vendors back Linux Foundation agentic workflows project
Agntcy overlaps with MCP and Agent2Agent but adds proposed standards for a broader range of network layers in the still-emerging 'internet of agents.' Read Now
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Article
Open source AI agent frameworks add enterprise ops polish
Kagent and Dapr Agents offer connections to cloud-native infrastructure and microservices, taking differing stances on Microsoft's AutoGen. Read Now
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Podcast
OpenTelemetry adapts to AI observability
A core contributor and governing board member for the CNCF project reflects on how AI is changing observability, programming and business. Listen Now
3What happened at the European conference?
Catch up on the news and analysis from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, held this year in London from April 1-4.
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Article
KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up
Developer overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address Read Now
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Article
AI agents raise stakes in identity and access management
IT vendors roll out fresh tools to take on identity and access management for AI agents as enterprises deploy them internally and battle malicious ones externally. Read Now
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Article
Model Context Protocol fever spreads in cloud-native world
The Anthropic-led spec for AI agent tool connections gains further momentum this week, with support from cloud-native infrastructure vendors such as Kubiya and Solo.io. Read Now
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Blog
Nutanix cloud VP: A complete and open Kubernetes on any infrastructure
The Computer Weekly Developer Network went to Kubecon + CloudNativeCon London this week and had a chance to sit down with Tobi Knaup in his role as VP for and general manager for cloud-native ... Read Now