In this episode, we're bringing you a curated selection of conversations from the KubeCon EU 2025 showfloor. We'll be diving into the rise of platform engineering, exploring some cutting-edge technologies, getting updates on core Kubernetes components, and hearing some truly unique user stories, like using Kubernetes on a dairy farm!
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News of the week-
CNCF Blog - Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model
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CNCF Blog - Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management
NAIS at NAV, with Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand
Platform Engineering, with Max Körbächer and Andreas (Andi) Grabner
Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani
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Kubernetes Podcast 249: Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani
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Introducing Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Scale your Kubernetes workloads across regions
LLMs on Kubernetes, with Mofi and Abdel
SIG etcd with Ivan Valdes
Open Source Kubernetes, with Jago Macleod
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XPK (Accelerated Processing Kit, pronounced x-p-k) is a command line interface that simplifies cluster creation and workload execution on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). XPK generates preconfigured, training-optimized clusters and allows easy workload scheduling without any Kubernetes expertise.
Dairy Farm Automation & Banking with Kubernetes, with Clément Nussbaumer
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Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters.
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Kubeadm is a tool built to provide kubeadm init and kubeadm join as best-practice "fast paths" for creating Kubernetes clusters.
Being a First-Time KubeCon Attendee, with Nick Taylor
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K3s - “The certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing”