CNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon EU 2025

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KubeCon Europe 2025 in London has wrapped up, and we’re bringing you all the highlights, trends, and behind-the-scenes insights straight from the show floor! In this special recap episode, I’m joined by two CNCF Ambassadors and community powerhouses: Kasper Borg Nissen, the Co-Chair of this KubeCon as well as of the KubeCon 2024 editions, and a Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0; and William Rizzo, Consulting Architect at Mirantis and Linkerd Ambassador. Together, we unpack the major themes from the event—from platform engineering and internal developer platforms, to open source observability, and where Kubernetes is headed next. We also chat about the vibe of the community, emerging projects to watch, and important trends in European tech sphere. Whether you missed the conference or want to catch up on important updates you might have missed, this episode gives you a curated take straight from the experts who know the cloud-native space inside out. You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/740258a5fa46 The podcast episodes are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on this YouTube channel. We live-stream the episodes, and you’re welcome to join the stream here on YouTube Live or at https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability​. Follow us on LinkedIn, BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/openobservability.bsky.social or X (Twitter) https://twitter.com/openobserv to get the live stream times and other updates, and to pitch in with your thoughts and comments. Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: https://twitter.com/horovits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/horovits.bsky.social Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@horovits Kasper Borg Nissen =============== Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/phennex LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaspernissen/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/kaspernissen.xyz William Rizzo =============== Twitter: https://twitter.com/WilliamRizzo19 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-rizzo/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/williamrizzo.bsky.social Resources ========= CNCF 2024 Annual Survey https://www.cncf.io/reports/cncf-annual-survey-2024/ NeoNephos initiative for sovereign EU cloud: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7313115943075766273/ OpenInfra Foundation and OpenStack join The Linux Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7307839934072066048/ Backstage turns 5: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7318163557206966272/ Kubernetes 1.33 release: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7321054742174924800/ Chapters ======== 00:00 - intro 03:28 - KubeCon impressions 09:59 - Backstage turns 5 18:56 - CNCF turns 10 and CNCF annual survey 27:22 - Sovereign cloud in Europe and the NeoNephos initiative 33:55 - CI/CD use in production increases 36:52 - OpenInfra joins the Linux Foundation 40:16 - Cloud native local communities, DEI and the BIPOC initiative 51:11 - Observability query standardization SIG updates 59:36 - outro