KubeWeekly #432
Published: May 16, 2025
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Headlines
🚨 Co-located events announced for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America – included with your all-access pass!
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America co-located events have been announced! These CNCF-hosted co-located events are community-driven, vendor-neutral gatherings designed to dive deeper into specific cloud native topics. They take place onsite the day before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon begins, at the same venue. All CNCF-hosted co-located events are included with the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon All-Access Pass. Find out more here.
Events
GitOpsCon Europe
May 28 | Virtual
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StrimziCon
June 4 | Virtual
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025
10-11 June | Hong Kong
Sponsor Info | Prospectus
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KeycloakCon Japan 2025
13 June | Tokyo, Japan
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025
June 16-17 | Tokyo, Japan
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Questions?
For sponsorship details, email sponsor@cncf.io.
For questions about speaking opportunities, email speakers@cncf.io.
For general event inquiries, email events@cncf.io.
See you around the globe!
Open Observability Summit + OTel Community Day
June 26 | Denver, Colorado
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Kubeflow Virtual Planning Symposium 2025
July 9 | Virtual
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025
6-7 August | Hyderabad, India
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gRPConf North America
August 26 | Sunnyvale, California
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
November 10-13 | Atlanta, Georgia
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Online programs
Recently recorded programs
Let’s dive into the OSSF Scorecard – May 13 | Cloud Native Live
Sébastien Blanc, Port
Trivia, tokens & traffic: Meet Envoy AI Gateway – May 14 | Cloud Native Live
Erica Hughberg, Takeshi Yoneda, & Arko Dasgupta, Envoy Gateway Maintainers
Introduction to Testcontainers – May 15 | On demand webinar
Jacek Chmiel, Software Mind
Foreign function and memory APIs and Swift/Java interoperability – May 15 | On demand webinar
Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski, Apple
Kubernetes v1.33 release – May 16 | Live Webinar
Nina Polshakova, Dipesh Rawat, & Ryota Sawada, Kubernetes 1.33 Release Team
Upcoming programs
Agentic AI for runtime security: How KubeArmor intelligently shields your Kubernetes clusters – May 20 | Cloud Native Live
Barun Acharya, AccuKnox
GPU-powered AI on VMs, Kubernetes & Bare Metal with Cozystack – May 22 | On demand webinar
Andrei Kvapil, Ænix
View our Online Programs YouTube playlist here
Technical
Introducing Calico 3.30: A new era of open source network security and observability for Kubernetes
Phil DiCorpo
Data management for AI in the cloud: Building the foundation for AI success
Uday Kumar, InfraCloud
Kubernetes 1.33 in action: Hands-on implementation insights
Abhinavsharma
Kubernetes v1.33: Image Pull Policy the way you always thought it worked!
Ben Petersen & Stanislav Láznička, Microsoft
Editorial
“Working code wins”: Winning big with hackathons and internal platforms
Daniel Bryant, Syntasso
LY Corporation: How LY Corporation is leveraging Kubernetes as the foundation of its large-scale internal PaaS
CNCF Case Study
Kubernetes has grown up: From testbed to critical infrastructure
Divya Mohan, SUSE
Storing all of your observability signals in one place matters!
Adriana Villela
Discover the best branching strategy for CI/CD success
Khushi Dubey, Devtron
Kubernetes production checklist
Abhimanyu Saharan
Announcing OpenReports: Standardized Kubernetes reporting
CNCF blog
Stop building platforms nobody uses: Pick the right Kubernetes abstraction with GitOps
Artem Lajko, CONNECTii.io
Education
Attend an upcoming KCD!
KCDs are community-organized events that gather adopters and technologists from open source and cloud native communities for education, collaboration, and networking. You can find Live KCD websites via cncf.io/kcds.
Announcements:
- KCD Seoul is next week on May 22! Check out their agenda.
- KCD Istanbul is May 23 – Chris Aniszczyk will also be keynoting here!
- KCD New York – CNCF community members get 50% off tickets to the event using code CNCF-COMMUNITY50
- KCD Czech & Slovak in Bratislava is June 5
- NOTE: The KCD San Francisco, Bay Area has postponed their event until September 9 this year
Call for Proposal (CFP) Deadlines:
- The KCD Washington DC CFP (US) closes closes May 25
- The KCD Bogota CFP (Colombia) closes May 31
- The KCD UK, Edinburgh CFP closes June 8
KCD Bengaluru is around the corner on June 6. There are still sponsorships available!
KCD Taipei, happening on July 5, is accepting sponsors – check out their prospectus!
KCD UK, Edinburgh has a limited amount of packages this year – sponsor while you can!
Cloud Native Community Groups
Check out upcoming meetups in your area by searching for a Cloud Native Community Group (official CNCF chapter) near you: community.cncf.io/chapters. Search by country or city, and see what pops up in your area! Here’s what’s happening in the upcoming week:
| Chapter | Event | Date |
| Gurugram | Summer Native Kube | May 17 |
| Kottayam | CNCG Kottayam May Online Meetup | May 17 |
| Dhaka | Cloud Native Dhaka Monthly Meetup | May 17 |
| Fortaleza | Celebração dos 10 Anos da CNCF em Fortaleza! | May 17 |
| Linz | TalosOS & CloudEvents | May 20 |
| Munich | Kubernetes, Cloud Native & Platform Engineering Meetup | May 20 |
| Vilnius | Cloud Native Lithuania meetup #14 | May 21 |
| Porto | #3 Cloud Native Porto | O11Y FEST | May 21 |
| Kochi | Bootstrapping & managing 100s of clusters: A symphony of various CNCF projects | May 21 |
| Prague | Cloud Native Prague #23 | May 21 |
| Malmö | Observability and instrumentation via OpenTelemetry | May 21 |
| Sevilla | Deployment, Autoscaling & Observability of Inference Workloads, running on K8s Clusters | May 21 |
| Bangkok | Welcome CNCF Thailand Community | May 22 |
| Japan | Kubernetes Upstream Training in Japan at CNDS2025 in Okinawa | May 22 |
| Aix-Marseille | GPUs et Crossplane v2 | May 22 |
| Montpellier | IAM à l’échelle sans lock-in | May 22 |
| Birmingham | Cloud Native Birmingham: Relaunch & Reconnect | May 22 |
| Lorient | Cloud Native Lorient #8 | May 22 |