Attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is an opportunity to look beyond the “hey, we just launched an AI tool” hype and really find out what’s driving cloud-native software application development. If we had to say it in just a handful of words (and we can skip the term open source, obviously) cloud-native progression is now driven by the combined forces of agentic AI orchestration, security administration, patent troll eradication, developer certification and platform engineering elevation. But even that’s too much for a t-shirt slogan, so please allow us to weave through a selection of major happenings and updates now manifesting themselves at platform, network and toolset levels.
