SALT LAKE CITY — When over 9,000 people showed up at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America, they expected to hear about how to deploy Kubernetes at scale, what new projects have graduated from the Cloud Native Software Foundationj (CNCF) sandbox, and the latest eBPF tricks. They didn’t expect the first keynote topic to be about how patent trolls attack companies for the “crime” of using Kubernetes. Welcome to 2024.