By By Tom Fenton11/12/2025
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 00:00:00
KubeCon 2025 Day 0 Recap
During the second week of November, I attended KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2025, held in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. In this and in subsequent posts, I will detail my experiences at the event.
On Monday, the day before KubeCon started, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosted a day of Co-Events. I like this format as it allows attendees of the conference to delve deeper into a specific technology or topic. These mini “Cons” range from BackstageCon to Open Source SecurityCon. The two that I was fortunate enough to attend were the Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering and Google Container Day.
After an unseasonably chilly fifteen-minute walk to the Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering, I joined the event.
By way of reference, the stated goal of these “gatherings” is to bring together Red Hat’s users, partners, customers, contributors, and project leads to share information and insights.
The event kicked off with a keynote by Amy Marrich…