By By David Ramel12/04/2025
Publication Date: 2025-12-04 00:00:00
KubeCon ’25 Takeaways: Top Trends, Tools & Technologies
Kubernetes expert Tom Fenton helmed a post-KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 webcast today to walk through what stood out at this year’s event, and why several of those takeaways matter to enterprise IT teams running containers in production.
“If Kubernetes is to become the OS for AI, we need a clear standard to guarantee portability and interoperability. And that led to the the major announcement on the first day of the conference, the CNCF AI Conformance Program. This is the single most significant outcome of the entire event.”
Tom Fenton, Kubernetes Expert
Kubernetes is a vital component of modern cloud-native computing, serving as an open source container orchestration platform used to deploy, scale, and manage distributed applications across clusters of servers. Originally created to automate the scheduling and lifecycle of containerized workloads, it has evolved into the de facto control plane for cloud-native infrastructure, with a large ecosystem of related projects for networking, storage, security, observability, and application delivery. Over the past decade, Kubernetes has expanded from a tool primarily associated with stateless microservices to a general-purpose platform for running a wide range of production workloads across public cloud, private data centers, and edge environments, emphasizing portability,…
