Cloud Native University North America 2025
2025-11-10
Atlanta, United States
as the organisers put it
Cloud Native University North America 2025 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel.
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes operators, site reliability engineers, cloud infrastructure engineers, security engineers, developer advocates, devops engineers
topics
Kubernetes Cluster API; Kubernetes NetworkPolicy deny-by-default; Cilium with eBPF enforcement; Cloud Native Buildpacks workflows; ko for Go image builds; Shipwright and Tekton pipelines; Harbor and Argo CD registries; Helm-driven GitOps deployments; Backstage and KubeVela integration; Crossplane cloud provisioning APIs; Dapr workflows for orchestration; Kagent Kubernetes-native agents (MCP/A2A)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Simon Forster, Danielle Cook | 04m |
Opening remarks outline a concrete offer: the team published the Cloud Native Maturity Model on CNCF and built a half-day foundation agenda that maps tooling… | ||
| 50 Ways To Build Containers? | Adam Kaplan | 27m |
Demo builds a JavaScript front end with Cloud Native Buildpacks and a Go backend with ko, runs builds locally and on Kubernetes via Shipwright and Tekton… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Building a Career in Tech Your Own Way | Ramiro Berrelleza, Cortney Nickerson | 12m |
Two career paths converge on the same practical advice: start with what you have, build visible side projects, and join the community. Specifics here: wrote a… | ||
| Introduction To Cluster API | Jussi Nummelin | 25m |
Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) provides a declarative, GitOps-friendly control plane that reconciles clusters via controllers, webhooks and CRDs and enforces… | ||
| From Squire To Network Knight: Defending the Kubernetes Castle the Cloud Native... | Donia Chaiehloudj | 21m |
Starts from a wide-open cluster and builds concrete defenses: apply a baseline deny-by-default NetworkPolicy, then introduce Kubernetes NetworkPolicy L3/L4… | ||
| Agents in Kubernetes 101: A Crash Course on Cloud Native AI Agents | Nina Polshakova, Nimisha Mehta | 23m |
Explains how a Kubernetes-native agent stack actually works and what was built: a declarative Kagent runtime that mounts LLMs, tool plugins and agent-to-agent… | ||
| Stitching the CNCF Stack for Platform Engineers | Julia Furst Morgado | 22m |
Shows a working platform composed of Backstage, KubeVela, Argo CD, Flux, Dapr, Crossplane and KAgent with concrete flows: Backstage catalog holds internal… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Understanding Kubernetes in a Visual Way | Aurélie Vache | 14m |
Claims that a visual metaphor system makes Kubernetes concepts learnable quickly, proven by a sustained output: one sketchnote per week turned into a 270‑page… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Simon Forster, Danielle Cook | 01m |
Closing remarks summarize that attendees got a lot of information and should maximize value by networking and using the hallway track; organizers encourage… | ||
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