KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025

Event Highlights

Cloud-native is in the spotlight during theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025. Discover how Kubernetes drives AI/ML at scale and how platform engineering simplifies complexity. Hear CNCF perspectives on sustainability, governance and security shaping the future of cloud-native innovation. Expect live product reveals, hard metrics, real-world use cases and more.

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Bobby Allen, Google

Alon Horev, Vast Data In this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America interview, theCUBE’s Rob Strechay speaks with Alon Horev, co-founder and chief technology officer at Vast Data, to unpack how Kubernetes and cloud-native standards are powering real-time AI at the edge and across hybrid environments. Horev explains why Kubernetes is the “orchestration platform of today” and why open protocols (such as S3 and Kafka) are essential to avoid product lock-in while enabling developer choice and portability.

Marcin Wyszynski, Spacelift As part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, theCUBE’s Rob Strechay sits down with Marcin Wyszynski, co-founder and chief research and development officer at Spacelift (and OpenTofu cofounder), to unpack how AI is reshaping infrastructure as code and platform engineering. Wyszynski traces Spacelift’s origins from “multiplayer Terraform” needs to the recent announcement of Spacelift Intent – an experimental, open-source-first capability with a commercial, multiplayer layer.

Gaurav Saxena, Automotive Industry In this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America interview, theCUBE’s Rob Strechay meets with automotive platform engineering leader Gaurav Saxena to discuss how open source is powering large-scale, real-time vehicle platforms. Saxena details why OpenTelemetry sits at the heart of a cloud-agnostic strategy spanning AWS, GCP, Azure and on-premises. By correlating traces, logs and metrics, enterprises get end-to-end visibility across customer journeys – from mobile apps to over-the-air updates in millions of vehicles.

Gleb Budman, Backblaze TheCUBE’s Rob Strechay kicks off this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America preview with Backblaze CEO and co-founder Gleb Budman, discussing why storage is the cornerstone to proper AI deployment. Budman outlines how Backblaze B2 – an S3-compatible, affordable, high-performance storage platform – is used across the AI pipeline: data collection, labeling, training, inference and logging. He shares how organizations are minimizing the idle time for graphics processing units time by staging data for fast access.

Stu Miniman & Robert Shaw, Red Hat At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta, theCUBE’s Rob Strechay sits down with Red Hat’s Stu Miniman, senior director of market insights, and Robert Shaw, director of engineering, for a ground-level look at how Kubernetes is becoming the production backbone for AI. Shaw explains why most large language model (LLM) deployments are landing on Kubernetes and unpacks the latest on vLLM and LLMD – two projects hardening inference at both node and cluster scale.