Navigating Platform Engineering and Kubernetes Challenges

In this episode, we're bringing you a curated selection of conversations from the KubeCon EU 2025 showfloor. We'll be diving into the rise of platform engineering, exploring some cutting-edge technologies, getting updates on core Kubernetes components, and hearing some truly unique user stories, like using Kubernetes on a dairy farm!

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• CNCF Blog - Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model

• Kubernetes Blog

• CNCF Blog - Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management

• Open Observability Summit

NAIS at NAV, with Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand

• Audun Fauchald Strand

• Hans Kristian Flaatten

• NAV (Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration)

• Kubernetes Podcast 216: NAIS, with Johnny Horvi and Frode Sundby

• NAIS

• KubeCon EU 2025 Keynote: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government - Hans Kristian Flaatten, Lead Platform Engineer, NAV & Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer, NAV

• GKE release notes

Platform Engineering, with Max Körbächer and Andreas (Andi) Grabner

• Max Körbächer

• Andreas (Andi) Grabner

• Book: “Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting modern platforms as a product” by Max Körbächer, Andreas Grabner, and Hilliary Lipsig

• Cloud Native Summit Munich

Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani

• Ahmet Alp Balkan

• Ronak Nathani

• Kubernetes Podcast 249: Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani

• Ahmet’s Blog

• Introducing Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Scale your Kubernetes workloads across regions

LLMs on Kubernetes, with Mofi and Abdel

• KubeCon EU 2025 talk: Yes You Can Run LLMs on Kubernetes - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud

• About the Gateway API

• Gateway API Inference Extension

• Deploy GKE Inference Gateway

SIG etcd with Ivan Valdes

• Ivan Valdes

• etcd.io

• SIG etcd on GitHub

Open Source Kubernetes, with Jago Macleod

• Jago Macleod

• Google Open Source: Kubernetes

• Schedmd

• Slurm

• Ray

• Run:ai from Nvidia

• Medium blog: “Deploy Slurm on GKE” by Abdel Sghiouar

• AI-Hypercomputer, xpk

• XPK (Accelerated Processing Kit, pronounced x-p-k) is a command line interface that simplifies cluster creation and workload execution on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). XPK generates preconfigured, training-optimized clusters and allows easy workload scheduling without any Kubernetes expertise.

• Cursor AI Editor

Dairy Farm Automation & Banking with Kubernetes, with Clément Nussbaumer

• Clément Nussbaumer

• Talos Linux

• Cluster-api

• Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters.

• KubeCon EU 2025 Talk: “Day-2’000 - Migration From Kubeadm+Ansible To ClusterAPI+Talos: A Swiss Bank’s Journey” - Clément Nussbaumer, PostFinance

• Kubeadm

• Kubeadm is a tool built to provide kubeadm init and kubeadm join as best-practice "fast paths" for creating Kubernetes clusters.

Being a First-Time KubeCon Attendee, with Nick Taylor

• Kubernetes The Hard Way

• K3s - “The certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing”

• Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

• Kubernetes Up and Running

• Kubernetes Docs

• KubeCon EU 2025 Sponsored Keynote: The Science of Winning: Oracle Red Bull Racing’s Formula with Open Source, Kubernetes and AI - Sudha Raghavan, SVP of OCI Developer Platform, Oracle