CNCF Ambassadors Share the Best of KubeCon EU 2025 - OpenObservability Talks S5E11

KubeCon Europe 2025 in London has wrapped up, and we’re bringing you all the highlights, trends, and behind-the-scenes insights straight from the show floor!

In this special recap episode, I’m joined by two CNCF Ambassadors and community powerhouses: Kasper Borg Nissen, the Co-Chair of this KubeCon as well as of the KubeCon 2024 editions, and a Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0; and William Rizzo, Consulting Architect at Mirantis and Linkerd Ambassador.

Together, we unpack the major themes from the event—from platform engineering and internal developer platforms, to open source observability, and where Kubernetes is headed next. We also chat about the vibe of the community, emerging projects to watch, and important trends in European tech sphere.

Whether you missed the conference or want to catch up on important updates you might have missed, this episode gives you a curated take straight from the experts who know the cloud-native space inside out.

The episode was live-streamed on 22 April 2025 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxJOmOEBvQ

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/p/740258a5fa46

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Show Notes:

00:00 - intro

03:28 - KubeCon impressions

09:59 - Backstage turns 5

18:56 - CNCF turns 10 and CNCF annual survey

27:22 - Sovereign cloud in Europe and the NeoNephos initiative

33:55 - CI/CD use in production increases

36:52 - OpenInfra joins the Linux Foundation

40:16 - Cloud native local communities, DEI and the BIPOC initiative 

51:11 - Observability query standardization SIG updates

59:36 - outro

Resources:

CNCF 2024 Annual Survey https://www.cncf.io/reports/cncf-annual-survey-2024/

NeoNephos initiative for sovereign EU cloud: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7313115943075766273/

OpenInfra Foundation and OpenStack join The Linux Foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7307839934072066048/

Backstage turns 5: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7318163557206966272/

Kubernetes 1.33 release: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7321054742174924800/

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Dotan Horovits

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Kasper Borg Nissen

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William Rizzo

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