13,500 attendees in Amsterdam makes this the largest KubeCon ever. Coming out of Salt Lake City, I wasn’t even sure I wanted to do another one and make it to KubeCon # 20, but the theme this week “Keep Cloud Native Moving” is actually holding up. They are actually doing real demos in the keynotes again rather than just hand waving about AI.
I mean there was a lot of AI, but it was in the context of how Kubernetes (and Cilium along with it) is the platform of choice for running these workloads from training to inference to serving. My colleague Nico just published an article about exactly this trend with all the neoclouds for AI standardized on Cilium. 10 years in and Cilium is having another moment because the scale and shape of these workloads are forcing people to care about the network again. I need to get back to the hallway track so let’s 🐝 -gin.