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! Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week 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 Links from the interview 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
