Cloud Native University 2025
2025-04-01
London, United Kingdom
as the organisers put it
Cloud Native University Europe has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
curriculum designers and educators, cloud engineers, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, security engineers, engineering managers
topics
Kubernetes single-node manual setup; Linkerd service mesh; Prometheus metrics and Grafana; Kyverno policy enforcement; rootless Podman usage; rebasing Buildpacks for patches; Argo Rollouts canary and blue-green; OpenTelemetry with OTLP; SLSA controls and artifact signing (cosign, Rekor, Fulcio); SBOM generation; Airflow and dbt for ML pipelines; KServe and KubeFlow model serving
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | S. Forster, D. Cook, M. Mannanbeth | 05m |
Session opens with logistics and a concrete agenda: two tracks (morning cloud native Core Curriculum, afternoon teaching and learning academy), start at 9:10… | ||
| The Absolute Beginner's Guide To Cloud Native | Kyle Penfound, Cortney Nickerson | 25m |
Quick practical tour of cloud native with live demos: containers deploy into Kubernetes scheduler and scale a deployment from three to five replicas, Linkerd… | ||
| Streamline Your App Development With the Power of Cloud Native Tools | Julia Furst Morgado, Mauricio Salatino | 26m |
Quick tour of concrete tools and what they do: rootless Podman with no daemon replaces Docker locally and can generate YAML for Kubernetes, rebasing Buildpacks… | ||
| AI/MLOps for Busy People: A Field Guide To Implementing Cloud Native AI/ML | Zara Ahmad-Post | 29m |
Maps ML lifecycle stages to concrete tools and practices: use Apache Airflow and dbt for repeatable ETL and DAG orchestration; validate and catalog with… | ||
| Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain: A Beginner’s Guide To SLSA, SBOM, and Beyond | Yash Sharma, Yash Pimple | 16m |
Explains concrete controls and tools to stop dependency-led compromises: SLSA v1.0 requirements like 2FA, mandatory two reviewers, no anonymous PRs and PR… | ||
| Proxies, Gateways, and Service Mesh. Why Are Words So Confusing? | Abdel Sghiouar | 23m |
Bold claim: everything is a proxy—load balancers, API Gateways, Gateways, service meshes all sit between client and server and can read, modify, rate‑limit… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Gems of Kubernetes: Lesser-Known Features You Should Be Using | Saranya Nambiar | 08m |
A microservice platform that uses Gemini for text and an image generation API for illustrations demonstrates three concrete Kubernetes practices that reduced… | ||
| Kubernetes the Hard Way: A Live Journey | Sandeep Kanabar, Lucy Sweet | 27m |
Live assembly of a single-node cluster on remote machines in Amsterdam over Wi‑Fi, starting etcd, the API Server, controller-manager, scheduler, kubelet and… | ||
| Panel: Activating Community To Grow in Cloud Native | Lisa Tagliaferri, Divya Mohan, Langdon White, Edith Puclla | 33m |
Panelists argue concrete routes to job-ready experience: contribute docs or code to Kubernetes, Rancher or Sigstore, join summer of code or Season of Docs, and… | ||
| (What If We Learned To) Learn and Share Differently | Aurélie Vache | 25m |
A personal journey from lost passions to published work demonstrates specific, repeatable steps: reclaim creative time (30–60 minutes weekly), sketch technical… | ||
| Bridging the OpenTelemetry Adoption Gap in Cloud-Native Applications | Shivay Lamba, Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava | 22m |
Industry survey shows 86% of tech leaders find modern stacks too complex, so the concrete answer is adoption of OpenTelemetry as the default instrumentation… | ||
| Building a Cloud Native Curriculum for Real-World Readiness | Marko Mudrinić | 24m |
A 13-week course redesign replaces small solo Java projects with one large Scrum project requiring a microservice architecture (minimum three services), at… | ||
| Teaching Kubernetes To Over 1000 Learners: Key Lessons and Insights | Joseph Page, Max-Emilien Dauvert-Latre | 23m |
Claims training over 1,000 learners via two three‑day modules (user and admin), delivered 50/50 remote/in‑person with two trainers plus occasional support… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Simon Forster, Danielle Cook, Mumshad Mannambeth | 01m |
This is the first time the event runs two tracks with the Cloud Native Core Curriculum in the morning and the Training and Learning Academy in the afternoon… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: A Launch in My Kubernetes Journey: How I Became a Kubestronaut in 30 Days | Chad M. Crowell, Fabrizio Sgura | 13m |
Claims a full certification stack completed in 30 days at age 53, passing KCNA, CKA, CKAD, KCSA and CKS in the order KCNA → CKA → CKAD → KCSA → CKS; uses… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Bringing Cloud Native to the Classroom: Empowering the Next Generati... | Nikita Verma | 05m |
Claims a concrete curriculum and outcomes: industry demand shows 90% of enterprises use cloud and jobs grow 21% yearly while Kubernetes powers 80% of… | ||
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