The great and the good among the (widely open source) cloud-native community gathered together this week for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 (Americas) in Atlanta, Georgia.
The message from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was abundantly clear this year.
AI is the new workload and cloud-native is the new operating system… and, together, they define the open future of computing.
You can put that on a t-shirt, you can etch it in stone, you can get a temporary tattoo of it (or a real one) and you can use that as a mission statement and guiding edict for the way cloud computing will continue to evolve between now and the end of the current decade (if not longer) as the weight of the CNCF member community appears to be fully behind this ethos and approach.
The CNCF underlined its position on this ‘state of the nation’ as it continues to work towards building sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native software. It announced the launch of the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program(me) at the event. The new programme introduces a community-led effort to define and validate standards for running AI workloads reliably and consistently on Kubernetes.
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