KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 is the central gathering for the cloud-native ecosystem — the engineers, architects, and contributors building and operating infrastructure with Kubernetes, containers, service meshes, and the broader CNCF project portfolio.
Why It Matters
The CNCF hosts 200+ open source projects that underpin the infrastructure of modern software. KubeCon is where maintainers present roadmaps, where contributors submit patches at co-located contributor days, and where practitioners share hard-won production knowledge from operating Kubernetes at scale.
What’s Covered
- Kubernetes — Core platform updates, sig deep-dives, and production patterns
- Observability — OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing
- Service Mesh — Istio, Cilium, Envoy, and eBPF-based networking
- GitOps & CI/CD — Argo, Flux, Tekton, and supply chain security
- Security — SBOM, sigstore, policy enforcement, and runtime security
- Platform Engineering — Internal developer portals, backstage, and platform maturity
Co-located Events
The day before the main conference hosts dedicated co-located events for specific projects and working groups — including ArgoCD Day, Cilium Con, Observability Day, and Platform Engineering Day. These require separate registration.
Contributor Summit
A two-day unconference-style contributor summit runs alongside the main event, giving CNCF project maintainers and contributors dedicated time to collaborate, plan roadmaps, and onboard new contributors.
KubeCon is the best place to understand where cloud-native infrastructure is going. If you run anything on Kubernetes in production, the knowledge you take home is immediately applicable.
Registration opens several months before the event. Diversity scholarships are available through the CNCF.