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Join Microsoft Azure at KubeCon Europe 2025

April 1-4 | London, UK

Join us at KubeCon Europe 2025 in London, UK, from April 1-4, where Microsoft Azure will be a Diamond Sponsor. Discover how Azure is leading the way in Kubernetes and intelligent applications with a series of exciting sessions, demos, and keynotes.

Find us at Booth #N150

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Keynote

Kubernetes for everyone: a user-friendly approach with Kubernetes Desktop

Andrew Randall, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Wednesday April 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Kubernetes is known for being challenging; getting started with such a complex distributed system can be intimidating. For both new and experienced users, it's hard getting started from scratch, handling multi-cluster deployments, and integrating various tools and projects required in a modern Kubernetes environment. Enter Kubernetes Desktop.

Based on the CNCF Headlamp project, Kubernetes Desktop offers an intuitive, out-of-the-box experience that simplifies the setup and management of local Kubernetes environments. Headlamp's adaptability allows it to offer a great day-one experience for end users and serve as a foundation for vendors to build upon and integrate with other CNCF projects. Bringing Headlamp's capabilities to Kubernetes Desktop provides a modern, feature-rich user interface that works to streamline the user experience and make Kubernetes more accessible to all.

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Breakouts

Microsoft engineers will be delivering sessions throughout the conference on a variety of topics including sidecarless Service Mesh, Copacetic, Identity-based Authorization, Ratify, Web Assembly, containerd, Notary, Headlamp, OpenTelemetry, confidential containers, Inspektor Gadget, and more!

Some featured sessions include:

A New Frontier: Sidecarless Service Mesh on Windows With Istio's Ambient Mesh

Keith Mattix, Mitch Connors

Towards a Standardized Identity-based Authorization in Kubernetes

Keith Mattix

Streamlined Efficiency: Unshackling Kubernetes Image Volumes for Rapid AI Model and Dataset Loading

Esteban Rey

Transparent, Infra-Level Checkpoint and Restore for Resilient AI/ML Workloads at Scale

Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan

Beyond Kubernetes: Adapting To Specialized Application Workloads

Sachi Desai

The Key To Security: Externalized Service Account Key Management

Mo Khan, Rita Zhang, Stanislav Láznička, Anish Ramasekar

Building WebAssembly Like It's 2011

David Justice

Wasm I Right or Wasm I Wrong? a Review of the Wasm Ecosystem

David Justice

Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Sign and Verify All the Things

Jeremy Rickard

A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code

Rita Zhang

Taming the Traffic: Selecting the Perfect Gateway Implementation for You

Mike Morris

Notary Project: The Key To Secure Software Supply Chain

Yi Zha

An Imperfect Guide To Impact and Intent

Jeremy Rickard

That's Just My Cup of Tea: Configuring Cilium for Performance and Scale

Neha Aggarwal

Beyond CloudEvents: Endpoints, Messages, Schemas - CNCF XRegistry

Clemens Vasters

Booth Theatre & Demos

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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Thursday, April 3, 2025

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Friday, April 4, 2025

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