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.
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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.
Add to your scheduleBreakouts
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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