About this ecosystem
Where cloud native engineers and open source communities connect
The Cloud Native & Open Source ecosystem brings together the people building with and contributing to cloud native technologies and open source projects. It covers Kubernetes, the CNCF landscape, open source AI, developer tooling, container platforms and the open source infrastructure that modern software runs on.
The ecosystem includes practitioner communities in the UK, North America and APAC, as well as the flagship Cloud Native & Open Source Summit London and its global online counterpart.
Who this is for
- Kubernetes platform engineers and cluster operators
- CNCF project maintainers and contributors
- Open source AI practitioners and LLM infrastructure builders
- Developer tooling engineers and developer experience practitioners
- Cloud native architects and infrastructure engineers
- Open source founders and developer-first startup operators
What this ecosystem covers
Topics across every community and event
Kubernetes architecture and operations
CNCF landscape and cloud native tooling
Open source AI and LLM infrastructure
Container platforms, Helm and GitOps
Service mesh, networking and observability
Developer tooling and CLI ecosystems
Open source project governance and sustainability
Open source licensing and commercialisation
Cloud native security
eBPF, WASM and emerging cloud native primitives
Open source community building and contributor growth
Developer experience in open source projects
From our events
Real practitioners. Real venues. Real conversations.
Recent Event Spotlight
Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference
Hosted at BrainStation London on June 11th, 2026. 216 registered attendees exploring cloud native infrastructure, Kubernetes, open source AI, and production AI systems.
Featured Speakers
Andrew Randall
Principal PM, Office of the CPO, Microsoft
Pal Lakatos-Toth
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Peter Bhabra
Member of Technical Staff, Doubleword
Viola Lykova
Senior Software Engineer, nuclecode
Hannah Foxwell
Co-Founder, Bimp
Sean M Tracey
Founding Technologist, Mitchell Technologies
Craig Whiting & Jon Freedman
RLS Search & Quant Fin
Amir Tayabali & Salman Iqbal
Tech Leads, Appvia
Maebh Booth
Senior Engineering Leader, Former M&S
Watch the talks
From HFT to Enterprise Banking: The Talent War for Cloud Native & AI Engineers
Craig Whiting & Jon Freedman — RLS Search & Quant Fin
Evolving the Kubernetes User Experience: More Intuitive, More Extensible, More Agentic
Andrew Randall & Pal Lakatos-Toth — Microsoft
Sponsors
BrainStation
Headline
Overmind
Platinum
Appvia
Platinum
Harvey Nash
Platinum
Axiologik
Platinum
Colibri Digital
Platinum
T5 Digital
Platinum
Nearform
AI Native
Dash0
Community
RLS Search
Community
Doubleword
Community
Postman
Community
X4 Group
Community
Engaging Data
Community
BIMP
Community
Aiven
Community
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Talks from this ecosystem
Preventing Silent Interpretation Errors at Scale
Maebh Booth
Senior Engineering Leader, formerly M&S
The Massively Parallel Agent Stack
Peter Bhabra
Member of Technical Staff, Doubleword
Prompt Driven Platforms
Amir Tayabali
Tech Lead, Appvia
Platform as a Product: What Happens When We Treat Security as a User?
Hannah Foxwell
Co-Founder, Bimp
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Twenty-six communities. One connected practitioner ecosystem.
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