A recap of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam covering the dominant themes: inference routing becoming an infrastructure problem, agentic AI deployments moving from experimentation to production, platform teams absorbing LLMOps responsibilities, the rise of AI gateways for governance, growing adoption of self-hosted LLMs driven by EU data sovereignty requirements, and security threading through every conversation. MetalBear also shares their own milestone conference presence, including a mirrord mini-golf activation that drew ~400 players.
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The World Outside, the Community Inside #The Big Themes #mirrord Mini-Golf Was a Blast #What This KubeCon Meant for MetalBear #Wrapping Up #Sort: