KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam drew 13,350 attendees and marked a clear shift: AI workloads are moving from experimentation to production on Kubernetes. Key stats show 82% of organizations have adopted Kubernetes for AI, but only 7% deploy daily. Major themes included the pivot from training to inference (67% of AI compute now
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From training to inference: the big pivotThe CNCF donations that will reshape AI on KubernetesAgentic AI gets an identity layerAI gateways and inference routingPlatform engineering absorbs LLMOpsSovereignty shapes infrastructure architectureWhat this means for your teamSort: