On July 21 and 22, we had the joy of bringing together cloud native enthusiasts and like-minded individuals at smartvillage in Munich. In collaboration with Liquid Reply, we hosted the Cloud Native Summit Munich 2025. Keep reading our recap for highlights and key technology insights.

Cloud Native Summit Munich 2025

Cloud Native Summit Munich is a local, community-organized event that gathers adopters and technologists from open source and cloud native communities. This was the fourth edition in Munich, aiming to bring the community together. The event provides a platform for professionals and experts from all levels and backgrounds to learn, network, and share their knowledge about cloud-native technologies.

This is white duck’s third edition as a co-organizer, and we could not be happier that we decided to invest our time and energy in such an event organization. Along the way we met great people, learned a lot, and had fun together with our friends from the Liquid Reply team.

Conference recap

This year, we were officially sold out! We had more than 400 attendees, 57 speakers, and 14 sponsors who helped us call this summit a true success. The attendees had a chance to take part in hands-on workshops and listen to talks by top-notch experts in the areas of platform engineering, Kubernetes, DevOps and the cloud universe. For the third time in a row, the summit took place in smartvillage, a roomy 2-floor venue with a cozy garden offering enough space for learning and networking. We wrapped up the first evening with some burgers, sweet delicacies, and drinks our attendees could enjoy thanks to our burger sponsor Ape Factory. 👏🏻

Technology News and Insights

As it is always the case, this year’s CNS Munich edition offered numerous high-quality talks, workshops as well as unconferencing sessions held by prominent tech experts and CNCF ambassadors. Our sponsors had an opportunity to hold presentations during lunch and coffee breaks as well. New methodologies, concepts, and tools were introduced and there were many exciting topics such as:

• Observability – The real challenge is not the tools, but how you organize them.
• WebAssembly – is changing how we run workloads on Kubernetes. It isn’t just smaller, but it’s also faster, more portable, and ideal for modern microservices.
• Edge Computing – Lightweight Kubernetes distributions bring the power of Kubernetes—scalability, resilience, and workload management—to resource-constrained edge environments.
• The meaning of Platforms and Platform Engineering – The message is consistent: the future lies in developing platforms that are more resilient, manageable, and scalable. Moreover, the importance of co-working, good communication within the teams, and feedback from the users of a platform or a product are the keys to successful and fulfilling work.
• Building a Platform Engineering API Layer with KCP – KCP provides a horizontally scalable, Kubernetes-compatible control plane. Its isolated control planes, known as workspaces, offer new possibilities to build multi-tenant platform architectures.
• The EU AI Act meaning for teams working with LLMs and AI tooling – an important piece of advice is: check out the NIS2 changes around monitoring, logging, and security response, and do the reporting!

Achievements and Successes

The CNS Munich team feels proud because the positive feedback in conversations with the attendees, as well as the shared feedback on social media, are a clear testament to the success of our efforts. We’re absolutely thrilled to read your encouraging and appreciative messages, yet we took critique regarding a few aspects seriously and will improve in the next edition. The results clearly show that we achieved our goal of providing valuable content featuring outstanding speakers, all while fostering a warm and inclusive atmosphere for everyone over the two days.

Stay connected with us and find some more feedback and event impressions on our Bluesky, LinkedIn accounts, and on CNS Munich social media channels – Twitter, Bluesky and LinkedIn. Thanks to our sponsor Ape Factory, you can find all the session recordings on the CNS Munich YouTube channel.

Looking forward to 2026

In the end, we would like to thank our sponsors, speakers, volunteers, and attendees who made the event possible and hope to see you again, at the latest next year, at the CNS Munich 2026! Follow us on social media and stay tuned. Also, mark your calendars for June 29th + 30th, 2026!