State of KubeCon Atlanta 2025.

State of KubeCon Atlanta 2025

Our team returned from KubeCon energized and full of new insights. As we do after every event, we re grouped to reflect on what we heard from the industry, what we learned and how the market is shifting. This time, we decided to go deeper, and surveyed over 200 participants, VPs of R&D, CTO’s, Platform Engineers were amongst those who stopped by to take our survey.‍

Nathan Roys
Nathan Roys
November 24, 2025
State of KubeCon Atlanta 2025
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This report analyses survey data collected from professionals across different industry verticals to deeply understand during KubeCon 2025 Atlanta.

Here are some of the questions we asked:

  • How platform teams are structured
  • Who is responsible for Platform Engineering
  • Who their “customers” actually are
  • How they measure success
  • How they gather feedback from engineering
  • And what practitioners believe will be a main focus by 2026

The full report is available to you here.

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