A first-person recap of Cloud Native Days France 2026, a 1,700-attendee event in Paris. Highlights include a CERN keynote on scaling to 10 PB/s of data with flat budgets, French government open-source Kubernetes initiatives, and multiple Cilium-focused sessions covering ClusterMesh multi-cluster networking, Direct Server Return with eBPF, and a hands-on lab platform that has served 100,000+ sessions. The post also covers community interactions, hallway conversations about Cilium and Tetragon in production, and notable talks on k0s, VictoriaLogs, supply chain security, and sustainable cloud native infrastructure.
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An opening keynote that set the bar very highCloud Native in the public sectorCilium… everywhereHallway track > everything elseMore great sessions (and too many to see all)Communities at the core!5.4K Impressions