--- title: ContainerDays London 2026: Our Thoughts | daily.dev description: MetalBear recaps their experience at ContainerDays London 2026, where they had a booth and delivered a talk. Key themes included the persistent friction in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/containerdays-london-2026-our-thoughts-qi0amvzap twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ContainerDays London 2026: Our Thoughts | daily.dev og:description: MetalBear recaps their experience at ContainerDays London 2026, where they had a booth and delivered a talk. Key themes included the persistent friction in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/containerdays-london-2026-our-thoughts-qi0amvzap og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QI0aMvzAp.png og:image:alt: ContainerDays London 2026: Our Thoughts og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ContainerDays London 2026: Our Thoughts **[MetalBear](https://daily.dev/sources/metalbear)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MetalBear recaps their experience at ContainerDays London 2026, where they had a booth and delivered a talk. Key themes included the persistent friction in Kubernetes-based dev loops (especially for teams relying on cloud-only dependencies like GCP service accounts or large ML models), the contrast between the measured DevOps crowd and the more optimistic MCPConference attendees co-located at the same venue, and notable talks from Kelsey Hightower on fundamentals, Nigel Douglas on CVE prioritization, and others on platform engineering and identity-based security. The author's own talk used an RPG narrative to explore AI-augmented workflows and validation bottlenecks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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