KCD Mexico in Guadalajara, Mexico 2025

On Saturday, March 29, Guadalajara transformed into the hub of cloud-native technology with the grand celebration of Kubernetes Community Day 2025. This remarkable event gathered over 200 professionals, enthusiasts, and experts in Kubernetes and cloud computing, creating an atmosphere of innovation and collaboration.

A Day of Learning and Connection

The event provided a vibrant platform where the community exchanged ideas, tools, and best practices that shapes the future of infrastructure as code. With a depth focus on technical content and collaborative environment, the day was packed with opportunities for learning, connecting, and building together.

A Global Agenda

Featuring more than 30 international speakers from the US, Spain, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, and Guatemala, alongside national leaders, the event offered a diverse range of talks, workshops, and live demos. Key topics included optimization, security, and scalability in Kubernetes, with a focus on tools and strategies to maximize the potential of cloud-native environments.

Highlights and Key Topics

The event delved into crucial topics related to Kubernetes optimization and efficiency, emphasizing tools that enhance resource management, security, and application scalability. Highlights included:

  • Karpenter + Amazon EKS: Intelligent autoscaling with Spot instances and Graviton processors for optimal performance and cost efficiency.
  • Security First: Hardening strategies to comply with regulations like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, fortifying clusters against real threats.
  • API Gateway, OpenTelemetry, and Cilium: Enhanced visibility, traceability, and control in distributed environments.
  • Istio + KubeVirt: Hybrid architectures combining the best of containers and virtual machines.
  • Cloud-native CI/CD: Migrations from GitHub-Hosted Actions to Self-Hosted solutions with KubeVirt.
  • Green Infrastructure: Best practices to reduce environmental impact without compromising efficiency or budget.

More than another event, this was a fully immersed experience

KCD Mexico 2025 was more than just another conference; it was a community-building experience. Attendees not only learned from global leaders but also shared experiences, challenges, and lessons with peers from across Latin America. The Q&A sessions sparked in-depth discussions about implementation, common pitfalls, and innovative production solutions, all in a collaborative, open, and energetic environment.

Community + Technology = Future

KCD Mexico was a vibrant celebration of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence. Set in Guadalajara—widely recognized as the Silicon Valley of Mexico—the event underscored the city’s growing influence as a hub for cloud-native and open-source technologies. It reaffirmed the community’s pivotal role in driving the Kubernetes ecosystem forward.

From DevOps and CI/CD to Crossplane, EKS, Istio, and KubeVirt, the sessions showcased powerful tools and forward-thinking strategies to address today’s infrastructure challenges. More than just a conference, KCD Mexico served as a catalyst—connecting professionals, sparking new ideas, and empowering participants with practical knowledge to implement immediately.

Gratitude to Our Sponsors and Organizers

We are deeply grateful to our generous sponsors—Akamai, AWS, Cast AI, CNCF, EPAM, Hopla Software, Improving, Koch, SoftServe, SUSE, and Zillow—whose support made this event possible.

A heartfelt thank you goes out to the passionate organizers: Abraham Alfaro, Alejandro Mercado, Alejandro Rodríguez, Álvaro Soto, Cassandra Valadez, Eduardo Salazar, Gloria González, Hazzim Anaya, Rodolfo Martinez, and Victor Morales. Your dedication turned a vision into a truly impactful experience.

Together, from the heart of Mexico’s tech capital, we are shaping the future of cloud-native technology—one community-driven step at a time.