Watch the Recordings: Talks about Mirantis k0rdent at KubeCon NA 2025
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 gathered thousands of Kubernetes developers, engineers, architects, and community leaders in Atlanta to explore the future of cloud native infrastructure. Throughout the week, Mirantis speakers shared the latest innovations in k0rdent, demonstrating how it addresses the need for unified, automated control across sprawling Kubernetes environments. From securing fleets of edge clusters, to enabling GitOps-driven FeatureOps, to delivering safe and scalable self-service through PolicyOps, k0rdent offers a robust, open source platform for organizations seeking to simplify governance without sacrificing flexibility. Here’s a recap of the ideas and insights our speakers shared about k0rdent.
Securing the Edge: Multi-Cluster Governance With Kyverno on k0rdent's Fleets
Mirantis Senior DevOps Advocate Prashant Ramhit and Nirmata Solutions Architect Dolis Sharma collaborated to address how rapid growth in edge data creates operational fragility and configuration drift across fleets of distributed Kubernetes clusters. k0rdent is a composable, Kubernetes-native control plane for centrally deploying and managing mixed-workload edge clusters using reusable service templates. Kyverno is a policy-as-code engine that standardizes governance across clusters and enforces policies that validate, generate, and clean up resources. Together, they enable fleet-wide governance where policies are defined once, stored in Git, automatically applied to every new edge cluster, and enforced at runtime.
Key Takeaways:
k0rdent Provides a Universal Kubernetes Control Plane for the Edge: k0rdent deploys and manages mixed-workload fleets across on-prem, public cloud, and remote locations using composable templates and a centralized service catalog
Kyverno Enables Policy-as-Code Across Clusters: Declarative YAML and Common Expression Language (CEL)-based policies validate configurations, enforce image and security standards, mutate resources to match best practices, and automatically generate or delete supporting objects
Fleet-Wide Governance Becomes Repeatable and Automated: Policies are defined once, stored in Git, and applied automatically to every cluster created, eliminating drift and missed updates across edge sites
Shift Edge Fleets from Chaos to Control: Unified lifecycle management, GitOps-driven policy enforcement, and automated remediation turn previously fragmented edge environments into manageable and compliant infrastructure
Doctor Flag: Into the Kubernetes Featureverse with k0rdent and OpenFeature
Mirantis Community Manager and Developer Advocate Prithvi Raj explores a new take on managing feature flags at scale, highlighting OpenFeature and k0rdent as foundational components for building a GitOps-driven “Featureverse” across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. Modern Kubernetes environments have become a multiverse of drifting configurations, inconsistent flag states, and operational complexity that grows as organizations span clouds, clusters, and teams. OpenFeature offers a universal, provider-agnostic API for defining and evaluating feature flags, while k0rdent delivers a composable Kubernetes control plane to support cluster management, state management, and observability. Together, they enable a FeatureOps workflow where developers declare feature intent in Git and Flux keeps those definitions in sync. k0rdent handles policy and placement, while OpenFeature updates applications safely and consistently. This paves the way for adaptive, AI-assisted operational models.
Key Takeaways:
Feature Fragmentation is Unavoidable Without Governance: Drifting configurations, inconsistent rollouts, and multi-cluster sprawl require a centralized way to manage feature states
OpenFeature Standardizes How Feature Flags Work Across Environments: The universal API ensures consistent evaluation no matter the language or provider
k0rdent Provides the Platform Backbone for Multi-Cluster Consistency: k0rdent’s cluster management, state management, and observability coordinate deployments, policies, and telemetry across heterogeneous infrastructure
GitOps Becomes the Natural Model for FeatureOps: Developers declare feature intent in Git while Flux, k0rdent, and OpenFeature automate reconciliation and rollout
Mission Platform: PolicyOps Across the Kubernetes Multi-verse
Prithvi Raj is joined by Nirmata Head of Community Cortney Nickerson to show how platform engineering can turn chaotic multi-cluster Kubernetes operations into a coordinated “airport” where developers can self-serve environments quickly and safely. In this analogy, platforms become airplanes, developers are pilots, and Kyverno is the safety crew that enforces policies, validates manifests, and automates best practices. k0rdent serves as the control tower that provisions clusters from templates, integrates with tools like Crossplane and Argo CD, and provides full-fleet visibility. Together, k0rdent and Kyverno let developers create sandbox environments in minutes rather than days. Compliance is built in from the start and expired environments are cleaned up automatically, giving platform teams a predictable and scalable model for managing speed, safety, and cost.
Key Takeaways:
Platform Engineering Responds to DevOps Fatigue: Ticket queues, manual reviews, and YAML sprawl are replaced with productized platforms that give developers safe, consistent self-service access to infrastructure
Self-Service Environments Gain Built-In Guardrails: A developer request triggers k0rdent to create a compliant cluster, deploy baseline services, and apply Kyverno policies that check resource limits, image sources, and security contexts before workloads run
The k0rdent-Kyverno Stack Forms a Reusable Pattern for Future Workloads: The same control tower and safety crew model extends to edge, AI/ML, and multi-tenant platforms, where policy-driven automation keeps velocity and governance moving together
See You at the Next Event!
Across KubeCon NA 2025, Mirantis speakers highlighted how k0rdent’s templated workflows, universal control plane, and cloud native integrations allow teams to automate governance, reduce drift, and deliver smoother developer experiences. As organizations expand their fleets, k0rdent can help them operate securely and predictably at scale.
If you didn’t get a chance to meet us in Atlanta, we’ll also be at Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2025 this week in Las Vegas and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Amsterdam in March 2026. Hope to see you there!
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