KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

You can deploy 1,000 applications to Kubernetes, but can you maintain them? Kubernetes excels as an infrastructure abstraction, but today's app management demands better abstractions for applications and their capabilities. This talk introduces CNCF wasmCloud (incubating) as the ultimate golden template for platform engineering. With wasmCloud, you can manage common capabilities like blob stores, HTTP, messaging, and secrets centrally, enabling pluggable, reusable components that scale. wasmCloud simplifies migrations and secures operations across diverse computing environments—essential as data locality laws balkanize the world's compute. By shifting to pluggable capability abstractions, platform engineers can update thousands of apps at once while freeing development teams to focus on building their business logic. This demonstration heavy talk is based on real world adoption & deployments across the F100 in financial services, tech, and the startup ecosystem.