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Simplifying Kubernetes Adoption Challenges

3/13/2025

Cloud Native Compass

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Koray Oksay (Kubermatic, CNCF Ambassador) joins David to discuss why Kubernetes adoption still trips up teams: skipping container fundamentals, picking between managed services and self-hosted clusters, navigating tooling choices like Flux vs Argo CD, and structuring multi-cluster environments.

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