Kubernetes Community Days UK — Edinburgh 2026

Kubernetes Community Days UK returns to Edinburgh for a second year: two days of cloud native talks, project demos and panels at the John McIntyre Conference Centre. KCD events are volunteer-run under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and this one's organising team spans Chainguard, Meta, the Bank of England, Nscale, Syntasso and Cloud Native Wales. The programme mixes practitioner deep-dives with open source maintainer sessions, so the people presenting are generally the people who wrote or operate the thing. Tickets are paid; the price band is set per ticket type on the CNCF event page. Why go: this is the only cloud native conference of its size in Scotland, and the maintainer track means you can ask the awkward question directly rather than filing an issue. Best for platform and SRE teams, Kubernetes operators, and engineers whose production environment is someone else's abstraction.