The recently concluded KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 sent an increasingly clear signal to the industry: Cloud native is rapidly evolving from an “application runtime platform” into the operational foundation for AI infrastructure. In Amsterdam, discussions around Kubernetes, GPUs, inference serving, Agentic AI, and heterogeneous compute scheduling have moved beyond concepts into concrete engineering practice, community collaboration, and infrastructure paradigm evolution. As a CNCF…