Watch VMblog's interview with Alex Freedland, Co-Founder and CEO of Mirantis, ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London. Join hosts David Marshall and Brian Ducharme as they discuss how Mirantis is revolutionizing cloud infrastructure for the AI era.
In this insightful conversation, Freedland shares how Mirantis has evolved from "the OpenStack guys" to becoming a leader in container orchestration and cloud-native infrastructure over its 15-year history. He explains how Mirantis' newest open-source project, k0rdent, is helping organizations tackle the massive shift from AI training to inference workloads - a market he predicts will be 50 times larger than training.
Key topics covered:
- How Mirantis is addressing the challenges of traditional computing (doing more with less) and accelerated computing (AI infrastructure)
- The real-world success story of a sovereign AI cloud provider in Europe using Mirantis technology
- How k0rdent differentiates itself by orchestrating Kubernetes clusters with a focus on MLOps and composable infrastructure
- The rapid growth of the k0rdent ecosystem, with over 20 partners joining within one month of launch
- Mirantis' partnership with Gcore to deliver inferencing capabilities anywhere, regardless of location
Freedland emphasizes that 2025 marks the year when AI moves from infrastructure building to application development, turning every AI workload into an HPC (High-Performance Computing) workload. He argues that open source is the only way to drive innovation in infrastructure, especially for AI, by bringing together talent from around the world without creating friction or lock-in.
Visit Mirantis at their KubeCon booth to learn more about their lens product, K0 suite, and the k0rdent project.
For more information, check out https://www.mirantis.com/ or explore their open-source projects at https://k0rdent.io/ and the K0 product line.
