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.
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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.
In an exclusive interview with VMblog, Dominic Wilde, Senior VP of Marketing of Mirantis explains how their new k0rdent platform is transforming how enterprises deploy and manage Kubernetes-based AI workloads across cloud, datacenter, and edge environments. As a Gold Sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, Mirantis is showcasing this 100% open-source Distributed Container Management Environment (DCME) that addresses the growing complexity of managing infrastructure for AI/ML applications. The company's expanded presence aligns with their recent upgrade to Gold Membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), demonstrating their deepening commitment to the cloud-native ecosystem. Visitors to booth N331 can experience live demonstrations of k0rdent, explore the new k0rdent Application Catalog with 19+ validated integrations, and get a sneak peek at upcoming KubeVirt capabilities for VM workload management on Kubernetes.