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KCD Sofia 2026

September 29th, 2026
Sofia, Bulgaria

Kubernetes Community Day Sofia brings the Bulgarian and wider Balkan cloud native community together on September 29, 2026. What to expect, and where image security fits in a growing regional ecosystem.

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KCD Sofia 2026

KCD (Kubernetes Community Day) Sofia 2026: what to expect

KCD Sofia is a CNCF-supported, community-organized event for the Kubernetes and cloud native community across Bulgaria and the wider Balkan region - smaller in scale than KubeCon, but built by and for local practitioners.

Themes to watch

  • Kubernetes fundamentals and platform operations, aimed at teams still maturing their cloud native adoption.
  • Local case studies from Balkan-region companies running Kubernetes in production.
  • Cloud native security basics, often the most requested track at regional KCDs.
  • Community building for a still-growing regional cloud native ecosystem.

Where container security fits into the conversation

Regional KCDs are often where teams are setting up their container security practices for the first time, rather than optimizing an existing one - which makes it a good place to get the basics right from day one instead of retrofitting them later.

Starting with CVE-free, FIPS-validated base images from Echo, complete with SBOMs in SPDX and CycloneDX formats, means a growing platform team never accumulates the vulnerability backlog that more mature organizations are now trying to unwind.

Building out your Kubernetes security practice?

Get in touch - happy to help you start with a clean baseline instead of inheriting a backlog.

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