Google Cloud Infrastructure 2025: The Year Kubernetes Got Boring

If 2024 was the year AI grabbed the microphone, 2025 was the year Kubernetes quietly took the wheel again. As someone who spends more hours in kubectl than Slack, I found this year surprisingly satisfying — less drama, more maturity. We didn’t get shiny new toy announcements every quarter, but the ones we did get stuck. And for the first time in a while, “reliability” wasn’t just an SRE buzzword —…