Shadow-Soft Brings Kubernetes Horror Stories to KubeCon 2025 with "This is Fine" Experience
Interactive booth invites attendees to share their most nightmarish production incidents, vote for the best disasters, and win prizes at Booth #1250
ATLANTA, GA – Nov 4, 2025 – Shadow-Soft, a boutique IT consulting and systems integrator, announced today that it will host "Kubernetes Horror Stories" at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, taking place November 10-13 in Atlanta, GA. The interactive experience at Booth #1250 embraces the beloved "This is Fine" meme, inviting cloud and platform engineering professionals to share their most cringe-worthy, hair-raising, and darkly hilarious Kubernetes disasters.
"We've all been there—sitting in front of a terminal with production on fire, telling ourselves 'this is fine' while everything around us is decidedly not fine," said Ross Beard, VP of Marketing at Shadow-soft. "Kubernetes Horror Stories is our way of bringing the community together to laugh, commiserate, and learn from those unforgettable 2 AM incidents that define our careers."
How It Works:
Attendees visiting Booth #1250 can:
- Share their horror stories – Submit tales of cascading failures, configuration catastrophes, and namespace nightmares
- Vote for the best disasters – Help crown the most spectacular (and educational) Kubernetes catastrophes
- Win prizes – Top-voted horror stories will earn their survivors exclusive prizes
- Connect with fellow survivors – Bond over shared trauma in a judgment-free zone
The booth will feature "This is Fine" themed décor, photo opportunities, and a leaderboard showcasing the community's most epic Kubernetes fails. All horror stories will be shared anonymously (unless contributors choose otherwise), creating a safe space for honest discussion about lessons learned from production incidents.
Why Kubernetes Horror Stories Matter
Beyond the entertainment value, the initiative serves an important purpose: normalizing failure as part of the learning process and creating opportunities for knowledge sharing. The cloud-native community's collective experiences—both successes and spectacular failures—help everyone build more resilient systems.
"The best way to prevent future disasters is to learn from past ones," added Ross. "By sharing these stories in a lighthearted way, we're building a knowledge base of real-world lessons that you won't find in any documentation."
Visit Shadow-soft at KubeCon 2025
- Event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
- Dates: November 10-13, 2025
- Location: Booth #1250
- Website: shadow-soft.com/kubecon
Stop by to share your story, vote for your favorite disaster, meet the Shadow-Soft team, and discover how Shadow-Soft’s Container Platform Advisory Services reduced incidents & downtime. Don't forget to grab your "This is Fine" swag before leaving!
For more information or to pre-submit your Kubernetes horror story, visit shadow-soft.com/K8sHorrorStories or follow us on social media with #K8sHorrorStories.
About Shadow-soft
Shadow-Soft is a boutique IT consulting and systems integrator with 100+ successful mid-market and large enterprise modernizations. We deliver deep technical expertise and agile execution across VMware migrations, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift deployments, AI infrastructure, automation, and observability solutions, consistently achieving accelerated deployment timelines. For more information, visit shadow-soft.com or connect with Shadow-Soft at KubeCon Booth #1250.
Media Contact:
Ross Beard
VP of Marketing, Shadow-Soft
ross@shadow-soft.com