On 31 March 2025, in Rotterdam (Netherlands), the 2nd International Workshop on MetaOS for the Cloud‑Edge‑IoT Continuum (MECC 2025) — co-located with ACM EuroSys 2025 — brought together leading researchers and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities of a MetaOS-oriented computing continuum. At this event, our colleague Ioanna Kapetanidou from the ENACT presented the paper “An evaluation of commonly used Kubernetes security scanning tools”, thereby underscoring ENACT’s prominent role in advancing secure orchestration across cloud-edge-IoT environments.
The workshop focused on key themes such as interoperability, standardisation, and open-source contributions for MetaOS systems. The programme featured technical presentations, interactive sessions and panel discussions, addressing latency, scalability, privacy, distributed AI and real-world applications in smart cities, healthcare and industrial automation.
In her presentation, Ioanna evaluated six widely used Kubernetes security scanning tools, analyzing scan time, number of detected threats, and resource consumption, with the goal of shedding light on the performance trade-offs and providing practical insights for real-world deployment in the cloud-edge continuum. This investigation aligns strongly with ENACT’s mission to deliver robust frameworks for orchestration across heterogeneous layers and ensures that security remains a first-class concern in the evolving continuum.
The participation of ENACT in MECC 2025 also emphasized the project’s contribution to the MetaOS cluster of EU-funded initiatives, such as FLUIDOS, aerOS, ICOS, NebulOuS, NEMO and NEPHELE, which collectively advance the next generation of cloud-edge-IoT architectures.
By showcasing its research in the highly competitive environment of EuroSys-co-located workshops, ENACT continues to strengthen its leadership in the orchestration of distributed systems, secure service migration, adaptive resource management and data governance across the continuum. We look forward to further collaborations and knowledge-sharing across the MetaOS ecosystem, and to incorporating the insights gathered at MECC 2025 into our ongoing work.