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CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 Impressions

I was lucky to get my Cloud Native Patterns (video, slides) lightning talk accepted and attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 in Berlin. The following is a quick braindump / cameradump while the adrenaline and the excitement of the conference are still in my veins.

The conference had 1200 attendees which is 3x bigger than last year conference in London.


A few quick stats about Kubernetes community (video) by Chen Goldberg





What is Cloud Native and Why Should I Care (video)? by Alexis Richardson


The software is eating the world.
Open source is eating the software.
Cloud (is that Cloud Native?) is eating open source.


All sessions really well attended and packed and in some sessions people not let in. Below is shot from Autoscaling in Kubernetes (video) by Marcin Wielgus.


Also was interesting to see that Philips Hue (smart lights) started evaluating Kubernetes after last year's KubeCon and today they run in production all smart light backend.


A common theme across few sessions was about the fact that Kubernetes makes the life of Ops easy, but the life of the developers harder. The entry level for Kubernetes is quite high which prevents faster adoption.

Michelle Noorali from Deis did excellent talk on getting this point across, and so did Joe Beda.
Coming from a Java background, this is a topic that is close to my heart as well. I've been trying to educate the Java community why containerized Cloud Native and Kubernetes matter. And it is great to see that it is a widely recognized theme and a priority for the cloud native community.



Lot's of companies presented in the conference, from big players such Google, Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft (which also offer Kubernetes as a service), to Mesosphere. And many other smaller companies and new startups, where everybody does something around Cloud Native. (Would have been nice if Cloud Foundry had also shown up as the pioneers in Cloud Native).

Containerised USB sticks and Kubernerts based OpenShift books have all gone.


If you are looking to get involved into the cloud native world, check out the Job Board below for ideas and Red Hat jobs site as well.


Final thoughts:

  • At these events, you can see and feel how CNCF is building a great community of users accompanied by a collaborative ecosystem of companies.
  • At least half of the keynote sessions were given by women. That is at least 10x higher than other Open Source conferences.
  • Kubernetes (and other CNCF projects) have to become more user/developer friendly. Expect that to happen next!
  • All Recordings from the conferences are on youtube already. Check them out, feel the vibe and become part of it.
  • Don't miss CloudNativeCon + KubeCon December 6-8 2017 in Texas.

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