Before telling you about my virtual experience at this year's KubeCon in Detroit, let me tell you about what KubeCon + CloudNativeCon really is.
What is KubeCon + CloudNativeCon?
So, the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is a flagship conference hosted by Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) that gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities together in one place.
It's an 5 days event that happens twice a year where people all across the world who had or want to adopt the Cloud Native standard of running applications in their organization or even the students who are passionate about the Cloud Native ecosystem, gather and discuss ideas and network with each other.
You can attend KubeCon both In-person and virtually.
Scholarships
The kubeCon + CloudNativeCon scholarship program is now officially named Dan Kohn Scholarship Fund. It provides 2 kinds of scholarships:
DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP
Applicants must be from traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open-source communities who are unable to attend without some financial assistance. Including, but not limited to persons identifying as LGBTQIA+, women, persons of color, and/or persons with disabilities.
NEED-BASED SCHOLARSHIP
Applicants should be active community members who are not being assisted or sponsored by a company or organization and are unable to attend for financial reasons.
You can easily get a virtual scholarship compared to an in-person scholarship.
My Experience at KubeCon(Virtually)
So the event started on 24th October when I joined Data on Kubernetes at Dok Day organized by DOK community and hosted by Bart Farrell. In this, I learned lots of things from Kubernetes operators to Architecture and hands-on demos, etc.
On 25th October I attended two lightning talks both by Google which are :
Securing Envoy: Catching Vulnerabilities With Continuous Fuzz Testing by Teju Nareddy. - This talk was about service proxies which are becoming increasingly complex data parsers. And how Envoy supports HTTP protocol translation, payload decompression, gRPC-JSON transcoding, and many other features.
Lightning Talk: Where Did All My IPs Go? - Cynthia Thomas - In this talk, the speaker discusses new and existing KEPs that SIG-network has implemented to help mitigate IP challenges.
On 26th October I attended:
Opening Remarks by Priyanka Sharma who is the Executive Director of Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Kubernetes Community Days For Fun And For Community Profit by Bill Mulligan, Isovalent &** Katie Greenley**
Kubernet-Bees by Simon Emms & Christian Weichel, Gitpod
The 10 Biggest Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make In Open Source by Bill Mulligan, **Isovalent ** & Divya Mohan
On 27th October :
Kubernetes On the Edge With K3s For a Smart Metering Use Case by Harry Lee
Tutorial on becoming a Kubernetes Developer by Abby Bangser
What Container Runtime Do I Need by Abubakar Siddiq Ango
Mentor-Mentee Framework To Build the Next Generation Of Cloud Native by Kunal Kushwaha & Mark Boost
Students Hacking Their Way Into the CNCF by Karuna Tata, Abhishek Choudhary, Nirmata
On 28th October :
Crossplane Intro And Deep Dive by Jared Watts, Matthias Luebken, Nic Cope & Bob Haddleton
Kubernetes SIG Node Intro And Deep Dive by Sergey Kanzhelev & Dawn Chen, Google & Derek Carr of Red Hat
Summary
So the virtual experience of KubeCon was amazing, of course, it cannot beat the in-person experience of meeting amazing folks from around the world, attending every event physically and sharing ideas. But all over it was a fantastic event, the talks and the sessions guide me a lot on CNCF Landscape and Kubernetes, and I learned lot by demos on new and existing tools.
For beginners who want to attend the future event, if you get the chance of attending KubeCon In-person, do not miss the opportunity of attending the event physically. And if you're attending it virtually and want to make the most out of it check out the 101 Track, Business Value Track, Community Track, and Student Track and filter it according to the beginner level of every event.
At last, I want to thank CNCF for organizing this global event. I've learned many thing in the 5 days interval. And if you're starting your career in DevOps or want to learn about the CloudNative ecosystem, this is the event you should not miss.
For more information on CNCF and attending the event, refer to the cncf.io