Hot off an amazing three days in Barcelona, here is a snapshot into some of the key highlights and news from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019! This year we welcomed more than 7,700 attendees from around the world to hear compelling talks from CNCF project maintainers, end users and community members.
And it begins! #KubeCon with Phippy and friends pic.twitter.com/p380kCnTYW
– Michelle Noorali (@michellenoorali) May 21, 2019
The annual European event grew by more than 3,000 attendees than last year in Copenhagen. At the conference, CNCF announced its ever-growing ecosystem has hit over 400 member companies, of which there are now more than 88 end user members. We also learned that Kubernetes has more than 2.66 million posts from 26,214 contributors.
Overheard at #KubeCon – “We are building the legacy of the future.”@marcossantiago
– Nate Taber (@nctaber) May 24, 2019
Exhibition hall #KubeCon pic.twitter.com/4NjNHamqf7
– Belmiro Moreira (@belmiromoreira) 21 May 2019
#KubeCon is about to start soon! #KubeConEU pic.twitter.com/pyFz5FXu0O
– Alex (@muehsi) 21 May 2019
Ready for the keynotes at #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon !! pic.twitter.com/4SxquX2im0
– lobo (@arrayexception) 21 May 2019
This year we welcomed Bryan Liles as a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-chair! He took the stage to announce all the great project news that has come out in the last couple months.
First three keynotes at #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon! With @dankohn1 @bryanl pic.twitter.com/IKHGipQTvV
– Cheryl Hung (@oicheryl) 21 May 2019
“It was the 21st of May…” Epic intro in song by @bryanl at #KubeCon. pic.twitter.com/mRRyjhhCxO
– Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) 21 May 2019
During the opening keynotes we also heard from CNCF Executive Director, Dan Kohn who spoke about the key factors that contributed to the massive growth of the Kubernetes ecosystem, and CNCF Director of Ecosystem, Cheryl Hung who shared CNCF’s growth and plans to continue growing a positive community. Lucas Käldström, CNCF Ambassador, Independent & Nikhita Raghunath, Software Engineer, Loodse shared insights on the what, why and how of contributing to Kubernetes.
Three reasons why #Kubernetes works! #KubeCon pic.twitter.com/dqrkbQWFOE
– Arun Gupta (@arungupta) 21 May 2019
Exciting to see how fast and far k8s has spread! Let’s keep expanding the community. @oicheryl #KubeCon pic.twitter.com/W6jye9HudN
– Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) 21 May 2019
#kubecon keynote: @oicheryl on growing and sustaining the community that powers Kubernetes. pic.twitter.com/gpkz6uMlc0
– Vallery Lancey (@vllry) 21 May 2019
Nice Game of Thrones references from @vijoy! We as the #CloudNative community need to build things the right way! #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon pic.twitter.com/2o2tRGJfYi
– Kaslin Fields (@kaslinfields) May 21, 2019
Very inspiring to hear @TheNikhita and @kubernetesonarm tell their stories of how they grew as a Kubernetes contributors at #KubeCon
To quote @castrojo “this is what makes all the other stuff worth it” pic.twitter.com/dVAJx2XP8Z
– Aaron Crickenberger Maintainerati (@spiffxp) 21 May 2019
Kubernetes Boothday Party!
While we celebrated the cloud native community, we also got to celebrate Kubernetes’ fifth birthday with a “Boothday Party” and donut wall!
Happy birthday Kubernetes #kubecon pic.twitter.com/oCu9tg0fBJ
– JY (@JaafarYahya2) 21 May 2019
#kubecon k8s birthday! pic.twitter.com/o5qUn2XCRR
– Chris Mark (@ChrsMark) 21 May 2019
Doughnut wall! #kubecon pic.twitter.com/EjHaRs3whj
– Juan Antonio Osorio (@jaosorior) 21 May 2019
Continuing to Embrace Diversity in the Ecosystem
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, CNCF’s diversity program offered scholarships to 56 recipients, from traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups, to attend the conference! The $100K investment for Barcelona was donated by CNCF, Aspen Mesh, Google Cloud, Red Hat, Twistlock and VMware.
CNCF has offered more than 300 diversity scholarships to attend KubeCons since November 2016.
Great work by the @CloudNativeFdn: these sponsors funded 50+ full diversity scholarships for #KubeCon.
@bryanl rocking the keynote stage, and sharing anecdotes about the range of awesome ideas he has heard from some of the people who benefited from this pic.twitter.com/4QjaAgnTxd
– Daniel Bryant (@danielbryantuk) May 21, 2019
We also had a wonderful time at the Diversity lunch and EmpowerUs events!
I really Enjoyed Diversity lunch ❤️a huge shoutout to @puja108 for leading a table on introduction and contribution to Kubernetes and to @apbhatnagar for inspirational speech on core values of our community. Together as a TEAM #kubecon2019 #Kubecon #CNCF pic.twitter.com/hNwMGcsivL
– Diana Abitova (@abitova_diana) May 24, 2019
Pair-Programming table #Diversity lunch #KubeCon very great moment ! pic.twitter.com/21rNrqUg5i
– Khaly DeThylis @KubeConEU (@Gaelleacas) May 22, 2019
At the #EmpowerUS reception sponsored by #RedHat. Celebrating #diversity and #WomenInTech. @redhat @redhatopen @RedHatEvents pic.twitter.com/ciGA0p9FQv
– Jen Madriaga (@JenInnovate) May 20, 2019
Take Good Care: Open Sourcing Mental Illness
This year at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, we made sure that self care and mental wellness was top of mind for everyone. As a result, we got to hear inspiring talks throughout the conference on these topics, plus, we had a booth 100% dedicated to relaxing and mental health. We felt so much community support!
Super glad there’s presentations this week focusing on mental health, burnout, and self care. #KubeCon #KubeConEU #CloudNativeCon
– Seth McCombs (@SethMcCombs) May 23, 2019
Keeping Cloud Native Well at the Open Sourcing Mental Illness booth with @LachlanEvenson and @cra! Come drink tea and be well with the @CloudNativeFdn! pic.twitter.com/plDs3Kim5g
– Chris Lentricchia (@IAmCippino) May 21, 2019
We’re all in this together, fam. ❤️ this message by @oicheryl at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon in Barcelona. pic.twitter.com/vwwGnldobl
– Priyanka Sharma (@pritianka) 21 May 2019
All Attendee Party at Poble Espanyol!
Our events team organized a fantastic party at Poble Espanyol, celebrating the many achievements of the cloud native ecosystem in the beautiful Spanish courtyard!
So much food at the #KubeCon party at @PobleEspanyol. And so many people. – Enjoyed it a lot! pic.twitter.com/W1Fp6fCDme
– Christoph Streit (@christophstreit) May 22, 2019
Lovely venue for the #KubeCon party! pic.twitter.com/Psy3qqMxaz
– Kaslin Fields (@kaslinfields) May 22, 2019
Keynote and Session Highlights
All presentations and videos are available to watch. Here is how to find all the great content from the show:
- Keynotes, sessions and lightning talks can be found on the CNCF YouTube
- Photos can be found on the CNCF Flickr
- Presentations can be found on the Conference Event Schedule, click on the session and scroll to the bottom of the page to see the PDF of the presentation for download
“From the people Computer Weekly spoke to at Kubecon-CloudNativeCon, there is a sense that Kubernetes is breaking out of the open source developer space into the enterprise.” Cliff Saran, ComputerWeekly
“Five years after Google released the toolkit for managing workloads to the open source community, Kubernetes became the celebrated boy. Nothing seems to stop its advance, especially because the developers have embraced this system.” Alfred Montie, Computable.nl
“The Kubernetes container-orchestration system is one platform that is both surviving and thriving.” Nick Marinoff, SiliconANGLE
“It’s apparent that whether an application lives on the Google Cloud Platform or in an on-premises data center, it can be done with containers.” Kristen Nicole, SiliconANGLE
“As stated by Dan Kohn, Kubernetes has emerged on the shoulders of giants: on Linux, the Internet and various cluster manager implementations of cloud-native businesses from Spotify to Facebook to Google. The exciting question for the conference is which innovations will come on the shoulders of the giant Kubernetes in the next few days.” Josef Adersberger, Alex Krause, Heise Online
“The obvious conclusion: If you’re interested in enterprise IT infrastructure, Kubernetes should be your technology of choice, and KubeCon is the place to be.” Jason Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE
A message from #kubecon: “If you’re interested in enterprise IT infrastructure, Kubernetes should be your technology of choice, and KubeCon is the place to be #kubernetes https://t.co/zGjvu5jwX2
– Peter Zaitsev (@PeterZaitsev) May 26, 2019
Looking for a job? We can think of a few companies hiring… #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon pic.twitter.com/qVF6EnvcAU
– CNCF (@CloudNativeFdn) May 23, 2019
My learnings from #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon this week:
– #Kubernetes it’s definitely the standard for #containers #orchestration
– Many open source projects around this technology
– Tracing for #microservices is crucial
– Give a try to #helm 3
– @CERN still doing great things pic.twitter.com/BHshnCRoXD– lobo (@arrayexception) May 25, 2019
It’s a Wrap!
What a great week! So lovely to see my cloud native friends and make new ones #KubeCon pic.twitter.com/0CVD9DCDfK
– Liz Rice @ home (@lizrice) May 24, 2019
Bye bye Barcelona ☀️ Now heading back to London to apply all the great things I learned at #KubeCon this week! #kubeconeu pic.twitter.com/HASaXHBij7
– Jérémie Vallée (@JeremieVallee) May 26, 2019
Save the Dates!
Register now for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019, scheduled for June 24-26, 2019 at the Shanghai Expo Centre, Shanghai, China
Register now for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, scheduled for November 18-21, 2019 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California. The CFP closes July 12.
Save the date for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020, scheduled for March 30-April 2, 2020 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands