We had an amazing time in Shanghai, and wanted to share an overview of the key highlights and news from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019! This year we welcomed more than 3,500 attendees from around the world to talk about exciting cloud native and open source topics and hear from CNCF project maintainers, end users, and community members.
#kubecon #cloudnativecon begins! pic.twitter.com/J3N0qc1u3e
– Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) June 24, 2019
Our second annual China event grew by 1,000 to more than 3,500 attendees this year! At the conference, CNCF announced the creation of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) as well as two new groups: Storage and Security.
CNCF shared the news that the largest mobile payments company in the world, Ant Financial has joined as a Gold End User member.
⚡️welcome Ant Financial to the @CloudNativeFdn as an end user member, the largest mobile payments company in the world runs on @kubernetesio and cloud native! https://t.co/EzgmYr3q0M pic.twitter.com/K7Iek22yXQ
– Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) June 25, 2019
CNCF also awarded DiDi, the world’s leading multi-modal transportation platform, the End User Award in recognition of its contributions to the cloud native ecosystem.
[#KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon + #OSS China News] Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces @DidiChuxing as Winner of Top End User Award https://t.co/wF2xkXFzWf
– CNCF (@CloudNativeFdn) June 24, 2019
We watched an exciting line-up of speakers discuss cloud native technology, open source, and their experience building and using the technology. We also learned how Chinese developers have been engaging increasingly with CNCF and open source. Chinese developers have even now collectively made China the second largest Kubernetes contributor country in the world!
“@CloudNativeFdn has spawned one of the most successful open source projects ever, @kubernetesio” says the @LinixFoundation‘s @jzemlin. #KubeCon #K8s pic.twitter.com/vFqfhroJsQ
– Jim St. Leger @DPDK Summit/KubeCon/MWC Shanghai (@JimStLeger) June 25, 2019
Then and now: China has really stepped up to support and engage @CloudNativeFdn and @kubernetesio. 10% of the #CNCFmembershil is from China. 26% of the certified K8s vendors are from China. Belt & Road for software? #KubeCon pic.twitter.com/RFKmtfzyEe
– Jim St. Leger @DPDK Summit/KubeCon/MWC Shanghai (@JimStLeger) June 25, 2019
Chinese developers are now collectively the #2 contributor country to Kubernetes. @jzemlin at #KubeCon / #OSSummit Shanghai pic.twitter.com/SwXeL2Wmz7
– Phil Estes (@estesp) June 25, 2019
@dankohn1 on stage #KubeCon @CloudNativeFdn on stitching things together pic.twitter.com/lCyJ9I3K7j
– BMK (@lbmkrishna) June 25, 2019
Learn kube from childhood #KubeCon pic.twitter.com/4EAYLCIyfu
– Hypo (@HypoChen) June 25, 2019
Diversity Scholarships in Asia!
For KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China this year, CNCF enabled 15 diversity scholars to attend! We are thrilled to have sponsors Aspen Mesh, CNCF, Google Cloud, Red Hat, Twistlock, and VMware come together to help offer this opportunity to attend KubeCon to these recipients! Don’t forget to keep an eye on our blog for our Diversity Scholarship Series, where recipients share their experiences.
So excited to be in Shanghai with fellow peeps at Kubecon! If you’re here too I’m on a panel at CD Summit discussing open source communities today and on Wednesday will be at the diversity lunch – come by! #KubeCon https://t.co/0JIyHkv7Bl
– Tara Hernandez (@tequilarista) June 24, 2019
Community Party!
The community came together on Day 1 at the Welcome Reception in the Sponsor Showcase. Sponsors, attendees and fellow community members enjoyed an evening of networking, food, drink and entertainment, including local calligraphy, sugar and candy floss artists.
Special session in #kubecon Shanghai – customized calligraphy! pic.twitter.com/hCEhLNjjtx
– Jessie Huang (@hxyJessie) June 25, 2019
As always, we had a killer job board at the event showing continued growth in the ecosystem.
Looking for a job coding?
The #KubeCon posting board has lots of opportunities. Take a look! #jobs pic.twitter.com/LvVaenwBNs– Jim St. Leger @DPDK Summit/KubeCon/MWC Shanghai (@JimStLeger) June 25, 2019
That’s a wrap!
@KubeCon_ + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 is finally over. The @CloudNativeFdn community is fantastic.
The breakout sessions are definitely the best cuisines for techies.
I hope to attend next year. #KubeCon pic.twitter.com/Tw4hCJfDG9– Ssuching Yu (@siqing_yu) June 26, 2019
And that’s a wrap! Great event that was well run. The live translations were overall quite good, the food was great and everyone presenting did a great job! #kubecon
– Steve Flanders (@smflanders) June 26, 2019
Save the Dates!
The call for proposals for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, which takes place in San Diego from November 18-21, closes July 12th. Registration is open.
We’ll be back in Europe for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam from March 30-April 2, 2020. Registration will go live at the end of the year. We’ll soon be announcing the location for our China event in the summer of 2020.
We hope to see you at one of or all of these upcoming events!