My experience at Kubecon NA 2022

In this blog I share my exprience about kubecon NA 2022. This year kubecon organised at Detroit which is the largest city in the midwestern state of Michigan, North America on 24th to 28th october. This year of kubecon I attended all the session virtually. As I attended kubecon previously so that I have little bit of experienced how all things works and all the other things over here. Below I mention all day to day updates about the sessions and other informations.

Day 1 (24th October):

At first day of kubrcon NA (virtual) was amazing. I register for data on kubernetes at Dok day organised by Dok community and the rocking director of Dok Bart Farrell. As I'm a vitual attendee all the session conduct at Dok youtube channel in live. At the begining of the session screaming was little bit down but media team recover the situation as soon as possible. In this session I learn lots of things about kubernetes operators, Architechture, Installation, Hands on Demo etc. Also learn about Astra DBinstallation, MongoDB k8s operator, skysql, graphql etc. And finally the speakers and their presentation are really awesome and effective.

Day 2 (25th October):

Day 2, I attended two co-located event Redhat OpenShift Commons Gathering. This Gathering includes Can’t-Miss Keynotes with Speakers From ING, Lockheed Martin, Ford, and Red Hat Distinguished Engineers including Erin Boyd (Director, Emerging Technology & CNCF TOC member) and Derek Carr (Kubernetes SIG Node Chair). Here I basically learn about different field of openshoft database access, Namespace as a service on openshift, Enhanceing developer productivity, Devsecops using Redhat ACS, Openshift workloads, Disaster recovery etc.

And Another one is Azure Day with Kubernetes Hosted by Microsoft Azure. In this particular session learn different use case and best practices of Microsoft Azure service and how to work Kubernetes on Azure.

Learn how to build modern apps using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and integrated development tools
Understand best practices for managing your Kubernetes footprint, securely and at scale
Learn how you can use open-source technologies such as KEDA, Open Service Mesh, and more, to implement cloud-native architectures on Microsoft Azure
Get a preview into new and upcoming Kubernetes on Azure product updates, including AKS
Learn how customers are using Kubernetes on Azure to drive business outcome

Day 3 (26th October):

At day3 starts whith first keynotes session where lots of updates and announcement given by CNCF Executive director Priyanka Sharma and a lovely hug with 🦒 phiffy 🤣😂 . There are 30 super active people helps to release in kubernetes 1.26;Its a great mater that this people effort time and hardwork in open source beside their full time jobs. Maintainers are the life blood in the projects, in this session we meet two great maintainer Yuan Tang(Argo maintainer, Funding enginner @Akuity) and Heba Elayoty(Bug triage lead kubernetes, software enginner @Microsoft) who share their experience and responsibility.

Many brave ukranians as well as others from around the worlds have been fighting daily to protect themselves, and their countries. One of those own our very own Boretsky who you won know well. It is very honourable that last kubecon europe that he was join on a video even on active military video. Here in kubecon some of folks join to talk about his efforts on organisation and how to continue help ukranians.

Also she share about all the CNCF contributor in a list but unfortunately only few of them mention in the slide due to space 👀

Day 4 (27th October):

The day4 keynote sessions little bit amazing because lot of projects and communities activity was mentioned over there. In this blog i present all the resourece, projects and community activity urls and QRs as possible i can. Not only that experts share lots of experience of their open source journey and how CNCF community helped them to grow and continue their journey, also declare tons of projects release, update, contribution projects etc. I also involve lots of projects that I want to contribute also different opensource communities and oganisation.

The CNCF Students community has been around for a few months now. There have been various initiatives by the CNCF to get more young folks involved in the ecosystem. Some of the challenges faced by the community include finding contributors willing to get involved for a more extended period. In this talk, Kunal and Mark will cover a framework that proves mentor-mentee interactions to be productive in the long run. They’ve decided to share the learnings that led Kunal, a student, to start the CNCF Students community and scale it to thousands; student track at KubeCon with the help of mentors in the CNCF. Mark will share his experience and insights regarding being a great mentor to upskill the next generation. The talk starts with what the mentee is looking to accomplish from having a mentor and how they can find one in the CNCF community. Then, the framework will cover topics such as setting goals, asking the right questions, reviewing progress, assigning tasks to create a roadmap, and more, including advice for both mentors and mentees to make the most out of their journey. Last but not least, how contributors and students mentored can pay it forward to keep the cycle going.

In this talk Ashwin Kumar Uppala, AtSign; Kaiwalya Koparkar, M. S. Gosavi Polytechnic Institute; Karuna Tata , AsyncAPI; Abhishek Choudhary, Nirmata discuss to learn how hackathons can help you advance in cloud-native development. Hackathons are an excellent way to hone collaborative abilities, communication skills, and engineering skills all while keeping it fun, beginner-friendly, and a great experience over weekends. The panel will demonstrate how students can contribute to CNCF projects while participating in hackathons, specifically cloud-native hackathons. The panel is made up of students who have competed in over 145 global hackathons collectively in the past 12 months (winning a collective of 33 out of them and 5 together as a team) The panelists are also mentors, judges, and organizers at student hackathons and will share their experience as an organizer with those folks who are willing to bring the cloud-native culture via hackathons to their local community. The panelists will demonstrate how organizing CNCF hackathons could help attract more young people and students to contribute.

Day 5 (28th October):

Day5 keynote session is the final keynote of kubecon, So in this key starts with Ricardo Rocha, Computing Engineer, CERN; Emily Fox, Security Engineer, Apple; Frederick Kautz. They discuss about cloud native future, trends, marketing and lots of things. Not only that stephen Augustus, head of open source, Cisco mention three ongoing open source project.