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From YouTube: Keynote: Why End Users Are More Than Passive Consumers - Cheryl Hung, Director of Ecosystem, CNCF

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Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming events: EnvoyCon Virtual on October 15 and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual from November 17-20. Learn more at https://kubecon.io. The conferences feature presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

Keynote: Why End Users Are More Than Passive Consumers Why End Users Are More Than Passive Consumers - Cheryl Hung, Director of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

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Thank you priyanka and hi everyone, and welcome to kubecon, I'm cheryl, I'm the vp of ecosystem at the cncf, and today I want to talk about why end users are not just passive consumers, but, first of all, let me say how much I miss being together with all of you.

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Kubecon is a different experience. Every single time we have had freezing snow in austin, we've had floods in san diego and every time the community finds a way to really pull together.

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I particularly want to welcome you if this is your very first kubecon, so from past events, we know that 70 of attendees are first-timers, so if that includes, you then welcome, and I'm really glad that you can be here and let me tell you a little secret about conferences.

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The talks, the content you're going to hear in the next few days are great, but what I really enjoy is talking to people finding out about what they're doing and learning about them and, of course, that's going to be much harder in a virtual conference than when it is when I can just grab a coffee with you.

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So I want you to do something for me right now. I want you to open up a text editor and I want you to write one line and this one line will say I'm your name and I want to chat about whatever whatever.

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So maybe you are new to cloud and containers, and you just want to know like what is this kubernetes thing? Does it even make sense for me? Maybe you've been using it for a little while and you're thinking. Am I making the right technical choices?

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What do other people use, or maybe you really love cloud native, so you're thinking? How can I contribute more?

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How do I get my team and my organization to really care about open source so keep this line and put it into the text, chat and introduce yourself right now and then keep introducing yourself over the next three days, every time that you go to a talk or go to a booth, use that same line and just keep introducing yourself because the more times that you introduce yourself, the more chances you'll have to meet someone who wants to talk about the same things that you do so why don't I reintroduce myself?

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I'm cheryl and I want to talk about why end users are not just passive consumers. So of course we all start as end users. I remember in fact, the first time that I discovered linux. I was 17. I was just about to go to university as a computer science student and I needed a new computer.

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So I went online. I asked what do computer science, students usually use, and someone said well, you can use whatever you want, but you see you should probably check out linux. So it's like linux. Okay, I've never heard of this, but I guess I do what the internet tells me to do so I downloaded ubuntu and I burnt it to a cd and I very carefully wrote on the outside l: u n! I x, like I knew so little about linux, that I didn't even know how to spell it.

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I wrote lunix on the front of this, and that was my first taste of open source of linux and to go from there now to being part of the linux foundation and driving open source. It's just been really fun for me. So when I talk about why end users are more than passive consumers.

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By end users, I mean people who adopt cloud native infrastructure, but they're not selling any cloud native products or services.

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So this includes the 150 companies in the cntf end user community, which is the bit that I run and what I see with this community is that just to use cloud native, you already have to have a certain level of sophistication, but to run it at scale like these companies are doing, is so much harder because you have so many choices.

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It's not just choices like do. I need a service mesh or not. Is choices like how do I build the best possible developer experience or how do I track what I'm spending and keep control of the costs and people tell me all the time like hey I've looked at the cncf landscape, I'm just overwhelmed. There's too many choices. Where do I even begin?

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So it got me to thinking that if you could ask these 150 companies what they use, you would probably have a pretty good idea of what they think is valuable and what they recommend. So that's what I did. I created something called the cncf end user technology radar with the idea to share some of this real world experience from end users and every quarter. We would pick a different use case and we would ask people what do you really recommend?

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So here is the first one and the first one is on continuous delivery. So if I were picking continuous delivery solution, I would look at the things that are in the center as more companies have used those and recommend them, and then I would go from adopt. I would go to the next ring to trial and look at those ones, and then I would take a look at the rest of the projects after that, and why do I think this is important?

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So to me this is important because you have to have a real world view of cloud native, it's more than just open source, it's more than just any one product or project, and the only way that you can figure out what will work for. You is by learning from others by getting that real world experience from other end users, which is why end users are not just passive consumers. They have so much experience to share.

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So, if you're feeling overwhelmed, I recommend you check out the cncf end user technology radar keep an eye on it. We're publishing the next one very soon in september, and if you want your voice to be heard on the technology radar, then please come and join the cncf and user community and meet your peers.

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Lastly, I want to say that if you're attending kubecon don't be a passive consumer, don't just sit back and watch, but whether or not you're contributing to open source. You have so much to share so much experience, and this is what kubecon is really about it's about, connecting with people it's about being part of the community.

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It's about sharing what you know and helping others, and even if all that you can share, is something as simple as use. Linux, then maybe you're helping a 17 year old, who is on her way to becoming a software engineer, so keep introducing yourself have a fantastic kubecon. Thank you very much.