Continuous Delivery Foundation Interviews, 21 Jun 2023

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From YouTube: Bart Farrell Interviews CD Foundation Executive Director || cdCon + GitOpsCon 2023

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A

So cdcon happened recently. A lot of things went into it. A lot of talks, a lot of hard work on the part of the program committee I was very happy to be able to interact with folks before the event and also nice to see now, after the event how things went so to take this conversation further, getting a chance to talk to fonte executive director at the CD foundation. So how was the event? What happened? What was your experience like.

B

First of all, thanks for having me part here and I am really hyped. This conversation with you because the event was pretty successful, at least based on the feedback we received from the part sponsors as the people who couldn't participate because of different reasons. For the event, like was pretty successful. As you might know, this event was more Community oriented event to bring different communities projects together. As we have been talking about this, this cdcon was actually collocated with gitopscom and we co-organized the CRM together with CDF and cncf.

B

So it's like the event was put together in this way to make sure we have this cross collaboration, cross-pollination happening between different foundations and the projects under those foundations. So from that perspective it was pretty successful, and hopefully we can continue our collaboration in future as well.

A

Fantastic in terms of you know some of the highlights. You know you being there seeing the talks, the things that people are speaking about. What were some of the you know the trends or common topics, questions and challenges that people were addressing.

B

Yes, uh as you know, conscious Foundation works at the continuous delivery, and that is many different communities. Projects because continues. There is a cross-cutting concern um continuously was a big part of the event, as I expect, because silicon part of the event focus on CD, but githubs con part brings github's aspect to the context eraser, because, if you think about you know how we can make sure that the changes developers make to their applications or the deployment environments can be automatically reflected back to production.

B

That's an important aspect, because when the Things become faster thanks to practice like content, studio and githubs, then the requirements on how the software development work is done, becomes you know higher, and this is like how we can push the continuously domain forward together with the top practices included in it. So that was the main you know, discussion Point like how you can bring these different practice together, so to organizations who are actually on their way to transform how they are embracing countries that we could actually include some more.

B

You know recent developments recent practice such as githubs into their work, so that was one of the great things, and the other important thing I want to highlight. Is that because, like there are lots of projects spot on the city, foundation and cncf and other places where independent projects? Another aspect is to make sure that the collaboration across different projects are happening, because if you look at different organizations, they are using more than one tool for their.

B

You know: context, delivery pipelines and another important discussion that took place during the event was like how we, how we can help enable our users to pick and choose the technologies that serve them best, regardless of where those projects are developed. So that is another aspect highlight because if we don't collaborate across different projects, then the response is a fallback on our users, and that makes their lives a bit difficult.

B

So we must make sure that we make their lives easier, so they can adopt our projects and start using them and actually focus on the business value themselves rather than underlying technology. So that was the cross project. Collaboration was another topic.

A

Wow and that's no easy task, so congratulations for making that happen and, like you said getting getting the right people in the room, getting the right mixture so, like you said that business value becomes a strong focal point and not just a Technologies I think that's something we can never. uh You know we can never forget, and we can. We always need to do a better job.

A

In terms of you know the the people that were involved, anyone that you'd like to mention in particular in terms of uh what they worked on to make this happen.

B

Yes, actually, this event was pretty large event because, like if you think about cdcon as standard one, that was how it happened in the past. Again it was a big job, but it's mainly looked into continuously the CD Foundation projects and relevant communities, and so on and interesting individuals and projects. But when you add githubs into picture that brings additional concerns, additional Technologies and projects, and we realized. This is a big lift.

B

We need to get help from broader communities, so we formed actually three program committees. One program commit for silicon, which was led by Laurie Laura.

B

So was our program committee chair for silicon and another program coming to us forum for gitopscon, and that program point was co-chaired by Christian, Hernandez, Don Garfield and then the third program committee was formed on Supreme Court Summit, which was under cdcon, which was also a co-locator, and so we actually had three months running in parallel in two days and all the program committees and all the members who put time and effort in this event achieved great success, I believe based on feedback we received because we run a survey.

B

So I want to thank all the program community members for the Air, Force and I wish we could have. We could share those conversations, One Way Or, that, because the conversations that took during this program committees were awesome, like you get the feeling at how much these people care about the topic and how much they are invested in this to make sure we push the ecosystem forward forward in a collaborative manner.

B

Without thinking like why I'm under this Foundation I'm working this project, everyone was working like a one team to make this event a great success. So we can continue our collaboration in future as well.

A

Fantastic I mean I, couldn't I couldn't agree more regarding just the folks that I know directly like Lori and Scott, who, like you said, are fully dedicated great listeners and and, like you said, it's almost a Pity that those conversations weren't recorded because of the beautiful human value, but the main thing is that they happened and I think that's. What's going to give the strength and momentum, you know moving forward with uh whatever you know, next steps are being taken.

A

Is there anything that you'd like to share on what you have in mind or the vision? That's that's going into the next six months or a year in terms of activities.

B

Now I think one key thing which is related to what I mentioned is like this event. If you consider this event as the starting point for broader collaboration and communication across different projects, I think our first aim is to make sure the conversations we had during the event a month ago. They keep happening. They continue. So we continue coloring. So we can work on organizing similar events in the future as well, because if the projects are not talking with each other, if they aren't collaborating, then it is it's kind of starting from scratch again.

B

So if you can keep that conversation going on, if you can keep that dialogue going on and hopefully get some concrete, you know contributions across projects. Then we can look back to this event and say this was where we put. You know seeds in the ground now it's time to see where we are so we are talking with cncf and CDF and other projects and other point members to see what the future brings and again. We need to look into what is happening and try supports our communities in best possible way, but most critical thing.

B

I want to highlight this event was for community and if the community you know continues their collaboration, we will do our best to support them. I.

A

Think, like you said, the seeds have been planted very strong message. We often talk about you know an event. Turning into a movement and I think this is, you know, it's very well established that that level of collaboration was achieved and then now it's, how can it be leveraged um for future activities?

A

So, as like you said, as long as getting that right, mixture of folks in the room and and they're sharing ideas and moving things forward breaking down those silos and ensuring that people are communicating across projects is, is something that's no easy task, but it looks like it was definitely done in this in this case and and looking forward to see the next steps in the future so Fati. Thank you very much for your time today and, like I, said very happy that everything went so well and can't wait to see. What's next.

B

Thanks for having me Bart, thank you very much.