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From YouTube: Interconnectness and Growth of OpenShift & Cloud Native Ecosystem Miguel Ángel Fernández (Biterga)

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Interconnectness and Growth of OpenShift & Cloud Native Ecosystem Speaker: Miguel Ángel Fernández (Biterga)

OpenShift Commons Gathering Kubecon EU
May 17, 2022 Live from Kubecon EU in Valencia, Spain

Full Agenda here: https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_at_Kubecon_Europe_2022.html

Learn more at: https://commons.openshift.org

A

My name is miguel angel fernandez, I'm a data scientist and I'm working as an analytics specialist at pedergia, and thank you diane for the great introduction and well. This talk is going to be a little bit less technical than the previous talks.

A

uh It's amazing to be here with with all of you, and we are talking about the openshift project and the rest of cloud native ecosystem, and we are talking about some projects and how they are connected. Okay, so we are talking first about the quick overview about cncf ecosystem and we are going to see some some of the numbers for some of the projects there. We are going to talk about representing this ecosystem and how we do imagine this ecosystem of projects.

A

Oh yes, okay, sorry about that. After two years, I don't get used to okay, okay, so this is a kind of a shock to see my face. Okay, so next is to talk about the people acting as bridges and down, and then we will going to discuss the growth of cncf ecosystem.

A

Okay, so first is: uh I wanted to make to show you a quick overview for the cncf ecosystem. You know that cloud native ecosystem has many different projects and they are grouped into different categories right, so I wanted to to get openshift project and then other cncf projects. Those are um tagged as graduated at incubating projects. If you go to cncs website, you will see them listed right. Those the upper side are graduated once and the ones below are incubating projects.

A

So this whole presentation is going to show some data extracted from um git comets right this. So these are code contributions to these projects from the last year, okay, so from may 2021 to may 2022 okay, so we have uh over 11k contributors active during the last year, plus 85 organizations involved more than 55 projects and a ton of ripples uh over 171k comments right. So these are some impressive numbers.

A

So the next question I want to raise is: how do we imagine an ecosystem of projects like this? We are talking about these amazing tools and amazing projects and how powerful they are, but we always uh talk about them like this right. They are. This project individual project and we tend to talk about projects as a set of repositories right and well for a data analyst to go for the cloud native ecosystem is like kind of a play, a playground right.

A

Yes, so if we represent this ecosystem as a set of repositories, we might think something about this. These are representing projects. Its cluster is a project and the nodes linked to each project represent the repositories with activity during the last year. Okay, code activity, I'm not taking about issues not talking about pull, requests or comments. We are focusing on code contributions right all right, so we have some isolated clusters.

A

We don't see any uh anything related between projects, but of course they they do share a common space because they they belong to the same ecosystem right and we can focus on some of them. We have openshift here with a lot of repositories active during the last year. We have kubernetes there, we have usberg, we talked about that before operator framework and hto and native htcd right and it's nice okay, but I will propose to change the point of view because we are talking about open source communities.

A

We are talking about communities and communities are made of people right. So what? If we take those projects right, but we try to link those projects having common contributors? We are talking about people, so let's set the people at the center of our problem, which is representing an ecosystem right. If we take these projects and we link them with because they have common contributors, we will we will end up having something like this- not isolated clusters, but this beautiful mess, which is all the projects connected with each other right.

A

Okay, so projects are linked if they have common people contributing to them, and that's why we we see a highly connected network, so the reality will be quite different depending on how we represent it right and, as I said, it's all about people. So, let's get we saw this project which are connected, and now, let's represent the people contributing to these projects and link them with the projects they are contributing to. Okay and what we get is this network. I think this is a more accurate representation of the community behind the cncf ecosystem.

A

Okay, because it's the people who is uh forming the the projects right, it's it's! It's almost like a living entity, it's breathing like it's a creature. It's uh there are connections, there are interactions right, okay and what we have this beautiful network, but it's hard to to see uh something meaningful out of it. So, let's focus on some projects. Okay, let's reduce the scope a little bit.

A

Okay and we have this network here. I have selected a subset of the repositories and we have their kubernetes and open shift well the projects I I pointed before right so the the the buckets the blue buckets at the center. They are the projects and the pink pink nodes represents contributors. So each node is a is a human contributor. We are excluding uh both accounts in automated accounts. We are excluding them from from these all these graphs, okay and these numbers.

A

Okay, I wanted to stress this kind of clusters that are formed between projects. This is this is important right. um We if we have a look, a closer look at how the net is represented. We are going to see more of these groups of nodes carrying connections between projects. Okay- and this is no less than people acting as bridges between projects, let's zoom in a little bit. So at the bottom we have openshift.

A

This is like, assuming we have open shift and there we have kubernetes and on the level we'll have canadian stu, and then we have operating operator framework and atcd, and you see here at the center, a big group of people and identifying who these people are is crucial to understand the community and the dynamics between the projects. Right.

A

You may find some connections that you think are respected, but also you can find unexpected connections. I think that's that's nice also, and if we well, if you, if we zoom in to another part of the of the network, also interesting interesting enough um before istio applied to be uh to become a cncf project right in this year back in april right. This is for the last year. So the interesting part is that there were already common contributors with other cncf projects right.

A

So this is not like, like that, and istio became a part of the image we saw before it's not just another box, it's a group of people coming together and they were already collaborating with each other yeah. We can see also notes contributing to not only two, but maybe three projects or more right, and this is for the last year again: okay, okay and then we can talk now a little bit about the growth of the project and in this case we are showing numbers for openshift.

A

So we are focusing on the number of git contributors, so people contributing code monthly for the last uh five years. So we see that back in 2017 there were already like 200 unique contributors there active- and this is representing mostly monthly for the last five years and by the end of 2021.

A

We end up with almost well, I think over 700 unique contributors for openshift, and what we can do also is to compare this data with the other projects we saw in the network before right.

A

So we have open shift along with kubernetes and the rest of the projects we commented before. We see that openshift and kubernetes take takes the bigger the greater amount of of active contributors for each month and what happens if we compare openshift with the rest of cncf projects. We saw at the beginning those graduated and incubating okay. We have these numbers of contributors and open shift still a big part of the ecosystem. Right on the growth you can see, you can see the growth basically.

A

Okay, um well um again, the projects are those that uh we saw before already um well. To finish this presentation, basically uh we'll like to show you this graph to compare how the network of projects, people and projects look like back in 2017 right and then, of course, how it looks now you can see the growth you can see. So the question now is how this ecosystem will evolve, and the only way, of course, is to build a connected future.

A

You can see always about human interaction and will be really really exciting to to see how it happened in the future, and I think that's it from my side. Thank you all for your attention. If you have any questions I'll be around.

B

So what I I love about this slide, because uh if you know me, I've thrown this um variation up on the screen at a bazillion different things.

B

But this really shows you how we're not working in isolation now that it is the communication between the projects and between all the people, the people who are acting as bridges between them, that we really need to help cultivate good communication skills and trust between things so that we can align our road maps, our feature releases and the interdependencies.

B

And so when you're working on your project- and you think you're all alone, trust me you're not, and we can always help you find a connection and make you feel a little bit more connected to the rest of the cloud native ecosystem. So I really can't tell you how much I lean on and lean in on the betergia folks- and I I hope you all will do so as well. So thanks um very much miguel for all of your help. So much all right.

B