(cheery synth music) >> Hello, this is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier, your host. We're here for a KubeCon CloudNativeCon preview for the North America show in Los Angeles, here in person and a virtual event. Two of the co-chairs are with me again this year, Constance Caramanolis, principal engineer at Splunk, and of course, Stephen Augustus, head of Open Source at Cisco. Great to see you guys. Hey, thanks for coming on, virtually, for the preview. >> Great to be had! >> Constance: Thank you for having us. >> Stephen: Great to see you again John. (laughing) >> Constance: Yeah. >> So I love... well, KubeCon has gotten, It's my favorite event every year. This is where the DevOps actually, where the people are reading the tea leaves, connecting the dots, but also meeting up and doing what communities do best, which is set the agenda for the next, next generation that's happening in person. Last year, it was virtual. We had the European virtual KubeCon, CloudNativeCon. This year a mix. Give us a taste of updates that you want to share. Let's get, let's get into it. >> Sure. Uh, so I think, you know, um, I-I-I think uh, seeing this event in particular and uh, you know, one, we've got this, we've got this hopeful r-return to you know, some semblance of normalcy. I know that you know, over the last year and change, we've been uh, we've been kind of itching t-t-to see each other in person. And, and you know, and, and I-I think I say on a lot of uh, interviews that I, you know, one of my favorite parts of any conference is the, is the hallway track, right? It's really hard to, and, and we've- we've made, you know, we've made strides to replicate it, but there's- I don't think there's anything uh, you know, close t-to being in person, right? And, and getting to, to bounce i-ideas off of uh, your, your co-conspirators, (laughs) co-conspirators or compatriots. Um, so I'm- I'm really excited for that, um, I love the, I love the um, the mandates that we've put in place, uh, to make sure that people are uh, a little bit more safe. Um, and, you know, overall, like seeing uh- I-I think one of the things that gets me most excited is the, is the uh, the set of day zero events, right? Um, I-I think the, the increase in the uh, day zero events, we, we've got uh, Constance, what's the, what's the count at now? I'm, I'm looking over it and, and it's uh, it's, it's massive, right? You know, SupplyChainSecurityCon, Uh, the, you know, the Cloud Native for Eclipse Foundation, it's beyond, >> Too, hmm, too many to count right off the bat when I'm looking at it. >> Too many, too many to count! >> And it's also like, this is a reduced number because some people decide or some, not people, like projects, decide to do virtual uh, days or a non-conference outside of the normal KubeCon cycle because of... >> Yeah, well, let's get, let's get- >> that thing that should not be named. >> Let's get into some of the data. >> I want to jump into the trends. But just for the folks watching, this is a hybrid event, and- >> Yeah. >> There's going to be this day zero, which is the pre-programming. Which by the way, I think has evolved into a format that's just tremendous. You got the pregame, pre-event action. Very dynamic, very ad-hoc, ephemeral in the, in the, in the, in the, in the people getting together and making things happen. Then you got the structured event. It's uh, the 11th to the 12th on the pre-programming, day zero stuff, which you talked about, and then the 13th to the 15th, the main conference. It's in-person and virtual, so it's going to be a hybrid event, which should be dynamic because you have an in-person dynamic where it's a scarce resource of the face-to-face, working and trying to create synchronicity with the asynchronous environment on virtuals. So it should be an action packed and a must-watch event. So I'm personally excited, we'll be there in person. But I got to ask you guys, the co-chairs, how are you guys handling this? How are the papers coming, what's the call for talks? How are you structuring things? Can you just give a quick overview of what's, what's happening on the talks? >> Uh, talks, uh, I feel like it went really well this round. >> Um, really like, wide variety. I know it's pretty vague, but there's a wide variety of topics, uh, things that are getting I think, I feel like more popularity, like security is getting more popular. Uh, business value, one thing that I'm really passionate about, is getting a lot more traction. Uh, student track 101 is also, as always, I guess, as ever since it's been, since inception has been popular, um, it's definitely getting to the point where we're actually, well not to the point, but maybe it's just being more highlighted that a lot of the, like, like, some of the like great content from the day zeros are also showing up in KubeCon and then like, vice versa and they're kind of everywhere. Uh, Yeah, the talks I think was really- >> John: The sessions, the sessions are always driving it. Stephen I'm like from a, from a, from a maturisation standpoint, you have the, the, the people developing and then you got the f... the things are getting hardened. Can you talk about the trends around, what's kind of hardening out from a project basis on these sessions and what's forming relative to the trend line this year. >> Yeah. So, you know, so to Constance's point, I think that we're, we're starting to see some diversity in, or continued diversity and kind of the personas that are coming into the conference, right? So whether you're talking about that continuing 101 track or, the student track, which, you know, a lot of people have, have kind of jumped in and seeing that as an opportunity to, to, to not only start becoming part of the community, but also to immediately contribute to content. And then you've got that For me? It's, it's security, all day, right? I think, you know, I think that, you know, there's not a week, there's not a week that passes that I don't have a chat with someone around what's happening in security lately. And I think you'll see that highlighted in in all of the keynotes that we have planned there are, there's not one, not two, but three uh, keynotes around software supply chain security, and some of the different things that you have to consider as we're kind of walking into the space of you know, protecting, protecting your, your build pipeline, protecting your production artifacts, so that's something that really, you know, that goes to that, you know, that goes to my work on that, you know, in Kubernetes for SIG release, release engineering, that's, you know, something that we, we know that there are countless downstream consumers, right? So, some, you know, some that we may not have even had contact with yet from the upstream perspective, right? So it's, it's paramount for us to make sure that, you know, everything that we're pushing out to the community and to the wider world is safe to consume. So, so security is definitely top of mind for me. I would say for, you know, lots of things around you know, continue, continuing to talk about uh, GitOps observability. And I think, and I think that, you know, each of these, what's, you know, what's fun about um, each of these, uh, the, each of these topics, each of these areas is that they're all interconnected, right? So more and more you're seeing, you're seeing, oh, well, you know, the, you know, the Tekton folks are, you know, are talking to the Flux folks. And, and they're talking to the, the folks who are working on uh, Sigstore and Rekor and, and, and all of these fun tools about how to integrate into, you know, how to integrate into those respective areas. Um, so it's, it's, it's really a time of um, collaboration underscored by um, you know, protecting, protecting the community and the, and the end users. >> John: Yeah. We're seeing a lot of ah, um, you know, the security discussions. I mean, how far can you shift left before it becomes like standard, right? So like, you know, we're seeing that being built in. I got to ask you guys also on the trend of DevOps there's been a lot of conversations around Cloud Native, around obsolete management and in terms of ability, but data, the role of data has been different approaches on how people are leveraging machine learning and AI, can you, did that come up a lot in, in some of the, the discussions and the analysis? Because everyone's slapping machine learning on things these days, and there's a little bit of that going on, but it seems to be data and machine learning and horizontal scale, classic DevOps, things are happening. What's your reaction to, to some of those things that are happening? Can you guys, is there anything happening there? >> I feel like this year wasn't that big of a machine learning year in terms of submissions. >> Yes. >> I'm certain you agree with that, but it wasn't, as I think, like, security took a lot and, and, like, and this might also just be like, thinking about it holistically now, like security was, had such amazing submissions that it probably took a little bit of the spotlight off of when we were looking at the machine learning ones. Um... >> John: So security... >> Also I'm biased, so I think >> John: So security dominated more than, than everyone else did. >> Yeah. I think, you know, I think for this year, security is, security is dominating. I, you know, I think we even talked about this in the last uh, chat we had, um, the, you know, kind of from the AI side, I think you're, we're, we're running, there have been discussions around the, uh, you know, bias in, in AI models and um, you know, how we work through that, um, I'm not sure that we have any content for that this time around, but I think it, yeah, but I think, you know, as we start to talk about like how we collect data, you know, are, are we collecting the right types of data, how we serve it, especially as a, those relate to like collecting data at the edge, right? Like, how do we, how do we, how, how do we even deploy applications at the edge? We, we have a lot of potential solutions for that. But when you combine that with, well, how do we, how do we scrape information from the things that we're deploying from the edge, right? Or, or, or some, some of the things you'll see in the, in the program. >> Constance and Stephen, talk about the community vibe right now, because you know, that's the biggest part of this conference is seeing how the people come together, but it's also the vibe sets the tone. What's, what's the current vibe in the community that you're seeing and what do we expect this year at KubeCon, CloudNativeCon? >> Yeah, I'm going to say, I imagine the community's tired and it's been a long few, two years. It feels like 10 years, it feels like forever. And a lot of the in-person aspect that used to be like social validation, we just get like is lacking, so, but that being said, there's still been amazing, like collaboration from like the open, from like the Observability and Open Telemetry part. Like, I am seeing so many projects within the tag Observability collaborate together and making that a focus. And so even though we are tired, it's still, we're still doing good work. And we're still making a point of trying to keep that community tight even though it's much harder on Zoom and right, you know, it's going to try and do the awkward, like Zoom handshake. It just doesn't do the same thing there. But to Stephen's keynote, can't remember how long ago it is, about like resiliency. We are pretty resilient. And we're also, I think we're all learning to work at a slower pace because maybe we were working too fast beforehand. And I think that, I think that's a really good takeaway from all of this. So I think it's going to, for as safe as it can be to have some variation, it's probably going to just be like, it's going to be a big party because we're going to finally get to see each other after a long time then. >> John: Yeah. >> I hope we get to do that in a safe way. >> Stephen, you bring it in, Steve, you go. Oh, Steve, you always got the energy certainly on camera, but in person as well. >> (laughs) >> This in-person dynamic this year is huge. >> Yeah, we, >> Wh-what do you think is going to happen? What, give us your take. >> Yeah, so I mean, I, you know, I would echo Constance in saying that, you know, we're, we're, we're all tired, we're all very tired at this point. Um, but I, you know, but, they, they, the conference tagline for, for North America is, uh, is 'Resilience Realized', right? I think that, you know, throughout this, this year, um, the, the contributors, maintainers of, of all of these, you know, CNCF projects have made incredible strides uh, to empower the communities to, to, uh, to be together, to be family, to, to work better together, um, in spite of, you know, in spite of uh, location, location uh, boundaries, in spite of, you know, uh, uh, health concerns, like we've, we've really made the effort to um, to show up for each other. Um, so I think that, you know, what we'll see in the conference and, and, you know, one of my favorite tracks personally um, is the, the community track, um, so lots of, lots of content around, you know, a-around community building, around uh, I think more of the, the meta of, of maintaining communities, right? So the, you know, the, the, the, the code of conduct committee, as well as uh, steering committee uh, for Kubernetes got together um, last conference to, to talk about the values and principles of the community, right? And, and I think that, you know, that, that needs to continue to be highlighted, um, you know, some of the conversations that we've had around um, how you maintain groups, you know, how do you maintain groups, especially as um, especially as a, the, the, the size of the group grows, right? Once you escape that kind of like Dunbar's number uh, area, like it gets harder and harder to s have the s the same bandwidth conversations that you would in a smaller group, right? So making sure that we're continuing to, to have valuable conversations, but also be inclusive while we're doing that is, um, is something that will continue to be highlighted over the next year and change really. >> Well. I'm really impressed by what you guys do. And I know we're all tired getting, and we want to get back and, hats off to pulling it together and creating a great program because your, your group and your community is a social construct. It's, it's, we're all social animals. And this whole COVID virtual, now hybrid really is going to, going to show in real world as all playing out, and we're going to see how it evolves, and evolution is part of social communities. And I think that the progress has been made and, you know, and with the team and you guys putting together this great event. So my hat's off to you guys, thanks for, for doing that. Appreciate, great stuff. >> Thank you, thank you. >> Now, final question, um, what do you expect? Given, I mean, this is a social organization, um, things evolve, we're social organisms. We're going to be face to face. We're going to have virtual. We're going to have great talks, security obviously is prime time, Mainstream Enterprise Adoption in Kubernetes and Cloud Native. This is crunch time, so what do you guys expect for this event? Share your thoughts. >> Yeah, I-I think there's going to be lots of um, lots of fun, uh, I think uh more social conversations, less structured. Um, you know, i-if you have, if you haven't had the opportunity to kind of hang out on CNCF Slack, while one of these events are happening, we, we've spun up something of like a hallway track. Um, so, so people are hanging out, they're giving their takes during the um, you know, you know, in between uh talks, there, there was also a, you know, kind of after conference uh, hangout for, for the hallway track that we did. Um, so w we definitely want to continue some of that stuff. Um, as you know, between the last few conferences we've launched uh, Cloud Native TV um, and lots of great producers uh, and, and, and content over there. So you'll see, you'll see, kind of, us start to break the wall between um, that virtual content that we've created uh, across the last few months, as well as, you know, th s seeing that turn physical, right? Um, so how do we, you know, how, how do we, how do we manage that and h-how do we make that seamless for people who may be maybe participating virtually as opposed to physically, right. That there's going to be a bit of um, there, there's an aspect of like, you're, you're almost running two conferences, right. Simultaneously. So. >> It's a total experiment in the real world, but it's, it's all important. It's super important. Constance, your thoughts on, on the event, what people are expecting to see and surprises that might emerge, what do you, what's your thoughts? >> Um, I, well actually, see while you were saying something, I had an idea that I think we can make it more connected, So I just wrote it down, um, uh, I, I have some silly ideas when it comes to the conference stuff, which is why Stephen's laughing, although you can't see it. >> (both men laughing) >> Um, my, I, like, I'm, I'm trying to go in with no expectations, mostly because I'm so excited. I don't want to be disappointed um, and I don't want to miss out. I think, I actually think that probably a lot of the discussions are just going to be like, hi, like, it's so nice to actually meet you and just talk about random things. Maybe not as much technology discussions as maybe there would be at a normal, I like, ah, I don't want to say normal, right? Because we are in a new normal, like what KubeCon was several years ago. Um, I think that I do. I think that it would be probably a little painful, this hybrid part, since we don't know what to expect. I think there's going to be so many things that we're going to look back and be like, face palm and be like, oh, we should've thought about these things. So for anyone who's attending virtually, apologies in advance, and please give us feedback. There's so many things I know we're going to have to improve, we just, we don't know them yet. So please be patient with us and know that we wish that you could be there in person with us too. >> Um, uh, I don't know. >> Well, that's the thing, that's the thing. >> I'm just going to go in there with an open mind. Well that's the thing, it's, it's new, it's all new, virtual. So it's, it's, we're learning together. That's, I think, people put too much pressure. I think people like expecting, you know, some magic to happen, but it's all evolving. And I think the magic is the event. And I think, I think it's going to work out great. And by the way, there's no downside it's, you know, learn. >> Exactly! >> So, yeah. So, you know, so one of the things that I um, I, I have this spiel that I give to um, the release team, the Kubernetes release team, every time we start a new cycle, right? Um, you've got a set of returning contributors. You've got a set of uh, net new contributors, right? And um, and, and moving into the release team, you're kind of like thrown right into the fire of Kubernetes, right? So it's, it's, it's one of those things. I, I, I come in and, and, and, essentially say, um, be curious, question everything. Um, this is like, it's a, it's, it's very much like a human experience, right? And I think that, you know uh, to, to Constance's point, we're all here to, to learn and grow, make this a better experience for everyone. Um, so bring yourself, like bring yourself to the conference, right? I think it's, you know, in, in terms of offering feedback, we have, you know, feedback forms for every one of the, you know, every one of the, the talks that you attend, um, you can feel free to reach out to Constance, and myself and, and Jasmine, um, if you have feedback that you want to give personally, you know, there, there are, there are ways to get in touch with us. There are ways to make the event better. And I think that every time we, we uh, we incorporate, like, we incorporate a lot of this feedback into the next conference. So every time um, you provide some piece of information for us, that gives us an opportunity to make it better, right? So this conference is built, uh, this conference is built by the community, right? The, you know, it's not just a, you know, it's not a, you know, it's not a body just uh making, making decisions kind of off the cuff, it's, we are taking your ideas and we're trying to turn them into a program, right? So it's, it's the maintainers, it's the end users. It's the students, it's people who have never used Kubernetes in their lives, or never used Cloud Native technology in their lives. It's folks who are coming from the, you know, the, the corporate IT kind of classic uh, background, and, and just trying to understand how to be effective in this, in this new world for them. Um so it's like, it takes all kinds and we, we don't get it done without your feedback. So please, um, as you're coming to the conference, whether it's in-person or virtually, like, bring yourselves, be curious, ask questions, um, provide that feedback. And then um, and I think, you know, from the, you know, th-the kind of from the uh, the, yes, we need to be human, but we also need to um recognize some of the, the requirements, uh, that, that are, that we have going into this conference. So reminder that, you know, all of, all of the events are under, you know, under a code of conduct, please make sure to familiarize yourself with uh, code of conduct. I think that um, you know, I-I think that coming back into a physical space for a lot of people, the um, the, some of the social skills can, can erode over time. So please not just bring yourself, bring your best self. And, you know, be sure to review all of the policies around health and, and safety as we go into this. >> Constance, Stephen, that's great stuff. Love talking with you guys. Constance, you want to add something? Go ahead. >> I want to add one thing, also be gentle with yourself and like, be really kind to yourself and others, because this is going to be really overwhelming. I haven't been around more than 10 people at once in almost two years. And so, just remember to be kind as well, always be curious and question everything. >> Yeah. That's great stuff. Great reminder. This is what it's all about, face-to-face. Face-to-face, presence, being together, but also having the openness and the community around you. A lot of mentoring, you guys have a great community for people coming in that are new and there's great mentors, people are open and cool, great community. Thanks for coming on for this special preview for KubeCon CloudNativeCon, thank you so much. >> Thanks for having us. >> Thank you. >> Okay, this is theCUBE's coverage of Kubecon CloudNative, and we've been every year of KubeCon. It's been in fantastic growth. Going the next level again in person, a lot of security, real time adoption should be uh, should be great, virtual and in-person. I'm John Furrier, thanks for watching. (cheery synth music)

>> Host: From around the globe, it's theCUBE, with coverage of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2020 virtual brought to you by Red Hat, the cloud native computing foundation and ecosystem partners. >> Hi everyone, I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. We are here covering KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2020, November 17th to the 20th, a virtual event. Normally we're there in person, but again, 2020 has been a crazy year, we're not going to be able to be there in person, but we're here remotely. We have two great guests, the co-chairs of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Stephen Augustus senior, open source engineer VMware KubeCon CloudNativeCon chair and Constance Caramanolis principal software here at Splunk and you guys are co-chairs of KubeCon. Big responsibility, thank you for coming on. >> Thank you. Thank you for having us. >> Thank you for having us. >> Okay so we, the number one question every year is before it gets started is, how did you make the selections for the talks, what's the hottest thing going on, what's the focus for this KubeCon? >> Well, so actually we use a Ouija board to choose the talks. (laughing) No, I'm joking it doesn't happen that way. >> Yeah, yeah, it's pretty much all out of a hat, but seriously, we spent a lot of time with talks that showed, I guess diversity and integration in the community. So, what projects are starting to pick up steam? What projects are starting to integrate more deeply with other ones? So you'll see lots of commentary around, multi cluster items within cloud native technologies, as well as, lots of content on security, which I'm excited about. >> Yeah, and also things are like, there's a little bit like, kind of to your point about like things layered on, like we're starting to get to the point where people are talking about like hey, I deployed Kubernetes and Envoy and something else. And like, these are starting to be a lot more of these kind of joint talks there that actually even make it harder for us to place. Like, does it belong in networking? Does it belong in application development? Like there've been some really good challenges trying to figure out where things are slotted and what's right- >> You know one of the things I love about KubeCon besides being fun to go to while it's face to face is even with the virtual, it's still a great community. The talks are awesome, people are submitting talks. But you got the sixth year, I think it's a six year or fifth year. We've been there for all years. I think this is the sixth year for us, the maturation, the growth and of Kubernetes now it's pretty clear. This glue layer, is gluing things together the API is extending to service and more services. Can you guys comment on what you guys are seeing in terms of some of the practical projects and how they're playing out for developers? Because you're starting to see you know, more clusters you've got cloud you've got multi-cloud around the horizon. So you've got more of these conversations where you have more capabilities but the focus on the modern application building is the number one business focus. So, you know, the developers are trying to build out under the covers and say, how do I scale this? So, this seems to be the kind of a growth year and inflection point for that next level. It seems like next level. Steven, what's your thoughts and reactions to that? >> Yeah absolutely. So, as a former, I've been out a few cloud native companies at this point so more or less from Red Hat before heading over to VMware. And as a former field engineer and solutions architects at some of these places, we spent a lot of time thinking through what is the days, zero day one story, right? And it's very clear that as a community, we've gotten to the point where like that is officially the boring stuff, right? Seeing a lot of the features within projects like (indistinct) and Cluster API come to maturation. We start to focus a lot more on that developer story, right? And ultimately that's what we care about, right? Businesses are not necessarily looking for a new tool to play around with, right? There are business goals that are tied to the new technologies, right? So the velocity in which you deploy your applications, the feedback loop in terms of understanding, you know, what ties into your application, where things are going wrong and, you know, Constance can definitely speak to the, the observability layer for all of these cloud native applications that are out there. >> Constance, observability I hear is really hot right now, what's your take on it, I mean is observability everywhere? New startup comes out and you work at Splunk, they're the King King of observability, they started out with very small observation space now it's a full platform. You have to look at the observation space to get the data that's the internet. >> You do. >> That's semi application. What's hot in observability? Take us through your thoughts. >> I think what's also starting to like, so you're still like, there's some, I can think of like one talk right now, it's a little bit talking about like, you know, observability at scale in a sense of just like now we have these massive applications and saying we globally and to observe and monitor observe right now, I'm not going to use a tourism changeable. I know that's a total different debate the available topic, but for now, just keep it at that. But it's also now, I think one thing as observability space and maturing is we're not talking only about like, hey, I instrument my like application with metrics, logs, traces, or some other thing there. It's now being a little bit more critical about how, if I'm using all three of these are all different telemetries, like how to be smart about it. Like, okay, I'll need to use traces for some things and let me use logs for something else. And like kind of getting to reach a part of like, now that we have that data let's actually think about better ways to use that data. So we don't, you know, collect everything cause you can't collect everything as much as we want to. >> Well, I mean this is something that I want to get your both thoughts on because one of the conversations we're hearing from developers and we hear it from them on the business size everything is a service, that's like the ivory tower you know, the CXOs, everything is as a service and then it down into the developers in the engineering community and they're like, well, it's not that easy 'cause you got tools for every platform, right? And that's a problem because these siloed tools are tools that were built for a certain products. And then you've got the systems thinking you guys talk about this integration is a key area. So making everything is as a service, just isn't that easy, right? So the goal is to make it easy, right? So this is the systems conversation. How do you guys look at that from a KubeCon, CloudNativeCon because cloud native does enable a lot of, good things. It's horizontally scalable cloud from a resource standpoint, you've got programmability. You can look at it as a system but people are stuck with these tools for the platform. I mean, you have tools for this, tools for that and five different tools, how do you make observability work? How do you make security work? These are tough questions. What's your reaction to that? >> I think that a lot of it comes down to, from a building perspective and, you know, taking the builder perspective and then also taking the consumer perspective. For builders, and I actually spent some time with, at some developer heads in New York, we sat down for a dinner and kind of talked, talked through some of the problems in the space. And I think what it really comes down to is when we build tools we need to think about who we're building the tools for, right? There are multiple personas that you might look at in the cloud native space. And, you know, one might be the persona of that systems integrator, of the classic Opsy, DevOps SRE role, right? Then you've got someone who may be building tools on top of one of those Ops platforms, right? And then you've got the consumers that may be in your company maybe they're external, right? That's for their experience, they're really only interested in how do I ship my app, right? So whether we're talking about building out Kubernetes or whether we're talking about a server less platform, right? So sort of Alyssa and the cloud, right? You often hear the, it runs on, it's running on someone else's machine, right? You know, it's not really, so I think in that space you have to consider a developer experience, right? So I think one of the overarching themes that you'll see throughout this KubeCon is, how do we talk about the developer experience? Who are we building these tools for? How can we actually get outcomes that end users are looking for? Right, cause it's not, again, it's not about the tools it's about the outcomes for the respective businesses. >> Constance what's your reaction to this trend of tools. >> I think. >> Edge computing, 'cause you you don't want to have to build security for everything, single thing. I've got an edge device, I want to have that'd be software operated, right? It makes total sense. But making that happen is hard. >> Yeah, I think this is something that as a community like we're really, I guess like kind of how I use example like end user docs versus restaurants documentation. I think that we've been, done a really good job at creating these really powerful tools but like in terms of, we still need to simplify them for anyone who doesn't want to learn, like say Kubernetes or Envoy or open telemetry, like the back of their hand. And I think that's where we're starting to finally start to close that gap. And as I think also why KubeCon is getting a lot more popular is like now things are a little bit more accessible to those who don't have, you know, either don't have the bandwidth or it just it isn't in their interest to learn all these things in details. And so we're slowly going from those who want to be deep, deep experts into, yeah I kind of want to play around with it and make it more manageable. And, I do think we still have quite a bit of ways to go. Like I think, you know, what's been helpful like at least like our end user stories that we get and like the application development track, especially that one, like the case studies that there's no longer track but it is highlighted as like these talks and case studies. I think that shows it's kind of giving people more like, hey, these are stories of how I can take these tools and start making them more digestible in my own way. 'Cause going from like, oh, this feature does XYZ to, this is a whole story that you can do around it. It's been a little very gap, we're closing. >> Yeah, and I think one of the things about you kind of being shy there, I'll say, KubeCon, CloudNativeCon, CNCF in general has been very successful because of the end user focus I will say that. But also the ecosystem of the vendors that are there. So you have kind of the best of both worlds and they'll want to get better, right? So, but they al have to make money at the same time. So you have this balance, is open source, is what it is, it's out in the open. Can you guys comment on how the community is thriving and surviving? We're in a tough time with the pandemic. It's been a big challenge honestly, we're not in person we're remote. How is everything going with the community? Because it's such a great end user vendor community working together out in the open shipping code, trying to make things better. What's the state of the community? >> Yeah, so I would say that honestly, what it comes down to is that word community, we're all friends, right? There are people who, you know, as the, as we moved towards is kind of like cloud native consolidation of companies. A lot of us have worked together before, right? A lot of us are active in multiple communities and what comes out of that is really open and honest collaboration as a result. You know, even today there's a Twitter thread going, you know, I started talking about the Kubernetes release cadence, right? And if, and how it should change. Given 2020, we had an extended release cycle for 119, right? And questions became, what do we do? Like, do we continue with three releases a year? Do we try for, to do the switch back to four? Like, what does that look like? Right. And reaching out across the Kubernetes community across the CNCFC, the contributor strategy saying in CNCF and getting feedback from all of these people who depend on the products that we build day to day is huge. So I think what it comes down to really is, is open and honest collaboration. I think, you know, when you were strained I know that everyone has a lot going on in life right now. What's great about it is being forthcoming with that, right? We have all of these teams that are, that are built to support the people that are around them. So, if anything, I, you know, I'd love to see all of the collaboration and feedback coming from everyone who works on these projects day to day. >> Yeah. >> Constance what's your reaction? I mean when, I've talked of some developer friends of mine, they're like, hey, this is great, I can work virtually, I've been doing it for years anyway. So no big deal. It's not like the people who have to go to the office every day. So they're used to virtual format. The other comment was, I get more time to do some gaming too. Trying to make light out of the bad situation, but you know, it is serious. What's your reaction to the survival and the thriving continue thriving of the community? >> Yeah, I also want to eventually go back to cause you're making a comment about vendors and now this is my first time as vendor. I have interesting, I like, it's a really interesting perspective to come from, but let's talk about the community. I think like, you know, it's like one of the things that like I think actually has been one of the highlights of this year for me, for 2020, it like to be co-chair but it's also just to like be able to work with Stephen and Nancy and the rest of the CNCF community. And also like any attendees, like has actually even though this is a big year of change and it's, you know, it was a change that no one was planning. It has definitely been like really nice to just get like Kube, I guess would say as an example, the story like for KubeCon you, like I was surprised at how many people were engaged in the Slack channel and asking questions and like Priyanka has set up these happy hours and people are just joining and we're starting to talk and so it wasn't quite hallway track but we still had that connection. And there was definitely, there are people who are attending from all parts of the world. And I thought that was really nice. Like, we think CNCF has made it, like they have made the statement before that there will always be a virtual component to it to address the fact that, you know, our community we're so used to being in person, but that does, you know it does reduce accessibility to those who can't travel or for whatever reason they can't be there in person. So now it is becoming more open. And, I know, I mean kind of turning back a little bit a little bit derail, I'm a little bit derailing but to your point about like also like the vendors. And so this is my first time being a part of a vendor. And I think what's really interesting is like, there's this natural like, you know, tension between like, oh, some were like, oh, I don't want to do it from the vendors, or like, I only want things from end users. But I think the thing that I've kind of forget is that both of them are like active, you know, they're active in the community, both in either contributing or enabling others to be successful using CNCF projects. And so we all have, you know, valid points and perspectives on it really. You can maybe sometimes argue that sometimes being a vendor is almost a bonus because you get to talk to maybe more people who are trying to adopt the technology and you get to see trends. And then after as an end user, you could say like, hey, I have this really unique problem here and this is how I try to solve it and share that story with other people, so. >> Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. I mean, there's checks and balance I've observed over my years in open source you've seen certain things thrive certain ways. And I think that balance and, but having the mission and kind of a rules of engagement if always seen well, good, worked well for CNCF they embraced the vendors really well, but they're, I mean I will say paranoid cause that's my word. But like they're paranoid of the vendors I would be too, like, you know, only to get their fingers in the pie, but they're also contributing. So there's always been that checks and balance and that's, what's been magical I think about it is that they fostered the community, they fostered the engagement and they fostered that balance. And I think that's where the give and get comes in. And I think that's a healthy community and I just love to see and love to be involved with. So, it's super, super good approach. Now, putting back the vendor hat on, if I'm a vendor, I want a competitive advantage. So yeah, this brings us to the next gen conversation open source goes and going next gen, you're seeing a big focus on AI, you're seeing a big focus on, you know, edge computing which is going to be software operated, software defined, which cloud native will lead. I got to get your perspective on something. Steven said at the top was security. Every conversation for the past five months with Dave has been shift left. So, okay. Where are we going left? We're shifting left. This is about security. How do you build security in? This has been a big conversation. It's not easy problem. I know it's a top focus. I want to get your reactions Steve and we'll start with you then Constance I would like you to weigh in too. >> Yeah sure, so, security, security is already strict, right? And I think that people start to put the focus on security when it's a little too late, right? The move is always preventative as opposed to reactive, right? And security is an onion, right? So it's not enough to just think about security on one axis, right? It's, you know, how is this affecting, you know, how is this affecting my application, the systems that I build, the physical, you know, the physical restraints of the, you know, of the area, right? Infrastructure, the cloud providers that I'm running on, right? Are they a certain level of compliant, right? Especially when that comes up for federal customers, right? On the application side, right? You know, if you think of, you know, if you think of all the, the different ways that you can break an application that hurts security now with the cloud native space container security, right? Am I building a safe Docker files or build packs or what have you, however you package your application. And ultimately you have to, you know and then there's also the supply chain, right? Am I getting, how am I moving that stuff from some physical infrastructure or some cloud infrastructure into the hands of the developers, into the hands of the customers? How do I react to changes once those applications have actually been deployed? Right? So like all of these things to consider and when you look at that space, these are multiple teams, right? These are dozens and dozens of teams across, you know, multiple companies, right? You may not have, you may not have full control of your security story, right? So I think that, what, you know what you need to do is start the conversation internally about how we can build security at multiple layers, right? So some of the things that are kind of interesting to see pop up during this KubeCon and some of, you know, and some of the last ones, the continued work that's happening on OPA and Gatekeeper spiffy and Spire, right? And, you know, all of these, all these frameworks for authentication and authorization that are kind of cropping up, right? I think, you know, Spiffy and Spire really interesting story because, you know, the first thing that you think is I have these cloud native applications that I'm building and I also have these legacy applications, right? How can I build a bridge between the two? Right? And then you've also got things like, you know, service mesh, right? And you start to talk about service mesh and, you know, the security within applications that live inside a cluster or across cluster, right? And how you negotiate that. So tons of things to think about, and, you know, it's honestly going to it's honestly going to depend on where you are in your journey but I think that, you know, good security is only built by having the conversation and having the conversation across all teams and doing it before you get into trouble. >> Do it before you get in trouble have it baked in from the beginning, brush your teeth make sure you're all healthy. Constance your reaction, (laughing) your reaction. >> So I will say like, I am unfortunately one of those people that like security, well security is just not something that I guess going to say I find super exciting. And it mostly just because I, I really love observability and like service mesh and so I usually defer to the experts on that, but I do want to like, I guess plus when some of what Steven said, obviously using git hub, you know, terminology for plus and what you know, enhancing things like definitely started early and it, but I think, you know, start early, start a conversation. But I think we also need just be cognizant of like for any of the technologies, like if it's security say networking whatever, all of these things are behavior changes and just bucket more time than you think you're going to need. There's going to be so many roadblocks and especially when it comes like, especially when it comes to behavior changes. Like, if you're and behavior, but not like necessarily like a personal, but like, you know, technology behavior like you're used to sending things without MTLS, right? Or, you know, with our backs, things are going to fail and, you know, there's going to be that initial friction and so definitely trying to make this smooth as possible. >> Yeah, I mean, I think that's the focus I like to see more of which is having it be built in. So if you're really not into it, but you don't want to screw it up either so you want to be on top of it without doing it, right? That's the end game, right? That's what DevOps is about. So if you don't have programming infrastructure write code. So all these things, this is the trend this is the trend that we're seeing in cloud native. Can you guys share your thoughts this year on, on the most important stories that you think people should think about or lean into or at least look at for KubeCon? What are some of the things that attendees or people watching remotely or participating virtually or in the Slack channels, what should they pay attention to? >> So starting with, I think even with the last KubeCon and some of the products that have recently come out from certain vendors, we're starting to look a lot more at the, what is that conversion story for someone who is a classic CIS admin, right? Who may be learning all about cloud native technology for the first time, or how do we, you know, how do we welcome a new KubeCon attendee to the community? So I think one of the best things that we did was instantiate that's a one-on-one track, right? So with the one-on-one track, I think we got a bunch of great feedback. So we work to make sure that they were actually, we eliminated I believe we fully eliminated the lightning talks and work to include more one-on-one content as well as tutorials within this program. >> Constance, your reaction, Constance your reaction to thoughts on the most important story to pay attention to? >> I think it's more, right, cause, okay, I know this is like a common line that we say at KubeCon and like, you know, depends what group your on. But since so many more of our talks we're now talking about intersections between like, you know, using X and Y try to build Z, Zed. Oh my goodness I'm trying, I'm losing my Zeds. I think trying to like, you know looking for those talks that at least somewhat resonated like, hey, I've already talked to communities, let me see how I add Envoy. Like, trying to find those there because there's a lot more of that content now, right? Cause maybe you know, about like to even last KubeCon or like last KubeCon North America, a lot of the things were more focused on like one project, maybe a hint or you're just going to see more of these combinations. And so there are a lot more, there's a lot more of that content available for you to find. I'm doing two, three, maybe four, It's a lot of projects at once, adoptions and seeing how that works too. Oh yeah, one-on-one track has definitely been definitely like a great hit. I'm going to say, right? The first time it was launched and we got so many CFPs for one-on-one it was just amazing to see all these ways that people wanted to make KubeCon more accessible to everyone else who hasn't been a part of, you know. >> It's every year, it's every year the onboarding of new members of the community would be impressive. And having that tracker laddering or different ways to work as a community to help people along has been another thing I noticed you guys do really well on. There's a real camaraderie amongst the community. So a hat tip for you guys on that. Final question for you guys is more about the format. Obviously it's virtual this year the game is still the same. There's talks, there's people, there's hallways, but they're virtual, I guess you're virtually walking through Slack and discord or Twitter, whatever. What's the learnings from last event, as we're going into virtual, how does an attendee maximize their time, their engagement there's times to lean in and be present, attending a talk, you mentioned Slack Constance. What's some of the learnings that you guys have learned from virtual? And what can people think about and prepare for, for KubeCon virtual this year? >> Yeah, I think one way you start it. So, there's actually a resource, this came from our debrief for me, it was like there's a resource like, hey, let me help get the day off. And like, we even provided template to like provide to your, you know, direct to your managers. Say like can I please get this day off so I could focus on it? And I think that's one thing that and I think we'd all probably seen on Twitter and blogs is that even though it is virtual it is still a brain drain, well it's still, you know, you have to engage with a topic so set aside time. I would probably even say attend fewer talks, than you would normally do in person there is zoom fatigue, I guess it's been from on screen fatigue. So just give yourself a lot more space to consume the information and just debrief and also join the activities, right? Like ask questions in Slack. There's a lot of the virtual events like there's bingo there's even an escape room, which sounds like a lot of fun, all these different activities too that you can do with everyone. So like definitely enjoy that part, right? 'Cause you still get a little bit off until you just say like hey, you mentioned this project, let's chat offline. And then, you know, a few weeks later you may be on a four hour long Zoom meeting talking about some project. And so, yeah >> Yeah, I noticed the hang space kind of mindset of virtual was pretty cool. Be mindful to introduce yourself and either do a sidebar or jump on some back channel. I mean, there's plenty of tools, developers know what they are, so pretty good point I want to call that out. Good, good point Constance. Steven, your thoughts on learnings from the virtual format and then things this year people should pay attention to and jump in and use the site for. >> Yeah, so I would say if anything the previous attendees gave lots of thoughtful feedback about how to improve the overall program. One of my favorite parts of any conference and it's the part that I prioritize more than anything else in the conference even the talks, right? Is the hallway track, right? It's one of the few times, you know, especially with KubeCon and the various contributors across the cloud native space that's the, you know, the one time every quarter or so that I get an opportunity to see these people face to face, right? So, you know, we wanted to do our best to bring in experience that felt, you know, it's not the, you know, it's not the same as the physical hug, right? Or the, you know, or going out for, you know, going out for dinner after a long day. But we tried and we laughed through lots of crazy ideas that the event team, to see what they would come up with for me as a New York resident and having a conference that is any virtual but would have been in Boston, I thought it was important thinking about screen fatigue, as well as just the physicality of where people would have been at the time, is the start time of the conference, right? So as Constance was mentioning screen fatigue it's, I think with all of the virtual conferences going on, it's very hard to have that time during the day, right? So this KubeCon for folks on the East coast it starts basically at your lunchtime. So the idea is, hopefully you get some, you get some of your meetings in for the day, grab a bite to eat and then you sit down for lunch and you, and you dig into some KubeCon, so. >> Yeah, and you can have any lunch you want and then later of you will be able to eat lunch from the conference. That's awesome. The other thing I love about the, what you guys said is the hallway tracks. And I think one of the things I've noticed going to a lot of virtual events and doing them is, Constance you're right, it's mentally draining to lean into a talk because you're present, even though you're virtual. So taking time to get involved in the fun activities or just, you know, wandering Slack or doing a sidebar with the hallways is kind of a have some time off like the time to regroup and not be so, you know, leaned into a session, I find that to help on the fatigue side for sure. The other one is viewing parties. We popped into some, you know, Zooms together and we watched each other watch the session, right? So viewing parties has been one trick I've seen work well, other ones I've seen people toast beer at a certain time. The Germans obviously do at first, cause they're on the time zone, but you start to see these playful things. You know, people can share their kind of position where they are. So it's fun. We'll look forward to seeing that. Okay, final comments, Steven, Constance. What's the bumper sticker this year for KubeCon? >> Ooh, have we decided yet Constance? (laughing) >> Velvet jackets are required for entry. (laughing) I'll make word sense after you see a special message from us. (laughing) >> It's a lot of fashion on stage, on stage, right? >> All right we stumped the co-chairs. (laughing) We stumped the, well, I want to say thank you very much for coming on and sharing little color commentary on KubeCon around the program, some of the things when the virtual event too some of the talks, really appreciate it and we really appreciate what you do, the community does. It's been a hard year. We're not going to be there in person. We'll continue to ride the wave in to back to the normal. So thanks for doing what you doing and thank you for coming on. >> Thank you so much for having us. >> Yeah, thank you. >> Okay. This is theCUBE, virtual coverage of KubeCon CloudNativeCon virtual November 17th to the 20th. I'm John Furrier, your host for theCUBE. Thanks for watching. (upbeat music)

>> Narrator: From around the globe, it's theCUBE with coverage of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Virtual brought to you by Red Hat, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and ecosystem partners. >> Hi I'm Stu Miniman and this is theCUBE's coverage of KubeCon, CloudNativeCon the 2020 European show of course happening virtually and that has put some unique challenges for the people running the show, really happy to welcome to the program she is one of the co-chairs of this event, and she is also a Principal Software Engineer at Splunk, Constance Caramanolis thank you so much for joining us. >> Hi, thank you for having me, I'm really excited to be here, it's definitely an interesting time. >> Alright, so Constance we know KubeCon it's a great community, robust everybody loves to get together there's some really interesting hallway conversations and so much going on, we've been watching, the four or five years we've been doing theCUBE at this show, just huge explosion of the breadth and depth of the content and of course, great people there. Just, if we could start with a little bit, your background, as I mentioned you're the co-chair, you work for Splunk by way of an acquisition, of Omnition try saying that three times fast, and Omnition you were telling me is a company that was bought really before it came out of stealth, but when it comes to the community itself, how long have you been involved in this community? What kind of led you to being co-chair? >> Yeah, I guess I've been involved with the community since 2017, so, I was at Lyft before Omnition Splunk, and I was lucky enough to be one of the first engineers, on Envoy you might've heard of Envoy, sorry I laugh at my own jokes. (laughing) Like my first exposure to KubeCon and seeing the CNCF community was KubeCon Austin and the thing that I was amazed by was actually you said it the hallway tracks, right? I would just see someone and be like, "Hey, like, I think I've seen your code review can I say hi?" And that started back on me at least a little bit involved in terms of talking to more people then they needed people I would work on a PR or in some of the community meetings and that was my first exposure to the community. And so I was involved in Envoy pretty actively involved in Envoy all the way until from 2016 until mid 2018 and then I switched projects and turning it left and did some other stuff and I came back into CNCF community, in OpenTelemetry as of last year, actually almost exactly a year ago now to work on making tracing, I'm going to say useful and the reason why I say useful is that usually people think of tracing as, not as important as metrics and logs, but there is so much to tracing that we tend to undervalue and that's why I got involved with OpenTelemetry and Omnition, because there's some really interesting ways that you could view tracing, use tracing, and you could answer a lot of questions that we have in our day-to-day and so that's kind of that's how I got involved in the second-round community and then ended up getting nominated to be on the co-chair and I obviously said yes, because this is an amazing opportunity to meet more people and have more of that hallway track. >> Alright, so definitely want to talk about OpenTracing, but let's talk about the event first, as we were talking about. >> Yeah. >> That community you always love the speakers, when they finish a session, they get mobbed by people doing questions. When you walk through the expo hall, you go see people so give us a little bit of insight as to how we're trying to replicate that experience, make sure that there's I don't know office hours for the speakers and just places and spaces for people to connect and meet people. >> Yeah, so I will say that like, part of the challenge with KubeCone EU was that it had already been meant to be an in person event and so we're changing it to virtual, isn't going to be as smooth as a KubeCon or we have the China event that's happening in a few weeks or at Boston, right that's still going on, like, those ones are being thought out a lot more as a proper virtual event. So a little bit of the awkwardness of, now everything is going to be online, right? It's like you can't actually shake someone's hand in a hallway but we are definitely trying to be cognizant of when I'm in terms of future load, like probably less content, right. It's harder to sit in front of a screen and listen to everything and so we know that we know we have enough bandwidth we're trying to find, different pieces of software that allow for better Q and A, right? Exactly, like the mobbing after session is go in as a speaker and one as attendee is sometimes like the best part about conferences is you get to like someone might've said something like, "Hey, like this little tidbit "I need to ask you more questions about this." So we're providing software to at least make that as smooth, and I'm putting this in quotation and as you'll be able to tell anyone who's watching as I speak with my hands. Right, so we're definitely trying to provide software to at least make that initial interaction as smooth as possible, maybe as easy as possible we know it's probably going to be a little bit bumpy just because I think it's also our first time, like everyone, every conference is facing this issue so it's going to be really interesting to see how the conference software evolves. It is things that we've talked about in terms of maybe offering their office hours, for that it's still something that like, I think it's going to be really just an open question for all of us, is that how do we maintain that community? And I think maybe we were talking or kind of when I was like planting the seed of a topic beforehand, it's like it's something I think that matters like, how do we actually define community? 'Cause so much of it has been defined off that hallway track or bumping into someone, right? And going into someone's booth and be like, like asking that question there, because it is a lot more less intimidating to ask something in person than is to ask it online when everyone gets to hear your question, right. I know I ask less questions online, I guess maybe one thing I want to say is that for now that am thinking about it is like, if you have a question please ask questions, right? If recording is done, if there's a recording for a talk, the speakers are usually made available online during the session or a bit afterwards, so please ask your questions when things come up, because that's going to be a really good way to, at least have a bit of that question there. And also don't be shy, please, even when I say like in terms of like, when it comes to review, code reviews, but if something's unintuitive or let's say, think about something else, like interact with it, say it or even ask that question on Twitter, if you're brave enough, I wouldn't but I also barely use Twitter, yeah I don't know it's a big open question I don't know what the community is going to look like and if it's going to be harder. >> Yeah, well, one of the things I know every, every time I go to the show conferences, when the keynote when it's always like, okay, "How many people is this your first time at the show?" And you look around and it's somewhere, third or half people attending for the first time. >> Yeah. I know I'm trying to remember if it was year and a half ago, or so there was created a kind of one-on-one track at the show to really help onboard and give people into the show because when the show started out, it was like okay, it was Kubernetes and a couple of other things now you've got the graduated, the incubated, the dozens of sandbox projects out there and then even more projects out there so, cloud-native is quite a broad topic, there is no wrong way where you can start and there's so many paths that you can go on. So any tips or things that we're doing this time, to kind of help broaden and welcome in those new participants? >> Yeah so there's two things, one is actually the one to attract is official for a KubeCon EU so we do have like, there's a few good talks in terms of like, how to approach KubeCon it was meant to originally be for a person but at least helping people in terms of general terms, right? 'Cause sometimes there's so much terminology that it feels like you need to carry, cloud-native dictionary around with you, doing that and giving suggestions there, so that's one of the first talks that's going to be able to watch on KubeCon so I highly suggest that, This is actually a really tough question because a lot of it would have been like, I guess it would have been for me, would have been in person be like, don't be afraid to like, if you see someone that, said something really interesting in a talk you attended, like, even if it's not after the question, just be like, "Hey, I thought what you said was really cool "and I just want to say I appreciate your work." Like expressing that appreciation and just even if it isn't like the most thoughtful question in the world just saying thank you or I appreciate you as a really good way to open things up because the people who are speaking are just as well most people are probably just as scared of going up there and sharing their knowledge as probably or of asking a question. So I think the main takeaway from that is don't be shy, like maybe do a nervous dance to get those jitters out and then after (laughing) and then ask that question or say like, thank you it's really nice to meet you. It's harder to have a virtual coffee, so hopefully they have their own teapot or coffee maker beside them, but offered you that, send an email I think, one thing that is very common and I have a hard time with this is that it's easy to get overwhelmed with how much content there is or you said it's just like, I first feel small and at least if everyone is focusing on Kubernetes, especially like a few years ago, at least and you're like, maybe that there are a lot of people who are really advanced but now that there's so many different people like so many people from all range of expertise in this subject matter experts, and interests that it's okay to be overwhelmed just be like, I need to take a step back because mentally attending like a few talks a day is like, I feel like it's taking like several exams 'cause there's so much information being bombarded on you and you're trying to process it so understand that you can't process it all in one day and that's okay, come back to it, right. It's a great thing is that all of these talks are recorded and so you can watch it another time, and I would say probably just choose like three or four talks that you're really excited about and listen to those, don't need to watch everything because as I said we can't process it all and that's okay and ask questions. >> Some great advice there because right, if we were there in person it was always, attend what you really want to see, are there speakers you want to engage with? Because you can go back and watch on demand that's been one of the great opportunities with the virtual events is you can have access on demand, you can poke and prod, personally I love that a lot of them you can adjust the speed of them so, if it's something that it's kind of an intro talk, I can crank it up to one and a half or 2X speed and get through more content or I can pause it, rewind if I'm not getting it. And the other opportunity is I tell you the last two or three years, when I'm at an event, I try to just spend my time, not looking at my phone, talking to people, but now there's the opportunity, hey, if I can be of help, if anybody in the community has a question or wants to get connected to somebody, we know a lot of people I'm easily reachable on Twitter and I'm not sitting on a plane or in the middle of something that being like, so there is just a great robust community out there, online, and it were great be a part of it. So speaking of projects, you mentioned OpenTelemetry, which is what, your day job works on it's been a really, interesting topic of course for those that don't know the history, there were actually two projects that merged, it was a OpenTracing and OpenCensus created OpenTelemetry, so why don't you bring us up to speed as to where we are with the project, and what people should be looking at at the show and throughout the rest of 2020? >> OpenTelemetry is very exciting, we just did our first beta release so for anyone who's been on the fence of, is OpenTelemetry getting traction, or is it something that you're like at, this is a really great time to want to get involved in OpenTelemetry and start looking into it, if it's as a viable project, but I guess should probably take a step back of what is OpenTelemetry, OpenTelemetry as you mentioned was the merging or the marriage of OpenTracing-OpenCensus, right? It was an acknowledgement that so many engineers were trying to solve the same problem, but as most of us knows, right, we are trying to solve the same problem, but we had two different implementations and we actually ended up having essentially a lot of waste of resources because we're all trying to solve the same problem, but then we're working on two different implementations. So that marriage was to address that because, right it's like if you look at all of the major players, all of the players on OpenTelemetry, right? They have a wide variety of vendor experience, right even as of speaking from the vendor hat, right vendors are really lucky that they get to work with so many customers and they get to see all these different use cases. Then there's also just so many actually end users who are using it and they have very peculiar use cases, too, even with a wide set of other people, they're not going to obviously have that, so OpenTelemetry gets to merge all of those different use cases into one, or I guess not into one, but like into a wide set of implementations, but at least it's maintained by a larger group instead of having two separate. And so the first goal was to unify tracing tracing is really far ahead in terms of implementation,, or several implementations of libraries, like Go, Java, Python, Ruby, like on other languages right now but quite a bit of lists there and there's even a collector too which some people might refer to as an agent, depending on what background they have. And so there's a lot of ways to one, implement tracing and also metrics for your services and also gather that data and manipulate it, right? 'Cause for example, tracings so tracing where it's like you can generate a lot of traces, but sometimes missing data and like the collector is a really great place to add data to that, so going back to the state of OpenTelemetry, OpenTelemetry since we just did a beta release, right, we're getting closer to GA. GA is something that we're tracking for at some point this year, no dates yet but it's something that we're really pushing towards, but we're starting to have a very stable API in terms of tracing a metric was on its way, log was all something we're wrapping up on. It is a really great opportunity to, all the different ways that we are that, we even say like service owners, applications, even business rate that we're trying to collect data and have visibility into our applications, this is a really great way to provide one common framework to generate all that data, to gather all that data and generate all that data. So it was really exciting and I don't know, we just want more users and why we say that is to the earlier point is that the more users that we have who are engaged with community, right if you want to open an issue, have a question if you want to set up a PR please do, like we really want more community engagement. It is a great time to do that because we are just starting to get traction, right? Like hopefully, hopefully in a year or two, like we are one of those really big, big projects right up on a CNCF KubeCon and it's like, let's see how much has grown. And it's a great time to join and help influence a project and so many chances for ownership, I know it's really exciting, the company-- >> Excellent well Constance, it's really exciting >> Yeah. >> Congratulations on the progress there, I'm sure everybody's looking forward to as you said GA later this year, want to give you the final word, yourself and Vicky Cheung as the co-chairs for the event, what's your real goal? What do you hope the takeaway is from this instance of the 2020 European show? Of course, virtual now instead of Amsterdam. I guess like two parts one for the takeaway is that it's probably going to be awkward, right? Especially again going back to the community is that we don't have a lot of that in person things so this will be an awkward interaction, but it's a really great place for us to want to assess what a community means to us and how we interact with the community. So I think it's going to be going into it with an open mindset of just knowing like, don't set the expectations, like any other KubeCon because we just know it won't be right, we can't even have like the after hours, like going out for coffee or drinks and other stuff there so having that there and being open to that being different and then also if you have ideas share it with us, 'cause we want to know how we can make it better, so expect that it's different, but it's still going to provide you with a lot of that content that you've been looking for and we still want to make that as much of a welcoming experience for you, so know that we're doing our best and we're open to feedback and we're here for you. >> Excellent, well Constance thank you so much for the work that you and the team have been doing on. absolutely, one of the events that we always look forward to, thanks so much for joining us. >> Thank you for having me. >> Alright, lots more coverage of theCUBE at KubeCon-Cloud Native on Europe 2020, I'm Stu Miniman and thanks for watching. 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