Aaron and Brian talk about all things KubeConNA (Detroit) 2022.
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Topic 1 - Let’s start with what was good or bad at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon. Overall vibes at the conference?
- 7,000 attendees, 300 vendor-companies, good amount of end-users
- Good: Well-organized, live interactions
- Bad: City choice, keynotes, Day1 & 2 pricing models
- Is this Big Tent 2.0? (Aaron - I don’t think so…)
Topic 2 - Interesting technologies or technology trends?
- Kubernetes is no longer the center of this conference
- Service Mesh, WASM (Web Assembly), Cost-Mgmt, various forms of Security
- Starting to see fragmentation (e.g. Cloud-Native Security is it’s own conference)
Topic 3 - Are we in a bubble? Lots of companies in each technology category? Will we see consolidation, failures or buyers?
- What’s the mission for CNCF - place for projects to incubate with no “horse in the race”, all areas will eventually consolidate down to a few players over time?
Topic 4 - What’s next for KubeCon?
- Can it survive as a big event without a central technology?
- Will it splinter into lots of little events?
- Did the CNCF turn this into too much of a marketing event?
- What’s in it for the sponsors? Especially if it splits into different events?
- Why do they keep making bad location choices? (Amsterdam 4/20, Chicago - Nov ‘23)
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