Maybe it’s the Californian sun. Or perhaps it’s the time spent at Disney Studios, the home of the best stories. One thing is for sure: Taylor Dolezal is one of the happiest cloud native people that Gerhard knows.

As a former Lead SRE for Disney Studios, Taylor has significant hands-on experience running cloud native technologies in a large company. After a few years as a HashiCorp Developer Advocate, Taylor is now Head of End User Ecosystem at CNCF. In his current role, he is helping enable cloud native success for end-users like Boeing, Mercedes Benz & many others.

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Featuring:

• Taylor Dolezal – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• 🎬 KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 Keynote
• This episode started with a tweet
• Phippy as far as the eye can see! 👀 🦒
• KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 - Transparency Report
• Take the 2022 Cloud Native Survey
• A recap from OSS Summit North America 2022
• 🎬 Navigating an Infinite Landscape - Taylor Dolezal - PlatformCon 2022
• ArgoCon 2022 - September 19 - 21, 2022

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