Catch up on everything you missed at KubeCon North America 2024! Join us for a special recap that brings you closer to the action. This is a special episode in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind KubeCon+CloudNativeCon and the cloud-native projects.

Dotan Horovits, our host and a CNCF Ambassador, will be joined by an all-star panel of cloud-native experts—CNCF Ambassadors Viktor Farcic and Max Körbächer—each bringing their unique insights and takeaways from the conference. Together, they unpack the major project announcements and key themes from this year’s event: the standout talks, co-located events, maintainer meetings and those memorable hallway conversations. Get insights from the experts who know the cloud-native space inside out. Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox. Max is Co-Founder at Liquid Reply. He is Co-Chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group and served 3 years at the Kubernetes release team. He runs the Munich Kubernetes Meetup as well as the Munich and Ukraine Kubernetes Community Days. Dotan Horovits is a DevOps specialist with special focus on observability solutions and related open source projects such as OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Prometheus and OpenSearch. He runs the OpenObservability Talks podcast, now in its 5th year. Don't miss this expert-led KubeCon recap, in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s official channel!
The episode was live-streamed on 19 November 2024 in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TrPev5IzB8

You can read the recap post: https://medium.com/@horovits/1362959030c1

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Show Notes:

00:00 - episode and speaker intro 02:45 - KubeCon Salt Lake City stats and trends 05:26 - The cloud-native stack is maturing up 08:12 - KubeCon’s role in the cloud-native space 11:23 - Platform Engineering trend 14:07 - Open specifications and Kubernetes API 18:44 - Flatcar joins the CNCF with container focused OS 24:54 - wasmCloud moves to CNCF incubation and WASMCon highlights 31:49 - CNCF Ambassador program and recent Community Awards 35:24 - KubeCon event plan and expansion, and local KCDs 43:34 - Environmental Sustainability TAG 47:46 - Dapr and cert-manager reached CNCF graduation 51:11 - Cloud Native Reference Architectures 54:39 - observability updates for Jaeger, Prometheus and more 58:53 - episode outro

Resources:

CNCF community awards: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/11/14/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-the-2024-community-awards-winners/ Dapr graduation: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/11/12/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-dapr-graduation/ wasmCloud moves to incubation: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/11/12/cncf-welcomes-wasmcloud-to-the-cncf-incubator/ More on wasmCloud: https://medium.com/p/02a5025c6115 OpenTelemetry expands into CI/CD observability https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7259200802689273856 Jaeger v2 unveiled https://medium.com/p/be612dbee774 Prometheus 3.0 unveiled https://medium.com/p/1c5edca32c87 Flatcar joins the CNCF https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7257278073824288768/ OpenCost matured into incubation https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7257826394179522562 New Cloud Native Reference Architecture hub: https://architecture.cncf.io/ CNCF upcoming events: https://www.cncf.io/events/ Kubernetes Community Days events around the world https://www.cncf.io/kcds/

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