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CloudNativeCon and KubeCon: What we learned

Imagine yourself on a surfboard. You’re alone. You’re paddling out to farther into the sea and you’re ready to catch a giant wave. Only you look to your left, to your right and behind you, and you suddenly realize you’re not alone at all. There are countless other surfers who share your aim.
That’s how developers are feeling about cloud native application development and Kubernetes as excitement builds for the impending wave.
The excitement was apparent during the recent #CloudNativeCon and KubeCon joint event in Seattle. More than 1,000 developers gathered to share ideas around the growing number of projects under the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (via Linux Foundation) banner. That includes Kubernetes, one of the foundation’s most significant and broadly adopted projects.

Despite the fact that it’s still relatively early days for Kube and cloud native computing, CNCF executive director Dan Kohn said there are plenty of reasons to be excited about cloud native.
In his opening keynote, Kohn highlighted these top advantages that cloud native offers:

Isolation. Containerizing applications ensures that you get the same version in development and production. Operations are simplified.
No lock-in. When you choose a vendor that relies on open technology, you’re not locked in to using that vendor.
Improved scalability. Cloud native provides the ability to scale your application to meet customer demand in real time.
Agility and maintainability. These factors are improved when applications are split into microservices.

It was apparent by the sessions alone that Kubernetes is already seeing enterprise adoption. Numerous big-name companies were presented as use cases.
Chris Aniszczyk, VP of developer programs for The Linux Foundation, shared some of the impressive growth numbers around the CNCF and Kube communities:

Now @cra wrapping up a busy 2 days with some impressive numbers! CloudNativeCon #K8 the hard way! @CloudNativeFdn @kelseyhightower pic.twitter.com/ySe5pNokjM
— Jeffrey Borek (@jeffborek) November 10, 2016

And if conference attendance is any indication, the community is poised to grow even more over the next few months. Next year’s CloudNativeCon events in Berlin and Austin are expected to double or triple the Seattle attendance number.
The IBM contribution to Kubernetes
The work IBM is doing with Kubernetes is twofold. First and foremost, IBM is helping the community understand its pain points and contribute its resources, as it does with dozens of open source projects. Second, IBM developers and technical leaders are working with internal product teams to fold in Kubernetes into the larger cloud ecosystem.
“Because Kubernetes is going to be such an important part of our infrastructure going forward, we want to make sure we contribute as much as we get out of it,” IBM Senior Technical Staff Member Doug Davis said at the CloudNativeCon conference. “We’re going to see more people coming to our team, and you’re going to see a bigger IBM presence within the community.”
IBM is also committed to helping the Kubernetes community interact and cooperate with other open source communities. Kubernetes technology provides plug points and extensibility points that allow it to be run on #OpenStack, for example.
Brad Topol, a Distinguished Engineer who leads IBM work in OpenStack, explained how the communities are working together:

At CloudNativeCon in Seattle @BradTopol discusses the relationship between OpenStack and CNCF. pic.twitter.com/o2wj8swTBo
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) November 8, 2016

#Serverless momentum continues
Serverless remained a hot topic at CloudNativeCon. IBMer Daniel Krook presented a keynote on the topic, including an overview of #OpenWhisk, the IBM open source, serverless offering that is available on Bluemix:

LIVE on #Periscope: @DanielKrook talks OpenWhisk at CloudNativeCon. Slides: https://t.co/P51xrjVqFP https://t.co/dRJmHKiXcy
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) November 9, 2016

Krook also joined in to provide a solid definition of “serverless,” something that tends to spark debate whenever the topic is broached:

The buzz around serverless continues at CloudNativeCon. @DanielKrook gives his definition of this emerging technology. pic.twitter.com/UzFhqtBnD0
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) November 9, 2016

An update on the Open Container Initiative
In a lightning talk, Jeff Borek, Worldwide Program Director of Open Cloud Business Development, joined Microsoft Senior Program Manager Rob Dolin for an update on the OCI. The organization started in 2015 as a Linux Foundation project with the goal of creating open, industry standards around container formats and runtimes.
Watch their session here:

LIVE on Periscope: From CloudNativeCon, @JeffBorek & @RobDolin discuss the Open Container Initiative. https://t.co/rKpa4UpRcn
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) November 9, 2016

Learn more: “Why choose a serverless architecture?”
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Collaboration is king at Cloud Foundry Summit EU

When businesses collaborate on open technology projects, everyone wins. That was the prevailing message throughout the Cloud Foundry Summit in Frankfurt, Germany.
Operators, developers, users and cloud providers gathered to share best practices and reflect on the state of this growing community. In the two years since the Cloud Foundry Foundation was launched, the community has grown tremendously, as these highlights show:

More than 31,000 code commits
2,400-plus code contributors
More than 130 core contributors
65 member companies
17 new member companies in 2016
195 user groups
53,050 individuals
Contributors from 132 cities

Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji called open source collaboration “a positive-sum game,” meaning that just by participating, members inherently benefit. “The more people who play, the more we win,” he said. “The more you give, the more that is available to everyone.”
Ramji also said that this is “the beginning of a 20-year revolution around what cloud platforms can be.”
It’s ultimately up to the community and its wide stakeholder base to ensure that the revolution is a productive one.
IBM Bluemix continues to grow
IBM offers the world’s largest Cloud Foundry environment with its IBM Bluemix platform. It was on full display during the conference in breakout sessions and even on the mainstage.
Michael “dr.max” Maximilien, a scientist, architect and engineer with the IBM Bluemix team, joined Simon Moser, an IBM senior technical staff member, during the opening keynote to provide an overview of some of the lessons they’ve learned from working in a Cloud Foundry environment.

“Embrace the weirdness.” @mosersd & @maximilien share lessons learned from @IBMBluemix at #CloudFoundry Summit. pic.twitter.com/kJXklTivQX
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) September 27, 2016

The conversation continued with a number of breakout sessions highlighting the emergence of #serverless technology in general, particularly OpenWhisk, an IBM open-source, serverless offering. Maximilien told the crowd in his breakout session that OpenWhisk is a continuation of the IBM tradition of launching exciting, new open tech projects.
“We want to help lead the serverless movement,” he said. “Think of OpenWhisk as a push in that direction.”
Kim Bannerman, who leads the Technical Advocacy and Community team inside the Office of the CTO at IBM Blue Box, hosted a panel on serverless technology that featured Ruben Orduz and Tyler Britten, both technical advocates for IBM Blue Box, along with Casey West and Kenny Bastani of Pivotal.
It was clear that we’re still in early days for this technology, as much of the conversation revolved around the question, “What is serverless?” It will be some time before we start to see real-world use cases and more enterprises adopting it. Still, its potential is clear.
A few of the highlights from that session:

Is it Functions as a Service? Event-driven computing? At CloudFoundry Summit, the serverless discussion goes beyond buzzword. pic.twitter.com/pMpR4DeBZB
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) September 27, 2016

Closing the gender gap
One noteworthy topic strung throughout the conference was the gender gap across the IT profession. While the industry is doing a better job of welcoming women into what’s been a traditionally male-dominated sector, there’s still a long way to go in hiring more female developers, ensuring equal pay and seeing more women at the executive level.
On Wednesday, Ursula Morgenstern, global head of consulting and systems integration at Atos, took to the mainstage to deliver a hopeful message that #cloud computing could represent the catalyst that brings more women into the field.

Problems exist at all levels: entering IT, being stuck in the middle and not getting to the top CloudFoundry @u_morgen pic.twitter.com/uVi2bgOqhC
— Paula Kennedy (@PaulaLKennedy) September 28, 2016

“It’s not just about gender. Ethnically diverse companies outperform their competitors by 35%” – @u_morgen CloudFoundry #diversity pic.twitter.com/37c5YJQroF
— Cloud Foundry (@cloudfoundry) September 28, 2016

Later that day, IBM sponsored a diversity luncheon, which brought together Cloud Foundry community members to discuss issues and potential solutions for advocating for a more inclusive IT industry.
Moving forward
As the Cloud Foundry community looks toward the future, three of its leaders— Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform; Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO of Cloudsoft, and Stormy Peters, VP of Developer Relations at Cloud Foundry—explained what members must do to advance the cause and promote more interoperability and cooperation between foundations.

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