Thread by @richburroughs

Last talk of the conference for me is @Divya_Mohan02, @SaiyamPathak, @kunalstwt and @coffeeartgirl talking about how to navigate the CNCF landscape. #KubeCon

Cloud native as a paradigm involved because people wanted vendor agnostic infra, and a more declarative approach to deploying workloads. @Divya_Mohan02 #KubeCon

3 categories of projects in the CNCF: Sandbox, Incubating, and Graduated. Sandbox is early with lots of innovation. Incubating projects are being used in production by more people. Graduated projects are mature and stable. #KubeCon @coffeeartgirl

The landscape is made of up cards for the projects. Cards include the GitHub info, funding, market cap. #KubeCon @kunalstwt

Tools in the landscape fall into categories: App Containerization, Infra provisioning, Container orchestration, Security & Compliance. #KubeCon @SaiyamPathak

We shouldn’t wait to the end to think about security, do it from day zero. #KubeCon

Runtime, networking, storage (CRI, CNI, CSI). #KubeCon

(There are so many observerability tools, wow). You need to use them to get visibility into your infra and workloads. #KubeCon

Other categories include GitOps, Policy, and Service Mesh. #KubeCon

How do you narrow down things when there are multiple projects? Should you use a new project? How do you migrate? Match your requirements with the project’s specs/features. #KubeCon

Think about scaling from the start. Create POCs for the projects you’re comparing. #KubeCon

There’s some CNCF terminologies you should know? CNCF members, end users (consuming the projects), TOC (Technical Oversight Committee), Governing Board (CNCF business decisions). #KubeCon

TAGs focus on projects within a specific domain (networking, multi-tenancy, etc.). #KubeCon

There’s a guide to navigating the landscape on the landscape web site. #KubeCon

Some areas for contributing: infra, code, docs, and even helping with contributor experience. #KubeCon

Kubernetes has a great shadow program if you want to learn more about the roles in the project. Certification is another good way to learn and test your knowledge. #KubeCon

The size of the landscape isn’t a negative thing - these are tools to help us solve problems, like words in a dictionary. #KubeCon