Keynote: Awards Ceremony

This talk features George, a project maintainer emeritus, as he highlights the invaluable contributions of the open source community, which consists of over 300,000 contributors from 190 countries. He emphasizes the significance of community engagement and introduces the annual end user awards aimed at recognizing organizations that effectively utilize cloud native technologies in their operations. The event marks a celebration of achievements in the cloud native ecosystem, with the announcement of SNCF as one of the top end user award recipients. The speaker acknowledges the journey taken by organizations like SNCF since their first KubeCon participation and stresses the importance of mentorship and collaboration within the ecosystem. He also honors outstanding mentors and contributors to the CNCF's technical advisory groups to underline the commitment to quality and scalability in cloud native software.

Good morning. You thought Lin was loud? I'm George. Nice to meet you. Give me some energy this morning. All right. All right. I'm a I'm a project maintainer emeritus and now I tell the stories of the fantastic work that our end users are doing with the projects built by our maintainers. So, please stop at the project pavilion and talk to a maintainer. They are aching to show

you the cool stuff that they're working on. Our most valuable asset is the community. In the past 10 years, there are over 300,000 open source contributors. People often tell me, "George always forgets my name." There are 300,000 of you. 190 countries across 200 projects. Our community is diverse and global. These awards are designed to highlight the incredible work that our contributors do every single day. Let's start

by honoring some of the organizations who work with our projects to bring the value and quality of cloud native software into production. First, we're going to talk about the top end user award. So, what is an end user? An end user is an organization where their core business relies on the cloud native tech. They use it, not sell it. So, first of all, a few changes. In

order to spread the love moving forward, the CNCF will announce both the previous year's winner and announce the new winner here at Cloud our KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe, largest event of the year. Look around. I don't know if you noticed yesterday. This is the largest open source conference in human history, right here. You're here. Give yourselves a hand. >> [applause] >> And in case you weren't with us

in Atlanta, let's bring last year's top end user award, Michelin. >> [music and applause] >> Thanks for coming up, Gabriel. Here you go. You get to give that to them. All right. All right. Thanks. All right. So, you ready for the winner? I said, "Are you ready for the winner?" All right. All right. On behalf of the cloud native community, we bring SNCF to the stage. >>

And Anna and Thomas are here to accept the award on behalf of the SNCF. >> [music] >> Sure. Yeah. >> Thank you. Uh Thank you. Yeah, it's working. Okay. Uh thank you very much. That's a great honor. Um This is definitely a collective reward. Uh so, I'd like to everyone who has contributed to our incredible journey uh with CloudNative at the SNCF. And uh our first KubeCon

was in 2019. And uh at that time, we were cloud native mostly uh with only five clusters running. And it was easy, you know, there was only 30 applications under the CNCF graduation process. and we had a crazy bet at the time with Yana, who is with me here today, that one day we will go on the main stage at KubeCon. So, here we are. Okay, it's

7 years later, but you know, we are a train company, so you should expect some delays. Uh >> All right. I'm joking. I'm joking. We are not an airline company. So, anyway, uh uh we're here for quite a long time now and uh living all the cloud native revolutions and trying to figure out how we're going to implement it at scale. I'd like to thank all the

speakers of the so many conferences we have attended uh during all these years um sharing ideas, what's working, what's not, the fine-tuning, the crazy architectures, so valuable and so inspiring. Uh so, first, a round of applause for last year's outstanding mentor, Lee. >> And this year's winner is Hadai Takei. >> A dedicated and consistent mentor for the Wasm Edge project. Hadai has demonstrated a deep multi-year commitment

to focusing on new open source contributors through the LFX mentorship program. Actively guiding mentees and ensuring that a high standard of program accountability, his hands-on approach and project advocacy help new contributors successfully integrate in our cloud native ecosystem. Thank you. Next up, >> we have the TAGgies. So, what is a TAGgie? Um their job is to help advance the CNCF's technical advisory groups, also known as TAGs.

These governance structures are crucial to the community, ensuring that our software and processes continue to set that high standard for scalability. And we have to do it while retaining integrity and increasing that quality in support of our mission to make cloud native ubiquitous. This year's TAGgies, give them a hand. >> All right. This year, we have Dylan, Carol, France, and [music] Yoshiyuki. Hello. Give them a hand.

>> And that's it. Thanks, everyone.