Key Takeaways from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023

Since its inception in 2015, the CNCF community has evolved as a global community supporting open source, and vendor-neutral cloud-native technologies. The North American KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 event in Chicago (Nov. 6 to 9) consisted of 80+ different sessions across 10+ tracks covering the broader spectrum of the Cloud-native landscape.

While I have attended KubeCon multiple times, this has been my first in-person attendance, and sharing key takeaways based on my observations based on sessions I attended at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.

#1 — It is the place for all vendor-neutral Cloud technologies and a community for technologists

While Kubernetes was the first project donated by Google to the Cloud-native community, there are now 173 projects with 200K+ contributors — evolved as a unified home for Cloud-native technologies.
On Day 1, there were many choices based on the focus areas such as — ArgoCon for GitOps, BackstageCon for IDP, CiliumCon for Networking, Observability, Security, IstioCon for Service Mesh, ObservabilityCon for observability and monitoring, AppDeveloperCon for application developers, MultiTenancyCon, and many more (WASM, Startups, DBaaS, Envoy, Telco, Data on Kubernetes, HPC + AI, Edge Computing)

Additionally, it is a great place to collaborate with Opensource and like-minded technologists — got the opportunity to…