 Welcome to our virtual GitLab come at 2021 at CubeCon. We're so excited to have you at our day zero event and have a packed agenda in store for you. Before we start, a little bit about me as you will see me popping in throughout the event. My name is Saumya Upadhyaya and I'm a product marketer here at GitLab. I'm based out of Bangalore in India, which is colloquially called as the Silicon Valley of India. It is also widely famous for its traffic, which is why I'm glad I work at an all remote company like GitLab. Yes, we were all remote even before the pandemic. So I don't now need to brave the traffic every single day. I've been with GitLab since 2019 and part of the product marketing team where I have delved into various different parts of Dev, Sec, and Ops from monitoring to continuous delivery to end-to-end DevOps, and now GitOps. I've also been part of various pricing initiatives within the company. For commit at CubeCon, I had the opportunity to work with our amazing community to source and support speakers who can share their real-world experiences and offer some awesome insights on the intersection of DevOps and Cloud native technologies. If you're new to GitLab, a quick something about GitLab. So GitLab is an open DevOps platform offered in a single application for all of your Dev, Sec, and Ops needs from planning, source control, CICD to security. It helps with unparalleled collaboration across various teams that are using GitLab. Different team members use GitLab from project managers, to developers, to testing professionals, to security, operations, and infrastructure professionals for various interconnected use cases. Our leading CICD empowers all of these teams to work together efficiently by breaking down the silos and automating repeatable tasks. GitLab also has built-in security, which helps to shift your security focus left to a much earlier stage in the process, so that your projects are never slowed down due to either lack of security or delayed security findings. Our theme for the event today is to innovate together, and this ties very well with our open source roots and our iteration value. GitLab has been an open source project since day one, and our community is at the core of it. Being an open DevOps platform, we're continuously iterating on GitLab, while also providing an open platform for our users and customers who can easily contribute back into GitLab. And that reflects through our highly engaged community. As you can see on the screen, we have thousands of contributors on our open core platform, submitting hundreds of merge requests every single month. Some of these contributors are GitLab heroes, recognized for their immense contribution to GitLab. We have one of them, Niko, today, speaking on his experiences with security. These contribution numbers and the number of heroes has been steadily increasing as well. It is a self-sustaining loop, really. The users and customers that we attract by innovating together are also starting to contribute back to the open DevOps platform. We also believe in making really small iterations, getting it to our users and customers to get immediate feedback and course correct rapidly if we need to. Small iterations like this also make it a lot easier to work with the wider community of contributors. As a result, we have been able to release hundreds of features every single month on our self-managed platform and daily on our SaaS platform for over 100 consecutive months. That is the power of innovating together with our community. So what exactly is GitLab Comet? So GitLab Comet has been running since 2019 and it brings together users and customers like yourself to share stories across the software development life cycle to inspire and connect teams to innovate together. GitLab Comet showcases practical techniques on how software professionals like yourself iterate to spark transformation, innovation, as well as collaborate together. As an open DevOps platform, GitLab supports teams to change how software is delivered. Comet amplifies these stories of transformation to empower DevOps teams to increase velocity, collaboration and visibility. Since last year, we have had to go virtual, reaching out to tens of thousands of professionals like yourself across the world. Over the last two years, we have had 200 outstanding speakers at six events across cities, platforms and time zones. We are continuing to build this excitement and energy into 2021 and the Comet at KubeCon is the first of our three Comets through the year. I'm happy that you are here. So why GitLab Comet at KubeCon? At the GitLab Comet at KubeCon, we will explore the intersection of DevSecOps and cloud-native technologies and witness how the two have propelled companies and industries forward. We'll celebrate together how we are innovating together. This nicely aligns with our theme of the event which is innovate together. And all of the talks and demos that we have today will reflect this intersection of innovating together with GitLab and cloud-native technologies. GitLab works with and within Kubernetes in three distinct ways. These can all be used independently or they can work together. The first is you can deploy software from GitLab CICD to Kubernetes environments across various different types of clouds. You can use Kubernetes to manage runners attached to your GitLab instance. And you can run the GitLab application and services itself on a Kubernetes cluster. In fact, gitlab.com, our SaaS offering, runs on Kubernetes to leverage scaling, ease of deployments and efficient use of compute resources offered by Kubernetes. Well, you can use GitLab CICD to deploy your apps anywhere from bare metals to virtual machines. GitLab is designed for Kubernetes. The Kubernetes integration gives you access to advanced features like deploy boards, canary deployments, incremental deployments, monitoring, auto devops, amongst a lot of other features. Some of these features will be demonstrated by our speakers in the sessions today. Now, as we see organizations shifting from traditional deployment models to cloud native applications, in order to gain speed, reliability and scale like we ourselves did with gitlab.com, we are also seeing a need to simplify the integration, simplify the deployment and use of cloud native applications. By supporting Kubernetes across various cloud environments, GitLab provides a simple and consistent way to build your cloud native application. In today's event, we will hear our speakers focus on how they have started grown and scaled their cloud native environments with GitLab. At GitLab, we wanna make your journey to cloud native smarter and easier. We want to connect and collaborate with you to understand how we can do that. So feel free to chat with the GitLab team and our awesome speakers through the chat throughout the day. So our goal today is to share great stories. And at today's summit, we have an exciting lineup of speakers who have explored cloud native technologies with GitLab. Our speakers today are at various stages of DevSecOps and cloud native adoption. We will hear some interesting journeys from customers and GitLab team members on how they innovate with GitLab. They will share their wins as well as their challenges and what they have learned along the way. You will hear from our customer SKAO on their journey to use GitLab and cloud native technologies to better understand the universe. You'll hear of a session from a customer on Fido on how GitLab helped them scale their microservices environment to over 250 microservices. Our GitLab hero Niko talks about how GitLab helps to stop your Kubernetes clusters from being hijacked and a customer ERT on how they have scaled their cloud native environment using GitLab and Captain. You'll also hear from the GitLab team on how you can implement a multi-cubinities cluster strategy across Amazon, Google and VMware environments in a single pipeline with GitLab, as well as you'll hear from the product manager of GitOps in GitLab regarding how we are securing the GitOps workflow with the Kubernetes agent. In addition to the commit event itself, we have a number of GitLab team members speaking at KubeCon event over the next few days and we will have a number of live demos covering a variety of topics like security, cloud native apps for machine learning, continuous delivery and GitOps. Make sure that you visit our live booths to understand all the possibilities with GitLab. We hope that at the end of this event you will take back with you connections you can leverage, actionable insights that you can implement and ideas that will help you innovate and improvise your existing workflows. We really do believe in innovating together and our open DevOps platform supports that. We cannot innovate together without you. So please participate in the chat while you're watching each session. Our speakers are not only available on video but also available live on chat. So go ahead and say hello. Chat about the talk while it is happening. Ask questions to our speakers and to each other and to GitLab team members. Comet is really an interactive event. The more you engage, the more you get out of it. Thank you very much for being here and have a great Comet.