 So, I guess to kind of warm it up, we're going to talk a little bit about our first coupon. My first coupon was in 2017, where it snowed in Austin. And so I'm waiting for some disaster to happen in LA. Please disappoint me, because I really don't want to have to like, you know, walk through a snowstorm or a hail storm again. So in 2017, I actually made some great friends, and I'm still in touch with two today. Whoa, sorry, you guys are a little intimidating being up here in front of, first time after so many coupons. But one thing I remember from 2017 is I remember seeing so many people be on the main stage as like, wow, I want to know how I can get on the main stage. And I thought, if they could do it, so can I. And kind of like the pinch me moment of, I am here in front of everybody, right? And we're all here after 18 months, thank you, feels like five years of COVID isolation. So thank you, everyone. Awesome. So my cube con was in 2018 in Seattle, very rainy, as you probably guessed, but I remember being on a panel talking about how you can avoid the weeds within the cloud native landscape. And after I got off the panel, I met none other than Constance back in 2018. And here we are now sharing the stage about to give project updates. So really, really crazy. So it's really important that everyone is kind to the people you meet and are just very nice because you never know, you could be up here one day giving project updates with somebody you meet at this cube con. All right. So speaking of project updates, we're going to talk first about the ones that have moved from to incubation from sandbox. All right. So what does moving from sandbox incubation means? It means that these projects are now from early innovators to early adopters on the chasm. The first one we're going to talk about is Selium, which secures network connectivity and load balances between applications. Next, Kata, which is a Kubernetes-based support, a driven autoscaler, Flux, a continuous and progressive delivery solution for Kubernetes that is open and extensible, and Crossplane, which is the Kubernetes add-on that enables platform teams to assemble infrastructure from multiple vendors. This exposes high-level APIs, which makes for an amazing developer experience, something I care a lot about. Last, Open Telemetry. Constance is going to tell us more in-depth details about this later, but it's a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data with the goal of understanding software behavior and performance. These movements bring the total number of projects that are incubating to 24, and we know that it takes a lot of hard work and collaboration within the community to mature these projects. So kudos to the teams that made this a reality. We thank you for your dedication. Now, I'm going to say hold off on the applause because there's a lot of things to celebrate, and so we'll actually have a dedicated clapping slide at the end. So one of the things we want to celebrate is LinkerD moving to graduation. LinkerD is a service mesh for Kubernetes, and it makes running services easier and safer by giving you runtime debugging, observability, reliability, and security, all without requiring any code changes. It's pretty awesome. Now, let's talk about open telemetry. This project is near and dear to my heart. So a little bit about the goals, and this while the project will make a little more sense. Open telemetry seeks to make high-quality telemetry a built-in feature for all cloud native software. Open telemetry provides a well-factored set of components which allows applications and OSS libraries to instrument themselves once and then send the data anywhere and in any format. And so we're taking a new approach to their ability by integrating tracing metrics and logs into a single stream of structured, correlated keyword data. Now there are two parts open telemetry. There's the instrumentation and the collection. And so over the past several months, more recently, we've GA'd the 1.0 of tracing. Now what does GA mean to you? It means two big things. One is that there's long-term backwards compatibility for distributed tracing, and we now have OTELP, Native Open Telemetry Protocol, implementation and support. So it is available in java.net, Python, Go, and the collector for 1.0. And there are betas for Ruby, JS, Swift, Erlang, and more along the way. So since we're talking about all three of these pillars, if you want to say, there is beta metrics. We are in beta for that. So if you have an opportunity to use the metrics SDKs, APIs, please use them and give us our feedback. Now one thing I'm really happy about within the observability space is there's a lot of cross-project initiatives. And so one thing, two things I want to highlight here is one, there's a Prometheus interoperability. So it's fully compliant remote right, and we're working towards ability. Another thing is we're working towards full compatibility with open metrics. Now our logs is the specification and work is started in beta. And to know more actually what these things mean, please check out our status page. And as you're going to hear from every project that you talk to is that we want your feedback. So especially within the open telemetry scope, we want your feedback on models, instrumentation, and metrics beta. Awesome. So the next project we're going to give a few details on is Flux, which as I mentioned earlier is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes. So recently, GitOps offerings for cloud vendors was introduced along with server-side apply. Server-side apply brings improved CPU memory and network performance, which reduces the number of calls to the Kubernetes API. Another huge win for the Flux project was stable APIs. Stability is very important, so that's really, really great. Drift detection was also introduced between desired state and cluster state reliability. This is awesome because that means that users can wait for all of the applied resources to become ready without the need for health checks. Want to know more about Flux? Check out the Flux ecosystem event on October 20th. Next is Spiffy Spire. So Spiffy Spire is a software project that implements a tool chain and APIs for establishing trust between software systems across a wide variety of hosting platforms. There are three cool updates to say. First one is the new SDKs and APIs. These allow for users to easily integrate and test new plugins and automation code. It comes with docs, examples, and test frameworks, which makes me really happy that we're thinking about the end user and the adoption. Really love this. The next thing is our Kubernetes controllers. Now this allows for people to use, consume, so he's Spiffy Spire, kind of a tongue twister when you put those two back-to-back via pure Kubernetes API interactions. This means you don't actually need to interact with Spire. This is what really means to you is that you don't actually need to understand the in-depth mechanisms to leverage this project, once again, thinking about the ease of use and the adopters. The last project update here is serverless platforms. So there's a port for this, and now they can deliver cryptographic workload identities such as certificates, JWTs, to serverless workloads, to cloud platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions. This also allows for serverless workloads to securely communicate back into workloads running elsewhere, such as your basement, different cloud, anywhere. One of the end users, a Spiffy Spire, a Square, wrote a really interesting blog post on how to use it to authenticate to AWS API, and the spoiler is they're able to do it without any modifications. And now I want to say this is the fun fact is that the world's largest Spire deployment now exceeds the size of the largest Kubernetes deployment, and that is some food for thought. It's really cool. So our last in-depth update is for Linkerdee. So the biggest news, I think, is that this project's graduated, so that's super exciting. Another introduction was authorization policy, which allows users to easily enforce which types of connections are allowed within a cluster based on TLS identity. Also, benchmark results show that Linkerdee is dramatically faster than Istio, which is another great win for this project. All right. If you want to get involved with Linkerdee, check out Linkerdee.io. Now, we would love to talk about all of the updates from the projects within the ecosystem, but we'd probably be here all day doing that. So we're going to have some lightning round project updates starting with DRPC. So DRPC is a modern high performance procedure call framework that can be run in any environment. They recently introduced retries in session affinity, which basically means that your service abilities are improved. You can enable your DRPC applications to retry outbound requests according to policy, which can be helpful if your endpoints are flaky or slow. Next one is Prometheus. It's an open source systems monitoring and learning toolkit. They've added high resolution histograms, and the intent of this feature is to solve problems like errors in quantile estimation. I think that's pretty cool. Let me just adjust my glasses for that. And they also launched the Prometheus conformance program. The PCP, as it's called, enables end users to determine which projects, products, services are truly compatible with Prometheus. And this prevents fragmentation of the market, increases interoperability, ensures reliability and is backed by a fully open source test. Testing, love it. And to quote Richie directly from what he shared with us for the project updates, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the updated contributions guidelines. So please check it out. All right. Next up is VITNIST. So VITNIST is a database solution for deploying, scaling, and managing large clusters of open source databases. The quickfire update here is that they introduce improvements such as shorter latencies and reduce CPU memory usage for serving queries. So this means that systems can deliver more throughput while lowering hardware and cloud costs. I love saving money. So cool. Next one is FluidD. It is an ecosystem of tools to solve logs, collection, and processing containerized environments. Now, kind of the spoiler I was talking about, the observability space, it is no longer just for logs. There's first class integration with open metrics and Prometheus and plans for open telemetry. Please give this integration a try and as always, share your experience. All right. Last but certainly not least is the core DNS update. So this is a flexible DNS server that provides, among other things, service discovery in Kubernetes clusters. The core DNS team has moved more DNS functionality to plugins like the new zone transfer plugin. They're also working on an ACME plugin, which is going to automate certificate management through the ACME protocol. All right. So now, you may, now we can celebrate, pause, yeah, awesome. So remember to check out the rest of the projects for the latest scoop and don't forget to attend the maintainer sessions throughout the week to get more in-depth information about what's going on there. Thank y'all.