 All right, folks, we're gonna get started. We have a really jam-packed agenda today, so I'm gonna try and keep us on time. It never works out that way for community events, but welcome to the third London OpenShift Commons gathering, the second time we've been here at the beautiful Savoy, IET, with this very posh atmosphere. It feels, for an open-source community gathering, it's pretty upscale, I must say, and so I'm really grateful that you've all chosen to join us here today and spend a day with us hearing about all of the things that are going on across the OpenShift ecosystem. So come in, grab a seat, and I can see a few other people wandering, so there. So my name is Diane Neuler. I am eternally grateful to all of the sponsors who are here today. This is unlike other Red Hat events, it's a community event, so everything is sponsor-driven and we couldn't do it without folks like Aquasex, Six-Dig, and Prolifics and Storage, OS, Accenture, Portworx, Snicks, Crunchy Data, UK Cloud, IBM, Z or Z, depending on where you're from, and Couchbase, so please, during the breaks, take a wander around, have a cup of coffee, chat with them, we are incredibly grateful for the work they do within the ecosystem, a lot of them have built operators which you're gonna hear about today, a lot of them have open-source versions of their products. It's a wonderful, very big and robust ecosystem and these guys are some of our main supporters, so we're very, very grateful for that. As I said, we have a really packed agenda. I never build in time really for transitions between talks, so I'm gonna get all of my speakers if you come in late to come over and sit down here and we'll just grab you and throw you on stage and hopefully you're mic'd up appropriately. So that's gonna be a nice, long-packed day. We promise coffee breaks and food up again where you registered on the third floor, so don't rush the elevators, but there will be food and plenty of time to network today. So I like to start off all of the Commons gatherings with really trying to help people understand what OpenShift Commons is all about. And I've done this talk a few times about, as I call it, the search for connections across the OpenShift ecosystem. And often when you're working with a vendor or an open-source project, you're doing it remotely or you're doing it in your cubicle and you're working with lots of people who they, you never see their faces, so a few people here I've seen for the first time. Wayne there, who I just met for the first time has the same name as the mayor in my town and now I've actually met him and I know in LinkedIn he's not my mayor. So there's lots of great ways to connect and I think really having these smaller gatherings, 300 or so people where you can spend some time on the coffee breaks, really meeting and connecting with people is probably the most wonderful thing you can do in order to move forward your adventure with OpenShift and delivering your infrastructure. So today is really about facial recognition. I know you didn't come to an ML or an AI event but my goal for all of you today is to meet people you don't already know. So I'm gonna ask you all to make sure that maybe you move around your chairs during the break, introduce yourself to someone else who's not from your company because we had over 180 different companies not including Red Hat and IBM now, people. So there are a lot of a good mix of people from every kind of part of the market sectors from banking to Edge to telcos to all kinds of fun folks. And we had 500 individuals register for today. So I know it was a free event. So there's a little attrition but you'll all come and at least eat my food and hang out and really try and take advantage of what the commons is because it's really kind of a new community model. If you work in open source for as long as I have, originally it was really about trying to get people to contribute to my project whether it was at CD or OpenShift Origin when it was called three or four years ago. And now it's become much more of an interconnected world where when you see the CNCF and all the projects that are upstream and downstream to OpenShift, it's much more difficult to really get a sense of all of the intricacies of those communications. So what we've tried to do is create a new community model which is much more peer-to-peer network, networking interactions and we have events like today. We have OpenShift Commons briefings. We have a very long catalog of YouTube videos where you get to see me introducing people and getting you guys to talk about your talk, you know, whatever's near and dear to your heart. So if you want to speak, we have plenty of podiums. We have SIGs on just about every topic, number of working groups that we host under the OpenShift Commons. We have a really active Slack channel which is active, sometimes good, sometimes bad because it's like two in the morning and someone from Japan is tapping me on the shoulder. There's some mailing lists. And yes, we do look for you to contribute code but we'll talk a little bit about that where the code contribution can come from. But really my goal for community development is about helping create connected communities whether it's the OpenShift OKD one or it is EtsyD or it's Operators or it's Quay or it's Kubernetes or any of the CNCF projects or any of the sponsors who have operators and things like Falco and other projects. So just trying to keep all of those projects across that so that we can sync up our release schedules, feature requests, and people know each other. So that's really the goal of Commons. It's really about creating those connections. I've done a little bit of research on GitHub contributions and you'll see these and whenever I talk you can Google it and I do a lot of, I call these the jellyfish diagrams. Each one of these dots represents a person who's made some contribution or pull request or issue logged in GitHub or in one of our bugzillas for the projects. So you can see Kubernetes up there and you can see OpenShift and just some of them if I picked all of the new CNCF projects and all of the projects it would be a big blur of that. But it's the way you can start to see people who are contributing to some, come on in. Don't be afraid, there's a whole front row here. I'm sure Londoners don't sit in front rows because you go to the theater too much and too many volunteers are pulled on stage. So it's really, today is just about trying to help all of you create a lot of connections because really the way that I measure the health of our communities is about the number of connections that we create and how interconnected it is with the upstream, the downstreams and all the vendors. Because at the heart of everything is open source, the open communities and trying to make all of the collaboration that we do come out in the open. So that is what makes innovation in the open source world work. So as I said, open source is the source of everything. There's millions of projects out there in GitHub. There's lots of them. There's no way I could put them all up here because again, it would be a blur, but we have to really recognize the interconnectedness and interdependencies. So I like to say, if you don't know, the name of the open source repo and the open source project for OpenShift is OKD. And I jokingly say that means OK, Diane. But it is a function of Kubernetes plus everything else. So it really, and you'll see the pan to pop up a little bit. And OKD is really an interesting, it's in an interesting spot right now and you'll hear a talk hopefully this afternoon, mid-morning from Christian Glombeck on where we are at with releasing OKD4, but it's a collaboration with the Fedora Core West community, Ignition and a number of other projects as well to bring OpenShift onto the Fedora Core West so we'll have a pure open source play. So there's lots of ways we collaborate. But the interesting thing is, is like for all the millions of projects and all the hundreds of them that I actually know about, there's tons of undiscovered ones. And I probably overdo the jellyfish metaphor too much, but it's, there's so many different things that pop up on our radar so that it's very hard unless you have some network of peers and ways to get connected with people to really validate which ones are the ones that you should be watching, you should be incorporating. And this is really what Common Strives to do because this is last night, late night snapshot of the CNCF snapshot, trying to make decisions about which ones of these projects you wanna deploy in production or you wanna start testing or you wanna start contributing to is really hard if you don't have people to help you and give you advice and that you can trust to do that and that's what we really try and do. So if you just look at a few of the things that are in the incubated or graduated status of the cloud native computing foundation right now, just that figuring out which ones of these and how they interact with OpenShift and how you should use them is really a difficult process. And then you drop in the operator framework which is operator hub and a whole bunch of other things. You're talking about another 104 operators plus a lot of them are still out in the wild getting added into them. So what we keep trying to do within the OpenShift ecosystem is build strategies so that you can figure out how to vet and validate and use and find and discover some of these new projects. So with the operator hub.io is the open source site of things, there's another one that's built in and baked in and you'll hear about that today quite a bit, there's gonna be a nice talk on operators and some demos. We have the author of the recently published Kubernetes operators book. Jay Dobie is one of my colleagues is here. Did you get the published books? Did they show up? Are you gonna ask me that at the coffee break? I think we had a bunch of the books, they just came out this week for him to sign. Yeah, and we haven't seen a hard copy of it yet. So that's coming. So the thing about jellyfish is really sometimes you have to really dive into some of these projects. So we look at trying to figure out the interconnectedness of this and some of the research I've done has really been how I as the head of community development and the person who tries to find some of these people. So these three little dots at the top are three little, not three, but three folks who have been contributing to both of these projects and some of them are, so these folks, some of these folks will be here today talking to you and some of these folks will be online. Greg Swift is a great example of this. He's been contributing a bit to Jaeger, a bit to Kubernetes and OpenShift and he was working at Rackspace and is now at LogDNA. And if you go on our Slack channel, he's like a massively always there presence. And so what I'm hoping today you'll do is you'll find some of those people, whether they're Red Hatters, where we overlap with IBM folks or there are other people maybe from Amadeus or Santana or Barclays or Deutsche Bank, some of the people you're gonna hear talking about this stuff today. They're here in the room, they're here to connect with you, they're here to share their stories and their best practices. You can ask them questions. If they're here and on stage, they're totally willing to talk to you and connect with you. So take advantage of that. And so you guys are the audience and you're maybe looking in and kind of looking at these strange jellyfish who are gonna come on the stage, but I promise you they don't sting and they won't entrap you. I might entrap you and try and get you to come and share your story at the next London event or one of the any of the upcoming ones will be an Amsterdam at KubeCon with another gathering, will be at Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, any of those events. If you wanna share your story or if you have an open-source project that's part of this ecosystem that you wanna talk about, please come find me on the break. I am happy to stop talking and to give away the podium today and any day. So I'm doing pretty good keeping us on time here. So I'm gonna try and make sure that each of the speakers is available during the breaks. Everyone's committed to staying here who's speaking the whole day. So you can track them down and there's a reception in the evening. So which is upstairs again in the third floor and I've seen the skyline from that room upstairs. It is gorgeous here at night. So come be jellyfish with us. If you'd like to join the Commons, there are I think 540 organizations. It's a member-based organization community. So you only have to join once and then anybody at your company can join. So just sign the paper, sign away and we'll get you into the Slack channel, onto the mailing list. We'll make you volunteer for SIGs and tell your story and we'll get you connected to the people and the projects and the engineers and the other contributors across the ecosystem and help you on your journey through the OpenShift world. Again, one more shout out to all of our sponsors who are most of them are probably upstairs, probably frantically still trying to get their booth together. Please do spend some time with them. They really, we couldn't do this without them. So I'm gonna thank you for your time.