#6 DevOps Diary: Recap of My First KubeCon
Tags: devops, newsletter, kubecon, kubernetes
Published: 2020-11-25 17:48:06

Hey everyone, I hope you have/are having a lovely day and Welcome to week 6 🥳

I just attended my first KubeCon! Since it was KubeCon North America, I only managed to attend half of the talks but got to hear some great content + connect with some awesome people, and can't wait until they [post the content online.](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvqbFHwN-nwalWPjPUKpvTA)

This week focuses on some of the content that the community has shared throughout KubeCon.

## Videos 🎥

- KubeCon hosted live streams — including discussions and presentations — [on their Twitch channel](https://www.twitch.tv/cloudnativefdn) before and after every conference day
- Codefresh hosted a [hallway track](https://youtu.be/jqoOz0FJWwY) at the end of every conference day — check-it out, you get the gist of the main takeaways and the input from the speakers

## Blog Posts 🗞️

- If you prefer written summaries, then this is for you, StackRox [listed their top highlights and key takeaways](https://www.stackrox.com/post/2020/11/kubecon-2020-highlights-and-key-takeaways/)
- AWS Geek, i.e. [Jerry Hargrove](https://twitter.com/awsgeek/) shared [some amazing visual summaries](https://www.awsgeek.com/KubeCon-Virtual-2020/) of the talks [on his website](https://www.awsgeek.com/)

## News 📢

Amazon, Codefresh, GitHub, Microsoft, and Weaveworks are announcing the creation of the [GitOps Working Group](https://codefresh.io/devops/announcing-gitops-working-group/). This will be an open CNCF community project.

If you want to get started with GitOps, check-out these two summaries: [One](https://codefresh.io/gitops/) and [two](https://www.weave.works/technologies/gitops/) and more content from my [previous newsletter.](https://blog.anaisurl.com/5-devops-diary/)

## Communities 👥

This week, I want to give a shout-out to [Codefresh](https://codefresh.io/). We have this program, called [Blog for Good](https://codefresh.io/blog-for-good/), basically:

Write a relevant blog post for Codefresh, and we’ll donate $250 to one of the six charities below — your choice. Plus you’ll get another $250 to keep (or, you could donate it all.) It’s a win-win.

If you are interested in participating, please reach out, I would love to hear from you. 

My Telegram @URLICHSANAIS 

## Tip of the Week 💡

One of the best keynotes at Kubecon was a panel discussion between: [Brad Geesaman](https://twitter.com/bradgeesaman), [Ian Coldwater,](https://twitter.com/IanColdwater) [Rory McCune](https://twitter.com/raesene), [Duffie Cooley](https://twitter.com/mauilion)

The main takeaway (and I rephrase here) by IanColdwater was: Everything they do isn't magic (even though it might seem that way) but instead years of practice — everyone can do it, you just have to practice. So keep practicing!

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ivunaj6ak15br9fyqlmr.jpeg)

## Sticky-Content 📌

- You can find a collection of all the resources that I list in the DevOps newsletter + additional notes etc. [on the public notion page](https://www.notion.so/DevOps-Diary-2e5c82e48d374442858fc8295070a4b8)
- We just kicked off our [DevOps learning group](https://www.notion.so/WIP-DevOps-Learning-Group-1e4915a518eb4608a42f163f45a678c1) with the first presentation happening next week. if you would like to join, please either message me on Telegram (@URLICHSANAIS) or on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/urlichsanais). I would love to hear from you 🙂

## Events 🌍

- Lowcodetoday		[https://lowcodetoday.com/](https://lowcodetoday.com/)	Nov 19, 2020
- AWS re:Invent		[https://reinvent.awsevents.com](https://reinvent.awsevents.com/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=AWS_reInvent,reInvent_DemandGeneration&sc_publisher=TWITTER&sc_country=Global&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=event_registration&trkCampaign=AWS_reInvent_2020&trk=sm_reInvent_demandgeneration_Global_post1_TWITTER&linkId=103180941)	Nov 30, 2020 → Dec 18, 2020
- Global SKILup Festival		[https://devopsinstitute.com/skilup-festival/](https://devopsinstitute.com/skilup-festival/)	Dec 7, 2020 → Dec 11, 2020
- Universe2020		[https://githubuniverse.com/](https://githubuniverse.com/?utm_source=github.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=universe_banner_dashboard_phase1)	Dec 8, 2020 → Dec 10, 2020

## Tweet of the Week 🐦

We all need more puppies in our lives — Tweet by [Benjamin Elder](https://twitter.com/BenTheElder) (also [Top Committer](https://twitter.com/BenTheElder/status/1329865381540872192))

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/u7s41sdq9599u5ab85uy.png)

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