KubeCon EU Day 1
Tags: kubernetes
Published: 2020-08-20 01:39:40

I really enjoyed Day 1 of [KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)!

Having a convention go fully virtual gives it a very different feel to any convention I'd previously attended - though this is my first KubeCon that I'm attending! That said, KubeCon & CNCF have always been wonderful in putting all their sessions up on YouTube after the convention.

The virtual aspect was very interesting. The sessions themselves had a Q&A feature, which was all fine, though I really liked encouraging folks to chat with the presenters in the CNCF Slack. I would rarely ask questions at a convention, or network with folks, so this felt far more accessible - jump in when you want, lurk the rest of the time! Now if I only could get all the usual swag from the expo hall ;)

## Attended Sessions

### KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 101: A Beginner's Guide to The Conference

This was the first talk I checked out, presented by [Karen Chu](https://twitter.com/karenhchu) and [Michelle Noorali](https://twitter.com/michellenoorali). This was far better than I expected as there was a lot of terminology that I wasn't aware of - especially around CNCF as there was sessions aimed at SIGs (Special Interest Group) and TOCs (Technical Oversight Group). Details about the Expo hall, and introducing me to the [Hallway Track](https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/2018/05/15/hallway-track-open-source-conferences/) - which sounded like Lighting Talks but more general? The talk itself also was an interesting combo of pre-recording and then switching over to live for the Q&A!

### From Minikube to Production, Never Miss a Step in Getting Your K8s Ready

Heh, this was an interesting talk, but as I've only started on my Kubernetes journey, it became apparent that this was a bit beyond my experience. Though I definitely could relate as [Horacio Gonzalez](https://twitter.com/LostInBrittany) talked about testing Kubernetes locally with [Minikube](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/) etc, that your laptop will be slow... its going to get hot... but, its going to work :)

It was great to see Horacio and [Kevin Georges](https://twitter.com/0xd33d33) talk through all the steps to go from MiniKube to Production.

1. Locally Running
2. Security Team sets up ingress rules
3. App breaks, and you figure out a solution
4. Iterate over ..and over.. and over..

This quickly got DEEP into the networking complexity! Book marked it to return when I will hopefully have a better idea of whats going on...

### Tutorial: Hands-On Intro to Cloud-Native CI/CD with Tekton

Welp, double down on Minikube and this time with a CD/CD pipeline with [Tekton](https://tekton.dev/) presented by [Joel Lord](https://twitter.com/joel__lord) and [Jan Kleinert](https://twitter.com/jankleinert). I tend to like understanding a pipeline so that I can understand where products come in or patterns can be used. It was pretty straight forward with the pipelines - there are steps, with inputs and outputs. This talk came with [actual code](https://github.com/joellord/handson-tekton), which was great! Let me read the code while the talk is in the background.

I was hoping to learn more about performing the actual deploys, though this really focused on building and pushing the images. The [Tekton Hub](https://hub-preview.tekton.dev/) has a ton of resources with shared tasks and pipelines, which will be really helpful!


## Overview

A solid start to the first day :) Will have to check out more of expo hall, review notes some more etc.. but, I'm enjoying myself!