Learn the main takeaways from KubeCon and CloudNativeCon EU 2020

This year's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU is a wrap! The conference was virtual but still packed with 4 days of updates, trends and use cases from all the different projects, sponsors, vendors and end users that make up the cloud native ecosystem.

Read this blog post for a summary of the main topics and trends: How the virtual event worked out The top news and the most interesting projects that are gaining traction The increased focus on CNCF end users Diversity in the open source community ClusterAPI GitOps Telco grade Kubernetes networking / edge native (K3s, Longhorn) Storage (Vitess, TiKV, Longhorn, Rook, OpenEBS, NATS) Security (Trivy, OPA, Falco, SOPS, SPIFFE, SPIRE)

We also did a video summary with more details if you like that format: https://elastisys.com/summary-kubecon-cloudnativecon-eu-the-...

If you just want to skim the slides to the video they are available here: https://elastisys.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/KubeCon-Clo...

I especially like the security parts. SOPS integration that lets you store encrypted credentials and the like in YAML files seems like such a cool way to get the benefits of GitOps without sacrificing security.

Edited to add link to https://github.com/mozilla/sops and to also mention my surprise at that Mozilla is behind SOPS. :)