The Cloud Native Chronicles: 10 Years of Community Growth Inside and Outside Japan

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The Cloud Native Chronicles: 10 Years of Community Growth Inside and Outside Japan Kohei Ota, Senior Field Engineer, Apple

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Celebrates 10th anniversary!

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Kubernetes in 2014

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And now…

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The Open Source Velocity

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The Open Source Velocity

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Contributions 42M Contributors 88K Companies 8K

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Japanese Companies in Top 100 K8s Contributors

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Individual Japanese top contributors

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Activities related to Japan in CNCF projects • Localization work • Kubernetes documentation (kubernetes.io) • CNCF glossary • PipeCD: a CNCF project originally from Japan • CNCF Ambassadors from Japanese community • 1 person -> 5 persons after COVID • 13 Kubestronauts from Japan!

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Community activities in Japan

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Early day Kubernetes related events in Japan • Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo • First event on May 10th, 2016 • Over 9k members as of 2024 • 66 events in the 8 years! • Almost 1 event per 1 month • Become fully online since COVID • Easy to attend for everyone Kubernetes communities in Japan • Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo • First event on May 10th, 2016 • Over 9k members as of 2024 • 66 events in the 8 years! • Kubernetes Meetup Novice • First event on Feb 10th, 2020 • Over 1.6k member as of 2024

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Early day Kubernetes related events in Japan • Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo • First event on May 10th, 2016 • Over 9k members as of 2024 • 66 events in the 6 years! • Almost 1 event per 1 month • Become fully online since COVID • Easy to attend for everyone Kubernetes communities in Japan • Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo • First event on May 10th, 2016 • Over 9k members as of 2024 • 66 events in the 8 years! • Kubernetes Meetup Novice • First event on Feb 10th, 2020 • Over 1.6k member as of 2024

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Japan Container Days and CloudNative Days • Largest Cloud Native Conference in Japan • Since 18.04 (2018 April) • Multiple locations w/ Hybrid setup • Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Hokkaido • Live stream since COVID • Sub contents to educate future contributors • Kubernetes Upstream training • Cloud Native Hands-on

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The Current state of The Global Community

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We Need to Gain Awareness of International Community and Contribution…

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Cloud Native Community Japan (CNCJ) • Connect CNCF with Japanese communities, companies, and organizations (We booted since 2023 🎉) • Promote the adoption and growth of CNCF and cloud-native technologies across Japan • Support open-source contributions and technological innovations from within the country

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We welcome all of you to the local and global community!

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So, you might ask, “What can ‘I’ do?" • Work is not the only way to learn Cloud Native technology • Join our CNCJ community and meetups • Study for exams such as KCNA/CKA/CKAD/CKS • Submit a talk if you have lessons learned • Contribute to projects • Code contribution & non code contribution are equally amazing • Become a Kubestronaut or ambassador

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Key Takeaways • Happy KuberTENes! 🎉 • Community contribution in Japan exists, but we need more active and continuous contributors • We would love all of you to get involved 🫶 • Enjoy KubeDay! More exciting sessions are coming 😀

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THANK YOU