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Keynote: CI/CD Isn't Reserved for Software!

2022-10-27

Authors:   Erin Boyd, Matt Farina


Summary

The keynote presentation discusses the evolution of the TOC and its role in guiding technical decisions to improve the way the cloud native community is served.
  • Continuous Improvement (CI) is not a new concept and is based on continuous improvement of working practices and personal efficiency.
  • The TOC has continuously evolved to meet the scale of project adoption and provide value to the cloud native community.
  • The TOC represents 10 companies, including 3 end users, and members work in small, medium, and large companies from 4 different countries and 2 continents.
  • The TOC's mission is to take Cloud native Computing everywhere from the desktop to the data center to the edge.
  • The TOC guides technical decisions through open governance and transparency, technical evolution, and interoperability.
  • The TOC shepherds projects through the three stages of the CNCF: sandbox, incubation, and graduation.
  • The TOC created technical advisory groups (TAGs) to manage the many projects and technical areas.
  • TAGs cover a wide variety of areas, including security, storage, and disaster recovery.
  • The TAGs collaborate with projects on security reviews, supply chain security, and storage architectures.
  • The TOC is constantly looking for ways to improve processes and listens to feedback to ensure positive and sustainable growth for the future.
The speaker mentions that the TOC is not just a small group of people who have collaborative board meetings and travel internationally. They work on a lot of processes and are constantly looking for ways to improve those processes. They work through all these processes with consistency and listen to feedback. The TOC is a group of people who not only want to help grow the technical community but also listen and evolve the systems in which they work to ensure its growth is positive and sustainable for the future.

Abstract

With more than 125 CNCF projects with various levels of maturity, the TOC is continuously evolving to meet the scale of project adoption and provide value to the cloud native community.This keynote will focus on how we are executing on our strategic objectives outlined in Valencia to improve the way we serve this community.

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