Cloud Foundry Summit 2017

The Recap 

Another Cloud Foundry Summit has come and gone.  This year was just as good if not better than last year.  The sessions were great and meeting up with everybody was great too.  If you were not there or if you couldn't get to all of the sessions, here is the YouTube link to the ones that have been published.

One great announcement was that the Kubo project has been donated to the Cloud Foundry Foundation as an open source project.  This project was originally a joint venture between Pivotal and Google.  If you don't know what Kubo is, it is a BOSH release of Kubernetes.  The official GitHub page will give you more detailed information on it.

Another announcement during the keynote was that Microsoft is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Gold Member.  Microsoft offers Pivotal Cloud Foundry through their Azure service. They also have integrated the Cloud Foundry CLI inside of their Azure Cloud Shell.

My Experience

Enough of what you probably heard or already read out on the Internet about the conference. The biggest benefit of being there was the sharing of ideas and stories with the rest of the community.  I met and talked with a lot of people during this conference.  Some of you were just starting to evaluate Cloud Foundry and wanted to hear how it has helped.  Others have been using it for awhile and come to find out that their experiences (Good and Bad) sounded very familiar.

As I said in the last post, my company (Express Scripts) was a sponsor at this year's summit.  I couldn't say enough good things about representing our company and showing support for this open source community.  Thank you to those who are reading this article and stopped by the booth to chat.  Not only did you get earbuds but you also got to learn about who are company is and why what we do is so important.  Also, we got to show off the cool things we are doing with Cloud Foundry and hopefully gave you ideas for your own environment.  Below is a picture of all the smiling people working at this year's booth.

Summary

I would say this year's trip was a success.  I am looking to also go to the Sping One Conference this year in December.  Hopefully, there will be as a good a turnout there as there was at Cloud Foundry Summit.  If you are going, hope to see you there.

~RRRII