DevConf.US 2021

Open source has become the defining way of developing software. But how do we open-source the operation of software? The Operate First Cloud is a peer-to-peer mentoring environment for running Kubernetes and Cloud Native software in production, as well as a community for Cloud Native SREs to share knowledge about production practices. Using the same community-building process of open-source projects, but extended to ops procedures and data. Did you ever want to peek into a data center? See how Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Kubeflow, Prometheus and other CNCF projects are deployed and operated including the real configs. We’ll take you on a ride through the user-facing onboarding processes and the back office, where SRE’s perform state-of-the-art DevOps through GitOps and bot automation. Experienced SRE’s will find an outlet for sharing their knowledge and new talent get’s a chance to grow into an SRE role and get their hands on cloud-native projects in a production environment.