It might be virtual but this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Virtual is just as jam-packed with Linkerd content as usual. So if you’re attending the event, be sure and check out these sessions and participate in the online conversation during and afterwards.

Kubecon Project Update Keynote

On Tuesday, August 18 at 16:04 CEST (10:04 am EDT / 7:04 am PDT), Constance Caramanolis will share the Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects update, including an update on the Linkerd project. Don’t miss it!

Maintainer office hours and project booth

The Linkerd maintainers will be hanging out at the Linkerd booth in the project pavilion, located inside the sponsor expo hall. Come join us for a live conversation with real life engineers!

We are also hosting project office hours via Zoom on Tuesday, August 18 at 5:45 - 6:45 pm CEST and Wednesday, August 18 at 5:45 - 6:45 pm CEST.

Kubecon and ServiceMeshCon Talks

Here’s the full schedule of Linkerd-related content at Kubecon and at the ServiceMeshCon zero-day event the day prior:

Monday, August 17

• ServiceMeshCon | Service Mesh Is Still Hard. Things we all did Wrong & Tales of Woe | 15:30 - 16:00 (9:30am EDT - 6:30am PDT): William Morgan, Linkerd Maintainer and Lin Sun, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
• ServiceMeshCon | What happens when service mesh maintainers get a taste of their own mesh? | 17:35 - 18:05 (11:35am EDT - 8:35am PDT): Carol Scott, Linkerd contributor and Risha Mars, Linkerd contributor
• Users First: Why (and How!) We Internationalized Our Cloud-Native Project | 13:14 - 13:19 (7:14 am EDT / 4:14 am PDT): Carol Scott, Linkerd contributor | Lightning Talk
• Panel: Ask Me Anything About Service Mesh | 17:40 - 18:15 (11:40 am EDT / 8:40 am PDT): Oliver Gould, Buoyant; Lin Sun & Daniel Berg IBM; Christian Posta, Solo.io; & Sven Mawson, Google

Tuesday, August 18

• Keynote - CNCF Project Update | 16:04 - 16:20 (10:04 am EDT / 7:04 am PDT): Constance Caramanolis, Software Engineer, Splunk
• Intro to Linkerd | 18:30 - 19:05 (12:30 pm EDT / 9:30 am PDT): William Morgan, Linkerd Maintainer

Wednesday, August 19

• Deep Dive: Linkerd | 16:55 - 17:30 (10:55 am EDT / 7:55 am PDT): Zahari Dichev, Linkerd contributor

Thursday, August 20

• Service Mesh & Serverless Chatbots w/Linkerd, K8s & OpenFaas | 18:05 - 18:40 (12:05 pm EDT / 9:05 am PDT): Sergio Méndez, Systems Engineer, Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala
• Booting 5 K8s Clusters on Every Git Push: How Linkerd Leveled Up Its CI | 18:05 - 18:40 (12:05 pm EDT / 9:05 am PDT): Andrew Seigner, Linkerd contributor
• Nondestructive Forensics: Debugging K8s Services Without Disturbing State | 18:05 - 18:40 (12:05 pm EDT / 9:05 am PDT) : Alex Leong, Linkerd contributor

We’d love to see you there, but if you can’t make it, don’t worry. You can always find us in the Linkerd Slack channel—hop in and say hi!

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