Navigating the Cloud Native Ecosystem for End Users

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CNCF identifies three concrete end-user problems from 45 interviews: choosing architecture, hiring Kubernetes-skilled engineers, and aligning business strategy. The foundation runs closed mailing lists and Slack, organizes small maintainer-user meetings and an end-user partner summit, assigns a case-study writer and offers five free tickets to KubeCon for members. End-user community grows past 90 companies (Apple just joined), membership tiers start at $1,800 for small orgs and scale to enterprise levels.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:11Non-profit, part of Linux Foundation, founded December 2015
3. 3:08400+ Members and Growing (Silver 2)
4. 3:25In practice
5. 6:02Definition of end user
6. 6:25CNCF End User Community
7. 7:02But isn't everything open?
8. 7:39The CNCF helps end users
9. 13:31Are you an end user?
10. 18:06KubeCon US/EU/China tickets
11. 19:54Join the End User Community

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