Growing the Community around CNCF Incubation project Emissary Ingress
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Emissary Ingress is an Envoy‑based Kubernetes API gateway that reached CNCF Incubation after v1.0 (Jan 2020) and a 2.0 developer preview; project metrics include 3,800 pull requests and 6,000 Slack members. Community growth relies on immediate outreach within days, a 12‑week Summer of Kubernetes course turned evergreen learning center, and an unusual support workflow of daily 25‑minute tech check‑ins that enable same‑day responses and selective engineering escalation. The claim: active community processes, not marketing, are what scaled adoption and sustained thousands of production users.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:23Welcome
- 1:14Presentation Outline
- 1:53Emissary Ingress Overview
- 2:48Emissary Ingress History
- 5:25Challenges
- 6:05Community Manager
- 9:16Tech Support
- 12:44Escalation
- 14:54Lessons Learned
- 17:02Benefits
- 19:03Outro
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