Building a Successful Open Source Community as an End-user Company
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 · on Friday, 2021-10-15· at 17:25· Concourse Hall 152 + Online·
summary
Intuit carries Argo after acquiring Applatix and grows four modular projects — argo cd, argo rollouts, argo workflows, argo events — used for GitOps, progressive delivery (canary and blue/green), workflow orchestration and event triggers. Community hits 18,000+ stars and about ~4,000 contributors with ~1,000 code contributors, growing 20–30 stars/day. Project lives in CNCF incubator aiming for graduation; expect 1–2 years of active evangelism, docs, vendor integrations and paid support options to reach scale.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:52Who are you
- 2:22What is Argo
- 3:34Argo Projects
- 4:28Timeline
- 6:41Benefits of Open Source
- 9:00Should you open source
- 12:02Good open source projects
- 14:07Open source benefits
- 15:22Open source challenges
- 16:57Open source goals
- 20:08Keeping things simple
- 23:32Open Source maturity and graduation
- 26:09Key takeaways
- 27:42Whats next
- 29:37Thank you
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