KubeCon NA 2024 Recap Blog (#540)

Signed-off-by: Ryan Emerson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Schwartz <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Schwartz <[email protected]>

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+:title: Recap Keycloak at KubeCon NA 2024
+:date: 2024-12-04
+:publish: true
+:author: Ryan Emerson
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+Keycloak had a very active presence at this year's KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City, Utah. This blog presents a few of the
+highlights as well as ways you can contribute to Keycloak’s CNCF journey.
+
+== Project Pavilion
+
+Keycloak hosted a project pavilion stand during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon slots. Attending the booth were
+Keycloak contributors https://github.com/y-tabata[Yoshiyuki Tabata] from Hitachi and https://github.com/ryanemerson[Ryan Emerson],
+https://github.com/mabartos[Martin Bartos] and https://github.com/kami619[Kamesh Akella] from Red Hat.
+
+During these sessions, we discussed all things Keycloak with existing and prospective users, as well as provided the much
+requested Keycloak stickers plus additional swag for particularly enthusiastic users. It was great to hear war stories
+from the trenches with regard to both the good and bad of Keycloak. This feedback is essential for us to continue to
+evolve the project and plan the future roadmap. A special thanks to all of those who filled out our survey forms, we
+really appreciate your time. If you were unable to attend the pavilion, please consider filling out the
+http://bit.ly/keycloak-community[online version of the form].
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+<a href="${blogImages}/kubecon_na_2024_kiosk.jpg"><img src="${blogImages}/kubecon_na_2024_kiosk.jpg" alt="Four Keycloak contributors hosting the project pavilion booth" style="width: 100%; max-width: 700px; height: auto;"></a>
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+== Keycloak Talk
+
+https://github.com/ryanemerson[Ryan Emerson] and https://github.com/kami619[Kamesh Akella] presented a talk titled
+"`Running a Highly Available Identity and Access Management with Keycloak`". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDFWBQO31M4[Watch the recording]
+to hear about the recent developments in Keycloak’s HA story, including an overview of the architecture recommended in
+the Keycloak guides, the lessons learned during the development of said guides and the CNCF technologies used as part of
+our stack. A video of the talk is linked below.
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+Thank you to all who attended and asked questions, there were good follow-up conservations that continued well after our
+time was up.
+
+== Keycloak Survey
+
+Are you a Keycloak user who is deploying in production or just considering starting with Keycloak? We would love to hear
+more from you about your success stories, what is crucial to your deployments and what can be done better. Please fill
+out the http://bit.ly/keycloak-communityorm[online Keycloak Survey], so we can better understand your use cases.
+
+Your story maybe a candidate for a https://www.cncf.io/case-studies[CNCF Case Study]. If you would like to share your
+success story with our community, answer _yes_ to the "`Would you be interested to share your story with our broader community?`"
+and we will be in touch shortly.
+
+== KubeCon EU
+
+In 2025, https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe[KubeCon EU] will be held in London on April 1-4th,
+we hope to see you there and hear your latest Keycloak stories. As it’s still very much early days, we cannot provide any
+specifics, but be assured that we’ll publish more information in the near future.