You all know that Africa is not perfect, and if you guys have a chance to change one thing in Africa, what will it be? When we go out there, I'm sure you've also experienced it, like we are told we are from Africa, we are not told we are from Kenya, but we are from Africa. So I think if we would have a language which we can communicate like Swahili to be a language that only Africans understand. I think that is something that will be very special. Second, I don't think I need a visa to come to Ghana or to any African country. Like, let Africans be free to travel within Africa without complications. Imagine Africa speaking in one voice, we would be a formidable force, you'd be surprised. There are resources across Africa which we can be the force that before you talk to us, everyone would be getting a visa to come to Africa. And you know, most of the people from the other side, they don't require visas to come to Africa, but as we require visas to go their countries, if I am told to change Africa, I would make Africa one united Africa. Language, resources, everything. And from there now, we move forward as one formidable force of Africa, united state of Africa. Good morning from Nairobi, Kenya. Listen, when you are visiting this country, always carry a sweater or a jacket. Because when I was coming to this country for the first time, I never knew how super cold this country can be. It's seven o'clock in the morning and I'm freezing. That's why I just water, I just heat my body up. But hey, this is one of the most beautiful and serene estate that I've ever seen. And I wish I could buy a home in here. I'm not here to talk about myself. I'm here to talk about a family that has built a billion dollar empire out of travel and tours. This is something that I never thought it's possible, but Africans always try to make that impossible possible. Listen, I'm that guy on a journey to celebrate every single African. I found myself in the East, here in Kenya, Nairobi, a suburb in Nairobi.  Who are the people behind it? My name is Simon Kabu, Chairman and CEO of Bonfire Adventures, which is a Kenyan leading tour and travel agency. My name is Mrs. Sara Kabu, Managing Director of Bonfire Adventures. The company has been there for the last 15 years and we are proud to have maintained the lead for the last 10 years. Do you know that this company is the leading tour company in the whole of Eastern Central Africa? Believe me or not, I was blown away when I found out about them. And I know and believe that their story is definitely going to blow your mind. I'm in their neighborhood right now, this is where they live. That's a Range Rover, man. The life of the rich. Okay, it's not a long cruise. I think I'm ready for this video. You know what, it's 7 o'clock, I hope they are awake. I'm just going to wake them up, whether they like it or not, they have to talk to me. Because it's my first to share stories of Africans to inspire other Africans. Come along with me. I'm in the spirit even though it's so cold. I'm in the spirit. I'm in the spirit. I'm in the spirit. Today we are supposed to be with Ademai, I don't know if he's arrived. Hi. Hello, I'm good. Good to see. I love your estate. Welcome home. Welcome. You guys already know something? Yes, we are going for a jog. Yeah, I can see you are very beautiful I think I was thinking about a good time Because it's public opinion here Oh really? It's so cold in Nairobi so I decided to put on a jacket If you guys agree now, why don't we work out together? We work out together late first start It's called the sharpshooter What is it called? That vitamin shoot Yes, we take some juice so that we can proceed Wow, welcome No, it's okay, don't come in I know you are from the car Yeah, so welcome home Okay, are you ready for the joke? I hope we are not going that far I can only do 6,000 steps Just have Just have 5 km Let the real jogging begin First time Jogging with Billionaires I think I've made it in life I've made it in life Jogging with Billionaires I need to tell my mom that I jog with Billionaires He has to be in Guinness Book of Friends My mom will be super proud of me You go systematically You don't over push yourself Okay If you want to reach far you go systematically Like now the way people say success is not a one time event If you just run you get it very fast But you walk briskly until when you are fit enough to start jogging and you progress until if you are doing 2 km you continue doing 3 5 or 6 Will you say that is the idea behind your building a successful business That's one of the idea because what we do is that we are normally very patient the 5 piece, the persistence the passion all that combined How long did it take you to build Bonfa Adventures to this day 15 years we recently celebrated our 15th year anniversary during the end of the party Okay Now you guys get it Success is not built in a day It's a morning routine Not every morning that we do the jog We do the jog at least 3 times a week Occasionally Sometimes meetings don't allow us But we try also to do swimming To the gym D for the day What do you admire I hope my people served you already No Today we made a feast for you You know the last time you came and announced So green or yellow juice This is orange The green one made me hungry That's the motive You see in our culture we normally say a good husband is one who eats well because he has to work to get food That's the point because we are like hoteliers We have to mix both African and western We can take I really want to tell you guys something I really love the connection and the vice between you two It's more like that's the kind of relationship that I want And you know Sometimes people normally say that it's so difficult to build a business with your wife My question would be how did both of you met and from there I want to know how is it like to run a business with your wife I think she has to pick how much of you met because women are good at answering that question Yes, I can allow her how we met You can talk about how we met You can talk about the business first We have memories We met for the first time on 1st December 2007 So we were both in an online forum of young professionals Most were job seekers or looking for better jobs That time they were called google groups and yahoo groups We joined with the name of getting better jobs in the group because they would share job vacancies there But then people started discussing politics So we were in the group I I Simon among other people we were among the most active We have dormant members in a group and active members So he used to like the world made contributions in the group and I also used to like the way he would make sub contributions in the group There are some people who just go to the group to just cause fire So he is the one who could cool the fire and everything So I liked the way of contributing in the group So at the end of the year after elections people thought that it's good we meet and know each other because we just know each other by the names and profile photos So they selected us to organize the getaway for people to meet So we organized we still hadn't met but on the day of the trip is when we met for the first time I guess it's the best movie you've ever made in your whole life I agree and you see that particular time we had not even started a company and when we did the first we were with some other people the organization was being Sarah and some other few people like a committee of like 5 people like a committee then we posted the when we went to the first time we met we were told the guys who missed the first one said we organized the second one and we went to the same place we organized the second one we went to the second one we posted the photos on facebook and people said we still need the third one so during the third because it was just a free thing we were not charging anything imagine the dedication the sacrifice to organize for people without even adding anything then the third we found me and Sarah the other people had just retired they had gotten tired of organizing the third one and it was during that particular time someone from a corporate asked us can you guys do team building we said yes we can do team building so we found ourselves me and Sarah organizing a team building for a certain corporate so we organized a team building and they said they will not pay us until we deliver so they didn't pay us at first then that particular time of payment because they would pay us through they said no no we are a corporate we can only pay to a bank account and using a check we only had our personal bank account they said we cannot pay to a personal account so that prompted me and Sarah to open a company that was Born for Adventures and how the name came about I remember that particular time because it was before Easter we wanted to now because people were asking us where else do we go so we said we would go to Masai Mara with Sarah to check where people can go for Easter that finding mission when we were in Mara at that particular time that night I remember there was a bonfire and a lady who from that corporate now who was paying us asked us that's the time we had that conversation where do we pay the money which check do we write because we had cleared the name that the time we said what might bring us to Masai Mara again there was bonfire and that's how the name Born for Adventures came about doesn't mean that at that time you guys were not married or were you dating at that time you were not even dating okay he was making his moves but I was not yet sure what year was this that was 2008 2008 to 2009 so you guys were working as friends from a group a team and after that we started now because of now we didn't have an office we didn't have anything we were working in me was from Masai Mara and she was an office admission account me used to travel a lot within Kenya as a sales person so we didn't have an office but I had a brother who had a small desk in town he was not using it he told me why can't I rent out this desk for you one desk so the desk used to cost us 10,000 shillings per month and that's where now we started I had a laptop and that's how our business started 10,000 shillings only but that's like 100 dollars after now we only started working together our friends started asking us where else do we travel to so we used to that desk she used to come because she was very near her office place was near our office our desk so she used to come over lunchtime and maybe come in the evening so that we meet our friends who wanted to travel now we started staying in the office together I started looking at her now the rest is history one thing led to another one year of courting from 2008 2009 where we got married in June 2009 after 2 years how do both of you feel right now in terms of how far you've come it's this song that seems like we made it you know it when we were during that journey we would say in Kikuyu we say Noko Geria Kenyan we were just trying it was not that serious we were just trying but then it happened we are not yet there but we would say at the moment we are beyond our we even didn't dream to be here so we are beyond our dreams now we are now having to re-dream our life again because we are now living beyond our dreams still now we cannot be at comfort zone we need to re-dream our life again yes we always hit our targets maybe that particular time our target was to have this then we achieved that now what next we put our target here so our target was to be maybe we achieved there now we progress on and that is what keeps our life busy because it challenges us always or I go to the question that I really want to ask so for how many trips have you guys organized for people uncountable uncountable maybe roughly like a thousand trips a month yes a month you can count now the number of months for the of course for the first year the fifth year it wasn't like that so we have not done our calculation yes but we thank God that we are now billionaires club officially whoa a round of applause for that you are now billionaires yes that your company is now making it worth billion you see before I dive into that let's go from how is life growing up because I believe that there are so many people sitting in their various houses watching this video where I am at the moment will I be able to reach this far just like the Kabul family so let's go back a little bit before bonfire growing up in Kenya how is life first I would like to tell you that person who is watching this video you are as big as your dreams what you just need to do is just to wake up and chase your dreams it means if you just sleep you just sleep on your dream but wake up and chase them you can dream anything I grew up from a very hard background going to school without shoes if you check my legs and carrying the ash because it was not cemented we used to carry ash those days because of the jiggers you carry ash and sprinkle and some water eating cold food sometimes not having food at all but I had a dream to that particular time I passed very well from class class 1 to class 8 I used to be in position 1 except class 6 which became position 2 and I cried very much so I used to be a bright kid then from there progressed to a provincial now national high school then I went to the university my business acumen started when I was at the university I went to Egerton University and when I was there I used to I used to show people to screen some movies for people that's the business I used to do even the people who have first low Egerton they already know someone I used to have a branding called Kavidio to show people the videos after that I left the university I went to I was employed in a sales job where I used to work like 18 or 19 hours a day a graduate working 18 or 19 hours a day because I wanted to gain experience too and that's where now my luck started but before that at one particular point before starting the movie job I used to be a tout I don't know whether you know the matter to tout that's what the job I used to do here in Nairobi it's called Route 44 Ghidorah I have done that I started as a tout I graduated to be a driver but because I didn't have school fees at one particular point and my parents could not support me so I had two options one to drop out of the university or to come out of the university look for fees and go back and complete my education I opted for the latter I came out of the university for one year then came and looked for school fees as a tout and later as a driver then I went back to school and completed my university I got up in a Christian family in Embo County that is in the Mount Kenya Highlands in a family of eight I'm the seventh born four girls, four boys I did a lot of courses in college I was not sure what I really wanted to do I did a diploma in IT I did some accounting I did some business administration most of these courses I would start and not finish but finally I found myself settlement in the tourism industry so it's always good to know your purpose early, know your passion what you like doing and which career that can connect with so that you start following your passion early so at here how was your meeting the meeting was good the school is very excited and we of course won it was tough competition we were about five competitors but we won the group they have promised to do the check on Monday so they'll be going for the world scholars have you heard of world scholars? I love the fact that both of you go for different meetings but one common goal how was yours by the way mine was a different kind of a meeting it's a bigger business which I cannot have you done a game drive at Nairobi national park and you've come to Nairobi so many times when do you want to do it? I love that question he also became Matata driver I'm not on vehicle without passengers how does that make you feel? you see it makes me feel good and sometimes I know it's only too long but sometimes when I see you know the way people the Matata people drive other people think they are a little bit reckless but they have strong targets they have a lot of targets and that's why you have to do many of them so when I see them trying to cut in front of me I know this guy has some targets so I don't really put myself there I just give them the way what kind of target are you taking over? Matata people they don't have daily targets so whatever money you are supposed to take to the owner you can't achieve that tomorrow you will not be you will not be so when I see them trying to cut in front of me I know this guy has a lot of targets and to achieve your target you have to make a lot of trips the many trips you make the more you are able to achieve the target welcome to bornfire yes yes yes yes that time it was just two of you yes two years two of us when you enter this office and you see a number of people working for you guys how does that make you feel


DuPont presents The Cavalcade of America. Ladies and gentlemen, this is The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont, makers of better things for better living through chemistry. Tonight we have privilege to present the distinguished stars of the American Theater, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine in a new Christmas miracle play written for our times by Stephen Vincent Benech. It is called A Child Is Born. It's my task to say just where and how things happen in our play. It's an old task. Old is the human heart. Old is those bygone players in their arcs, who in old days when faith was nearer earth, played out the mystery of Jesus' birth in Hall or Village Venomarket Square for all who chose to come and see them there. So we tonight, who are your players too, ask to tell that self-contained tale to you. The time is time. The place is anywhere. The voices speak to you across the air to say that once again, a child is born. A child is born. I play you all, give us your audience, and hear this matter with reverence. There is a town where men and women live, as people do in troubled times. Times when the world is shaken. There is an inn. A woman sings there in the early morning. For God. For God. That's fine. That's wonderful. That answers everything. The country is occupied. We have no country. You've heard of that, perhaps. You've seen there's some truth, haven't you? You know just what can happen to our sort of people once there's a little trouble. Answer me. I've seen, I know, but... But, oh, la, la, la, sometime I think your ways will drive me mad. Is it your business what King Herod does? Is it your place to sing against King Herod? Do you pretend to know the ins and outs of politics and why the great folk do the thing they do? And why have to bear them? Because it's we, we, we who have to bear them. First and last and always in every country and in every town. They dinged us like dry wheat between the stones. Don't you know that? I know that somehow King should not be wicked and grind the people down. I know that things like Herod should not be... All right. All right. I'm not denying that. I'm reasonable enough. I know the world. It's a bad world, but it must last our time. Herod is Herod, but my ends my end. I do the best I can. I pay my taxes here in this conquered and forsaken land. And as for all your fine rebellious souls who hide in the hills and stir up trouble, call themselves to and prophesy that something new is coming to the world. The Lord knows what. Well, it's a long time coming. And meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones. Something must come. Believe it if you choose, but meantime, if we're clever, we can live and even thrive a little. Clever wheat that slips between the grinding stones and grows into the good, the profitable grain. At least if you will not sing subversive songs to other people but your poor old husband who loves you still in spite of all your senses and always will. Come, wife. I've got some news. I didn't mean to be so angry with you. Give us a kiss. I couldn't help the child. I know you think of that this time of year. You're my son too, and I think of him. I couldn't help his dying. No, husband, no. He stretched his little arms to me and died. And yet I had the priest, the high priest too. I didn't spare the money. No, my husband, I'm a baron bow. I think and sing, and I'm a baron bow. Oh, come, come, come. The fault is mine. I had my joyous season, my season of full ripening and fruit, and then the silently aching breast. I thought I would have children. I was wrong. But my flesh aches to think I do not have them. I did not mean to speak of this at all. I do not speak of it. I will forget, not sing at all. I'm wrong, Tarsten Gunn. Tell me your news. Is it good news? That's the prefect comes to dinner here tonight with all his officers. Oh, yes, I know the enemy, of course the enemy, but someone has to feed them. And they are pay-ash on the nails. Yes, I thought you'd say so. Oh, you'll make no great profit. Not tonight. I've seen the bill of fare they asked me. Quails in midwinter. Well, we'll give them quails and charge them for them, too. No, that's right. They must be well-served. I'll care for that, the honest innkeeper, the thoughtful man. Oh, do not spoil my servants with large-essure worship. And he won't. He pinches pennies. But once he's come here, he will come again, and we shall live, not die, and put some coin, some solid enemy, and lovely coin under the heart. So how? Spoil the Egyptians. Oh, of course that. I'll go, maids aren't up yet, lazy bones. A minute, just a minute. It's early yet you needn't beat the door down. This is an honest inn. Oh, uh, good morning. Hail Caesar. You keep Rudess in? Yes, sir. Order from the prefect. No other guests shall be entertained at your inn tonight after sundown. The prefect wishes all the rooms to be the disposal of his guests. Sir, when the prefect first commanded me, there was a party of my countrymen engaged for a small room. You'll hear no noise, no noise at all. This is the prefect's feast. Recept and alias. You've heard your words? Yes, sir. Yes, indeed, sir. Well, see, they carried out. No other guests. Hail Caesar. Hail Caesar. Oh, that's a pleasant. All the rooms at the disposal of the prefect. No other guests. Remember, no other guests. I will remember. Do so. It's an order. Now, about the quail. You make the sauce. That's the important thing. A quail can taste like quail with a good sauce. You have your herbs. Well, then begin, begin. It's morning and we haven't too much time. Sarah, Leah, where are those lazy servants? Leah and Sarah come and help your mistress. I'll rouse the fools. There's work to do today. And the day passed. And the night fell on the town, silent and still and cold. The houses lay huddled and dark beneath the watching stars and only the in-windows streamed with light. What's the prefect saying up there? Gentlemen, men of Rome, mindful of Rome's historic destiny and of our good friend King Herod, who has chosen a life for Rome rather than a useless shuttle, hit some under with a firm hand. Oh, what was he saying up there? I don't know. I don't know the big words. He told you so. You and your soldier. Oh, he's not so good. He brought me a trinket, please. You and your Roman treats.  I'd like to spit them out each time I serve them. Oh, you wouldn't dare. Oh, wouldn't I, though? Yeah, yeah. What's this? Why are you standing idle? They're calling for more wine. Let Leah serve them. She likes their looks. Sarah. Yes, Mrs. Please, Sarah, we've talked like this so many times. Very well, Mrs. but let her go first.  I'll be pinching you. Mrs. It's not my fault. Just, Sarah. Go, go. Both of them. You've got to beat the girl. She's insolent and shows it. You can't be too hard on her father's dead and her brother's in the hills. And yet she used to be a merry child. I can remember her when she was merry. A long time since. You always take their side and yet you think a self-respecting in could have some decent and well-mannered maids. No such luck. Soloms and flops. A lot of them. Give me a stool. I'm tired. Say, uh, 30 dinners and double for the prefect and wine. Best, second best and common. Not bad, but then why do you sit there staring at the fire so silent and so waiting and so still? I do not know. I'm waiting. Waiting for what? I do not know for something new and strange, something I've dreamt about in some deep sleep truer than any waiting heard about long ago, so long ago in sunshine and the summer grass of childhood when the sky seems so near. I do not know its shape. Its will. Its purpose. And yet all day its will has been upon me and there is light in it and fire and peace. Newness of heart and strangeness like a sword and all my body trembles under it and yet I do not know. You're tired, my dear. Well, we shall sleep soon. No, I'm not tired.  Something begins. Something is full of change and such... The travelers in this place are called. May we enter? Who is it? Just a pair of hundred people, a woman and a man. I am sorry for them. My wife and I are weary. May we come in? I am sorry, my good men. We have no room tonight. The prefect's orders. No room at all? Oh, no, it's not my fault. You look like honest and well-meaning folk and nobody likes turning trade away, but I'm not my own master. Not tonight. It may be in the morning. Wait! Must you mix in this? Wait! Compare the enemy in our house and me. I did not see your wife. I did not know. Her name is Mary. She is near her time. Yes, yes.  Quickly! What? Quickly! I once had a child. We have no room. We have no room. That's true. And it would not be here. Not now. Not with those men whose voices you can hear. Our voices of death and iron. King Herod's voices. That are the friendly. What am I saying? We have a stable at the end. Safe from the cold at least. And if you choose, you shall be very welcome. We share it. Gladly. And with great joy. The lantern. Haven't. May. I will take it. I can see the path. Come. I suppose that you must have your way and any other night. There are decent people or seem to be. He has his arm about her. Moving out the roughness of the past for her. Although they are not even people of our town as I suppose you know. So rough a path to tread with weary feet. Men. There's frost upon the air tonight. I'm cold or. Yes I must be cold. That's it. That's it now to be sure.  Something green walks abroad in flashing spirit and fire. Something is loose to change the shaken world. The stars march in the sky. The prefect men are gone. The world is quiet. But in the street outside. You're divine but with good news. These people shine with it. Cold and so late. Poor creatures. Call them in. The prefect men are gone. I'm the master. He's dosing. Do as I tell you. The ground is the stable. The stable of our inn. The stable of our inn. And they are gone. Aye. Gone. But Mr. Steele here. Fortune. Oh what fortune stand from the window there I'll speak to the girl. I'll speak to them. My gracious noble lord. Worthy and mighty king. Our humble inn is honored by your high nobility. Come in. Come in. We fire in beds and wine. Come in. Come in. Carry over and rest. We cannot stay. We follow the bright stars. They do not understand it. They're gone. They did not even look at me. So there's no other inn. They follow the poor shepherds to the stable. They would not carry with us. No. Not one. And yes. Peace husband. You know well enough why none would carry with us and so do I. I lay off while in sleep and the voice said to me. Gloria. Gloria. In excelsis Dale. The child is born. The child. The child is born.  And it's just. Dreams. Well baby. The shepherds and the kings. Is it a dream this glory that we feel screaming upon us and yet not for us. Now mister. This is my fault not yours. You told me this is the same day in a stable and see they had all care about. I forgot. The thought was mine.  I did not go. If there was any fault wife it was mine. I did not wish to turn them from my door and yet. I know I love the chink of money love it too well the good sound something corn. Love it.  God pity us indeed for we are human and not always see the vision when it comes the shining change or if we see it do not follow it because it's too hard too strange too new and now I know the standing in this life will be half alive these many years on my own sorrow my own pain life is not lost by dying life is lost minutes by minutes day by dragging day in all the thousands small uncaring ways the fools are pleasing compromises of time with a king Herod and King Herod's men always and always life can be lost without vision but not lost by death lost by not caring willing going on beyond the ragged edge of what if you do something more something no man has seen you who love money you who love yourself you who love bitterness and I who love them love them thought I could not love again and all the people of this little town rise up the love we had were not enough something is loose to change the shaken world and with it we must change now that's well said who sticks there who are you well my name is business I'm a thief you know star fleeting sort of boy who hunts dark alleyways in any town sleeps in a fruit sack runs from the police begs what he can and borrows what he must that's me how did you get her by the door in keeper the cellar door lock upon old I could pick locks like that five what have you taken nothing I tried the stable first in your cellar I slipped in kept up rolling beneath the bench while all your honest backs were turned and then and then well something happened I don't know what I didn't see a shepherd's ear King's book in the stable I did see the child just feel a click in the book one moment space that's all I can tell you easy for me easy for me as well easy for me for you was easy for all of us there are so many of its worthy mistress beggars who sure is sore as an aspirant women cough their lungs out in the cold slaves I've been one thieves and renegades who knife each other for a bit of bread having no other way to get the bread the vast see the wretched and the poor whose murmur comes so faintly to your ears in this fine country as we come to all of us are just to you to every man alive I wish I could believe it and if you did no doubt you'd give up beating gently lady gently beatings my trade the only trade I know but if it were true if you come to all of us I say to all of us then honest man of faith I'd hang upon a cross for him would you well I see I said something go right something uncouth and bold and terrifying yet I'll tell you this it won't be till each one of us is willing not you not me but every one of us to hang upon a cross for every man who suffers stars and died but there'll be no crosses and no tyrants no herds and no slaves well it was pleasant thinking things might be so so I'll say farewell I've taken nothing he was a fair child to look at wait why what is it you see there by the window the dawn the common dawn the ordinary and poor and muscle day the shepherds and the kings have gone way the big angelic visitors are gone he is alone he must not be alone I do not understand you why in your eye because I see it last business but he is right he comes to all of us or comes to none we are lost his word must sound like wheat and at times no else it cannot grow we are either the mortal and the dying led by no star the selling and the slot but he's the selfish man the barren woman and yet unless we go is not it shows we'll be think we'll be bring brother he would be good the would bring brotherhood and yet he will be not that in the street wife playing here in the four he will not play king have a people died there will be at the ahead of other talent great war and useless struggle to be free not always won he's a sad He's a sad tidings. No, no! They're glad tidings of great joy, because he brings man's freedom in his hands, the thought, the wish, the dream of brotherhood, never and never whole later be lost. The water and the blood of the oppressed, the stay and sucker of the resolute, the hummest of the valiant and the brave, the new word that has changed the shaken world. And though he die, his word shall grow like wheat, and every time a child is born in pain and love and freedom, hardly one, born and gone forth to help and raise mankind, there will be women with a right to say, Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis Deo, a child is born. Gloria, Gloria. Come, let us go. What can we bring him? What mortal gift? I have risen. It's not previous. It's not much, but he might play with that. I have a little bell my father gave me. It used to make me merry. I kept it. He may have it. My pocket's empty, my rags are bare. But I can sing to him. That's what I'll do. And if he needs a faith to die for him, don't speak of dying. It's a nasty thing, nasty and cold. And I will give my gold. I say I'll give my gold. All of my gold, every round piece.  I am but a man. I will give all, give all, give all my heart. And I, my faith, through all the years and years, though I forget, though I am led astray, though after this I never see his face, I will give all of my faith. Come, let us all, we the poor earth, but we the faithful earth, not yet the joyful, not yet the triumphant, but faithful, faithful to the end of time. Come. Come. Are you faithful, joyful and triumphant? Come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem. To Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontan and to Stephen Vincent Benet, who wrote A Child Is Born, DuPont extends its warm thanks and deep appreciation for their contribution at this Christmas season on the cavalcade of America. And to all our cavalcade listeners, we extend our Christmas greeting, a greeting of peace on earth, goodwill toward men. Those words are as radiantly hopeful as ever in this bitter year of war and as strong. So it is with hope and courage and abiding faith that the 200,000 men and women of DuPont join at this Christmas season with people of goodwill everywhere, in search for the greatest gifts of all, victory and peace. This week, ladies and gentlemen, the cavalcade of America sponsored by DuPont will present Paul Muni in Eagle's Nest, a play about Garibaldi, the liberator who brought freedoms to the Italian people, a freedom which has since been snatched away from them by a ruthless dictator. Be with us again next week when the cavalcade of America presents Paul Muni at Garibaldi. On tonight's program, the orchestra and original score by Arden Cornwell were under the direction of Donnery. This is Clayton Collier sending best wishes from DuPont. The program came to you from New York. This is the national broadcasting company.


So I'm going to try very hard not to fall off this platform and share with you a little bit about what's going on from my perspective But I have a few questions to start with. How many of you are in the financial services industry? Wonderful, I'm in the right crowd Second now. This is not a trick question. I promise. How many of you love your job? Very good a very enthusiastic hand went up over here and then lastly How many of you believe data? Is going to it's going to be the beginning and the end or is the beginning and the end of partnerships relationships buying selling and making things happen in life Not as many hands went up Say again, I totally agree with you totally agree with you But data is at the beginning of creating that wonderful information source that we all seek to have So what I'm going to share with you over the next 26 minutes. I'm told now since I have less time than I thought I did I'm going to share with you my journey around the data field and what I believe about data and information to be more specific and Then I want to wrap up and throughout talk to you about what I would call a passionate love story because I believe it takes passion and true true Commitment and love to make something like this happen. So let me start by the challenge that we have Quintillion my god This is a billion billion if in case in case you hadn't heard this word before which I hadn't quite honestly until I read this Datapoint of 2.5 quintillion bites of data is created daily and it's moving very fast And we're creating more and more very quickly not that all of us data people in this room didn't know that already But the fact of the matter is what are we doing to use it to manage it to share it to monetize it to make it? Information for it in that case Here are some facts about what's going on So in the past two years we've created more data than we've had in the entire history of mankind Which is mind-boggling to me the second item that talks about 0.5% of the data that we have is not yet and his own only 0.5% is analyzed and an oracle survey to about 300 executives In Canada as well as in the US 90% of them said they cannot Get any revenue they believe they're missing out on revenue for their companies because they don't have the ability to analyze and to make better decisions with that information excuse me data that they had that they'd like to make information and Then in 2016 because I grew up in the telecommunications industry. This was important to me is that we now have more data 200 times more data in this year than we have voice traffic, which is easy to see our kids us We all are texting or we're streaming video. We're doing something That's creating data more so than we're creating voice at traffic. And then lastly here 4300 percent of the information is going to be increased by 2020 Now I don't want to depress anybody especially those hands who went up to say they're in the financial industry and that you love your job But in 2008 we had a crisis and the questions comes up. My gosh, what is going on? Regulators were very upset They would come to the various banks and we probably all lived through this. How many of you saw the movie big short? It was very informative for me David actually suggested that I go and talk learn about that read about good rent the movie Because he was working with a lot of things around derivatives and I said tell me more about how this works And what's making this makes sense to me and it was very clear. They made a very layman understandable in terms of what was going because I'm not a Banker I am a technologist. So it was helpful to understand But that being said I looked at this as an opportunity as most crisis do they create an opportunity for change They create an opportunity for mindsets to think differently for us to act differently This actually created in my opinion a whole new industry called fintech that started nipping at the heels of those of us Who are in the larger banking industry? so what we had going on and David mentioned that I moved to the enterprise architecture group about seven eight years ago and I had previously been working in the Telecom area. I was managing the network for Wells Fargo and prior to 2008 when we were on October 1st were told that we were going to merge with Wacovia Bank And that we were going to be one bank by January 1st 2009 and the way that we were going to do that was we were Going to have one network and we were going to have one GL to report on for that company It was a mind-blowing opportunity. So in three months The teams from these two different banks who had never worked together had to come together and create this one network What part of making that happen in my opinion? Was that we had the foresight? To build an MPLS network in the first place which had been almost Completed by the time the merger happened and that foresight came about Mainly because the CEO said a couple three years prior what would happen if we were to double in size Which is exactly what happened don't know if you had a crystal ball or not, but That's what happened and we were all asked to think about what it would mean to do that But how I got to the point where we were dealing with this MPLS network We're a couple of things that happen and I believe it always requires Opportunistic behaviors to make some of these things happen One was I really wanted to bring voice over IP to our environment And I what I had done was set up some pods throughout the country Where our business leaders could come in and find out what it would feel like taste like Smell like and to get them excited about what the opportunity was and then I would tell them But I need an MPLS network to make this happen Seamlessly for you and that way I could get funding for the MPLS network So we put the network in we were able to merge with the bank and we had the opportunity To really make things happen for the bank now I moved to the enterprise architecture group and in the meantime all these emerging quote-unquote technologies have come into fruition social Mobile is getting alive and well Amazon is actually doing phenomenal things in just they become more than a book company where I can go buy books and it's become more But a real consumer world is starting to formulate out there We're starting to see these companies quite frankly go to pot That's my term my technical term for go out of business as a result of somebody tweeting something that They didn't get a good experience for so the world is changing around us in the meantime We start hearing about different little fintech companies. That's starting to eat into the mortgage business starting to eat into the retail business starting to make sure that our our loans our Mortgages all have a different look and feel with things called quick and loans or other little companies that grow up as a result of this But it was all of these technologies that brought data to my office as I took over the organization to say Sherry I've been writing this paper Mind you, I knew of David didn't hadn't worked with David But when he came in and talked to me about cinematic tech semantic technology He handed me a paper that he had written he explained to me some use cases that we might have in interest in and I said Yeah, this is intriguing and that was the beginning of our love affair Not literally, you know So machine intelligence and recently probably in the last couple of years We started talking about machine intelligence and all of these things provide us with what this is all about knowledge reasoning machines learning Inside of itself making sure that we can understand human intent content really get better communications And then incrementally will improve over time now the thing about this for me is machine intelligence Is basically algorithms that provide us with a way in which our computers can learn from each other and provide us better outcomes That being said think about this So I'm from New Orleans Katrina meant a lot of lot to me It actually changed my lifestyle quite frankly and going home I could go home and visit all my family and now they were all disparately moved around the country But as a result of that my sister is actually here She's sitting right over here her name is Tara Brown and she happens to work for a company not that I went by us Or anything to any company But Mark logic is actually one of those companies that's doing some good things in the semantic space Which I appreciate despite some things that you know, we've had some conversations But that being said there are great company that one of several companies that are doing some really good things in this space That being said Katrina presented an opportunity a crisis again a crisis has created and if indeed in 2005 I had an opportunity to say where is the nearest ATM that has money in it Where is the best roads for me to take out of town? Where is the nearest gas station? Where is the nearest hotel that I can actually stay in? Where can I get some groceries or where can I have dinner tonight and oh by the way? Gosh, I thought I was only going to be gone for a couple of days and now it's turning into weeks What changes might I need to make in terms of my financial services? Schools, what's going on? How can I have access to that information if indeed I had something like this? Available to me where I could access disparate data from different places digitally. I Would have been in a much better place Some of the situations we live through with Katrina would not have existed some of the things that happened with Sandy would not have existed That's the world that I'm hoping that we can create as a result of using this technology So let me get back to machine learning.  Anyone live in Northern, California seeing the Google car riding around Any of you have Teslas? Oh Clearly this is not Silicon Valley But all of that which they're able to do with software with Data is created and allows some of these things that this is just a few a handful of examples We talked about fraud detection Which is one of the use cases that David came to me with and he I'm sure all of you have always had a product Offering that was just directly related to what you needed in your lifetime Uh-huh. See I thought I knew that wasn't true So we have an opportunity to get more targeted with our offers much like you have an Amazon experience My view is I'd like to be the financial set the Amazon financial experience that customers actually host and have going forward And this is where we ultimately want to get to cognitive computing where you start with semantic technology understanding how the Validate the data make sure it's harmonious usable. It can feed into machine learning. I get much higher quality data much higher quality conclusions as a result of that and then graphically I can start looking at some relationships amongst customers amongst Disparate data much like a Katrina experience if you will that I can bring together and see what's going on and then natural language Processing which I know will lead into behavioral type things where we understand not only tone But you've been doing these kinds of things and these kinds of things Which leads me to believe that this might be your next step those are the kinds of things that we're going to move into I know it sounds a little scary sometimes it sounds like science fiction to me, but I think that's where we're going I really do believe at some point and I'm sure You've heard of blockchain So my view when I heard about blockchain was that David here we go. This is another application for us It's about secure information available to me anytime anywhere anyhow That's what we want to get to and it's not so much about Bitcoin But quite honestly, I think we're going to move away from my husband used to tell me this all the time We're going to move away from dollar bills Well, we will always have dollar bills in my opinion because they're those folks who are just not legit who want to have other ways of Which they transmit information, but anyway, I believe we're going to get to a point Which really going to be about bits and bytes just moving around The whole and it's truly a global item One of the things that got me also caught up in this is David used to come to my office and say share Would you like to go to a meetup? You know, they're going to be talking about semantic technology and I said hmm meetup What is that? This was several years ago, but I went and I really had a good time But what was really exciting to me is that I learned that there were these people who were in this space and it wasn't like Something new to them. They had been working on this for a while quite honestly I had actually and I was talking to David in the hallway the other day I actually had built an AI system many years ago that ages me because we were going from Analog to digital at the time, but I was trying and and Bell Laboratories was trying to get into the commuter Computer business it didn't work. Well, so clearly That didn't happen, but while we were trying it was clear to me that all we were building these computers Our sales people did not know how to sell these computers They needed something to help them that augment their ability to understand how to pieces and parts the configurations and everything came together And we created for them a small AI system, which we had to sell to Western Electric anybody heard of Western Electric Some of you are older as old as I am So we had to go sell that idea and actually they bought into it And we actually built that system and they actually use it for the little while that we were actually in that computer business So the love affair continues So we had Michael Bennett who I believe is leading our Repositories Semantics repositories effort for the EDMC and we have Mike Atkin Who's actually the executive director of the EDMC they both started this I have no garage Visualization because I feel like it started in garage like most great ideas start in a garage and they had this concept They had an idea they had a vision for which they didn't have the operational and the executable just yet So like any loving love relationship serendipity comes along Enter David Newman David's been trying to well not trying he has convinced me we need to work on this and I am all in on this and wanting to make It happen, but we haven't quite gotten there yet It's really about learning and growing and understanding and how helping others to see our vision of what we want to have accomplished So David brings in the semantic web languages and starts to build some operational prototypes for us That's what he's doing today, but he initially brought us a conceptual model to the table So now we got a vision. We got a little bit of architecture going on and Law and behold Dennis comes along and says look I've been working with the Department of Defense I've been working in semantics and Let me show you I know how to build tests and actually deploy and make this real So now you have the whole life cycle together these four guys. Yes only guys I see a lot of ladies in the audience. We're gonna we're working to help this make this happen But this is these four guys came together with the intent of making history Around the financial industries business ontology and let's say why was this necessary? regulators were trying to get consistent accurate Timely information from us That's part of the business reason for it. The other is as a business in financial services We need this kind of information. We need to be even from our operational perspective We need more clarity around what's going on in our networks. What's going on with our applications this all Feeds that in our legal organizations. We need to have more readily access to what's going on in our legal documents Supply chain anything that deals with information that we need to make decisions on benefits for a speedier delivery of results So these guys came together and then we had a few more people that joined the party and the OMG joined Together thanks to I think it was Dennis who started that brought that marriage together And we brought the EDMC and OMG together and they have been working with us and working around the globe to make this much more effective So FIBO was born it is truly the next generation Data standard that we have in place and while it states there that regulatory and business reporting is a beneficiary I really think this is truly the benefit of customers I think that's the real winners in this going forward these are a few of the companies that are Working with us adding to our standard Making sure that we can live through the next Hurrah, I think we're in the age of analytics and FIBO is at its core for what we're trying to do We have some prototypes that are starting in we have even HSBC has joined us from around the globe I think they're almost in anyway in terms of working with us So this is really a global opportunity I gave a similar talk last week on this topic and a young man came up to me after I had finished And he said you know we started down this path with machine learning for an insurance company And he said I worked on it for a couple of years and it just couldn't get the traction and my belief is This is not something that is going to happen in an isolation in a company This is truly something that's going to happen for an industry and there are over 600 ontologies that are out there today for us to make tap have access to This is one of them for financial services that we're working toward and I believe it's really going to take the village To really make this successful going forward So enter me and why is this important to me? I will tell you my whole life I think my whole career has been around Finding something new unique to change and it's usually because there's a customer at the other end There's a user at the other end or there's a business partner was trying to do something And I am always thinking about how can I make it easier? How can I help to make sure that we can do something much more effective than what we're doing today? And it's beyond automation and it's beyond looking at technologies to say gosh, that's a new technology Let's go find a problem to solve. It's what are the business problems that we're trying to solve How do I make it easier for customers to do what they want to do and quite frankly? We say we are in the dream business at Wells Fargo How do we make it easy for you to just live your life and not be? Boggled down with the details of how to move money around But how to just live my life and I can go and get information to make best decisions for me So we went through a lot of the emotions David and I he says he works for me. He actually works with me on most everything that we do. I believe it's a partnership I believe it's really requires to be focused energized Excited about something new but also being practical as to how do I apply it? David has gone through a number of things with me on this, but I've sought opportunities when we started down this journey We would talk to different people in the organization and we change our story here and there To kind of fit the audience sometimes we blew it sometimes we were very successful But we never gave up we kept being focused and one thing I forgot to mention earlier is when this all started Mike Atkin And Dennis was not he actually came to my office when David was they kind of met David serendipitously But when they came to my office Dennis literally sat across my desk and he said I just want to know Are you serious? Are you going to support David through this because you know this is not a sprint? This is a journey and I want to make sure that you're with us I thought that was very bold. He didn't quite say it that way But it was pretty much that was the message he was trying to convey and for me I was definitely all in for me. It was about timing and how do we make sure we stick together Taking the journey a little further David's boss came to me after a while and said, you know, David's working on this stuff Calls the man. Oh, I've lost time. I'm sorry. I rounded time. I'll be done in a second He said David is working. I need him to work on this tactical stuff You know, we got monitoring do we got other stuff that we need David to do I said, okay I'll talk to David. I talked to David David come to my said David. Are you passionate about this or this is something Just passing the time. He said sure. I'm very passionate. I'm already taking courses at Stanford. I am doing stuff on my own I'm working on this on the weekend. I said, okay, then I know you'll do what you need to do He said yep, and we just kept moving along and whatever we had an opportunity for him to present We had an innovation summit and I said, you know, I'm going to be given a talk on emerging technologies I want David to come in got 15 minutes to tell your story David was the highlight of the entire conference around semantic technology for that conference and it was a three-day conference anyway But it's those kind of things that make things happen for you. This is what our world looks like I'm excited to say that a lot of the not most all of the agencies that support financial institutions are excited about and interested in what we're doing and how this is going to make things Secure more secure more effective for our customers and Mike quite frankly. It's about transparency at the end of the day Multiple industries. I believe will benefit from this and I think about the Katrina or any crisis story or any Interrelated how you bring information together Co-op petition will be critical for us going forward. I think it's just going to be a natural way that we live Here are some vendors and partners. We're working with and then here are some of the mavericks that have already started down this path So today four guys had a vision and today we are all around the globe trying to make this happen And I thank you for your time and wish you a good rest of your conference


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First of all, thank you so much for sticking to the last talk. I know it's very hard and energy consuming to be through this entire conference and sticking to the last talk. I appreciate your patience. And I hope we can make your patience worth. So starting with cluster management and cluster API, how many of you are aware of the term cluster API or have used it? OK, a lot of them. You are using it or you are currently introduced to it? Or you have been using it from a long time? How many of you have been using it for a long time? Very few. And how many of you started using it recently? Narco organizers gave a very good introduction. It's not working. So I'll just skip through very fast. My name is Subash Mita. I work at Civo as a site reliability engineer. And I was in the past LFX mentee for cluster API provider GCP. And I've also been an outreach intern. And my friend Anirudh will introduce himself. Hey, everyone. I am Anirudh. I work as a software engineer as I self. Apart from that, I did LFX mentorship at CABG. And right now, I also maintain two of the cluster API providers, which is Hetsner and High Velocity. And so we'll let's talk about bits and pieces of cluster API. So very quickly, moving over to the agenda, we'll just discuss about the cluster lifecycle. Why it is very hard to maintain the cluster lifecycle by manually and why we need that automation. It's common, right? We are living in the DevOps world. We love automation. So the type of Cappy providers, like there's a common misconception that cluster API has providers like GCP provider or Azure providers. But there's also the type of cluster API providers under which is infrastructure. And under infrastructure, there are providers like GCP, Azure, AWS. So we'll be discussing about that. We have been hearing about Kubernetes this entire day today. I won't bore all of you with, again, starting with Kubernetes. Just a basic introduction. You know all what is Kubernetes' basic orchestration scaling tool. We will get on to the fun part there next. So this is a very basic architecture of cluster, Kubernetes cluster. The major components here I would like to highlight is this control plane. Please try to remember the words that I tell because this will be used in the next slides. The control plane then controls the nodes and then later on the pods wherein all our workloads are running. So we'll be playing around with this control plane a bit to automate all of the things that a Kubernetes does for us. Why do we need to manage clusters? This is a very big question. Why do we need this automation that we are about to talk today about? So as the complexity grows, for example, I have around 10 to 15 applications in my organization, and I want them to run concurrently and to be available to every customer at all times. So I would require a very good scalability, traffic management, and load balancing. I don't want my application to be down when there's more footfall, like more people are visiting the website, or when less people are visiting the website, the application is not working at all. So to manage all of these things at all times to ensure your application is running at all times, we would need the scaling and load balancing of your clusters at all times. So that is not possible always, manually, to do that.  Would you? You won't? So all about rollouts and rollbacks, automated. Like if you make any changes to one cluster spec or one configuration, you want that all of the applications that are using that same feature, common feature, to adopt to that, you won't be going to every cluster or every pod or every node and be changing that concurrently, would you? You won't, because that would be a repetition of your task. So we would need automated rollouts and rollbacks. We need to admit we humans are very lazy. We always find ways to reduce our workload. That's why all of these tools are built. Self-failing, sometimes what happens, node dies or a pod dies. So if a pod dies, whose duty is it to pull back the pod? Obviously, the management or the configuration that has been given there. But sometimes what happens, if I give an example, in a cloud service provider, if a customer is running their workload on any cluster, and one of their pod fails, but they're not aware of it. We as engineers, I'm working as a site reliability engineer. So I know when I get an alert at PagerDuty or when I get an alert at Alert Manager, I know this pod has failed and something is wrong with this cluster. And all of these things, the customer is not able to put their application to full use because of this issue. So how does the customer know all of this, that their application is not failing and is working all of the times? So we would need something of self-healing. If something happens, if a pod moves ahead of the memory, like uses more memory than required, it would fail. That's common concern. It would fail. But how do we make sure that this pod comes back as efficiently as it was before? So that's what's self-healing. And we would need to automate that stuff. Again, configuration management and secrets. Secrets is a very big pain, like managing secrets, managing roles, and managing access across every stage, like with pods, with nodes, or with multiple clusters in an environment, is very difficult. To manage all of these manually is very difficult, right? So that's why we would need cluster API. So this is a very small meme, where you can see, I think you can understand it infrared from it. Like running a Kubernetes bare metal cluster in an production environment is very easy. But it would take you ages to go to that perfection and to make sure every end-to-end process is done correctly, and your applications are up and running always. OK, a lot of things about the background. What is capping? So cluster API is basically a Kubernetes style bootstrapping operator. It's kind of an operator which is allowing us more control over our clusters, but in an automated way. Like all of the difficulties that I discussed before are managed or handled by a cluster API. Cluster API will basically provide you with just a cookbook where you can get a set of recipes and you can add in your own flavors to make that recipe your own. You can call it your own. You can deploy it in your own infrastructure. You can add in your own resources. Or you can add in anything that you like that suits your requirements or suits your needs. And you can make all of these processes hassle-free and automatically using cluster API. That, too, in the Kubernetes-style API management. So yeah, there are multiple types of providers where cluster API can be customized to be built on particular infrastructure. You can bootstrap one from zero level and build that up to your needs. And then it's very simple to use. There are set of CRDs, custom resource definitions, where you define your state that you want your cluster to be in, or you want the desired state of your cluster where you want to see your cluster running or configuring. You can get that through very simple steps using cluster API. Because everything has been set, like the plate has been set, all of the ingredients has been given to you. You just need to cook it in your own way. Important fact, more than 100 Kubernetes distributions and installers have been created till date now. So not just cluster API GCP, cluster API AWS, or cluster API Azure, there are more than 100 Kubernetes distributions today and all coming with a template.  So moving on, we'll discuss a bit about the cluster API architecture. So my friend will take over from you. The whole architecture of the cluster API. So first, the user makes the API request to Kube API server and as Shubhash Mata said, the cluster API is all about different CRDs, different resources, and running together to make your managed clusters. So there are three main components, which is cluster, machine deployment. So machine deployment and machine has the same relation as your deployment and pod. So like as deployment you create to manage different pods, like you have machine deployments which is reference to the clusters and through machine deployments, you define how many machines you want and stuff like that and the cluster API controller or operator handles all the things. And cluster defines your Kubernetes cluster in different providers, like GCP, AWS, and Hetsner, like that. So we have different layers in cluster API. So basically we have five layers which is bootstrapping, control plane, infrastructure, IP address management and API add-ons and adapters. So going to bootstrapping. So bootstrapping is creating the Kubernetes cluster.  So what you will do, you will write a CRD, like boarding YMLs and define what are the configurations you need to the bootstrapping. And as you can see, we are creating a test cluster thing and we are deploying that in a GCE. And the popular thing like cluster API use for bootstrapping the cluster is QVADM which is a different set of topics. But yeah, you write a lot of QVADM scripts to like the bootstrap your cluster in the provider. Yeah, second is control plane. As she said, the two main important things is control plane and workers. Control plane actually controls your cluster API cluster. So we have like, as you can see, as I said, we created a QVADM bootstrap cluster. So we need a QVADM control plane. So we said the control plane has three replicas and we have like kind and whatever CID and cloud providers DC. This is a basic like QVADM control like CID for spinning cluster in the Google cloud. And the next layer is infrastructure. So infrastructure can be like, it's like an abstraction over different providers. So your AWS has infrastructure, your GCP has infrastructure. So the providers of cluster API writes this infrastructure. So if you go to the main cluster API repository, you won't find any infrastructure code or controller in the main cluster API project. But you will find it in different providers of cluster API. So suppose you came up with a new cloud provider tomorrow and you want to write your own cluster API controller for that, so you will write your own infrastructure CID. And you will define your resources like your region, your network and reference to those things. And we have a machine template for our infrastructure. So this machine template actually refers to the machine of our cluster. So it will get reference to the worker nodes and those like CIDs get referred to our infrastructure. And second thing is IP address management, which is like you have different now pods, different cluster API machines and everyone needs like IP address. So you probably need another CID controller to manage your IP address. So you don't find like a conflict and like say like pod conflict like that. Yeah, so we like a lot of softwares we have add-ons and adapters like in cluster API as well. We have add-ons and adapters. So suppose if famous software we have is Helm. So suppose you want a Helm support in your cluster API provider. So what do you use? And we also use in my provider like Hitzner, like we have the Helm add-on support. So if anyone wants to write the entire thing using Helm, so they will also like install the Helm CRD into their cluster and like they do all the scripting thing using Helm. So you can also like write those things into, like consider those things into the cluster API ecosystem. So as I said like we have in a base which is cluster API and in different like providers have their repositories and infrastructure and what makes is like a similarity. So suppose the controller you write for GCP will be almost identical for controllers you write for AWS. So the basic architecture will be same. So like, so you can see like in GCP we have the cluster API in top and second layer we have the CRDs which is like cluster API is controlling, control plane deployment, machine deployments and things and at the bottom we have infrastructure layer which is like GCP provider and at the end the GCP cluster gets created. Now if I go to the next slide and now it is AWS. So AWS has the same architecture like cluster API working in the same way for different providers. So it's like working like a framework. So here you can see the same. We have at the top layer cluster API controlling different CRDs and at the bottom we have the cloud provider which is like getting spined up, the cluster getting spined up and all the network being managed by IP add-ons and if you want you can do whatever using Helm. So it's like a whole ecosystem. And last one the provider I maintain which is Hetsner which is also like very similar and it's nothing I don't want to waste more time but it's at the bottom it's all same. Yeah, so it's one of the biggest projects in Kubernetes community. So do contribute like if you want to and you can see different open issues are good for the issues first and there are not like if you don't know much like go code or coding you can also contribute in different ways like documentation. Like we have this shadow program of cluster API where different people get selected for like maintaining the project for a fixed term like six months term where you get to learn from the maintainers and there are different like section of the shadowing program which is first one is very important like popular which is the CI signal which is maintaining a whole like proud jobs of Kubernetes ecosystem and you will be monitoring and you will be reporting to the maintainers and what went wrong and other like mis-happening thing and also there are like shadow for documentation so you will be writing and documentation and like if you are good into shadowing you will become a maintainer too. So the Kubernetes community is working very hard to like bring this cluster API to light and to help a lot of people have their lives make easier so we would request anyone to contribute in any way they can there are also non code contribution types like you can contribute to the design you can contribute to the documentation you can help in the translation of the docs or simply you can just help anybody else in the community or by joining the Slack channel. So there are multiple resources like these are by far the most trusted and the most popular ones. You can join the Slack channel of Kubernetes and you can like go down to the sub channel of cluster API where you can communicate with the people or help out anybody else. You can go to GitHub cluster API through this link where you can like get the code repository of the cluster API and then you can navigate to the other parts of it. There's the cookbook that I talked up to you at the beginning of this talk like you get the template over which you can you build your own infrastructure you can get that at this location the CAPI cookbook or this I think that's all for us. Do you have any questions we can take that? Cluster API and open cluster manager which we discussed in the morning the same or the different? Is cluster API or open cluster management same or different? See a cluster API basically gives you like a set of recipes that I'm telling you open cluster management is a different thing. You get a set of instructions already built like in a general way and you tailor that to your own requirements and modify that to your own requirements to manage the cluster or manage the environment you're in. While open cluster management you just get to manage the cluster that's already built for you. So that is basically a different part wherein you start and you not just the managing part but also you can control how your cluster is built from the ground up. It's, see Terraform is also a manual thing, right? You don't love to write Terraform code always. For every little change you will always have to make changes to the Terraform file and then do Terraform apply and all of these things will run again from the top. So in that process sometimes what happens your cluster IP changes. So there can be conflicts. You don't get to manage that. You don't have the right to manage that, right? But in cluster API something like, if something goes wrong you're automating this entire stuff. So if something goes wrong you can, the cluster API manages it itself because you have already provisioned that state. Like for example, you have said if I slap on it, I know he will slap me back. So that's the state I have already defined. I know this will happen, right? But in Terraform you can't do that. You can't tell, you can't write conditions in Terraform. You can't write like in Terraform, hey Terraform if something happens like this in my cluster you need to change this configuration by yourself and deploy that to my cluster. That's not the process to do that. I hope I was able to make you understand what I was telling you.


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