Building a cloud native business on open source

As seen at KCD UK 2025 #kcduk

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1. KCD UK Edinburgh Building a successful Cloud Native business on Open Source Liz Rice Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent @ Cisco
2. • Open source and community at Isovalent ◦ Creators of Cilium and now part of Cisco! • Early career writing network protocol code • Author Learning eBPF & Container Security • Formerly CNCF Governing Board, chair of TOC, OpenUK Hi, Iʼm Liz 👋 isovalent.com/books/container-security
3. Harvard Business School 2024 Supply-side (cost to create) $4.15 Billion Demand-side (value to users) $8.8 Trillion Economic value of Open Source software 96% value created by 5% OSS developers
4. Cloud native = common infrastructure Photo by Fré Sonneveld on Unsplash
5. Photo by Joel Johnson on Unsplash Adoption sets standards
6. Photo by MAURO BIGHIN on Unsplash _Remove friction _
7. Photo by Mia Anderson on Unsplash
8. Certified Kubernetes distributions
9. Funding 💵 💷 💶 TRUST Open source ecosystems
10. Photo by Leon Contreras on Unsplash
11. Security & compliance Additional testing and field hardened builds Support Managed services Training & enablement Additional features & integrations Adding enterprise value over open source
12. Photo by chris robert on Unsplash
13. Photo by LinkedIn Sales Navigator on Unsplash Sales
14. Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash
15. Maintainers are volunteers Photo by ray sangga kusuma on Unsplash But maybe also employees
16. You are not obliged to do other peopleʼs work Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash
17. Photo by Ernie Journeys on Unsplash Open source is about consensus, not democracy
18. Balance adoption and giving away value Image by Janine Bolon from Pixabay
19. Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash Aligned interests = success
20. Thank you isovalent.com/books/container-security