# The 2020 Year Review


A crazy year

The Year 2020 came with a lot of enthusiasm but ended up being one of the worst years due to obvious reason-> COVID

There is something new that I believe in learning each day and 2020 was no different. I personally leaned a-lot this Year. In this post, I want to pen down some of the things that I have done and other things that happened in my life.

## Meetups

**Docker Meetup 16th Jan: **Kickstart Your 2020 Container Journey with Docker & Kubernetes + Kubernetes101 Workshop

Year Begining I along with other community members organized the biggest **Docker meetup** at SAP Labs India. It was attended by more than 550 folks and we really had a great learning experience.
**My talk**: Docker Security 101

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**CNCF Meetup Jan25th** :Grokking Cloud Native Data Management Landscape

**My talk**: What, why and How of Timeseries database for kubernetes

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## **Rise of COVID and all in person events cancelled**

COVID Cases were rising worldwide and the events started to cancel so after 14th Feb there were no in-person events that I organized or spoke at. Conferences that were I was supposed to speak but didn’t happen due to COVID:

* Namma Cloud Conference, Bengaluru

* Kubecon EU Amsterdam (In-person)

* O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference in Portland 2020

March Became the year of lockdown where most of the countries started observing Lockdowns and we were supposed to stay at home 24/7 and only go out for essential commodities or order them at home. This was really tough as no one imagined doing this, panic buying, fear, people getting sick all around the globe was really unusual situation. In Reality, we all struggled to meet, travel, eat, and Live. Stuck at home I tried to explore myself more and see what more I can do like cooking, household stuff, and collaborate with the community **ONLINE**.

March was also the month where I planned a new way to connect with the community while sitting at home: [**Youtube Livestreams](https://www.youtube.com/c/saiyam911)**

So this started as an experiment and a vision where I connect with more and more folks and we all learn together as a community. I loved the response from the community, I took feedback from the community and upgraded the setup, streaming and the content as well. I have always listened to the community and will also do that in future as well as community is what drives me. Since then I have organically grown to **1.12k subscribers **and I would like to thank the community for supporting me always and encouraging me to do MORE.
Few stats 
Total Livestreams : 25+
Total likes: 840+
2,548+ comments and 17,598 views

## Job Change

I joined Civo ltd as a “Director of Technical Evangelism” in September and it was a big thing that happened in 2020. I thought A LOT before joining as there were so many challenges involved and as of today I am so glad that I joined this company of awesome people with amazing talent. We have big plans for 2021 and we all are working hard for this.

## Stream List till December 2020:

* [All About Calico](https://youtu.be/7f_IP1RS8WY) with **Alex Pollitt**

* [Let’s Learn Portainer](https://youtu.be/TK1UB1xby_I) with **Neil Cresswell**

* [Kubernetes Distros with flavour of Fleet](https://youtu.be/HB37dgEO-mA) with **Darren Shepherd**

* [Let’s Learn Ketch by Shipa with Bruno Andrade](https://youtu.be/39O9s1JpSxg)

* [Hands on CKA,CKAD with CKS flavour (v1.19) with **Walid Shaari](https://youtu.be/jZOs8Oips7Q)**

* [Let’s Learn Okteto and Operator-sdk with **Ramiro](https://youtu.be/FT_DLEhmOWs)**

* [Let’s Learn Kubernetes Security with **Dan ‘POP’ Papandrea](https://youtu.be/VjlvS-qiz_U)**

* [Let’s Learn Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform](https://youtu.be/4jvKSe1Lkv8)

* [Let’s Learn Traefik](https://youtu.be/uUZ2RBZGZK4)

* [Let’s Learn about Getting involved with Open Source in different ways](https://youtu.be/y-BXs_MQA9Y)

* [Let’s Learn Production grade k8s monitoring and extending k8s using Golang with **Rawkode](https://youtu.be/hoEfBrfM5ZI)**

* [Let’s Learn QuestDb on RaspberryPi and K8s Networking with** David](https://youtu.be/wjkDbgi_mec)**

* [Docker Internals and RKE Deep dive with **Nigel Poulton](https://youtu.be/GwXLNAcHk-k)**

* [Introduction to Terraform](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxRTZRvJlA&t=112s)

* [Introduction to Helm3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjU8R1tDn6g)

* [Awesome Serverless using cloud run playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5uLNcv9SibCId804-nYPqQT4-RNpbRdN)

* [Docker Series](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5uLNcv9SibBZj30yqG01a7A4_MXSyGK3) by [**Saloni Narang](https://twitter.com/I_saloni92)**

* [Introduction to Rust by **Sangam](https://youtu.be/oSaBnrYPSeA)** and other Go videos by him as well.

## Blogs that I wrote in 2020:

**Blog Published on THENEWSTACK:**

* [How to Use InfluxDB with Its Python Client on Kubernetes](https://thenewstack.io/how-to-use-influxdb-with-its-python-client-on-kubernetes/)

**Blog published on cncf:**

* [Upgrade a K3s Kubernetes Cluster with System Upgrade Controller](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/11/25/upgrade-a-k3s-kubernetes-cluster-with-system-upgrade-controller/)

**Blogs published on civo.com:**

* [HashiCorp Waypoint — Solving the Build, Deploy and Release problem](https://www.civo.com/learn/waypoint-solving-the-build-deploy-and-release-problem)

* [Chaos Experiments on Kubernetes using Litmus to ensure your cluster is production ready](https://www.civo.com/learn/chaos-engineering-kubernetes-litmus)

* [Deployments without YAML using Ketch](https://www.civo.com/learn/deployments-without-yaml-using-ketch)

* [Switching on the cluster insights using Headlamp](https://www.civo.com/learn/switching-on-the-cluster-insights-using-headlamp)

* [Running Kubeflow Pipelines](https://www.civo.com/learn/running-kubeflow-pipelines)

* [Ensuring YAML best practices using KubeLinter](https://www.civo.com/learn/yaml-best-practices-using-kubelinter)

**Blogs published on rancher.com**

* [Upgrade Your K3s Clusters Smoothly in Rancher 2.4](https://rancher.com/blog/2020/upgrade-your-k3s-cluster)

* [Schedule Security Scans in Rancher 2.4](https://rancher.com/blog/2020/schedule-security-scan)

* [Rancher 2.3: Istio and Kiali](https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-istio-kiali)

**Blogs published on medium.com**

* [k0s — Yet Another Kubernetes Distro !!](https://saiyampathak.medium.com/k0s-yet-another-kubernetes-distro-7201ea425165)

* [Portainer 2.0](https://saiyampathak.medium.com/portainer-2-0-7d5539e344f)

* [Shipa : A Complete developer-friendly Kubernetes](https://saiyampathak.medium.com/shipa-a-complete-developer-friendly-kubernetes-44799a41a0f)

* [Permission manager : RBAC management for Kubernetes](https://blog.kubernauts.io/permission-manager-rbac-management-for-kubernetes-ed46c2f38cfb)

* [Octant Simplified](https://blog.kubernauts.io/octant-simplified-313a1aad69d6)

**Blogs published on Hashnode.com(connected to saiyampathak.com)**

* [Connect civo k3s Cluster with Azure ARC](https://saiyampathak.com/connect-civo-k3s-cluster-with-azure-arc-ckf1brvl805cssus11guzfy62)

* [Let us take a dig into Kubevious](https://saiyampathak.com/let-us-take-a-dig-into-kubevious-ckea9d9r700muxhs19jtr3xr8)

## Conferences:

**KUBECON EU Virtual **with my friend [Karthik Gaekwad](https://twitter.com/iteration1) and also did a Panel session.
[34 Truths We Learned About Kubernetes and Edge](https://youtu.be/2Eqg-oKRIR8)
[Panel: CNCF Ambassadors: Building the Cloud Native Community](https://youtu.be/_Bm0TELIKaU)

I got fancy badges as well!!

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**AllDayDevOps:
[**k3s ,k3d, k9s, k8s — what are all the numbers about ?](https://content.sonatype.com/2020addo-mi/addo2020-mi-narang-pathak)

**PyConf Hyderabad:
[**InfluxDb and it’s python client](https://youtu.be/UFrMdzqYyGE)

**Indiacloudsummit**:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1621076615828/Dl3vmsBru.plain)

K3s -A Light Weight Kubernetes Distribution

## **Community Awards**

I won 2 community awards in 2020 and got nominated for CNCF top Ambassador as well.

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1621076617374/w72A2-oTQ.jpeg)

![Docker and Influx Community Leader Award](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1621076619388/BGCFByEkb.jpeg)*Docker and Influx Community Leader Award*

## Certifications

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In 2020 I engaged with the cloud-native Community a lot this year(**I tweeted 1622 times**) sitting at home, I spent a lot of time with my family members, I talked to a lot of great people in the industry and learned a lot from them. I became more focussed and with 2021 coming, I will be more focussed on taking my youtube channel to extreme Level and do great things at Civo.

2021, A year of Hope and Learning!

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Have a great 2021 everyone!

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