Posted on September 15, 2026 by Ronald Requena | CNCF Ambassador On July 18, 2026, we held the third edition of Kubernetes Community Days Lima at UTEC in Barranco. By now, we have already sent the Transparency Report to the CNCF , thanked our sponsors, and processed the surveys. With the administrative wrap-up behind us, I want to share a few reflections on what it meant to organize it. Before I continue, a quick introduction of me. I'm Ronald Requena , CTO at Rumbo, professor at Universidad Ricardo Palma, co-organizer of KCD Lima and DevOpsDays Lima, and, as of August 2026, CNCF Ambassador for Peru.
Feel free to connect with me or reach out on LinkedIn. This is the third KCD I have had the opportunity to co-organize. I assumed that by the third edition many things would run on autopilot. Every edition brings new problems, and the old ones do not go away; they just change in scale. I arrived at UTEC at 7:00 a. , an hour and a half before the scheduled 8:30 opening. There was already a line of around 100 attendees outside the building. A Saturday morning, coffee in hand, waiting to get into the long-awaited Kubernetes Community Days Lima.
We had to move registration forward to 8:00 because the line kept growing. No survey can measure the kind of welcome we had that Saturday, from early risers eager to be the first ones through the door. I find it hard to write without data, so let me start there: That last number is the one that matters most. The others speak to size; this one speaks to whether it was truly worth it for the people who came.
Every number here is public: each KCD organizing team submits a transparency report to the CNCF , and ours is no exception Looking back, each edition had a different goal, even if we never framed it that way at the time. 2024 was about proving that a KCD could happen in Peru. We had no track record to show sponsors and no idea how many people would show up. We closed with more than 500 attendees , 49 speakers, and 11 sponsors . That first edition was organized with a lot of will and very little certainty. 2025 was about proving it had not been a fluke.