Some projects reach their 1.0 release in a few months. Others need a year or two. And in Strimzi, we needed 8 years. Join us for this talk to celebrate Strimzi 1.0. You will learn what new features this milestone Strimzi release brings, what you need to know before upgrading to it, and what the future of Strimzi looks like beyond 1.0. But we will also look back and do a retrospective of why it took us so long to get the 1.0 release out, and what mistakes we made along the way. So even if you are not a Strimzi user, you might take away some lessons learned from our road to Strimzi 1.0.