KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Accessible, comprehensive, and easy-to-read documentation aids open source project adoption.
New users of an open source project often follow the documentation to deploy the project.
Good documentation leads users to successfully deploy the project -- potentially leading to adoption.

This session highlights key strategies, factors, and attributes that aided the success of the Kubernetes documentation. Some of these include the importance of writing from a second-person perspective and accepting PRs that are "good enough" and not perfect, which creates a lower barrier to entry for new contributors to improve the docs. This talk will review many more strategies, factors, and attributes of the Kubernetes documentation that can be adopted by other projects and are helpful for future Kubernetes documentation contributors.