# My Kubecon NA experience!

Hey, everyone, how is it going?

I attended KubeCon NA in Atlanta two weeks ago, and it was a great experience! Connecting with the community and meeting co-workers was the highlight for me, as I've spent the last 11 months primarily interacting with them online.

I was supposed to arrive on 09/nov to attend the Maintainers Summit there, but with a mix of delayed flights both from Brazil and from the US, I ended up arriving only at 11 pm :( I hope to participate in it next time.

## OpenTofu Day (10/nov)

My KubeCon week started with OpenTofu Day, a co-located event dedicated to the OpenTofu community. This one was special for me because I was on stage twice.

### My talk: How OpenTofu Uses LSP To Power Its Text Editors Plugins

%[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKE6TOErLKE]

I presented how OpenTofu uses the Language Server Protocol (LSP) to bring an IDE-like experience to whatever editor you prefer: VS Code, Neovim, Emacs, and others.

The idea behind LSP is simple but powerful: instead of every editor implementing its own support for every language, there is a standard protocol between the editor (the client) and a language server. The server understands the language, and the editor just asks it questions like "what can I autocomplete here?", "where is this defined?" or "what is wrong with this file?".

For OpenTofu, that server is **tofu-ls**, the OpenTofu Language Server. It gives you, for your HCL files:

- Auto-completion
- Go-to-definition
- Syntax highlighting
- Real-time diagnostics

So whether you're writing modules in VS Code or in Neovim, you get the same features from the same server, and improvements land for every editor at once.

### Ask The Devs

%[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuKXfiFAzI]

Later in the day, I joined the **Ask The Devs** session together with other OpenTofu maintainers, where the audience could ask us anything about the project: how it's developed, what's coming next, and how to get involved.

## Wrapping up

Thanks to everyone who came to the talks, asked questions, or just stopped by to chat. See you at the next one!