Michael Hausenblas

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My name is Michael Hausenblas, I'm an Open Source Product Developer Advocate at AWS and serve as an Cloud Native Ambassador at CNCF, focusing on observability (OpenTelemetry) as well as service meshes (Service Mesh Interface).

For AWS-related inquires please use hausenbl@amazon.com and m.hausenblas@acm.org for everything else.

Activities

My current and upcoming books:

2019.Programming Kubernetes teaches you how to use and extend Kubernetes programmatically in Go. We cover low-level Kubernetes API access using the client-go package, custom controllers & resources, and custom API servers.

2018.Kubernetes Security covers securing clusters, secure image builds and running containers, authn & authz, secrets, and more.

2018.Kubernetes Cookbook is a collection of recipies for developers and admins that my buddy Sébastien Goasguen and I put together.

2018.Container Networking covers container networking, focusing on CNI and Kubernetes.

2016. Serverless Ops—A Beginners Guide For Serverless Operations covers the serverless ecosystem and how to approach the serverless paradigm from an ops perspective.

Some of my active projects:

• AWS Controllers for Kubernetes.
• The AWS Container Security Survey 2020.
• Maintaining tools and techniques around troubleshooting Kubernetes apps.
• Developing kubed-sh, the Kubernetes cluster shell for the casual cluster user.
• Running the Cloud Native Ireland meetup as founder.
• Serving on Programme Commitees such as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, O'Reilly Velocity, and Red Hat Summit.
• Speaking at events, for example: GopherCon, ContainerCamp, O'Reilly Velocity, ContainerSched, Software Circus, DevOpsCon, distributed matters, FOSDEM, O'Reilly Strata, Devoxx, Hadoop Summit, OSCON, Thingmonk, various user groups all over the place—most of my presentations are available via speakerdeck.com.

A list of all advocacy sites I've ever done is also available.

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Some of my past activities:

• Helping people to learn Kubernetes via kubernetesbyexample.com.
• PoCing Parameterizer, a tool for generic Kubernetes app installs.
• Providing developers with good practices around ops for cloud native/containerized environments via some.ops4devs.info.
• Compiling a collection of code snippets for client-go.
• Co-developing the Container Orchestration Benchmark.
• Maintaining All Things Linux containers reference website
• Developing ReShifter, the Kubernetes backup and restore tool.
• Developing cinf, a Linux command line tool to view namespaces and cgroups.
• Toying around with distributed named pipes.
• Maintaining DC/OS.
• Contributing to the Myriad project, a Mesos framework for dynamically scaling YARN clusters, allowing to run Hadoop apps such as Spark alongside non-Hadoop applications such as Node.js, Memecached, RoR, etc.
• Contributing to p24e.io, the Programmable Infrastructure advocacy site.
• Hosting the DC/OS Office Hours.
• Co-chairing the #MesosCon Europe 2015 which took place in Dublin, Ireland in October 2015.
• Mentoring data processing in the Internet of Things (IoT) through the iot-a; for example, I'm a mentor at the Startupbootcamp Internet of Things & Data.
• In my role as Chief Data Engineer at MapR Technologies I wrote about polyglot processing and data analytics economics.
• Contributing to the Apache Drill, where I helped building an interactive, distributed query engine and maintained drill-user.org.
• Research and development in the Internet of Things (IoT) area such as the HTTP and CoAP book chapter or the Mobile Augmented Reality position paper and demo.
• General Chair of the European Data Forum 2013 (EDF).
• Co-creator and maintainer of the 5 ★ Open Data site, explaining costs & benefits of Open Data incl. examples for each stage.
• Initiator and co-maintainer of enable-cors.org to advocate good practices around CORS.
• Inventor of and contributor to the 'Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets' (VoID) that allows to describe RDF-based datasets.
• I was co-chairing the W3C RDB2RDF Working Group that standardised mappings of relational data into RDF.

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