Contact
Michael's
ID at DERI
Michael's
ID at dogfood
My name is Michael Hausenblas and I'm a
Product Lead in the AWS
open
source observability service team. I want to help you implement
Return on Investment Driven Observability
using open standards and open source including but not limited to
OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
In the context of our service team I'm working on
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, and the
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry.
From 2018 to 2022 I served as a
Cloud Native Ambassador
at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
For AWS-related inquires please use hausenbl@amazon.com
and mhausenblas@icloud.com
for everything else. Also, I'm usually hanging out on CNCF Slack and my Twitter DMs are open
(IOW you don't need to follow me to message me there).
If you want to stay up to date on developments in the observability
space, subscribe to o11y.news, my weekly ad-free and non-tracking newsletter:
Activities
Some of the books I authored and co-authored are:
2023.Cloud Observability in Action is a hands-on guide on applying observability in the context of cloud native environments using open standards and open source.
2021.Hacking Kubernetes
shows security defaults in action and how you can defend against
attackers.
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.
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:
- Contributing to open source software in the observability space,
upstream.
- Working with partners and community on open observability specifications.
- Sharing updates via the observability newsletter.
- Serving on Programme Commitees such as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
A list of all advocacy sites I've
ever done is also available.
More ...
Some of my past activities:
-
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.
- Contributing to the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
project.
- 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.
- 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.