Alexis Richardson Profile
Alexis Richardson

@monadic

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@monadic
Alexis Richardson
6 years
Kubris - the belief that Kubernetes can do everything by itself
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5 years
Firecracker VMs but with a Docker container developer experience! Announcing Ignite - a new container VM technology for our 5th birthday - Secure, fast, easy to use. With extra #gitops built in :)
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hi all weaveworks is winding down :-( I wrote a statement here Weaveworks is the best team I ever worked with and will have a longer impact than perhaps we expected at the start
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Firekube makes secure Kubernetes clusters easy Kubernetes on Ignite - Lean - Fast - Secure Boots from Git and is 100% GitOps managed Open Source - from laptop to cloud and more!
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6 years
Congratulations to @michellenoorali and @kelseyhightower for the best kubecon @CloudNativeFdn event yet!
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3 years
very pleased to share our funding news with everyone at last super validation for our wonderful team of lovely people and for our GitOps vision for Kubernetes
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7 years
instead of getting an uber* buy this book: (*ok, 3 ubers)
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6 years
calling all kubernetes fans - super fast CICD and all the gitops goodness from kubecon - packed into one little blog post with props going out to @kelseyhightower @WilliamDenniss @vicnastea @monkigras - @kubernetesio @kubeconio
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Only 320000 cores running 210 kubernetes clusters? Pshaw. Mind-blowing story from CERN at #KubeCon
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6 years
Nobody got fired for buying Kubernetes
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4 years
AWS Bottlerocket meets GitOps 3 quick steps to your Bottlerocket cluster on AWS -- Fork Clone Run It doesn't get easier than this
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Alexis Richardson
3 months
Thanks to all who sent good wishes about Weaveworks Means a lot Great team now looking for work and opportunities - ping me
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4 years
🔥👍😃🔥🧐👍🔥❤️👏 NEWS .. AWS just added direct support for the GitOps model for the broad range of AWS services BOOM
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Alexis Richardson
7 years
I wrote a blog post about how we use Git as a source of truth for ops. "GitOps - Operations by Pull Request" -
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6 years
happy birthday @weaveworks - four years old today! proud of you all.
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3 years
We are seven years old!
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Weaveworks
3 years
Today is our 7th birthday 🥳 We've had such a fun journey & we can't wait to see what the next 7 years will bring. Thanks to all of our employees, customers & users for your continued support. Here's a glimpse into part of our journey around #GitOps 👉
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
very impressed with the k8s team that @Apple is putting together! multiple great hires in the last year or so
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4 years
could not be more excited about this!
@cdavisafc
Cornelia Davis (she/her) @[email protected]
4 years
Delighted to announce my new gig: CTO of @weaveworks . The opportunity to help enterprises radically transform their IT and software #DevOps ( #gitops anyone?) competencies is huge! Thrilled!!!!
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Alexis Richardson
5 years
Rip Joe and thank you. Without you @RabbitMQ would not have existed. You were like Erlang, always available, never bounded. Your ideas will be reimplemented forever.
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Francesco Cesarini
5 years
It is with great sadness that I share news of Joe Armstrong's passing away earlier today. Whilst he may no longer be with us, his work has laid the foundation which will be used by generations to come. RIP @joeerl , thank you for inspiring us all.
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What steps are we as an industry willing to take to mitigate the climate impact of conferences? Three weeks ago I published a survey to understand people's views on this. 163 people responded. The results -
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Alexis Richardson
5 years
Tech Conferences have Codes of Conduct thanks to the brave and good work of certain people. So: can they have a Climate Code of Conduct? please comment:
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2 years
Happy 20th birthday to Redmonk! Today, the tech industry takes for granted that developers and OSS communities decide what SW we use Gone are the days of Sun, HP and IBM boxware sold to COOs No team has done more to establish this truth than @monkchips and @sogrady Cheers!
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5 years
Fuck bitcoin
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George Aylett
5 years
Bitcoin produces as much CO2 a year as a million transatlantic flights. This will only increase over time. Those tweeting #BitcoinIsBack must recognise the impact Bitcoin has on the environment.
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3 years
Congratulations to AWS on launching a Cortex based Prometheus service! Developed at @weaveworks and now in @CloudNativeFdn , Cortex is now the de facto leader for hosted Prometheus and large scale on prem services, complementing the equally useful Thanos #usedbymany
@adrianco
Adrian Cockcroft - now @[email protected]
3 years
Nice to see @Werner announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana and Prometheus. Based on a deep commercial relationship with @grafana that we've been building over the last year as part of the @AWSOpen program. Great example of how to build an open source based cloud service.
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5 years
If you think of Firecracker as runc, you can think of Ignite as docker. Is there then any docker-composething for Ignite? Yes, Footloose. With Footloose, you can run containers as Virtual Machines in two modes, either using docker or ignite.
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4 years
cloud native is waiting for its iPhone moment the potential market is 100M+ software developers in the foreseeable future the battleground is developer experience another excellent survey and 2020 vision from @redmonk @sogrady ---
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
I have just moved to Oxford from London, living in a village near the river Will still be in Shoreditch when I'm in London, and other appropriate locations :) Hoping to work from home a bit, and be in a co-working space a bit, mostly likely centre of town...
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Alexis Richardson
6 years
mega update on GitOps and why Kubernetes is so important for it >>>
@weaveworks
Weaveworks
6 years
Have you wondered what’s the difference between infrastructure as code, Continuous Delivery and #GitOps ? @monadic discusses developer experience and its role in production velocity
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Alexis Richardson
9 months
our statement on @HashiCorp move to non-open-source licenses for Terraform &co
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
Ban bitcoin now! Already the energy consumption is enormous It is a pollutant that, by design, gets less efficient as it grows If you love bitcoin you need to find a better way
@davidfrum
David Frum
3 years
Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity than all the electrical vehicles on earth.
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Alexis Richardson
5 years
@aronchick @cloud_opinion @bala_natarajan @lukwam AWS - please try one again we have infinite compute. Azure - here is your money back, sales will call you to grovel GCP - we can't see this, it didn't happen, maybe user wrong? IBM - meet our new consulting team
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Alexis Richardson
2 years
super cool news from our partner @deutschetelekom 5G rolled out with Kubernetes and GitOps Some serious production grade engineering here More on our blog: #gitops @weaveworks
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Alexis Richardson
9 months
There wouldn't be half as much shouting if hashicorp had switched vault to BSL but left Terraform as open source Why? Terraform has become a standard, distributed and remixed by 1000s of tools. Now they're all interwoven with BSL and no one knows what that really means
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Adam Jacob
9 months
HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License - The New Stack
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Alexis Richardson
6 years
Big thank you to @lizrice and @kelseyhightower for a wonderful Kubecon plus @cloudnativefdn staff+sponsors. And community for making it live
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
All The Things! How we used Flagger and Github Actions to Machine Learning and Progressively! @chanwit knocks it out of the park
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Alexis Richardson
5 years
thank you for making Kubernetes transition from a google project to a community project that is now driving the industry!
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sarahnovotny
5 years
today is my last day at Google. i cannot be more proud of the teams i have worked with and the impact they have on the industry. i’m also looking forward to what’s next and will share my excitement after summer fun. 🏖🎠🎢
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
Really excited to see Google finally embrace GitOps after several years of flip flopping GitOps is primarily about the ideal of automated operations. But, for enterprise, mediated by policy We need a new open source stack for this #argo #flux #flagger
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
use GitOps to manage clusters not just apps now your clusters are reproducible at will
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Kubernetes clusters don't get easier than this
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Alexis Richardson
2 years
One of the BEST things in CNCF is "no kingmakers" Who'd have predicted Opentelemetry would be such a huge success a few yrs ago? LET PROJECTS GROW Here is what was hot on slack last week at Kubecon. Great to see such a strong showing from Flux and Argo! Soon to graduate!
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
amazingly happy about this
@fluxcd
Flux Project
3 years
🤩 We are thrilled to announce @CloudNativeFdn TOC just promoted us to Incubating project status! 🎊 Huge thanks to our community of maintainers, contributors, and users! 📰 Read more about incubation and the road ahead here:
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Alexis Richardson
5 years
ekscellent!
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Weaveworks
5 years
#eksctl is officially the command line for #EKS ! "We decided, instead of building our own, to embrace eksctl as part of the EKS planning cycle, and to encourage others to contribute as well – and we’ve been happy we did!" More on the @awscloud blog!
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Alexis Richardson
7 years
Today RabbitMQ is ten years old officially -
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Alexis Richardson
11 months
Platform engineering is a market not a product 1. Engineers who have built a platform will not buy another 2. Nobody wants just one "opinionated platform" if they must enable many scenarios Platform teams want help * onboarding users * trusted+efficient operations
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Alexis Richardson
6 years
when a meeting is scheduled to use Skype for Business, it is a warning sign that *something will go wrong*
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5 years
love love love GitHub Actions + GitOps = easy Kubernetes
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Alexis Richardson
5 years
Tech Conferences have Codes of Conduct thanks to the brave and good work of certain people. So: can they have a Climate Code of Conduct? please comment:
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
Went into Shoreditch Met a friend And had a coffee Didn't talk about the pandemic What gives
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Alexis Richardson
2 years
This week's lesson Sack all the clowns and elect a comedian
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
When your train network is a distributed system
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
Strong turn out for aws container day at kubecon! #gitops
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
when we started, we didn't even have walls, we lived in a shoebox in the middle of the road // cont. p43
@weaveworks
Weaveworks
3 years
Tune in as Alexis Richardson ( @monadic ) describes to Craig Box ( @craigbox ) Weaveworks humble beginnings with Weave Net overlay network and talks philosophy, finance, founding and selling tech companies via @KubernetesPod
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Alexis Richardson
6 months
Go Weaveworks!
@P_Ensarguet
Philippe Ensarguet
6 months
Oh, I’m so happy to see @mewzherder @yebyen @PinkyyRavi on stage to receive the “Small but Mighty” award! So happy for my mate @monadic and the whole @weaveworks team. #GitOps and @fluxcd is definitely a game changer for our #cloudnative ecosystem 🚀
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Alexis Richardson
6 years
All redhat people! We are hiring. Sales and technical and more. DM me
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3 years
Let's cook 2 kilos of beef shin and marrowbone!
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1 year
Gitops + iac = platform
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7 years
GitOps pipelines - check out part two of my blog post about how our dev team uses Git to help operate Kubernetes -
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7 years
The openstack club was "anyone but Amazon". Cloud native is "everyone including Amazon". Huge win for customers and users @CloudNativeFdn
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my 5yo daughter has taken to saying "wait, what?" in response to everything I say
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
sincere congratulations and thanks to everyone who has helped this project over the years -- a huge milestone to reach a stable 1.0 this project is now used to scale Prometheus by many huge companies and has certainly been battered by @weaveworks and other SaaS providers
@bboreham
Bryan Boreham
4 years
Cortex 1.0 now released! The high-point of years of work from @tom_wilkie , @juliusvolz , @csmarchbanks , @kenhaines , @putadent and dozens more. Created at @weaveworks where it has been running in production for over three years now in Weave Cloud.
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When the lovely @WeWork barista makes me a booster quad
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4 years
The cloud native world just got bigger
@IanColdwater
Ian Coldwater 📦💥
4 years
🤓🦸🏻🚀
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Alexis Richardson
2 months
I'm on the #kubetrain to talk about this tomorrow!
@CloudNativeFdn
CNCF
2 months
NEWS: Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s @fluxcd Project Gains New Corporate Support 🥰 #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon Europe 🇫🇷
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5 years
Good to see @weaveworks in here
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Chris Aniszczyk (@[email protected])
5 years
📝we released our first @CloudNativeFdn project journey report, my favorite part is seeing how no single company dominates contributions to k8s anymore and the value of a well run open source foundation to build an ecosystem! (we will be doing this for all graduated projects)
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
Absolutely brilliant show A Greek tragicomedy but in an English seaside town Wonderful stuff
@daisy_haggard
Daisy Haggard
3 years
#BackToLife is now up on @BBCiPlayer ! Get nice cup of tea or coffee and get back into bed with a big bag of frazzles. Hope you enjoy the crazy ride ❤️❤️❤️❤️🦙
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6 years
Congratulations @errordeveloper from everyone @weaveworks
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
The problem with “progressive” arguments for Brexit is that all the best progressive examples of “what UK could look like” are the successful social democrat economies *in the EU* The arguments must invent fake examples (eg progressive Singapore, social USA) or remain abstract
@guardian
The Guardian
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The left must stop mourning Brexit – and start seeing its huge potential | Larry Elliott
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5 years
Maybe the real business model was the licenses we made along the way
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Alexis Richardson
7 years
Amazon joining CNCF is huge for cloud, cloud native open source tools. Kudos to all who made it happen #community @awscloud @CloudNativeFdn
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Alexis Richardson
5 years
OH: CNCF announces the SPL: you can only use kubectl if you pronounce it rite Specific Pronunciation License Pronounced "spell"
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Alexis Richardson
2 months
My UPDATE on FluxCD and Weaveworks more soon.
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Alexis Richardson
2 months
Really strong support for @fluxcd from @gitlab The project continues to get stronger as the community steps up. Gitlab, Azure and many more.
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developers developers developers
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5 years
Very cool thing here 100% gitops managed Kubernetes clusters anywhere Reproducible correct application clusters Manage securely by updating config Upgrades and more.
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Weaveworks
5 years
Exciting announcement 📢 WKSctl is here. It's a new #opensource tool to install and manage @kubernetesio . And we've got a fresh blog with all of the details: #WKSctl #GitOps
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
Welcoming Jane Silber to our board!
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Weaveworks
3 years
📢 We're delighted to announce that Jane Silber ( @silbs ) has joined the Weaveworks Board of Directors. "Her experience in building successful infrastructure businesses will help us as we expand our market presence and build on our exciting Se... @monadic .
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7 years
Can Observability help developers heart ops? Pt3 of GitOps -> ++ shouts to @mipsytipsy @copyconstruct @mattklein123
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2 years
Flux publishes security best practices #gitops
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3 years
The grim underbelly of village life
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WHAT is GitOps? WHY does it need Kubernetes? HOW can you do it? NEW podcast with @weaveworks @harnessio @thenewstack
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Flux into CNCF Sandbox! Thread on gitops from the wonderful @dholbach
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4 years
Vegas devours my soul every morning
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2 years
Let's talk about ClickOps and GitOps GUIs. @QuinnyPig makes all the correct points in his blog post Weaveworks have already developed an open source GitOps GUI for FluxCD that is using the same principles Corey calls "ClickOps" the UI is quick and easy but updates Git safely!
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Corey Quinn
2 years
The four tiers of @awscloud infrastructure management are: 1. Using the console 2. Using CloudFormation or Terraform 3. Using the CDK (to which I'm starting to warm) 4. Using the console and lying about it. Let's talk about the fourth stage: ClickOps.
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2 years
Metal is the new cloud.
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3 years
congrats AWS on this huge milestone! delighted that @weaveworks is a GA launch partner -- making application deployment simple with gitops -- ANYWHERE hat-tip to @errordeveloper for k8s-anywhere back in the day! it helped lead to kubeadm+capi and the incredible power of k8s
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Weaveworks
3 years
Introducing self-service & consolidated operations, ANYWHERE, with EKS-Anywhere & #GitOps . Now you can take advantage of the huge potential that hybrid #Kubernetes provides & operate it safely & autonomously using Weave GitOps. Check out our e... @awscloud
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
Want to help shape open source? Please read this. The cloud native foundation tech committee is growing and changing. Yes you can be involved too. We are a community of projects and people. If you are a part of that or want to be, please let us know!
@jbeda
Joe Beda
4 years
Let's talk about the @CloudNativeFdn TOC. What does it do? How can you get involved? Are you qualified? First, TOC stands for "Technical Oversight Committee" and is a group of technologists that helps guide what projects are in the CNCF and their level of maturity.
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Epically happy to be re-elected to this thing and with such wonderful people. HUGE thank you to outgoing TOC. Now we just have a few things to fix! Starting with #diversity
@CloudNativeFdn
CNCF
5 years
Sending a huge CONGRATS to our newly-elected TOC members: @monadic , @brendandburns , @jbeda , @kelseyhightower , @mattklein123 , @bigxiang & @purplemagma 🎉🌟👏🏽 Visit to learn more + hear from the new committee!
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4 years
Halp It is apocalypse and am trapped with a 6 year old
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so much this
@lizrice
Liz Rice 🐝
5 years
If Glastonbury can go plastic free, let's do it at #KubeCon @dankohn1 @jzemlin @monadic
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Alexis Richardson
4 years
😺😺😺😺 we are hiring! 😺😺😺😺 could you be our next engineering manager? this is an amazing role working with some fine people and tech - wfh, remote, flexible find this job and more @weaveworks - #Kubernetes #gitops #flux #flagger
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Alexis Richardson
3 years
Everyone will do this. EVERYONE.
@Joab_Jackson
Joab Jackson
3 years
Apple plans to use #Kubernetes to run the majority of its compute management jobs, offering in-house developers/engineers with a namespace- or cluster-as-a-service -- @Lemonjet #kubeconNA
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GitOps -- ArgoCD vs Flux??
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4 years
Getting the 2020 reading list ready @weaveworks
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So happy to see many people speak up at this #kubecon on the topic of transparency and better governance in the @CloudNativeFdn Involving the community is critical to establishing trust and sustainability. We need to do more and not stand still.
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Alexis Richardson
5 years
Wanted: restaurants that serve kid friendly food all day. North London, I'm looking at you. Why is it easy to sell 1000 poached eggs and flat whites to yuppie hipsters but cheese or beans on toast is lipsnarl?
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