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Zachary Arnold
Zachary Arnold
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Zachary Arnold

Zachary Arnold works as a software engineer at Ygrene Energy Fund. Zach has an experience of over 10 years in modern web development. He is an active contributor to the Open Source Kubernetes project in both SIG-Release and SIG-Docs currently focusing on security. He has been running clusters in production since Kubernetes 1.7 and has spoken at the previous 4 KubeCons. His passion areas in the project center on building highly stable Kubernetes cluster components and running workloads securely inside of Kubernetes.
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Sahil Dua
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Sahil Dua

Sahil Dua is a software engineer. He started using Kubernetes to run machine learning workloads. Currently, he is running various types of applications on Kubernetes. He shared his learnings as a keynote session at KubeCon Europe 2018. He is a passionate open source contributor and has contributed to some famous projects such as Git, pandas, hound, go-GitHub, and so on. He has been an open source community leader for over 2 years at DuckDuckGo.
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Wei Huang
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Wei Huang

Wei Huang: Wei works as a senior software engineer in IBM. He has over 10 years' experiences around database, data warehouse tooling, cloud, container, monitoring and devops. He started to use Kubernetes since 1.3, including extending Kubernetes LoadBalancer using CRD, networking, scheduling and monitoring. Now he is a core maintainer of Kubernetes SIG-Scheduling.
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Faisal Masood
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Faisal Masood

Faisal Masood is a cloud transformation architect at AWS. Faisal's focus is to assist customers in refining and executing strategic business goals. Faisal main interests are evolutionary architectures, software development, ML lifecycle, CD and IaC. Faisal has over two decades of experience in software architecture and development.
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Mélony Qin
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Mélony Qin

Mélony Y. QIN, also known as CloudMelon, is the founder of CloudMelon Vis, a tech media and educational platform for technopreneurs in the cloud-native and serverless space, and a former product manager at Microsoft. With a passion for cloud-native technologies, OSS, DevOps, Kubernetes, serverless, data, and AI, Mélony has authored multiple books, including the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Guide, the Kubernetes Workshop, and Microsoft Azure Infrastructure, all published by Packt Publishing. Mélony is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Project Management Institute (PMI), leveraging her extensive experience with diverse cloud technologies to drive innovation in the cloud-native, serverless, and generative AI space. She runs the CloudMelonVis YouTube channel and Cloud-Native Innovators newsletter, read by professionals from top tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Dell, and Carrefour.
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Mohammed Abu Taleb
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Mohammed Abu Taleb

Mohammed Abu-Taleb works as a Technical Advisor at Microsoft. Working at Microsoft CSS team for troubleshooting complex issues and cases for premier customers that are using Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). Prior that, Mohammed was a SME (subject matter expert) for the azure managed monitoring service (Azure Monitor) focusing on designing, deploying, and troubleshooting monitoring strategies for containers.
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Creating Controllers with Custom Logic

As mentioned earlier, Kubernetes provides a list of controllers with predefined functionality. These controllers are baked into the Kubernetes server binary. However, what happens if you need to have your own policy or standard to check against, and none of the admission controllers fit your requirements?

To address such a requirement, Kubernetes provides something called admission webhooks. There are two types of admission webhooks, which we will study in the following sections.

The Mutating Admission Webhook

The mutating admission webhook is a type of mutating admission controller that doesn't have any logic of its own. Instead, it allows you to define a URL that will be called by the Kubernetes API server. This URL is the address to our webhook. Functionally, a webhook is an HTTPS server that accepts requests, processes them, and then responds back.

If multiple URLs are defined, they are processed in a chain, that is, the output...

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Zachary Arnold

Zachary Arnold works as a software engineer at Ygrene Energy Fund. Zach has an experience of over 10 years in modern web development. He is an active contributor to the Open Source Kubernetes project in both SIG-Release and SIG-Docs currently focusing on security. He has been running clusters in production since Kubernetes 1.7 and has spoken at the previous 4 KubeCons. His passion areas in the project center on building highly stable Kubernetes cluster components and running workloads securely inside of Kubernetes.
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Sahil Dua

Sahil Dua is a software engineer. He started using Kubernetes to run machine learning workloads. Currently, he is running various types of applications on Kubernetes. He shared his learnings as a keynote session at KubeCon Europe 2018. He is a passionate open source contributor and has contributed to some famous projects such as Git, pandas, hound, go-GitHub, and so on. He has been an open source community leader for over 2 years at DuckDuckGo.
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Wei Huang

Wei Huang: Wei works as a senior software engineer in IBM. He has over 10 years' experiences around database, data warehouse tooling, cloud, container, monitoring and devops. He started to use Kubernetes since 1.3, including extending Kubernetes LoadBalancer using CRD, networking, scheduling and monitoring. Now he is a core maintainer of Kubernetes SIG-Scheduling.
Read more about Wei Huang

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Faisal Masood

Faisal Masood is a cloud transformation architect at AWS. Faisal's focus is to assist customers in refining and executing strategic business goals. Faisal main interests are evolutionary architectures, software development, ML lifecycle, CD and IaC. Faisal has over two decades of experience in software architecture and development.
Read more about Faisal Masood

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Mélony Qin

Mélony Y. QIN, also known as CloudMelon, is the founder of CloudMelon Vis, a tech media and educational platform for technopreneurs in the cloud-native and serverless space, and a former product manager at Microsoft. With a passion for cloud-native technologies, OSS, DevOps, Kubernetes, serverless, data, and AI, Mélony has authored multiple books, including the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Guide, the Kubernetes Workshop, and Microsoft Azure Infrastructure, all published by Packt Publishing. Mélony is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Project Management Institute (PMI), leveraging her extensive experience with diverse cloud technologies to drive innovation in the cloud-native, serverless, and generative AI space. She runs the CloudMelonVis YouTube channel and Cloud-Native Innovators newsletter, read by professionals from top tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Dell, and Carrefour.
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Mohammed Abu Taleb

Mohammed Abu-Taleb works as a Technical Advisor at Microsoft. Working at Microsoft CSS team for troubleshooting complex issues and cases for premier customers that are using Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). Prior that, Mohammed was a SME (subject matter expert) for the azure managed monitoring service (Azure Monitor) focusing on designing, deploying, and troubleshooting monitoring strategies for containers.
Read more about Mohammed Abu Taleb