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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
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

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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The Kubernetes API Server

In Kubernetes, all communications and operations between the control plane components and external clients, such as kubectl, are translated into RESTful API calls that are handled by the API server. Effectively, the API server is a RESTful web application that processes RESTful API calls over HTTP to store and update API objects in the etcd datastore.

The API server is also a frontend component that acts as a gateway to and from the outside world, which is accessed by all clients, such as the kubectl command-line tool. Even the cluster components in the control plane interact with each other only through the API server. Additionally, it is the only component that interacts directly with the etcd datastore. Since the API server is the only way for clients to access the cluster, it must be properly configured to be accessible by clients. You will usually see the API server implemented as kube-apiserver.

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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.
Read more about Mélony Qin

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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