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Zachary Arnold

Sahil Dua

Wei Huang

Faisal Masood

Mélony Qin

Mohammed Abu Taleb

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Labels

Labels are the metadata that contain identifiable information pertaining to the Kubernetes objects. These are basically key-value pairs that can be attached to objects such as pods. Each key must be unique for an object. Labels contain information that is meaningful to users. Labels can be attached to pods at the time of creation and can also be added or modified during their runtime too. Here is an example of how labels in a YAML file would appear:

metadata:
  labels:
    key1: value1
    key2: value2

Constraints for Labels

As noted earlier, labels are key-value pairs. There are certain rules that label keys and values should follow. These constraints exist because this way, the queries using labels can be evaluated faster by using optimized data structures and algorithms internally. Kubernetes internally maintains the mappings of labels to corresponding objects using optimized data structures to make these queries...

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Authors (6)

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.
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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

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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