Nick Young
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe2 editions2022–2025
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on a stage with
- Chris Kühlonce
- Nigel Brownonce
- Orlin Vasilevonce
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who talks about the same things
- Rob Scott16 talks
- Joe Betz11 talks
- Steve Sloka7 talks
- Nigel Brown9 talks
- Leigh Capili23 talks
- Julia Furst Morgado15 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Don't Write Controllers Like Charlie Don't Does: Avoiding Common Kubernetes Controller Mistakes | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Shows that homegrown clients that call get/list on every reconcile burn API server cycles and that uncontrolled status writes create hundreds of status updates… | ||
| Custom Resource Definitions: Let's Talk About Versioning and Releases | CNCF Maintainer Summit Europe 2025 | 2025-03-31 |
CRD changes must be round-trippable to be safe so storage conversion doesn’t lose fields; examples show a width default and a singular→plural param change that… | ||
| Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Making Cross-Namespace References More Secure with Re... | CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2023 | 2023-02-01 |
Kubernetes needs an explicit two-way handshake for safe cross-namespace references: the owner of the target object must create a ReferenceGrant in the same… | ||
| Contour Ingress Intro and Deep Dive | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 | 2022-05-16 |
Contour is a control plane for Envoy with concrete metrics and features: 230 contributors, 41 new this year, 16 releases and 620 PRs with an average 12-hour PR… | ||
| Gateway API: Beta to GA | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 | 2022-05-16 |
Gateway API graduates core pieces—GatewayClass, Gateway, and HTTPRoute—to Beta as a CRD-based official Kubernetes API with webhook validation, requiring… | ||
| How to Migrate from Vault Open Source to Vault Enterprise | HashiTalks 2022 | 2022-02-17 |
Shows a concrete path that moves a Vault OSS cluster using DynamoDB into Vault Enterprise by running vault operator migrate with a migrate.hcl targetting… | ||
| Troubleshooting Kubernetes CRDs is too damn hard | Cloud Native Rejekts NA 2021 | 2021-10-09 |
Argues that the true usability metric for CRDs is the troubleshooting distance — how many kubectl calls it takes to find a root cause — and shows concrete… | ||
| Talk Deep Dive | Cloud Native Rejekts NA 2021 | 2021-10-09 |
Starts Kubernetes work on v1.1 in 2016 and moves to build an ingress controller backed by a custom CRD HTTPProxy that enforces multi-tenant routing rules… | ||
| Dr etcd; or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Datastore - Nick Young, VMware | Kubernetes Forum Sydney 2019 | 2019-12-12 |
Practical war stories about running etcd: upgrade path that lets a cluster be upgraded online in under 30 minutes, using immutable instances plus attached data… | ||
| Livin' on the Edge (of your cluster) | EnvoyCon 2019 | 2019-11-18 |
Built Contour as an Envoy-based edge ingress controller that routes external traffic into Kubernetes, and finds mesh defaults break under long-lived… | ||
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