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Sr. Kubernetes Specialist SA @AWSCloud | CNCF Ambassador | Kubernetes contributor | Opinions are my own

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Carlos Santana
2 years
When people ask me what I do I do the best I can as a - Father - Husband - Son - Brother - Uncle - Godfather - Neighbor - Mentor - Friend Oh, the tech stuff? That's the boring part of my life. Don't let your job role define who you are.
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Carlos Santana
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Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Observability Engineering by @mipsytipsy , @lizthegrey and @gmiranda23 Chapters: 1 and 2 Fridays 7AMPST/10AMEST Download the free book, get a calendar invite and join the @rawkode Discord for a zoom link here
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Career news: I've joined @awscloud 🙌 I'm very fortunate in so many ways. I'm excited to get to meet new people and tell new stories. 🤩 At KubeCon NA, I would love to meet customers in person and listen to their stories about using #EKS in production
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Carlos Santana
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Kubernetes Book Club 📚 New Book: Container Security by @lizrice Read by next Friday: Chapters 1-5 7AMPST/10AMEST Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord for zoom link Free copy:
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Tomorrow is the release day of Kubernetes v1.25 I'm blessed to have been part of the release team 🙏
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1 year
🚀Introducing EKS Node Viewer on your terminal 🔥 eks-node-viewer is a tool for visualizing dynamic node usage within a cluster. It was originally developed as an internal tool at AWS for demonstrating consolidation with Karpenter.
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I'm starting a Kubernetes Home Lab; who else wants to join the journey? I got a NUC over Christmas and finally opened my gift today. Can I get amd64 and arm64 containers to get along in a single cluster while scaling to zero or freezing?
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Carlos Santana
3 years
Happy Saturday 🍂 I received good news today 🎉 #Kubernetes #CKS
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Every Friday is Kubernetes Book Club 📚 New Book: Networking & Kubernetes This week: Chapter 1 7AMPST/10AMEDT/5PMCEST/8:30PMIST/15UTC Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord Live Event
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We are starting a new book this week Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Kubernetes Security by @lizrice and @mhausenblas Read by Friday: Chapters 1-5 7AMPST/10AMEST Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord for zoom link Free copy:
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Today July 8th, Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Hacking Kubernetes by @sublimino @mhausenblas Read by this Friday: Chapters 7 “Hard Multitenancy” Fridays 7AMPST/10AMEST join our Discord for zoom link and calendar invite Free copy:
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Carlos Santana
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Join us tomorrow Friday 29th, at 10AM PST Twitter Space with the @kubernetesio release team to talk about the release shadow program and application @Dixie3Flatline @JamesLaverack @reylejano @jrrickard @cloudtaquero 👇
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Carlos Santana
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From Airport 🛬 to ER 🚨, stable now 🙏
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Carlos Santana
2 years
The Egyptians also used YAML
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Carlos Santana
1 year
Heard of Platforms and Platform Engineering? Check out the v1 white-paper by the @CloudNativeFdn App Delivery TAG. I'm working on this space helping @awscloud customers, and is exciting to see how fast products getting delivered.
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Carlos Santana
2 years
I'm just going to leave this here and walk away slowly
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Carlos Santana
7 months
Finding the open source community heroes at hallway track. With @kunalstwt #KubeConNA
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Carlos Santana
2 years
How to manage Kubernetes secrets with GitOps? - Sealed Secrets - Argo CD Vault Plugin - SOPS (Secrets OPerationS) - Vault Agent - Secrets Store CSI Driver - External Secrets Check @dhpup blog post and the webinar recording
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Carlos Santana
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Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Hacking Kubernetes by @sublimino @mhausenblas Read by this Friday: Chapters 4 “Applications and Supply Chain” Fridays 7AMPST/10AMEST Get a Calendar invite and join our Discord for zoom link Free copy:
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Carlos Santana
2 years
First business trip 🛫
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Carlos Santana
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Happy to announce that I was accepted into the @CloudNativeFdn Ambassadors Program. I have been active in Open Source and Cloud Native Space for a while now See you all at Amsterdam #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon EU @cncfambassadors #CloudNativeAmbassador #CNCF @KubeCon_
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Carlos Santana
10 months
Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Theme: Building Kubernetes Operators Book: KubeBuilder Book Meetup: Every Friday @ 1:00PM EST ✅Checkout the notes ✅Join the @CloudNativeFdn kubernetes-book-club slack
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Today 20 years ago, I joined @IBM 🥳 Never underestimate the impact you can have with people you work with and interact with.
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Carlos Santana
1 year
What's better than Kubernetes Best Practices? 🤔 A CLI tool that checks if you are following Best Practices Recently open sourced tool hardeneks, try it on your @awscloud EKS cluster 🚀
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Every Friday is Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Networking & Kubernetes This week: Chapter 5: Kubernetes Networking Abstractions 7AMPST/10AMEDT/5PMCEST/8:30PMIST/15UTC Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord for zoom link
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Carlos Santana
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KubeCon in Paris 🇫🇷, 2024 Kubernetes turns 10 🎂
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Carlos Santana
1 year
Very interesting use case dealing with ResourceQuota; if a new Pod exceeds the CPU quota, it gets rejected. Now you can avoid this and build your queue or scale on demand using scheduling gates
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Waking up in Toledo, España calling it “Camino a KubeCon”
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Carlos Santana
1 year
Resuming Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Platform Engineering on Kubernetes by @salaboy Chapter: 5 "Release Strategies" Rolling Updates Canary  Blue/Green Every Friday @ 1:00PM EST Get a calendar invite and join the Discord
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Carlos Santana
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Kubernetes Book Club 📚 New Book: Istio in Action by @christianposta and @rinormaloku Chapters: 1,2,3 Introduction the Istio service mesh First steps with Istio Istio’s data plane: The Envoy proxy We meet every Friday Discord for a zoom link go here
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Carlos Santana
2 years
I am so blessed to have such precious family, friends, colleagues, and Twitter followers - you all mean the world to me! 🥳
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Carlos Santana
2 years
CKA Tip: Using a small minikube multinode cluster is a great way to practice for the #Kubernetes certifications exams. I helped someone today to get the smallest multinode cluster using #minikube minikube start --nodes=2 --cpus=2 --memory=2g
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Carlos Santana
1 year
Next KubeCon EU is at Paris, France 🇫🇷 2024
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Looking for something to read this weekend? Kubernetes Book Club 📚 starts a new book next week. 6 weeks to read Networking & Kubernetes by @strongjz and @vllry We meet next Friday join here
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Container Security by @lizrice Today: Chapters 1-5 7AMPST/10AMEST Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord for zoom link Free copy:
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Kubernetes 1.24 removing Dockershim: Commitments and Next Steps We’re excited to reaffirm our community values by supporting open source container runtimes, enabling a smaller kubelet, and increasing engineering velocity for teams using Kubernetes.
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Treat Your Kubernetes Clusters Like Cattle, Not Pets
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Carlos Santana
2 years
is now updated with @kubernetesio v1.25.0 released on August 23rd, 2022 If you were not aware of , YOU'RE WELCOME!
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Carlos Santana
2 years
This book looks like a great addition to the Kubernetes Book Club backlog 📚 What do you think?
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Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes Thanks to @portwx for sponsoring this eBook. Get it from here: #kubernetes #portworx #purestorage
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Carlos Santana
2 years
A prototype of the minikube GUI 🚀 @minikube_dev team is looking for feedback from the community start, stop, and delete multiple clusters. It also allows you to access the Kubernetes Dashboard and SSH into the cluster (currently Linux only) with the click of a button.
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Carlos Santana
1 year
Hoi Amsterdam 🌷 #KubeConEU
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Carlos Santana
3 years
Want to try knative in less than 5 minutes? 🔥 I updated konk (knative on kind) to the latest versions kind v0.11, Kubernetes 1.21.1, knative v0.23 🚀
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Carlos Santana
3 months
Another lap around the sun 🎂
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Carlos Santana
3 years
Look what arrived today! 🥳 Extremely happy to be awarded @IBM 2021 Recognition Experience Honoree, aka "Best of IBM.” My deepest gratitude to my colleagues, extended teams, and leadership for the recognition!
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Carlos Santana
2 years
We resume this week Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Kubernetes Security @lizrice and @mhausenblas Finish the book by Friday: Chapters 6-8 7AMPST/10AMEST Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord for zoom link Free copy:
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Carlos Santana
1 year
While everyone else brings their novel on board ✈️
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Microk8s and Multipass: Learning Kubernetes & Knative
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Carlos Santana
3 years
Be kind to others, like my friends at @chainguard_dev Happy Tuesday 🌮
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Carlos Santana
3 years
Honored to be recognized by the @KnativeProject community as contributor of the month ☺️ @cheddarmint did the official ceremony after we had drinks 🍻
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Carlos Santana
2 years
PSA: HP iLO hacked. rootkit discovered in-the-wild that hides inside the iLO, cannot be removed by firmware upgrades and can be hidden from the sight for a long time
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Carlos Santana
6 months
It took 1 minute to generate this AI App using AI 🔥 Star Wars movie date finder.
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Carlos Santana
2 years
New Release: Minikube 1.26
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Carlos Santana
2 years
2022 update for my Cloud Native learning resources. Please star the repo and see if you made it in the list RT for reach!
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Hacking Kubernetes @sublimino @mhausenblas Read by this Friday: Chapters 2 7AMPST/10AMEST Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord for zoom link Free copy:
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Carlos Santana
2 years
When I see someone deleting a finalizer 😱
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Carlos Santana
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This is something we promised at re:Invent Goodbye EKS aws-auth configmap 👋
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Carlos Santana
3 years
Woot 🙌 My project made it to the @IBM home page The Cloud Native Toolkit shows the true value of hybrid cloud as code, GitOps as the center of CICD, and DevOps as the center of Collaboration. Learn the practices, adopt the principles Great teamwork @rbarcia @perrins @seansund
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Carlos Santana
1 year
You can always count on @lizrice to deliver! Thanks a lot for the kind gesture, will see you soon at the Kubernetes Book Club 📚
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Liz Rice 🐝
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@csantanapr 📖✍️ Isovalent booth, 2pm, does that work for you?
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Carlos Santana
1 year
#KubeCon EU 2023 Youtube Videos are now available, 304 videos in total 🔥 First time keynotes are included 🎉 Thank you @CloudNativeFdn for great content captured to now seat and binge-watched 📺
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Today Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Book: Container Security by @lizrice Read by next Friday: Chapters 6-9 7AMPST/10AMEST Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord for zoom link Free copy:
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Carlos Santana
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GitOps on Kubernetes: Deciding Between Argo CD and Flux I have used both, and they are both excellent tools, but if you are an @openshift shop, then ArgoCD comes with enterprise support via the OpenShift GitOps Operator Addon
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Every Friday is Kubernetes Book Club 📚 New Book: 97 Things Every SRE Should Know This week: Part I and II (1-73) 10AMEDT/5PMCEST/15UTC/8:30PMIST Get a Calendar invite, Join our Discord, and get a free copy of the book at
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Carlos Santana
4 years
This is my top resources I use this days to learn and keep current in "Cloud Native" It all started with making a short list to share. Then the list became markdown Somehow it ended up in a github repo
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Suggested Read: Creating a credential-less Terraform pipeline
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Suggested Asset: bom is a general-purpose tool that can generate SPDX packages from directories, container images, single files, and other sources. The utility has a built-in license classifier that recognizes the 400+ licenses in the SPDX catalog.
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Carlos Santana
1 year
Kubernetes Book Club 📚 New Book this week Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes by @salaboy Chapters: 1-2 Every Friday @ 1:00PM EST Get a calendar invite and join the Discord
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Carlos Santana
2 years
I want to retire in a beach house and own a boat in the Caribbean. Is OK to dream, right? 🏝🛥🎣☀️
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Carlos Santana
2 years
I feel the @KnativeProject vibe already
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Carlos Santana
2 years
I highly recommend this book 📚 if you are looking for a guided #Kubernetes learning experience with @skaffolddev Effortless Cloud Native App Development Using Skaffold by @iASHeeesh
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Knative Functions demo by @salaboy at #KnativeCon today
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Carlos Santana
1 year
✈️ #GitOpsCon Desired State: Vancouver, Canada Current State: Newark, USA Sync Time: 6 hours Talk Apps: 2 @argoproj #EKS @CloudNativeFdn @kubernetesio
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Carlos Santana
5 months
We resume the CNCF Kubernetes Book Club on January 12th with the CKS Study Guide by @bmuschko Join the CNCF Slack channel kubernetes-book-club and add your contact info to get a voucher or discount for the book. You can add an invite to your calendar here
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Carlos Santana
1 year
The full book "Learning eBPF" is available now, and its the next book for the Kubernetes Book Club 📚 Get the link here for a free download from @isovalent , or get it from amazon store for kindle and paper editions. Congratulations @lizrice 🎉
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Liz Rice 🐝
1 year
📖 Look what I made - Learning #eBPF arrived!! 🎉
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Kubernetes, Where all your Pods become Ready 🙏🏻
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Carlos Santana
11 months
Is DevOps dead? No! 🔥 What is Platform Engineering? What are the benefits? What does the tech stack look like? @cloudwithraj invited us to share our learning, helping customers going all the way to production with platform engineering in real-world
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Carlos Santana
2 years
I did something today I was terrified to do 😱 I guess that is one way to deal my impostor daemons sets.
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Carlos Santana
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Suggested Read: How Virtual Kubernetes Clusters Can Speed Up Your Local Development
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Carlos Santana
1 year
OG Kubernetes Book Club 📚 @sevikarakulak @ericsmalling @philip_welz @ @KubeCon_ Amsterdam
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Carlos Santana
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Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA) coming soon “Exam allows candidates to demonstrate their understanding of GitOps principles, terminology, and best practices” #KubeConEU
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Carlos Santana
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Done with KubeCon we resume the Kubernetes Book Club 📚 this week. Book: Hacking Kubernetes @sublimino @mhausenblas Read by this Friday: Chapters 3 7AMPST/10AMEST Get a Calendar Invite and join our Discord for zoom link Free copy:
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Carlos Santana
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I'm beyond excited 🤩 to be part of the Kubernetes v1.24 release team 🎉 @JamesLaverack recently wrote on the composition and responsibilities
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Carlos Santana
1 year
Amsterdam 🇳🇱 is the best place in the world to take pictures of tulips 🌷🌷 I married ❤️ the woman on the bicycle 🚲 20 years ago
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Carlos Santana
9 months
Who sent me this? It's not funny
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Carlos Santana
11 months
Istio is now a graduated Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. Congratulations 🎉 @IstioMesh and @CloudNativeFdn This has not been possible for all the contributors and end users over many years 🙏🏻 I see a bright future ahead ☀️
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Carlos Santana
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Why GitOps?
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Carlos Santana
2 years
I didn't know the Orlando Magic were on a losing streak; no wonder my ad placement was so cheap
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Carlos Santana
2 years
In what year did you type your first kubeclt command? 👇🧵
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Carlos Santana
1 year
Very grateful 🙏 to be selected as one of the new @CloudNativeFdn Ambassadors representing @awscloud and helping make Cloud Native the best tech community to be part of ❤️
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CNCF Ambassadors
1 year
We are excited to officially announce our spring 2023 Ambassadors! We look forward to each of you enriching our community✨ #communityinbloom 🌷
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Carlos Santana
7 months
Prompt: “Nerd on a plane heading to kubecon wearing a control plane t-shirt.” Guess which t-shirt?
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Carlos Santana
2 years
Join me with @kunalstwt and @aliok_tr Many CNCF projects are participating in GSOC this year. Check out all the ideas And comment in GitHub discussions if you want a chance to be selected this summer
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