I’m an all around geek with a passion for systems administration and the DevOps culture who is always searching for a better way to accomplish a task or to solve a problem. I’m also a pragmatic systems architect who regularly looks for non-traditional solutions to problems. I believe in using the best operating system for the problem at hand, be it Linux, macOS, Windows, or something else. I’ve been working in IT for over 20 years and have been using all three of those the entire time.

At work I’m kind of a cross between a systems administrator, a systems architect, and a programmer along with some aspects of a team lead. In the past I’ve also been a network engineer, firewall admin, storage admin, and data center manager. My current world revolves around a combination of physical servers & appliances managed with Puppet, Kubernetes, and virtualization.

When not at work, I’m also a home automation junkie and Cub Scout den leader.

Online I’m usually known as GeneBean.

Presentations

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Going All-in on Gateway API - Replacing Ingresses and Enhancing a Service Mesh

Anyone who has used the Ingress resource in Kubernetes for any length of time knows that it is lacking in flexibility and, as a result, has resulted in just about every ingress-related project creating their own bespoke resource types or complex set of needed annotations. Gateway API is the community’s answer to alleviating this pain. This talk will dive into my experiences utilizing it with Traefik for north-south traffic instead of Ingress and IngressRoute resources and with Linkerd to enhance visibility and flexibility of the east-west traffic traversing the service mesh.

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