Joe Thompson's IT career is near the end of its third decade. He's been a Linux user since 1998, a professional sysadmin since 2001, and part of the cloud-native community since 2014. He's spoken at KubeCon, Cloud Native Rejekts and several local meetups and enjoys showing how well-known tools can help with new platforms.

Presentations

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Kubernetes For Sysadmins Workshop

If you're an experienced sysadmin but a Kubernetes novice, trying to understand how Kubernetes does things, this workshop will show you how to use traditional Linux tools you probably already know to understand Kubernetes today -- from the basic Kubernetes components themselves to higher-level workload concepts like service discovery.

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An Opinionated Proposal to Improve Internet TLS Certificate Management: Burn It All Down

The current system of public TLS certificate management suffers multiple issues, from the merely annoying to the truly grievous. While it might have been good enough to get by in the "rough consensus and running code" days of the Web, it's past time to take a hard look at the system that we all grudgingly tolerate, understand where and why it falls short, and begin envisioning and working toward its long-overdue replacement.

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