In 2023 a lot has happened. The company I work for Luminis became part of Yuma. I achieved several certifications. Next to attending conferences I also was a speaker at several conferences. This year I was for the first time a guest in a podcast. In the technology space also a lot happened. With ChatGPT, Bard, Dall-E, …

Introduction In the rapidly changing cloud landscape, security and privacy are key concerns for businesses and individuals alike. Confidential Compute turns out to be a possible solution, ensuring sensitive data remains private and secure even in shared computing environments. In this blog post, I want to explain the …

From the 21st of June till the 23rd of June the Devopsdays Amsterdam were held in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. There is a first time for everything and for me this I attended the Devopsdays in three roles: Attendee, for me this was the third time I attended the Devopsdays in Pakhuis de Zwijger. (Gold) Sponsor, …

Introduction This year KubeCon / CloudNativeCon Europe was held in the Netherlands at the RAI conference center in Amsterdam. KubeCon started with the different sponsor hosted and CNCF hosted colocated events like ArgoCon, CiliumCon, Observability day and Azure Day with Kubernetes. Very cool that it was hosted in the …

Introduction Recently Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Edge Essentials became general available. AKS Edge Essentials is the latest addition to the AKS portfolio which already consist of Azure Kubernetes Services and AKS hybrid cluster. The product was originally announced at Ignite 2022 as AKS light. With AKS Edge, …

On the 23rd and 24th of February the Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) were organised by the Dutch Kubernetes meetup group backup by the CNCF. The first KCD of its kind was organised in 2019 in the Netherlands. Nowadays it is an CNCF supported event organised by the local community in a country. There are KCD events …

Short update: I'm happy to announce that I have been admitted to the Calico Big Cats Ambassador program. Thanks to Tigera, Chris Tomkins and Project Calico. In the last months I have been busy with gettting my Calico certifications. At the moment I have the Calico Certified Operator:Level 1 and Calico Certified …

I started 2021 with a focus on Microsoft Azure and also passed two exams which I also mention in earlier posts. In August I changed jobs. At my current employer there is more a focus on AWS as a cloud provider. Unfortunately my AWS certification had expired, so I had to start over again. My goal for 2021 was to pass at …

Last year I passed my az-104 certification and at that moment I thought I would first focus on achieving az-400. At the beginning of this year I decided that it was smarter to first pass the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification. Reason for that was that I already took the class last year …

Today I passed my first Azure exam for this year, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate. My goal is to achieve two other certificates in the coming two months, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert. For the first certification this is one of …