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Frédéric Harper
Accounts
Biography
As the Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst, Frédéric Harper helps Developers, and DevOps be successful with their Kubernetes journey. Fred has shared his passion for technology on the stage at multitudinous events around the world. He’s helped build successful, and healthy communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit. He is also the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Behind this extrovert is a very passionate individual who believes in the power of communication… and cat videos.
Experience
Conferences & Meetups
Fred gave 190 talks in 23 different countries. You can find the full list, including the slides, recording, and feedback on his public speaking page.
Livestreams & Podcasts
2024
- Continuous Delivery Podcast - Getting into GitOps with Fred Harper, Principal Developer Advocate, kubefirst.io (July 1)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 19 with Jonathan Gottfried from Major League Hacking (June 27)
- Each One Teach Ten - Ep 84, Frédéric Harper, Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst, Canada (June 15)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 18 with Ram Iyengar from Cloud Foundry (May 30)
- Kubefirst Live - Adding a Vault SSO group to your Kubernetes platform (May 23)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 17 with Haimantika Mitra from Hashnode (May 16)
- Kubefirst Live - Developing in a Kubernetes environment with Codezero (May 9)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 16 with Rizel Scarlett from TBD (May 2)
- Kubefirst Live - The kubefirst architecture: how is built the best GitOps platform out there (April 25)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 15 with Linda Ikechukwu from Smallstep (April 18)
- Kubefirst Live - Create production-ready GitOps clusters on DigitalOcean (April 11)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 14 with Tobiloba Adedeji from Million.js (April 4)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 13 with Baruch Sadogursky from Gradle (April 1)
- Kubefirst Live - End-to-End testing & debugging with Tracetest (March 28)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 12 with Zachary Powell from Vonage (March 7)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 11 with Doug Sillars from Speak of the Devrel (February 20)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 10 with Viktor Gamov from StarTree (February 13)
- Kubefirst Live - Adding applications to the kubefirst GitOps Catalog (February 1)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 9 with Erin Mikail Staples from LaunchDarkly (January 25)
- Kubefirst Live - From GitLab SaaS to GitLab self-managed on kubefirst (January 18)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 8 with Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas from Seqera Labs (January 11)
2023
- Kubefirst Live - Musing on platform engineering & cloud native trends with Abby Bangser (December 21)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 7 with Jim Bennett from liblab (December 14)
- Kubefirst Live - Taking Ownership of the kubefirst Argo Workflows (December 7)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 6 with Kevin Blanco from Appsmith (November 30)
- Civo - Kubernetes Unpacked: Embracing GitOps & Best-Practice Tools with Kubefirst (November 29)
- Kubefirst Live - Reloader: live reloading made easy (November 28)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 5 with Dan Moore from FusionAuth (November 16)
- Breaking the Silos - GitOps Strategies through Kubefirst (November 4)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 4 with Mason Egger from Temporal (November 2)
- Kubefirst Live - kubefirst 2.3: physical & virtual workload clusters (October 26)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 3 with David G. Simmons from Otterize (OCtober 16)
- GitHub - Open Source Friday with Kubefirst (October 13)
- Kubefirst Live - Kyverno: a policy engine designed for Kubernetes (October 12)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 2 with Alejandra Thomas (October 4)
- Kubefirst Live - k3d: the heart of kubefirst’s local platform (September 28)
- The devrelshow with Fred - episode 1 with Chris Heilmann (September 21)
- Kubefirst Live - Testkube: orchestrate your tests natively on Kubernetes (September 14)
- Kubefirst Live - vcluster: fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters & how they work (August 31)
- Kubefirst Live - Civo Marketplace & kubefirst: a match made in heaven (August 17)
- Kubefirst Live - Infrastructure automation: Terraform with Atlantis vs Crossplane (August 3)
- Cisco Cloud Unfiltered - Kubefirst: Kubernetes CI/CD should be easy! (June 26)
- Kubefirst Live - Deep Dive on metaphor: the kubefirst platform exploration application (July 20)
- Kubefirst Live - Monitor & reduce Kubernetes spend with OpenCost (June 22)
- Kubefirst Live - Kubefirst 2.1: Instant GitOps platform gets an amazing User Interface (June 8)
- Kubefirst Live - Monitor & Act on Your Kubernetes Cluster With Botkube (May 25)
- Kubefirst Live - Deep dive on kubefirst SSO & OIDC (May 21)
- KubeSkills - Growing in Open Source: Scaling a Project and Community (May 18)
- Cloud Native Podcast - GitOps with Kubefirst deploy and iterate faster (May 18)
- Kubefirst Live - Deep Dive on HashiCorp Terraform & Atlantis (April 27)
- Kubefirst Live - kubefirst 2.0.0 release livestream, with Civo (April 13)
- Kubefirst Live - The kubefirst Trifecta: NGINX Ingress Controller, cert-manager & external-dns (March 20)
- Kubefirst Live - GitOps & Secrets Disaster Recovery (March 16)
- Kubefirst Live - Integrating Argo Workflows with GitHub Actions & GitLab CI (March 2)
- Kubefirst Live - Let’s talk HashiCorp Vault (February 16)
2022
- Kubefirst Live - kubefirst v1.10 release & other awesomeness (December 13)
Expertise
Technologies
- Argo CD
- Atlantis
- Docker
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- HashiCorp Vault
- kubefirst
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
Topics
- Cloud Native
- Developer Documentation
- Developer Relations
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Mental Health
- Open Source
- Personal Branding
- Public Speaking