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Jared Edwards
Accounts
Biography
Jared has spent the last 6 years focused exclusively on introducing Kubernetes to startup and enterprise organizations and has a great command of the cloud native ecosystem and its orchestration complexities. Building Kubefirst started as a passion project on nights and weekends where John and Jared worked to reduce the barrier of entry for Kubernetes and Cloud Native.
Experience
Conferences & Meetups
- PlatformCon2024: Building an OSS playground in 1 command
- Civo Navigate North America 2024: Let’s Do It Allin Under an Hour (recording)
- Civo Navigate Europe 2023: Mind the Gap! Bridging the Void Between laC and GitOps (recording)
- Civo Navigate Europe 2023: Farming Cloud Native Platforms Be Prepared for the Army of Chickens and Eggs! (recording)
- Civo Navigate North America 2023: “Git” a Handle on it! A Scalable Approach to GitOps Configuration Patterns (slides)
- Civo Navigate North America 2023: 8 Steps to Build an Open Source GitOps Cloud Native Platform on the Civo Cloud (slides)
- Denver Startup week 2022: How to Start Your Startup Fast on Kubernetes (slides + recording)
Livestreams & Podcasts
- Conf42Cast - Beyond Kubernetes (August 17 2023)
- Cisco Cloud Unfiltered - Kubefirst: Kubernetes CI/CD should be easy! (June 26 2023)
- Kubernetes Bytes - Accelerating Kubernetes Adoption: Unleashing the Power of GitOps using Kubefirst (June 23 2023)
- Kubefirst Live - Kubefirst 2.1: Instant GitOps platform gets an amazing User Interface (June 8 2023)
- KubeSkills - Growing in Open Source: Scaling a Project and Community (May 18 2023)
- Kubefirst Live - kubefirst 2.0.0 release livestream, with Civo (April 13 2023)
- Kubefirst Live - The kubefirst Trifecta: NGINX Ingress Controller, cert-manager & external-dns (March 20 2023)
- Kubefirst Live - Integrating Argo Workflows with GitHub Actions & GitLab CI (March 2 2023)
- Kubefirst Live - Let’s talk HashiCorp Vault (February 16 2023)
- Kubefirst Live - Argo CD Best Practices & Practical Patterns (February 2 2023)
- Kubefirst Live - kubefirst v1.11 Release: Local update, Improved Vault support (January 19 2023)
- Kubefirst Live - kubefirst v1.10 release & other awesomeness (December 13 2022)
- Kubefirst Live -kubefirst v1.9 Release: Github, Hashicorp Vault and Admin Console (October 11 2022)
- Kubefirst Live -kubefirst 1.8 Release (July 26 2022)
Expertise
Technologies
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Argo CD
- Argo Workflows
- Atlantis
- cert-manager
- ChartMuseum
- DataDog
- Docker
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitHub Actions Runner Controller
- GitLab
- GitLab Runner
- HashiCorp Vault
- Ingress NGINX Controller
- k3d
- kubefirst
- Kubernetes
- Kubernetes External Secrets Operator
- Kubernetes ExternalDNS
- MinIO
- mkcert
- ngrok
- Terraform
Topics
- Application Delivery
- Application Version Management
- Cloud Native
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Internal Developer Platforms
- Secrets Management