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about this site
This GitHub page aims to document discussions, contents, and presentations related to containers and Red Hat OpenShift.
At the current stage, the following content is available:
- generic concepts about edge, containers, kubernetes, ...
- kubernetes:
- podman (todo)
- kind (todo)
- microshift (todo)
- openshift local (todo)
- openshift (todo)
- applications
- project and resources management
- deployment types
- source to image
- helm charts
- networking; workload isolation, multicluster networking, ...
- network policy
- multicluster application interconnect
- testing; benchmarking, functional and non-functional testing, ...
- functional testing (todo)
- non-functional testing (todo)
- benchmarking
- side project; how to take all the above and apply it to an edge device
about romdalf aka Rom Adams (né Vandepoel)
Rom Adams (né Romuald Vandepoel) is an open-source strategy and C-Suite advisor with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a cloud-native expert who helps customer and partner organizations modernize and transform their data center strategies with enterprise open-source solutions. He is also a facilitator, advocate, and contributor to open-source projects, advising companies and lawmakers on their open-source and sustainability strategies.
Previously, he was a Principal Architect at Ondat, a cloud-native storage company acquired by Akamai, where he designed products and implemented hybrid cloud solutions for enterprise customers. He also held various roles at Tyco, NetApp, and Red Hat, gaining certifications and becoming a subject matter expert in storage and hybrid cloud infrastructure. He has participated as a moderator and speaker for several events and publications, sharing his insights and best practices on culture, process, and technology adoption. Rom is passionate about driving transformation and innovation with open-source and cloud-native technologies.
Portfolio of contributions, articles and webinars
Book
| Title | Published on | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Secrets Handbook: A practical guide to designing, implementing, and operating production-grade Kubernetes Secrets management | Packt Publishing or Amazon | 02/2024 |
Articles - Contributor and author
| Title | Published on | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Wallonia, a proposal for a digital plan (in French) | Belgian Walloon Regional Government | 09/2015 |
| The Intrepid Squirrel is Out! | Ondat.io | 12/2021 |
| 3 key takeaways from KubeCon NA 2021 | Ondat.io | 11/2021 |
| Stateful Application in Kubernetes: it pays to plan ahead | TheNewStack.io | 10/2021 |
| On-premises vs cloud native storage | TheNewStack.io | 08/2021 |
| The biggest gap in Kubernetes storage architecture | TheNewStack.io | 07/2021 |
| How to solve kubernetes persistent storage challenges | TheNewStack.io | 06/2021 |
| Deploying cloud native persistent storage in the age of containers | TheNewStack.io | 05/2021 |
| Can Kubernetes help solve automation challneges? | opensource.com | 10/2022 |
Live Presentations
| Title | Venue | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source to Enterprise Open Source | Open 22 | 03/2022 | Antwerpen |
| Innovation with Open Source | Red Hat Academy at Henallux | 03/2022 | Namur |
| Master of Ceremony | Red Hat Ansible Automates | 05/2022 | Brussels |
| Refactoring your application at your own pace | Open for Gov | 06/2022 | Brussels |
| A Kubernetes Zero-Trust Security Model using a KMS provider plugin | HashiConf Europe Recording | 06/2022 | Amsterdam |
| Solving the Kubernetes Secret conundrum | Hashicorp User Group at Natilik | 06/2022 | London |
| State of Kubernetes Secret Management | Red Hat EMEA Tech Exchange | 01/2023 | Dublin |
| How regulating software for the European market could impact FOSS | FOSDEM 2023 | 02/2023 | Brussels |
| Keynote: Open Source at Hack'n Wow 2023 organized by ETNIC | hacknwow.be | 03/2023 | Namur |
| The State of Open Source from a Community PoV solving Diabetes | Open 23 | 03/2023 | Mechelen |
| OpenShift use case tech talk at IBM booth - KubeCon Amsterdam | KubeCon 23 | 04/2023 | Amsterdam |
| Keynote: Security-as-Service with Red Hat Cloud Services | Red Hat Summit Connect | 10/2023 | Brussels |
| Session: Beam my application up, Scotty! | Red Hat Summit Connect | 10/2023 | Brussels |
| Session: Open-source strategy enabled smooth transition from SysAdmin to DevSecOps | Red Hat Summit Connect | 10/2023 | Warsaw |
| CIONET as Subject Matter Expert: No code - No Cloud! | CIONET | 12/2023 | La Hulpe |
Webinars
| Title | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|
| From remote with love | Red Hat EMEA Forum | 11/2020 |
| Secrets or not, but don't clear text | Fosdem | 02/2021 |
| We have been hacked! | Red Hat Tech Month | 02/2021 |
| Database-as-a-Service with PostgreSQL and persistent storage | StorageOS | 05/2021 |
| Accelerating Kubernetes Onboarding and Application Transformation | StorageOS | 08/2021 |
| How to solve Kubernetes Persistent Storage at scale and speed the GitOps way | DeveloperWeek Global Cloud | 07/2021 |
| Solving Data Protection the DevOps way | DevOps.com | 09/2021 |
| Cloud Field Day 12 | Tech Field Day | 11/2021 |
| How to keep a Kubernetes secret a secret the universal way | CNCF on-demand webinar | 12/2021 |
| Trousseau - the Kubernetes Key Management Service provider | Fosdem | 02/2022 |