Simon Weald
@glitchcrab.bsky.social
Distinguished YAML Engineer, VP of Emojineering & occasional SRE @giantswarm.io https://simonweald.com
Giant Swarm on tour at @containerdays.bsky.social London. @glitchcrab.bsky.social @salisburyheavyindustries.com @vxav.bsky.social and Antonia. <3
No imposter syndrome going on here, I know exactly what I'm doing.
Marcus Noble@averagemarcus.bsky.social · 6mo agoSimon is also a skilled SRE 💯
Machine health checks in cluster-api is *chef kiss* From @glitchcrab.bsky.social talk at @containerdays.bsky.social London!
I’ll be speaking in the Lighthouse Theatre (T6) tomorrow morning!
Giant Swarm@giantswarm.io · 6mo agoFrom Raspberry Pi at the edge to managing hundreds of clusters with Cluster API. Antonia, @vxav.bsky.social, and @glitchcrab.bsky.social are bringing live demos and real-world lessons to @containerdays.bsky.social London tomorrow!
@containerdays.bsky.social London X Giant Swarm 🎤 Our very own @glitchcrab.bsky.social, @vxav.bsky.social and Antonia will be on stage. Kubernetes at the edge. Cluster API in the wild.
ContainerDays London 2026 | Full Agenda for Builders & Cloud Natives
Check out who's taking the stage at ContainerDays London 2026 - two days of Kubernetes, DevOps, and open source sessions shaped by the community.
containerdays.io
Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
Looks like I'm going to be speaking about Cluster API at @containerdays.bsky.social in London next February! 🥳
It's a beautiful day here in Bergen for @cloudnativebergen.dev; excited to be speaking later about Cluster API 🥳
The @cloudnativebergen.dev organisers have absolutely outdone themselves with the speaker's dinner location 😍
The recordings from @containerdays.bsky.social in Hamburg last month are out! I updated my blog post here with the recording bsky.app/profile/glit... Or you can watch it directly on YouTube youtu.be/sk5GZeE23w4?...
Kubernetes at the Edge – Come see It In Action! - Xavier Avrillier & Antonia von den Driesch
YouTube video by ContainerDays
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Simon Weald@glitchcrab.bsky.social · 11mo agoTime for another blog post! Last week I gave my first in-person talk at a conference since 2017 and I've written a little about the experience dickingwithdocker.com/posts/giving...
Another post from yours truly; creating mock KubeEdge #edge nodes using #systemd and #nspawn containers: dickingwithdocker.com/posts/kubeed...
Using systemd-nspawn containers as KubeEdge edge nodes
How I'm using systemd-nspawn containers as throwaway edge nodes for testing KubeEdge.
dickingwithdocker.com
Time for another blog post! Last week I gave my first in-person talk at a conference since 2017 and I've written a little about the experience dickingwithdocker.com/posts/giving...
A summary of my first conference talk since 2017
Kubernetes at the Edge, a Raspberry Pi, and a demo that exploded
dickingwithdocker.com
Still one of my favourite talks I've seen. Just the right amount of chaos.
kcduk_io@kcduk.bsky.social · 11mo agoLast year's session from James Laverack on all about building an application-specific container image builder, and still very relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAgxyyL-7LI&list=PLX3geWFOgXozI22F1ONrrKuBDs6iTx-ti&index=18&pp=iAQB
My talk at @containerdays.bsky.social this week was on Kubernetes and post exploitation. I've had a couple of requests for a companion blog post, so here it is. The post looks at some things attackers might do in clusters they've compromised to retain access. raesene.github.io/blog/2025/09...
Beyond the surface - Exploring attacker persistence strategies in Kubernetes
raesene.github.io
We're having to move in with the in-laws for a bit, but the homelab lives on (albeit in a very condensed format) dickingwithdocker.com/posts/minima...
Running a Minimal Homelab Whilst Living with the In-Laws
A short post about hacking together a minimal homelab whilst living with the in-laws.
dickingwithdocker.com
Well my talk got accepted so it looks like I'll be speaking at @cloudnativebergen.dev about Cluster API and how it helps you to manage cluster lifecycle 🥳 2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/speaker/simo...
The future is here; my bathroom scales just wished me happy birthday
Heard Kara Swisher tell a joke that Tech Bro is short for “technically broken” I can’t stop seeing the full version everywhere. 🤣