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Benjamin Elder

@bentheelder.bsky.social

@kubernetes.io Steering Committee member / SIG Testing Tech Lead, sigs.k8s.io/kind creator / maintainer. Dog dad. Free time: Hiking, Photography, Books ... http://elder.dev/about

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Latest posts by bentheelder.bsky.social on Bluesky

With sigs.k8s.io/kind + lima-vm.io on an M4 Pro it is faster to recreate the cluster after raising the system inotify limit than wait for crashloopbackoff ๐Ÿ˜‚

16.10.2025 18:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still at a loss for words. Han was a wonderful human and an incredible engineer. He will be dearly missed.

If you knew Han we're also collecting memorial messages. I hope someday his kids can read them: github.com/cncf/memoria...

08.09.2025 22:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@dockevinleeelder.bsky.social introduced me when I was in highschool. Very thought-provoking stuff.

05.09.2025 02:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Last Lecture - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Las...

05.09.2025 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
YouTube video by Carnegie Mellon University Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Thinking again of The Last Lecture - Highly recommend:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_...

05.09.2025 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
My dog Bobby, resting his bones in a comfy dog bed, soaking up a sunbeam.

My dog Bobby, resting his bones in a comfy dog bed, soaking up a sunbeam.

โ™ฅ๏ธ

31.08.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท @rkatz.xyz

27.08.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Release v0.30.0 ยท kubernetes-sigs/kind This is small release containing patched dependencies and Kubernetes 1.34, as well as a bugfix for Kubernetes v1.33.0+ cluster reboots. Breaking Changes The default node image is now kindest/node:v...

kind v0.30.0 is out with the brand new @kubernetes.io v1.34.0 release!

Try out Kubernetes 1.34 with:

go install sigs.k8s.io/kind@v0.30.0 && kind create cluster

github.com/kubernetes-s...

27.08.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the rust community on Reddit: [Media] I Have No Mut and I Must Borrow Explore this post and more from the rust community

This is art www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/C4F...

22.08.2025 01:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats!! Redhat is lucky :-)

15.08.2025 05:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

... We really need to update github.com/orgs/kuberne...

Public: github.com/kubernetes/o...

cc @thock.in

14.08.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
This image features four people dressed in firefighter-themed outfits standing on a dirt path in a forested area. Behind them is a vintage-style utility vehicle with "Carmine's Vines" displayed on its front. The two individuals on the left are wearing yellow helmets, white T-shirts with "96 BFS" written in red, and shortsโ€”one in khaki and the other in black with red suspenders. The man kneeling in the front is also wearing a red hat and yellow pants. The person on the right stands confidently with no shirt, red suspenders, orange pants, and a red helmet, holding a tool in one hand. The background consists of tall pine trees and dense greenery.

At the bottom of the image, there is a banner featuring the logos for "Variety the Children's Charity" and "Bash," indicating this could be an event related to the charity.

This image features four people dressed in firefighter-themed outfits standing on a dirt path in a forested area. Behind them is a vintage-style utility vehicle with "Carmine's Vines" displayed on its front. The two individuals on the left are wearing yellow helmets, white T-shirts with "96 BFS" written in red, and shortsโ€”one in khaki and the other in black with red suspenders. The man kneeling in the front is also wearing a red hat and yellow pants. The person on the right stands confidently with no shirt, red suspenders, orange pants, and a red helmet, holding a tool in one hand. The background consists of tall pine trees and dense greenery. At the bottom of the image, there is a banner featuring the logos for "Variety the Children's Charity" and "Bash," indicating this could be an event related to the charity.

Via @munnerz.bsky.social, I present to you "Bash Fire Service" ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿš’

www.variety.org.au/sa/people/ca...

14.08.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lol.

Values are always quoted, but it's still YAML, just an opinionated subset from a formatting perspective.

Didn't want everything to require new parsers etc.

05.08.2025 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Surely you're hallucinating all the braces now? /s

In all seriousness: I hope this can auto-complete effectively in most editors, and more accurately than indent-focused approaches ๐Ÿ™ƒ

04.08.2025 16:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have you seen KYAML?
bsky.app/profile/bent...

04.08.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SomethingAboutUsers's comment on "KYAML: Looks like JSON, but named after YAML" Explore this conversation and more from the kubernetes community

My favorite Reddit comment:
"Thanks, I hate it.

It takes all the crap I hate about JSON (explicitly requiring a bunch of brackets and quotes) and puts it back in.

It's better than JSON, and I see why this is better than YAML, but I still hate it."

www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes...

04.08.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Had a small hand in this one, primarily @thock.in's work: "Introducing KYAML, a safer, less ambiguous YAML subset / encoding"

Coming to Kubernetes v1.34 in alpha later this month!

github.com/kubernetes/e...

04.08.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
A view towards clouds rest in Yosemite national park. A somewhat narrow section of granite headed towards a landing point, in the distance half-dome and the valley.

A view towards clouds rest in Yosemite national park. A somewhat narrow section of granite headed towards a landing point, in the distance half-dome and the valley.

Roughly the same view as the first image, but with a hiker in front of me on the trail, in striking orange and blue clothing

Roughly the same view as the first image, but with a hiker in front of me on the trail, in striking orange and blue clothing

A view from cloud's rest. Half dome, north dome, and the Yosemite valley are visible

A view from cloud's rest. Half dome, north dome, and the Yosemite valley are visible

A view headed back down "the spine" of granite from cloud's rest, with many sugar pines, mountains and clouds

A view headed back down "the spine" of granite from cloud's rest, with many sugar pines, mountains and clouds

โ™ฅ๏ธ Yosemite

30.06.2025 03:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Network Device Management with container runtimes Network Device Management with container runtimes. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

runc merged today support to manage Linux Network Devices, it was a very long effort github.com/opencontaine... with long discussions but I think it's really a game changer for container networking, you can experiement with it in gist.github.com/aojea/e57875...

19.06.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Release v0.29.0 ยท kubernetes-sigs/kind This is a quick security release to pickup the containerd 2.1.1 CVE-2025-47290 fix. See v0.28.0 (release days ago!) for full release notes with recent changes: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/ki...

Quick KIND release for containerd CVE-2025-47290
github.com/kubernetes-s...

21.05.2025 01:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A view of San Francisco and the golden gate under some clouds from high above

A view of San Francisco and the golden gate under some clouds from high above

A wider of San Francisco, the bay, and the golden gate under some clouds from high above

A wider of San Francisco, the bay, and the golden gate under some clouds from high above

Yesterday: Stinson Beach to Mt Tam East Peak and Back.

>16mi and >4k ft elevation.
Still out of shape but getting back into it ...

Stunning views ๐Ÿ˜

18.05.2025 22:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@stmcginnis.bsky.social is too modest, and the process bits are my fault :-) His first time cutting a kind release, thanks Sean! ๐ŸŽ‰

17.05.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly!! ๐Ÿ˜‚

16.05.2025 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Realized I can finally say "I have one decade of Kubernetes experience" :D

github.com/kubernetes/k...

16.05.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You may recognize a few names here :-)

As always it's a *huge* team effort. I'm proud to have helped lead this one ๐Ÿ˜…

10.05.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of the word yeah . Alt: John Wick: "Yeah! I'm thinking I'm BACK"

My vision still isn't quite back to last year and I'm yet to see how this holds but ....

10.05.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
My smile next to the mission peak summit post, with the San Francisco Bay Area below and behind me. I'm in sunglasses and a hat.

My smile next to the mission peak summit post, with the San Francisco Bay Area below and behind me. I'm in sunglasses and a hat.

A wide angle view of the Bay Area from Mission Peak. In the foreground are gray stone and scrub, the sun hangs over the top center frame. The bay is shimmering.

A wide angle view of the Bay Area from Mission Peak. In the foreground are gray stone and scrub, the sun hangs over the top center frame. The bay is shimmering.

This week I did IPL round 4 of 4 and then lid debridement + LipiFlow for the MGD / severe dry eye.

This afternoon I'm sitting atop Mission Peak after months of struggling with everyday tasks.
I've done *far* more challenging routes but this is the *hardest* hike I've ever been on. ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

I'm so happy ๐Ÿฅฒ

10.05.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kubernetes 1.33 is available on GKE! Kubernetes 1.33 is available on GKE! Friday, May 9, 2025 Kubernetes 1.33 is now available in the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Rapid Channel!

opensource.googleblog.com/2025/05/kube...

09.05.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

25.04.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60401    ๐Ÿ” 20707    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 602    ๐Ÿ“Œ 832
Release v0.27.0 ยท kubernetes-sigs/kind This release moves kind to containerd 2.x and contains fixes for nerdctl. It also moves Kubernetes to 1.32.2 by default. Breaking Changes WARNING: kind v0.27.0+ will be required to use kind load .....

kind v0.27.0 now has a compatible @kubernetes.io v1.33.0 image in the release notes:

`kind create cluster --image=kindest/node:v1.33.0@sha256:02f73d6ae3f11ad5d543f16736a2cb2a63a300ad60e81dac22099b0b04784a4e`

github.com/kubernetes-s...

23.04.2025 19:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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