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Rita Zhang

@ritazh.bsky.social

Eng Lead @Microsoft, #Kubernetes SIG Auth chair, Founder @GarageDoorBuddy, EECS @UCBerkeley, open source, running distributed workloads at scale

908 Followers  |  235 Following  |  16 Posts  |  Joined: 27.04.2023  |  2.1518

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Kat, Rita, Maciej on stage

Kat, Rita, Maciej on stage

Ask the experts: Kubernetes Steering Committee at #KubeCon. Lots of good discussion about supporting contributors with @kat.lol @ritazh.bsky.social @soltysh.bsky.social.

09.11.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Rita, Janet, and Federico on stage.

Rita, Janet, and Federico on stage.

At the Kubernetes AI Conformance discussion at #KubeCon Maintainer Summit, @ritazh.bsky.social talks about the value of collaborating across open source communities. github.com/kubernetes-s...

09.11.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you, ALSO, are motivated by superfast, hardware protected micro vms, this starts in 5 minutes! www.youtube.com/live/tROp-nm...

08.11.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Scaling multi-node LLM inference with NVIDIA Dynamo and ND GB200 NVL72 GPUs on AKS | AKS Engineering Blog Learn how optimizing routing, planning, and system setup boosts the efficiency and reliability of multi-node LLM inference on AKS with OSS Dynamo and ND GB200-v6 GPUs.

New blog post: Scaling multi-node LLM inference with NVIDIA Dynamo and ND GB200 NVL72 GPUs on AKS (by Sachi Desai, @ritazh.bsky.social, &
@sozercan.bsky.social) blog.aks.azure.com/2025/10/24/d...

28.10.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€ Internship Opportunity in Systems Research The Microsoft Research - Systems Group https://lnkd.in/dPCb5fqC) and the Azure Research - Systems https://lnkd.in/dhf6Xx-s) are hiring an intern to help… ... πŸš€ Internship Opportunity in Systems Research The Microsoft Research - Systems Group https://lnkd.in/dPCb5fqC) and the Azure Research - Systems https://lnkd.in/dhf6Xx-s) are hiring an intern to help b...

For those Master's or Ph.D. students doing systems work, you might have a look at this internship with @microsoft.com's research team: www.linkedin.com/posts/pedroh...

Yes, you'll do some immediately important work, and it's really cool, too.

30.09.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
AI-Aware Kubernetes Infrastructure - Upstream@AKS - Episode1 - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
YouTube video by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI-Aware Kubernetes Infrastructure - Upstream@AKS - Episode1 - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Interested in the upstream Kubernetes ecosystem? @lachie.bsky.social is hosting a new conversation series where he chats with an Azure colleague about exciting new topics in K8s! In the first episode, he discusses AI-aware Kubernetes infrastructure with Jack Francis! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G-z...

25.08.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wassette: A bridge between Wasm and MCP Microsoft’s new open-source tool kit offers a way to assemble lightweight and secure Model Context Protocol servers from WebAssembly components.

Wassette: A bridge between Wasm and MCP by Simon Bisson (@sbisson.com) www.infoworld.com/article/4039...

14.08.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CVE-2025-5187: Nodes can delete themselves by adding an OwnerReference Β· Issue #133471 Β· kubernetes/kubernetes CVSS Rating: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L - Medium (6.7) A vulnerability exists in the NodeRestriction admission controller where node users can delete their corresponding node obje...
14.08.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm super excited for Wassette, so I put together a quick article on why it's important and a comparison with our current options for MCP.

07.08.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents - Microsoft Open Source Blog Wassette is a secure, open-source Model Context Protocol server that leverages WebAssembly to provide a trusted execution environment for untrusted tools.

Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents by Yosh Wuyts opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/08...

06.08.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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TIL @microsoft.com is the largest cloud contributor to #oss @cncf.io projects #MSBuild

20.05.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Simplifying InfiniBand on AKS Learn the what, the whys, and the hows of configuring InfiniBand networking for high performance compute (HPC) workloads on AKS

Need to run really large LLMs that require the power of RDMA with InfiniBand?
Check out this blog to see how to get it working on Azure Kubernetes Service:
azure.github.io/AKS/2025/04/...

#AKS #Kubernetes #InfiniBand #AI #LLM #RDMA #Azure

14.04.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Maintainers of the containerd project speaking at KubeCon EU

Maintainers of the containerd project speaking at KubeCon EU

Maintainers of the containerd project presenting at KubeCon EU providing an update on recent changes and releases

Maintainers of the containerd project presenting at KubeCon EU providing an update on recent changes and releases

The @containerd.dev maintainer session is underway at #KubeCon EU in London with an awesome cross-section of contributors and maintainers from both the core project and subprojects like nerdctl and runwasi.

03.04.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ‘‹ Betty!!!

03.04.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will be there on behalf of sig auth and the k8s security response committee. See you there! #kubecon

03.04.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Kubernetes SIG Meet & Greet Lunch and Le... View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Day 2 of #KubeCon begins tomorrow! On Day 1, we learned from keynotes & sessions & enjoyed the #Kubecrawl party. We hope you're ready to do it all again tomorrow! Don't forget to stop by the Project Pavillion during lunch to meet the Kubernetes community!

02.04.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Standing room only for the talk on Policy as code by @ritazh.bsky.social, Joe Betz, Andy Sunderman, and Jim Bugwadia

02.04.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Rita Zhang speaking at KubeCon

Rita Zhang speaking at KubeCon

Rita introducing Gatekeeper

Rita introducing Gatekeeper

Chart about where Gatekeeper fills in gaps versus VAP/MAP

Chart about where Gatekeeper fills in gaps versus VAP/MAP

Gatekeeper instead of VAP: examples

Gatekeeper instead of VAP: examples

OPA Gatekeeper (open-policy-agent.github.io/gatekeeper/) as explained by @ritazh.bsky.social at #KubeCon: tooling to help enforce your Kubernetes policies.

02.04.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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huge fan of headlamp moving into kubernetes to improve the dashboard and devex experience for all k8s users! kudos @ahrkrak.bsky.social and team! #kubecon #cloudnativecon

02.04.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Greg on stage with a slide β€œLinux runs the world”

Greg on stage with a slide β€œLinux runs the world”

Fantastic to have Greg K-H on the #kubecon keynote stage!

02.04.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Making kubernetes easier to use. better UX = happier humans with @headlamp_ui #KubeCon keynote. Now part of sig UI @ahrkrak.bsky.social

02.04.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dynamic Resource Allocation feature highlighted on the big stage #kubecon keynote

02.04.2025 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So many great CNCF projects are hitting the 10 year mark! So grateful to be part of the journey #kubecon

02.04.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you are attending #KubeCon πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§next week, come and say hi! I will be co-presenting 2 talks:
sched.co/1tcxh
sched.co/1tczC

28.03.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mind the crashloop #kubecon πŸ‘Œ

31.03.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Folks from the US traveling in London, if you have tmobile, can you tell me if the connection is good or spotty or slow? thanks πŸ™ #kubecon

29.03.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you are attending #KubeCon πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§next week, come and say hi! I will be co-presenting 2 talks:
sched.co/1tcxh
sched.co/1tczC

28.03.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX | Wiz Blog Wiz Research uncovered RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-1097, 1098, 24514, 1974) in Ingress NGINX for Kubernetes allowing cluster-wide secret access.

πŸ”₯ Whoa! Check out these critical Ingress NGINX vulnerabilities that could impact your Kubernetes clusters.

Curious about better gateway solutions? Our very own Marco Ebert will be sharing what we've learned building a Gateway API implementation on NGINX at #KubeCon!

28.03.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hyperlight Wasm: Fast, secure, and OS-free - Microsoft Open Source Blog We're announcing the release of Hyperlight Wasm: a Hyperlight virtual machine β€œmicro-guest” that can run wasm component workloads written in many programming languages. Learn more.

Something I can't wait to talk about at #wasmio and @rejekts.io and at #kubecon: how to run #webassembly components at scale but with efficient hardware protection using #hyperlight.
aka.ms/hyperlight-w...

26.03.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Running #Wasm components inside of a hypervisor and being able to tailor the exact interface between the hosted application and the trusted compute base enables platform builders unequaled ability to tune precisely the access provided to untrusted application code.

26.03.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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