Site Reliability Engineer for Giant Swarm
Simon is a Site Reliability Engineer living in the UK, working remotely for Giant Swarm. He’s into keeping infrastructure tidy, running Kubernetes clusters without drama, and helping dev teams ship things reliably.
He spends most of his time thinking about observability, automation, and making sure systems behave when things go sideways. Simon’s got a strong interest in open source and likes to tinker with new tools in his spare time.
Outside work, you’ll find him poking around in code, writing the odd blog post, or quietly fixing things before anyone notices that they broke.
Cluster API (CAPI) is changing how teams (and homelabbers) manage fleets of Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments. In this session I’ll share lessons taken from providing Kubernetes as a Service for production workloads, alongside hands-on experimentation in a homelab.
We’ll explore CAPI’s core features, see how it enables consistent, declarative cluster lifecycle management across a variety of infrastructures, and compare and contrast experiences between datacenters and homelabs.
A short demo will showcase cluster provisioning, upgrades and scaling, and we’ll finish with some tips and tricks learnt from administrating hundreds of clusters to help you succeed with CAPI, wherever you use it.
