Hey! 👋

I'm Jim Angel. I love solving problems and working with incredible people! The following highlights some of my OSS accomplishments and hobbies.

Contributions to open source

• Designed the official "Release Info" page for OSS Kubernetes (k8s.io/releases) - #27929
• Improved (kubernetes.io) website build times by 80% - #29504
• Wrote a guide for testing Kubernetes auditing on kind (kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/auditing) - #2431
• Added the ability to support diagrams as markdown (MermaidJS) - #20434
• Improved k8s DNS security by adding CAA records - #1849
• Automated a page with version skew information (preventing toil each release) - #20369
• Called out k8s dashboard issues before it was cool 🙃 - #3012
• Helped write the guide for how to lead documentation release cycles - release-team/role-handbooks/docs

Side projects

• Open sourced a way to learn more about "production" Kubernetes (w/ Cilium)
  • https://github.com/jimangel/kubernetes-the-easy-way
• Open sourced a way to bring "air-gapped" docs on prem in a cloud native way (like Netlify)
  • https://github.com/jimangel/GitDocs
• Designed a solution for using an iPad as the terminal for a GCE VM (developer machine)
  • https://github.com/jimangel/Terraform-iPad-VM
• Built a one-page, data driven, template for static sites
  • https://github.com/jimangel/hugo-bootstrap-one-page-demo
• Designed a "in between dev and prod" Kubernetes installer
  • https://github.com/jimangel/kubeleak
• Played a bit with static site hosting on GCP (Netlify experience on GCP)
  • https://github.com/jimangel/docsy-gcs-buckets
  • https://github.com/jimangel/docsy-cloud-run

Published blogs

• Pod Security Graduates to Beta (12/09/2021)
• Kubernetes Security best practices (10/05/2021)

Talks

• Spoke at KubeCon NA 2021 about how Kubernetes OSS website serves 1.3M users monthly and let's anyone contribute (video / slides)
• Presented at an internal conference to an audience of 800+ around contributing to OSS Kubernetes and general Kubernetes literacy
• Host and maintain the local Austin Kubernetes Meetup

Personal blog

• Testing upstream Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi cluster
  • https://jimangel.io/post/upstream-kubernetes-on-pi/
• Building a Jenkins demo / POC affordably
  • https://jimangel.io/post/jenkins-server-using-terraform/
• Bypassing AT&T's fiber gateway on Unifi Dream Machine Pro using WPA supplicant
  • https://jimangel.io/post/bypassing-att-fiber-gateway-on-udmp/
• Configure Google Cloud HA VPN with BGP on pfSense
  • https://jimangel.io/post/google-cloud-vpn-pfsense/
• "Is it still running?" (Self-hosted, Self-healing, Self-updating, Self-patching Kubernetes madness)
  • https://jimangel.io/post/auto-gitops-isitstillrunning.com/