Work Outputs

This page highlights some of the work outputs I’ve created over the years. This is not an exhaustive list. The order is latest to oldest. Amazon Web Services (AWS) 10 Years of Kubernetes (Kubernetes blog, 2024-06-06) Amazon EKS and Kubernetes sessions at AWS re:Invent 2023 (AWS blog, 2023-11-15) Kubernetes Legacy Package Repositories Will Be Frozen On September 13, 2023 (Kubernetes blog, 2023-08-31) Changes to the Kubernetes Container Image Registry (AWS blog, 2023-03-20) k8s.gcr.io Redirect to registry.k8s.io - What You Need to Know (Kubernetes blog, 2023-03-10) KBE Insider E17: Chris Short / Contributors Summit (Red Hat’s Kubernetes By Example, 2023-01-31) What is Zero Trust Security? | Zero Trust Explained by Experts in 2 Minutes (The New Stack YouTube, 2023-01-12) Prow and Tide for Kubernetes Contributors (Kubernetes Contributor site, 2022-12-12) KBE Insider Detroit - Chris Short, AWS (Red Hat’s Kubernetes By Example YouTube, 2022-12-08) Introducing Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development (AWS blog, 2022-11-22) How Do We Protect the Software Supply Chain? (The New Stack YouTube, 2022-11-08) CTA | How to Get involved + Project Update - What’s Next - Dan Garfield, Scott Rigby & Chris Short (CNCF YouTube, 2022-05-19) GitOps As a Journey - Dan Garfield, Codefresh; Scott Rigby, Weaveworks & Chris Short, AWS (CNCF YouTube, 2022-05-19) Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.22 (AWS blog, 2022-04-04) Kubernetes is Moving on From Dockershim: Commitments and Next Steps (Kubernetes blog, 2022-01-07) Spotlight on SIG Multicluster (Kubernetes Contributor site, 2021-02-04) Interview with Developer Avocados (Developer Avocados blog, 2021-12-15) Panel Discussion: Marketing as Code: How to Rock Out with Non-Code Contributions (KubeCon NA 2021, CNCF YouTube) Red Hat OpenShift Security, Open Links and BIG AW$ Bills [Chris Short, Aug 11] (RackN YouTube, 2020-08-11) swampUP 2019 | The Dark Side of DevOps - Chris Short (JFrog YouTube, 2019-07-27) Security, Open Links And BIG AW$ Bills w/ Chris Short (Cloud2030 Podcast, 2021-07-19) How to choose a SIG as a non-code Kubernetes contributor (Kubernetes Contributor site, 2021-07-09) Building Kubernetes operators in an ansible-native way (CNCF Webinar, 2019-10-09) Command Line Heroes — The Infrastructure Effect (Red Hat podcast, 2019-08-20) The Intersection of DevOps and Kubernetes (PodCTL podcast, 2019-08-19) Red Hat Live Streaming All OpenShift TV (now Red Hat Live Streaming) videos are available via searching the OpenShift YouTube for Chris Short ...

January 9, 2025 · Chris Short

AWS Container Days @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 — Day 3

In the days leading up to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon we’ll be spending the week talking about how you can deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. These sessions, led by our AWS Kubernetes team and guest speakers, will contain technical deep dives, product demos, and best practices. Can’t wait to learn what’s happening with Amazon EKS & Kubernetes, check out the EKS Newsletter curated by our EKS Developer Advocates. Subscribe to EKS News today! ...

May 15, 2022 · Chris Short

2021 Learnings, 2022 Expectations

Photo by Aaron Burden from Pexels It’s been one of the more challenging years of my life for many reasons. Please allow me the space to do some healing in this intro. I promise the juicy tech bits are a header away. If 2020 was hell on earth (which, while close, wasn’t quite there), 2021 asked us all to hold our collective beverages. Vaccines and boosters aside, the pandemic was a staunch obstacle to tackle along with every decision. A thorn in the side of everything at this point, we tried to live as normal a life as a family can that has young, unvaccinated children amongst us. But, how do you reduce human interaction in a world that needs more humans to be human to each other? We have to figure out the answer to this question. In the face of a pandemic, government spending buoyed the economy here in the United States. Abroad other nations took stock and saw a world where everyone looked after themselves first. I am relieved that adults have returned to the White House, but I fear it might be short-lived given the stalling in Washington DC the past few weeks. ...

January 8, 2022 · Chris Short
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Joining Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service team

“Life is just a gap—get some money in between it.” —Lil Wayne I’ve always liked the color orange. Baptized as a child in chants of Orange and Blue between the student side and the alumni side of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. It only makes sense that orange is one of the predominant colors of my new team’s logos. I’m happy to announce I’m joining the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service team as a Developer Advocate. ...

October 25, 2021 · Chris Short

The AWS bill heard around the world

Update I joined Rob Hirschfeld on the The 2030 Cloud where we discussed some additional behind the scenes investigatory work that went on by a nameless Amazon Web Services (AWS) employee. Summary Here’s a summary in case you just got a scary AWS bill: I received an AWS bill for $2,700, which was much higher than expected. I traced the high bill to a 13GB disk image that he had stored in an S3 bucket and exposed through a CDN. The CDN was trying and failing to cache the disk image, which was causing high bandwidth utilization. ...

July 26, 2020 · Chris Short