Ahmet Balkan
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Ahmet Alp Balkan is a software engineer leading the Kubernetes cluster management group at LinkedIn, working on moving a large bare-metal compute footprint to Kubernetes.

Prior to LinkedIn, Ahmet has spent nearly 10 years working at Twitter, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure primarily on container-based open source technologies and services such as Kubernetes, GKE, Knative. He pioneered the work to port Docker to Windows and bringing Docker into the Azure ecosystem. He maintains developer tools like kubectx and krew.

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Sessions

11-11
16:30
30min
Building Kubectl Plugins Like A Pro
Ahmet Balkan, Sanath Manavarte

Let’s talk about how to build idiomatic CLI tools that look and feel like kubectl, using the libraries and techniques from SIG CLI. In this talk, we’ll also talk about Krew kubectl plugin manager (a SIG CLI project) and showcase some useful popular plugins.

Flex Space