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Carlos Mestre del Pino

Carlos Mestre del Pino

Amsterdam
Platform engineer & cloud consultant @ITQ. Currently building the EU's private cloud! Based in Amsterdam.
Dec
19
Abstract your cluster provisioning away with Crossplane and ClusterAPI (TKG on vSphere)

Abstract your cluster provisioning away with Crossplane and ClusterAPI (TKG on vSphere)

I've been taking my first steps in Crossplane recently, and I wanted to share some of my findings,
8 min read
May
24
KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam

KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam

Second KubeCon for me... and second KubeCon as a local. After Valencia (where I am from), KubeCon came to the
8 min read
Apr
24
Live interviews during KubeCon EU 2023

Live interviews during KubeCon EU 2023

Hi! I hope everyone is doing good after an exciting (and exhausting) week at KubeCon. While I recover, and prepare
1 min read
Mar
24
Amsterdam's Kubernetes community is very alive!

Amsterdam's Kubernetes community is very alive!

A few weeks ago, I attended Kubernetes Community Days Amsterdam 2023, together with my colleague Robert Kloosterhuis. Kubernetes Community Days
4 min read
Dec
01
My Homelab setup and how I got here

My Homelab setup and how I got here

In this blogpost I will describe my homelab setup, as well as giving a bit of context about how I
4 min read
Aug
31
Running a serverless, geospatial, python app in Google Cloud

Running a serverless, geospatial, python app in Google Cloud

As a geospatial scientist, you might wonder how your custom made applications and visualization portals can turn into web applications
10 min read
Jul
28
Trusting Harbor's corporate CA in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Carvel tools

Trusting Harbor's corporate CA in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Carvel tools

So you have deployed a Tanzu Community Edition workload cluster! Well, I bet one of the first few things that
15 min read
Jun
01
KubeCon EU 2022 in Valencia

KubeCon EU 2022 in Valencia

Last week me, and a couple of ITQ colleagues, Robert Kloosterhuis and Michael Van de Gaer went to Kubecon EU
9 min read
Apr
04
Deploy any vSphere virtual machine with a startup script (with Terraform)

Deploy any vSphere virtual machine with a startup script (with Terraform)

Join me on deploying any vSphere virtual machine (with dynamic or static IP address), and provide it a startup script
5 min read
Mar
17
Standalone Concourse on vSphere with k3s and Terraform

Standalone Concourse on vSphere with k3s and Terraform

This terraform scripts allows you to deploy a Concourse virtual machine on your vSphere environment. Why standalone? Concourse will be
4 min read