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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 21/01/2026

🎯 Acing the CKA Exam - Live Webinar @brito-rafa.bsky.social and I are hosting a free live session on #AcingTheCKA ✅ Exam tips & time management strategies ✅ How #CloudNative concepts appear in practice ✅ Real-world application ✅ Live Q&A RSVP: www.linkedin.com/events/74180...

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 14/01/2026

Amazing! I'm happy to hear your experience has also been good! Yes, we are so lucky 🍀

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 01/01/2026

On Dec 31, 2024, we moved to Valencia, Spain. because life is short and experiences matter. how hard would it be? New jobs. New systems. A new language. Setbacks with schools, landlords etc made possible by the people around us. Friends who helped, listened, and made a new country feel like home.

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 24/12/2025

Today and tomorrow, everything at @manning.com is 50% off!! That includes #AcingTheCKA Get yours half off: acingthecka.com

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 01/12/2025

Cyber Week is here! 🎉 The @linuxfoundation.org is offering 50% off the #CKAexam until December 9th!! Grab the deal at training.linuxfoundation.org Comment below if you're #AcingTheCKA with this sale!

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 26/11/2025

Giving away a few physical copies of “Acing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam” at tomorrow’s Cloud Native Valencia meetup! Grab the new edition, ask your CKA questions, and hang out with the community. RSVP: cloudnativevalencia.com #CKA #AcingTheCKA #Kubernetes #CloudNative

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 26/11/2025

Excited to share the official Kubernetes v1.35 Sneak Peek! - Removal of cgroup v1 support - Deprecation of kube-proxy ipvs mode - In-place update of Pod CPU/memory now GA - Native Pod certs for automated workload identity and mTLS - & more Check out the full article: kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11...

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Kubernetes v1.35 Sneak Peek

As the release of Kubernetes v1.35 approaches, the Kubernetes project continues to evolve. Features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced to improve the project's overall health. This blog post outl...

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) @cncf.io · 21/11/2025

Join us with @chadmcrowell.com live on Dec 4 at 12 PM EDT for a hands-on walkthrough of a traffic orchestration project for cloud native environments. Includes service mesh, gateway features, and real-time experiments. 🔗 Register: www.linkedin.com/events/chatl...

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 08/11/2025

🔥DEAL OF THE DAY! Learn. Practice. Pass your CKA. 👉 Tap the link to grab your copy before midnight! acingthecka.com #AcingTheCKA #Kubernetes #CKAexam #DevOps #CloudNative

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 12/08/2025

🚀 The rest of the chapters for "Acing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam: 2nd Ed." are here! ✅ Finish reading ✅ Do the hands-on exercises ✅ Get ready to ace the #CKA Don’t have the book yet? 👉 acingthecka.com #Kubernetes #K8s #DevOps #CloudNative bsky.app/profile/brit...

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 01/08/2025

@manning.com is having a sale! Perfect time to start #AcingTheCKA 😎 🔗 acingthecka.com cc: @brito-rafa.bsky.social

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 31/07/2025

Thx @cristhercastro.bsky.social and KCD Colombia for the chat on low-latency in LATAM 🇨🇴 📦 Edge API demo (LKE + Envoy) 🌍 Latency-aware routing w/ Gateway API  ⚡️ Powering the edge w/ Akamai CDN ▶️ www.youtube.com/live/rvVxbno...   💻 github.com/chadmcrowell...  #Kubernetes #EdgeComputing #GatewayAPI

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Beyond the Cloud: Building Low-Latency Apps with Akamai's Edge-First Architecture

YouTube video by Cloud Native Colombia

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 15/07/2025

with a free domain name! 👍

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KubeSkills @kubeskills.com · 04/07/2025

🚀 Thinking about running Kubernetes the right way in 2025? Here's a hands-on video showing how to install a real Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm + containerd. Perfect for #AcingTheCKA prep or getting production-ready. 📺 Watch: youtu.be/j3a2Sr2n8eQ #Kubernetes

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 03/07/2025

build your cloud native portfolio!

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 25/05/2025

Man, your style is next level!! 😎

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 23/05/2025

honored to be part of the #VLCTech scene here in Valencia...my talk wasn't accepted, and that's ok. Rejection doesn’t mean it’s the end, It’s just a reminder to refine, and keep showing up. I'll be submitting the same to Cloud Native Valencia... let's keep learning and lifting each other up!

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 22/05/2025

🚨Big news! The 2nd edition of Acing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam is out today!!😁 Honor to co-author with @brito-rafa.bsky.social & fully updated for CKA v1.32. Use code MLCrowell3 for 50% off at Manning. Let’s get you certified! #AcingTheCKA @manningbooks.bsky.social

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KubeSkills @kubeskills.com · 30/04/2025

🚀 New Tutorial: Hands-on with FluxCD This beginner-friendly guide walks you through deploying a real microservices app on #Kubernetes using #FluxCD, the #CNCF graduated tool trusted by platform teams. Read the full guide now 👉 blog.kubeskills.com/hands-on-wit... #GitOps #DevOps

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 14/04/2025

📣 Happy to announce today's my first day at Akamai, joining the #CloudNative SRE team. Excited to dig into production #Kubernetes environments at scale, learning from the team, contributing to open source, and growing in the cloud native space. Let’s get started. 🚀

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KCD Texas @kcdtexas.org · 05/04/2025

📣 Special Message from Our Speaker, @JuliaFMorgado.bsky.social! Julia will discuss data security in Kubernetes — a topic that’s top of mind for every modern technologist. 🎟️ Don't miss your chance to connect with great speakers like Julia! Register today: kcdtexas.org

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 03/04/2025

🎉 Tons of fun talking about #CKA at #KubeCon!! Thank you everyone for joining me and asking amazing questions 🙏 Look out for #AcingTheCKA second edition coming soon with Rafael Brito !! 🚀 🔗 AcingTheCKA.com

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 01/04/2025

🙌 Things are heating up here at Cloud Native University at #Kubecon with some really amazing talks for #CloudNative development! 🚀 🔗 colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/overview/typ...

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 31/03/2025

📍Made it to #Kubecon! Come to #CloudNative University Day tomorrow and talk to me about #AcingTheCKA 🎸😃 colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/event/1yViU/...

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 29/03/2025

If you’re going to #Kubecon in London you should probably follow the feed by @nabrahams.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 29/03/2025

🟢 Green light for #CloudNativeUniversity Europe, 1 April in London, and Fabrizio and I are speaking! 🗣️ Don’t miss our session about how you can study effectively for #Kubernetes exams and get your certification in record time! #Kubecon #CloudNative 🔗 colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/event/1yViU/...

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KubeSkills @kubeskills.com · 16/03/2025

👀 Check out our new #GatewayAPI scenario on Killercoda.com 🚀 Practice creating Gateway and HTTPRoute in #Kubernetes. Gateway API is becoming the preferred standard for ingress in Kubernetes. Plus, it's a new requirement for the #CKA 🔗 killercoda.com/chadmcrowell... #AcingTheCKA #CKAexam

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Whitney Lee @whitneylee.com · 05/06/2023

Gateway API is a networking spec that describes exposing services outside of a cluster in a general way⎯a way that can be handled by different implementations. It is a portable, expressive, extensible, role-oriented, & EXCITING addition to K8s ⚡️ Join us Thurs! via.vmw.com/GatewayAPI

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 28/02/2025

I couldn't add an alex domain ("@") for an mx record. Anyone know a hack for this in Linode Cloud Manager or linode-cli?

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 28/02/2025

I finally migrated my ghost blog (chadcrowell.com) from AKS to LKE. My bill went from $99 to $39 per month (free Azure credits ran out). It was a good low risk migration. Good practice. Running sqlite instead of sql helped speed up the time as well. Migrated DNS as well, with only 1 hiccup...

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 27/02/2025

Containers from top to bottom! Check it out and lemme know what you think! 😃👍

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KCD Texas @kcdtexas.org · 12/02/2025

🚨 CFP closes tonight! Submit your talk for KCD Texas 2025 now: 🔗 Submit Here buff.ly/3Z3zOs1 #CloudNativeCommunity

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 23/01/2025

oh no! and I can't change it! 😅

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 22/01/2025

An opportunity to meet weekly with @gelopfalcon.bsky.social and I, learning about #kubernetes security! 🎉

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 19/12/2024

Dang, that was just in 2024?!? 😳

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Chad M. Crowell @chadmcrowell.com · 19/12/2024

Really great chatting about #AcingTheCKA with my friend @gelopfalcon.bsky.social !! 🫶🎉

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KubeSkills @kubeskills.com · 13/12/2024

Want to get some awesome #kubernetes tutorials delivered straight to your inbox every week? 🚨 BONUS: A FREE Kubernetes cheat sheet! Sign up for the #KubeSkills mailing list 🔗 subscribe.kubeskills.com