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Matt Farina

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Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect of Rancher Team at SUSE. Developer, open source maintainer, author, speaker, trouble maker. mattfarina.com

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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 19/08/2025
v3.18.6 of @helm.sh is out. Last weeks security release contained a regression that's impacting some users. This release fixes that regression. More detail at github.com/helm/helm/re...
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Release Helm v3.18.6 · helm/helm
Helm v3.18.6 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see ...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 20/06/2025
Emailing the open source maintainers for a project that keeps up with correcting for CVEs in dependencies causes those maintainers to do more work. If they already keep up, you need to do nothing. Please don't add paperwork to open source maintainers.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 02/06/2025
v3.18.2 of @helm.sh is out. This fixes the last of the known regressions from the 3.18.0 release. If you are aware of any more issues, please file them. #Kubernetes github.com/helm/helm/re...
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Release Helm 3.18.2 · helm/helm
Helm v3.18.2 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see ...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 22/05/2025
Built a website from scratch for the first time in years. Used AI this time. 1. No framework, all custom JS and CSS 2. There's less CSS and JS from when I use a framework 3. Built it much faster than I used to It was a great experience.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 21/05/2025
New release of @helm.sh mapkubeapis plugin is out. github.com/helm/helm-ma...
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Release v0.6.1 · helm/helm-mapkubeapis
Changelog afa3045 Merge pull request #191 from porridge/extras e357308 Merge pull request #195 from robertsirc/update-helm-version 5998d10 removing bak file f091402 fixing golangci-lint 4e28825 up...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 20/05/2025
We have seen users reporting regressions in @helm.sh 3.18.0. We have triaged them and are actively working on fixes. I hope we have resolution asap.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 20/05/2025
Fleet, the project underpinning Ranchers CD system, might be the most scaleable #Kubernetes based gitops tool. In a recent post we looked at how we do measurements on it when looking for improvements. www.suse.com/c/rancher_bl...
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Stop Guessing, Start Measuring: Optimizing Rancher Contin...
How to run a test suite to measure performance across differen...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 16/05/2025
Went to fix what I thought was a bad switch only to discover a disconnected wiring harness. Such an easy fix. Feels good working on physical things after a day in front of a computer.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 05/05/2025
I'm amazed at the number of people who want to build solutions at scale as #Kubernetes API extensions. This is just not going to work.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 22/04/2025
Looking into either interfaces or Generics in #golang to solve a problem. This is going to be an interesting deep dive.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 17/04/2025
Did you know the automotive auxiliary power outlet (cigarette lighter) in cars can put out more power than the USB outlets usually do? With USB you often get 1a at 5v (even usb-c outlets). With the auxiliary outlet you often get much more.
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Helm @helm.sh · 17/04/2025
Did you miss last week’s release of Helm v3.17.3? 🔐Check out the notes in this security patch release: github.com/helm/helm/re...
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Release Helm v3.17.3 · helm/helm
Helm v3.17.3 is a security (patch) release. Users are strongly recommended to update to this release. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there! Join the discussion in Kubernetes...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 16/04/2025
I was wondering what the fastest way to concatenate strings in #golang was. Seems someone wrote benchmarks to test this ... dev.to/schadokar/th...
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The fastest way to concatenate strings in Golang
As a developer, we should be aware of all the available ways to implement a solution. This gives us...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 15/04/2025
Today I was reminded what a pain it is to PGP sign with @helm.sh . I think we need to make some changes there for v4.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 14/04/2025
I really like the design aesthetic of the zoo.dev Staying on the site and watching what changes is slick.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 14/04/2025
Dependabot now supports @helm.sh. I'm pretty happy about this one. github.blog/changelog/20...
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Dependabot version updates now support Helm · GitHub Changelog
Dependabot version updates now support Helm
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Jorge Castro 🇵🇷 🦖 @castrojo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Today I talk about how we strive for a distroless approach with projectbluefin.io www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7h0...
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Why Universal Blue images strive to be "distroless" - Fedora 42 update!
YouTube video by Jorge Castro
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 12/02/2025
If I read this right, in the Trump case where a judge is ordering the restoring of web pages, it's partially due to a violation of the Paper Reduction Act (of 1980). The government has processes designed for paper from the time before the web existed applied to updates of things shared over the web
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 07/02/2025
It looks like the UK has ordered Apple to put in a back door. I hope Apple fights this or takes iCloud out of the UK and I'm glad it's public knowledge this is happening. www.macrumors.com/2025/02/07/u...
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Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 21/01/2025
When writing a CLI is better to do logging level with numbers or names... For example... -v=<log level number> or --debug / --trace
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 16/01/2025
Which #Linux distro is best for laptops when considering battery life, lid handling, different types of sleep, etc? Why? I realize this is an entirely loaded and color of the bike shed topic.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 12/01/2025
Uh oh, HR is following me on blue sky. 👋
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 07/01/2025
One of the creators of YAML, Ingy Dot Net, has been working on YAMLScript to bring scripting to YAML. For those in the #Kubernetes ecosystem this should be interesting. Especially for people who like to code but spend a lot of time in YAML. Here's an example...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 06/01/2025
Cutting a release candidate for @helm.sh today. It's nice to see no known CVEs before kicking off that process in a few hours. #kubernetes
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 06/01/2025
Interested in an introduction to Artifact Hub, the CNCF project to discover, analyze, and share cloud native artifacts (like Helm charts)? The KubeCon session is now up on YouTube. blog.artifacthub.io/blog/kubecon...
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Video: Discover, Analyze, and Share Cloud Native Artifacts | Artifact Hub Blog
Video: Discover, Analyze, and Share Cloud Native Artifacts
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 30/12/2024
A whole lot of things I access via the browser (and pinned to my home screen) on mobile because companies want to stalk us far too much for my comfort. Meta wanting access to be able to log passwords and other sensitive things is icky, to me. Ref: www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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Apple hits out at Meta's numerous interoperability requests
Apple on Wednesday hit out at Meta Platforms , saying its numerous requests to access the iPhone maker's software tools for its devices could impact users' privacy and security, underscoring the intense rivalry between the two tech giants.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 22/12/2024
Jim Carrey is so good as the Grinch, I can’t imagine another live action film with the Grinch.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 19/12/2024
All I want for Christmas is... An asciidoc editor that's as good as the markdown ones.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 16/12/2024
Did you know you that you can run Go 1.24rc1 (or any other version) by just setting an environment variable? $ GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.24rc1 go version go: downloading go1.24rc1 (darwin/arm64) go version go1.24rc1 darwin/arm64 This is supported since Go 1.21 (August 2023). go.dev/doc/toolchain
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 16/12/2024
v3.16.4 of @helm.sh is out. Get it at github.com/helm/helm/re... This release only bumps a couple dependencies, one of this had a CVE. This release is a few days laters than normal because it was going to be skipped until a dependency had a CVE update. This releases deals with that. #Kubernetes
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Release Helm v3.16.4 · helm/helm
Helm v3.16.4 is a patch release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see ...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 16/12/2024
It’s cheesy and fun to decorate gingerbread houses while baking cookies and watching Christmas vacation. But, ‘tis the season
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Davanum Srinivas (@dims) @dims.dev · 15/12/2024
Kid in my town ... still in coma since Thanksgiving day football game! 😢 🥹 www.gofundme.com/f/help-rohan...
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Donate to Let's Keep It Going! Help Rohan., organized by Sam Letendre
This go fund me is for Rohan Shukla and his family so we can help them in any way possib… Sam Letendre needs your support for Let's Keep It Going! Help Rohan.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 12/12/2024
5.75 hours of meetings to start the work day is rough. I don't know how people do this every day.
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Helm @helm.sh · 03/12/2024
🛎️ If you want to join us for Helm v4 discussions, join us this tomorrow (Thur) for our hour long kickoff at 12pm ET / 9am PT! Details & agenda here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please help spread the word 🙏 see you there!
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Helm Weekly Developer Meeting Notes
Helm Minutes Helm Developer calls take place every Thurs day at 9:30am Pacific Time in this zoom room. Passcode is: 77777 Anyone is welcome to join this call and participate. The Helm project falls un...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 20/11/2024
I keep getting asking about the same problem areas with SemVer. So, I wrote something about them. Do you ever encounter these gotchas? codeengineered.com/blog/2024/co...
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Common SemVer Problems
A look into some common misconceptions with Semantic Versioning
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 19/11/2024
Cut a new release of Masterminds/semver that fixes some parsing edge cases. Regular expressions is a fun way to spend part of SUSE hack week. #golang github.com/Masterminds/...
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Release v3.3.1 · Masterminds/semver
What's Changed Fix for allowing some version that were invalid by @mattfarina in #253 Full Changelog: v3.3.0...v3.3.1
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 19/11/2024
Considering a major update to github.com/Masterminds/semver ... if @helm.sh is getting a major update than maybe it's time to update the semver package it uses, too.
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GitHub - Masterminds/semver: Work with Semantic Versions in Go
Work with Semantic Versions in Go. Contribute to Masterminds/semver development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 18/11/2024
Updating seldom touched complex regular expressions is no fun. No fun at all.
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Jorge Castro 🇵🇷 🦖 @castrojo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This cycle I worked closely with the helm.sh maintainers as they charted a course from helm3 to 4. This is the year to get involved. They did a live release on the show floor of #kubecon today. Didn't even realize they did it from a Framework 13 running projectbluefin.io. Nice.
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SUSE @suse.com · 13/11/2024
🎉 To kick off the day at #KubeCon, our CEO, Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, took the main stage and delivered a keynote on “Open Source-powered Cloud Native Creates the Future”. 🚀 DP shared why he believes that open, community-based standards on Kubernetes are the way to go for innovations in #AI and #edge.
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Jorge Castro 🇵🇷 🦖 @castrojo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If you're at #kubecon and rock a Framework laptop like I do drop by for our group photo today at the Project Pavilion, 1pm during lunch. Come check out the bootc-powered projectbluefin.io on a Framework 13. A cloud native desktop for us by us. I have swag. 😈 community.frame.work/t/linux-comm...
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Linux Community Ambassador Jorge Castro at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon!
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference, where adopters and technologists from major open-source and cloud-native communities gather to share innovation...
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 12/11/2024
SUSE Rancher Day has keynotes from the CEO and 3 business heads. People got to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. #KubeCon
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 12/11/2024
At #KubeCon and looking for something to do today? Checkout SUSE Rancher Day... more.suse.com/rancher-day-... #Kubernetes
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SUSE Rancher Day @ KubeCon NA 2024
SUSE Rancher Day @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 10/11/2024
Let’s hope Kubecon goes well
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 07/11/2024
Looking for something to do Tuesday night at KubeCon? Here's an option at the Natural History Museum with SUSE... more.suse.com/suse-evening... #Kubernetes
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Register here
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 07/11/2024
If you're looking to connect with @helmpack at KubeCon, you can find out more details at helm.sh/blog/kubecon... #Kubernetes
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Helm at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon SLC
Helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager.
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 06/11/2024
Artifact Hub has its first maintainer talk at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in Salt Lake City. If you’re attending KubeCon and want to learn more about Artifact Hub, you can learn about the maintainer talk at blog.artifacthub.io/blog/kubecon... #kubernetes
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Join Artifact Hub at KubeCon North America '24 | Artifact Hub Blog
Join Artifact Hub at KubeCon North America '24
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 06/11/2024
The polls are closed where I live. The ads, texts, and phone calls can stop. Yaaaaaaaay
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Matt Farina @mattfarina.com · 04/11/2024
Doing my research on candidates, especially local ones, has been great. www.vote411.org is one of the places I go for info.
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VOTE411
Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
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