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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️

@mikelevan.bsky.social
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Building High-Performing Agentic and Kubernetes Environments | AI Architect @Solo.io | CNCF Ambassador | Microsoft MVP (Azure) | AWS Community Builder | Published Author & International Public Speaker

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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🤨 All AI traffic is context-aware. It's stateful. Context-aware networking is the new norm in AI workloads, which means we need to implement workflows for long-term and short-term memory.
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Fine-tuning a Model could take A LOT of resources Example: Llama has 7 billion parameters and 2-7B weight matrices. That's where LoRA/PEFT come into play. Instead of having to update/train every part of the Model, it adds the new training layer on top of what already exists.
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Inference in AI breakdown (and a need-to-know) 👇 ✅ Inference == Make a prediction on unseen/new data. ✅ Inference Routing == the infrastructure layer. #kubernetes #agenticai #LLMs
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Consolidating 15 years of software engineering, cyber security, DevOps, and cloud into bite-sized bits 👇 Posting daily as I'm working. Sharing tips and tricks as I go michaellevan.substack.com
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Michael Levan | Substack
Consolidating 15 years of software engineering, cyber security, DevOps, and cloud into bitesized bits. Click to read Michael Levan, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Security is actually pretty simple: 1. Ensure that the data is secure 2. Ensure that any third-party libraries/packages you're using in your code are secure Well... since that's 100% of security, I guess security isn't all that simple lol
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Cloud Detection Response (CDR) and Network Detection Response (NDR) 👇 Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) focuses purely on cloud environments. (cont) #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
An important reminder when using `port-forward` with Kubernetes. If you run something like `kubectl port-forward svc/service_name portnumber:port:number` You're bringing the traffic from the Kubernetes to your local computer. (cont) #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I updated KoaPerf to include: 1. AWS Support! You can get recommendations for containerized apps running in AWS now. 2. A better UI (more visually appealing) Check it out at the link below 👇 koaperf-apeseqd2cehnhjgh.z03.azurefd.net #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For any organization, big or small. Enterprise or startup. Figuring out the workflow of how environments should be deployed, managed, and most importantly, what should be deployed and managed is the make or break. (cont) #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I built a free tool to tell you the best place to deploy containerized workloads. koaperf-apeseqd2cehnhjgh.z03.azurefd.net (cont) #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
After planning and deploying a Kubernetes environment, you're left with: ✅ Performance optimization ✅ Monitoring and observability ✅ Upgrades and a few other specifics that are necessary to ensure k8s is running as expected. #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The tool needs to be deployed before it can be used. ArgoCD is a great example of this. Argo is implemented for workloads in k8s to be deployed automatically based on an interval instead of having to run a bunch of `kubectl apply -f` commands locally or in a pipeline. (cont)
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Keeping The Lights On: Pipeline Differentiations for CICD
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I was recently on a consulting project and the goal was to optimize AWS EKS. It came down to a few key aspects including: 1. Workload isolation 2. Multi-az 3. Cluster security around multi-tenancy 4. Performance optimization (cont)
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Optimizing AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
As you develop environments, infrastructure, and orchestration platforms (like k8s), you'll begin to notice that there are several directions to go in. There's a joke that goes something like "line up...
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I never thought about security as a specialty. i.e - DevOps Security, Cloud Security, Network Security, etc. The reason is that security should be embedded in all of our jobs. (cont)
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I just updated DevOps-The-Hard-Way-AWS for the first time in 4 years. ✅ Removed the creation of a VPC for EKS with CloudFormation ✅ Terraform Modules for EKS and VPC creation ✅ Simplified the steps for the labs and A LOT more. Link below 👇 github.com/AdminTurnedD...
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GitHub - AdminTurnedDevOps/DevOps-The-Hard-Way-AWS: This repository contains free labs for setting up an entire workflow and DevOps environment from a real-world perspective in AWS
This repository contains free labs for setting up an entire workflow and DevOps environment from a real-world perspective in AWS - AdminTurnedDevOps/DevOps-The-Hard-Way-AWS
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
You're not late to learning Cloud/DevOps/Platform Engineering, you're right on time. Open up that new DevOps course. Learn Kubernetes and why orchestration is important. Understand networks, systems, and design. You'll never reach a point where you "know it all".
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In the world of AI programming with things like Cursor... If you don't spend the time now getting really good at programming, you're going to fail drastically. If you let "the AI thing" do it all for you without you understanding what's happening underneath the hood... (cont)
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
All Kubernetes implementations start with: ✅ Proper planning and architecture ✅ Security ✅ Teamwork Ensure you know exactly what's being deployed, managed, and by whom. #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In the last week or so, I started trying Cursor out to build some cloud-native tooling. The result? Pretty good actually! I created a tool in Python to do a `diff` on a bunch of cloud security policies across Azure CIS and MCSB. buff.ly/R7zDF8j #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Keeping The Lights On: Planning Cloud Security With Prompt Engineering
In this episode, Michael Levan dives into a few key tips on creating programs for "diffs". The idea is that you have two things and you need to ensure that you aren't re-doing work that already exists...
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Do I know anyone who works at AWS?
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Terraform is always funny. I need an S3 bucket to store my state! Ah, that S3 bucket needs to be created before I create my other resources that need to store state. I'll put it in my module! Wait, the module needs to access the S3 bucket and it's not created yet...
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I built a new open-source cloud and Kubernetes based tool that: buff.ly/ZT8IyHs #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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GitHub - AdminTurnedDevOps/cloudigest
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Scaling k8s workloads in an event-driven fashion == ensure proper performance, cost, and resource optimization for various situations that occur. In this video, I break down one method of scaling Kubernetes workloads with KEDA. buff.ly/5WgJidU #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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(2025) Using KEDA On AKS To Trigger Based Off Of Resource Optimization
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Does anyone have the key takeaways for KubeCon EU? So far I'm seeing: 1. VMs on Kubernetes. 2. Kubernetes could be a solid place to run Agents and ML workloads Anything else? #kubernetes #kubecon
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Managed k8s services were meant to be... well, managed. EKS Auto Mode and AKS Automatic got us there. In this blog post, I break down how to get started from a hands-on perspective with both. buff.ly/fhJweo8 #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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AKS Automatic and AWS EKS Auto Mode: Setup and Deployment
Discover the benefits of AKS Automatic and EKS Auto Mode in Kubernetes management. Learn how these features streamline container orchestration, enhance scalability, and optimize cloud performance. Div...
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Wasm gives DevOps and Platform Engineers true Distributed Systems. You have the ability to not care where your app is running. 1. Build your application 2. Build a Component (made up of a WIT) 3. Compile it down to Wasm A thread 🧵 #kubernetes #devops #wasm
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Alright, so this is rather interesting and why fine-tuning or creating a RAG is necessary. This agent has a clear, defined job: Tell me the best region to deploy k8s workloads to based on cost and performance. A few things: (in the next comment) #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Just a reminder that those AI Agents that everyone thinks will "take jobs" have to run somewhere. That "somewhere" is most likely going to be: 1. k8s 2. Containers 3. Event-driven services This stuff isn't magic. It needs to run somewhere. #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Look... I know package management in JS isn't fun, but like... I just had to run `pip3.12` instead of `pip3` because the ONE SPECIFIC library only worked on Python3.12 and below.... So... ya know
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I've been reading a lot of stuff around App Modernization and it's ironic how much of it is about running workloads on VMs.
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
AKS Automatic is what everyone thought managed Kubernetes services would be. The gist is that Azure takes care of the overall cluster configuration and you worry about the app. In this blog post, I break down how to set up and configure AKS Automatic. buff.ly/4gS5Y10 #kubernetes #cloud #devops
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AKS Automatic: Configure k8s Without Configuring k8s
When Kubernetes first came out, everyone felt that it was hard to manage and required significant...
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A little Python fun. 1. Specify some key libraries 2. Specify which Model you want to download 3. Save the Model locally And I'm thinking at this point this is "a future" for DevOps/Platform/Cloud engineers. A thread 🧵 #devops #python #cloud
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Cloud-native areas to focus on in 2025 👇 ✅ App Modernization ✅ Hybrid Cloud ✅ Scalability A thread 🧵 #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Just a heads up - If you're implementing Azure Local, you'll see the OS download called "Azure Stack HCI". That's because Azure Stack HCI is the predecessor. It's all officially now Azure Local. #azure #kubernetes #CloudSolutions
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Just a heads up, software engineering is only 65 years old. That’s barely “one person ago”. You aren’t “late” to learning Kubernetes. You aren’t “late” to learning cloud. You’re not “late” or behind the curve. The curve hasn’t even started. #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
That feel when you're running on an M4 Max... this is why we need @wasmcloud.com
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I just updated DevOps-The-Hard-Way-Azure 🚀 The update includes: - Creating the container image for the app that's being deployed in the project. - Creating the ACR - Pushing the container image to ACR Link below 👇 buff.ly/4jazIYz #kubernetes #cloud #devops
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GitHub - AdminTurnedDevOps/DevOps-The-Hard-Way-Azure: "DevOps-The-Hard-Way-AWS" got a lot of traction, so I figured I'd make one for Azure!
"DevOps-The-Hard-Way-AWS" got a lot of traction, so I figured I'd make one for Azure! - AdminTurnedDevOps/DevOps-The-Hard-Way-Azure
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Microsoft Azure Cert breakdown for 2025 👇 👉 AZ-900 👉 AZ-104 👉 AZ-204 👉 AZ-305 👉 AZ-400 #kubernetes #azure #certifications
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
CFPs are open for BLDRcon (online)! The event is March 7th, 2025, and will be streamed across LinkedIn, X, and YouTube. sessionize.com/bldrcon #kubernetes #comnmunity #cfp
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BLDRcon: Call for Speakers
BLDRcon is the first conference catered to engineers and developers. No sponsored talks/sessions and no sales talks. This is a conference that's truly...
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Having a bit of HTML fun lol
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I've been writing in Golang for so long that I forgot how straightforward Python is 🤓
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The majority of organizations haven't figured out a use case to create anything LLM/Model specific that'll benefit anything from a business perspective.
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This sounds really neat. Isolating LLM workloads/Agents via containers. #azure #cloud
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
One thing I'm constantly searching for is community 🚀 People that enjoy the same things I do, like to talk about the tech, and solve problems. So, I decided to create a new community on Discord! buff.ly/40hsmex #cloud #community #devops #platformengineering
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Join the BLDRcommunity Discord Server!
Check out the BLDRcommunity community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
If you're going to join a chat-based community, what do you prefer? Slack, Discord, or something else?
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I work with vendors and organizations on: ✅ Content Creation to show the value of products. ✅ Consulting to help implement tools, products, & best practices. ✅ Advisory services. Let’s chat about what your needs are for the new year and where I can implement value. DMs open #devops #consulting
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
BLDRcon CFPs are now open! 🚀 The first BLDRcon will be virtual and held March 7th, 2025. A thread 🧵 #kubernetes #devops #platformengineering
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BLDRcon: Call for Speakers
BLDRcon is the first in-person conference catered to engineers and developers. No sponsored talks/sessions and no sales talks. This is a conference th...
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
What an amazing way to start off the New Year 🚀 Really excited to announce that I’m officially a Microsoft MVP! Thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years because without you this wouldn’t be possible. Thank you to Microsoft for the recognition. #MVPBuzz #kubernetes #azure
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
The goal of Wasm is: ✅ Cross-architecture ✅ Cross-language ✅ Better Security ✅ Performance The goal of wasmCloud is to take Wasm and run it anywhere regardless of where it's built. In this blog post, I explain how to get started with wasCloud. buff.ly/40enZ3J #kubernetes #devops #cloud
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Getting Started With wasmCloud
Every engineer, vendor, tool (open-source or paid), and leadership team is always looking for one key...
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Michael Levan 👨🏻‍💻☕️ @mikelevan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
What's your stack going to be for 2025? Kubernetes? Cloud-based services? On-prem? I'm really curious to hear how everyone is running workloads in the new year. #devops #cloud #platformengineering
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