On 19.04.2022 20.22, Leonidas Spyropoulos via arch-devops wrote:
Hi,
My name is Leonidas Spyropoulos (known as artafinde / inglor on many platforms) and I'm a Trusted User at Arch Linux [1]. I'm applying to become a Junior DevOps in the devops Arch Linux team. I've been running Arch Linux from circa 2007 daily with dual boot in the old days and VFIO now for gaming.
I've been contributing in open-source projects [2][3] and in Arch Linux for about a year or so (when I asked in #archlinux-devops for a gitlab account) with patches/MRs for infrastructure, work on keycloak, aurweb and more recently a tool for exporting gitlab metrics for prometheus [4][5].
I've been using ansible, terraform, vault and jenkins at work and recently changed to gitlab so I think I could apply some of this knowledge to Arch Linux infrastructure. Furthermore I got experience in Cloud infrastructure (AWS) and Kubernetes cluster along with private Docker registry (in AWS) from both devops and software development point of view.
My interest in DevOps team is the admin part and automation. I've been having personal server(s) [6] for years now and I was part of the admin team at my previous job. I think automation and infrastructure-as-code is the way to manage infrastructure now days and although we lacked the automation at my previous job I very well understand how crucial things could be for others and the responsibilities which come moderating public facing servers. Additionally I think I can assist on the mundane tasks the devops team is currently dealing with because for me it would be a new interesting challenge.
Sponsors: - Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Kristian Klausen (klausenbusk)
[1]: https://archlinux.org/people/trusted-users/#artafinde [2]: https://github.com/inglor [3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/artafinde [4]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/artafinde/gitlab-exporter [6]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/14 [5]: Personal "servers" could be from as early as 2004 a headless Pentium 3 with debian to currently 4x VPSs and an Unraid at home
Regards,
I hereby confirm the sponsorship of Leonidas. I suggest a discussion period of 14 days upon which Leonidas will be made a Junior DevOps unless someone brings forth a good reason why that should not happen. --- Kristian