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Benjamin Elder
@bentheelder.bsky.social
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@kubernetes.io Steering Committee member / SIG Testing Tech Lead, sigs.k8s.io/kind creator / maintainer. Dog dad.
Free time: Hiking, Photography, Books ...

http://elder.dev/about
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♥️
My dog Bobby, resting his bones in a comfy dog bed, soaking up a sunbeam.
August 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Via @munnerz.bsky.social, I present to you "Bash Fire Service" 🧑‍💻🚒

www.variety.org.au/sa/people/ca...
This image features four people dressed in firefighter-themed outfits standing on a dirt path in a forested area. Behind them is a vintage-style utility vehicle with "Carmine's Vines" displayed on its front. The two individuals on the left are wearing yellow helmets, white T-shirts with "96 BFS" written in red, and shorts—one in khaki and the other in black with red suspenders. The man kneeling in the front is also wearing a red hat and yellow pants. The person on the right stands confidently with no shirt, red suspenders, orange pants, and a red helmet, holding a tool in one hand. The background consists of tall pine trees and dense greenery. At the bottom of the image, there is a banner featuring the logos for "Variety the Children's Charity" and "Bash," indicating this could be an event related to the charity.
August 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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♥️ Yosemite
A view towards clouds rest in Yosemite national park. A somewhat narrow section of granite headed towards a landing point, in the distance half-dome and the valley. Roughly the same view as the first image, but with a hiker in front of me on the trail, in striking orange and blue clothing A view from cloud's rest. Half dome, north dome, and the Yosemite valley are visible A view headed back down "the spine" of granite from cloud's rest, with many sugar pines, mountains and clouds
June 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Yesterday: Stinson Beach to Mt Tam East Peak and Back.

>16mi and >4k ft elevation.
Still out of shape but getting back into it ...

Stunning views 😍
A view of San Francisco and the golden gate under some clouds from high above A wider of San Francisco, the bay, and the golden gate under some clouds from high above
May 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This week I did IPL round 4 of 4 and then lid debridement + LipiFlow for the MGD / severe dry eye.

This afternoon I'm sitting atop Mission Peak after months of struggling with everyday tasks.
I've done *far* more challenging routes but this is the *hardest* hike I've ever been on. 😮‍💨

I'm so happy 🥲
My smile next to the mission peak summit post, with the San Francisco Bay Area below and behind me. I'm in sunglasses and a hat. A wide angle view of the Bay Area from Mission Peak. In the foreground are gray stone and scrub, the sun hangs over the top center frame. The bay is shimmering.
May 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Kubernetes, The Pac-Man Game
A mini Pac-Man game in the CNCF store for $72 USD
April 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Kubernetes, The Travel Adapter
Holding a Kubernetes branded travel power adapter at the CNCF corner shop in front of the for sale sign. It is $25 USD
April 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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My wife when it's π day:

Literally 200 mini pies + whipped cream. As math department head every kid at her highschool is getting one ♥️
A shopping cart full of stacks and stacks of mini pies and whipped cream
March 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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In other news: My sweet Bobby boy 🐕 is turned five, I'm in denial. He's still a puppy! Just bigger. There's no way he's five!

A few more days made it 4 years married to my lovely wife Emily. She makes me whole ♥️
My dog, a tan rescue mix, "Bobby ", lounging in a big dog bed with a pillow and blanket, wearing a blue and white plaid bandana My wife Emily wearing a mask and holding little baby Bobby, he is a roughly 8 week old tan mix puppy and his eyes are melting hearts
March 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Bobby LOVES Fort Funston 🌊🎾🐕💕
Looking down the sandy staircase to the beach at fort funston, the ocean and beach in the background, my dog Bobby standing happy in the distance down the stairs looking back at me My dog Bobby standing in the path amongst the dunes, his ball at his feet, ears up and tongue out, the ocean peeking over the dunes My dog Bobby laying in the wet sand with his ball, waves in the background
December 15, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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♥️ Mt Tam
A view of the ocean over evergreen trees, the sun low in the sky ringed by a very wide flare in the clouds and illuminating a beam across the ocean towards the shore
December 7, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Looking through old photos and I don't remember the context on this one?? 😂😂

cc @toph.ca, circa July 2017
An ocean full of ships, all of which have Christoph Blecker's avatar pasted over them
November 30, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Very excited to nominate @xmudrii.bsky.social as our next @kubernetes.dev SIG K8s Infra Tech Lead 🎉

groups.google.com/g/kubernetes...
A screenshot of an email draft of the first message the mailinglist thread linked. The email has subject "Nominating Marko Mudrinić for SIG K8s Infra Tech Lead" and the following body text: Hi all, it is with the strongest endorsement that I nominate Marko a.k.a. "xmundrii" as our latest Tech Lead for SIG K8s Infra. Amongst other things: Marko has been a long time contributor, a maintainer of the deb/rpm package hosting with SIG Release and a lead of the release engineering subproject, and most importantly: a trusted member of our community. The number one thing I'm looking for in SIG K8s Infra TLs is trust, to handle the keys to all our infra and to think carefully about how we manage resources to benefit the project sustainably. I believe Marko has more than earned that trust. At this time no leads are stepping down, but I believe it's important to recognize and promote maintainers and to grow our bench, so I'm nominating Marko to be our fourth active TL. If you're interested in helping organize SIG K8s Infra, we're also putting out an open call for chair mentoring. Come learn and help us organize the SIG, we'll be partnering with SIG Contributor Experience to run a mentoring cohort. Reach out to any of the leads if you're interested and we'll connect folks. We will have a lazy consensus period of at least one week per the leadership changes guidelines. If you have any questions or concerns, you can also reach me ben@elder.dev, bentheelder in slack.k8s.io, or reach out to any of our existing leads, or steering-private@kubernetes.io Thanks all! - Ben
November 18, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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♥️
My dog Bobby sitting in a chair with his floppy ears up, wearing a bandana covered with studio ghibli.
November 17, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Shoutout to our top documentarians with this year's @cncf.io Lorem Ipsum award 🙏
The kubecon NS stage showing "Loren Ipsum (Top Documentarian)" for Qiming Teng and Haifeng (Michael) Yao
November 17, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Bobby sure had a lot to say about being away for a week ♥️
My dog Bobby sitting up in a chair with his ears back giving me puppy dog eyes
November 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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Back home. It was great getting to meet everyone who could make it, I hope to see more of you in Atlanta 🤞

I'm going to need to find a better spot for these, I'm honored ❤️

Thank you to everyone who helped migrate Kubernetes' infra to the community, I'm glad we could recognize many of you 🙏
Two glass awards from the CNCF, one is a kubernetes logo in clear glass on a blue base that says "2024 lift and shift award, Ben elder" and the other is a clear cloud on a blue base that says "2020 community awards | cloud native computing foundation, top committee, Ben Elder"
November 16, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Congrats to cert-manager on the graduation!!

Stop by their booth in the project pavilion if you can for incredible custom wax sealed certs that let you sign the guest book 💯
A small card with printed TLS cert metadata and a wax seal of the cert-manager logo
November 15, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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They're wrong though.

kubectl.info

github.com/kubernetes/k...
The official kubectl cuttlefish logo
November 15, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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This feels about right
Jeremy Rickard behind upside down code of conduct committee sign along with sig k8s infra and sig testing at the Kubernetes Meet and Greet
November 14, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Found TheElderElder 😁
My dad and I wearing matching pink Kubernetes gopher shirts
November 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Hypothetical "Joe" meet Joe Betz
Slide deck, with highlighted bullet that says "Joe installs Gateway API v1.2 standard channel" Joe Betz, pointing at himself and smiling
November 11, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Love a good ball contraption 🔊
@ SJC 🛫 #KubeCon
November 10, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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The dog has the right idea.
My dog Bobby sleeping stretched out across the covers at the head of our bed
November 6, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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Bobby's ready for Thanksgiving with his aunties ❤️
My dog Bobby, resting his chin on a pillow, wearing a thanksgiving / fall themed bandanna on his collar.
November 2, 2024 at 5:38 PM