Kubernetes & Cloud Engineer · SUSE
Ettore Ciarcia.
Push your code to Git, I’ll take care of the rest.
Cloud Engineer with a passion for containers and orchestration. I started out as a sysadmin, met Kubernetes on the way to the cloud and have lived in the CNCF ecosystem ever since, building infrastructure as code that is automated and reproducible.
Writing
Latest articles
Ten Years of Change: Reflections on Life, Growth, and 2025
A personal reflection on change, challenges, and growth, from 2016 to 2025, and a quiet step into 2026
Personal
Building and Testing Kubernetes Locally: Verifying an Upstream Fix with Kind
A hands-on guide to building Kubernetes from source, testing a Kind cluster, and verifying an upstream PR that fixes a validation bug.
Cloud & Kubernetes
On-prem Load Balancers: Why All Your Traffic Might Be Hitting Just One Node
How I discovered my on-prem load balancer was secretly a single-node traffic magnet
Homelab
How I Made My Linux Kernel Panic
How I happily made my Linux kernel crash and lived to tell the tale
Homelab
Speaking
Recent talks
One Endpoint, Hundreds of Models: LiteLLM Explained to My Mom
Linux Day Benevento 2026 · Benevento
(includes video)CNCF: the largest collection of solutions to problems you didn’t know you had
Linux Day Benevento 2025 · Benevento
(includes video)Guida Galattica per Cloud Engineer
Linux Day Benevento 2024 · Benevento
(includes video)Introduction to Kubernetes
ContainerDay/DevSecOpsDay · Bologna
