Matthew Mattox - Rancher Deep Dive: Manage enterprise Kubernetes seamlessly with Rancher

Manage enterprise Kubernetes seamlessly with Rancher

Matthew Mattox

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To my wife, Samantha Mattox, for being my foundation during this life journey. I want to say thank you for putting up with all of the long and late nights, helping when I have writer's block, and always pushing me forward to achieve my goals and aspirations.

Matthew Mattox

Since 2019, Matthew Mattox has served as a SUSE principal support engineer, providing client-focused support. Having experience in both engineering and DevOps, Matthew has a deep understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Longhorn, and OPA Gatekeeper. Apart from designing custom solutions to solve changing problems, he was named "Bullfighter of the Year" for his outstanding work at Rancher Labs. One of his primary goals is to make IT a profit center within your company, not a cost center.

I want to thank all of the people at Rancher/SUSE for all that they have taught me.

In particular, I would like to thank

Bala Gopalan Thank you for giving me the tools to succeed.

Ahmad Emneina Thank you for being a great mentor and always being someone I can count on when I run out of ideas.

Alena Prokharchyk Thank you for teaching me all of the ins and outs of Rancher; you really inspired me to get into software development.

Hussein Galal Thank you for teaching me what Kubernetes is and what it can do, and for always being someone I can count on.

Also, thank you to all of the Rancher/SUSE team for their support.

Lucas Ramage is a co-founder of Infinite Omicron, a company focused on cybersecurity, DevOps, and open source technologies. Prior roles include those of a cyber security consultant and embedded firmware engineer. He also has a bachelor's degree in computer science. For the last 10 years, he has been an active contributor to multiple Linux distributions, including Alpine, Gentoo, and OpenWrt, and also the Android-based distribution, Termux. In addition to maintaining open source projects, he also mentors for Google Summer of Code. He enjoys sharing knowledge and helping others to grow.

I am truly grateful to the open source community and to all of my colleagues and friends who I have been able to learn from over the years. Thank you all for sharing your knowledge with me and the rest of the world. I am also very thankful to my family and my faith for supporting me in life.

Rancher Labs is now part of SUSE.

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, secure enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. SUSE specializes in business-critical Linux, Enterprise container management, and Edge solutions, and collaborates with partners and communities to empower customers to innovate everywhere from the data center to the cloud, to the edge, and beyond.

SUSE's solutions already power everything from autonomous driving to CAT scan and mammogram machines. Its open source software is embedded inside air traffic control systems, weather forecasting technologies, trains, and satellites.

• Business-critical Linux: The SUSE Linux Enterprise family provides a stable, secure, and well-supported Linux operating system for mission-critical workloads such as SAP S/4HANA and other solutions.
• Enterprise container management: SUSE Rancher solutions enable customers to standardize cloud-native workload operations across all devices and landscapes, including with end-to-end security meeting the highest standards thanks to SUSE's NeuVector technology.
• Edge solutions: The new Edge offerings bring the best of SUSE's Linux and container technologies together. This is helping SUSE to truly innovate at scale by pushing business applications to where they are needed most.

SUSE puts the open back in open source, giving customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. The company employs more than 2,000 people globally. SUSE is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

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