Philipp Strube
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Philipp is a senior DevOps specialist and expert in all things related to cloud, Terraform, and Kubernetes. He maintains the open-source Terraform framework Kubestack that helps teams build reliable automation for AKS, EKS, and GKE. Philipp previously founded the public PaaS provider cloudControl and worked on IaaS at Exoscale and enterprise Kubernetes at CoreOS. Most recently, Philipp helped companies adopt a cloud-native approach in his role as a director of technology at Container Solutions.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Terraform, Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes
The most amazing...
...thing I've achieved is innovating on transformational cloud and container technology for 10+ years from public PaaS and IaaS to Kubernetes and now GitOps.
Work Experience
Founder
Kubestack
- Maintained Kubestack, the open-source Terraform framework since December 2018, supporting AKS, EKS, and GKE managed Kubernetes.
- Provided documentation, tutorials, and content marketing and built a community around the open-source framework.
- Automated Kubernetes with GitOps using Terraform, making the process seamless for the teams from local development to production.
Director of Technology
Container Solutions
- Started Container Solution's SRE practice, hired the first team, and led the groundwork of how to provide SRE as a service to clients.
- Helped companies from finance to manufacturing adopt cloud-native best practices, including organizational changes and learning and adopting new processes and technologies.
- Led teams on software development and infrastructure automation projects for international clients.
- Started the company's Berlin branch and recruited and hired employees for the new office.
General Manager for EMEA
CoreOS
- Led the engineering management and product management teams to integrate Prometheus as the monitoring solution into CoreOS' enterprise Kubernetes distribution Tectonic.
- Prototyped experimental integrations for Tectonic, including Google Cloud Platform, Packet, and VMware.
- Helped out as an early European sales engineering resource for partners and potential customers.
Managing Director for Germany
Exoscale
- Introduced sign-up funnel analytics and experiments to iteratively increase conversion rates.
- Released open-source Ansible playbook for multi-master Kubernetes on Exoscale's IaaS solution.
- Contributed to product and content marketing to differentiate from other developer-focused cloud offerings.
Founder | CEO
cloudControl
- Developed the PaaS technology and founded one of the world's first public PaaS providers, running production workloads in containers as early as 2011.
- Conducted 24/7 operations and provided customer support for thousands of virtual machines across multiple cloud providers and regions.
- Innovated in the early days of cloud and containers, being recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant report for PaaS twice.
Experience
Kubestack | Terraform GitOps Framework
https://www.kubestack.com/Terraform Provider Kustomization
https://github.com/kbst/terraform-provider-kustomizationIt can be used both as a replacement for Kubectl in a standalone CI/CD pipeline and to integrate Kubernetes resources into existing Terraform configurations.
Skills
Tools
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Boto
Paradigms
DevOps
Platforms
Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CoreOS, OpenStack, Application Platform
Other
Architecture, Kubestack, CI/CD Pipelines, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Kubernetes Operators, Prometheus, Tectonic, IaaS, Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Languages
Python, Go
Frameworks
Django
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