Erkan Yanar
Godfather Of K8s
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolErkan Yanar is a veteran infrastructure engineer and consultant with over a decade focused on Linux, containers and distributed databases, earning the playful moniker "Godfather of K8s." He has led Kubernetes and Docker integration projects across large enterprises (Deutsche Bahn, Pro7Sat1, Deutsche Telekom) and advised on MySQL/Galera, OpenStack and Ceph while running his own IT-consulting practice. A seasoned conference speaker and technical writer, he regularly presents on topics from Galera and Ceph to LXC and systemd, bridging deep systems expertise with practical operational experience. Early roots in AIX and continuous work since the 90s give him a strong historical perspective on systems evolution that informs pragmatic architecture and migration decisions. Based in Frankfurt, he combines hands-on troubleshooting with mentoring and training, often tackling security and scaling nuances that teams overlook.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Goethe University Frankfurt
Github Skills (169)
testing10
health-check10
nagios10
ecosystem10
linux10
validation10
golang10
sensu10
kubernetes10
container10
go10
tdd10
docker10
moby10
assemble10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
erkules/k8sworkshop
May 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 review, 109 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 9 months
erkules/dockerfiles
Sep 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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