Michal Arbet
Openstack Engineer at Debian
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Arbet is an OpenStack and cloud infrastructure engineer with 9 years of experience designing and operating production-grade private clouds, specializing in Kolla/Kolla-Ansible deployments and Ceph storage integration. At Ultimum Technologies he focuses on automation, reliability and maintainability, turning complex infrastructure problems into repeatable, Ansible-driven solutions. As a core contributor to Kolla and Kolla-Ansible and an official Debian Developer/Maintainer, he bridges upstream container and distribution packaging work with CI/CD and health-check improvements used by many OpenStack operators. His background ranges from 24/7 global server support at HP to hands-on hardware and scripting roles, giving him a pragmatic operator’s mindset alongside open-source craftsmanship. Based in Prague, he’s passionate about making complex systems easier to operate and actively seeks collaboration on impactful infrastructure projects.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Secondary school of Electrical engineering, Liptovský HrádokComputer Software and Media Applications, Computer Software and Media Applications at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech, English
Github Skills (21)
docker10
python10
debian10
django10
configuration-management10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
openstack10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
haproxy10
mariadb9
git-repository9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/kolla-ansible
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Ansible deployment of the Kolla containers. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:98 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michal's primary contributions revolve around infrastructure and configuration management within the Kolla-Ansible project. They focused on resolving CI/CD issues related to Docker registries, refactoring the mariadb configuration for sharding, and enhancing the HAProxy and database configurations. Additionally, the user made changes related to container health checks, ensuring the proper functionality of key services within the OpenStack deployment. They improved automation for releases and deployments, especially related to health checks for key services.
ansible
openstack/kolla
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michal primarily focused on improving the containerization and deployment aspects of the Kolla project. They addressed issues related to Debian-based image builds, adding missing packages and configurations for OpenStack services running within containers. Contributions include fixing build errors, adding support for additional OpenStack services, and updating the configuration of images to ensure they meet the requirements of different distributions and services. They also added support for new projects like ProxySQL and made improvements to cron and logging configurations.
openstack
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