k8s & Platform Engineering

Content, advisory, and training

Hi! I’m Michael Levan

I dive into everything and anything when it comes to cloud-native, platform engineering, and Kubernetes. My current biggest focus is AIOps, Service Mesh, Gateways, and everything that has to do with networking (L4/L5/L7) in a microservice-driven world.

My goal is to translate technical complexity into practical value. I'm a seasoned engineer, consultant, trainer, and content creator working with startups and enterprises around the globe.

I'm a Microsoft MVP (Azure), AWS Community Builder 3x, 4x published author, podcast host, international public speaker, CNCF Ambassador, was part of the Kubernetes v1.28/v1.31 Release Team, and Principal Solutions Engineer at Solo.io.

I enjoy talking to everyone about anything in the cloud-native realm, so feel free to reach out and let’s connect!

Writing and viideos

Although video content is the most “entertaining” in today’s world, I still love writing blog posts, articles, whitepapers, and books. Something about being focused in the writing realm of tech puts me in a “flow” state.

Within my writing, I focus on everything in the Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, and cloud-native realm. My written content is usually more technical and you learn check it out on my blog (top of the nav bar on this site)

My videos are up on YouTube @CloudDevEngineering and you can find all pieces of content from backend software engineering to k8s.

Podcasts and public speaking

Although I’m an introvert in day-to-day life, when I’m on stage, it’s hard to get me to shut up :). Same rule applies to podcasts. Talking about everything and anything in the tech realm for software engineering to AIOps to monitoring and observability and everything in between gets me fired up.

It’s truly an amazing thing to be in front of a crowd of people or on a podcast talking about what I love doing.

Live Training

I teach the following courses on O’Reilly’s live training platform:

  • Kubernetes Networking

  • Kubernetes For Platform Engineering

  • AIOps In Kubernetes

  • Kubernetes AI & Machine Learning

  • Kubernetes GitOps With ArgoCD

  • DevOps Fundamentals

  • Kubernetes Helm Chart Essentials

  • Securing Kubernetes For Production

  • Go In 4 Hours

  • Security Engineering Deep Dive

  • Application Security with AI Deep Dive

Want to reach out? let’s chat.