Daniel Hiller

Geek, programmer, father
I'm a software engineer with more than 20 years of work experience.
I strive to create software that is useful for people so they can do stuff that matters.

Hey there, I’m Daniel Hiller.

I’m currently part of the KubeVirt community, where I maintain, improve and automate CI using Prow on Kubernetes and Golang for various things.

Previously I’ve worked with Java, Jenkins, AWS, RDBMS and other things, see my history for more.

I strive to create software that is useful for people so they can do stuff that matters.

I focus heavily on automation to avoid tedious repeatable tasks. I firmly believe that it’s the purpose of my profession to automate all the things so everyone can benefit from it. This very much manifests in how I work.

Therefore I use:

Latest blog post

containerd broken - how to workaround on Fedora 39

containerd-1.6.23-1 is broken on Fedora 39. This causes running containers with docker to fail. I normally use podman but for some tasks I rely on docker. I.e. when testing prow jobs locally, I use phaino, which seems to use containerd under the hood.

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Featured presentation

Squash the flakes! - How does the flake process work? What tools do we have? How do we minimize the impact?


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