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Greeting,

Over the last release, I have had the privilege and honor to serve as
the PTL of Magnum. I would like to take this opportunity to express my
appreciation for all your support and contribution to Magnum. And I look
forward to working with you all over the next release. Therefore, I
would like announce my candidacy to serve as the Magnum project team
leader for the U cycle, if you will have me.

In case if you don't know me, I've been working on and contributing to
Magnum since Queens release as a core developer. And I have done a lot
work for Magnum to help it getting production ready, e.g. the Calico
network driver, nodes anti affinity, k8s health status check, Keystone
auth, coreDNS autoscale, rolling upgrade, auto scaling, auto healing,
private cluster, getting Magnum certified by CNCF and etc, etc. That
said, I really understand the ups and downs which Magnum went through
and I know the blueprints, direction and pains of this project, for
interests from both private cloud and public cloud sides, which make me
a good candidate for the PTL position.

For U release (including the rest of Train cycle), things I'd like to do:

1. Fedora CoreOS

The most matured driver for Kubernetes in Magnum is Fedora Atomic,
however, the Fedora community is moving to Fedora CoreOS, so we should
start to think about the migration. We have started the work but haven't
finished it due to the limited resource among the team. This need to be
done in Train or early of U cycle.

2. Node groups

Node groups provide users with the ability to specify groups of nodes
with different properties for different purposes. Within the scope of a
group users are able to define labels, used image, flavor, etc depending
on the purpose. We have merged part of this huge feature, but we do need
to finish the rest of the work.

3. Security hardening

Security is always the most important area we would like to improve for
Magnum, there are still parts we need to improve to make Magnum more
securer.

4. Containerize Kubernetes master

This could be one of the most interesting features for Magnum and it's
definitely hard work. Running Kubernetes master nodes in a seed/root
Kubernetes could bring us a lot of benefits.

5. Rolling upgrade for node operating system

With the big support from CERN, We have done the k8s version rolling
upgrade, but we still need the rolling upgrade work for node operating
system. I have already got a patch for that being reviewed now.

It has been a fantastic experience working with this amazing team and I
know without the dedication and hard work of everyone who has
contributed to Magnum we can't get those good work done. So the PTL of
this cool team is most like a facilitator, coordinator, and mentor. I
would be pleased to serve as PTL for Magnum for the U cycle and I'd
appreciate your vote.

Thanks for your consideration!


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Cheers & Best regards,
Feilong Wang (王飞龙)
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Senior Cloud Software Engineer
Tel: +64-48032246
Email: flwang at catalyst.net.nz
Catalyst IT Limited
Level 6, Catalyst House, 150 Willis Street, Wellington
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