Federico Paolinelli
@fedepaol.bsky.social
Software engineer, red hatter, gopher, distributed systems geek, former android. MetalLB maintainer. I gave a couple of talks too. Opinions are my own
OpenPERouter is a router for your Kubernetes nodes, and a new version is out!
Power your nodes with EVPN and SRV6 tunnels!
Highlights: route reflector mode, CNI provided interfaces
openperouter.github.io/docs/release...
come and say hi on the #openperouter slack on the Kubernetes slack!
Power your nodes with EVPN and SRV6 tunnels!
Highlights: route reflector mode, CNI provided interfaces
openperouter.github.io/docs/release...
come and say hi on the #openperouter slack on the Kubernetes slack!
September 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
OpenPERouter is a router for your Kubernetes nodes, and a new version is out!
Power your nodes with EVPN and SRV6 tunnels!
Highlights: route reflector mode, CNI provided interfaces
openperouter.github.io/docs/release...
come and say hi on the #openperouter slack on the Kubernetes slack!
Power your nodes with EVPN and SRV6 tunnels!
Highlights: route reflector mode, CNI provided interfaces
openperouter.github.io/docs/release...
come and say hi on the #openperouter slack on the Kubernetes slack!
New blogpost: How I use AI in 2026 fedepaol.github.io/blog/2026/04...
How I use AI in 2026
How I use AI in my daily work as a maintainer and developer, from coding to triaging PRs and CI failures
fedepaol.github.io
April 29, 2026 at 7:42 AM
New blogpost: How I use AI in 2026 fedepaol.github.io/blog/2026/04...
Reposted by Federico Paolinelli
Build your first Kubernetes controller — in under 3 hours!
Hands-on workshop with @fedepaol.bsky.social & F. Romani: write, deploy, and test a real controller with custom APIs and best practices.
⚙️ Write Your First Kubernetes Controller
#golang #golab2025
Hands-on workshop with @fedepaol.bsky.social & F. Romani: write, deploy, and test a real controller with custom APIs and best practices.
⚙️ Write Your First Kubernetes Controller
#golang #golab2025
August 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Build your first Kubernetes controller — in under 3 hours!
Hands-on workshop with @fedepaol.bsky.social & F. Romani: write, deploy, and test a real controller with custom APIs and best practices.
⚙️ Write Your First Kubernetes Controller
#golang #golab2025
Hands-on workshop with @fedepaol.bsky.social & F. Romani: write, deploy, and test a real controller with custom APIs and best practices.
⚙️ Write Your First Kubernetes Controller
#golang #golab2025
Check the last thing I worked on! I released the first iteration of OpenPERouter, a kubernetes component that mimics a PE Router allowing you to define EVPN tunnels up to the kubernetes node. It integrates with Calico, MetalLB and any bgp speaking component!
openperouter.github.io
openperouter.github.io
July 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Check the last thing I worked on! I released the first iteration of OpenPERouter, a kubernetes component that mimics a PE Router allowing you to define EVPN tunnels up to the kubernetes node. It integrates with Calico, MetalLB and any bgp speaking component!
openperouter.github.io
openperouter.github.io
A new MetalLB version is out, packed with new features, bug fixes (and new bugs)! metallb.io/release-notes/
Unnumbered BGP, BGP advertisement status, AddressPool status and much more!
Grab it while it's hot!
Unnumbered BGP, BGP advertisement status, AddressPool status and much more!
Grab it while it's hot!
Release Notes :: MetalLB, bare metal load-balancer for Kubernetes
Version 0.15.2 Bugs or Regressions Publish the chart to quay as too (#2782, @fedepaol) Version 0.15.1 Bugs or Regressions Revert refusing ips overlapping with node cidrs as ip ranges are not handled c...
metallb.io
June 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A new MetalLB version is out, packed with new features, bug fixes (and new bugs)! metallb.io/release-notes/
Unnumbered BGP, BGP advertisement status, AddressPool status and much more!
Grab it while it's hot!
Unnumbered BGP, BGP advertisement status, AddressPool status and much more!
Grab it while it's hot!
Around Florence? Interested in Go? Next Wednsday I'll be a guest of the @golab.io organizers and will host a workshop about Go testing with my colleague Francesco Romani! www.meetup.com/develer-meet...
Go Test Training Camp, Wed, May 28, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
**Vi trovate spesso a rilasciare applicazioni buggate in produzione? E a introdurre nuovi bug quando provate a fixare i vecchi?**
Avere una buona coverage delle nostre app
www.meetup.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Around Florence? Interested in Go? Next Wednsday I'll be a guest of the @golab.io organizers and will host a workshop about Go testing with my colleague Francesco Romani! www.meetup.com/develer-meet...
We are trying to put together a list of MetalLB adopters. If your organization or your product is using MetalLB in a way or another, please file a PR! It would help a project you are using :-)
github.com/metallb/meta...
github.com/metallb/meta...
github.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We are trying to put together a list of MetalLB adopters. If your organization or your product is using MetalLB in a way or another, please file a PR! It would help a project you are using :-)
github.com/metallb/meta...
github.com/metallb/meta...
Interested in talking about MetalLB and networking? Want some stickers? Don't be shy and come find me at Kubecon London!
I'll be staffing the MetalLB kiosk in the projects area on the morning of Wednesday, 2 April
I'll be staffing the MetalLB kiosk in the projects area on the morning of Wednesday, 2 April
March 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Interested in talking about MetalLB and networking? Want some stickers? Don't be shy and come find me at Kubecon London!
I'll be staffing the MetalLB kiosk in the projects area on the morning of Wednesday, 2 April
I'll be staffing the MetalLB kiosk in the projects area on the morning of Wednesday, 2 April
Reposted by Federico Paolinelli
This is all too common - www.theregister.com/2025/02/16/o... It's not new at all. cc @dims.dev
Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze
Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?
www.theregister.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is all too common - www.theregister.com/2025/02/16/o... It's not new at all. cc @dims.dev
Reposted by Federico Paolinelli
From the @fosdem.bsky.social stage with @fedepaol.bsky.social and his deep dives into EVPN and k8s.
How was it, Federico?
How was it, Federico?
February 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
From the @fosdem.bsky.social stage with @fedepaol.bsky.social and his deep dives into EVPN and k8s.
How was it, Federico?
How was it, Federico?
February 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Two days until fosdem, where I'll talk about VXLan, EVPN, Kubernetes, and a lot of other things I have no clue about!
January 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Two days until fosdem, where I'll talk about VXLan, EVPN, Kubernetes, and a lot of other things I have no clue about!
My favorite conference is about to come! I'll talk in the FOSDEM network devroom about how to leverage kind and containerlab to have a full evpn enabled topology in your laptop (and maybe a bit more than that - wink wink)! fosdem.org/2025/schedul...
FOSDEM 2025 - Running an EVPN Endpoint in a Kubernetes Cluster—On My Laptop!
fosdem.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My favorite conference is about to come! I'll talk in the FOSDEM network devroom about how to leverage kind and containerlab to have a full evpn enabled topology in your laptop (and maybe a bit more than that - wink wink)! fosdem.org/2025/schedul...
Yet another post of my EVPN tinkering series, where now I provide EVPN termination to a Kind node attached to a ContainerLab topology by running FRR and other containers as Podman Systemd units (inside Kind!!!). fedepaol.github.io/blog/2025/01...
Enabling EVPN termination with Podman pods as systemd units
Quick Recap Link to heading This is a follow up to my lengthy EVPN series. In my last post I demonstrated how I managed to have EVPN termination inside Kubernetes nodes, hosting FRR inside a regular n...
fedepaol.github.io
January 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Yet another post of my EVPN tinkering series, where now I provide EVPN termination to a Kind node attached to a ContainerLab topology by running FRR and other containers as Podman Systemd units (inside Kind!!!). fedepaol.github.io/blog/2025/01...
Kids asleep. Santa mode is ON 🎅
December 24, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Kids asleep. Santa mode is ON 🎅
Today I played "let's release a new MetalLB when all github is all about unicorns (but no rainbows)"
December 17, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Today I played "let's release a new MetalLB when all github is all about unicorns (but no rainbows)"
The recording of the "Beyond Table Tests" talk I gave @golab.io is now available on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z85A...
Beyond table tests - Federico Paolinelli
YouTube video by GoLab conference
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:01 PM
The recording of the "Beyond Table Tests" talk I gave @golab.io is now available on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z85A...
Launching unit tests after 3 days straight of coding
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a mountain range
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a mountain range
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Launching unit tests after 3 days straight of coding
The slides (and the material) of the "Go testing bootcamp" workshop me and Francesco Romani gave @golab.io are available at github.com/gotestbootca...
GitHub - gotestbootcamp/slides: Slides of the workshop
Slides of the workshop. Contribute to gotestbootcamp/slides development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM
The slides (and the material) of the "Go testing bootcamp" workshop me and Francesco Romani gave @golab.io are available at github.com/gotestbootca...
The deck of the "Beyond table tests" presentation I gave at Golab is available at speakerdeck.com/fedepaol/bey...
Beyond table tests - Presentation about Go and unit tests
This is the deck of the presentation I gave at Golab 2024 in Florence.
speakerdeck.com
November 14, 2024 at 5:25 PM
The deck of the "Beyond table tests" presentation I gave at Golab is available at speakerdeck.com/fedepaol/bey...