Author | Lightnews

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️

@alex.zenla.io

570 followers 640 following 660 posts

Founder & CTO @ Edera; she/her; building simple hypervisor technology for modern workloads; 26 years old Kindness and empathy matters ❤️ LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/azenla/ GitHub: https://github.com/azenla Follow Edera! @edera.dev

linkedin.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · Oct 4

I am so thankful to have amazing friends where we mutually trust, communicate, and support each other.

Kindness, empathy, and communication are so important ya'll, and we need more of it than ever right now.

1 14

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 2h

Good morning! On my way to Atlanta for KubeCon! It’s gonna be a busy week for all of us here!

Nine talks across all of the Edera team, and three talks/panels I’ll be participating in!

Feel the teal, because it’s coming in strong too with our incredible booth!

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 7h

These are actually Matter enabled. But even despite that, more or less consumer IoT is a disaster despite standardization. It's not getting any better I think either. IoT devices often rely on brand deals like + Alex or +Google Home co-marketing to jumpstart, so cross-compat is not priority.

Reposted by Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️

Adrian Mouat @adrianmouat.com · 22h

I'm very much looking forward to KubeCon Atlanta next week.

On Monday, I'll be hosting a panel "Balancing Developer Freedom and Security" with Cat Morris, @marcusforpeace.bsky.social , @alex.zenla.io (plus A.N. Other guest) as part of Open Source SecurityCon. https://tinyurl.com/23sjsctb

1/3

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2025: Panel: Balancing Developer Freedom and S...

View more about this event at CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2025

tinyurl.com

1 1 5

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 1d

Shoutout to my sister who works at Disney World for escorting me in for free!

Reposted by Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️

Edera @edera.dev · 1d

When does KubeCon start? Speaking emotionally not physically?
When you head to the airport? When @rejekts.io starts? What about @cncf.bsky.social Maintainer Summit? Co-lo day? Or the ~*Official Opening Keynote*~?

3 1 8

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 2d

I realize that compared to when I went to Disney World nearly every working day, my tolerance for extremely loud screaming child has gone way down :)

1 1

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 2d

I am at Magic Kingdom at Disney World today for my first mini-vacation in a long time :3

2 3

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 2d

mine was "Chromium + Hypervisors + Off-Market Deal Re: Edera"

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 4d

Alright it is time for me to finally sleep. I managed to mostly get Sprout working on openSUSE.

The more I write guides will little tiny differences, the more I am convinced we need an installer, which will come soon!

Also, Sprout went no_std and compiles with Rust stable now!

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 4d

I keep having dreams about bootloaders. Something has happened to my brain.

1 8

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 4d

One day :P

1 2

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 5d

haha yes it works!

1 2

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 5d

I am breaking my anti-Nix streak by attempting to make Sprout work with NixOS.

Please think of my pain and hope that it may be healed in time.

1 5

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 6d

I’m at my dad’s house and I looked down at this coffee table and there was a library book from my middle school! I guess i forgot to return it lol

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 6d

This year for halloween I am going to be “CTO who just dealt with Secure Boot and managed to win the battle somehow”

The costume was free :3

1 8

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 7d

I think @edera.dev would be in favor :3

1 4

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 8d

Yep! With our new boot loader it should be possible to do this, so one day!

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 8d

nice! with our new bootloader we have Rust standard library support so it should be straightforward

this is fascinating, thanks!

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 8d

I just had the cursed idea of adding OTEL support into a bootloader.

Strictly speaking, it is possible I think lol

2 6

Reposted by Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️

Edera @edera.dev · 8d

Do you have your plan for KubeCon set yet? Need some suggestions? Here’s what we’re doing... 🧵

1 4 6

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 9d

it's 12:32 AM and I have decided to abuse sbrk and make Rust use my bump allocator

gist.github.com/azenla/0a038...

bump.rs

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 10d

I‘ve been in Orlando, Florida for less than 48 hours and already an absolutely crazy thunderstorm has hit and it’s STILL 80 degrees despite that…

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 12d

new profile photo :3

Reposted by Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️

Edera @edera.dev · 14d

Namespaces tidy your cluster — they don’t isolate it.
All containers still share the same kernel, so one escape can take down the node.
Partitioning ≠ Protection.
True workload isolation happens at runtime, not in YAML.
By @denhamparry.co.uk for @thenewstack.io

Beyond Namespaces: Why Kubernetes Needs Real Workload Isolation

To build secure, resilient infrastructure, we need to reset the conversation. Namespaces are valuable, but they don’t isolate.

thenewstack.io

4 9

Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️ @alex.zenla.io · 14d

Fantastic article!