REQUEST: New membership for rst0git #5754
Description
GitHub Username
Organization you are requesting membership in
kubernetes
Requirements
- I have reviewed the community membership guidelines
- I have enabled 2FA on my GitHub account
- I have subscribed to the kubernetes dev e-mail list
- I am actively contributing to 1 or more Kubernetes subprojects
- I have two sponsors that meet the sponsor requirements listed in the community membership guidelines
- I have spoken to my sponsors ahead of this application, and they have agreed to sponsor my application
- I have verified that my sponsors are from different member companies
- I have verified that my sponsors are a reviewer or an approver in at least one OWNERS file within one of the Kubernetes GitHub organizations (excluding the contributor-playground)
- SUGGESTED: Ensure your affiliation in gitdm is up to date (gitdm is used by devstats to track affiliation)
- SUGGESTED: Ensure your affiliation in openprofile.dev is up to date (used by LFX Insights to track affiliation, will replace gitdm in the future)
- SUGGESTED: I have taken the Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation course
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List of contributions to the Kubernetes project
Over the past few years, I have been working closely with Adrian Reber and Viktoria Spišaková on improving the Checkpoint/Restore functionality in Kubernetes, and I would like to request membership in the Kubernetes organization to help with the Checkpoint/Restore WG.
The following is a list with some of my contributions related to this topic:
- https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pulls?q=rst0git
- https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/pulls?q=rst0git
- https://github.com/containers/podman/pulls?q=rst0git
- https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/pulls?q=rst0git
- https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pulls?q=rst0git
- https://github.com/containers/crun/pulls?q=rst0git
- https://github.com/search?q=org%3Akubernetes+rst0git&type=pullrequests
and conferences talks / papers related to this topic:
- Forensic Analysis of Container Checkpoints, DevConf.cz 2023
- Protecting Sensitive Data in Container Checkpoints, Linux Plumbers Conference 2023
- Enabling Coordinated Checkpointing for Distributed HPC Applications, KubeCon 2024
- End-to-End Encryption for Container Checkpointing in Kubernetes, CloudNativeSecurityCon 2024
- Towards Efficient End-to-End Encryption for Container Checkpointing Systems, Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems 2024
- Checkpoint Coordination for Distributed Containerized Applications, Linux Plumbers Conference 2024
- Optimizing Resource Utilization for Interactive GPU Workloads with Transparent Container Checkpointing, FOSDEM 2025
- CRIUgpu: Transparent Checkpointing of GPU-Accelerated Workloads, Pre-print published on arXiv 2025
- Efficient Transparent Checkpointing of AI/ML Workloads in Kubernetes, KubeCon 2025
- Kubernetes Scheduling with Checkpoint/Restore: Challenges & Open Problems, JSSPP Workshop @ IPDPS 2025
- Transparent Hot-Swapping of Containerized AI/ML Workloads, High Performance Container Workshop @ ISC-HPC 2025
Some areas where I have contributed and remain actively involved include:
- Collaborated with Adrian Reber on enabling container restore from checkpoint images in Kubernetes:
- Mar, 2022 -- Add support for checkpoint image containers/podman#13505 (Radostin Stoyanov)
- Aug, 2022 -- support checkpointing to oci image cri-o/cri-o#6181 (Adrian Reber)
- Nov, 2022 -- Add support for checkpoint images with 'podman run' containers/podman#16569 (Radostin Stoyanov)
- Dec, 2022 -- Kubernetes blog: Forensic Container Checkpointing (Adrian Reber)
- June, 2024 -- Support container restore through CRI/Kubernetes containerd/containerd#10365 (Adrian Reber)
- checkpointctl -- a tool for forensic analysis of container checkpoints.
- checkpoint-restore-operator -- a Kubernetes operator for managing checkpoints.
- criu-coordinator -- a tool for coordinated checkpoint/restore of distributed applications
- Extending CRIU with plugins to enable GPU checkpointing capabilities.