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Dan Finneran

Principal Community Advocate

Dan Finneran is a Principle Community Advocate at Isovalent. His journey to today has included bare-metal, jails, zones, vms and containers where he is currently enjoying the fast paced ride in the cloud native space. He also created & maintains a popular Open-Source load-balancer for Kubernetes and contributes to upstream Kubernetes. He's also been fortunate to present at events ranging from the British computing society, HPE Technical solutions summit to DockerCon and KubeCon amongst others.

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Stop Hoarding Networking Tools: Declutter Your Cluster with the Isovalent Platform

Kubernetes makes development powerful, but when every problem adds a new tool, clusters get bloated fast. Join to learn how the Isovalent Enterprise Platform helps you streamline your stack and regain control.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Dan Finneran, Principal Community Advocate

Being Successful Moving from Legacy Hypervisors to Cloud Native Platforms

Learn how Kubernetes, KubeVirt, and Isovalent Network Bridge make VM migrations easier by preserving network identity and connectivity. See practical strategies and live demos to reduce downtime and operational friction.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Dan Finneran, Principal Community Advocate

KubeCon North America 2025 Wrap-Up: VM on Kubernetes, Cilium Ingress, Tetragon Tipping Point and Beluga Whales

KubeCon North America 2025 brought major shifts to the cloud native world. From the surprise Ingress NGINX retirement to the growing momentum around VMs on Kubernetes, this wrap-up covers it all. Dan Finneran, Nico Vibert, and Donia Chaiehloudj reflect on key announcements, trends in Kubernetes networking, community highlights like Merge-Forward, and the rise of Tetragon in production environments.

  • Dan Finneran, Principal Community Advocate

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Donia Chaiehloudj, Software Engineer and Community

Cilium 1.18 - Expanded IPv6 Support, Encrypted Overlay, Ingress Bandwidth Controls, Policy Performance Improvements, and More!

Cilium 1.18 brings major enhancements across security, performance, and operational flexibility. This release introduces a more secure encrypted overlay with IPsec, enhanced IPv6 support and further improvements to load balancing, Gateway API, and IP address management ; reinforcing Cilium’s role as the foundation for modern Kubernetes networking.

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Dan Finneran, Principal Community Advocate

Kubernetes Networking and Cilium for Network Engineers

In this video, learn about the core Kubernetes networking requirements with our Cilium experts!

  • Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Dan Finneran, Principal Community Advocate