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Vladimir Mikhalev

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Toronto, Canada

Vladimir Mikhalev is a Docker Captain, one of fewer than 250 worldwide, a CNCF Ambassador and an IBM Champion, with ten vendor community titles in total.

He designs cloud and container platforms on Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS, secures their software supply chain, and explains the trade-offs to engineers, customers and leadership.

He is the Technical Editor of Docker and Kubernetes Security (2025), a DevOps Dozen 2025 finalist for Best DevOps Book of the Year, and has written eight articles for Docker's official blog and three for the Cypress blog.

He maintains 70+ open-source deployment blueprints, including the signed, SBOM-attested aws-kubectl image with 1.5M+ Docker Hub pulls, and runs that fleet with AI coding agents under policy gates he proves with planted violations.

He publishes at valdemar.ai and on a 100,000-subscriber YouTube channel.

Your sponsorship keeps the blueprints and the aws-kubectl image maintained, patched and free for everyone.

@heyvaldemar

I will be able to develop a YouTube channel, and purchase new equipment for training streams and coffee for writing new articles.

Featured work

  1. heyvaldemar/keycloak-traefik-letsencrypt-docker-compose

    Keycloak with Let's Encrypt Using Docker Compose

    Shell 148
  2. heyvaldemar/nextcloud-traefik-letsencrypt-docker-compose

    Nextcloud with Let's Encrypt Using Docker Compose

    Shell 91
  3. heyvaldemar/zabbix-traefik-letsencrypt-docker-compose

    Zabbix with Let's Encrypt Using Docker Compose

    Shell 54
  4. heyvaldemar/minecraft-server-docker-compose

    Minecraft Server Using Docker Compose

    Shell 34
  5. heyvaldemar/outline-keycloak-traefik-letsencrypt-docker-compose

    Outline with Keycloak and Let's Encrypt Using Docker Compose

    Shell 40
  6. heyvaldemar/rocketchat-traefik-letsencrypt-docker-compose

    Rocket.Chat with Let's Encrypt Using Docker Compose

    Shell 27

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