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Mark Abrams is a Field Engineer - Edge Specialist with SUSE. Mark joined SUSE as a part of the Rancher Labs acquisition in January of 2021. In addition to working with customers and prospects to help them develop their Kubernetes edge solutions, Mark is currently a part of the Edge Leadership team originally established at Rancher Labs. He is also a team member on the SUSE Center of Excellence - a team dedicated to internal Kubernetes training for the Global Customer Organization of SUSE. Mark is currently working on a hardware project for demonstrating the value of Kubernetes at the edge. The Kubernetes cyberdeck is a portable cluster with various edge capabilities intended to demonstrate value across many industry verticals. Mark's past projects and speaking experience include: * Morphing Masters (Arm TechCon 2019)- using a UPS to handle migrating kubernetes masters to alternate cluster nodes when mains power goes out * Developing Turnkey Solutions with Kubernetes (Arm DevSummit 2020, edgconference.io 2020, SkilUP festival 2020) - an exploration of NIC management via container orchestration. * Fleet management (Arm DevSummit 2020)- An overview of the Fleet project from Rancher Labs * Managing Network Fault Tolerance with Kubernetes (LF ONES 2020) Introduction to K3s (OSS + ELC 2019, DevNation Federal 2019) Mark has also written a whitepaper identifying why Arm and K3s are well suited to Kubernetes at the edge.