<div class="__aliyun_email_body_block"><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">Welcome back :)</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;"><br ></span></div><blockquote  style="margin-right:.0px;margin-top:.0px;margin-bottom:.0px;"><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">From:Eric Ernst <eric.g.ernst@gmail.com></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">Send Time:2020年9月15日(星期二) 13:06</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">To:kata-dev <kata-dev@lists.katacontainers.io></span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;">Subject:[kata-dev] Elections for Kata Containers Architecture Committee:        Eric Ernst</span></div><div  style="clear:both;"><span  style="font-family:Tahoma,Arial,STHeiti,SimSun;font-size:14.0px;color:#000000;"><br ></span></div><div ><div >Kata folk,<div ><br ></div><div >I am <span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="background-color:#ffffff;">declaring my candidacy for the AC!</span></div><div ></div><div ><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">---</span></span></div><div ><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">Name: Eric Ernst</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;"><br ></span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">Email: eric_ernst at apple dot com</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;"><br ></span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">Background:</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;"><br ></span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">I am a senior software engineer at Apple, focused on cloud infrastructure, and despite a couple of exciting employer changes this year,</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">I continue to be very interested in this project, and engaged in the Kata community as a contributor.</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;"><br ></span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">Since the initial discussions of creating Kata started I have been an active contributor and advocate for the</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">project, both in code and in the greater Kata community/ecosystem. I am running again as I am very interested in this project's success in</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">the ecosystem, and am focused on making sure Kata continues to be a production-ready solution for providing stronger container isolation.</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;"><br ></span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">Over the last two years, I have served as a member of the Kata Containers architecture committee. As I stated last year, the project has</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">matured a lot, with expanding production usage and user-base. Even more so now, we have a lot of important changes this year:</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">Cloud Hypervisor VMM support, PodOverhead support in Kubernetes, cgroups-v2 support, cpuset support, rust-agent support, improved telemetry/observability,</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">virtio-fs support. Each of these are important improvements that make the project more attractive and viable for production use cases.</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;"><br ></span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">We still have a lot of interesting work to do, and I look forward to continuing to contribute to the project.</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">Thanks,</span></span></p><p  style="margin:.0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12.0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;"><span  class=" __aliyun_node_has_bgcolor" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:#ffffff;"><span  style="color:#000000;">Eric</span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div ><br ></div></div>