Philip Miglinci
Co-Founder Glasskube (YC S24)
Vienna, Austria
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Philip holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from the Vienna University of Technology and a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering.
In 2024 Philip co founded Glasskube, an Open Source Developer Tooling company that maintains among other projects an Open Source Package Manager for Kubernetes with over 3.000 stars and a software distribution platform Distr.
Before working at Glasskube, Philip helped build up the alerting infrastructure for firefighting organizations in Austria and Germany as CTO.
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1 Year in Building Glasskube - the Kubernetes Package Manager: Lessons Learned
Package Management on Kubernetes remains one of the most pressing challenges in the Cloud Native ecosystem. While package management is well-established in desktop and mobile computing, a standardized approach for cloud computing has yet to emerge.
To address this gap, we introduced Glasskube, an open-source package manager under the Apache 2.0 license, with its first release in early 2024. Since then, Glasskube has gained significant traction, accumulating over 2,900 GitHub stars and becoming part of the CNCF landscape.
In this talk, we share the initial assumptions that led to the development of Glasskube and walk through its core internals and features—including package flow, Renovate integration, GitOps-based templating for multi-repository setups, and support for private packages. We will also demonstrate how Glasskube simplifies complex challenges like Kubernetes package dependencies, multi-namespace deployments, and configuration value sharing between packages. Additionally, we will introduce our ArgoCD integration and teaser Apple/PKL (a configuration language) for type-safe GitOps configuration management.
Beyond Glasskube, we will also introduce Distr, a new open-source software distribution platform designed to be the easiest way to distribute enterprise software.
Finally, we will share key learnings from building a package management ecosystem for Kubernetes and discuss what’s next for Glasskube and Distr in the evolving cloud-native landscape.
Rethinking Package Management in Kubernetes with Helm and Glasskube
Helm was the 10th project to graduate the CNCF in 2020; described as a package manager for Kubernetes. While Helm is the most popular tool, it’s also the only one that allows you to bundle YAML manifests, configure `packages`, and version-control deployments, among many other features. Four years after Helm graduated, we ask the question: What’s next? And if we create a new package manager targeting Kubernetes workloads, how would it look?
In this talk, Anais will first discuss the history of package managers for infrastructure management and how Helm has become the de facto standard in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Next, we will explore different use cases and potential shortcomings of Helm and Timoni, as well as how those are solved with other tooling we see within GitOps, IaC and Platform Engineering. Following the discussion, Philip will introduce Glasskube, an open source package manager for cloud native environments.
Rethinking Package Management in Kubernetes with Helm and Glasskube
Helm was the 10th project to graduate the CNCF in 2020; described as a package manager for Kubernetes. While Helm is the most popular tool, it’s also the only one that allows you to bundle YAML manifests, configure `packages`, and version-control deployments, among many other features. Four years after Helm graduated, we ask the question: What’s next? And if we create a new package manager targeting Kubernetes workloads, how would it look?
In this talk, Anais will first discuss the history of package managers for infrastructure management and how Helm has become the de facto standard in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Next, we will explore different use cases and potential shortcomings of Helm and Timoni, as well as how those are solved with other tooling we see within GitOps, IaC and Platform Engineering. Following the discussion, Philip will introduce Glasskube, an open source package manager for cloud native environments.
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