About me
The Valkey ecosystem extends beyond the core server, but its operators and tooling are short on contributors. After landing my first operator PRs adding priorityClassName support and SIGTERM failover tests, I built the field guide I wish I’d had. This talk covers picking issues maintainers want fixed, surviving Kind dev loop gotchas, navigating a controller's reconcile flow, and learning from review mistakes. If you use Valkey but haven't contributed, this is your on-ramp.
