I live in Chicago, I like karaoke, improv, and rock and roll. I work in tech https://linktr.ee/mcdwayne
Last week, before #KubeCon I was able to go to this fantastic event from #CyberArk
Hearing talks from Andrew Moore from Uber, Brett Caley from Block , Dan Choi and Brendan Paul from AWS, and more left me feeling awe-inspired.
It was an amazing evening.
I wrote up a few notes and thoughts:
https://blog.gitguardian.com/workload-identity-day-zero-atlanta
Last week, I had the privilege of attending #KubeCon 2025
Seeing #SPIFFE and #SPIRE take a front seat in conversations, driven by #AgenticAI, was mind-blowing.
Here are a few thoughts and reflections from the event:
https://blog.gitguardian.com/kubecon-2025
I am excited to share this video.
If you are like me and are using a VS Code-compatible editor with a built-in AI assistant, then you are going to want this to help keep secrets out of your code...
How secure is your email? If Amy Devine's inbox is any indication, it's a gateway to private data and identity confusion.
💡 Listen to her #BlueTeamCon talk breakdown on this week’s show:
https://youtu.be/mU72ywSbxlk
And here we are
The final session of #KubeCon 2025
Aligning Enterprise AI Security With MITRE ATLAS Using Open Source Technologies
Doron Caspin & Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat
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Securing Data Applications at Pinterest With Finer Grained Access Control on Kubernetes - Soam Acharya & William Tom, Pinterest
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Authenticating and Authorizing Every Connection at Uber
Yangmin Zhu, Uber
&
Matt Mathew, Uber
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GitHub Actions: Project Usage and Deep Dive
Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft
and
Jeffrey Sica, CNCF
Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro & Deep Dive
Philip Conrad, Apple
Tyler Schade, GEICO Tech
and
Jaydip Gabani, Microsoft
Hard to believe we are already at the #KubeCon 2025 Closing Remarks from the main stage.
This has been an incredible experience so far.
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Predictive Scaling and Capacity Planning With Machine Learning at Amazon.com
Artur Souza, Principal Engineer, Amazon
& Chunpeng Wang, Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon
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Cloud Native Back to the Future: The Road Ahead
Jeremy Rickard, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
& Alex Chircop, Chief Architect, Akamai
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Scaling Smarter: Simplifying Multicluster AI with KAITO and KubeFleet
Jorge Palma, Principal PM Lead for Azure Kubernetes Services, Microsoft
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Keynote: The Community-Driven Evolution of the Kubernetes Network Driver
Lionel Jouin, Software Engineer, Red Hat
& Antonio Ojea, Staff Software Engineer, Google
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Cloud Scale Enterprise AI: How Cohere Runs on Open Source with Oracle Cloud
Aanand Krishnan, Vice President of Products at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle
&
Autumn Moulder, Vice President of Engineering, Cohere
#KubeCon 2025 Day 3
Keynote: Beyond Operations: Scaling Platform Engineering in the CNCF Community
Abby Bangser, Principal Engineer at Syntasso
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Security Theater or Real Defense? Navigating Open Source Security in a Cloud Native World
Panel:
Rotem Refael, ARMO;
Constanze Roedig, Technical University of Vienna;
Megan Wolf, Defense Unicorns;
Stefana Muller, Salesforce;
Oshrat Nir, Independent
#KubeCon 2025
Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: AuthN/AuthZ Patterns for MCP and A2A
Yoshiyuki Tabata, Hitachi, Ltd.
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Where’s My Pod? End-to-End Tracing for Kubernetes With OpenTelemetry
from Artem Tkachuk & JP Phillips, Netflix
