Lightning Talk: Federate, Scale, and Secure: Practical SPIFFE/SPIRE for Containers... Anjali Telang

Presenters Anjali Telang Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 🚀 Revolutionizing Workload Identity: Your Guide to Production-Ready SPIFFE and SPIRE In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud-native computing, securing what your applications are is just as critical as securing where they are. Gone are the days when network perimeters were enough. Today, workloads, just like users, need verifiable identities. Enter SPIFFE and SPIRE, two CNCF-graduated projects that are set to become the bedrock of your zero-trust strategy. Anjali Tang, a Product Manager for OpenShift specializing in identity and access control, recently shared her deep dive into making these powerful tools production-ready, and we’re here to break it down for you! ✨ ...

November 24, 2025 · 6 min

Lightning Talk: Taming the BPF LRU: Eliminating TCP Resets in Cilium - Gyu Tae Bae, NAVER Corp.

Presenters Gyu Tae Bae Source CiliumCon NA 2025 Taming the BPF ARU: A Journey to Eliminate TCP Resets in Kubernetes 🚀 Ever experienced the dreaded TCP resets in your Kubernetes cluster, especially after adopting eBPF for network performance? You’re not alone! In this post, we’ll dive deep into a real-world scenario where a seemingly small issue with eBPF’s Address Resolution Unit (ARU) maps led to significant network instability. But fear not, because we’ll also uncover how to diagnose, fix, and even enhance your eBPF network solutions. ...

November 24, 2025 · 5 min

SAFE-MCP: A Security Framework for AI+MCP (Model Context Protocol) - Frederick Kautz, TestifySec

Presenters Frederick Kautz Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 Navigating the Frontier: Building Secure Agentic Systems with Safe MCP 🚀 The world of AI is moving at lightning speed, and with the rise of powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ever-expanding toolkits, comes a new frontier of security challenges. How do we ensure these intelligent agents are not only innovative but also safe? This is where Safe MCP steps in, offering a structured and comprehensive approach to mapping risks, threats, and mitigations for these complex systems. ...

November 24, 2025 · 5 min

Lightning Talk: Abstracting Away the Complexity of ArgoCD - Andre Marcelo-Tanner, Coheree

Presenters Andre Marcelo-Tanner Source ArgoCon NA 2025 GitOps Push: Simplifying Argo CD with Three Core Principles 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! 👋 We’re wrapping up a fantastic day, and I’m here to dive into a topic that’s been a game-changer for many of us: abstracting away the complexity of Argo CD. Our speaker, Andre Marcelo Tanner, a Member of Technical Staff at Cohere, shared some brilliant insights on how to make GitOps work even more seamlessly within your organization. ...

November 24, 2025 · 5 min

Sponsored Keynote: From Clusters to Cloud: Taking GitOps Promotion Further with Kargo - Jesse Suen

Presenters Jesse Suen Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Kargo: Unleashing GitOps Beyond Kubernetes 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the frustration of managing your applications when they spill out of the cozy confines of Kubernetes? You’re not alone! In a world where real-world applications are a tapestry of Kubernetes clusters, S3 buckets, Lambda functions, and CDNs, keeping everything synchronized and manageable can be a real headache. Today, we’re diving deep into how Kargo, the brilliant open-source GitOps promotion layer above Argo CD, is stepping up to the plate, breaking down those silos and extending the power of GitOps beyond Kubernetes. ...

November 24, 2025 · 5 min