Presentations

Divya KK, Srirama Sharma
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: Security

Confidential Computing is a technology that enables processing of sensitive data in a secure enclave that is a Hardware based trusted execution environment (TEE). With this technology, data in use becomes inaccessible to even internal administrators, thus enabling technical assurance of data security instead of operational assurance. In this session, we will cover how OpenStack can be used as a cloud control plane to manage a Confidential Computing Infrastructure, its provisioning and life cycle management.

James Blair
Audience: Intermediate

The Zuul project gating system is used to test changes across multiple git repositories and code review systems before they merge.  For the past 12 years, it has relied on an external program called Nodepool to manage test resources and image builds.

A brief overview of Zuul for those who are new to the project, and share how to manage test nodes and images with Zuul's newest features.

 

Mandi Walls
Audience: Everyone

Recognizing, troubleshooting, and remediating incidents on the services your team owns and runs is hard enough; when the incident is actually happening to an upstream vendor, what can you do? This session will discuss how to plan for vendor incidents,  and what to have on hand when someone else is having a very bad day.

Kyle Quest
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Cloud Native

Ever wondered how container images are organized? Are you curious why some containers take forever to load and start while other containers start right away? Did you know that "docker build" is not the only way to build container images? Did you know that you can build containers without Docker? Do you want to learn how to build container images without any container tools?

If you answered yes to any of these questions this talk is for you! You'll learn how container images are structured and you'll learn different ways you can build container images.

Tarus Balog
Audience: Beginner
Topic: General

The ability to provide useful maps is a key feature for many applications, but using commercial services like Google Maps or Mapquest can be expensive and limiting. MapLibre provides a robust and flexible mapping library for both web use (using Typescript) and native mobile operating systems (using C++ and wrappers) and it is completely open source. The MapLibre community is also very active and transparent, insuring that the project will continue and grow in the future,

Jacek Galowicz
Topic: PlanetNix

Join this hands-on workshop to explore the powerful NixOS Integration Test Driver! In just two hours, learn to simulate complex networked environments with multiple hosts and virtual networks, use the interactive mode for debugging, and apply best practices to avoid flaky tests. Perfect for enhancing your NixOS testing skills and streamlining CI/CD pipelines. Don’t miss this chance to boost your expertise with reliable, real-world testing techniques!

Tyler Menezes, Kendall Nelson, Jonathan Starr, Emily Lovell, Kevin Wang
Audience: Everyone
Topic: General

Investing in mentorship relationships can help to grow and sustain OSS communities. Meanwhile, mentees can benefit from a sense of belonging, alongside technical learning and professional development. Join us for a conversation about four mentorship initiatives serving as onramps to open source, especially for those minoritized in tech. We’ll discuss how these collaborations have been beneficial to everyone involved, and how such efforts can be beneficial to you as a potential mentor, maintainer, or mentee.

Ram Ellupuru, Boaz Ardel
Audience: Developer
Topic: Cloud Native


The implemented solution is based on the idea of injecting headers along the way for each of the mesh components. The latency is measured by Envoy sidecars on the request flow, and measurements are injected into it. By subtracting between measurement values, we can isolate and construct fitted histograms, and thus, we can allow high accuracy, which contributes to early incident detection time.

Jason Hand
Audience: Developer
Topic: Observability

Organizations face mounting challenges managing the vast data their systems generate, and traditional monitoring often struggles to keep up with this complexity. This session explores how AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming observability by automating data analysis, detecting anomalies, streamlining interactions, and supporting post-incident learning. Through real-world examples, we’ll see how AI-driven observability uncovers hidden patterns, reduces false alarms, and accelerates correlation discovery, enabling faster, more accurate issue resolution and a clearer understanding

Tony Breeds
Audience: Developer

OpenStack emerged in 2010 it made sense to use Ubuntu One as their authentication platform. 15 years later OpenStack has become OpenInfra and tools to support one project now need to support several aligned technologies on a single platform, OpenDev. The sysadmins have integrated Keycloak as an Identity broker and authorisation provider but this uncovers several challenges: Keycloak doesn't support OpenID (needed by Ubuntu One); a tool is needed to pre-load keycloak with some user mappings; Keycloak is written in Java. Join the OpenDev Sysadmins as they find the path from problem to solution.