devopsdays · Ovijmek21 · Feb 4, 2026 · Feb 14, 2026 · Feb 14, 2026 · Feb 14, 2026
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 Title = "The 'DevSecOps' Angle: State Management and Compliance with Terraform"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["adeola-adeniji"]
+Speakers = ["adeniji-adeola"]
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 As cloud environments grow, the greatest threat to security is often "Configuration Drift"—untracked, manual changes made directly in the cloud console that bypass security protocols. This workshop provides a hands-on deep dive into the DevSecOps methodology for maintaining infrastructure integrity using Terraform.  Moving beyond basic provisioning, participants will explore how to use Terraform as a governance engine. We will cover the creation of "Secure-by-Default" modules that utilize built-in validation to block insecure configurations—such as open SSH ports—before they are ever deployed. The core of the session focuses on the "Drift-and-Recovery" cycle: students will intentionally simulate "rogue" manual changes in the cloud console and learn how to use Terraform’s state management to detect, alert, and automatically revert infrastructure back to a compliant state. By the end of this workshop, students will understand how Infrastructure as Code acts as the ultimate "Source of Truth," ensuring that company security policies are not just documented, but programmatically enforced.
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 Title = "DevOps Without the Fairy Tales. What Breaks When AI Enters the System?"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["paulina-dubas"]
+Speakers = ["dubas-paulina"]
 +++
 
 AI is increasingly part of DevOps work, even in teams that don’t think of themselves as “doing AI.” Models influence scaling, alerting, cost optimization, and developer workflows, often quietly and without clear ownership.  In this talk, I’ll share real patterns I see when AI enters existing DevOps setups: responsibilities becoming blurred, “trust the model” replacing engineering judgment, costs and energy usage becoming harder to explain, and teams staying accountable for decisions they no longer fully control.  This is a practical talk about what actually breaks when AI meets real-world DevOps —and how teams can adapt without adding more tools, more dashboards, or more process. The focus is on clarity, ownership, and keeping humans meaningfully involved.
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 Title = "AI Didn’t Break Your DevOps Setup It Just Exposed It"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["paulina-dubas"]
+Speakers = ["dubas-paulina"]
 +++
 
 AI rarely introduces new problems in DevOps. Instead, it amplifies the ones that were already there: unclear ownership, fragile automation, hidden costs, and teams stretched too thin.  This talk looks at how AI acts as a stress test for DevOps practices. I’ll show how issues around reliability, accountability, and communication become impossible to ignore once AI-driven tools and workflows are introduced.  Rather than focusing on models or tools, this session is about how teams can use AI as a signal to fix deeper problems — and avoid turning “AI adoption” into another layer of complexity on top of an already fragile system.
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 Title = "Unmasking Traefik: Multi-Domain Routing Patterns in Kubernetes"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["edith-karda"]
+Speakers = ["karda-edith"]
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 Ever wondered how Traefik manages domain magic in the background? We’ll solve the mystery of having multiple domains in one environment, how it can improve cloud platform migrations, and create a seamless user experience for end-users.  Context: Traefik Proxy as an Ingress Controller in Kubernetes.  Based on a real-world migration experience, this case study will walk you through the process of configuring not one, but three domains with a single IP!  It also improved our overall infrastructure in multiple ways, reducing resources being only one of them.  Curious about another scenario?  Find out how two domains can happily live together in a cluster, but be completely independent, each having their separate IP and microservices.  This session is perfect for anyone curious to dive into Traefik’s capabilities and discover different uses of multi-domain setups.
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 Title = "Cloudy with a Chance of Dynamic Pricing"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["raluca-mihu"]
+Speakers = ["mihu-raluca"]
 +++
 
 Cloudy with a Chance of Dynamic Pricing: Building a Weather Driven IoT System with Raspberry Pi What if the weather could change your prices in real time?  In this session, we connect a Raspberry Pi to a live Weather API and turn temperature, rain and sunlight into dynamic pricing logic. You will see how a small IoT device can fetch external data, process it locally, and display a price that shifts with the forecast.  We walk through the full flow: integrating the API, handling data securely, designing simple pricing rules, and displaying the result on a physical interface. Along the way, we explore DevOps practices for IoT projects, including automation, environment management and secure configuration.  This talk brings together cloud services, edge devices and real world logic in a practical demo that shows how weather data can drive business decisions in real time.
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 Title = "Resilient by Design: Mental Health Tools for DevOps Engineers"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["raluca-mihu"]
+Speakers = ["mihu-raluca"]
 +++
 
 DevOps engineers operate in high responsibility environments where uptime, security and delivery speed meet constant change. Sustainable performance begins with a resilient nervous system.  In this interactive session, Raluca Mihu introduces practical mental health tools designed for engineers. Together, we will practise guided breathing techniques to regulate stress, short mindfulness exercises to sharpen focus, and EFT tapping to release tension before it escalates. Each method is simple, evidence informed and easy to integrate into a busy workday.  This session offers more than awareness. It offers direct experience. You will leave with concrete tools that support clarity during incidents, steadiness during pressure and long term energy for meaningful work. DevOps culture thrives on continuous improvement, and that includes the human system behind the keyboard.
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 Title = "If You Feel Behind, You’re Probably Paying Attention"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["joep-piscaer"]
+Speakers = ["piscaer-joep"]
 +++
 
 Impostor syndrome is usually framed as a personal failing: a lack of confidence, a mindset problem, something you need to “work through.” But what if the problem isn't you?  You’re not inexperienced. You’re not lazy. You're not bad at your job. I realized something else was going on: no one’s real experience matches the cloud-native story we tell in public.  In the cloud-native world, operators and admins are surrounded by a constant narrative of effortless success: platforms that scale cleanly, teams that “just adopt Kubernetes,” architectures that assume infinite time, talent, and budget. Conference talks are polished. Case studies are sanitized. Failure is implied to be a 'you' problem.  Yet privately, most practitioners are struggling. Technology is complex. Platforms and systems are brittle. Toolchains are overwhelming. Upgrades are painful projects. On-call is exhausting. And almost no one’s lived experience matches what the industry claims is normal.  This talk argues that what we’re experiencing isn’t just impostor syndrome — it’s pluralistic ignorance amplified by burnout. Everyone is struggling to keep up, but no one admits it, because admitting it feels like failure. So we stay quiet. We internalize the gap. We blame ourselves. We work harder and harder, up to, and beyond our breaking point.  At Cloud Native Rejekts, I want to say the quiet part out loud and break that silence together.  This talk is for operators who keep real systems running, who are tired of pretending and who want honesty instead of hype. We’ll examine how hype amplifies self-doubt, why feeling “behind” is often a sign of realism, and how collective honesty—not more expertise—is the missing ingredient in the cloud-native ecosystem.  If you’ve ever thought “everyone else seems to have this figured out” — this talk is for you.
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 Title = "Platform Obesity, not Complexity, is killing our platforms"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["joep-piscaer"]
+Speakers = ["piscaer-joep"]
 +++
 
 We like to say Kubernetes platforms fail because they’re “too complex”. But complexity isn’t the problem. Platforms fail because they’re obese.  They’re bloated with an excess of features, tools, abstractions, and opinions that far exceed an organization’s operational capacity and cognitive load—especially in enterprises, regulated environments, and talent-constrained teams.  The cloud-native ecosystem doesn’t help. It hands out sweets constantly: one more controller, one more abstraction, one more “best practice.” Each addition seems harmless in isolation. Saying yes is easy. Saying no is career-limiting: since no-one wants to admit their own reality doesn't match the industry narrative. The Pluralistic Ignorance is real, yo.  The ecosystem rewards addition, not subtraction. Often, “simplification” efforts often do the opposite—layering abstractions on top of abstractions until the platform is heavier, slower, and harder to operate and change than before.  Eventually, the platform collides with reality: finite talent, finite attention, finite time. Cognitive load exceeds capacity. Operational friction grows. Engineering quality cracks. Business outcomes stall. ROI quietly evaporates.  This isn’t a tooling failure. It’s a constraint failure.  So how do you fix an obese platform? The same way you fix obesity: by creating a calorie deficit, rigorous exercise and discipline. In the platform world, that means recognizing constraints and designing for and staying within those limits, across technology, processes, organizational culture, budget, engineering skills, team cognitive load and more.  Dare to play the hard 'less is more' subtraction game, not the easy game of addition: treat dealing with constraints, subtraction, prioritization and trade-offs as first-class engineering skills—not as signs of lack of ambition.
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 Title = "Introduction to intellectual property rights for devops engineers"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["dr-suki-sandhu"]
+Speakers = ["sandhu-suki"]
 +++
 
 This lecture introduces core intellectual property rights through the lens of everyday DevOps work. We will outline the main IP categories relevant to DevOps engineers—copyright, patents, trade marks and trade secrets—and show how they apply to code, configuration, automation, and documentation in a European context.
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 Title = "Best practices and benefits of intellectual property rights for devops engineers"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["dr-suki-sandhu"]
+Speakers = ["sandhu-suki"]
 +++
 
 This workshop equips DevOps engineers with essential best practices for leveraging intellectual property (IP) rights to safeguard innovations in pipelines, infrastructures, and automation tools. Participants will explore copyright for scripts and configurations; patents for new DevOps processes; trade secrets for proprietary platforms, and trademarks for internal tools. Key benefits include preventing ownership disputes with contractors and mitigating open-source license risks in deployments.
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 Title = "The rise of Risk Ops teams - a solution for reducing cognitive load in DevOps teams."
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["sutapa-sankar"]
+Speakers = ["sankar-sutapa"]
 +++
 
 In the fast-paced realm of DevOps, integrating security early often overwhelms DevOps teams with complex alerts and mental strain. Risk Ops can reduce this cognitive load by embedding continuous risk assessments, vulnerability management, directly into development pipelines. While Security Champions help to ensure secure coding practices are followed early in the development cycle, Risk Ops teams translate technical alerts into actionable, business-contextualized insights which enable DevOps teams to focus on delivering features rather than deciphering risks. Embedding risk knowledge within DevOps teams enables the translation of risk and security challenges into actionable, developer-friendly tasks, many of which can be efficiently mitigated through automation. This collaboration fosters a “secure by design” culture where risk teams guide rather than gatekeep, work together with DevOps teams to resolve risk and security related issues , empowering DevOps teams to build resilient applications with speed, confidence, and reduced friction.

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 Title = "AIGenOps: Integrating Generative AI into Platform Engineering for Regulated Software"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["riccardo-soro","nicolas-fantoni"]
+Speakers = ["soro-riccardo","fantoni-nicolas"]
 +++
 
 The integration of generative AI into platform engineering opens new possibilities to automate and improve the DevOps lifecycle, even in highly regulated software development environments. However, naive adoption often leads to uncontrolled generation, rising costs, privacy concerns, and low-quality outputs that increase review and compliance effort.  In this talk, we present a practical, zero-trust approach to integrating generative AI into the DevOps cycle without disrupting existing processes. We show how to safely embed AI into platform engineering by combining self-hosted models for privacy and cost control with strict validation gates already familiar to DevOps teams.  Starting from the DevOps lifecycle, we demonstrate how generative AI can be used to analyze and resolve code quality issues detected by tools like Sonar, generate high-quality unit tests using mutation testing techniques, and automatically validate AI-generated results through builds, tests, coverage checks, and issue resolution verification.  We also discuss how to tune LLM hyperparameters to balance determinism, creativity, and cost, avoiding unnecessary generation while focusing AI efforts on high-value outcomes.  Attendees will leave with concrete patterns to integrate generative AI into regulated DevOps pipelines: improving code quality and test coverage, controlling costs, preserving privacy, and keeping humans in control through measurable, automated verification rather than manual review.
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 Title = "Zero Trust Infrastructure for AI Agents: Securing Your Development Workflow"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["nick-taylor"]
+Speakers = ["taylor-nick"]
 +++
 
 <h3>Securing AI Agents with Zero Trust and MCP</h3>

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 Title = "Vibe UX: Prototyping at the speed of thought"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["dave-westgarth"]
+Speakers = ["westgarth-dave"]
 +++
 
 This talk explores how AI-powered vibe coding tools are transforming Lean UX and Agile delivery. The session re-examines Lean UX principles and shows how Vibe UX collapses the distance between idea and product, creating radically faster feedback loops and enabling instant experimentation. It covers where this approach shines (and where it backfires), practical safeguards, implications for Agile teams, and how Vibe UX tools let anyone prototype, test, and learn in real time finishing with a practical toolkit and a call to action: start vibing, and amplify both learning and value in your team.
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 Title = "Survival of the curious: Continuous learning in the age of AI"
 Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["dave-westgarth"]
+Speakers = ["westgarth-dave"]
 +++
 
 The half-life of skills was already shrinking but the emergence of modern AI has accelerated that change. Frameworks and certifications that once defined a career path have now fallen out of favour and the most valuable skill for learners today is the ability to learn, unlearn, relearn and build adaptive habits that AI can't replace. In this session, we’ll explore how delivery professionals can future-proof themselves by embracing curiosity, building AI fluency, and shifting from knowledge-hoarding to sense-making. We'll cover practical strategies, real-world examples, and a fresh perspective on how curiosity can become your career’s greatest insurance policy.
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 linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adeola-adeniji/"
 image = "adeola.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "adeola-adeniji"
+linktitle = "adeniji-adeola"
 
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 linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulinadubas/"
 image = "paulina.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "paulina-dubas"
+linktitle = "dubas-paulina"
 
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 linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-fantoni/"
 image = "nicolas.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "nicolas-fantoni"
+linktitle = "fantoni-nicolas"
 
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 linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edith-karda-196889185/"
 image = "edithkarda.jpeg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "edith-karda"
+linktitle = "karda-edith"
 
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 linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralucamihu/"
 image = "raluca.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "raluca-mihu"
+linktitle = "mihu-raluca"
 
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 image = "joepiscaer.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "joep-piscaer"
+linktitle = "piscaer-joep"
 
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 linkedin = ""
 image = "sukisandhu.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "dr-suki-sandhu"
+linktitle = "sandhu-suki"
 
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 Title = "Sutapa Sankar"
 Twitter = ""
 linkedin = ""
-image = "sutapasarkar.jpeg"
+image = "sutapasarkar.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "sutapa-sankar"
+linktitle = "sankar-sutapa"
 
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 linkedin = ""
 image = "riccardo.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "riccardo-soro"
+linktitle = "soro-riccardo"
 
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 linkedin = "https://nickyt.online/"
 image = "nicktaylor.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "nick-taylor"
+linktitle = "taylor-nick"
 
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 linkedin = "www.linkedin.com/in/dave-westgarth"
 image = "dave.jpg"
 type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "dave-westgarth"
+linktitle = "westgarth-dave"
 
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