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14:30 BST

A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata; Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Joe Betz, Google

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Policies play a critical role in ensuring Kubernetes security, compliance, and governance in your clusters. However, navigating the evolving array of options and implementation strategies can be overwhelming.

Join Rita (Gatekeeper, SIG-Auth), Joe (ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, SIG-API-Machinery), Jim (Kyverno, Policy WG), and Andy (Goldilocks, Policy WG) as they share their collective expertise to help you build a robust Policy as Code (PaC) solution for your organization.

In this session, they’ll explain what PaC is, why it’s essential, and demonstrate how to effectively use built-in Kubernetes features like ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and MutatingAdmissionPolicy alongside CNCF policy engines such as OPA/Gatekeeper and Kyverno to manage your PaC lifecycle.

Speakers

Jim Bugwadia

Founder and CEO, Nirmata

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →

Rita Zhang

Principal software engineer, Kubernetes SIG Auth co-chair, Security Response Committee, Microsoft

Rita Zhang is a Principal software engineer at Microsoft, based in San Francisco bay area. She leads the Azure Container Upstream team of maintainers and contributors building features for Kubernetes upstream and CNCF projects. She is a Kubernetes sig-auth chair, a member of the Kubernetes... Read More →

Joe Betz

Staff Software Engineer, sig-api-machinery TL, Google

Joe Betz is a tech lead of the Kubernetes api-machinery SIG. Joe has contributed to extensibility features including custom resources, admission webhooks, and CEL. Joe has also contributed to etcd as a project maintainer.

Andy Suderman

CTO, Fairwinds

Andy Suderman is CTO at Fairwinds, a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider. Andy has worked with cloud native technologies for the last eight years helping organizations adopt and manage Kubernetes. Andy is the creator and primary developer of Goldilocks—an open source tool that... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, Policy