State of Open Con 2025

As businesses increasingly rely on LLM applications for their important functions, it becomes important to implement strong security measures to protect sensitive information and guarantee smooth operations. This session shows how to build a zero-trust security architecture for AI workloads using cloud native patterns. We'll explore how to implement AI Gateways that have strong authentication and authorization and include audit logging. Keep compliance and governance requirements while you secure model artifacts and implement runtime security and protect against prompt injection attacks.

Over the past eight years, dbt-core has transformed SQL Analysts' workflows, enabling systematic development, modularization, reuse, testing, documentation, and version control.

Simultaneously, Apache Airflow emerged as the leading open-source orchestration tool. It allows data engineers to author, schedule, and monitor workflows using Python, scaling dynamic job scheduling and workflow-as-code.

By November 2024, both tools surpassed 50 million PyPI downloads.

This presentation demonstrates an end-to-end example of developing SQL transformations and productionizing them with these powerful open-source tools.

Over the last 10 years Docker and Kubernetes have gone from niche projects to being a ubiquitous part of the technology landscape, operating in a vast number of companies and environments. But why were they so successful?

This talk will examine the sources of success that these technologies had, look at what seems like it should have been important but wasn't, and provide ideas for how future open source projects can set themselves up for success.

Kubernetes is the go-to platform for modern AI, but distributed machine learning imposes demanding requirements on networking, security, and observability. This talk explores how Cilium, powered by eBPF, addresses these challenges by delivering high-performance cloud networking, robust security, and deep observability, easing the strain on Kubernetes in AI-driven environments.

Join us for "Taming the Chaos: What's Next in Engineering?" where top tech leaders discuss strategies to streamline development and anticipate future shifts in the realms of open source and AI. This panel, featuring luminaries like Justin Cormack (CTO of Docker), Michael Stahnke (VP Engineering at Flox and former VP Engineering at Circle CI & Puppet), Alex Mackenzie (AI & Infra investor at Tapestry) and Ron Efroni (Founder of Flox & Board Member at the NixOS Foundation), will explore effective ways to manage the growing complexity in tech stacks and highlight how AI, open source, and security trends are shaping the future of engineering.

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) Operator is a great tool that helps make your life a little easier by managing OTel for you in your Kubernetes cluster, by:
Managing the deployment of the OpenTelemetry Collector
Managing the configuration of a fleet of OpenTelemetry Collectors via OpAMP integration
Injecting and configuring auto-instrumentation into your pods

But what happens when THINGS. DON’T. WORK??

In this talk, Adriana and Reese will cover:
* An overview of the OTel Operator
* Common installation issues
* Common auto-instrumentation issues
* Common OTel Collector deployment issues
* …and how to tackle them all

Attendees will walk away from this session with a better understanding of how they can leverage the Operator, and be empowered to use it with confidence.