Into the Unknown: A Journey Toward Agentic DevOps

“Agentic DevOps” promises an era where AI copilots collaborate—not just autocomplete. But what does that actually look like in practice? In this candid session, Casey Morton chronicles his hands-on experiments integrating GitHub Copilot, Copilot for Azure DevOps, and Azure OpenAI into real-world pipelines. You’ll see what worked, what failed spectacularly, and what it takes to make AI a true member of the delivery crew. Less “best practices,” more captain’s log from the frontier, this session explores how autonomy, reliability, and human judgment intersect as DevOps boldly goes where automation has never gone before.

One Does Not Simply "Do" Kubernetes - Operationalizing Kubernetes in the Real World

As much as we hate to admit it, running a production-ready Kubernetes cluster at scale is very different than standing up MicroK8s on your workstation. While there are many ways to run a mature Kubernetes environment, there are a set of basic needs that must be met. This session will outline those needs and provide specific examples of how to satisfy them, using nothing but open source and cloud provider technologies.

Productize Your DevOps (or "What I really learned from playing with Legos")

In the early days of my career, a mentor once said to me "Everything is a product". He went on to say, "Its less about selling your software and more about creating well-defined (and documented), composable modules or Lego bricks..." This is a lesson that I keep close to my heart over 20 years later. In this session, we'll talk about how this mantra can apply to nearly everyone in IT and then we'll look at it, specifically as it applies to DevOps. What does it mean to "productize" something? Why does it matter? Why should I design for reuse even if I probably never will?We will talk through a couple of examples to better illustrate how to apply this to your daily work. Maybe its your CI/CD pipeline. Maybe its Terraform or Bicep scripts. Maybe its Helm Charts. Let's take a look at these very different scenarios and see how Productized DevOps can make your life easier and help make you more successful.

The intent of the examples is to look at real-world scenarios where this may apply, but without getting too much into the weeds of the implementation, such that attendees can still take away value from the session even if they are not familiar with the specific technology being discussed. The main takeaway for attendees is the understanding of what it really means to "Productize" something and what the benefits are.

The DevOps Triangle: Balancing Speed, Stability and Scalability

DevOps gave us speed and automation, but SRE taught us stability. The next challenge is scalability—of systems, teams, and culture. Learn how to balance all three forces in the DevOps Triangle and evolve your practices for sustainable growth.

DevOps was built on a promise of collaboration, automation, and speed. Then reality hit: pipelines alone don’t make reliability. SRE emerged to restore balance, emphasizing stability and resilience. But the story doesn’t end there—modern teams must also master scalability, not just of infrastructure, but of people, processes, and culture.

In this talk, I introduce the DevOps Triangle, a model built on three interdependent pillars: Speed, Stability, and Scalability. Drawing from two decades in IT, I explore how these forces interact, why imbalance leads to dysfunction, and how SRE principles can help sustain healthy growth. Expect real-world stories, practical frameworks, and a few Lego-inspired metaphors that make even complex DevOps ecosystems click.