Rom Adams
Cloud Sales Specialist for Public Sector @ Red Hat
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Rom Adams (né Romuald Vandepoel) is an open-source strategy and C-Suite advisor with two decades of experience in the IT industry. He is a cloud-native expert dedicated to helping customer and partner organizations modernize and transform their data center strategies through enterprise open-source solutions.
Rom, a former AppDev Solutions Specialist at Red Hat, designed and implemented hybrid cloud solutions. With previously held roles at NetApp and Ondat (acquired by Akamai), he became a certified expert in storage and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Rom is a frequent speaker and writer on culture, process, and technology. He is passionate about transformation and innovation with open-source and cloud-native technologies, actively contributing to open-source projects and advising on open-source and sustainability strategies.
Currently, Rom serves as a Principal Software Engineer in the NetApp Office of the CTO, within the Innovation and Solutions group. In this role, he prototypes new solutions for sovereign AI workloads, leveraging containerization and cloud technologies to drive innovation.
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The Reverse Technology Thrust
This session provides a journey overview of large scale public institution who had to learn the painful way about learning DevOps practices instead of investing in tooling.
Similar to the learning curve proposed by Michael's 90 Days Of DevOps, the content can then be reused as a blueprint for any organizations who wish to adopt agile practices.
A Customer GitOps journey solving their Security conundrum
Deploying applications on Kubernetes seem to be rather complex looking at the stack lasagna even when focusing on a specific topic like Security. It ranges from an authenticating the platform up to providing credentials to access critical data set outside Kubernetes cluster(s).
This session will provide a real life experience on how to solve these challenges the GitOps way with Terraform and Vault.
A Kubernetes Zero-Trust Security Model using a KMS provider plugin
Kubernetes is dominating cloud native application deployment along with the re-platforming and refactoring of legacy applications with the support of HashiCorp Vault.
However, critical low level Kubernetes components like CNI, CSI, Operators are not capable or design to benefits from the power of HashiCorp Vault.
The usage of Kubernetes KMS provider plugin solves these challenges by leveraging HahiCorp Vault as the One to rule them all enforcing a Zero-Trust security model.
90DaysOfDevOps - 2024 Community Edition Sessionize Event
HashiConf Europe 2022 Sessionize Event
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