Ryan Etten, RHCA
Senior Architect & Adoption Leader, Red Hat
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Ryan Etten is a Senior Architect and Team Lead at Red Hat, specializing in the intersection of cloud-native architectures and the human systems required to sustain them. A Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect, Ryan guides organizations through secure digital transformations rooted in Kubernetes, GitOps, and Zero Trust principles. Beyond the stack, he is a core contributor to the CNCF Merge Forward initiative and a primary advocate for "inclusive-by-default" governance. Having successfully scaled his "Agile for Every Brain" framework across the ecosystem, Ryan leverages his background in CNCF TAG Security and OpenGitOps to refactor community structures for diverse cognitive styles. As the founder and leader of the Madison, Wisconsin CNCF group, he remains dedicated to ensuring that the human architectures powering open source are as resilient and scalable as the code itself.
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How UW Madison Monitors 25+ Clusters with Cilium and Prometheus Agent on a Student-Sized Budget
Budgets keep shrinking while observability demands explode—so how do you capture L7 insight across 25+ Kubernetes clusters without paying a sidecar tax? At UW Madison, we paired Cilium’s eBPF networking with the Prometheus Agent’s remote write, streaming rich flow telemetry to a central Grafana stack at a fraction of the usual footprint. Live on stage, we’ll fire test traffic with curl from a single app pod and watch Cilium Flow Metrics spike and Alertmanager light up within seconds—no sidecars, no context switching. You’ll leave with a field-tested playbook: scrape-target pruning, discovery patterns that survive air-gapped research zones, and the real story of what broke first—and how we fixed it. This case study demonstrates light weight mesh and light weight observability for a university budget.
GitOps for Skeptics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Repo
GitOps can sound great in theory, but for a lot of teams (mine included), it starts out feeling like a lot. A lot of moving parts, a lot of automation, and a lot of things that could go wrong. This talk shares what helped me move from skeptical to confident, with a focus on small steps that made GitOps more approachable. Starting with one service, using pull requests as a safety net, and picking the right level of abstraction helped us adopt GitOps in a way that felt safe and sustainable. This session is beginner-friendly and designed for folks who are curious but not quite convinced.
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Ryan Etten, RHCA
Senior Architect & Adoption Leader, Red Hat
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