Kat Morgan
Platform Engineer & Educator
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Kat Morgan is a Developer Advocate specializing in DevOps and MLOps in the Pulumi ecosystem.
With her diverse career spanning Dell, Canonical, Red Hat, Kong, Azure, and Pulumi, she's gained a practical perspective into common challenges and pitfalls of Cloud Native development and operations. Leveraging her experience in Enterprise Support and Field Engineer Consulting, Kat is committed to enabling others to craft their own success stories in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
Outside the professional arena, Kat embraces the Pacific Northwest lifestyle, enjoying outdoor adventures and advancing her own #100DaysOfHomelab project.
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Goodbye VMware, hello Windows VMs on Kubernetes!
Move over VMware; it’s KubeVirt time. Conventional private cloud solutions lag in support for modern tooling and practices, overloading organizations with many different platforms to maintain. This session demonstrates KubeVirt virtualization on Kubernetes for consolidation of container and VM workloads onto a common platform. From bare metal to GitOps ready Windows and Linux VM provisioning techniques, discover advanced KubeVirt features including networking, PCI & GPU passthrough, persistent storage, snapshots, and live migration, all built on open-source, production-ready, cloud-native solutions.
Test Driven Generative AI: Engineering the Pulumi AI synthetic codegen experience
AI suffers from difficulties and hallucinations, but you don't have to! Join us for the inside scoop on Pulumi’s AI product development story and follow our journey from hackathon demo, to production, and beyond. See how we continue to drive progress into the future as we bring you lessons learned from a year of engineering our way to synthetically generated IaC success. Building on the foundational development and adoption of a test-driven development workflow, we introduce an AI application benchmark design, share our initial results, and give you a step by step roadmap recounting the road to realizing 3x accuracy improvements and reducing our benchmark failure rate from 70% to 26% today. In this talk, we share our failure classification and analysis strategy and present our framework for understanding intervention techniques in Generative AI application optimization. Enjoy our story and leave with fundamental principles and techniques to improve your own AI development practices.
Policy-as-Code Super-Powers! Rethinking Modern IaC With Service Mesh And CNI.
Who wants to sit there and manually write policy, or YAML, or define the way we deploy our apps, by hand? Anybody?
That’s right, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE!
When observing previous security breaches or exploits, it’s usually discovered that misconfiguration or a lack of consistent configuration led to this. Because of this, the rapid evolution of modern infrastructures presents both opportunities and challenges. Old security paradigms and processes are faltering. Platform Engineers shouldn’t simply build YAML and deploy imperatively.
- Does Infrastructure as Code (IaC) offer promising avenues?
- How can we achieve Compliance or Policy as Code?
- Can developers use existing programming frameworks to define Infrastructure and applications as Python, Java, Go, and others?
- How can platform engineers deploy just-in-time policy-as-code with tools like Istio, Cilium, and Pulumi?
Dive deep with Kat and Marino as they unravel the intricacies of using IaC to bolster security strategies. With hands-on examples (featuring Civo Cloud) we'll craft a SecOps library package for modular, efficient, and enforceable security-as-code.
Kat Morgan
Platform Engineer & Educator
Seattle, Washington, United States
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