CfgMgmtCamp 2026 Ghent

Version 0.20 Jan. 23, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Observability for Infrastructure as Code: Tracing Misconfigurations Before They Ship.” by Opemipo Disu.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “A walk through the Open Source Eco-System in the CNCF Observability Landscape” by Syed Usman Ahmad (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:25 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 3:15 p.m.)
• “Open Source Cloud-Native Observability with VictoriaMetrics and OpenTelemetry” by Dmytro Kozlov (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “OpenTelemetry Tracing, not just for webapps” by Pieter Lexis (Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m.)

Version 0.19 Jan. 22, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Should we rewrite OpenVox server in plain ruby?”
• “Try to do one thing, and do it well”

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Event-Driven Infrastructure Automation with Ansible and Kafka” by Ruchi Pakhle.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Open Source Cloud-Native Observability with VictoriaMetrics and OpenTelemetry” by Dmytro Kozlov (Feb. 3, 2026, 5:15 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m.)
• “OpenTelemetry Tracing, not just for webapps” by Pieter Lexis (Feb. 3, 2026, 2:25 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “Event-Driven CI/CD Observability: Infrastructure as Observable Events” by David Bernard (Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “Observability for Infrastructure as Code: Tracing Misconfigurations Before They Ship.” by Opemipo Disu (Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 2:45 p.m.)
• “A walk through the Open Source Eco-System in the CNCF Observability Landscape” by Syed Usman Ahmad (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4:25 p.m.)
• “How to Use an AI Assistant with Your Monitoring System” by Dmytro Kozlov (Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “Beyond SHA Pinning: Security for CI/CD Pipelines” by Andoni Alonso, Paco Sanchez (Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:25 p.m.)
• “Building CI/CD Pipelines for your Ansible code” by Ottavia Balducci (B.1.011 → B.1.017)

Version 0.18 Jan. 20, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Bringing OpenBolt into Foreman” by Tim Meusel .

Version 0.17 Jan. 14, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Inventory and actions of your systems”
• “Automating Config Deployment with NetBox”
• “How We Treat Each Other At Work”

Version 0.16 Jan. 11, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “crinit - an embedded, dependable, security-aware init system” by Thomas Brinker, Andreas Zdziarstek .

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “The 7 Deadly Sins of GitOps” by Koray Oksay (Feb. 2, 2026, 12:20 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 12:25 p.m.)
• “The Real CI/CD is Communication, Iteration, Coffee, and Donuts” by Jos van Schouten (Feb. 2, 2026, 12:25 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 12:40 p.m.)
• “Just Enough Container Orchestration” by Kris Buytaert (Feb. 2, 2026, 12:15 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 12:20 p.m.)

Version 0.15 Jan. 8, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Beyond SHA Pinning: Security for CI/CD Pipelines” by Andoni Alonso, Paco Sanchez (Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m., B.1.036 → Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m., B.1.011)
• “Crowdsec and Mikrotik integration” by Michal Sochon (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4:25 p.m.)
• “Watch paint dry - Monitoring what doesn't change” by Ole Herman Schumacher Elgesem (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:25 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m.)

Version 0.14 Jan. 8, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Social Event” .

Version 0.13 Jan. 8, 2026

Correction to start time to align

We have moved a session around: “Automation Without Apprentices: How AI Challenges the Open Source Way” by Bernd Erk (Feb. 2, 2026, 2:45 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m.)

Version 0.12 Jan. 8, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have moved a session around: “CI Testing with Beaker” by Steven Pritchard (Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m., B.1.015 → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m., B.1.011).

Version 0.11 Jan. 6, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “AI Native Infrastructure Automation: how I learned to stop worrying and love Claude” by Adam Jacob (Feb. 2, 2026, 11:10 a.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 11:30 a.m.)
• “On the Path to Digital Twins: Loosely Coupled Infrastructure Models” by Pavel Lavrenko (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “From Code to Context: Infrastructure as Code and the Model Context Protocol” by Mar (Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m.)

Version 0.10 Jan. 5, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “When AI Agents Go Rogue—DevSecOps Lessons from the Rise of Polymorphic AI” by John Willis.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “ASO(cial) Superpowers: Streamlined App Deployments with Azure Service Operator” by Daniel Paulus (Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m., B.3.029 → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m., B.Con)
• “From Code to Context: Infrastructure as Code and the Model Context Protocol” by Mar (Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors” by Mauro Morales, Jordan Karapanagiotis (Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.3.029 → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:25 p.m., B.Con)

Version 0.9 Jan. 2, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “From Code to Context: Infrastructure as Code and the Model Context Protocol” by Mar .

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Debugging Slow Infrastructure Runs with OpenTelemetry in OpenTofu” by James humphries (Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “Q&A with the OpenTofu maintainers” by Sebastian Stadil (Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:25 p.m.)

Version 0.8 Dec. 19, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Can We Manage Bedrock with IaC Yet? A Practical Look Using OpenTofu and CDK” by Michelangelo Markus (Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 2:25 p.m.)
• “Q&A with the OpenTofu maintainers” by Sebastian Stadil (Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m.)

Version 0.7 Dec. 19, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Can We Manage Bedrock with IaC Yet? A Practical Look Using OpenTofu and CDK”
• “Introducing Choria Configuration Manager”
• “How to migrate your Puppet [Enterprise] CA to OpenVox server”
• “Uyuni: connecting two distinct worlds of Salt and Ansible”
• “Agama? How SUSE SLES16 Provisioning works with Foreman.”
• “Why clean code matters?!”

We sadly had to cancel a session: “The new AI Coding Fabric” by Patrick Debois.

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Automation Without Apprentices: How AI Challenges the Open Source Way” by Bernd Erk (Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 2:45 p.m.)
• “In 30 minutes from scratch to an enterprise-grade web app with open source & GenAI” by Marcel Kornegoor (Feb. 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “When AI Agents Go Rogue—DevSecOps Lessons from the Rise of Polymorphic AI” by John Willis (Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m.)

Version 0.6 Dec. 16, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Don't Fear the Jinja - Beyond the Handlebars with Ansible”
• “A step to build 10x engineering teams”
• “Simplifying Infrastructure Maintenance with Declarative Updates”
• “Open Source Cloud-Native Observability with VictoriaMetrics and OpenTelemetry”

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Building an Infrastructure Automation Platform using Platform Engineering principles” by Niklas Werker (B.1.011 → B.2.015)
• “Growing a startup using ansible” by Johan Van de Wauw (Feb. 3, 2026, 3:15 p.m., B.Con → Feb. 2, 2026, 3:15 p.m., B.2.015)
• “Mgmt Config: Solving the bootstrapping problem” by James (purpleidea) (Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “On the Path to Digital Twins: Loosely Coupled Infrastructure Models” by Pavel Lavrenko (Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m.)
• “Next-Level Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK and LocalStack” by Matheus das Merces (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 5:15 p.m.)
• “Building CI/CD Pipelines for your Ansible code” by Ottavia Balducci (Feb. 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.1.0.14 → Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m., B.1.011)
• “Introducing Pabawi. Puppet Ansible Bolt Awesome Web Interface.” by Alessandro Franceschi (Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m., B.1.011 → Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.Con)
• “A Love Letter to Ansible Core 2.19” by Matt Davis (Feb. 3, 2026, 5:15 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m.)
• “Getting started with CI/CD using Forgejo Actions and why this is important AF” by Jeroen Baten (Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “Debugging Playbooks Made Easy: The Ansible Playbook Debugger” by Jure Medvesek (Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m., B.Con → Feb. 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.1.0.14)
• “Use Best-in-Class Tools for End-to-End Automation” by Vincent Seynhaeve (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m., B.1.017 → Feb. 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.2.015)
• “Writing, running, and testing awesome Ansible content with natural language and AI - powered by Ansible's MCP server” by Shatakshi Mishra (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:45 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4:50 p.m.)

Version 0.5 Dec. 16, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors”
• “A walk through the Open Source Eco-System in the CNCF Observability Landscape”
• “AI Native Infrastructure Automation: how I learned to stop worrying and love Claude”
• “The new AI Coding Fabric”
• “Reproducible C++ Development Environments with Nix”
• “Static vs. Dynamic Secrets: What Are We Really Talking About?”
• “Inspecting your Kubernetes cluster with eBPF and Inspektor Gadget”

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Next-Level Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK and LocalStack” by Matheus das Merces (B.2.015 → B.Con)
• “ASO(cial) Superpowers: Streamlined App Deployments with Azure Service Operator” by Daniel Paulus (Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.2.015 → Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m., B.3.029)

Version 0.4 Dec. 12, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “CDK8s: unleash programming language power for correct and testable Kubernetes charts”
• “Crowdsec and Mikrotik integration”
• “Hands-On Infrastructure Management with System Initiative”
• “Getting started with CI/CD using Forgejo Actions and why this is important AF”
• “From 'undefined' to 'I Told You So' - TypeScript for the Foreman Frontend”
• “The Director's Cut: A new role for Ansible in Foreman”
• “Managing a mixed landscape of Linux and Windows servers with Puppet - our dos and don'ts”
• “Watch paint dry - Monitoring what doesn't change”
• “Next-Level Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK and LocalStack”
• “It Doesn't Always Have to Be Caviar: Enterprise Alternatives and the Challenge of Default Stacks”
• “SysInspect: from prototype to production”
• “Own Your Data: Unlocking Documents with Docling”
• “Debugging Playbooks Made Easy: The Ansible Playbook Debugger”
• “ASO(cial) Superpowers: Streamlined App Deployments with Azure Service Operator”

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Observability for Infrastructure as Code: Tracing Misconfigurations Before They Ship.” by Opemipo Disu (Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m., B.Con → Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m., B.1.011)
• “Beyond SHA Pinning: Security for CI/CD Pipelines” by Andoni Alonso, Paco Sanchez (Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “ansible-docsmith - ultimate tool to document ansible roles” by Kirill Satarin (Feb. 2, 2026, 5:20 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m.)
• “In 30 minutes from scratch to an enterprise-grade web app with open source & GenAI” by Marcel Kornegoor (Feb. 2, 2026, 2 p.m., B.2.015 → Feb. 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.Con)
• “Opening Day 1” by Toshaan Bharvani, Kris Buytaert (Feb. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 9:05 a.m.)
• “Building an Infrastructure Automation Platform using Platform Engineering principles” by Niklas Werker (B.Con → B.1.011)
• “Upgrading Fedora's Monitoring - a real Tech Debt story” by Greg Sutcliffe (Feb. 2, 2026, 3:15 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m.)
• “Automation Without Apprentices: How AI Challenges the Open Source Way” by Bernd Erk (Feb. 2, 2026, 11:25 a.m., D.Aud → Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m., B.Con)
• “Behind The Scene- How We Ship Ansible Network Collections” by Chetna Agrawal (Feb. 2, 2026, 4:55 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m.)
• “One year OpenVoxProject” by Tim Meusel (Feb. 2, 2026, 2 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 2:25 p.m.)
• “Opening Day 2” by Toshaan Bharvani, Kris Buytaert (Feb. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 9:05 a.m.)
• “Introducing Pabawi. Puppet Ansible Bolt Awesome Web Interface.” by Alessandro Franceschi (Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m., B.Con → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m., B.1.011)
• “How to Use an AI Assistant with Your Monitoring System” by Dmytro Kozlov (Feb. 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.2.015 → Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m., B.1.011)
• “Simplifying the deployment of Foreman as a bare-metal provisioning system” by Alexander Olofsson (Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m.)
• “Mgmt Config: Unexpected things mgmt can do” by James (purpleidea) (Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m., B.Con → Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m., D.Aud)
• “Client tooling to integrate with Pulp” by Matthias Dellweg (Feb. 2, 2026, 5:15 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 3:15 p.m.)
• “Q&A with the OpenTofu maintainers” by Sebastian Stadil (Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “CI/CD Observability, Metrics and DORA: Shifting Left and Cleaning Up!” by Peter Souter (B.Con → B.1.011)
• “On the Path to Digital Twins: Loosely Coupled Infrastructure Models” by Pavel Lavrenko (Feb. 3, 2026, 4 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m.)
• “Mgmt Config: Solving the bootstrapping problem” by James (purpleidea) (Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “Mopping up the mess after a rug pull” by Ben Ford (Feb. 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “Debugging Slow Infrastructure Runs with OpenTelemetry in OpenTofu” by James humphries (Feb. 2, 2026, 2:25 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m.)
• “Beyond Static Files: Dynamic Configurations for a Future-Proof World” by Marcel van Lohuizen, Roger Peppe (Feb. 3, 2026, 9:25 a.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 9:30 a.m.)
• “When AI Agents Go Rogue—DevSecOps Lessons from the Rise of Polymorphic AI” by John Willis (D.Aud → B.Con)
• “Growing a startup using ansible” by Johan Van de Wauw (Feb. 3, 2026, 4:25 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 3:15 p.m.)
• “The Gilded Age of Open Source is over” by Joe Brockmeier (Feb. 3, 2026, 10:15 a.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 10:20 a.m.)
• “Community and Business” by Martin Alfke (Feb. 2, 2026, 4 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 4:50 p.m.)

Version 0.3 Dec. 9, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Modern Network Observability” by Christian Adell (B.3.0.13 → B.2.015)
• “SELinux and AppArmor in a nutshell” by Christian Stankowic (B.2.015 → B.3.036)
• “Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code with OpenTofu (Terraform)” by Patrick Mölk (Feb. 4, 2026, 2 p.m. → Feb. 4, 2026, 9 a.m.)
• “From Zero to Immutable Kubernetes: Your First Cluster, Step by Step” by Mauro Morales, Dimitris Karakasilis (B.3.029 → B.3.0.13)
• “Foreman UI future - the vision and the strategy” by Shimon Shtein (Feb. 4, 2026, 9 a.m., B.1.036 → Feb. 4, 2026, 2 p.m., B.3.029)
• “IaC workshop” by Stefan Joosten (B.3.036 → B.1.036)

Version 0.2 Dec. 9, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Ansible - State of the Community” by John "gundalow" Barker, Don Naro (Feb. 2, 2026, 2 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “Ansible for Beginners: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Learned the Hard Way” by James Freeman (Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m. → Feb. 2, 2026, 2 p.m.)
• “Asking a local LLM about my Ansible playbooks because why not” by David Moreau-Simard (Feb. 3, 2026, 2 p.m. → Feb. 3, 2026, 2:50 p.m.)

Version 0.1 Dec. 9, 2025

We released our first schedule!