2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule//EN PUBLISH HTTRFV@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -HTTRFV Opening Day 1 en en 20260202T090500 20260202T093000 0.02500 Opening Day 1 Opening Day 1 PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/HTTRFV/ D.Aud Kris Buytaert Toshaan Bharvani PUBLISH AGSYJ3@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -AGSYJ3 We Built for Predictability; the Workloads Didn’t Care en en 20260202T093000 20260202T102000 0.05000 We Built for Predictability; the Workloads Didn’t Care This talk is about how to reason in that new world. When outcomes aren’t guaranteed, what can you rely on? How do you decide what must stay deterministic, and where you can safely allow randomness? How do you operate and troubleshoot when “it depends” becomes even more of a normal, expected answer? Instead of fighting to make probabilistic systems behave deterministically, we’ll explore how infrastructure engineers can build clarity, confidence, and reliability by embracing a different way of thinking; one that treats unpredictability as a property we can work with rather than a flaw we must eliminate. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/AGSYJ3/ D.Aud Michael Stahnke PUBLISH KP9YPK@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -KP9YPK The exploitation paradox in open source en en 20260202T102000 20260202T111000 0.05000 The exploitation paradox in open source PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/KP9YPK/ D.Aud Richard Fontana PUBLISH UGTUYH@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -UGTUYH AI Native Infrastructure Automation: how I learned to stop worrying and love Claude en en 20260202T113000 20260202T122000 0.05000 AI Native Infrastructure Automation: how I learned to stop worrying and love Claude PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/UGTUYH/ D.Aud Adam Jacob PUBLISH GAV8C3@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -GAV8C3 Just Enough Container Orchestration en en 20260202T122000 20260202T122500 0.00500 Just Enough Container Orchestration PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/GAV8C3/ D.Aud Kris Buytaert PUBLISH H3TNHR@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -H3TNHR The 7 Deadly Sins of GitOps en en 20260202T122500 20260202T123000 0.00500 The 7 Deadly Sins of GitOps PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/H3TNHR/ D.Aud Koray Oksay PUBLISH 8GGRD8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -8GGRD8 OpenVoxView - Current State en en 20260202T123000 20260202T123500 0.00500 OpenVoxView - Current State PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/8GGRD8/ D.Aud Sebastian "Spritzgebaeck" Rakel PUBLISH HJSY8S@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -HJSY8S A step to build 10x engineering teams en en 20260202T123500 20260202T124000 0.00500 A step to build 10x engineering teams PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/HJSY8S/ D.Aud Ulf Månsson PUBLISH U78BGH@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -U78BGH Classic Infrastructures Command & Control en en 20260202T124500 20260202T125000 0.00500 Classic Infrastructures Command & Control PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/U78BGH/ D.Aud Alessandro Franceschi PUBLISH TF9BZB@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -TF9BZB Try to do one thing, and do it well en en 20260202T125000 20260202T125500 0.00500 Try to do one thing, and do it well PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/TF9BZB/ D.Aud Yair Etziony PUBLISH CU9TCZ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CU9TCZ 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform en en 20260202T140000 20260202T145000 0.05000 7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CU9TCZ/ D.Aud Coté PUBLISH R8ABQZ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -R8ABQZ A Pkl companion tool to bind tasks to configuration data en en 20260202T145000 20260202T151500 0.02500 A Pkl companion tool to bind tasks to configuration data PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/R8ABQZ/ D.Aud Stoned Elipot PUBLISH CBHVKV@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CBHVKV How automation games can make us better engineers en en 20260202T151500 20260202T154000 0.02500 How automation games can make us better engineers Recording available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxzghm3Fdj8&t=24413s PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CBHVKV/ D.Aud Greg Sutcliffe David Moreau-Simard PUBLISH AAUVX8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -AAUVX8 Mgmt Config: Unexpected things mgmt can do en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 Mgmt Config: Unexpected things mgmt can do PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/AAUVX8/ D.Aud James (purpleidea) PUBLISH TQJT8P@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -TQJT8P Community and Business en en 20260202T165000 20260202T174000 0.05000 Community and Business I will talk about possible ways a community can collect and spend money. But community and business are difficult to combine. In my talk I will give an insight, how the OpenVox/Puppet community has started becoming more "business-like". PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/TQJT8P/ D.Aud Martin Alfke PUBLISH AARD3F@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -AARD3F In 30 minutes from scratch to an enterprise-grade web app with open source & GenAI en en 20260202T140000 20260202T145000 0.05000 In 30 minutes from scratch to an enterprise-grade web app with open source & GenAI Can you build an enterprise-grade web app and get it up and running from scratch in exactly 30 minutes using nothing but GenAI and open source software? That's the question and goal of this talk. We'll start using a .env file with credentials, a detailed design describing the desired app and... an empty git repo! Let's hope the demo gods will be kind to us. After a short introduction, we'll put GenAI to work and discover whether it will deliver a working end result after 30 minutes of crunching GPUs. Some clear boundaries will be set, including: - app will be written in Python - must use open source software and modules only - will be hosted on Hetzner using only IaaS (for portability reasons) - must use security best practices (IAM, secrets management, encryption etc.) - will use Stripe for payments - must use IaC, so the whole project is fully portable and versioned (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, etc.) - end result will be open sourced on GitHub using an MIT license - must be well documented (SBOM, README, getting started etc.) - LLM used will be decided shortly before the talk (because they change a lot) There is no telling upfront whether GenAI will succeed or fail on this mission -and that's the point. This session aims to show what GenAI is currently capable of, and where it still might have flaws or limitations. So let's focus on the journey here and not on the end result. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/AARD3F/ B.Con Marcel Kornegoor PUBLISH 7YDSYT@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -7YDSYT Automation Without Apprentices: How AI Challenges the Open Source Way en en 20260202T145000 20260202T154000 0.05000 Automation Without Apprentices: How AI Challenges the Open Source Way AI makes everything faster, except learning. If we automate the path from junior to senior, we risk losing not just skills, but the communities that pass them on. This talk explores how AI changes how we grow, share, and build, and why open source might be our last real school of engineering. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/7YDSYT/ B.Con Bernd Erk PUBLISH RZ8FQZ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -RZ8FQZ On the Path to Digital Twins: Loosely Coupled Infrastructure Models en en 20260202T160000 20260202T162500 0.02500 On the Path to Digital Twins: Loosely Coupled Infrastructure Models PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/RZ8FQZ/ B.Con Pavel Lavrenko PUBLISH UYXXAQ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -UYXXAQ Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors en en 20260202T162500 20260202T165000 0.02500 Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/UYXXAQ/ B.Con Mauro Morales Jordan Karapanagiotis PUBLISH FCTQXS@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -FCTQXS ASO(cial) Superpowers: Streamlined App Deployments with Azure Service Operator en en 20260202T165000 20260202T174000 0.05000 ASO(cial) Superpowers: Streamlined App Deployments with Azure Service Operator PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/FCTQXS/ B.Con Daniel Paulus PUBLISH PQUPEQ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -PQUPEQ Getting started with CI/CD using Forgejo Actions and why this is important AF en en 20260202T140000 20260202T145000 0.05000 Getting started with CI/CD using Forgejo Actions and why this is important AF Getting started with CI/CD using Forgejo Actions — and why this is important AF Want to get started with CI/CD without locking your entire development workflow into GitHub or GitLab? Curious how to run modern pipelines on your own infrastructure while still keeping full compatibility with the tools you already know? In this session, you’ll discover how Forgejo Actions makes all of this not only possible — but surprisingly easy. We’ll walk you through the basics of setting up CI/CD with Forgejo, a fully open-source Git server that comes with a GitHub-compatible Actions engine. You’ll learn how the server and runners work, how to write your first workflow, and how existing GitHub Actions pipelines can be migrated with minimal effort. But this talk goes beyond the technical “how”. We’ll also look at the “why”, and why it’s important AF: digital autonomy, avoiding vendor lock-in, maintaining control over your code, your builds, and your infrastructure. You’ll see how Forgejo fits into a growing ecosystem of community-driven tooling — including Codeberg, the rapidly expanding European hosting platform with 200k+ repositories. Whether you’re a beginner taking your first steps into automated testing and delivery, or a seasoned developer questioning your dependence on centralized services, this talk will give you the tools — and the motivation — to stand on your own CI/CD legs. Join us and learn how to build, test, and deploy with confidence… on your terms. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/PQUPEQ/ B.1.011 Jeroen Baten PUBLISH 98XRKP@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -98XRKP CI/CD Observability, Metrics and DORA: Shifting Left and Cleaning Up! en en 20260202T145000 20260202T154000 0.05000 CI/CD Observability, Metrics and DORA: Shifting Left and Cleaning Up! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/98XRKP/ B.1.011 Peter Souter PUBLISH M993WU@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -M993WU Event-Driven CI/CD Observability: Infrastructure as Observable Events en en 20260202T160000 20260202T162500 0.02500 Event-Driven CI/CD Observability: Infrastructure as Observable Events Attendees will learn: - Why CI/CD observability is fragmented across heterogeneous tools - How CDEvents provides a standardization layer for delivery events - Technical architecture: event collector, time-series storage, visualization stack - Practical steps to add observability incrementally (instrument CI → registries → CD tools) - How standardized events unlock automation possibilities beyond observability The presentation shows Grafana dashboards with real deployment metrics, demonstrating what teams can observe once CDEvents is integrated into their infrastructure. Open source technologies: CDEvents, CDviz, PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB, Grafana. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/M993WU/ B.1.011 David Bernard PUBLISH E9ANZ8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -E9ANZ8 Beyond SHA Pinning: Security for CI/CD Pipelines en en 20260202T162500 20260202T165000 0.02500 Beyond SHA Pinning: Security for CI/CD Pipelines PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/E9ANZ8/ B.1.011 Andoni Alonso Paco Sanchez PUBLISH HQLRFF@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -HQLRFF CI Testing with Beaker en en 20260202T165000 20260202T171500 0.02500 CI Testing with Beaker We’ll dive into real-world workflows that combine Beaker with modern CI/CD pipelines. Attendees will see how to switch between providers, run tests across multiple platforms, and use CI to validate modules automatically. Along the way, we’ll share insights from our own development practices and product testing, with demos that show how to bring Beaker into your CI pipeline today. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/HQLRFF/ B.1.011 Steven Pritchard PUBLISH KU78JX@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -KU78JX Composing systems in an automated way with Ansible, Podman, and bootc en en 20260202T140000 20260202T145000 0.05000 Composing systems in an automated way with Ansible, Podman, and bootc PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/KU78JX/ B.1.0.14 Fabio Alessandro "Fale" Locati PUBLISH AJAMAN@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -AJAMAN Debugging Playbooks Made Easy: The Ansible Playbook Debugger en en 20260202T145000 20260202T154000 0.05000 Debugging Playbooks Made Easy: The Ansible Playbook Debugger Ansible Playbook Debugger is open-source under the MIT license, with the code is available in the repository here: https://gitlab.com/xlab-steampunk/steampunk-spotter-client/spotter-ansible-playbook-debugger PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/AJAMAN/ B.1.0.14 Jure Medvesek PUBLISH QXPYAU@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -QXPYAU Don't Fear the Jinja - Beyond the Handlebars with Ansible en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 Don't Fear the Jinja - Beyond the Handlebars with Ansible PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/QXPYAU/ B.1.0.14 Matt Davis PUBLISH QGSZTT@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -QGSZTT Behind The Scene- How We Ship Ansible Network Collections en en 20260202T165000 20260202T171500 0.02500 Behind The Scene- How We Ship Ansible Network Collections Managing a diverse set of Ansible Network collections from multiple vendors requires a disciplined approach to release management. This talk explores how the Ansible Networking team achieves consistent, reliable releases at scale. We will break down our CI gates, branching model, testing standards, and release criteria that keep our collections high-quality and production-ready. We’ll take you through the key strategies and tools we use, including: Best Practices: How to standardize development and release processes across multiple collections. CI/CD Strategy: Leverage sanity, unit, and integration tests to ensure high-quality, stable releases. Automation Hub Readiness: Define clear criteria for collection readiness before publishing. Branch Strategy: Implement a disciplined branching model to simplify releases and development parallelism. Definition of Done: How to ensure quality by establishing clear, measurable release criteria. Outcomes- 1.quality workflows that ensure smooth, predictable releases for users and partners 2.Take home a repeatable release checklist you can copy PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/QGSZTT/ B.1.0.14 Chetna Agrawal PUBLISH UJHJE7@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -UJHJE7 ansible-docsmith - ultimate tool to document ansible roles en en 20260202T171500 20260202T174000 0.02500 ansible-docsmith - ultimate tool to document ansible roles Attendees will gain hands-on familiarity with: - Installing and configuring ansible-docsmith in their environment - Setting up documentation markers in README files - Using ansible-docsmith generate and validate commands effectively - Integrating the tool into CI/CD pipelines and Git hooks - Creating custom Jinja2 templates for specialized documentation needs - Best practices for maintaining argument_specs.yml as documentation source Whether you maintain a handful of roles or manage entire collections, you'll learn how to save time, reduce errors, and keep your role documentation perfectly synchronized with your code. Target Audience: Ansible users, DevOps engineers, infrastructure automation practitioners PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/UJHJE7/ B.1.0.14 Kirill Satarin PUBLISH GDFPNH@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -GDFPNH Mopping up the mess after a rug pull en en 20260202T140000 20260202T142500 0.02500 Mopping up the mess after a rug pull PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/GDFPNH/ B.1.015 Ben Ford PUBLISH XAHTHZ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -XAHTHZ One year OpenVoxProject en en 20260202T142500 20260202T151500 0.05000 One year OpenVoxProject PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/XAHTHZ/ B.1.015 Tim Meusel PUBLISH 7BXZNX@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -7BXZNX Managing a mixed landscape of Linux and Windows servers with Puppet - our dos and don'ts en en 20260202T151500 20260202T154000 0.02500 Managing a mixed landscape of Linux and Windows servers with Puppet - our dos and don'ts PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/7BXZNX/ B.1.015 Markus Spanner-Denzer PUBLISH BJKHMX@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -BJKHMX Beyond Basics: Hiera Hacks for Fun! en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 Beyond Basics: Hiera Hacks for Fun! I expect the audience to be familiar with the Puppet language and the structure and functionality of Hiera. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/BJKHMX/ B.1.015 Benedikt Trefzer PUBLISH EQ8VWB@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -EQ8VWB Using containers in openvox environments en en 20260202T165000 20260202T171500 0.02500 Using containers in openvox environments PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/EQ8VWB/ B.1.015 Robert Waffen PUBLISH X8VAJV@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -X8VAJV Ansible for Beginners: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Learned the Hard Way en en 20260202T140000 20260202T145000 0.05000 Ansible for Beginners: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Learned the Hard Way PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/X8VAJV/ B.1.017 James Freeman PUBLISH WRKSNK@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -WRKSNK Building a self-contained, zero-dependency deployment with Ansible en en 20260202T145000 20260202T154000 0.05000 Building a self-contained, zero-dependency deployment with Ansible Since I started using Ansible to manage my infrastructure 10 years ago, I had always grappled with the problem of bootstrapping - that is getting the first node in the environment ready. An ideal setup I always wanted would let me deploy to any Linux-based environment without having to wrangle dependencies or install anything extra such as docker on the first node. As luck would have it, I recently got to work through a real-world case of handling such a deployment and the customer I did it for has open-sourced the solution! The example we'll be able to look at is a Linux-based container platform that we'll install with a single command, with no dependencies needed on the host whatsoever - and all powered by Ansible. After this talk, you will: - have an understanding of how you can leverage Linux internals to contain your dependencies without the extra work of installing a container runtime (no docker needed!) - you'll see how a real-world platform integrates Ansible to bootstrap and expand a full k3s cluster - you'll see a single command provision a full platform in 1-3 minutes The day of the talk, the presentation slides will be made public here: https://github.com/danielpodwysocki/self-contained-ansible-demo PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/WRKSNK/ B.1.017 Daniel Podwysocki PUBLISH W3GX3U@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -W3GX3U Building CI/CD Pipelines for your Ansible code en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 Building CI/CD Pipelines for your Ansible code Code examples can be found here: https://github.com/OttaviaB/cfgmgmt_camp_2026 . PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/W3GX3U/ B.1.017 Ottavia Balducci PUBLISH CSS3XT@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CSS3XT Using antsibull-nox to test your Ansible collection en en 20260202T165000 20260202T174000 0.05000 Using antsibull-nox to test your Ansible collection This talk is aimed at collection maintainers, but also at contributors who want to know more about collection testing. You will get a (historic) overview of existing collection testing tools, starting with ansible-test, learn of the challenges these tools pose to collection testing and collection CI, and how this led to the development of antsibull-nox - and, most importantly, how antsibull-nox tries to address these challenges. Talk slides: https://github.com/felixfontein/cfgmgmtcamp-2026-talk Demo repository: https://github.com/felixfontein/cfgmgmtcamp-2026-demo PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CSS3XT/ B.1.017 Felix Fontein PUBLISH UXRHYC@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -UXRHYC Software Distribution and Lifecycle Management With Katello en en 20260202T140000 20260202T145000 0.05000 Software Distribution and Lifecycle Management With Katello This presentation will focus first on Katello basics: repositories, lifecycle environments, and content views. We'll discuss concepts that apply to each of the supported content types: “yum” (RPMs, module streams, etc), debian, container, python, ansible-collection, ostree, and generic files. Afterwards, we'll discuss how Katello can help you get your synced content deployed onto machines. We'll cover topics like host registration, patching, and kickstart provisioning with synced content. Smart proxies will be discussed as well in case the content needs to be distributed to machines across different geographical regions. At the end, I will show how a Katello user could tie the presentation materials together to create a production-ready environment. The demo will cover scenarios like quickly applying emergency patches via incremental update, caching content on the local network, and automating software delivery. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/UXRHYC/ B.1.0.29 Ian Ballou PUBLISH KAKLSD@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -KAKLSD Integrating Pulp with Build Systems en en 20260202T145000 20260202T151500 0.02500 Integrating Pulp with Build Systems PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/KAKLSD/ B.1.0.29 Dennis Kliban PUBLISH BLCULB@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -BLCULB Client tooling to integrate with Pulp en en 20260202T151500 20260202T154000 0.02500 Client tooling to integrate with Pulp PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/BLCULB/ B.1.0.29 Matthias Dellweg PUBLISH XGAVZK@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -XGAVZK The Future of Bootable Containers in Katello en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 The Future of Bootable Containers in Katello This presentation will provide users with the background necessary to participate in a Foreman & Katello themed discussion about our present and future bootable containers integration. Ideas about the future will be proposed, and the audience will have a chance to share their experiences and thoughts. The suggestions will be noted for inclusion in future Foreman community RFC posts. Depending on where the discussion goes, there may also be: - A demo of the current bootable containers integration with a technical deep-dive - A discussion about provisioning bootable containers via Foreman - An overview of Katello’s container registry, which can host bootable container images PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/XGAVZK/ B.1.0.29 Ian Ballou PUBLISH YX8ZTC@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -YX8ZTC What Is New in Pulp Python en en 20260202T165000 20260202T171500 0.02500 What Is New in Pulp Python In 2025, the Pulp Python plugin gained significant attention and received several new features and refinements. Key updates include support for new core metadata (with the ability to fix them), a JSON-based Simple API, synchronous uploads, improved pull-through caching and data serving, and newly implemented vulnerability reports. In this session, we will explore some of these changes in detail, explain how they work, and show how you can use them to streamline your workflow and improve security. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/YX8ZTC/ B.1.0.29 Jitka Halova PUBLISH TMVAMQ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -TMVAMQ Upgrading Fedora's Monitoring - a real Tech Debt story en en 20260202T171500 20260202T174000 0.02500 Upgrading Fedora's Monitoring - a real Tech Debt story PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/TMVAMQ/ B.1.0.29 Greg Sutcliffe PUBLISH KVFHMX@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -KVFHMX Foreman Community Updates en en 20260202T140000 20260202T142500 0.02500 Foreman Community Updates PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/KVFHMX/ B.1.031 Shimon Shtein PUBLISH KSY7P9@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -KSY7P9 Risk and Vulnerability Management on Premise in Foreman en en 20260202T142500 20260202T145000 0.02500 Risk and Vulnerability Management on Premise in Foreman PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/KSY7P9/ B.1.031 Viliam Krizan PUBLISH TQFALN@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -TQFALN Foreman Plugin to Provision Hosts via OpenTofu for Diverse Compute and Virtualization Platforms en en 20260202T145000 20260202T154000 0.05000 Foreman Plugin to Provision Hosts via OpenTofu for Diverse Compute and Virtualization Platforms PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/TQFALN/ B.1.031 Manisha Singhal Markus Bucher PUBLISH CZKHZN@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CZKHZN Foreman - A Swiss Army Knife for multiple systems administration en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 Foreman - A Swiss Army Knife for multiple systems administration The Foreman project is a tool that is used to manage the whole lifecycle of server fleets. From provisioning through configuration management and content management to connection to online health and security recommendations services. We will talk about the various aspects of managing hosts using the Foreman and how to get started with it in your organization. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CZKHZN/ B.1.031 Shimon Shtein PUBLISH VCTJTA@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -VCTJTA Agama? How SUSE SLES16 Provisioning works with Foreman. en en 20260202T165000 20260202T171500 0.02500 Agama? How SUSE SLES16 Provisioning works with Foreman. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/VCTJTA/ B.1.031 Bernhard Suttner PUBLISH DVS97G@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -DVS97G Bringing OpenBolt into Foreman en en 20260202T171500 20260202T174000 0.02500 Bringing OpenBolt into Foreman PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/DVS97G/ B.1.031 Tim Meusel PUBLISH N3NCAJ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -N3NCAJ Nix at work ? How ? Why ? How about you ? en en 20260202T140000 20260202T142500 0.02500 Nix at work ? How ? Why ? How about you ? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/N3NCAJ/ B.1.036 Pol Dellaiera PUBLISH LCHTBT@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -LCHTBT Reactive Nix: Enabling Functional Reactive Configuration with mgmt en en 20260202T142500 20260202T145000 0.02500 Reactive Nix: Enabling Functional Reactive Configuration with mgmt Nix models derivations as pure mathematical functions: ```go system = f(configuration) ``` Each build yields a fixed, reproducible output. But between builds that output is static - it cannot express time or change. Functional Reactive Programming generalizes this idea: ```go system(t) = f(configuration, environment(t)) ``` Here, the configuration remains pure, yet depends on signals that evolve continuously. Despite its mathematical elegance, Nix as we use it today produces fixed values. The world may change, but the configuration cannot react. **mgmt's FRP runtime** provides a concrete realization of this idea: it observes the environment, reacts, and converges continuously to the declared state. The [**rx.nix (Reactive Nix)** project](https://github.com/karpfediem/rx.nix) explores what happens when Nix's purely functional configuration model meets mgmt's continuous evaluation. By treating Nix outputs as *functions over time* (not as fixed values), we can imagine systems that remain declarative, reproducible, and yet perpetually aligned with reality. We will discuss: - Current struggles of NixOS and the limits of static outputs - Building intuition for Functional Reactive Programming - How FRP can complement Nix - Possibilities we gain by combining Nix with mgmt PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/LCHTBT/ B.1.036 Jannik Höfler PUBLISH A88MRQ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -A88MRQ Overengineering my personal infrastructure with NixOS en en 20260202T145000 20260202T154000 0.05000 Overengineering my personal infrastructure with NixOS Topics include: - Remote hypervisor installation using nixos-anywhere - Remote disk unlocking using SSH during initrd phase - Using impermanence and an ephemeral root volume - Managing VMs using microvm.nix - Configuring Wireguard and GENEVE tunnels - Configuring Bird to connect to DN42, an experimental VPN network where you can experiment with things like BGP (https://dn42.dev) - Automating configuration of nameservers - Automating Prometheus scrape target configuration PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/A88MRQ/ B.1.036 Lander Van den Bulcke PUBLISH H3UXV8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -H3UXV8 Reproducible C++ Development Environments with Nix en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 Reproducible C++ Development Environments with Nix Modern C++ development often demands consistent toolchains, reproducible builds, and seamless onboarding, goals that traditional environment-setup methods struggle to meet. In this talk, we explore how Nix and related tools can transform the way you manage C++ development environments. We begin with nix-shell, examining how it provides fully reproducible, declarative build and runtime environments without polluting your system. From there, we introduce devenv, a higher-level workflow tool built on Nix that simplifies environment configuration for teams, integrates services, and improves day-to-day developer experience. Finally, we look at flox, a more user-friendly and collaborative approach to managing Nix-based environments across machines and teams. Through practical examples and comparisons, you’ll learn how these tools help eliminate “It Works On My Machine” problems. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/H3UXV8/ B.1.036 Wout Swinkels PUBLISH 8VCRHU@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -8VCRHU Building an Infrastructure Automation Platform using Platform Engineering principles en en 20260202T140000 20260202T145000 0.05000 Building an Infrastructure Automation Platform using Platform Engineering principles PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/8VCRHU/ B.2.015 Niklas Werker PUBLISH RQUJBF@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -RQUJBF Use Best-in-Class Tools for End-to-End Automation en en 20260202T145000 20260202T151500 0.02500 Use Best-in-Class Tools for End-to-End Automation It has always been a struggle to make IaC and orchestration tools work together in a seamless way. If you had to do it a couple of years ago, you had to invest time creating and maintaining your own platform to make them work together. Nowadays, thanks to platforms such as Ansible Automation Platform, you can easily create a workflow including Terraform/OpenTofu and Ansible to automate the entire lifecycle of your resources from a single entry point. The code to build the demo environment is available in this repository https://github.com/RedHatBelux/AAP2_opentofu PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/RQUJBF/ B.2.015 Vincent Seynhaeve PUBLISH 8MGGNK@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -8MGGNK Growing a startup using ansible en en 20260202T151500 20260202T154000 0.02500 Growing a startup using ansible PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/8MGGNK/ B.2.015 Johan Van de Wauw PUBLISH 9GEJXP@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -9GEJXP Uyuni: connecting two distinct worlds of Salt and Ansible en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 Uyuni: connecting two distinct worlds of Salt and Ansible Uyuni is the open-source configuration and infrastructure management solution for software-defined infrastructure, which could provide some advanced features to connect Salt and Ansible worlds togather by using Salt to trigger Ansible playbooks execution with Salt. There are some ideas how the Ansible integration can be extended, but what are the expectations of real users? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/9GEJXP/ B.2.015 Victor Zhestkov Pablo Suárez Hernández PUBLISH RLFAJQ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -RLFAJQ Automating Config Deployment with NetBox en en 20260202T165000 20260202T171500 0.02500 Automating Config Deployment with NetBox PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/RLFAJQ/ B.2.015 Christopher Rössler PUBLISH J7EH3N@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -J7EH3N OpenTofu Track Kickoff en en 20260202T140000 20260202T142500 0.02500 OpenTofu Track Kickoff PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/J7EH3N/ B.3.0.13 Sebastian Stadil PUBLISH RTUESF@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -RTUESF OpenTofu Builds It, Ansible Configures It: Using the Right Tool for the Right Job en en 20260202T145000 20260202T154000 0.05000 OpenTofu Builds It, Ansible Configures It: Using the Right Tool for the Right Job You'll learn: - Why declarative infrastructure provisioning (OpenTofu) and imperative configuration (Ansible) solve fundamentally different problems - How to generate dynamic Ansible inventories directly from OpenTofu state - Practical patterns: OpenTofu provisions the servers, creates the inventory, then hands off to Ansible for the "Day 2" configuration - When to stop: knowing which tool should own which resources (hint: if you're using Ansible's cloud modules, you're probably doing it wrong) - Real examples from production: building cloud infrastructure with OpenTofu and configuring it with Ansible in a clean, maintainable pipeline You'll leave with a clearer mental model of the provisioning/configuration boundary, working code examples, and the confidence to tell your team "we're using both, and here's why that's correct." PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/RTUESF/ B.3.0.13 James Freeman PUBLISH YWH8NT@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -YWH8NT Debugging Slow Infrastructure Runs with OpenTelemetry in OpenTofu en en 20260202T160000 20260202T162500 0.02500 Debugging Slow Infrastructure Runs with OpenTelemetry in OpenTofu PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/YWH8NT/ B.3.0.13 James humphries PUBLISH UQPK87@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -UQPK87 Q&A with the OpenTofu maintainers en en 20260202T162500 20260202T165000 0.02500 Q&A with the OpenTofu maintainers PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/UQPK87/ B.3.0.13 Sebastian Stadil PUBLISH BW9SC3@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -BW9SC3 Kubernetes can be more than just APIs en en 20260202T140000 20260202T145000 0.05000 Kubernetes can be more than just APIs PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/BW9SC3/ B.3.0.32 Marko Bevc PUBLISH USPZHD@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -USPZHD CDK8s: unleash programming language power for correct and testable Kubernetes charts en en 20260202T145000 20260202T151500 0.02500 CDK8s: unleash programming language power for correct and testable Kubernetes charts Kubernetes manifests, traditionally written in plain YAML or templated with systems like Kustomize and Helm, presented significant challenges for Datadog's Alerting team. With hundreds of applications deployed constantly, these methods proved inefficient for expressing complex needs, leading to maintenance difficulties, a lack of out-of-the-box validation, and insufficient testing capabilities. The team often spent excessive time on development and debugging, even causing incidents due to templating errors and inadequate validation. Our Automation team needed a solution to manage charts and system complexity across cloud providers, features, scale, and sharding. Adopting a programming language-based approach became essential. This would facilitate chart generation, enable robust testing, promote efficient code sharing, and offer an easier onboarding experience for developers. CDK8s provides precisely this solution: an open-source framework, renders Kubernetes manifests directly from languages like Javascript, Python, Java, and Go. This presentation will introduce CDK8s concepts and showcase its practical application within the Datadog Alerting team. Attendees will gain insights into managing infrastructure complexity using CDK8s, drawing from our team's experience. We will detail our transition from Helm templates and propose reusable patterns for enhancing DevOps infrastructure declaration. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/USPZHD/ B.3.0.32 Benjamin Führmann PUBLISH FSWFQB@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -FSWFQB Inspecting your Kubernetes cluster with eBPF and Inspektor Gadget en en 20260202T151500 20260202T154000 0.02500 Inspecting your Kubernetes cluster with eBPF and Inspektor Gadget PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/FSWFQB/ B.3.0.32 Soham Chakraborty PUBLISH R8TJ3F@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -R8TJ3F It Doesn't Always Have to Be Caviar: Enterprise Alternatives and the Challenge of Default Stacks en en 20260202T160000 20260202T165000 0.05000 It Doesn't Always Have to Be Caviar: Enterprise Alternatives and the Challenge of Default Stacks PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/R8TJ3F/ B.3.0.32 Gergely Szalay Amir Zahirovic PUBLISH GA93UM@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -GA93UM Simplifying Infrastructure Maintenance with Declarative Updates en en 20260202T165000 20260202T171500 0.02500 Simplifying Infrastructure Maintenance with Declarative Updates PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/GA93UM/ B.3.0.32 Vernin Olivier PUBLISH U7RVYV@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -U7RVYV Social Event en en 20260202T180000 20260202T220000 4.00000 Social Event PUBLIC CONFIRMED Social Event https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/U7RVYV/ The Zone PUBLISH ZJ3XH8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -ZJ3XH8 Opening Day 2 en en 20260203T090500 20260203T093000 0.02500 Opening Day 2 PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/ZJ3XH8/ D.Aud Toshaan Bharvani Kris Buytaert PUBLISH S93BW8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -S93BW8 Beyond Static Files: Dynamic Configurations for a Future-Proof World en en 20260203T093000 20260203T102000 0.05000 Beyond Static Files: Dynamic Configurations for a Future-Proof World PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/S93BW8/ D.Aud Marcel van Lohuizen Roger Peppe PUBLISH QV7JPB@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -QV7JPB The Gilded Age of Open Source is over en en 20260203T102000 20260203T111000 0.05000 The Gilded Age of Open Source is over Open source has enjoyed immense success during the first quarter (or so) of the 21st century. It has gone from a niche development model to a dominant part of the technology industry; it has enabled the rise of major tech companies that have, in turn, funded open source development and courted the favor of the open source community. However, the open source honeymoon seems to be over. Budgets have been slashed, entire teams of open source maintainers have been cut with little warning, and many companies are more interested in picking over the bones of open source repositories to feed large-language models than helping to fund open source maintenance. This talk will look at the history of open source's gilded age, examine its current state, and provide a glimpse into likely futures. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/QV7JPB/ D.Aud Joe Brockmeier PUBLISH AURM7P@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -AURM7P Panel: Souvereign Computing en en 20260203T112500 20260203T121500 0.05000 Panel: Souvereign Computing PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/AURM7P/ D.Aud Walter Heck Toshaan Bharvani Kris Buytaert Frank Louwers Marcel Kornegoor therojam Koen de Jonge PUBLISH UTCKK9@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -UTCKK9 Untaggling Strings: Getting CI Visibility for Vox Pupuli Tests en en 20260203T121500 20260203T122000 0.00500 Untaggling Strings: Getting CI Visibility for Vox Pupuli Tests PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/UTCKK9/ D.Aud Peter Souter PUBLISH MFY3SB@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -MFY3SB Every day I’m hustlin’ en en 20260203T122000 20260203T122500 0.00500 Every day I’m hustlin’ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/MFY3SB/ D.Aud Ben Ford PUBLISH MGVWWM@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -MGVWWM Dopamine, Dunning-Kruger, and a Life in Technology: Why We're All Confidently Wrong About Everything (And That's Okay) en en 20260203T122500 20260203T123000 0.00500 Dopamine, Dunning-Kruger, and a Life in Technology: Why We're All Confidently Wrong About Everything (And That's Okay) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/MGVWWM/ D.Aud James Freeman PUBLISH TKV8RR@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -TKV8RR How We Treat Each Other At Work en en 20260203T123000 20260203T123500 0.00500 How We Treat Each Other At Work Despite all of our tools and processes and our advances in engineering, sometimes we just need to remember we're working with humans and that engineering isn't just about productivity and solutions. Richard talks (quickly!) about his experiences with software engineering and how we can connect, and what drove him to write a novel, "Human Software", about putting human engineers above profits. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Ignite - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/TKV8RR/ D.Aud Richard W. Bown PUBLISH WTLM8B@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -WTLM8B Keeping the Netherlands secure and accessible with Nix en en 20260203T140000 20260203T145000 0.05000 Keeping the Netherlands secure and accessible with Nix This talk will (briefly) explain what the Internet Cleanup Foundation does, its various websites like Basisbeveiliging.nl, Basistoegankelijk.nl, their Belgian counterpart and the impact 3 nerds can make on Dutch cybersecurity with lots of open source software. It will also be detailing our journey from a Docker/Puppet development and deployment environment into a fully Nix/NixOS setup. How we approached it, some practical examples and the challenges along the way. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/WTLM8B/ D.Aud Johan Bloemberg PUBLISH LHWU8T@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -LHWU8T Free Software Needs Free Tools: Making Your Project Truly Open en en 20260203T145000 20260203T151500 0.02500 Free Software Needs Free Tools: Making Your Project Truly Open The goal with this talk is to spark reflection and conversation about the tools used to build open source projects, not just the code we bring to life. I hope it encourages both new and experienced maintainers to think critically about how proprietary tools may, unintentionally, be limiting their communities and values. The audience will leave with a better understanding of the trade-offs involved and the motivation to make small changes that lead to more open, inclusive, and resilient projects. If more projects switch even just one of their proprietary tools to an open alternative, it strengthens the entire open source ecosystem by reducing dependency on tech giants and supporting community-owned infrastructure. Whether you're starting a new project or maintaining a mature one, this talk will challenge you to think critically about the tools you use and advocate for open, community-controlled alternatives that align with the spirit of FOSS. [Slides](https://aina.li/cfgmgmt/) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/LHWU8T/ D.Aud Jan Ainali PUBLISH LLCCHN@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -LLCCHN The Day Two Problem: Examining Decades of Infrastructure Automation Evolution en en 20260203T151500 20260203T154000 0.02500 The Day Two Problem: Examining Decades of Infrastructure Automation Evolution Day One operations focus on initial deployment, while Day Two covers everything that follows: updates, drift correction, and lifecycle management. You deploy perfectly with Terraform, everything shows green, then six months later, you discover a database running somewhere that nobody remembers creating, and no monitoring covers it. After decades working with configuration management tools from Puppet to Terraform, through the rise of DevOps and platform engineering, I've watched each generation promise to be the next breakthrough while somehow repeating the same conceptual blind spots. During recent paternal leave, I had time to examine why similar patterns emerge across different tooling generations, how state management compares to distributed coordination systems, and why infrastructure automation remains disconnected from observability platforms. This talk explores these recurring themes and what we can learn from them. The database example is relatable - everyone's found mystery infrastructure running somewhere! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/LLCCHN/ D.Aud Yair Etziony PUBLISH EMBSD3@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -EMBSD3 Expectations Driven Deployments en en 20260203T160000 20260203T165000 0.05000 Expectations Driven Deployments PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/EMBSD3/ D.Aud Roman Mazur PUBLISH 3A8E9G@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -3A8E9G Software Defined Interviews Live Recording: Andrew Clay Shafer en en 20260203T165000 20260203T174000 0.05000 Software Defined Interviews Live Recording: Andrew Clay Shafer We'll do a live recording of [Software Defined Interviews](https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com)/[Software Defined Talk](https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/3A8E9G/ D.Aud Coté PUBLISH YHL3JY@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -YHL3JY Introducing Choria Configuration Manager en en 20260203T140000 20260203T145000 0.05000 Introducing Choria Configuration Manager PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/YHL3JY/ B.Con R.I.Pienaar PUBLISH XD8SWD@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -XD8SWD Introducing Pabawi. Puppet Ansible Bolt Awesome Web Interface. en en 20260203T145000 20260203T154000 0.05000 Introducing Pabawi. Puppet Ansible Bolt Awesome Web Interface. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/XD8SWD/ B.Con Alessandro Franceschi PUBLISH WCDFP8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -WCDFP8 Mgmt Config: Solving the bootstrapping problem en en 20260203T160000 20260203T165000 0.05000 Mgmt Config: Solving the bootstrapping problem PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/WCDFP8/ B.Con James (purpleidea) Andrew Clay Shafer PUBLISH VM78AU@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -VM78AU From Code to Context: Infrastructure as Code and the Model Context Protocol en en 20260203T165000 20260203T171500 0.02500 From Code to Context: Infrastructure as Code and the Model Context Protocol PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/VM78AU/ B.Con Mar PUBLISH AXBWWR@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -AXBWWR Next-Level Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK and LocalStack en en 20260203T171500 20260203T174000 0.02500 Next-Level Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK and LocalStack When you walk out of this session, you will learn how to structure your AWS CDK projects with TypeScript, when and how to apply fine-grained assertions for regression testing, and how to apply best practices with reusable CDK Constructs and enforce consistency with Blueprints and Aspects. Additionally, you will learn why LocalStack can be the best friend of your CDK project. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/AXBWWR/ B.Con Matheus das Merces PUBLISH CE9YF8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CE9YF8 How to Use an AI Assistant with Your Monitoring System en en 20260203T140000 20260203T145000 0.05000 How to Use an AI Assistant with Your Monitoring System PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CE9YF8/ B.1.011 Dmytro Kozlov PUBLISH 88YNP8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -88YNP8 OpenTelemetry Tracing, not just for webapps en en 20260203T145000 20260203T151500 0.02500 OpenTelemetry Tracing, not just for webapps PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/88YNP8/ B.1.011 Pieter Lexis PUBLISH QLFDWN@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -QLFDWN A walk through the Open Source Eco-System in the CNCF Observability Landscape en en 20260203T151500 20260203T154000 0.02500 A walk through the Open Source Eco-System in the CNCF Observability Landscape PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/QLFDWN/ B.1.011 Syed Usman Ahmad PUBLISH 9L8DKK@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -9L8DKK Open Source Cloud-Native Observability with VictoriaMetrics and OpenTelemetry en en 20260203T160000 20260203T162500 0.02500 Open Source Cloud-Native Observability with VictoriaMetrics and OpenTelemetry All tools and platforms presented in this talk are open source. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/9L8DKK/ B.1.011 Dmytro Kozlov PUBLISH F8UXJQ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -F8UXJQ Can We Manage Bedrock with IaC Yet? A Practical Look Using OpenTofu and CDK en en 20260203T162500 20260203T165000 0.02500 Can We Manage Bedrock with IaC Yet? A Practical Look Using OpenTofu and CDK Generative AI services like Amazon Bedrock are becoming common, but the Infrastructure as Code support for them is still limited. This session looks at what can be done today using OpenTofu and AWS CDK together to manage a small Bedrock setup on AWS. I’ll build a simple proof of concept that uses: • OpenTofu for core AWS infrastructure (VPC, S3, IAM) • CDK for Bedrock resources (Knowledge Base, Agent) • A small integration step to run both tools in sequence The talk focuses on what worked, what didn’t, and how close we are to being able to manage Bedrock workloads fully through IaC. It’s meant for engineers and architects who want a realistic view of what’s possible right now, not a perfect demo. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/F8UXJQ/ B.1.011 Michelangelo Markus PUBLISH 8NZDMV@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -8NZDMV Reliable Network Backups & Restore with Ansible: Idempotent, Vendor-Neutral, — with AI/ML Diff Severity en en 20260203T145000 20260203T154000 0.05000 Reliable Network Backups & Restore with Ansible: Idempotent, Vendor-Neutral, — with AI/ML Diff Severity Modern network automation needs backups that are deterministic, auditable, and work without Internet access. This session walks through: Patterns & pitfalls: Use absolute on-device paths (e.g., flash:/configs/backup.cfg, bootflash:/...) and do not rely on shell shortcuts like ~ (most network OSes don’t expand them). Choose the right transfer method (SFTP vs SCP) and prefer secure, internal file servers. Idempotent backups: canonicalizing configs, hashing (SHA-256), and writing only on change. Vendor neutrality: switching cleanly across IOS / IOS-XR / NX-OS with a single role interface. Device-native storage: choosing bootflash:/, disk0:, /misc/config and verifying available space. Restore safety: stage → replace/merge → post-verify via hash/lines match. Diff severity scoring: simple feature extraction + rules (optional scikit-learn) to rank risk and trigger rollbacks. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/8NZDMV/ B.1.0.14 Rohit Thakur PUBLISH TTBHGC@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -TTBHGC How we opened up Ansible's documentation infrastructure to the community en en 20260203T160000 20260203T165000 0.05000 How we opened up Ansible's documentation infrastructure to the community Some key points we'll cover in this session: - Why closed infrastructure hurts open source projects, even when it seems "necessary" - Tackling massive sphinx-builds (spoiler alert: I/O and memory constraints) - Preserving SEO while migrating unmaintainable legacy content and 10k+ http redirects - Replacing Jenkins jobs with GHA workflows - How Read The Docs saved the day! PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/TTBHGC/ B.1.0.14 Don Naro PUBLISH WG9ST8@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -WG9ST8 Writing, running, and testing awesome Ansible content with natural language and AI - powered by Ansible's MCP server en en 20260203T165000 20260203T174000 0.05000 Writing, running, and testing awesome Ansible content with natural language and AI - powered by Ansible's MCP server In this session you will see live demos of scenarios including … - Configuring the MCP server through the VS Code extension. - Enabling Ansible development tools with MCP server capabilities. - Scaffolding new Ansible projects and collections using the ansible-creator MCP tool. - Validating playbook and automatically fixing issues using the ansible-lint MCP tool. - Debugging a complex playbook run with ansible-navigator to review and troubleshoot issues in your automation content and much more. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/WG9ST8/ B.1.0.14 Shatakshi Mishra PUBLISH NRVBJE@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -NRVBJE Cross-Platform Compliance en en 20260203T140000 20260203T145000 0.05000 Cross-Platform Compliance Attendees will get a detailed look at how Compliance Engine enables cross-platform compliance in Puppet/OpenVox. We’ll show how Windows support has been implemented, outline what’s needed to bring Ubuntu/Debian into the mix, and share insights into testing strategies across heterogeneous infrastructures. By the end of the talk, participants will understand how to approach compliance in mixed OS environments and where the community can help shape the next steps. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/NRVBJE/ B.1.015 Steven Pritchard Kendall Moore PUBLISH C7SJ99@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -C7SJ99 Introduction to the Automated Operation and Maintenance System at IHEP en en 20260203T145000 20260203T151500 0.02500 Introduction to the Automated Operation and Maintenance System at IHEP PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/C7SJ99/ B.1.015 Xiaofei Yan PUBLISH NDAM98@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -NDAM98 How to migrate your Puppet [Enterprise] CA to OpenVox server en en 20260203T151500 20260203T154000 0.02500 How to migrate your Puppet [Enterprise] CA to OpenVox server How to migrate your Puppet [Enterprise] CA to OpenVox server. Just a short step by step guide on how to migrate. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/NDAM98/ B.1.015 Robert Waffen PUBLISH F9MXXR@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -F9MXXR Into the Spiderverse of Puppet test pipelines en en 20260203T160000 20260203T162500 0.02500 Into the Spiderverse of Puppet test pipelines PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/F9MXXR/ B.1.015 Ben Ford PUBLISH SRNZYS@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -SRNZYS Migrating Modules to OpenVox en en 20260203T162500 20260203T165000 0.02500 Migrating Modules to OpenVox We’ll share lessons learned from real-world migrations, covering what went smoothly, what required workarounds, and how to plan for success. Attendees will leave with practical guidance on migrating Puppet code to OpenVox, along with strategies to validate and test their environments throughout the transition. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/SRNZYS/ B.1.015 Steven Pritchard PUBLISH 7HGANT@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -7HGANT Should we rewrite OpenVox server in plain ruby? en en 20260203T165000 20260203T174000 0.05000 Should we rewrite OpenVox server in plain ruby? PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/7HGANT/ B.1.015 Marcus Poller PUBLISH PES9FE@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -PES9FE Ansible - State of the Community en en 20260203T140000 20260203T145000 0.05000 Ansible - State of the Community Thanks for making the time to join the review of the Ansible Community in 2025 We will start by highlighting some wins the community has had, before digging into details of some of the larger projects. Finally I'll explain what I hope you'll get out of Wednesday's Contributor Summit, and how this talk, and in fact, some of the other talks over the next 2 days hope to plant seeds for future discussions, so together we can continue to drive Ansible forward. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/PES9FE/ B.1.017 John "gundalow" Barker Don Naro PUBLISH Y833ZQ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -Y833ZQ Asking a local LLM about my Ansible playbooks because why not en en 20260203T145000 20260203T154000 0.05000 Asking a local LLM about my Ansible playbooks because why not Recording available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvMmCr8Ho4c PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/Y833ZQ/ B.1.017 David Moreau-Simard PUBLISH NNFGN9@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -NNFGN9 Ansible Style Guide and guidelines for compatibility with newer versions of Ansible community package/ansible-core (Ansible 12/ansible-core 2.19 and above) en en 20260203T160000 20260203T165000 0.05000 Ansible Style Guide and guidelines for compatibility with newer versions of Ansible community package/ansible-core (Ansible 12/ansible-core 2.19 and above) The presentation in PDF: https://github.com/abacusresearch/ansible-style-guide List of topics: - Changed/removed functionality in ansible-core 2.19 (and above) - Guidelines on using variables defaults/ vs. vars/ - Jinja: conditionals, various variable types - List of dictionaries and various filters used for list of dictionaries - Multiline strings - import_tasks vs. include_tasks etc. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/NNFGN9/ B.1.017 Kostiantyn Volenbovskyi PUBLISH CQDEPX@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CQDEPX A Love Letter to Ansible Core 2.19 en en 20260203T165000 20260203T171500 0.02500 A Love Letter to Ansible Core 2.19 PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CQDEPX/ B.1.017 Matt Davis PUBLISH SYSTYP@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -SYSTYP The Director's Cut: A new role for Ansible in Foreman en en 20260203T140000 20260203T145000 0.05000 The Director's Cut: A new role for Ansible in Foreman PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/SYSTYP/ B.1.031 Thorben Denzer Jan Bundesmann PUBLISH LDHSVL@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -LDHSVL EU OS use case study: bootc-based laptop fleet management with foreman en en 20260203T145000 20260203T151500 0.02500 EU OS use case study: bootc-based laptop fleet management with foreman PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/LDHSVL/ B.1.031 Robert Riemann Stefan Bogner Jonas Trüstedt PUBLISH 8WDVVM@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -8WDVVM Insights Compliance in Foreman en en 20260203T151500 20260203T154000 0.02500 Insights Compliance in Foreman Together with Red Hat Insights Compliance team, we're investigating integration of Insights Compliance from Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console (console.redhat.com) as an add-on into Foreman to provide better Compliance monitoring for users on-premise. The project is being maintained publicly on github.com/RedHatInsights/compliance-backend since September 2018. Our solution, also based on OpenSCAP, lets you create, customize, and track multiple policies at once, and it gives you a view of individual systems’ compliance levels. We would like to present our idea to the Foreman community and hear-out their comments or concerns. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/8WDVVM/ B.1.031 Roman Blanco PUBLISH QHPTF3@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -QHPTF3 Simplifying the deployment of Foreman as a bare-metal provisioning system en en 20260203T160000 20260203T162500 0.02500 Simplifying the deployment of Foreman as a bare-metal provisioning system Setting up fully featured installs of Foreman with all its MaaS and lifecycle-management functionality requires a lot of surrounding configuration and software, and not just with static configuration either. What if we could strip down Foreman to its Rails core, and still be able to do full Metal-as-a-Service with it? This talk explores how to strip out the pieces of Foreman that require the use of Smart Proxies, instead leveraging iPXE, static DHCP configuration snippets, and a few small plugins. All to allow the MaaS functionality to remain, but without requiring any of the dynamic configuration or network orchestrating that would normally be needed for them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/QHPTF3/ B.1.031 Alexander Olofsson PUBLISH F8DXGP@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -F8DXGP From 'undefined' to 'I Told You So' - TypeScript for the Foreman Frontend en en 20260203T162500 20260203T165000 0.02500 From 'undefined' to 'I Told You So' - TypeScript for the Foreman Frontend PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/F8DXGP/ B.1.031 Thorben Denzer PUBLISH RRDMZZ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -RRDMZZ Static vs. Dynamic Secrets: What Are We Really Talking About? en en 20260203T165000 20260203T174000 0.05000 Static vs. Dynamic Secrets: What Are We Really Talking About? This talk begins by defining the term itself and mapping out where secrets typically appear across systems, environments, and workflows. We’ll dive into the distinction between static and dynamic secrets, examining whether the difference is technical, operational, or even philosophical. Within a live demo, we’ll explore how secrets behave in practice, how they’re provisioned and rotated, and what implications they have for security and operations. This session aims to clarify terminology, challenge assumptions, and help attendees make informed decisions about how they handle secrets in their own environments. Demo Tech Stack: OpenBao, Keycloak, PostgreSQL, OpenSSH PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/RRDMZZ/ B.1.031 Leon Krass PUBLISH W8NCFX@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -W8NCFX Rudder: automate system security and configuration with GUI, API and YAML en en 20260203T140000 20260203T142500 0.02500 Rudder: automate system security and configuration with GUI, API and YAML PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/W8NCFX/ B.1.036 Nicolas CHARLES PUBLISH EJRFHU@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -EJRFHU The missing layer: Security auditing of configuration files en en 20260203T142500 20260203T145000 0.02500 The missing layer: Security auditing of configuration files PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/EJRFHU/ B.1.036 Alexis Mousset PUBLISH JGE9KE@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -JGE9KE SysInspect: from prototype to production en en 20260203T145000 20260203T154000 0.05000 SysInspect: from prototype to production Everyone solved configuration management on big servers. But embedded devices and IoT are still a mess — no SSH, flaky networks, tiny memory, and thousands of quirky devices that existing tools simply ignore. SysInspect started as an ADAS integrity observer and grew into a configuration and anomaly platform built for exactly these forgotten environments. It works without heavy (that much) agents, tracks state, detects drift and inspects runtime behavior. Telemetry modules stream structured JSON logs or OTLP traces even over poor links. It scales from a few-megabyte sensor board to large clusters and integrates with existing observability stacks. Typical use cases: - Validate system state before OTA rollouts. - Detect anomalies in the field in real time. - Provide continuous visibility across distributed fleets. - Feed inspection results directly into whatever uses OTel standard: Loki, Elasticsearch, Vector, Grafana etc. This talk shows how SysInspect builds a live model of each device, explains anomalies in context, and adapts its configuration logic across wildly different environments — plus what’s new since last year and where the project is heading. P.S. Of course it uses WASM. Your system doesn’t? 😏 PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/JGE9KE/ B.1.036 Bo Maryniuk PUBLISH 78VKZV@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -78VKZV Watch paint dry - Monitoring what doesn't change en en 20260203T160000 20260203T162500 0.02500 Watch paint dry - Monitoring what doesn't change In this talk I will discuss the idea, and launch my open source implementation of it. It uses PostgreSQL as the database, and has a modular architecture, so it is easy to expand it with the things you want to monitor. History and changes for each variable are tracked in the database, making it simple to implement new modules. Some examples for things to track are: number of script tags on your website, checksum of a released version of software, commit SHA of a tag (version), number of unsigned / untrusted commits in a repo, number of admins in an organization, IP address (DNS entry) of your website, etc. When any of these change, it can be a signal of some kind of compromise or malicious activity, and a way to track and alert on these changes is useful. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/78VKZV/ B.1.036 Ole Herman Schumacher Elgesem PUBLISH XBH3UZ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -XBH3UZ Crowdsec and Mikrotik integration en en 20260203T162500 20260203T165000 0.02500 Crowdsec and Mikrotik integration This project is not affiliated in any way with CrowdSec nor MikroTik, thus use at your own risk. Crowdsec is something like fail2ban but across multiple hosts/clusters. Mitigation of the attacks can be done by for example in web server module such as lua scripts in nginx, firewalls via iptables/nftables, kubernetes (yay because why not), or custom components (formerly called bouncers). This is a story how the project was forked and how to to integrate Crowdsec into a Mikrotik router - https://github.com/nvtkaszpir/cs-mikrotik-bouncer-alt which is fully opensource . I will provide a short history why I did it, and what are the pros/cons of that solution. I provide some working examples of how much resources it takes to implement it, real usage graphs from the working system. Few words about the ideas for improvements I have. I'm also eager to listen to the suggestions from more advanced people in improving the solution. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Short Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/XBH3UZ/ B.1.036 Michal Sochon PUBLISH NWW3JZ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -NWW3JZ crinit - an embedded, dependable, security-aware init system en en 20260203T165000 20260203T174000 0.05000 crinit - an embedded, dependable, security-aware init system PUBLIC CONFIRMED Full Talk - Monday & Tuesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/NWW3JZ/ B.1.036 Thomas Brinker Andreas Zdziarstek PUBLISH HCNHGB@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -HCNHGB Lunch Wednesday en en 20260204T130000 20260204T140000 1.00000 Lunch Wednesday PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lunch https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/HCNHGB/ ALL PUBLISH CCG7LJ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CCG7LJ mgmtconfig workshop - morning en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 mgmtconfig workshop - morning PUBLIC CONFIRMED Fringe - Wednesday - Half https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CCG7LJ/ B.1.011 James (purpleidea) PUBLISH KSD7ET@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -KSD7ET mgmtconfig workshop - afternoon en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 mgmtconfig workshop - afternoon PUBLIC CONFIRMED Fringe - Wednesday - Half https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/KSD7ET/ B.1.011 James (purpleidea) PUBLISH HPHLRM@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -HPHLRM Ansible Contributor Summit - Morning Sessions en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 Ansible Contributor Summit - Morning Sessions PUBLIC CONFIRMED Fringe - Wednesday - Half https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/HPHLRM/ B.1.0.14 John "gundalow" Barker Don Naro PUBLISH MQVURC@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -MQVURC Ansible Contributor Summit - Afternoon Sessions en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Ansible Contributor Summit - Afternoon Sessions PUBLIC CONFIRMED Fringe - Wednesday - Half https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/MQVURC/ B.1.0.14 Don Naro John "gundalow" Barker PUBLISH VENJ3R@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -VENJ3R Vox Pupuli Community Day - Morning Sessions en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 Vox Pupuli Community Day - Morning Sessions PUBLIC CONFIRMED Fringe - Wednesday - Half https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/VENJ3R/ B.1.017 Ben Ford PUBLISH CCCJWF@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CCCJWF Vox Pupuli Community Day - Afternoon Sessions en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Vox Pupuli Community Day - Afternoon Sessions PUBLIC CONFIRMED Fringe - Wednesday - Half https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CCCJWF/ B.1.017 Ben Ford PUBLISH BVZBGX@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -BVZBGX Hands-On Infrastructure Management with System Initiative en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 Hands-On Infrastructure Management with System Initiative PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/BVZBGX/ B.1.031 Paul Stack PUBLISH 9CV7CY@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -9CV7CY Own Your Data: Unlocking Documents with Docling en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Own Your Data: Unlocking Documents with Docling Project links: - https://www.docling.ai/ - https://github.com/docling-project - https://lfaidata.foundation/projects/docling/ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/9CV7CY/ B.1.031 Carol Chen Ming Zhao PUBLISH BRZSV9@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -BRZSV9 IaC workshop en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 IaC workshop In this workshop you will wear the coat of a DevOps engineer. The mission: package and deploy an application using configuration management tools. The idea is to gain hands-on experience with a combination of popular tools used in the infrastructure-as-code and configuration management landscape. Learning as you go and, hopefully, have fun along the way! With the support of some explanatory slides and a trainer as your guide, you will explore a Python application stored in Git, learn about automated tasks in VSCode, package your application in a container image (using Docker or Podman), define infrastructure using OpenTofu, write an Ansible Playbook to deploy the and test if you were successful. If not... more opportunity to learn, fix and demystify the landscape of Infrastructure-as-Code. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/BRZSV9/ B.1.036 Stefan Joosten PUBLISH 7MTYET@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -7MTYET Pulp User Group Meetup en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Pulp User Group Meetup PUBLIC CONFIRMED Fringe - Wednesday - Half https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/7MTYET/ B.1.036 Dennis Kliban PUBLISH W9LUC3@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -W9LUC3 From Zero to Immutable Kubernetes: Your First Cluster, Step by Step en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 From Zero to Immutable Kubernetes: Your First Cluster, Step by Step ## Outline 1. **What are immutable OS and how to think about operations with this paradigm** Explore the philosophy and architecture of immutable systems versus traditional configuration management tools. Learn how immutability enables atomic upgrades, reduced drift, simplified recovery, and stronger security postures. **Resources** - [Immutable Architecture](https://kairos.io/docs/architecture/immutable/) - [Understanding Immutable Linux OS: Benefits, Architecture, and Challenges](https://kairos.io/blog/2023/03/22/understanding-immutable-linux-os-benefits-architecture-and-challenges/) 2. **Introduction to Kairos and its major concepts** Get familiar with Kairos as a cloud-native, distro-agnostic, immutable Linux meta-distribution. Understand key concepts like A/B system partitions, persistent data separation, recovery mode, and cloud-config-driven provisioning. **Resources** - [Getting Started](https://kairos.io/getting-started/) - [What is Kairos](https://kairos.io/getting-started/what-is-kairos/) - [Architecture](https://kairos.io/docs/architecture/) - [Reference](https://kairos.io/docs/reference/) 3. **Deploying a single-node cluster** Deploy Kairos on a VM or bare-metal machine and initialize a Kubernetes control plane using K3s and cloud-init. Validate node readiness and explore initial workloads. **Resources** - [Manual Single-Node Cluster](https://kairos.io/docs/examples/single-node/) 4. **Build your own immutable OS** Use the **Kairos Factory** (from the Web or CLI) to create a custom immutable OS image tailored to your needs. Learn how to configure the base system, embed Kubernetes, and prepare for consistent provisioning. **Resources** - [The Kairos Factory](https://kairos.io/docs/reference/kairos-factory/) 5. **Integrating OS builds into your CI/CD pipelines** Automate OS image building and publishing using GitHub Actions or similar CI systems. **Resources** - Pending 6. **Upgrading your cluster manually** Perform manual upgrades using A/B partitions and Kairos commands. Practice rolling back and verifying upgraded systems. **Resources** - [Manual Upgrade](https://kairos.io/docs/upgrade/manual/) 7. **Deploying a multi-node cluster** Scale to a multi-node setup by bootstrapping additional Kairos worker nodes. Learn how to use cloud-config to preconfigure joining behavior. **Resources** - [Manual Multi-Node Cluster](https://kairos.io/docs/examples/multi-node/) 8. **Upgrading your cluster through Kubernetes** Set up the **Kairos Operator** to manage in-cluster, declarative upgrades. Apply upgrade plans to roll out updates across multiple nodes in a safe, automated way. **Resources** - [Kairos Operator README](https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos-operator) ### ⏱️ Optional Advanced Topics *(time and interest permitting)* - **Build an air-gapped cluster** Mirror container images and OS builds to run a Kubernetes cluster completely offline. **Resources** - [How to Create an Airgap K3s Installation with Kairos](https://kairos.io/docs/examples/airgap/) - **Perform a hybrid-cloud deployment** Combine public cloud and on-prem nodes into a single cluster using Kairos-based images. **Resources** - Pending - **PXE/netboot cluster bootstrapping** Use AuroraBoot to provision nodes over the network without local install media i.e. cdrom/usb **Resources** - [Netboot](https://kairos.io/docs/installation/netboot/) - [P2P Multi-Node Cluster Provisioned via Netboot](https://kairos.io/docs/examples/p2p_e2e/) - **Trusted Boot with TPM/UEFI for maximum security** Enable cryptographic boot verification to ensure system integrity at startup. **Resources** - [Architecture](https://kairos.io/docs/architecture/trustedboot/) - [Installation](https://kairos.io/docs/installation/trustedboot/) - [Upgrading](https://kairos.io/docs/upgrade/trustedboot/) - [System Extensions](https://kairos.io/docs/advanced/sys-extensions/) - [Unlocking the Mysteries of Trusted Boot: A Deep Dive into Secure System Boot Processes](https://kairos.io/blog/2024/04/10/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-trusted-boot-a-deep-dive-into-secure-system-boot-processes/) - **Deploying an HA multi-node cluster** Set up a highly available control plane using immutable nodes and external etcd or load balancing. **Resources** - [Manual HA Cluster](https://kairos.io/docs/examples/ha/) - [Self-coordinating HA Cluster](https://kairos.io/docs/examples/multi-node-p2p-ha/) - [Self-coordinating P2P Multi-Node Cluster with High Availability and KubeVIP](https://kairos.io/docs/examples/multi-node-p2p-ha-kubevip/) - **Deploying a multi-node self-coordinating cluster** Use Kairos mesh networking features to create clusters that auto-discover and join each other. **Resources** - [Self-Coordinating Multi-Node Cluster](https://kairos.io/docs/examples/multi-node-p2p/) - **Raspberry Pi deployments** Boot Kairos on ARM devices and set up a lightweight edge Kubernetes deployment with real hardware. **Resources** - [Installation](https://kairos.io/docs/installation/raspberry/) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/W9LUC3/ B.3.0.13 Mauro Morales Dimitris Karakasilis PUBLISH FYUEWV@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -FYUEWV Your Workstation Defined in Code—Bluefin, Chezmoi, and Gopass en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Your Workstation Defined in Code—Bluefin, Chezmoi, and Gopass **Your Workstation as Code:** - Bluefin custom image: Your OS definition—packages, settings, services—in a Containerfile you can build and version - Chezmoi: Your dotfiles as templated, version-controlled code with conditional logic for different machines - Gopass: Encrypted secrets stored in Git, decrypted on-demand, never in plaintext **What We'll Build:** - A complete workstation definition living in GitHub repositories - Automated deployment from code to running system - The ability to replicate your environment on any machine—or recover from disaster in under an hour Configuration management patterns without traditional CM tools **Why This Matters:** - This is infrastructure as code for personal computing. Your laptop becomes cattle, not a pet. Breaking things stops being scary. New machines stop being painful. You gain the same confidence in your workstation that you have in your production infrastructure. **You'll Need:** - GitHub account (free) - Optional: virtualization-capable laptop to test your builds - Desire to never manually configure a system again Leave with your entire computing environment defined in code and the skills to maintain it forever. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/FYUEWV/ B.3.0.13 James Freeman PUBLISH CWFLVM@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -CWFLVM Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code with OpenTofu (Terraform) en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code with OpenTofu (Terraform) Whether you're used to clicking around your cloud provider's UI to deploy your apps or you are completely new to cloud computing and infrastructure management, this workshop will get you started. We will cover the following concepts: * basics * providers, resources - quickly deploy something * variables, inputs, outputs - minor clean up * destroying infrastructure * state management * manipulating state * importing existing infrastructure * generating code for existing infrastructure * remote state to enable collaboration (bootstrapping problem) * terragrunt and abstractions * modules (OpenTofu) * units (Terragrunt) * stacks (Terragrunt) * solution to the remote state bootstrapping problem * deploy a simple web app with a frontend, backend, and database * final exercise * split web app in modules and units * deploy app in different environments utilizing stacks --- Resources * GitLab Repo: https://gitlab.com/patrickmoelk-consulting/workshops/infrastructure-as-code-with-opentofu/ * GitHub Repo: https://github.com/patrickmoelk-consulting/infrastructure-as-code-with-opentofu/ * Slides: https://patrick-moelk.eu/en/events/workshops/2026-02-04-hands-on-workshop-iac-with-opentofu/ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/CWFLVM/ B.3.029 Patrick Mölk PUBLISH H7GMM7@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -H7GMM7 Foreman UI future - the vision and the strategy en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Foreman UI future - the vision and the strategy PUBLIC CONFIRMED Fringe - Wednesday - Half https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/H7GMM7/ B.3.029 Shimon Shtein PUBLISH DCRWVC@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -DCRWVC Building AI-Assisted Operations: Agentic AI Workshop en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 Building AI-Assisted Operations: Agentic AI Workshop **Prerequisites** - Laptop - Basic familiarity with Kubernetes and GitOps concepts - GitHub account (for hands-on exercises) **Setup Requirements** - Wi-Fi for all participants - Each participant needs: GitHub personal access token - Pulumi accounts (free tier sufficient) **Audience** Platform engineers, SREs, and DevOps practitioners who want to explore AI-assisted operations beyond chatbot interfaces. Basic programming experience required. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/DCRWVC/ B.3.0.32 Engin Diri Zaid Ajaj PUBLISH VK3NKE@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -VK3NKE Prowler - Maximize your Cloud Security Compliance Assessments with Open Source and a pinch of AI en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Prowler - Maximize your Cloud Security Compliance Assessments with Open Source and a pinch of AI PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/VK3NKE/ B.3.0.32 Andoni Alonso Pedro Martin PUBLISH MBMLEU@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -MBMLEU Flox: The power of nix without the pain (mostly) en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Flox: The power of nix without the pain (mostly) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/MBMLEU/ B.3.036 Michael Stahnke PUBLISH GQYAVR@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -GQYAVR Modern Network Observability en en 20260204T090000 20260204T130000 4.00000 Modern Network Observability PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/GQYAVR/ B.3.009 Christian Adell PUBLISH WBGXFJ@@cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org -WBGXFJ Latest and greatest developments in CUE en en 20260204T140000 20260204T180000 4.00000 Latest and greatest developments in CUE In this workshop we will introduce the latest features of CUE. We also present a new model on how to organize CUE to allow for managing cross-cutting concerns (such as augmenting data and policy) in a scalable. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop - Wednesday https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/WBGXFJ/ B.3.009 Marcel van Lohuizen Daniel Martí Unnamed user Roger Peppe