CfgMgmtCamp 2026 Ghent

Benjamin Führmann

Benjamin is a Software Engineer at Datadog, a leading observability and security SaaS platform. He simplifies development and deployment workflows for developers working on the Alerting product, simplifying their tasks and the management of their services. Prior to this, he worked at Ubisoft, utilizing technologies like Ansible to facilitate the deployment of OpenStack and other infrastructure technologies.

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Sessions

02-02
14:50
25min
CDK8s: unleash programming language power for correct and testable Kubernetes charts
Benjamin Führmann

Debugging Kubernetes YAML can be frustrating, especially when wrestling with missing line breaks or maintaining hundreds of lines of curly template brackets. Fortunately, there are alternative approaches to declaring complex infrastructures with more suitable programming languages! In this talk, I’ll present how CDK8s can be used to enhance your Infrastructure as Code organization and share valuable tips we gleaned during our migration journey within the Datadog Alerting team.

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