AGENDA

17:45: Doors open

18:00: Welcome by Cloud Native Latvia

18:15: OpenTelemetry: From Core Concepts to Scaling Insights by Gundega Dekena

19:00: Break with snacks

19:15: Guardrails in Action: Policy as Code with Kyverno by Linda Ārende

20:00: Networking

20:30: Doors close

Talk 1

OpenTelemetry: From Core Concepts to Scaling Insights by Gundega Dekena

Are you curious about OpenTelemetry and how it can boost your cloud systems? Join us for a session where we'll explain the difference between monitoring and observability—think of it as the difference between checking the weather and understanding the climate. We'll explore how OpenTelemetry helps you see what's really going on inside your systems. Discover how it works, why it's beneficial, and how we've successfully integrated it into our platform. We'll share practical tips, tricks, and lessons learned to help you avoid common challenges. Whether you're new to observability or looking to improve your current setup, this talk will equip you with the knowledge to make the most of OpenTelemetry.

Talk 2

Guardrails in Action: Policy as Code with Kyverno by Linda Ārende

Designing scalable and secure Kubernetes environments requires balancing the flexibility for application teams with the centralized control. While golden paths simplify application delivery, it is a task of platform engineer ensuring that teams do not take unsafe shortcuts when that application is delivered into a cluster.

In this session, we will examine a real-world use case demonstrating how Kyverno—a Kubernetes-native policy engine—can be used to automate, enforce, and monitor policy-driven guardrails across clusters, helping platform teams maintain consistency, compliance, and operational safety at scale.