Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026

Implementing a cloud-native AI stack often leads to operational and security issues. This session will provide attendees with an analysis of production-ready Cloud Native AI stacks, integrating community insights and the latest Cloud Native AI Conformance guidelines. We will showcase practical implementation methods through reference architectures and key projects, and define key metrics for benchmarking Cloud Native AI environments against established community standards.


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies. 

Our new software factory framework adopts the reconciliation pattern and includes numerous bots that use traditional and agentic AI eval approaches. And since we are open sourcing the framework, reliable use of your own agentic reconciliation automation at massive scale could be your future too.

At Chainguard we build and maintain over 2000 unique containers, hundreds of thousands of package versions, and hundreds of CVE patch backports. Our old event-driven architecture was complex and brittle. We drowned in event notifications, brittle queues, duplicate build failures, work item conflicts and losses, and other problems. We had to rethink our approach.

In this session Manfred, open source veteran and author, shares details about a new specification-driven system called “Driftless” that increases efficiency and reliability at scale. A work queue is fed by events and tackled by a large number of bots. They constantly reconcile the discovered state changes from code repositories, security feeds, and other sources to the desired state - up to date containers with zero known CVEs. Manfred talks about our hard-earned lessons and how you can make the bots work for you as well.


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party's booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.