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GitOps Gone Wild: Hardening Delivery Pipelines for the AI Era - Julien Semaan, Kubex & Corey McGalliard, Akamai
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
GitOps promises safety and automation, but it will faithfully ship your mistakes at scale. With AI-assisted coding and emerging autonomous agents in the loop, those mistakes now move faster than humans can fully reason about their impact.

This talk dissects real-world GitOps failures where tiny configuration changes triggered outages, overly trusted pipelines amplified risk, and AI-generated patches were merged without understanding their consequences. None of these incidents were tooling failures. They were safety failures.

We’ll show how teams put guardrails back in place by enforcing policy before merge, using progressive rollouts to contain blast radius, applying Crossplane constraints to keep infrastructure changes reversible, and adding automated verification gates that catch problems before they reach production.
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Corey McGalliard

Engineering Manager, Akamai Cloud
My team and I power and protect life online by building an internal, opinionated Kubernetes platform that meets Akamai's change-safety, security, and compliance expectations while delivering an excellent developer experience. I'm interested in distributed computing and platform engineering... Read More →
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Julien Semaan

Head of k8s Engineering @Kubex | CNCF TAG DevEx Tech Lead, Kubex
Julien is the Head of Kubernetes Engineering at Kubex and a Tech Lead with the CNCF TAG for Developer Experience. With deep roots in open source and cloud-native systems, he has been working with Kubernetes since 2017 and has led multiple product transitions to cloud-native archi... Read More →
GitOps Gone Wild Hardening Delivery Pipelines for the AI era pdf
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm CDT
200C (Level Two)
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