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May 18-20, 2026
Minneapolis, MN
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Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
Traditional infrastructure GitOps workflows, commonly built on tools like Terraform or OpenTofu, often struggle with state management, limited reconciliation, and delayed drift detection. Because these systems operate outside the Kubernetes control plane, infrastructure changes follow different lifecycle and failure semantics than applications, making it difficult to reason about system-wide correctness and safety.

We’ll present a unified approach for managing both applications and infrastructure through the Kubernetes control plane. This approach brings together GitOps controllers and Crossplane to extend the Kubernetes API to infrastructure via an ecosystem of community-supported providers spanning major clouds, alternative clouds, and on-prem. The result is a vendor-neutral foundation where applications and infrastructure follow the same review, lifecycle, and reconciliation model.
Speakers
avatar for Corey McGalliard

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 →
avatar for Julien Semaan

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 →
Wednesday May 20, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
200F (Level Two)
  Cloud + Orchestration
  • Audience Experience Level Any
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