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Addons Need Love Too: Maintaining Addons for Better Cluster Security - Stevie Caldwell & Andy Suderman, Fairwinds
Monday June 16, 2025 17:10 - 17:40 JST
Level 1 | Pegasus Ballroom A+B1
Projects both within and outside of the CNCF ecosystem provide additional capabilities for Kubernetes clusters. These "addons" become integral to the functioning of our clusters, but we don't often talk about their impact as a whole or managing them holistically as first-class citizens.

We know there are barriers to keeping things like addons up-to-date and that it can be difficult to get buy-in for allocating the time and resources for updating something that is working just fine (for now), especially if you’re multiple major versions behind. In this session we will help you understand and articulate the benefits of catching up and keeping addons updated and how to be proactive moving forward. You will walk away with some tools and strategies for navigating the complexity of the addon ecosystem and make the process as painless as possible. You will be able to create an action plan for improving the stability and security of your clusters and share that with stakeholders.
Speakers
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Stevie Caldwell

Senior Tech Lead, Fairwinds
Stevie Caldwell is a Senior Site Reliability Engineering Technical Lead at Fairwinds. Stevie also participates in the R&D arm of Fairwinds where she contributes to Fairwinds’s open source projects. She has worked with Kubernetes for 6+ years, has presented at a number of webinars... Read More →
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Andy Suderman

CTO, Fairwinds
Andy Suderman is CTO at Fairwinds, a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider. Andy has worked with cloud native technologies for the last eight years helping organizations adopt and manage Kubernetes. Andy is the creator and primary developer of Goldilocks—an open source tool that... Read More →
Monday June 16, 2025 17:10 - 17:40 JST
Level 1 | Pegasus Ballroom A+B1
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