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9:00am MST

OpenFeature Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Community
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Maclean

Andrew Maclean

Developer Relations Manager, DevCycle
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit

9:10am MST

How to Rollout an Update for a CNI Without Breaking the World Wide Web - Jen Luther Thomas, Tigera
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Project Calico is a widely adopted open-source solution known for its flexible architecture, providing robust networking and security across most cloud providers. Feature flagging is a critical step in every release for Project Calico, allowing Tigera engineers to deploy our solution without breaking the Internet. This talk will explore the importance of feature flagging within Project Calico, highlighted by the real-world case study of the Reddit Pi Day incident. We will discuss how this incident underscored the necessity of feature flagging and led to its extensive adoption in our project. Attendees will gain insights into the underlying problems that feature flagging solves on a big scale and the relevance of these practices in maintaining seamless, secure operations in diverse cloud environments. Join us to learn how Project Calico leverages feature flagging, which allows you to scroll through your favourite social services, such as Reddit!
Speakers
avatar for Jen Luther Thomas

Jen Luther Thomas

Technical Marketing Engineer, Tigera
Jen Luther Thomas is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Tigera. She has 10 years of experience in the geospatial industry and in more recent years was responsible for customer success of cloud and container deployments of enterprise ETL software. At Tigera, she is a subject matter... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit, Fundamentals of Feature flagging/OpenFeature

9:45am MST

Test Smarter, Not Harder: QA Enhancements with OpenFeature - Meha Bhalodiya, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
In the dynamic world of software development, how do you ensure quality without compromising speed? And how OpenFeature empower QA teams to elevate their testing game? "Test Smarter, Not Harder: QA Enhancements with OpenFeature" delves into the revolutionary ways OpenFeature enhances your QA processes, allowing teams to achieve robust, bug-free releases exploring how feature flags when integrated with OpenFeature, reduce the complexity of environment management, and enable more granular control over feature deployments. Attendees will gain insights into setting up effective feature flagging strategies and leveraging OpenFeature's capabilities to minimize risk and maximize quality. Whether you're a QA engineer, developer, or project manager, this talk will equip you with the tools and knowledge to enhance your QA processes, delivering high-quality software faster and with greater confidence. Embrace the future of QA with OpenFeature and start testing smarter, not harder.
Speakers
avatar for Meha Bhalodiya

Meha Bhalodiya

Software Quality Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, where I work with the OpenShift Container Platform team. Apart from the full-time job, I also participate in upstream community initiatives, such as being a Branch Manager in v1.31, a CI Signal Lead in Kubernetes Release v1.28 (been a shadow... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit, Testing and quality assurance

10:40am MST

Migrating to Open Feature at Scale: 0 to Billions - Chetan Kapoor & Justin Abrahms, eBay
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
eBay, a seasoned 20+ year big-tech with ~4000 engineers adopted OpenFeature on its large scale decision making platform. This success story is more than simply a feature flag enablement, it's about simplifying a complex onboarding process, enabling flags and offering a 5-star developer experience! This 2023 highlight took two partners with complimenting skill-sets, a lot of trust and continuous iterations. We'll walk through the state of the world before the introduction of Open Feature, how we built an internal community around the mission and practical techniques that were used to establish leadership buy-in and accelerate momentum in such a large complex organization.
Speakers
avatar for Chetan Kapoor

Chetan Kapoor

Product Leader @ eBay, eBay
Chetan is a change-maker, OpenFeature evangelist and technical product leader at eBay, responsible for establishing a culture of data-informed decision making and building platform for experimentation and feature flags. Previous to eBay, he grew a B2C Chicago FinTech from 100M to... Read More →
avatar for Justin Abrahms

Justin Abrahms

Principal Engineer, Thrive Market
In recent years, I’ve spent the bulk of my work-related time helping large enterprises deliver software more successfully. I care a lot about open source, software delivery and solarpunk ethos.In my spare time, You’ll find me motorcycling, working in the wood & metal shops or... Read More →
KubeCon OpenFeature Summit 2024 eBay Deck pdf
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit, Fundamentals of Feature flagging/OpenFeature

11:15am MST

Experimentation Programs at Scale: Lessons Learned from Top Companies - Graham McNicoll, GrowthBook
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Running a few experiments is easy, especially when using feature flags. However, scaling up experimentation and adopting an experimentation-driven approach across an entire organization is much more challenging. How can the frequency of experiments be increased while maintaining quality and trustworthy results? This talk will address this question by exploring the methods top companies use to run their experimentation programs at massive scales. It will start with an introduction to experimentation-driven product development and discuss the advantages of these techniques. Then, the discussion will cover how experimentation programs can go wrong and, finally, how top companies structure their programs to solve these issues and unlock experimentation at a large scale.
Speakers
avatar for Graham McNicoll

Graham McNicoll

Co-founder, GrowthBook
Graham is the co-founder and CEO of GrowthBook, an open-source feature flagging and AB testing platform that is part of the open feature project and used by thousands of companies. Before starting GrowthBook, Graham was the CTO of Education.com for six years. Graham is a three-time... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit, A/B testing and experimentation

11:45am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Costs of Feature Flags: Understanding and Managing Adoption Challenges - Shreya Shivratriwar, Software Engineer
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:45am - 11:55am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Feature flags offer powerful control over software releases, but they introduce hidden complexities in version management and user adoption that can catch development teams off guard. As application states multiply and the definition of a "version" blurs, teams struggle with maintaining compatibility and ensuring smooth updates across diverse platforms and user segments. To address these challenges, we propose a strategy of treating feature flag rollouts as code changes, favoring smaller, more frequent updates over large-scale alterations. This talk will unveil the often-overlooked costs of feature flags, explore their impact on versioning and user experience, and provide attendees with practical strategies for mitigating these issues. By the end, you'll have a clearer understanding of how to navigate the complex landscape of feature flag implementation, balancing the benefits of flexibility with the need for manageable, user-friendly software evolution.
Speakers
avatar for Shreya Shivratriwar

Shreya Shivratriwar

Software Engineer, N/A
Shreya is an engineering student and AI researcher from India, deeply involved in AI and its applications. Passionate about technology, she enjoys coding, exploring new AI advancements, and contributing to open-source projects. Shreya is also focused on AI ethics and aims to create... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:45am - 11:55am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit, Fundamentals of Feature flagging/OpenFeature

12:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Would a Gradual Rollout by Any Other Hashing Algorithm Still Smell as Sweet? - Chris Griffing, GitKraken
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:00pm - 12:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Gradual rollouts are an important use-case for feature flags. But not all hashing algorithms have the same goals. In this analysis, we will compare/contrast hashing algorithms and why your standard password hashing algorithm might not be ideal compared to some others. Some are also more readily available in various languages which can influence your decisions when building SDKs. We will outline which metrics we care about and why while graphing the results.
Speakers
avatar for Chris Griffing

Chris Griffing

Developer Advocate, GitKraken
I like to make things and share them with people.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:00pm - 12:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit, A/B testing and experimentation

12:10pm MST

OpenFeature Summit | Closing Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Coummunity
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:10pm - 12:15pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Maclean

Andrew Maclean

Developer Relations Manager, DevCycle
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:10pm - 12:15pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit

1:25pm MST

OpenTofu | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Speakers
avatar for Sebastian Stadil

Sebastian Stadil

OpenTofu Core Contributor, OpenTofu
Sebastian Stadil has been a Cloud developer since 2004, starting with web services for e-commerce and then for computational resources. He founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, a user group of over 8000 members that meets monthly to present the latest developments in the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day

1:35pm MST

Accelerating Application Delivery with OpenTofu Controller and GitOps - Lucas Duarte & Tiago Reichert, AWS
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:35pm - 2:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Developers often face challenges in reusing code and infrastructure across different projects, leading to duplication of effort and slower time-to-market. Platform engineering aims to solve this by providing a shared, standardized platform with reusable assets, automation, and governance, enabling faster development and delivery of applications.

Explore how OpenTofu Controller, in conjunction with Fluxv2 and GitOps principles, enables a seamless integration of infrastructure and application resources within a Kubernetes environment. We will dive into a real-world use case, showcasing the deployment of a multi-tenant SaaS platform on Kubernetes using OpenTofu Controller and Helm to consistently package reusable assets and deploy both application definitions and infrastructure components through a Git-centric workflow.
Speakers
avatar for Lucas Duarte

Lucas Duarte

Sr. Specialist Containers SA, AWS
avatar for Tiago Reichert

Tiago Reichert

Sr. Specialist Containers SA, AWS
Tiago is a Solutions Architect for AWS Brazil focused on helping ISV partners on their cloud journey. His passion lies in Containers, DevOps and SaaS. Additionally, Tiago is one of the organizer for the KCD Brazil.
Accelerating App Delivery With OpenTofu KubeConNA 2024 pptx
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:35pm - 2:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, Community Insights

2:10pm MST

Mutually Assured Development - Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:10pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
An overview of the history of OpenTofu and how highly competitive actors can come together to build a strong ecosystem and community with the right push.

How do you channel the outrage after a rug pull on an Open Source project into a successful fork and community? A situation developers and companies are faced with all too often these days. How did a group of companies which are direct and fierce competitors kick off this project? This talk offers an inside perspective into the challenges faced by OpenTofu over the past year and what paths we are taking to overcome them.
Speakers
avatar for Christian Mesh

Christian Mesh

Core Engineer and Tech Lead, OpenTofu, sponsored by SpaceLift
With over a year of OpenTofu development under his belt, Christian is a Core Engineer and Tech Lead of OpenTofu. He is generously sponsored by SpaceLift.
OpenTofuDay MAD pdf
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:10pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, Community Insights

2:40pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: A Tale of Three Configs: On Best Practices with OpenTofu Structuring - Ronny Orot, env0
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 2:50pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Today, there are three primary methods to manage your OpenTofu configurations and state across different environments (dev, int, prod): using separate configurations for each environment, leveraging workspaces, and employing the backend-config flag. I

n this talk, we'll explore the pros and cons of each approach and how the new Static Evaluation feature impacts and enhances these methods.

Additionally, we'll discuss versioning of OpenTofu modules, highlighting how the Static Evaluation feature simplifies the process and brings greater flexibility to module management. Join us to gain insights into optimizing your OpenTofu workflows and maximizing the full potential of Static Evaluation.
Speakers
avatar for Ronny Orot

Ronny Orot

Software Engineer, env0
Ronny Orot is a Senior Software Engineer at env0 and an OpenTofu core developer team member. She has created various TACOS solutions for different companies over the past four years and is passionate about DevOps and IaC.
A Tale of Three Configs On Best Practices with OpenTofu Structuring pptx
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 2:50pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, OpenTofu Internals

2:55pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Migrating a Client onto OpenTofu for Cost + Speed - Matt Gowie, Masterpoint
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Come learn about an exciting OpenTofu migration that my team and I executed on for one of our client's. We migrated our client, Power Digital Marketing, off of Terraform and Terraform Cloud and onto OpenTofu and Spacelift. This successful migration has some wildly successful outcomes with a 10x reduction in upcoming costs and a 10x decrease in the time it took for creating new client infrastructure through Power Digital's TF based process.

This talk will help attendees understand the benefits of OpenTofu, how to think about migrating, showcase a real-life example of Tofu in the wild, and further solidify that OpenTofu can be used successfully in production for big, mission-critical workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Matt Gowie

Matt Gowie

CEO/CTO, Masterpoint
Matt Gowie is the CEO of Masterpoint, a consulting firm focused on helping engineering orgs get the most out of their IaC. Matt has over a dozen years of experience in the tech ecosystem, with a passion for all things Terraform and OpenTofu. He is an active member of the community... Read More →
Migrating Client to OpenTofu pdf
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, Stories of successful migrations+upgrades+usage

3:20pm MST

Enabling OpenTofu for the Enterprise - Jordan Argueta and Douglas Flagg, Fidelity Investments
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
In this presentation, we will cover how we built an internal Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Platform to support a growing user base with over 2,070 applications managing 46,430 workspaces. It is our goal to explore what it means to enable an IaC tool like OpenTofu in a way that promotes security and compliance while also offering quick and easy self-service solutions. We will also discuss how we are enabling existing Terraform users to use OpenTofu, and the strategies implemented to facilitate a seamless transition. Finally, we will highlight what kind of applications, provider/module catalogs, and observability tools that platform teams should consider when creating a developer centric ecosystem for OpenTofu. Attendees will take away a concrete road map for enabling OpenTofu across many different teams within an enterprise.
Speakers
avatar for Douglas Flagg

Douglas Flagg

Principal Cloud Engineer, Fidelity Investments
Doug is a Principal Cloud Engineer at Fidelity Investments who collaborates daily with multiple internal business partners to deliver customer value through development of IaC tools and practices and applying them practically in various public clouds.Because of the visibility this... Read More →
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Jordan Argueta

Senior Cloud Engineer, Fidelity Investments
Jordan is Senior Cloud Engineer who has had the opportunity to be apart of the Cloud Platform and Engineering department at Fidelity Investments. His day-to-day task include contributing toward self-service tools, applications, and modules for OpenTofu and Terraform.
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Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, Stories of successful migrations+upgrades+usage

3:55pm MST

Panel: Ask the Devs! - Ronny Orot & Arel Rabinowitz, env0; Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift & Mey Beisaron, Forter & International Tech
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
The core developers in attendance will introduce themselves and briefly talk about their experience working on OpenTofu. We will then open the floor for questions related to all aspects of OpenTofu development.
Speakers
avatar for Mey Beisaron

Mey Beisaron

Senior Platform Engineer, Forter
Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer and a public speaker who brings Star Wars geekery to everything she does. As a Backend Developer, Mey has developed in multiple programming languages, including Nodejs, Python, Groovy, and her favorite, Clojure. Today Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer... Read More →
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Arel Rabinowitz

Principal Engineer, env0
Has been part of the industry for more than a decade, and has taken part in many different engineering roles.Currently working as a Principal Engineer in env0, and as a core team member of OpenTofu. 
avatar for Ronny Orot

Ronny Orot

Software Engineer, env0
Ronny Orot is a Senior Software Engineer at env0 and an OpenTofu core developer team member. She has created various TACOS solutions for different companies over the past four years and is passionate about DevOps and IaC.
avatar for Christian Mesh

Christian Mesh

Core Engineer and Tech Lead, OpenTofu, sponsored by SpaceLift
With over a year of OpenTofu development under his belt, Christian is a Core Engineer and Tech Lead of OpenTofu. He is generously sponsored by SpaceLift.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, OpenTofu Internals

4:40pm MST

Policy-as-Code for Infrastructure-as-Code with OPA and OpenTofu - Colin Lacy, Cisco
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:40pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
The problem: when managing OpenTofu configurations, a lot of manual work is involved. Will this update delete something it shouldn't? Was that cloud VM over-provisioned? Does this new resource follow the required naming convention?

The solution: set policies for OpenTofu state changes with policy-as-code, using Open Policy Agent (OPA).

In this session, attendees will:
- see how OPA's Rego policy language can prevent unwanted changes to their infrastructure
- learn how OpenTofu can inform OPA policy bundles to create dynamic policies
- watch a demo of an IaC deployment pipeline with policy enforcement and policy updates.
Speakers
avatar for Colin Lacy

Colin Lacy

Lead Software Engineer, Cisco
Colin Lacy is a Lead Software Engineer in Cisco Meraki's Hardware Analytics team, and a life-long believer in leveraging automation to standardize and simplify everyday tasks. He is an active mentor to junior developers, regularly contributes to OPA, and has taught multiple software... Read More →
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Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:40pm - 5:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, Stories of successful migrations+upgrades+usage

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Merge Conflict - Conflict: Apply-Before-Merge vs. Traditional Continuous Deployment - Asaf Blubshtein, env0
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
In modern infrastructure management, Terraform and now it's open source fork, OpenTofu, has emerged as a leading tool for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling efficient and reproducible infrastructure deployments.

This talk explores two distinct approaches to integrating OpenTofu into your deployment pipeline: the approve-before-merge approach using Atlantis and the traditional continuous deployment (CD) strategy where changes are applied post-merge.

We’ll delve into the workflows, benefits, and challenges of each method, examining how they handle collaboration, ensure compliance, and manage deployment risks. Attendees will gain insights into choosing the right strategy for their teams, balancing speed and safety in their Terraform deployments.
Speakers
avatar for Asaf Blubshtein

Asaf Blubshtein

DevOps Solution Architect, env0
Asaf Blubshtein is a Solution Architect at env0, helping DevOps teams optimize and scale their Infrastructure as Code operations. In previous roles he helped various customers adopt and integrate native cloud solutions. He is passionate about technology, technical design, and continuous... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, Stories of successful migrations+upgrades+usage

5:25pm MST

OpenTofu Day | Closing Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
Speakers
avatar for Sebastian Stadil

Sebastian Stadil

OpenTofu Core Contributor, OpenTofu
Sebastian Stadil has been a Cloud developer since 2004, starting with web services for e-commerce and then for computational resources. He founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, a user group of over 8000 members that meets monthly to present the latest developments in the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day
 
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