Talks on Robert Sirchia

Helm 4 Is Here So Now What

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After five years, Helm 4 was released last November at KubeCon North America 2025. While there was a large amount of fanfare coinciding with the release, many now wonder: “what does the future have in store for the Helm project?”

In this session, join Helm project maintainers as they look not on the past, but towards the future. They will share the list of features that were both planned for and/or delivered with the release of Helm 4. These capabilities have helped lay the foundation for what is available today within Helm 4 and where further advancement can be made. They will also share where the project is headed strategically and all of the different contribution opportunities available for the community.

Introducing Helm 4

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The wait is over! After six years with Helm v3, Helm v4 is finally here. In this session you’ll learn about Helm v4, why there was 6 years between major versions (from backwards compatible feature development to maintainer ups and downs), what’s new in Helm v4, how long Helm v3 will still be supported, and what comes next. Could that include a Helm v5?

Kubewarden Leveraging and Extending CEL for Your Cluster Security

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Common Expressions Language (CEL) is a fast, portable, non-Turing-complete evaluation language that can simplify writing and reusing policies, and is finally here since Kubernetes 1.29: from validating CRDs to ValidatingAdmissionPolicies.

In this lightning talk we will showcase how Kubewarden, thanks to WebAssembly, reuses the very same CEL libraries from Kubernetes to provide a CEL policy that is backwards compatible. We will also learn how this Kubewarden CEL policy extends the CEL features by providing context-aware capabilities, telemetry and policy reports.

Solving for the Cloud Native Security Paradox

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When we talk about the risks associated with containers in the context of enterprise workloads, there are various factors that come into play - multiple vendors and individuals, lack of standardization and conformance, tooling fatigue and of course, vulnerabilities! While the SLSA framework and OCI specification are great signals of your risk posture and conformance, how do you as a developer ensure that you’re following best practices while staying up-to-date with the latest releases? In this session, learn how SUSE’s Base Container Images empower you to build enterprise-ready containers without compromising on developer experience, security, or flexibility.

Build and Deploy Kubernetes Policies With Wasm

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this talk, Robert Sirchia covers the essentials of writing and deploying Kubernetes policies using Kubewarden. Learn about the Kubewarden project, its target audiences, and how to create effective policies. Robert shares practical insights and advice for both Kubernetes operators and policy developers. Whether you’re new to Kubernetes or looking to enhance your policy management skills, this session is packed with valuable information.

Cloudy With a Chance of Zero Trust Navigating Security in the Cloud Native Cosmos

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

With awareness comes knowledge and with adequate knowledge, we can begin our journey toward implementing zero trust in our containerised workloads. This session aims to help the audience do just that by covering the below:

Houston, we have a problem!
What is zero trust?
The five pillars of the zero trust maturity model
The path to enlightenment: Understanding potential threat vectors across your workloads’ lifecycle
How to walk the talk : Implementing what you’ve just learned with different tools across the landscape

Diving in With SLE BCI

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Picking the right container to use can be a bit confusing. Are you packaging to much in your containers or too little. Or do you know where your container images come from? This talk I focus on base container images built from SUSE Linux Enterprise. I will go over the use cases to help guide people to use the right container for the job. I will also demonstrate how to use our container is some popular use cases.

Simplify Building Applications for Kubernetes

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this talk, Robert Sirchia discusses simplifying the process of building applications in Kubernetes using Epinio, an open-source tool. He distinguishes between building applications for Kubernetes and building applications in Kubernetes, emphasizing the importance of having “just enough” knowledge about Kubernetes for developers. Epinio streamlines the deployment process, allowing developers to focus on their code without worrying about containerization.

Writing Policies for Kubewarden

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This session is designed to get a user started in writing Kubernetes policies in Rust. To do this we are going to leverage Kubewarden. Kubewarden is a policy engine for Kubernetes. We will, touch on what is a policy.

In this talk I will go in to how we are going to leverage Rust and Web Assembly to write our policy. What tools you will need to develop a policy. Build out a sample policy and test it on a local Kubernetes cluster using Kubewarden.