DevConf.IN 2025

Andreas Spanner

Andreas is leading the Intelligent Edge and MSR vertical related topics for Red Hat across Asia Pacific. His hands-on experience in startups as well as large scale enterprise transformation programs has given Andreas a solid understanding of business drivers and value creation. Andreas has worked on a wide range of initiatives across different industries in Europe, North America and APAC including full-scale automotive JIT/JIS production systems modernisation, ERP migrations, HR, finance and accounting, supply chain logistics transformations and scalable core banking strategies to support regional business growth strategies.
Since joining Red Hat in 2015, Andreas is focussed on helping Red Hat customers to build the necessary capabilities and to make the best-fit technology, methodology and architecture choices. Andreas is a published author on the topic of Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge.
Andreas got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old and started to work as a software developer in 1996 with Krauss-Maffei in Munich building full mission simulators. Andreas holds an Engineering degree from the University of Ravensburg, Germany.


Company or affiliation

Red Hat

Job title

Chief Architect


Sessions

02-28
10:40
80min
From Scratch to Boot: Hands-on Workshop on Building Custom OS Images
Hrushabh Sirsulwar, Shreya Patil, Andreas Spanner

This Bootable Containers (Bootc) workshop offers an engaging mix of theory and hands-on practice, providing participants with a comprehensive understanding of the concept and practical applications.

It highlights the fundamentals, core advantages such as portability, isolation and real-world use cases which require purpose built operating systems for example:
-> Resource constraint environment in edge computing.
-> Workloads that require specific GPU acceleration configuration
-> Workloads that require specific network performance
-> Deployments that require specific performance profiles or real-time kernels
-> Device deployments that require specific security configurations and secure onboarding to minimize attack surface

** Key Activities: **
-> Build a Bootable Container: Create a minimal Linux image, configure services, and boot on hardware or VMs.
-> Deploy Real-World Scenarios: Test and validate in practical setups.
-> Interactive Learning: Hands-on tasks, group deployments, and guided troubleshooting.

** Takeaway: **
Discuss future possibilities, share challenges, and access additional resources (workflow guides, GitHub repos)

** Detailed Agenda **
-> Intro to Bootc: [15 min]
-> Demo: Building a Bootable Container [15 min]
-> Hands-On Lab: Deploying Bootc [45 min]
-> Q&A and Wrap-Up [15 min]

Cloud, Edge, and Platform Technologies
Workshops (School of Design)
02-28
13:45
35min
Observability in Federated & Distributed Environments
Andreas Spanner, Jeyaramachandran Paulraj

As environments, workloads and AI training becomes more and more distributed so does the need for tracing, logging and monitoring to support safety, security, availability and resilience. This session introduces a Validated Pattern approach to Edge Observability where CTO's, product teams, engineering, system integrators, ISVs and customers come together to ease deployment of a common observability infrastructure. Apart from infrastructure monitoring with regards to compute and memory utilization a leading practice also supports metrics around power consumption to support sustainabilty efforts, as well as the enabling of workload specific observabilty. This session is also an open invitation for interested parties to join to evolve our open source approach to making observability accessible to everyone interested in edge, distributed and federated environments. We will be walking through the associated git repo, the components and a roadmap of planned features.

Cloud, Edge, and Platform Technologies
Tikona Room (Chanakya Building / School of Business)