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We will focus on security policies and dive into specific controls. \r\n\r\n## By the end of this session you will understand:\r\n* The 10 essential security risk areas throughout the container's lifecycle\r\n* How to mitigate each risk using Stackrox \r\n* The kind of controls that can be enforced through Stackrox\u2019s security policies\r\n* The distinctions between Stackrox policies for Build, Deploy and Runtime phases, and why we use **Deploy type** policies during the **Build phase**\r\n* The enforcement and remediation actions you can take at each step", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "SQTCQG", "name": "Boaz Michaely", "avatar": "https://pretalx.devconf.info/media/avatars/SQTCQG_LscWLm4.png", "biography": "Boaz is a diversified product management professional with more than 20 years of experience in security, application development and infrastructure solutions. 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I intend to explain how attackers exploit popular open source libraries through specific CVEs.\r\n\r\nVulnerabilities that we will look into: (See notes for detailed explanation)\r\n\r\n- CVE-2024-47076: cups-filters: \r\nA vulnerability in CUPS allows attackers to exploit a flaw in how it processes print requests. 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They\u2019re in their 4th year managing engineering teams at Red Hat where they lean heavily on their professional experiences as a wilderness therapist, full-stack developer, high school/college instructor, quality engineer, logistics manager, small business owner and general troubleshooter/maker. \r\n\r\nThey believe in building teams on a foundation of psychological safety and trust, striving for a balance of complimentary strengths and struggles across members, where failure is always an acceptable risk as long as you learn from the experience, and where curiosity, empathy and creativity are among the quick-grab tools when faced with challenges.", "public_name": "mb Pierce", "guid": "1f7a9bfe-e756-5fc9-b551-0214459437d3", "url": "https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-us-2025/speaker/NJZCL7/"}], "links": [{"title": "Matrix Chat and YouTube Stream", "url": "https://matrix.to/#/#106.us:devconf.cz", "type": "related"}, {"title": "YouTube Stream Only", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/live/eL0rbvtkrYk", "type": "related"}], "feedback_url": "https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-us-2025/talk/XK77NM/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-us-2025/talk/XK77NM/", "attachments": []}], "101 (Capacity 48)": [{"guid": "8f7b8a13-1fac-5169-9498-ccfab32cd0c8", "code": "XD9U37", "id": 1456, "logo": null, "date": "2025-09-19T10:00:00-04:00", "start": "10:00", "duration": "00:35", "room": "101 (Capacity 48)", "slug": "devconf-us-2025-1456-zero-to-gitops-automating-rag-workloads-with-backstage-templates", "url": "https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-us-2025/talk/XD9U37/", "title": "Zero to GitOps: Automating RAG Workloads with Backstage Templates", "subtitle": "", "track": "DevOps and Automation", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workloads are powerful\u2014but deploying them can be complex. 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Every state change in Jira (such as moving a ticket to \u201cReady for Release\u201d) can automatically trigger specific downstream actions in your CI/CD pipeline for deployments across various environments based on conditions being satisfied. 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How do you write good tests? What tools are available for you to write good tests?\r\n\r\nIn this session, I will dive into the many features of Quarkus that help developers write good tests. I will highlight some of the features of Quarkus, Dev Services and Continuous Testing, which help make testing easier. Additionally, I will live code some tests for common use cases developers encounter, including unit, integration, and \u201cblack box\u201d testing of imperative and reactive RESTful and event-driven applications that use common services, such as databases and Kafka brokers. 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