Max Smythe

Max Smythe is a Software Engineer at Google working to make Kubernetes easier to manage at scale. He is excited about the potential Gatekeeper has to streamline compliance and make life easier on cluster admins. Previously he worked at a startup as a backend developer and in the VFX industry on films such as The Smurfs. He graduated from UC Irvine with a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Drama.


Sessions

05-18
10:40
30min
Building flexible policy with OPA and Kubernetes
Max Smythe, Rita Zhang

Have you ever been asked the question - “How do we make sure Kubernetes resources conform to our internal policies and procedures?”. In this session we introduce, how you can audit, validate and mutate Kubernetes resources based custom semantic rules during create, update, and delete operations without recompiling or reconfiguring the Kubernetes API server using Gatekeeper - a policy controller for Kubernetes.

Cloud Native
Main Hall