Thilo Fromm
Thilo is an engineering manager for Microsoft and works on Linux OS distributions and Linux Security at Azure. Thilo's team helps maintaining Flatcar Container Linux. He has given talks at FOSDEM, FrOSCon, KubeCon, Open Source Summit, Cloud-Native Rejekts, and various meetups like Kubernetes Community Days.
Thilo started his career in embedded systems with hardware design and roll-your-own /from scratch embedded Linux, kernel and plumbing level development, and later virtualisation. After working for various cloud providers in engineering and management positions, he went full cloud native in 2019. Nowadays Thilo works on operating systems for cloud-native environments with a special focus on Flatcar Container Linux.
Flatcar Maintainer, Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Session
Shipping both the OS and Kubernetes as immutable, verifiable images sure has benefits for security, supply chain management, and compliance. But don't we just shift the load from security to operations? Doesn't the lack of flexibility and the restrictiveness add significant overhead for developers and operators?