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KubeSummit Sydney 2019: OPA Policy Templating and Testing

Ever since its inception and acceptance into CNCF, OPA has been widely regarded as the default policy evaluation tool in the Cloud Native landscape. Due to the functionality that OPA provides, it was quickly adopted as a control point but did not scale as expected. This talk discusses the significant role OPA plays in a large banking context, and how we went about productionising the deployment across a number of use-cases.

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Google Cloud Next ‘25: Enterprise-grade security and scale for serverless workloads with Cloud Run

Google’s Xiaowen Xin and Thomas Shafer walk through the newest capabilities that make Cloud Run enterprise-ready end to end—from GPU-backed inference, cloud storage volume mounts, and direct VPC egress to integrated Identity-Aware Proxy, multi-region deployments, threat detection, organization policies, and automatic base-image patching. Tejas Cherukara then shares how ANZ Plus adopted Cloud Run as its default runtime, covering the migration playbook, financial guardrails, and platform-engineering investments such as the X Framework internal developer platform that shrinks developer cognitive load, reduces operator toil, and improves resiliency, productivity, and cost optimisation across more than 1,600 services.