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It's 2025; Why Are You OK With an Insecure Network?#

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 digest Program Adjacent pick 10–13 November 2025

Recording

Alex Leong, Buoyant — Adjacent

Play the recording: It's 2025; Why Are You OK With an Insecure Network?

  • Why: A maintainer's argument that the real blocker to in-cluster encryption/authn is operational simplicity, not technology — a useful framing for why mTLS adoption stalls, even if vendor-flavored.
  • What: An opinion/strategy talk on the barriers to secure in-cluster communication and how to lower them. (from abstract only)
  • How: Discusses meshes, application code, and memory safety, centering operational simplicity and observability; examples use Linkerd but framed as broadly applicable. (from abstract only)
  • Where applicable: General; perspective rather than a technique. Note the Linkerd vendor lens.