Keynote at DevOpsCon Munich. Continuous delivery assumed stable pipelines, predictable releases, and humans in the loop for the hard calls. AI-assisted coding and agentic workflows change the blast radius of every commit — and revive old reasons teams still cannot ship continuously. A look at what still blocks CD when the toolchain starts writing (and changing) the software itself.
Kris Buytaert is a long-time DevOps and Open Source expert and engineering leader. He recently joined Percona as Practice Lead, Observability. He is one of the instigators of the DevOps movement and has started more than one conference series. He has lost count of how many times he has spoken at other events. He spends most of his time bridging the gap between developers and operations, while warning people not to make the mistakes he made. He builds infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test or a datacenter fire, while actively promoting the DevOps idea.
Blog: Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem
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