Andrew Martin ⚡☸️

Andrew Martin ⚡☸️

@sublimi.no

Hacker // CEO https://controlplane.io 🌐 @controlplane.io | Cloud Native Security | CISO openuk.uk | AI sec https://finos.org/ | Hacking Kubernetes https://oreilly.com/ | Ex https://tag-security.cncf.io/ & https://sans.org/ | Ex-X @sublimino

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Check out part 4 of Alex's blog series on OpenBao's features, talking about improvements to the plugin ecosystem: openbao.org/blog/feature... What integrations would you like OpenBao to have? How would you like to see writing plugins made easier? #OpenBao #Secrets #OpenSource #HashiCorp #Vault

openbao.orgOpenBao Features - Declarative Plugins | OpenBaoBlog series describing OpenBao's features. This episode focuses on declarative plugin distribution and registration in OpenBao.

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Check out Flux Schema! Our brand new #FluxCD CLI plugin that validates manifests and helps AI Agents stop hallucinating Kubernetes YAML. After extensive benchmarks my conclusion is that the Flux Schema MCP Server gets you 57% fewer tokens compared to web tools. fluxcd.io/blog/2026/07...

fluxcd.ioIntroducing Flux Schema and the Ecosystem CatalogStatic validation for GitOps workflows with Kubernetes API server semantics, a schema catalog for the CNCF ecosystem, and a public MCP server for AI agents.

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Had a lot of fun as “particimod” on this panel with @adrianmouat.com and @sublimi.no - and great comments and questions from the audience. ➡️ “Mitigate & update” ⬅️

OpenUK@openuk.bsky.social

Everyone in AI is talking about “The Mythos Effect” and Anthropic AI’s Project Mythos Glasswing. Our experts, Adrian Mouat. Andrew Martin, and Liz Rice will bring your questions into their keynotes and fireside chats. stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-so... #opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills

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This is going to be a really fun conversation with @adrianmouat.com and @sublimi.no at the @openuk.bsky.social SOOCon event in Edinburgh! We’ll be looking forward to your questions and thoughts on this fast-moving security topic

Adrian Mouat@adrianmouat.com

I'll be speaking at SOOCon 26 on the Road in Edinburgh on 5th June. I'll be joining Andy Martin and @lizrice.com for a fireside chat on "The Mythos Effect", and how things might never be quite the same again... Tickets: stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-soocon26

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Morgan Stanley scaled Flux to 500+ clusters, 100k+ containers, and 10k+ Flux resources. Their 5-year journey covers: multi-tenancy, performance tuning, moving to S3 sources, and devX fluxcd.io/blog/2026/03/stairway-to-gitops-morgan-stanley/ FluxCon Europe is next Monday - come say hi! #kubecon

fluxcd.ioStairway to GitOps: Scaling Flux at Morgan StanleyReflecting on Morgan Stanley's journey to production GitOps with Flux, presented at FluxCon NA 2025.

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#OpenBao gets enterprise support from ControlPlane. Why this company? They say they are #1 contributor to OpenBao and their "core team created Vault at HashiCorp". Sounds convincing enough and fantastic for this #OpenSource project. control-plane.io/enterprise-f...

control-plane.ioControlPlane Enterprise for OpenBaoThe open source Vault alternative, backed by its #1 contributor. Enterprise secrets management without IBM lock-in. Migration services, support, and funded development from the team that built Vault.

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Flux v2.7 is out 🚀 Big thanks to all contributors ❤️ Image automation goes GA, new ArtifactGenerator API for advanced sources composition and decomposition patterns, hub-and-spoke OIDC auth, and so much more. fluxcd.io/blog/2025/09... #FluxCD #GitOps #Kubernetes

fluxcd.ioAnnouncing Flux 2.7 GAWe are thrilled to announce the release of Flux v2.7.0! Here you will find highlights of new features and improvements in this release.

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Replying to @aaronw.dev

OpenSSF TTX Panel Session - John Kjell, ControlPlane; Seth Larson, Python Software Foundation; Mihai Maruseac, Google; Yesenia Yser, Microsoft; Megan Knight, Arm & Moderated by Christopher "CRob" Robinson, OpenSSF #OpenSSFCommunityDay

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Mark your calendar: fwd:cloudsec Europe 2025 lights up Berlin on September 15-16! This two-day event is a non-profit cloud security conference, and we expect over 350 attendees this year!

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FINOS community call is live! Join to learn about open source initiatives for financial services organizations coordinated by the Linux Foundation, including a presentation from @sublimi.no about the AI Gorvernance framework we have been working on. 👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZxQhd3rIQ

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What are the biggest security challenges on Kubernetes, and what does AI add to the mix? I got a chance to catch up with @sublimi.no at the State of Open Con last week and this is what he shared with me. Did he miss anything?

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Join us on February 27: "AI Safety London" with our first talks! 👉"AI Alignment: Practical Evaluations and Strategies", by @kabirkumar.bsky.social from ai-plans.com 👉"Cybersecurity as the Catalyst for Real-World AI Safety", by @sublimi.no, CEO at control-plane.io AI Safety and Security at Scale!

meetup.comAI Safety Group Inaugural Talks, Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup**Update! Talks for the sessions are now published here.** Welcome to the inaugural session for the AI Safety London group! Agenda: \- 7:00 PM: Greeting and brief introdu

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I'm co-hosting the Future of Open Source Track at State of Open Con, and we have some amazing sessions lined up, so I hope you can join us on Feb 4-5! You can combine it with FOSDEM and take the Eurostar from Brussels - it's a lovely way to travel! stateofopencon.com #soocon25 #stateofopencon.

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Join us tomorrow at the Service Mesh meetup in London. We're celebrating Flagger's 6th year anniversary 🎉

Service Mesh London: Pints & Protection tomorrow! 🍻💥 💻 Brewing a DIY Service Mesh (James Callaghan @controlplane.io) 💻 Envoy WAF Plugin: WASM & ext_proc (@mt165.bsky.social Tetrate) 💻 Flagger is 6! A Bright Future with Gateway API (@stefanprodan.com @controlplane.io) www.meetup.com/service-mesh...

It's going to be a beguiling, intriguing and tricky KubeCon CTF with @controlplane.io again! Come and play in SLC next week ☺️🙏 #kubecon #kubernetes #container #breakout

John McBride@johncodes.com

I am unreasonably excited for the #Kubecon Capture the Flag event: it was by far my favorite part of Kubecon Chicago last year. It was an excellent puzzle put on by @sublimi.no and the rest of the awesome ControlPlane crowd. sched.co/1kHKR Look out for p@rzival on the board again!!! 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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And we're at KCD London bsky.app/profile/did:... today with @smarticu5.bsky.social and lots of other nice ControlPlaners 😊

bsky.appbsky.app
controlplane@controlplane.io

Hello Bluesky...we are hiring! ⚡ K8s and Cloud Native principal, senior, and consultant engineers/DevOps, security engineers/architects, red/blue teamers — lots of positions open ✨☸️ Kind people and interesting work, always cloud native, always secure 😊🙏 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/controlplane

Looking forward to seeing all and sundry at KCD UK tomorrow and Wednesday 😊 @smartyboy.ninja and I are presenting our favourite "I'll Let Myself In: Kubernetes Privesc Techniques" on Weds arvo — beware the possibly bonus demo! 💥 #kcd #kubernetes #security

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