Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 23 hours ago

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Confluent Cloud is a data streaming platform built on thousands of Kubernetes clusters across AWS, Azure & GCP covering over 90 regions. Within those Kubernetes clusters, they run hundreds of unique services/images. This talk shares their journey of migrating those services to distroless images, highlighting the obstacles and lessons learned along the way. The talk discusses practical on the ground advice for companies starting their own distroless migration, and how to make it a success for your security team and your developers.

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