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Presenters Arndt Schwenkschuster Dmitry Telegin Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 🚀 Bridging the Gap: How SPIFFE and Transaction Tokens Secure the Modern Cloud In the fast-evolving world of cloud-native architecture, we face a persistent, nagging problem: how do we connect human identity (the user clicking a button) with workload identity (the microservices talking to each other)? At a recent industry talk, Arndt Schwenkschuster (SPIFFE Maintainer and Standards Architect) and Dmitry Telegin (Keycloak contributor) unveiled a powerful solution. They demonstrated how to use SPIFFE and the emerging OAuth Transaction Tokens specification to create a secure, cryptographically verifiable chain of identity from the frontend all the way to the database. ...

Presenters Lin Sun Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 Seamlessly Integrate Keycloak Authentication with Your MCP Server 🚀 Ever wished you could secure your MCP servers without diving deep into code modifications and complex redeployments? Well, buckle up, because Lin Song from Solo.io is here to show us how! In this insightful session from Keycloak Kong, Lin walks us through integrating Keycloak authentication into an MCP server, demonstrating a powerful approach using a gateway. ...

Presenters Alex Speranza Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Streamlining Kubernetes Cluster Management with Backstage 🚀 Managing Kubernetes clusters can quickly become a complex and time-consuming endeavor, especially as the number of clusters grows. In this insightful session, Alex Speranza, a DevOps and Platform Engineer at Informatica, shares how they leveraged Backstage to automate and simplify the process of onboarding Kubernetes clusters, transforming a convoluted workflow into a streamlined, user-friendly experience. The Challenge: Scaling Cluster Management 📈 The core problem Alex and his team faced was the unforeseen rapid growth in their managed Kubernetes clusters. What was initially estimated to be a once-a-year task for the infrastructure team quickly escalated. In just two years, their cluster count surged from a mere three to a staggering 22. This exponential growth highlighted the need for a more efficient and automated approach to cluster onboarding and management. ...

Presenters David Festal Jon Koops Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 🚀 Stop Rebuilding Your Backstage App: The Power of Dynamic Runtime Plugins In the world of internal developer portals, Backstage stands as the industry titan. However, anyone who has managed a large-scale instance knows the “banana and the rainforest” problem: you want a simple plugin, but you end up pulling in a massive web of transitive dependencies that bloat your build and slow your CI/CD pipeline to a crawl. ...

Presenters Debabrata Panigrahi Parseable Inc. Jenil Jain Harness Source BackstageCon Europe 2026 Beyond Plugins: Building a Self-Healing, Dynamic Service Catalog 🚀 In the world of internal developer portals, Backstage is often hailed as the “one place to find every service, API, and piece of infrastructure.” For many teams, the initial launch is a triumph. Developers register services, YAML files are written, and leadership is impressed. But then comes Month Six. ...