David Cassany
Starting his career at a research foundation, David Cassany contributed to projects focused on multimedia streaming within open-source Linux ecosystems. For the past decade, he has brought that expertise to SUSE as an open-source software engineer, specializing in Linux appliance build tools, containerized systems, and Kubernetes architectures.
Session
Managing traditional Linux deployments at scale is a growing bottleneck. This talk dives into the Elemental project and its declarative, distro-agnostic approach to building and managing image-based Linux systems. We will explore the core architectural boundaries Elemental relies on, detailing its assumed OS stack (including the bootloader, systemd, dracut, and snapshotter) and its resilient system layout. Furthermore, we will demonstrate how treating the OS as a declarative entity, managed seamlessly alongside Kubernetes workloads, drastically streamlines image creation, installation, and atomic upgrades.