My week actually started a bit earlier at CentOS Connect, which set a pretty high-energy tone for the weekend. The focus was heavily on how SIGs are driving innovation before code hits the enterprise releases. I’d specifically highlight these three sessions that I really enjoyed:

Hyperscale SIG Update

This was a comprehensive update on what the SIG has actually delivered to Stream. They walked through exactly which deliverables are available now and how to use them — it’s moved well beyond just experimental work into things we can actually consume.

bootc: Managing Deployments like Container Apps

This was a standout session on minimizing configuration drift. They demonstrated how to use OCI-compliant bootable containers (centos-bootc) to manage the OS using standard Dockerfiles and GitOps pipelines. It’s a huge step toward treating bare metal and VMs exactly like Kubernetes workloads.

CentOS Stream Pipeline Update

This talk provided a very transparent look at how the Stream and RHEL pipelines have evolved over the last year. They broke down exactly what has changed in the workflow to keep things open, and how those changes impact contributors like us.

I also met with folks from Meta and the Rust-SIG, and we’ve aligned on a plan to further package the eBPF AYA library in Fedora.