Confidential Platforms for Regulated Industries - William Rizzo, Mirantis

This talk explores the challenges and solutions related to cloud native adoption in regulated industries, particularly financial sectors, focusing on agility, compliance, and data confidentiality. The speaker presents a case study of a Kubernetes-based confidential computing platform developed for a major financial organization. Key topics include the use of Cluster API management clusters for provisioning bare-metal child clusters running Confidential Containers, as well as the implementation of a custom mutating admission webhook for seamless workload deployment. The session also covers the architecture, integration challenges, and operational lessons learned when managing confidential workloads in multi-tenant environments.