How Virtual Registries secure, control, and strengthen CI/CD Artifacts

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Platform and DevOps teams are beginning to apply a new idea to software delivery: bringing the security, control and resilience patterns long used in web and API infrastructures into the artifact layer of CI/CD. As pipelines increasingly depend on external sources (language modules, code libraries, software packages, orchestration scripts, Docker containers, and other types of files and binaries), issues like outages, registry throttling, developer sprawl, and supply-chain attacks introduce both risk and instability.

This session explores how emerging practices can create a more flexible, secure, resilient, and predictable dependency layer, without overhauling your artifact registries.

We’ll cover how teams are using Virtual Registries to:

• Abstract artifact registry access and increase flexibility while reducing vendor lock-in
• Introduce lightweight, inline security checks modeled after modern API gateways
• Reduce reliance on upstream registries to improve performance and latency at scale
• Apply web-style failover and caching tactics to keep builds running during outages
• Enhance observability, auditability and isolation without adding friction for developers
• Establish secure, consistent dependency flows as part of platform paved roads

After a 30-minute talk there’ll be a 15-minute Q&A, for which we encourage you to submit questions in advance.
A webinar recording and related materials will be shared with all attendees after the event.

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Speaker:
Thijs Feryn - Technical Evangelist @ Varnish Software

As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media.

Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 380 presentations in 26 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style. As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP community. He has contributed to various communities for over 15 years both technically and as an organizer and facilitator. Prior to joining Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn spent 15 years in the web hosting industry, tackling web performance and scalability issues on a daily basis and evangelizing these topics.