2026-09-12 –, D.0.07
FreeBSD powers critical infrastructure around the globe, but deploying it successfully in the enterprise requires far more than a technically excellent operating system.
This session examines the operational realities of running FreeBSD in environments with strict security, compliance, stability, and support expectations. Drawing on real-world experience, we will discuss how organizations evaluate risk, manage software lifecycles, plan upgrades years in advance, and maintain confidence in the systems that underpin their critical infrastructure and services.
Topics include vulnerability management, release engineering, deployment at scale, package management, and regulatory compliance. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of both the strengths and the challenges of operating FreeBSD at enterprise scale.
Allan Jude is the Co-founder and Head of Solutions Architecture at Klara Inc., where he helps design and deliver development and support solutions for FreeBSD and OpenZFS.
Allan is a long time member of the FreeBSD community, where he has been a developer for more than a decade and served 3 terms on the core team. Allan is also very active in the OpenZFS project where he has designed a number of major new features including ZStandard compression, Fast Dedup, and AnyRAID.