DevOpsDays Portland 2026
September 8th - September 10th, 2026
Portland, ORDevOpsDays Portland 2026: what to expect
DevOpsDays Portland is part of the long-running, volunteer-organized devopsdays series - smaller and more conversational than the big vendor conferences, built around Open Spaces where attendees set the agenda themselves.
Themes to watch
- Culture and collaboration between development, operations, and security teams.
- Practitioner talks on real incidents, real pipelines, and real trade-offs, not vendor pitches.
- Open Spaces where the most useful sessions of the event are often the ones not printed in the schedule.
- Automation and toil reduction as a constant thread across every devopsdays event.
Where container security fits into the conversation
Toil reduction is where container image security usually gets talked about at a devopsdays event - not as a compliance checkbox, but as one more thing pulling engineers away from shipping. Patching base images, chasing CVE alerts, and rebuilding on every scanner finding is exactly the kind of manual, repetitive work devopsdays audiences are trying to eliminate.
Echo removes that loop by shipping images that are CVE-free from the start, so there's no exploitation window to patch against in the first place. That's the model behind our post on the rise of AI-ready, hardened container images - worth a read if your team is thinking about what 'production-ready' should actually mean for a base image.
Around Portland for DevOpsDays?
Get in touch if you want to compare notes on cutting vulnerability backlog out of your pipeline.
DevOpsDays Portland 2026: what to expect
DevOpsDays Portland is part of the long-running, volunteer-organized devopsdays series - smaller and more conversational than the big vendor conferences, built around Open Spaces where attendees set the agenda themselves.
Themes to watch
- Culture and collaboration between development, operations, and security teams.
- Practitioner talks on real incidents, real pipelines, and real trade-offs, not vendor pitches.
- Open Spaces where the most useful sessions of the event are often the ones not printed in the schedule.
- Automation and toil reduction as a constant thread across every devopsdays event.
Where container security fits into the conversation
Toil reduction is where container image security usually gets talked about at a devopsdays event - not as a compliance checkbox, but as one more thing pulling engineers away from shipping. Patching base images, chasing CVE alerts, and rebuilding on every scanner finding is exactly the kind of manual, repetitive work devopsdays audiences are trying to eliminate.
Echo removes that loop by shipping images that are CVE-free from the start, so there's no exploitation window to patch against in the first place. That's the model behind our post on the rise of AI-ready, hardened container images - worth a read if your team is thinking about what 'production-ready' should actually mean for a base image.
Around Portland for DevOpsDays?
Get in touch if you want to compare notes on cutting vulnerability backlog out of your pipeline.
