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KubeCon Europe 2026

What LLMs Do, and Don't, Know About Securing Kubernetes

Rory McCune, Datadog

Abstract

LLMs are fast becoming a fact of life in many organizations and one of the things we can use them for is…. Kubernetes! So that leads us to a question, if LLMs can do Kubernetes related tasks, can they do them securely and what in general do the know and not know about Kubernetes security? This talk will show the results of our research into how LLMs handle Kubernetes security tasks, how techniques like improved prompting can change the outcomes, and the places where they fall down.

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