The OpenBao community had a great time at Open Source Summit Europe 2025! The event once again showed how strong the demand for secure and reliable secret management in enterprise environments has become.
One theme was clear: Companies and individuals demand tools to manage secrets across their systems, and solutions like OpenBao are foundational for security and compliance.
Open source builders, security engineers, and platform teams are converging on Amsterdam and OpenBao will be in the middle of it, thanks to the generosity of the Linux Foundation.
We’re excited to announce our first official booth at Open Source Summit Europe 2025. If you care about secure automation, multi‑tenant architectures, or meeting the stewards of your critical infrastructure tooling, come talk with us!
Official event site: Open Source Summit Europe
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Event: Open Source Summit Europe 2025
Dates: 25–27 August 2025
Location: RAI Amsterdam, Netherlands
Booth: G/S7
Hashtag: #OSSummit #OpenBao
This isn’t just a swag stop (expect some stickers); it’s a place to trade real-world stories, get practical guidance, and influence the OpenBao roadmap, now ready for its second iteration!
Slides and content from Alex's FOSDEM '25 talk about OpenBao's usage at GitLab.
For a video, see our official YouTube channel or on the FOSDEM video mirror.
Hello everyone! I'm Alex Scheel, a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab and Chair of the OpenBao Technical Steering Committee. I'm here to talk about OpenBao and its usage at GitLab.
OpenBao returns from FOSDEM '25 and OpenUK's State of Open Con this week, reflecting on the travels and activities of the events.
Many thanks to Fatima for running the community calls in our absence!
photo credit: nicolas; pictured: alex
FOSDEM '25 was Alex's first time speaking at a conference and we are happy to report it was a success! The details of the talk were saved and will be published in a follow-up blog along with the recording when it is made available from the conference. It was great to meet so many people interested in identity and access management and OpenBao's role in solving secrets management problems, at GitLab and beyond.
Follow along with OpenBao's travels this week as we attend FOSDEM '25 and State of Open Con!
Check out Alex's talk at FOSDEM, on Sunday, February 2nd, at 2:05 PM GMT+1 in room UA2.118 (Henriot) as part of the Identity and Access Management track.
If you can't attend in person, it will also be live streamed.
From snowy Minnesota, BaoBao took its first ride to London Heathrow to begin its voyage to FOSDEM '25. With a brief layover, it explored King's Cross and the Coal Drops Yard. Rich with history, this area has long been used as a rail hub for the UK and now is connected to Europe via the Channel Tunnel.
I'm happy to share that OpenBao will be present at two conferences in February: FOSDEM '25 in Brussels and State of Open Con 2025 in London!