Namespaces Are All You Need: Well-Governed Data Orchestration at Scale

In modern data ecosystems, organizations face a challenge: balancing centralized governance with the autonomy of distributed teams. How do you enforce security, consistency, and compliance without stifling innovation across projects?

Kestra, an open-source data orchestration platform, solves this with an infinitely nested namespace hierarchy, allowing users to balance governance and flexibility when managing workflows, secrets, and configurations across teams.

This talk will cover:
- How inherited secrets and variables eliminate duplicated configurations while enforcing security.
- How namespaces balance centralized governance for data & AI workflows without sacrificing the autonomy of individual teams.

Whether you’re managing multi-cloud ELT/ETL or LLM pipelines, this session will show how hierarchical namespaces empower both platform admins and developers to balance control with autonomy required for AI & data workflows.