In this session Peter Kelly, VP of Engineering at Tigera, gives a comprehensive overview of the latest features and updates in Project Calico Open Source (releases 3.30 and 3.31). This session covers major advancements in network policy, new data plane options, and powerful observability tools designed to help you manage and secure your Kubernetes clusters more effectively.Key Highlights:Staged Network Policy: Learn how to “dry run” policies to audit their impact before enforcement, preventing accidental outages.Observability with “Calico Whisker”: A first look at the new open-source UI that visualizes network flow logs and aids in troubleshooting.nftables Data Plane GA: Announcement of the Generally Available nftables data plane, solving linear lookup issues found in iptables.Policy Tiers: Understand how to use tiers to set precedence for security teams versus application developers.Calico Cloud Free Tier: How to connect any open-source cluster to Calico Cloud for free to access advanced features like policy recommendations.