Cloud Foundry Summit 2026

Anyone who has tried to manage Cloud Foundry network and route policies via infrastructure-as-code knows the pain: everything revolves around org, space, and app GUIDs, values that are not meant for human consumption.
We built a pragmatic solution, yes, a bit of “duct tape”, that abstracts away GUIDs and allows policies to be defined using familiar org, space, and application names. The result is a simpler, safer, and far more maintainable policy management.
Beyond usability, we also address a key challenge: securely managing network policies between orgs and spaces owned by different teams.
In this talk, we’ll share:

* The design and trade-offs of our approach.
* How we handle cross-org policy ownership safely.
* Lessons learned from running this in production.

Finally, we’ll open the discussion to the broader community: should this kind of “duct tape” evolve into a standard Cloud Foundry capability? What would it take to make that transition, and where should it live in the ecosystem?