Manufacturing Software Like Chips
What changes when code becomes cheap and software needs manufacturing systems instead of heroic production?
Open source software engineer
Prasanth Baskar
I work on Harbor, container registries, Kubernetes, platform engineering, Linux, and developer tooling. This is my home on the internet for notes, essays, and experiments.
Recent writing
Blogs
How to Run Github Actions Locally??
Run GitHub Actions locally with act instead of pushing commits just to debug workflows.
Geek's Guide to Kubernetes Image Credential Provider Plugins: No Bloat
A step-by-step Kind setup for Kubernetes image credential provider plugins.
Programmers are not workhorses
A personal note on programming as creative work, not just endless grinding.
Contribute to Zulip: A Beginner's Guide
A beginner-friendly guide to getting through Zulip's initial open source development setup.
Bypass Website Paywalls & Sign Up to Continue with this Simple Hack
A browser developer-tools trick for simple client-side content overlays.
Recorded talks
Watch
Standardizing the Unstandardized: Securing AI Supply Chain With Model-Spec and Kitops
A talk on bringing software supply-chain discipline to AI and model artifacts with Model-Spec and KitOps.
Harbor Maintainers Talk: Role of Harbor in AI, IoT Edge and the Future
A Harbor maintainers session on where registries fit in AI, IoT edge, and future cloud-native artifact flows.
Current lanes
What I write about
Platform engineering
GitOps, Kubernetes, OCI artifacts, supply chains, and the systems that make software production boring and repeatable.
Open source
Harbor, CNCF projects, maintainership, community work, and the reality of building public infrastructure.
Developer systems
Arch Linux, Neovim, tmux, local automation, and the tools that make programmers faster without hiding the machine.
Workbench
Projects and talks
Projects
Open source work around Harbor, Kubernetes, registries, Linux, and small developer tools.
Talks
Lightning talks and conference ideas, starting with manufacturing software like semiconductors.