Prasanth Baskar

Standardizing the Unstandardized: Securing AI Supply Chain With Model-Spec and Kitops

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This talk looks at AI artifacts through a supply-chain lens. The core problem is that models, datasets, configuration, and runtime assumptions often move through systems without the same standardization and traceability expected from container images or application releases.

Harbor Maintainers Talk: Role of Harbor in AI, IoT Edge and the Future

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This maintainers talk frames Harbor as more than a container image registry. It covers how registries become artifact hubs for AI workloads, IoT edge deployments, policy enforcement, replication, and secure distribution.

What's New in Harbor: Project Updates and New Features

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A compact Harbor project update covering recent features and direction. This is the quick version for people who want the state of the project without a long maintainer session.

Know Your Registry: Harbor

Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This meetup talk introduces Harbor from the perspective of people who depend on registries in real production systems.

The message is simple: your registry is not just a place to push images. It is part of your deployment path, your security model, your artifact history, and your operational reliability story.

Dev Talk #2: Git-Donkey - Manage Local Git Branches and Repositories

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This developer talk covers Git-Donkey, local Git branch and repository management, and the practical pain points that show up when your local development workflow grows messy.

The useful thread is workflow ergonomics: small tools can remove repeated friction without needing a large platform or heavy abstraction.

How to Contribute to Open Source and Make a Career

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This conversation is about getting started in open source and turning contribution into a real career path.

It covers the practical side: finding projects, learning from communities, making useful contributions, and treating public work as a compounding career asset.

Building Secure Containers: A Practical Guide to Harbor and Vulnerability Scanning

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This practical session shows where Harbor fits in a secure container workflow.

The focus is vulnerability scanning and registry-side controls: how teams can make image distribution safer before workloads reach production clusters.

FOSS Meetup Chennai November 2025

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This is a full meetup recording from FOSS United Chennai. It captures community talks, discussions, and the broader local open source energy around building and sharing in public.

Beyond ImagePullBackOff: A Stateless, Secret-less Distributed Registry

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This lightning talk starts from a very familiar Kubernetes failure mode: ImagePullBackOff.

The talk explores what registry access could look like if distribution moved toward stateless and secret-less patterns. It connects Kubernetes image pulls, registry design, credentials, and operational reliability into one platform engineering problem.

Project Lightning Talk: Harbor Update

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A short Harbor maintainer update covering project status and direction.

This format is intentionally compact: enough to understand what changed, why it matters, and where Harbor is moving as cloud-native artifact workflows evolve.

Manufacturing Software Like Chips

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What if software is manufactured like semiconductors?

That question sounds strange only because software still carries the mythology of craft. We talk about individual developers, clever prompts, velocity, tickets, and heroic debugging sessions. We still design many organizations as if humans are the primary producers of code.

How to Run Github Actions Locally??

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:06:34 +0000

This blog is written to serve people who are looking to run github actions locally for faster developer workflows and not get into the “push and pray” hell. No more 50 commits to make the actions work – simply run GitHub Actions locally!! with act.

Geek's Guide to Kubernetes Image Credential Provider Plugins: No Bloat

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:02:50 +0000

I spent more than 8 hours wrestling with Kubernetes image credential provider plugins before finally stumbling upon the real solution. If you think this is as simple as dropping a config into Kind or Minikube think again. It doesn’t work that way, and I’d rather save you the wasted time I went through.

Programmers are not workhorses

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:14:55 +0000

What…??

Programmers are a unique breed. We’re not just following orders and churning out code. We’re creative problem-solvers who build the digital world around us.

Ever wondered why that app works so flawlessly or that website is so intuitive? That’s the handiwork of programmers.

Contribute to Zulip: A Beginner's Guide

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:56:52 +0000

Are you eager to contribute to the vibrant Zulip open-source community but intimidated by the initial setup process? Fear not! This beginner-friendly guide will walk you through the essential steps, overcoming common setup challenges and empowering you to make your first meaningful contribution to Zulip.

Bypass Website Paywalls & Sign Up to Continue with this Simple Hack

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 13:47:07 +0000

In the vast expanse of the internet, a treasure trove of knowledge lies hidden behind paywalls and subscription fees. If you’ve ever encountered a frustrating “Sign Up to Continue” prompt when trying to access an informative blog post or a valuable article, you know the feeling of being locked out of valuable information. But fear not, for there exists a surprisingly simple hack that empowers you to bypass these barriers and access the knowledge you seek.

Understanding Closures

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:03:00 +0000

What is Closures?

Closures are a foundational concept in JavaScript that allows inner functions to access variables from their parent function’s scope, even after the parent function has finished executing. This makes closures a powerful tool for data privacy, callbacks, and functional programming.

Warning: Using VS Code? You're Missing Out on the Ultimate 10x Developer Hack!

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 01:18:54 +0000

Everyone gets tired of the limitations and repetitive tasks of VS Code? It’s time to explore an alternative that maximizes your coding potential. In this article, we’ll dive into the raw facts about Vim, a powerful text editor that can revolutionize your coding experience. Get ready to discover the practical advantages of Vim over VS Code.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am Prasanth Baskar, usually bupd on the internet.

I work as an open source software engineer at 8gears and around the Harbor/container-registry ecosystem. My public work sits around Harbor, Kubernetes, container registries, OCI artifacts, platform engineering, Linux systems, and developer tooling.

Prasanth Baskar

Standardizing the Unstandardized: Securing AI Supply Chain With Model-Spec and Kitops

Harbor Maintainers Talk: Role of Harbor in AI, IoT Edge and the Future

What's New in Harbor: Project Updates and New Features

Know Your Registry: Harbor

Dev Talk #2: Git-Donkey - Manage Local Git Branches and Repositories

How to Contribute to Open Source and Make a Career

Building Secure Containers: A Practical Guide to Harbor and Vulnerability Scanning

FOSS Meetup Chennai November 2025

Beyond ImagePullBackOff: A Stateless, Secret-less Distributed Registry

Project Lightning Talk: Harbor Update

Manufacturing Software Like Chips

How to Run Github Actions Locally??

Geek's Guide to Kubernetes Image Credential Provider Plugins: No Bloat

Programmers are not workhorses

What…??

Contribute to Zulip: A Beginner's Guide

Bypass Website Paywalls & Sign Up to Continue with this Simple Hack

Understanding Closures

What is Closures?

Warning: Using VS Code? You're Missing Out on the Ultimate 10x Developer Hack!

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