Kubernetes on Prasanth Baskar

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.

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.

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.

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.