Prasanth Baskar

Beyond ImagePullBackOff: A Stateless, Secret-less Distributed Registry

2026-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

2026-04-01T00:00:00Z

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.

FOSS Meetup Chennai November 2025

2025-11-01T00:00:00Z

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.

The value of recordings like this is not only the talk content, but the community context around it: who is building, what people are curious about, and where new contributors can enter.

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

2025-11-01T00:00:00Z

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.

The session connects Model-Spec and KitOps to the broader question of how teams can package, describe, secure, and move AI workloads with repeatable artifact practices.

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

2025-09-01T00:00:00Z

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.

The focus is Harbor as production registry infrastructure: artifact management, security capabilities, and the project work that keeps it useful for cloud-native teams.

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

2025-09-01T00:00:00Z

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.

The larger theme is that as cloud-native systems expand beyond plain images, Harbor’s role becomes a control point for many kinds of production artifacts.

Know Your Registry: Harbor

2025-05-01T00:00:00Z

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.

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

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

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.

How to Contribute to Open Source and Make a Career

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

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.

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

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

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.