Join us at the Capital Factory for Food, Drinks, and Kubernetes on April 24, 2025!🎉

Everyone is invited to join! We hope to bring the latest about the Kubernetes and CNCF projects. 

We have two special guests: Whitney Lee and Cristobal Nevares. Whitney and Cris will demonstrate how a Kubernetes cluster can be compromised and how to prevent it from happening in the first place!

We will be meeting at Capital Factory! The address is 701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701. We will be in the Padawan room on the 5th floor this week. When arriving at the building, the elevators are "unlocked" to go to this floor after 5:45 pm.

We know parking in Downtown is tricky!

So, you can park in the building garage for just $8.00 (validation parking tickets will be distributed)! 

Street parking will still be an option. More information on parking here: https://www.capitalfactory.com/parking/

Thank you to Capital Factory for sponsoring Kubernetes Austin. Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. To sign up for a Capital Factory membership, click here.

Security Showdown: The Overconfident Operator Vs the Nefarious Ne’er-Do-Well

Ozzie the Overconfident Operator has secured their cluster! They have done it all: role-based access control, encryption at rest, TLS…and as they congratulate themself on a job well done, Nova the Nefarious Ne’er-do-well watches from around the corner, drooling with anticipation. Spoiler alert⎯Ozzie is about to get HACKED. In this talk, the speakers play the characters of Ozzie and Nova and playfully demo cluster security as Nefarious Nova exploits each of Ozzie’s security decisions. What can Overconfident Ozzie do when Nova gets the upper hand? How can Ozzie proactively keep Nova’s threats at bay? Take security beyond the firewall and discover cloud native security concepts such as identity management, container image scanning and signing, creating and implementing policies, runtime security, and secrets management. Learn security basics alongside Overconfident Ozzie, who is sure the cluster is COMPLETELY secure this time. There is nothing Nova can do to break… uh-oh. Not again!

ML on K8s: Running AI Workloads with KServe and Kubeflow Lite

Machine learning is increasingly moving from notebooks to production—and Kubernetes is where the action is. However, deploying scale-based models with observability, versioning, and autoscaling can get complex fast. In this session, we’ll explore how KServe, a CNCF incubating project, simplifies the process of serving ML models on Kubernetes. Using a minimal Kubeflow-lite setup, we’ll walk through a live deployment of an ML model (sci-kit-learn or HuggingFace) and demonstrate production-grade features like autoscaling, traffic splitting, and real-time monitoring. This talk is aimed at developers, ML engineers, and platform teams looking to operationalize AI workloads without reinventing infrastructure.