Name: Secure images + Stateful apps + Private AI on K8s
Start: 2025-05-28T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-28T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 90 Broadway

[Chainguard](https://www.chainguard.dev/) is our sponsor this time around. And [Komodor](https://komodor.com/), who will sponsor the next event, are co-sponsoring this one too.

THANK YOU to Chainguard and Komodor!

As usual:

1. **RSVP's close 48 hrs before the event**. Please make it easy on us by RSVP'ing only if you intend to show up.
2. **Don't be late!** You'll get locked out, and it's cold outside!
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**Agenda**

6:00 pm: food / drinks / networking
6:20 pm: Talk #1: **Secure supply chain**, with Patrick Smyth
7:00 pm: Who is hiring? Who is looking?
7:10 pm: Talk #2: **Private AI on K8s**, with Dan Donahue
7:50 pm: Talk #3: **Stateful apps on K8s**, with Joe Zhou
8:30 pm: Finish

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**Speakers & topics**
**1\. Software Supply Chain\,** with [Patrick Smyth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smythp/)

When folks hear about Chainguard's zero-CVE container images, they assume it must be marketing. Zero known vulnerabilities is a hard number to hit and an even harder one to maintain. But, on any given day, any given Chainguard Container will be at zero CVEs.

So how do we do it? In this talk, Patrick will go into some details on Chainguard's philosophy on CVEs, including concepts such as fast forwards, stripping bloat, extensive advisories, and avoiding patches wherever possible. We'll also do a side-by-side comparison of one of our public containers. ⚠️ Be advised — there will be memes!

Patrick Smyth is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Chainguard. In a former life, he ran data science bootcamps for researchers at Columbia University and he's worked on data science and training initiatives with organizations such as James Webb, Sigstore, and Pandas. Patrick has a PhD in the Digital Humanities from the City University of New York. When he's not hanging out with his wife and daughter in Queens, Patrick can be found sitting in a frozen lake or hitting the sauna.

**2\. AI for All: Unleashing Private AI with an Open\-Source Framework**, with [Dan Donahue](https://www.linkedin.com/in/donahue/)

Discover a ChatGPT-like experience powered by your data, running securely on your Kubernetes infrastructure.

I'll be demonstrating and talking about the Open WebUI framework for Ollama. Ollama is an open-source platform for running LLMs locally on your cluster. I'll demo it on a GKE cluster as a nod to our gracious hosts!

**3\. Stateful apps on K8s\,** with [Joe Zhou](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhehuizhou/)
The session will dive into Kubernetes' capabilities with stateful applications like databases and how tools like database Kubernetes Operators and KubeBlocks simplify database management in Kubernetes ecosystems.

**About our sponsor**
[Chainguard](https://www.chainguard.dev/) is a cybersecurity company that focuses on securing the software supply chain by providing a secure foundation for building with open source software. They offer secure, minimal container images that help organizations maintain compliance with security standards and regulations like FedRAMP and PCI-DSS.

**Hybrid/Remote option**

Sorry, this event is in-person only, so please join us in Cambridge!

Michael O'Leary

Isabella Langan

Barry Mullan

Gari Singh

Boston Kubernetes Meetup

Technology

Software Development

New Technology

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes