About us
Cloud Native Austin is the official CNCF Cloud Native and Kubernetes meetup for Austin, Texas.
Our official channel for events is
https://ocgroups.dev/cncf/group/3up7rjk
And please follow our LinkedIn on linkedin.com/company/k8sAustin .
We host talks from anyone doing cool things with Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies, including companies using K8s in production or vendors who are pushing the boundaries of what Cloud Native can do.
Presentations are demo focused and not sales pitches.
This group follows these three central ideas:
• We believe in open sponsorships, so anyone can cover the cost of food, space, and travel for speakers. To not price out smaller vendors, sponsorship prices are not set beyond the cost. Organizations donating speakers, food/drinks, or space will automatically count as sponsors for the event.
• We believe in democratized organization, so anyone in the Kubernetes community that wants to help organize can be a part of process.
• We believe that all Cloud Native Meetups should be democratic and those that do not allow others to take part in organizing and sponsoring are not in the spirit of open source.
To become an organizer, sponsor, or speaker, please reach out to us!
Our official channel is k8saustin.com, please make sure you enroll for updates there!! And please follow our LinkedIn on linkedin.com/company/k8sAustin .
Thank you to Station Austin for sponsoring Cloud Native Austin. Station Austin is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They bring together the best entrepreneurs in the state and connect them with their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. To sign up for a Station Austin membership, click here.
Upcoming events
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Ultimate AI: Go with your own intelligence
701 Brazos Street, 701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701, USA, Austin, TX, US🚀 Join us at Station Austin for Food, Drinks, and Kubernetes on Thursday, October 22, 2026!
RSVP only here (CNCF official site): https://ocgroups.dev/cncf/group/3up7rjk/event/kwn9j5g
Station Austin (formerly Capital Factory) is generously hosting the Cloud Native Austin meetup!
Everyone is welcome whether you are new to Kubernetes or already experienced, come connect with the Austin cloud native community. We'll share the latest updates, practical insights, and real world learnings from Kubernetes, CNCF projects, and modern platform engineering.
FEATURED TALK
🎤 Bill Kennedy — Ultimate AI: Go with your own intelligence
Running open-source models is about much more than loading weights and sending a prompt. Every model server must make the same kinds of decisions: which model and quantization fit the available hardware, how requests are admitted and batched, how prompts are rendered, how context is cached, how tokens are sampled, and how concurrent generations share compute without sharing state.
In this one hour lecture, I will review the kronk architecture of the inference stack and small working programs. From there we follow a generation request through the entire serving lifecycle: admission control, model-specific prompt rendering, incremental message-cache selection, scheduling, slot assignment, KV-cache restoration, prompt prefill, batched decoding, sampling, parsing, and streaming.
By the end of the talk, you will be able to reason at a high-level about how an open-source model server works, configure one intentionally, diagnose performance and capacity problems, and use Kronk to run models on hardware you control.
AGENDA
6:30 PM — Ultimate AI: Go with your own intelligence (Bill Kennedy)
📍 VENUE
Station Austin — Apollo Room, 1st Floor
701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701
Upon arrival at the building, please proceed to 1st Floor, Apollo Room. We'll be in Apollo Room, 1st Floor (look for Capital Factory signs) after 5:45 pm.PARKING
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/
🏢 VENUE SPONSORED BY STATION AUSTIN
Thank you to Station Austin for sponsoring Cloud Native Austin! Station Austin 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 Station Austin membership, click here: https://stationaustin.org/commons/🤖 SPONSORED BY CAST AI
Thank you to Cast AI for sponsoring Cloud Native Austin! Cast AI is the Kubernetes automation platform that keeps application performance and cloud costs on autopilot. It continuously analyzes how workloads actually behave and automatically tunes CPU, memory, and infrastructure provisioning — cutting cloud spend without hand-tuning your clusters. Learn more at https://cast.ai/SPONSORED BY ARDAN LABS
Thank you to Ardan Labs for sponsoring Cloud Native Austin!Full event details and RSVP only here (CNCF official site): https://ocgroups.dev/cncf/group/3up7rjk/event/kwn9j5g
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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