Kubernetes and Cloud Native North Dallas

We are excited to announce the July meetup scheduled for Thursday, July 16th.

There'll be 2 presentations:

*Scaling AI Workloads on K8S: Reliability Patterns for Production Agentic Platforms
*Using Infrastructure as Code and Securely Synchronizing Credential Secrets from External Services

1st Presentation:
Title: Scaling AI Workloads on K8S: Reliability Patterns for Production Agentic Platforms

Abstract: Running AI agents in production exposes failure modes that traditional microservices never surface. This session draws from real-world experience building and operating an enterprise agentic AI platform on Azure Kubernetes Service — where node pool exhaustion, autoscaling misconfigurations, and invisible queue failures collide with live inference workloads. I’ll cover how to design for horizontal scalability across heterogeneous AI workloads, what signals actually predict cluster saturation before pods go Pending, and a concrete set of reliability patterns: when to use HPA vs KEDA vs Cluster Autoscaler for AI workloads, how to benchmark inference throughput under real load, and what a production-grade control plane looks like when the workload is an agent, not a REST API.

Bio: Jothsna Praveena Pendyala
I am an AI Platform Architect and Senior Data Scientist at Infosys, where I lead the design and operation of an enterprise-scale agentic AI platform on Azure Kubernetes Service and LangSmith. My work spans cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems reliability, and production observability for AI workloads. I am also an executive member of the ACM Dallas Chapter, an active conference speaker and panel moderator, and a researcher with publications at IEEE and NeurIPS venues.

2nd Presentation: Using Infrastructure as Code and Securely Synchronizing Credential Secrets from External Services

Description:
Securely managing sensitive credentials for service accounts and other external services is essential to maintain a compliant, secure, and reliable environment. I will demonstrate the use of Infrastructure as Code to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning, followed by configuring secure secret synchronization from vaulting providers, such as HashiCorp Vault, into Kubernetes namespaces using the open-source K8s operator External Secrets Operator.

Key takeaway:
You will get an understanding of the basics of Infrastructure as Code and its uses, as well as the process of automating the synchronization of secret credential values from external secrets and Kubernetes environments.

Speaker Bio: Joshua Hupt

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Scaling AI Workloads on K8S: Reliability Patterns for Production Agentic Platforms
7:30 - 8:30 - Using Infrastructure as Code and Securely Synchronizing Credential Secrets from External Services
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up

We are excited to announce the February meetup scheduled for Wednesday February 19th.

There'll be 2 presentations on Container Security:

*Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
*DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

1st Presentation:
Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers

Increased Portability, Improved Scalability, Simple and Fast Deployment, Enhanced Productivity, Reduced Infrastructural Cost with Improved Resource Utilization - hard to disagree with the values Containerization brings on the table! However, we all know that Great Power comes with Great Responsibility!
Containers can elevate your IT Delivery and Operations drastically at the same time can also impose a significant risk if not done rightly! Let's look at those Security and Risk adversity principles are and ee how can we build Containers that are Rootless, Stateless and Immutable!

Speaker Bio:
Himanshu Patel is a technology enthusiast and evangelist, leading Middleware Technologies at Aventive.
Himanshu's expertise includes building Enterprise-grade platforms for Microservices, Distributed Messaging with Kafka and DevOps with Kubernetes/Docker. Himanshu has implemented several DevOps projects and have build Advanced CI/CD pipelines for build, release and deployment automation, configuration management.

2nd Presentation:
DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices

DevOps practices are well known but not so much the practice of DevSecOps. Microservices applications have
such a wide attack surface that using manual and traditional security practices is just like putting a square peg in a round hole.
This talk will discuss DevSecOps in a CloudNative environment with an emphasis on Kubernetes' best practices. Demos will accompany the presentation.

Speaker Bio
Damian Igbe is one of the organizers of Kubernetes and CloudNative North Dallas. Damian holds a PhD in Computer science and he is the CTO of Cloud Technology Experts, a Cloud training and Cloud consulting company. Damian obtained his CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) back in 2016 and has been a Microservices/Kubernetes Instructor since then. Damian has a wealth of experience in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.

6:30 - 6:45 - Social
6:45 - 6:55 - Club Business
6:55 - 7:30 - Building Rootless, Stateless, and Immutable Containers
7:30 - 8:30 - DevSecOps and CloudNative Security Best Practices
8.30 - 8.35 - Social/Wrap-up