Check out Chainguard at KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City on November 12-15!

KubeCon NA 2024 in Salt Lake City, and other events like SigstoreCon and Cloud-Native Rejekts, are right around the corner! Chainguard will be at Booth K8 on November 13-15 at KubeCon, where we’ll be doing product demos, giving out plenty of swag, and spreading the magic of Chainguard Images and how they can help secure your organization’s software supply chain. We’ll also be hosting a raffle at KubeCon for the chance to win a karaoke machine! Entries can be made at the booth (one per person), and the winner will be announced on Monday, November 18.

For anyone interested in a solution that massively reduces CVE counts to save developer and security teams time and resources, you’ll want to make sure to check out Chainguard Images while you’re at the event. We’re excited to show off not only how our current offering works, but also the latest sneak peek of new features that will be coming soon! Chainguardians will be at the booth demoing the product and answering all your burning questions.

For anyone who isn’t able to make it to the booth, you can still catch us at other events throughout the week. See what we’re up to and plan accordingly; you won’t want to miss us! 👇

Where to find us

Sunday, November 10

10:15-10:45 am MT

Images Bite Back - Dealing with Day 2 Build Issues

At Cloud-Native Rejekts, Chainguard DevRel OSS Engineer Adrian Mouat talks through the basics of making your build reliable and repeatable, with support for multiple architectures and a low CVE count that keeps users happy. He’ll cover the importance of making builds reproducible for security and maintainability, building in CI/CD and the cloud, handling multi-arch images, dealing with updating images and CVEs, and some more advanced concerns like SLSA and SBOMs.

2:35-3:05 pm MT

How the heck do I debug distroless containers?

Also at Cloud-Native Rejekts, Chainguard Staff Solutions Architect Eric Smalling will deliver a hands-on demonstration of various ways to troubleshoot and debug distroless container images without sacrificing security. There will also be a discussion about the pros and cons of adopting distroless, and what it means for your environment.

Tuesday, November 12

All Day

Sigstore Supply Chain Day

Join us for SigstoreCon, a one-day conference dedicated to Sigstore and software supply chain security. Attendees will learn more about Sigstore, with talks from Sigstore maintainers, package registry maintainers, and open source contributors and industry professionals who have integrated Sigstore into their build and release pipelines. 

Thursday, November 14

3:25-4:00 pm MT

Peak Innovation and Cloud Tweaks: Falco’s Ongoing Runtime Security Development (Official KubeCon Session)

Carlos Panato, Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, joins a panel of speakers from Apple and Sysdig to discuss the latest developments for Falco, a cloud-native security tool designed for Linux systems. The panel will dive deep into better rule handling for flexible ruleset customization and output definition, integration with Prometheus metrics, and an improved installation experience. They will also look at new language extensions and operators, improvements in performance and testing, and powerful new plugins for advanced data modeling. This talk will be happening in Salt Lake Ballroom C at the Hyatt Regency.

4:30-5:05 pm MT

The Maintainer Monologues (Official KubeCon Session)

Chainguard Principal Software Engineer Jason Hall sits on a panel with a mixed group of first time and experienced OSS maintainers to discuss what makes a maintainer. Each member of the panel will share their experiences navigating “being a maintainer”, including handling project milestones, social dynamics, burnout, and more. This talk is designed to give a new generation of maintainers the tools they need to be successful contributing, maintaining, and creating new and existing projects. This session will be at Salt Palace at 254 B.

After Hours

On Thursday, November 14 from 7:00-10:30 pm MT, Chainguard will be sponsoring the AprèsKube Party at Gracie’s in Salt Lake City! This is going to be an unforgettable night featuring members of the OSS, DevOps, DevSecOps, and Cloud communities. There will be plenty of singing, dancing, and networking to be had, along with classic American eats and signature cocktails. And of course, this is a great opportunity to meet Chainguardians and let loose with us! Register now and secure your spot – this is one of the hottest events happening all week, and spots will be gone fast.

For anyone looking to schedule a private meeting with our team in-person during KubeCon week to discuss how Chainguard Images can help save your team time and toil locking down open source software components, reach out! We would love to meet with you.