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Swastik is a CNCF ambassador and a Product Engineer by profession who enjoys to contribute to opensource inclusing openssf hosted RSTUF , kyverno , knative , paralus , Kubevela and is also a CAPI CI signal release shadow . He likes to study about the latest tech And innovations going... Read More →
Researcher and ex security auditor, Ex Reliance Industries limited
Published security researcher and Master's Candidate at LNMIIT. Former Security Auditor at Reliance Industries with expertise in OS kernel internals, eBPF-based threat detection, Rust and Go for secure tooling, and binary fuzzing. Skilled in container security, SBOM generation, supply-chain... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST 205 (Level 2)
Kubernetes has long struggled with safe container isolation where `root` in a pod meant `root` on the node. This session shows how KEP‑127 and user namespaces finally make root inside a container harmless.
Real scenario: Your container needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN for FUSE mounts. An exploit succeeds. Without user namespaces: attacker = root on node, full cluster access. With user namespaces: attacker = UID 65536 - relatively powerless.
This talk chronicles the 9+ year journey mapping your pods "root" to an unprivileged nobody on the host.
Why it took 9 years: - Early attempts (2016) failed-no kernel support - v1.25-1.28: Three alpha rewrites - v1.27: idmap mounts breakthrough - v1.30: off-by-default Beta after CRI overhauls - v1.33: Default beta-production-ready - v1.34: Observability (metrics added)
Sr DevSecOps Engineer & Tech Architect, Broota Enterprise
An independent DevSecOps and Tech Architecture consultant, kubestronaut, and cybersecurity and FOSS enthusiast, currently running Mumbai’s largest cybersecurity community -BreachForce.
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST 205 (Level 2)
