2026-06-02 A Guided Tour of the Open Source Projects that Quietly Run Kubernetes Everywhere

Our speaker will give us a guided tour of the open source projects that quietly run Kubernetes everywhere. He will talk about K3s, RKE2, Rancher, Longhorn, Harvester, NeuVector, Kubewarden, Fleet, and the immutable OS underneath it and every box mapped to a real GitHub repo. Chris Reynolds Director, Solutions Architects (Pre-Sales Specialist) at Rancher Government Solutions Chris Reynolds is a nerd at Rancher Government, where he helps federal teams put Kubernetes into places it has no business going, air-gapped, classified, and otherwise unfriendly. Before that he spent time at Red Hat in the federal SA/DA org, at Kubecost on the global public sector team, and as a DoD/IC contractor. He also did a bit of time at PSU building HPC clusters. He's been in and around distributed systems for over twenty years.