Mauro Morales
Staff Engineer at Spectro Cloud
Staff Engineer en Spectro Cloud
Gent, Belgium
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Mauro Morales is a Guatemalan software developer and speaker. He’s currently a Staff Engineer at Spectro Cloud, where he’s part of the team building Kairos — an open-source Linux distribution for running Kubernetes at the edge. Mauro regularly speaks at conferences like KubeCon, FOSDEM, and the Open Source Summit, and co-hosts the Cloud Native Community Belgium.
Mauro Morales es un desarrollador de software y conferencista guatemalteco. Actualmente es Staff Engineer en Spectro Cloud, donde forma parte del equipo que desarrolla Kairos, una distribución de Linux de código abierto para ejecutar Kubernetes en el edge. Mauro participa regularmente como ponente en conferencias como KubeCon, FOSDEM y Open Source Summit, y es coorganizador de la Cloud Native Community Belgium.
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The Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform
Edge platforms are remote, resource-constrained, and mission-critical—making them ideal candidates for an immutable architecture. Edge environments demand resilience, security, and operational simplicity. This talk reimagines Kubernetes at the edge through a radical embrace of immutability, exploring how purpose-built, read-only operating systems, ephemeral workloads, and stateless infrastructure can transform the edge from a liability into a strength.
Inspired by Kundera’s existential lens, we’ll explore the philosophical and practical implications of immutability at the edge, using CNCF projects like k0s, Kairos, and Cluster API.we’ll architect a platform where every layer—from firmware to containers—is reproducible and replaceable, not mutable.
We'll see how Immutable builds can reduce attack surfaces, simplify updates, and achieve true zero-touch provisioning.
Join us to challenge the status quo—and embrace the lightness of being immutable.
The Immutable Lightness of an Edge Platform
Edge platforms are remote, resource-constrained, and mission-critical—making them ideal candidates for an immutable architecture. Edge environments demand resilience, security, and operational simplicity. This talk reimagines Kubernetes at the edge through a radical embrace of immutability, exploring how purpose-built, read-only operating systems, ephemeral workloads, and stateless infrastructure can transform the edge from a liability into a strength.
Inspired by Kundera’s existential lens, we’ll explore the philosophical and practical implications of immutability at the edge, using CNCF projects like k0s, Kairos, and Cluster API.we’ll architect a platform where every layer—from firmware to containers—is reproducible and replaceable, not mutable.
We'll see how Immutable builds can reduce attack surfaces, simplify updates, and achieve true zero-touch provisioning.
Join us to challenge the status quo—and embrace the lightness of being immutable.
Securing AI at the Edge: Privacy Workshop with Kubernetes
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly pervasive in our lives, driving the need for decentralized processing at the edge. However, this convergence of AI and edge computing poses significant challenges, particularly in privacy and security.
This workshop delves into the crucial intersection of AI deployment at the edge and the imperative need for privacy-centric approaches. Through hands-on exercises and demonstrations, participants will explore how Kubernetes, a robust container orchestration platform, can facilitate the seamless deployment and maintenance of AI models, including large language models (LLMs), at the edge.
Drawing upon real-world use cases and best practices, this workshop aims to empower participants with practical skills and actionable insights to deploy AI securely and responsibly at the edge. Join us to learn how to navigate the complexities of AI deployment while preserving privacy in an interconnected world.
Fort Kairos: A New Dawn for Secure Linux in Untrusted Environments
At the edge, there's one thing we know for sure: it's not to be trusted. But imagine if Kairos could change that, letting you sleep soundly knowing your intellectual property is secure.
Kairos is a CNCF Sandbox Project to run Kubernetes at the edge. As such, we have put Trusted Boot into action. Inspired by Lennard Pottering, the mind behind Systemd, we've leveraged Secure Boot, Trusted Boot, TPM, and disk encryption. The result? A Linux OS that's built tough against the challenges of untrusted environments.
Fort Kairos: A New Dawn for Secure Linux in Untrusted Environments
At the edge, there's one thing we know for sure: it's not to be trusted. But imagine if Kairos could change that, letting you sleep soundly knowing your intellectual property is secure.
Kairos is a fully open source project to run kubernetes at the edge. As such, we have put Trusted Boot into action. Inspired by Lennard Pottering, the mind behind Systemd, we've leveraged Secure Boot, Trusted Boot, TPM, and disk encryption. The result? A Linux OS that's built tough against the challenges of untrusted environments.
Do one thing, and do it well: Special Purpose OSes apply the Unix app philosophy to the whole OS
Our BoF panel features representatives of popular, highly specialized Linux distributions like Kairos, Flatcar, Eve, BottleRocket, Unikraft, SUSE MicroOS, and others. After a brief introduction we will open a discussion with the audience about the purpose, and limits, of special-purpose operating systems, on operational challenges, and on differences to general purpose operating systems. Discussions may include a wide variety of topics our audience is interested in discussing, e.g. opportunities to improve operations reliability and security, developing and operating cloud-native workloads, workload isolation, and trusted/measured boot.
Special Purpose Operating Systems: The Next Step in OS Evolution or One-Trick Ponies?
CNCF’s recently-established special purpose operating system working group focuses on the operations, best practices, and guidance for running cloud native workloads on operating systems including, but not limited to, containers, across orchestrators such as Kubernetes and other cloud-native projects.
Our panel features representatives of popular, highly specialized Linux distributions. We will outline the specifics and the goals of popular specialized operating systems such as base OS immutability, atomic upgrades / rollbacks, and securing deployments / workloads. We will discuss what specialized OSes can provide to improve development and operation of cloud-native workloads, and will outline operational challenges that result from specializations when adopting and operating these OSes.
Dutch Cloud Native Day 2025 Sessionize Event
Cloud Native Days Italy 2025 Sessionize Event
Dutch Cloud Native Day 2024 Sessionize Event
Open Conf - 2024 Sessionize Event
KCD Porto Sessionize Event
Open Source Summit Europe 2024 Sessionize Event
KCD Italy 2024 Sessionize Event
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 Sessionize Event
Mauro Morales
Staff Engineer at Spectro Cloud
Gent, Belgium
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