DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

By Bret Fisher

What's DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling about?

Interviews from Bret Fisher's live show. Topics cover container and cloud topics like Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm, Cloud Native development, DevOps, SRE, GitOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and the full software lifecycle. Full show notes and more info available at https://podcast.bretfisher.com

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DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling episodes:

04.19.2024
AWS Finch: The Minimal Local Container Solution
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Phil Estes of AWS to show us the Finch project, which bundles the best open source tools for building and running containers locally. Now it runs on macOS and Windows WSL2. We've been talking...
04.05.2024
Portainer for Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm, Edge, and IoT
Bret is joined by Neil Cresswell, CEO and co-founder of Portainer, to show us new features in Portainer and how it can manage, deploy, and orchestrate all your container workloads from a single Docker Engine, all the way to multi-cluster...
03.22.2024
Open Source Codespaces with Daytona
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ivan Burazin and Chad Metcalf to debut Daytona, an open source "codespaces equivalent." Daytona is a development environment manager designed to automate all the tedious steps a developer needs to perform to set up...
03.08.2024
Postgres in Containers
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Lukas Fittl of pganalyze to dive into Postgres in containers, in production, and in CI. Lukas is an expert and founder of pganalyze, and I invited him on the show to explain a lot...
02.23.2024
Best of DevOps 2023
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Melissa McKay, Developer Advocate at JFrog and Docker Captain, to discuss the best and worst of 2023. We recorded this episode in December of 2023 where we talked through our favorite tools. Whether a...
02.09.2024
Faster Dev Feedback and Previews with Livecycle
Bret is joined by Matan Mishan & Roy Razon of Livecycle to discuss developer platforms and how to improve developer collaboration and speeding up feedback and previews. We talk about the various delays encountered in pull requests due to feedback...
01.26.2024
Docker Recap of 2023
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin, DevRel at Docker, to talk about all the products and features Docker shipped in 2023, and what's coming in early 2024. Michael has been on this show many times as a...
01.05.2024
Tailscale Everything
Bret is joined by Alex Kretzschmar to talk about Tailscale, a universal VPN that connects teams, devices, and development environments for easy access to remote resources. Alex and I talk about projects he's worked on in containers over the years...
12.29.2023
Dockerfiles have versions?
I break down why Dockerfile frontends exist and how Docker's build engine "BuildKit" is giving us updated Dockerfile features. The TL;DR of this podcast is to add this to your Dockerfiles as the first line, always and forever.# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1 It'll ensure...
12.15.2023
Dagger: CI of the Future?
Application delivery doesn’t have to suck. Bret and Nirmal are joined by Solomon Hykes, the founder or Docker, to talk about Dagger and their application delivery-as-code that runs anywhere.
12.08.2023
Registry is getting an upgrade: Inside OCI artifacts
The OCI specifications for registry and image are getting a minor version number update to 1.1 soon, and this could be a big deal for anyone storing artifacts other than images somewhere in their infrastructure. This episode digs into the...
11.23.2023
KubeCon Live with Friends 2023
Bret is joined by Nirmal and a host of friends from the floor of KubeCon, to talk about the latest news and goings-on. We wanted to get some of our friends and people we haven't seen in a while that...
11.17.2023
Moving Domain Registrars, Again
In this short episode, I tell the tale of my registrar DNS name hosting for the last 25 years and what I prefer for a cheap and reliable name registrar. ★Topics★bret.lol: for anyone to use as a localhost wildcard solution...
11.10.2023
Multipass Local Virtual Machines
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Townsend, the engineering manager for Canonical's Multipass team, to discuss how to use Multipass as the easiest local virtual machine for Docker, Kubernetes and more! Multipass is my go-to solution for quickly creating...
11.03.2023
DockerCon 2023 New Features and Tools!
After returning from DockerCon earlier this month (Oct 2023), Bret recorded this podcast where he breaks down all the product announcements and details from the event. We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends and colleagues. You...
10.27.2023
NetBackup for Kubernetes
Bret is joined by Demetrius Malbrough and Joseph D'angelo from Veritas, the company that makes NetBackup amongst many other data protection tools. NetBackup has been around at least 25 years and I've been using it over 20 years, although not...
10.20.2023
AWS Lambda Containers
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ken Collins, AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Engineer at Custom Ink to discuss all things Lambda and to dig into the details of running containers in serverless. Ken and I have known each other...
10.06.2023
Ephemeral & Preview Environments for Compose and Kubernetes
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Grayson Adkins and Josh Thurman on the show. They are co-founders of Uffizzi, an environments-as-a-service company for Docker Compose and Kubernetes. We talk about ephemeral environments in all their forms. You might call them...
09.22.2023
Codefresh and Argo CD with Dan Garfield
Bret is joined by Dan Garfield of CodeFresh to talk about growth of GitOps as a standard, growth of Argo, and more. Dan is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and...
09.08.2023
OpenSauced with Brian Douglas
In this episode, Bret and Nirmal talk with Brian Douglas of OpenSauced. Brian Douglas, of GitHub fame, has founded OpenSauced, a cool web app and community of open source developers finding their next contribution and maybe their next job....
08.25.2023
Istio Ambient Mesh and Solo.io
Bret and Nirmal welcome Idit Levine, Founder/CEO Solo.io. Idit focuses on Service Mesh, API-GW and Multi-Cloud networking, and security. Idit has been involved in the Containers/DevOps community for 10+ years, building products from Docker to Envoy to Kubernetes, and now...
08.11.2023
Future of Kubernetes with Brendan Burns
Bret and Matt welcome special guest Brendan Burns, CVP Azure Cloud Native & Resource Management, and also a founding member of the Kubernetes project. Because Brendan is one of the three original co-founders of the Kubernetes project back in 2013...
07.28.2023
Kasten K10 Kubernetes Backups
Bret and Matt welcome Michael Cade, the field CTO at Kasten by Veeam. If you've been around servers for a while, you probably have heard of Veeam. It made its debut back in the late 2000's when virtual machines...
07.14.2023
Cycle.io LowOps container platform
Bret and Matt welcome Jake Warner back to the show to talk about LowOps. What does LowOps mean? What can Cycle offer us as an alternative to Swarm and Kubernetes? Jake Warner is the CEO and founder of Cycle.io. And...
06.30.2023
AWS containers with Corey Quinn
Bret and Matt are joined by Corey Quinn to talk about AWS and containers. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at the Duckbill Group. You may have seen or heard some of his in-depth AWS content, including his Last...
06.16.2023
Podman In Action: Desktop, Machine, and more
Bret and Matt are joined by Brent Baude and Dan Walsh from Red Hat to talk about the latest with Podman, Quadlet, Podman Desktop and Podman machine, and how it all works with Kubernetes. Dan Walsh, a Senior Distinguished Engineer...
06.02.2023
Falco Logs Suspicious Events on Your K8s and Servers
Bret and his co-host, Matt, are joined by Jason Dellaluce and Luca Guerra from Sysdig to talk about Falco, a tool I recommend for production clusters and knowing about any bad behavior on your servers. Falco is a security...
05.26.2023
DevPod for Dev Containers
Bret is joined by Lukas Gentele and Rich Burroughs from Loft Labs to look at a new project called DevPod, that supports dev containers and VMs. It works with local Docker instances and AWS, GCP, Azure, and several other cloud...
05.19.2023
Docker 2023 New Stuff
Bret and Matt are joined by two engineers in Docker's leadership - Chief Technology Officer Justin Cormack and Senior Manager of Developer Relations Michael Irwin, to talk about recent Docker Hub changes, as well as their latest product releases. We...
05.05.2023
Contribute to Kubernetes
Bret and Matt are joined by Chad Crowell of KubeSkills to walk through how you can contribute to Kubernetes open source. Chad started the kubeskills.com community and podcast to focus on learning Kubernetes by doing and in this episode,...
04.14.2023
Windows WSL and Containers in 2023
Bret is joined by fellow Docker Captain Nuno do Carmo to talk about desktop container solutions and the best Docker setup for Windows 11. Nuno's a Docker Captain, Civo Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, and a big fan of Windows and...
03.31.2023
Calico Networking for Kubernetes and More
Bret is joined by Project Calico's Tomas Hruby from Tigera to dig into Calico CNI features for Kubernetes and beyond. Calico can be used in a lot of places, including Linux, Windows, containers, bare metal, eBPF or iptables. Many...
03.17.2023
Docker Hub "Oops!" (UPDATE: SEE SHOW NOTES)
THIS EPISODE IS OUT OF DATE. Docker reverses course and cancels plans for Docker Hub Free Org changes. ❤️❤️❤️ https://www.docker.com/blog/no-longer-sunsetting-the-free-team-plan/ Original Show Notes =============== On the 14th of March, 2023, about 2% of Docker accounts received an email that our Docker Hub organizations...
03.17.2023
Faster Docker Builds with Depot
Bret is joined by Kyle Galbraith and Jacob Gillespie, co-founders of Depot, to discuss their new solution to slow Docker builds. If you've never dug into some of the details of Dockers BuildKit, that's the engine behind your Docker build...
03.04.2023
Better K8s Prometheus Alerts with Robusta
Bret is joined by Natan Yellin, the co-founder of Robusta.dev to talk Kubernetes and Prometheus monitoring, alerting, and maybe some CPU limit ranting. Robusta tries to fill the gap left by Kubernetes' own AlertManager which has a very specific...
02.17.2023
NGINX on Kubernetes, All The Details
Bret is joined by two pros from the NGINX team, Robert Haynes and Brian Ehlert to break down the various use cases of NGINX on Kubernetes, and help you decide when and where you'll be using it. There's a lot...
02.03.2023
Easy Kubernetes Auth and RBAC with Infra
Bret is joined by Matt Williams of Infra to show off their open source project Infra, which provides easy, centralized RBAC, auth to Kubernetes, and more.
01.20.2023
Trivy and Tracee, Aqua Security Tools
Bret is joined by Anaïs Urlichs of Aqua Security to talk container and Kubernetes security tools like trivy, kube-bench, tracee, and kube-hunter.
01.06.2023
Software Supply Chain Security with Chainguard
Bret is joined by two Chainguard co-founders, CEO Dan Lorenc and Head of Product, Kim Lewandowski, to break down the ins and outs of supply chain security and talk about Chainguard's approach to securing it.
12.23.2022
Best of DevOps 2022
Bret is joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and engineering consultant Laura Tacho, for the annual Best of DevOps.
12.16.2022
Docker: What's New from 2022
Bret is joined by Michael Irwin, Sr. Manager for DevRel at Docker, to review and demo our top 2022 new features and announcements from Docker Inc.
12.09.2022
Key DevOps Skills for Improving Your Expertise
Bret is joined by Brian Christner, a Docker Captain and Chief Online Gaming executive for Grand Casino Baden (jackpots.ch), who returns to the show to discuss his top recommended skills for improving your DevOps expertise.
11.25.2022
HashiCorp Vault for Kubernetes
Bret is joined by Rosemary Wang from HashiCorp to show off Vault for Kubernetes, an open source secrets provider.
11.11.2022
Service Mesh in Docker Desktop with Meshery
Bret is joined by Lee Calcote and Nic Jackson, co-authors of the Service Mesh Patterns book, to discuss service mesh for Docker Desktop and Compose apps with the new Meshery extension for Docker desktop.
10.28.2022
Cilium and eBPF with Liz Rice
Bret is joined by Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the makers of Cilium, to discuss Cilium and eBPF. Cilium is a multi-purpose networking, security, and observability tool for Kubernetes and more.
10.21.2022
Kubescape Kubernetes Security with ARMO
Bret is joined by Shauli Rozen, CEO and Co-Founder of ARMO, creators of Kubescape. Kubescape is a K8s open-source tool providing a multi-cloud K8s single pane of glass into your Kubernetes security, including risk analysis, security compliance, RBAC visualizer, and...
10.14.2022
Slim and Secure Container Images with Slim.ai
Bret is joined by Martin Wimpress and Pieter van Noordennen from Slim.ai to discuss some ways to slim down your Docker images and reduce the attack surface of your containers in the process.
10.07.2022
Carvel Tools for Kubernetes
Bret is joined by Dmitriy Kalinin and John Ryan from VMWare to show off the many Carvel project tools.
09.23.2022
Securing Containers, First Steps in Docker and Kubernetes
Bret goes through his top recommendations for securing container images, Docker containers and Kubernetes pods.
09.09.2022
Managing Enterprise Kubernetes with Replicated
Bret is joined by Marc Campbell of Replicated to discuss the challenges of deploying their software on other people's Kubernetes.

What's DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling episodes:

AWS Finch: The Minimal Local Container Solution

Portainer for Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm, Edge, and IoT

Open Source Codespaces with Daytona

Postgres in Containers

Best of DevOps 2023

Faster Dev Feedback and Previews with Livecycle

Docker Recap of 2023

Tailscale Everything

Dockerfiles have versions?

Dagger: CI of the Future?

Registry is getting an upgrade: Inside OCI artifacts

KubeCon Live with Friends 2023

Moving Domain Registrars, Again

Multipass Local Virtual Machines

DockerCon 2023 New Features and Tools!

NetBackup for Kubernetes

AWS Lambda Containers

Ephemeral & Preview Environments for Compose and Kubernetes

Codefresh and Argo CD with Dan Garfield

OpenSauced with Brian Douglas

Istio Ambient Mesh and Solo.io

Future of Kubernetes with Brendan Burns

Kasten K10 Kubernetes Backups

Cycle.io LowOps container platform

AWS containers with Corey Quinn

Podman In Action: Desktop, Machine, and more

Falco Logs Suspicious Events on Your K8s and Servers

DevPod for Dev Containers

Docker 2023 New Stuff

Contribute to Kubernetes

Windows WSL and Containers in 2023

Calico Networking for Kubernetes and More

Docker Hub "Oops!" (UPDATE: SEE SHOW NOTES)

Faster Docker Builds with Depot

Better K8s Prometheus Alerts with Robusta

NGINX on Kubernetes, All The Details

Easy Kubernetes Auth and RBAC with Infra

Trivy and Tracee, Aqua Security Tools

Software Supply Chain Security with Chainguard

Best of DevOps 2022

Docker: What's New from 2022

Key DevOps Skills for Improving Your Expertise

HashiCorp Vault for Kubernetes

Service Mesh in Docker Desktop with Meshery

Cilium and eBPF with Liz Rice

Kubescape Kubernetes Security with ARMO

Slim and Secure Container Images with Slim.ai

Carvel Tools for Kubernetes

Securing Containers, First Steps in Docker and Kubernetes

Managing Enterprise Kubernetes with Replicated