DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret is joined by the co-creators of the Argo project and co-founders of Akuity - Hong Wang and Jesse Suen - to discuss the state of Argo and their new Akuity offering for Argo CD in the Cloud.

Chances are, you've heard of one or more of the Argo projects. They include Argo Workflows, Argo CD, Argo Events, and Argo roll-outs. Argo is one of those Kubernetes projects that is so common for teams to choose that it's nearly an assumption that every team is using one of their tools in a cluster or two.

Hong Wang and Jessie Suen helped co-create the Argo project years back at Intuit and have now co-founded a growing startup called Akuity. The company is focusing on making the Argo products better and creating SaaS offerings for the Argo tools. In this episode, we get a perspective on where the Argo tools came from and what the team behind it is doing. Streamed live on YouTube on May 26, 2022.

Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #171).

★Topics★
Argo CD homepage
Akuity homepage
Akuity news on more funding
Argo CD in the cloud
ArgoCon in September
Declarative setup of Argo CD

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Akuity
Jesse Suen
Hong Wang

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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret is joined by Rosemary Wang, a developer advocate at Hashi Corp. She recently finished a Manning book, titled Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and Practices. They discuss how infrastructure as code fits into DevOps and Gitops, and how you can get started with IaC and run over some important patterns, such as controlling versioning, IaC testing and managing costs.

Rosemary worked at ThoughtWorks previously, and it was interesting to hear her experiences on learning from senior engineering, and how pairing and other types of mentorship can help. Streamed live on YouTube on April 28, 2022.

Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #168).

★Topics★
Infrastructure as Code: Patterns and Practices, with examples in Python and Terraform

★Rosemary Wang★
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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret is joined by Ravi Lachhman, Field CTO at Shipa, to discuss the basics of Shipa application and policy management, and show off the developer experience that Shipa brings to apps running on IaC and GitOps tools like ArgoCD,  Crossplane, Terraform, Kubernetes, and more.

Shipa is focused on the layer above the infrastructure where application developers can avoid other Kubernetes manifest tools like Helm or Kustomize, and create a cleaner contract between what their application needs are and how the infrastructure provides them.

If you've done Kubernetes YAML long enough, you know that it can get quite complex and verbose, and it requires both infrastructure and developer roles or knowledge to fully configure it. So you kind of got to know both worlds. But Shipa wants to fit in the middle somewhere, not replacing the infrastructure tools like Terraform or Crossplane, but rather working on top of them, providing an easier way to describe your apps from a dev's point of view and how they work on top of your infrastructure. It focuses on the application requirements, not necessarily how those requirements are implemented. Streamed live on YouTube on April 14, 2022.

Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #166). Includes demos.

★Topics★
Shipa website
Shipa example
DevOps Days Atlanta

★Ravi Lachhman★
Ravi on Twitter

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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret is joined by Erik Veld, Manager, Developer Advocacy at HashiCorp, the creators of Nomad. Nomad is an orchestrator like Kubernetes and Swarm but it has a unique set of features that make it an interesting alternative on multiple levels. It's known for having a much simpler infrastructure design than Kubernetes, and also having a stronger community and feature release cycle then Swarm. Erik talks about the basics of Nomad, the reason it was created and runs through some demos. Streamed live on YouTube April 7, 2022.

Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #165). Includes demos.

★Topics★
Nomad website
Nomad GitHub page
Tech-Nomadic, Run Your Software Anywhere (YouTube)
Managing DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters with Terraform (YouTube)

★Erik Veld★
Erik on Twitter

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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret is joined by David Flanagan, aka Rawkode Academy, from Pulumi to show off how Pulumi infrastructure-as-code can improve GitOps pipelines. Our conversation focused on what GitOps and Pulumi are and how they work together to manage your infrastructure and app deploys. Streamed live on YouTube on March 24, 2022.

Unedited live recording of the complete show on YouTube (Ep #164). Includes demos.

★ Topics ★
Pulumi
Product
K8s Operator
K8s
GitOps
Law of Demeter
1Password SSH management

★ David Flanagan aka Rawkode Academy★
Rawkode Academy, Live weekly
Rawkode on Twitter

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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret is joined by Anca Iordache and Dave Scott, software engineers at Docker Inc, to talk about why they made Docker Desktop for Linux and how it's different from running the Docker Engine daemon. Streamed live on YouTube on 21 April 2022.

Unedited live recording of the complete show on YouTube (Ep #167). Includes demos.

We talk about the origins of Docker Desktop for Linux, why it needs to exist, and how it's different than  running Docker Engine on the native host. Docker Desktop for Linux behaves like Mac and windows versions where it uses a VM and we clear up some confusion around that. Further, we talk about some of the functionality with operating it in tandem with Docker Engine on the host so you can run both at the same time and use context to switch between them.

★ Topics ★
Download Docker Desktop for Linux
Docker Roadmap
Docker Desktop for Linux GitHub Issues
Docker Developer Preview Program
Docker Community Signup
DockerCon 2022

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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret is joined by Lukas Gentele and Rich Burroughs of Loft Labs to talk about vcluster, a Kubernetes distribution that can run inside an existing cluster namespace, aka "clusters in clusters." Lukas is the CEO of Loft Labs and Rich is their Senior Developer Advocate.

VCluster is quite a universal tool for running fully-fledged Kubernetes clusters for dev and test environments and even potentially in production. In this episode, Lukas and Rich break down a ton of ways vcluster is currently being used and where they see it going in the future. Streamed live on YouTube on March 10, 2022.

Unedited live recording of the complete show on YouTube (Ep #162). Includes demos.

★Topic Links★
Loft Labs
VCluster

★Lukas Gentele and Rich Burroughs★
Lukas Gentele on Twitter
Rich Burroughs on Twitter

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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Bret and his guests - Jamie Duncan and John Osborne, authors of "OpenShift in Action" - talk about Enterprise Kubernetes adoption, the barriers teams encounter and why it's worth solving the hard problems in enterprise teams by standardizing on Kubernetes.

Jamie is a customer engineer at Google Cloud and John is chief architect at RedHat. In this episode, we talk a lot about Kubernetes as the new common non-vendor specific infrastructure API. Streamed live on YouTube on March 3, 2022.

Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep. 161).

★Topics ★
40% off Manning books and products: poddevt19 http://mng.bz/raEE
OpenShift in Action
Google Anthos
Knative Events
Halfempty
KubeVirt
Kata Containers

★John Osborne and Jamie Duncan★
John Osborne on Twitter
Jamie Duncan on Twitter

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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

Jim Bugwadia joins Bret to discuss Kubernetes policy management and "intelligent guardrails for K8s." Jim is the CEO and co-founder of Nirmata. He's also the founder of Kyverno, an CNCF Sandbox Project and open source project for managing policies in Kubernetes. We talk about what Kyverno is, what it isn't, and what problems it solves. We also talk a bit about Narmada and how it expands on that.

If you're in a team using Kubernetes together, controlling settings and standards in your workloads and clusters can be a constant source of frustration unless you have something to govern those policies across all your workloads and clusters.Streamed live on YouTube on Feb 24, 2022.

Unedited live recording of the complete show on YouTube (Ep #160). Includes demos.

★Topics ★
Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. With Kyverno, policies are managed as Kubernetes resources, and no new language is required to write policies. This allows using familiar tools such as kubectl, git, and kustomize to manage policies. Kyverno policies can validate, mutate, and generate Kubernetes resources plus ensure OCI image supply chain security. The Kyverno CLI can be used to test policies and validate resources as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
Nirmata "Intelligent Guardrails for Kubernetes." Security, Compliance, and Operational Readiness of Kubernetes Across the Enterprise
Sigstore
Blog re Sigstore: "Linux Foundation’s Sigstore Aims to Secure Software Supply Chains"

OWASP Open Web Application Security Project

★Jim Bugwadia ★
Jim on Twitter

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😇 My new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs.

In this episode, Bret is joined by Portainer's co-founder and CEO, Neil Cresswell, to get an update on their product. If you haven't heard of Portainer, it's one of the original web apps to manage Docker, then swarm and now Kubernetes. This is one of Bret's top 10 tools for consideration to manage your container environments. Neil will show off the latest from Portainer.io. Streamed live on YouTube on February 3, 2022.

Unedited live recording of the complete show on YouTube (Ep #157). Includes demos.

★Topics★
Portainer
Portainer in DigitalOcean
Portainer in Multipass

★Neil Cresswell★
Portainer on Twitter

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