DevOps Chat

Anshu Agarwal has a tremendous record of working in startups that had successful exits. Now for the first time, along with her co-founders, she is actually founding the startup herself.

Nimbella is a serverless platform that is cloud agnostic and makes developing and deploying applications easy. Whether in a public cloud, private data center or both, Nimbella can help.

In this chat we speak with Anshu about her own personal journey and where Nimbella is and what the plans are for going forward

Christopher O'Malley is one of the leading voices in the DevOps for Mainframe community. He is relentless in advocating how the mainframe platform can not just exist, but thrive in todays agile/DevOps environments. His evangelism not only keeps his company Compuware front and center in the mainframe DevOps discussion, but really lifts the entire market.

In this chat we catch up with Chris to talk about the latest release of Topaz, what are the latest trends in the mainframe market and what we can expect in the near short term.

Chris is always a great interview with lots to say and this interview is right on point.

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Manish Gupta, CEO co-founder of ShiftLeft. ShiftLeft is one of the up and coming DevSecOps companies. As evidence of such, they were recently chosen as one of the 10 finalists for this years #RSAC innovation Sandbox award.

I have known Manish for many years in the security industry and it does not surprise me that he is once again at the top of a company that is setting the mark in the industry.

As DevSecOps continues to mature we are seeing solutions that help at different points of the software pipeline. Some solutions are shifting far left and helping developers at the point of development and committing code. Other solutions are squarely aimed at the old Ops team. Almost a DevSec and a SecOps bifurcation.

I am not sure that this is a great thing, I would like to see a more holistic solution, but I do believe the market will correct this.

ShiftLeft could be one of those companies who is on top at the end of the day.

They say if you live long enough . . . Few things give me greater pleasure than seeing my friends well earned success. Rich Mogull and Mike Rothman (along with Adrian Lane, Jody Brazil & Brandy Peterson) have been chasing a dream for more than a few years now. How to make the SecOps persons life easier, while bringing security into the age of DevOps, automation, agile, CI/CD, etc. Say hello to DisruptOps (http://www.disruptops.com).

I first interviewed Mike about DisruptOps a few months ago. The company was just emerging from stealth.

While they are still in preview, they were one of hundreds of companies that threw their hat into the ring for the prestigious RSAC Innovation Sandbox. Very proud to report that they were one of 10 finalists selected for this years program. If history is any guide, the fact they made the final cut is a good indicator of success to come. And well it should frankly. This founding team are some of the most dynamic, talented and smartest people I know in the business.

I had a chance to sit down with Rich Mogull and Mike Rothman to discuss what is driving DisruptOps and what the disruption is all about. Have a listen as we talk about it from the executive view, the security admin view and the market view.

Also be sure to check out DisruptOps at DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Days at RSAC, Monday, March 4th. https://www.devopsconnect.com/event/devops-connect-devsecops-days-rsac-2019/

Rich is also on a panel at the event as well as several other sessions at RSAC this year.

Enjoy!

The RSA Conference is just a month away. Once again RSAC promises to be the place where the world gathers around security. With upwards of 50,000 people attending, it is big by anyone's standard.

If you haven't already registered, here is a code for $100 dollars off a full conference pass (all sessions), 1U9DEVOPSFD

or get a free expo pass, 1U9DEVOPSXP

DevSecOps will be center stage this year, literally. Shannon Lietz, the found of DevSecOps.org will be keynoting as well as leading a week long track on DevSecOps. Appearing with Shannon, is another leader of the DevSecOps community, James Wickett. James is the founder of the Rugged DevOps movement and a key member of the Signal Science team. Both James and Shannon are our guests in this DevOps Chat.

Part 1 of this chat where with just Shannon is also available.

In addition to the DevSecOps track all week, there is also the 5th annual DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Days on Monday, March 4th at Moscone, as part of RSAC.

www.devopsconnect.com/event/devops-c…ays-rsac-2019/

www.devsecopsdays.com/2019-devsecops…s-sanfrancisco

The RSA Conference is just a month away. Once again RSAC promises to be the place where the world gathers around security. With upwards of 50,000 people attending, it is big by anyone's standard.

If you haven't already registered, here is a code for $100 dollars off a full conference pass (all sessions), 1U9DEVOPSFD a free expo pass,

1U9DEVOPSXP

DevSecOps will be center stage this year, literally. Shannon Lietz, the found of DevSecOps.org will be keynoting as well as leading a week long track on DevSecOps. Shannon is our guest in this DevOps Chat.

Part 2 of this chat where we are joined by Rugged DevOps founder, James Wickett will follow this chat next.

In addition to the DevSecOps track, there is also the 5th annual DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Days on Monday, March 4th at Moscone, as part of RSAC.

https://www.devopsconnect.com/event/devops-connect-devsecops-days-rsac-2019/

https://www.devsecopsdays.com/2019-devsecopsdays-sanfrancisco

Tyler Shields is someone who has made the leap from technical security expert to business leader. At Veracode, CA and now Sonatype, Tyler is someone who can clearly enunciate the path forward for business leaders on what they should be doing in regard to DevSecOps, open source security and minimally viable security.

Tyler gets it and you can learn a lot from him. Have a listen and enjoy

What exactly is a chief scientist? Eric Sheridan at WhiteHat tells us. More than that, Eric gives us what he calls the "the security addendum to the 12 factor App." I guess to understand this, you need to understand something about the 12 factor app process. Here is the website to learn: https://12factor.net/

Eric lays out a well reasoned approach to appsec and some good research findings from WhiteHat. Have a listen

In this DevOps Chat we speak with nClouds CEO JT Giri about the challenges SMBs face when moving to the cloud. As an AWS premier partner, nClouds specializes in helping these companies achieve a successful cloud migration.

So why should SMBs migrate to the cloud? What are their challenges? How can they succeed? JT shares with us his insight, honed from helping dozens and dozens of SMBs do this successfully.

In this DevOps chat we speak with our old friend Tim Woods, VP of technology alliances at Firemon. Firemon's mission has moved beyond the management of the firewall to managing your security. Recent acquisitions have enabled them to offer comprehensive security management across the entire hybrid environment.

Tim and I discuss the current state of technology and what large enterprises are looking for their hybrid environments. Great conversation!