MacDevOpsYVR podcast

Co-hosts JD and Mat X talk with Tom and Dan from Snowflake about logging all the data. Everything! Osquery, FleetDM, and what do you do with 400TB of logs.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Tom and Dan (Twitter)

https://twitter.com/Daniel_Infosec/status/1494722694922727424?s=20&t=bi5fUDt2q94RtGH1IiFh1w

Links:

Snowflake osquery Fleet magic (tlark GitHub blog post)

Snowflake Db (Twitter)

Snowflake  #DataCloud 

Osquery

FleetDM

Munki (open source macOS software management)

Gorilla (Munki for Windows)

Acronyms:

SCIM (System for cross-domain Identity Management)

RBAC (Role based access control)

FIM (Osquery File integrity monitoring)

ELK (Elastic Logstash Kibana)

Videos:

MDOYVR17 – Osquery and Streamalert – Sam Keeley

MDOYVR18 – QuickTalk – Henry Stamerjohann – How to get them SHAS

Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with MacAdmins legend Per Olofsson, aka Mager Valp, to discuss the recent MunkiReport quick fix and how open source is fun.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Per Olofsson (Mager Valp: Twitter / GitHub)

Links:

MunkiReport project (GitHub)

Videos:

MunkiReport and the story of Open Source (MDO YVR 2019)

MunkiReport workshop (MDO YVR 2020)

MunkiReport v6 demo (MDO YVR 2021)

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

Mat X and JD discuss the call for sponsors, speakers, ticket sales, and more for the upcoming MacDevOps YVR Conference.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Links:

MDO:YVR conference, June 15-17, 2022

Enroll macOS Beta Seed without profile installation

BlueSky Docker

Run Mac OS X in Docker

Videos:

SPONSORS for MDO:YVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with past MDO speaker Prima Virani to discuss AWS, Kubernetes, Go vs. Python, and surprise: osquery and fleetDM.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Prima Virani (secnerdette)

Links:

Prima’s post on Automate Ourselves Out of On-Call Burnout

File Integrity Monitoring with osquery

SOCless: automated security run books 

AWS Elastic Kubernetes (EKS)

Osquery

FleetDM

Book Suggestion:

Made To Stick

MDO YVR 2019 conference video:

Prima Virani – Building Resilient Security Log Pipelines with Chaos

Jonathan, Balmas, and Brian join Mat X and JD to discuss Chapter 3 for this fourth meeting of the SRE Book Club.

Themes:

Embracing risk. The group discusses error budgets and how you can’t have perfect uptime.

Hosts:

Mat X

Guests:

Jonathan, Balmas, and Brian

Links:

Google SRE book

SRE fundamentals – SLI SLO SLA

MDOYVR talks:

Piero Mamberti – KanBan is your friend

Jonathan Haenchen – Quick Talk – Your DevOps Helpdesk

Co-hosts JD and Shania join Mat X to discuss Osquery and Security with guest Mike McNeil, FleetDM’s CEO.

Hosts:

Shania, Mat X, and JD

Guest:

Mike McNeil, FleetDM (CEO)

Links:

YAML

Osquery

FleetDM

Kolide

Splunk

Elastic

Tom Larkin – Snowflake

Acronyms:

Musical inspiration:

Black Steel

We discuss Chapter 2 for this third meeting of the now infamous SRE Book Club.

Themes:

How to apply DevOps and SRE concepts to your entire org. How do you troubleshoot a process and not just a problem? Don’t forget about User experience. Bonus pointsing:  avoid Single Points of Failure and creating more tech debt.

Hosts:

Mat X

Guests:

Brandon, Balmas, and Brian

Links:

Google SRE book

SRE book in audio (GitHub)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Borg – Google’s Large scale cluster management

Colossus – Google’s Scalable storage system  

SRE fundamentals – SLI SLO SLA

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures(CVE) 

Jira – plan track and release software

Zendesk

SimpleMDM

Autopkg

Windows – Chocolatey and Gorilla

Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt

MDOYVR talks:

Piero Mamberti – KanBan is your friend

Jonathan Haenchen – Quick Talk – Your DevOps Helpdesk

Lucas J. Hall – Making SimpleMDM Complicated

Brandon, Jennifer, Balmas, and Brian join Mat X and JD to discuss Chapter 1 in-depth for this second part of the SRE Book Club.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Links:

Google SRE book

Learning git with Git related MDOYVR videos:

Spoorthy Seenappa – Intro to Git 

Joe Chilcote – GitHub – Contributing to Open Source

Jon Crain – GitHub Actions for the Mac Admin

William Theaker – (Quick Talk) Running Autopkg with GitHub Actions

Lucas Hall – Gitlab + Munki

Interview:

MacAdmin Monthly talks to the Google MacOps team

Monitoring:

Munki Report

Zabbix

FleetDM

Watchman Monitoring

Management (MDM):

SPONSOR:

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor for MDOYVR conf 2022)

Conferences:

PyCascades

MacDevOps:YVR

Happy New Year! Co-hosts JD and Shania join Mat X to discuss MDO YVR 2022 conference planning and garbage management as we kick off the new year by cleaning out tech debt.

Hosts:

Shania, Mat X and JD

Links:

Tickets for MDOYVR 2022

Jan-Piet Mens – “jo” a shell command to create JSON

JQ – lightweight and flexible JSON processor

https://www.json.org/json-en.html

Mat X and JD close out the year with a few conference announcements and discussion of log4j, security vulnerabilities, patching, bounties, projects and predictions.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Links:

Log4j:

CISA guidance –

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/apache-log4j-vulnerability-guidance

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/important-message–security-vulnerability-java-edition

Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/

Security:

Csaba Fitzl (Twitter) – https://twitter.com/theevilbit

Csaba Fitzl ((Blog) – https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/

MacDevOps:YVR 2022:

MDOYVR Conference Sponsors – https://mdoyvr.com/sponsors/

SimpleMDM and Munki:

MacVFX (Blog) – Munki and SimpleMDM – https://macvfx.blog/2021/12/17/munki-makes-mdm-manageable/

SimpleMDM (blog) Munki integration – https://simplemdm.com/munki-integration/

Getting Started with Munki (MDOYVR 2015 video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWWzaqM-LHU

Elliot Jordan (GitHub) – Recipe Robot – https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot

Raspberry Pi:

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W – https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/

The Python Imaging Library – https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Monitoring:

PRTG – https://www.paessler.com/prtg/features

Grafana – https://grafana.com/grafana/

Zabbix – https://www.zabbix.com/

ELK Stack (Elastic, LogStash, Kibana) – https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elk-stack

Is my Cloud down?

Down Detector – https://downdetector.ca/

AWS Status – https://status.aws.amazon.com/