Mat X, JD and Shania are joined by Aspen Lindblom and Ben Greisler, speakers at MacDevOps:YVR, to chat all things backups, security and the cloud.

Hosts:

Mat X, JD and Shania

Guests:

Aspen Lindblom and Ben Greisler

Links:

MDOYVR 2021 conference speakers

Schedule at MDOYVR 2021 

Ben Greisler, IT consultant (Kadimac)

Shodan, the search engine for the internet of things

CrowdStrike endpoint security

Archer – That’s how you get ants.

PiHole

Blocklists

RBLs

Mat X, JD and Shania are joined by Lucas Hall and James Smith, speakers at MacDevOps:YVR, to chat all things Apple, MDM and what could be at WWDC and MDOYVR 2021.

Hosts:

Mat X, JD and Shania

Guests:

Lucas Hall (Slack) and James Smith (ANZ)

Links:

MDOYVR 2021 conference speakers

How we do we get users to run software update? Nudge!

What is asset management? MunkiReport? Omnitza? Snipe-IT! 

What is an MDM? (Apple overview)

What is config management? Chef?

What is package management? Munki

What are the MDM commands?

MDM: commands and queries (Apple Developer Docs)

What is a MDM lock code? And is it optional or just not working on M1?

Mat X, and JD are joined by Csaba Fitzl and Armin Briegel, speakers at MDOYVR 2021, to chat all things Mac and security.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Csaba Fitzl and Armin Briegel

Links:

MDOYVR 2021 conference speakers

Csaba’s Shield app (GitHub)

Csaba’s Launch Agents blog series

LPE (local privilege escalation) 

Red Team vs Blue Team

Armin’s blog ScriptingOSX

Armin’s macOS scripting books 

Installomator (GitHub)

B.C. Symbols  (Dogwood)

The Evil bit (IPv4 RFC)

The Evil Bit (Csaba’s Twitter)

ScriptingOSX (Armin’s Twitter)

Mat X, Shania, and JD are joined by Estela Baca and Chad Calease, speakers at MDOYVR 2021, to chat Dev Sec Ops, mentors and the ever changing security landscape.

MDOYVR 2021 conference speakers

 Mat X and JD are joined by Henry Stamerjohann of Zentral Pro Services to talk about the Zentral open source project, the upcoming MDOYVR conference and more.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest: 

Henry Stamerjohann (Zentral Pro Services)

Zentral open source project (GitHub)

Google’s santa open source project (GitHub)

osquery open source project · GitHub

Free and Open Search: The Creators of Elasticsearch, ELK & Kibana | Elastic

Kibana: Explore, Visualize, Discover Data | Elastic

Videos:

MDOYVR 2018 – Santa – All about them SHAS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le6AgINmk3Q&feature=youtu.be

MDOYVR 2017 – Zentral: What’s New?

https://youtu.be/rb1oLpXSQZ0

MDOYVR 2016  – intro to Zentral

https://youtu.be/fPCfjYvjnc4

Mat X and JD are joined by Emily Handa to discuss moving to Stockholm, plant parenthood, weekends at IKEA, and working as a client platform engineer.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Emily Handa

Links:

In a City Transformed (I en förvandlad stad) a novel by Swedish author Per Anders Fogelström

MDOYVR 2021 conference 

MDOYVR – all videos (YouTube)

MDOYVR – Python talks

Tim Sutton – Python for Mac Admins

Tim Sutton – Shipping Python to Mac Clients in 2020

Greg Neagle – A Swift Adventure – Moving from Python to Swift

Michael Lynn – Python and ctypes

Mat X and JD talk about the upcoming conference, incorporating CI/CD into a small operation, revisiting backups and more.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Links:

MacDevOps:YVR 2021 Call for Speakers form

How to backup a Discord server with bots

MacAdmins Monthly with Ed Marczak

Arek Dreyer (Apple Books)

“Q Into The Storm” HBO

Felipe Baez – workflow architect for “Q into the storm” documentary

“Do not disturb” on macOS Big Sur 

Charity Majors CI/CD Presentation

Munki (wiki)

MunkiReport (wiki)

Autopkg (wiki)

Tailscale Mesh VPN (macvfx blogpost)

Alex Narvey (GitHub)

Shellfish iOS app

Using the iOS / iPadOS File app

Duplicati (open source backup software)

Rclone (open source cli backup software to manage files on cloud storage)

Borg Backup (open source de-duplicating backup software)

Homebrew tweet about installing infinite python

AWS Open Search

Elastic Search

Tim Bray (former SUN, Google, Amazon): “I’’d really like to see AWS split off from the rest of Amazon”

Java Supreme Court Case (Google vs Oracle)

Microsoft and Open JDK (Java)

Jacob’s post “Embrace the Grind”

Postlab – git for video editors

APFS Time Machine on macOS Big Sur (eclectic co / Howard Oakley)

Arq backup (uses APFS snapshots)

Carbon Copy Cloner (uses APFS snapshots)

Overview of ZFS snapshots

History of ZFS (mentioning the lawsuit situation which possibly prevented from Apple from adopting it)

MacDevOps:YVR 2021 conference (website)

Mat X and JD talk with Alison Gianotto, creator of Snipe IT about running a company during the pandemic and how to make a business around open source asset management. (This is Part 2 of our interview)

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Alison Gianotto (@snipeyhead Twitter)

Links:

Snipe-IT (Open source)

Mat X and JD talk with Alison Gianotto, creator of Snipe IT about running a company during the pandemic and how to make a business around open source asset management. (Part 1)

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Alison Gianotto (@snipeyhead Twitter)

Links:

Snipe-IT (Open source)

Mat X and JD talk about new privacy incidents using tracking pixels, Apple releases deploying Big Sur tech video, CI/CD workflows and more.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Links:

MDOYVR 2021 Call for Speakers

Discord

Minecraft

Backblaze tracking pixels incident

MailTrackerBlocker (GitHub)

Apple vs (Fortnite) Epic Games (Wikipedia)

Cost of delaying a push to prod with CI/CD pipelines (Twitter)

Honeycomb.io

Canadian Airport Codes

Linux DNS mind map (@dave_universetf)

Minecraft server template (Linode)

How to deploy macOS Big Sur in your organization (Apple)

Restore M1 Mac with Twocanoes MDS 

Community built PPPC screen recording profile (GitHub)

FleetDM – open source device management based on OSQuery

Glitter bomb catches scammer (YouTube)