The Continuous & Cloud Podcast

In this episode of The Continuous & Cloud Podcast, Jacob and Lauri chat with Ville Törhönen, Product Owner at UpCloud, about UpCloud’s upcoming managed Kubernetes Service (UKS).

UpCloud Kubernetes Engineer vacancy

UpCloud CSI driver on Github

Ville (MSc, Tech) is working as a Product Owner at UpCloud. He is responsible for the upcoming UpCloud Kubernetes Service (UKS) product offering but also Developer Experience on the platform. Previously he’s been building various businesses and products on top of container technologies in companies like Unity, Noice and Redhill Games.

UpCloud is a European Cloud Service Provider offering fast, easy-to-use, and reliable cloud products and services. UpCloud has 12 data centers around the globe. The company is a a strong believer in open source. That’s why all their services are available from public repositories. UpCloud’s mission is to make Infrastructure as Code easier for businesses of all sizes.

Ville Törhönen

Jacob Lärfors

Lauri Suomalainen

In this episode of The Verifa Podcast, Andreas chats with Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser, Senior Expert Open Source Program Office at Bosch. Lars shares his insights on why open source compliance is vital for managing license risk and security risk, how you can effectively manage these risks and the tools required to do so.

During this episode we discuss:

Mentioned in the podcast:

Lars’ talk at EclipseCon2020 - Automated Open Source Compliance in Action

Lars’ talk at EclipseCon2019 - Automating Open Source Compliance with OSS Tooling

OSS-Review-Toolkit

SW360

Open Source Reference Tooling Work Group

SPDX

CycloneDX

About Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser:

Lars is working in the central department for IoT and Digitalization at Bosch. He is responsible for strategic Open Source projects in the Open Source Program Office within Bosch, supporting Open Source projects throughout the company. In his previous role he was project lead for Eclipse SW360 and an active participant in the definition of an Open Source based methodology to automate Open Source Compliance activities within the Open Chain Reference Tooling Group. He got his PhD from the university of Kaiserslautern.

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Andreas Lärfors

Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser

Anoop Vijayan

In this episode of The Verifa Podcast, Jacob and Andreas get into a deep discussion about GitOps, its applications and benefits, and best practices.

During this episode we discuss

- What exactly is GitOps [00:00:52]

- What are the tools and processes involved  [00:03:29]

- Sealed Secrets  [00:09:13]

- What are the benefits and problems solved by GitOps  [00:12:44]

- Where and when to start your GitOps journey  [00:19:00]

Mentioned in the podcast

FluxCD - https://fluxcd.io/

WeaveWorks - https://www.weave.works/

ArgoCD - https://argoproj.github.io/argo-cd/

Sealed Secrets - https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets

HashiCorp Vault - https://www.vaultproject.io/

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Jacob on Linkedin

Andreas on Linkedin

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Welcome to The Verifa Podcast, where we break down the complex world of Cloud and DevOps.

In the very first episode of The Verifa Podcast, we take a first look at Google’s new Autopilot for Kubernetes - GKE Autopilot. GKE Autopilot is a new mode of operations for managing Kubernetes, enabling the user to focus on software, while GKE Autopilot manages the infrastructure.

During this episode we discuss

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