Devops And Docker Talk

Bret is joined by Anaïs Urlichs of Aqua Security to talk container and Kubernetes security tools like trivy, kube-bench, tracee, and kube-hunter. I've been using trivy for over four years to scan for known vulnerabilities in my own container images and my clients.We also look at tracee, a new tool that is part of a new generation of tools that use the Linux kernel eBPF feature to investigate what's happening in real time on your servers. Anaïs is great as an explainer of Kubernetes and all cloud native things, and she's the creator of the 100 days of Kubernetes tutorials on her YouTube channel where she breaks down various cloud native topics for beginners. Based on what I've learned in this show from Anaïs, I plan to change how I use trivy so that it's scanning more things and more often in my CI automation pipelines.Streamed live on YouTube on November 3, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #190)★Topics★Aqua Security ToolsAqua Security on YouTubeTrivyTrivy-Operatorkube-benchtraceekube-h

Bret is joined by two Chainguard co-founders, CEO Dan Lorenc and Head of Product, Kim Lewandowski, to break down the ins and outs of supply chain security and talk about Chainguard's approach to securing it. We dive into tools, including their new Wolfi Linux distro.We first talk about what that even is, because it's a buzzword right now, and not everyone's on the same page on what securing your supply chain even means in the world of software. Then we jump into base images for containers, and their project Wolfi. We talk a lot about Wolfi in this episode, because it has the potential to change how we build our containers.Streamed live on YouTube on October 13, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #188)★Topics★Chainguard WebsiteChainguard TwitterChainguard AcademyWolfiWolfi-based imagesSigstore★Dan Lorenc★Dan Lorenc on TwitterDan Lorenc on Linkedin★Kim Lewandowski★Kim Lewandowski on TwitterKim Lewandowski on Linkedin★Join my Community★New live course on CI automation and gitops deployments

Bret is joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and engineering consultant Laura Tacho, for the annual Best of DevOps. We've started this trend of going through the year's best (and worst) of DevOps every December, everyone brings their topics, we mix them all up and try to get through all of it. This year, we came pretty close. We cover many topics in this year's episode, things like desktop GUIs for containers, the return of real-life conferences, Docker reaching a significant milestone, AI, ML, data platforms and much, much more.Streamed live on YouTube on December 8, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #194)★Topics★Full doc of topics (more than we could cover)Year of Desktop GUI’s for Container Dev and Cloud Native MgmtDocker Extensions List Rancher DesktopPodman DesktopLens commercialOpenLensk9s websiteKui websiteDevOps Survey TrendsOpenTelemetry Articles- Transforming IT Departments - Properly Explained and Demoed - Getting StartedKarpenter websiteeBPF and Profiling- Pixie- Pa

Bret is joined by Michael Irwin, Sr. Manager for DevRel at Docker, to review and demo our top 2022 new features and announcements from Docker Inc. We run through the very long list in this episode and sadly, had to skip over the smaller, nuance features or subtle changes and focused on the bigger things - a major one being Docker extensions - as well as Docker Hub support for OCI artifacts, like the Helm charts, volume, WASM, Hardened Docker Desktop, tilt.dev and much more.Streamed live on YouTube on December 1,  2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #193)★Topics★Docker Blog, "Products" category (most of our topics came from here)Recapping the last year of Docker Desktop (YouTube, September 2022)What's new in Docker Desktop (YouTube, DockerCon 2022, May 2022)What's new in Docker build (YouTube, DockerCon 2022, May 2022)★Michael Irwin★Michael on TwitterMichael's Website★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our

Bret is joined by Brian Christner, a Docker Captain and Chief, Online Gaming for Grand Casino Baden (jackpots.ch), who returns to the show to discuss his top recommended skills for improving your DevOps expertise.Both Bret and Brian have been consultants on and off throughout their careers and also in positions where they needed to hire other engineers - often other DevOps engineers. They share their perspectives on the different types of DevOps roles and the various jobs they need to fill.In this episode, we thought it would be helpful to bring our experience on DevOps jobs and look at the most essential and in-demand skills throughout the industry.Streamed live on YouTube on October 6, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #187)★Topics★DevOps Foundations CourseEngineering Management Training from Laura TachoAwesome Docker resourcesAwesome Everything Lists on GitHubKubernetes This Month with Nigel PoultonAWS Cloud TrainingContainer Automation Examples by BretDocker Observability by Brain★B

Bret is joined by Rosemary Wang from HashiCorp to show off Vault for Kubernetes, an an open source secrets provider.Rosemary is a return guest and does her usual fantastic job at explaining the complex topics around storing secrets, who needs Vault and why, running Vault on Kubernetes, the Vault storage backend and so much more.Streamed live on YouTube on September 29, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #186)★Topics★Vault websiteHashiCorp CloudRaft storage for Vault, how Raft worksExample repo: HashiCorp Vault for Development Teams★Rosemary Wang★Rosemary on TwitterRosemary on Linkedin★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansHomepage bretfisher.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Bret is joined by Lee Calcote and Nic Jackson, co-authors of the Service Mesh Patterns book, to discuss service mesh for Docker Desktop and Compose apps with the new Meshery extension for Docker desktop.They talk about what service mesh is and go into the new Measure extension for Docker Desktop, which is a CNCF sandbox project. One of its bigger features is to help you try out different service meshes and test them with only a few clicks. They also cover other features of their tools, such as the beta of MeshMap which helps you visualize your clusters and apply better practices to your service mesh.Streamed live on YouTube on September 22, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #185)★Topics★Learn Service MeshMeshery Docker Extension MeshMap Service Mesh Patterns Book★Nic Jackson, Principal Developer Advocate, HashiCorp★Nic on TwitterNic on LinkedinNic Jackson on YouTube Shipyard website★Lee Calcote, Founder and CEO, Layer5★Lee on TwitterLee on Linkedin★Join my Community★Best

Bret is joined by Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the makers of Cilium, to discuss Cilium and eBPF. Liz Rice is back to give us more insight into eBPF and the Cilium project. Isovalent is the company that created and manages the Cilium Project, which does an increasing number of things for Kubernetes, including networking, CNI support, security, advanced networking stuff, and observability, as well as other things like load balancing. Liz is one of my go-to experts on how low-level Linux internals work. She's been speaking about container internals since the early days of Docker.Streamed live on YouTube on September 8, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #183)★Topics★Cilium websiteIsovalent websiteeBPFNetwork Policy Editor★Liz Rice★Liz Rice on TwitterLiz Rice's websiteBooks on Containers, eBPF, Kubernetes and Go★Join my Community★ Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansHomepage bretfisher.com

Going to KubeCon? Me too! We're planning a meetup on my Discord server #kubecon channel.The Loot Box is Live! Get your DevOps and tech-inspired t-shirts, mugs, and more.Bret is joined by Shauli Rozen, CEO and Co-Founder of ARMO, creators of Kubescape. Kubescape is a K8s open-source tool providing a multi-cloud K8s single pane of glass, including risk analysis, security compliance, RBAC visualizer, and image vulnerability scanning.I'm a fan of tools like this and specifically of Kubescape, which I use and recommend to my clients. The scanner can scan your YAML manifests of your Kubernetes resources. It can scan your live Kubernetes clusters. And it can scan the YAML in your Git repos, as well as the images themselves that you're deploying to Kubernetes. As ARMO calls it, it's a single pane of glass into your Kubernetes security. Streamed live on YouTube on September 1, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #182)★Topics★Kubescape's GitHub K8s Security Dashboard ARMO website★Sh

Going to KubeCon? Me too! We're planning a meetup on my Discord server #kubecon channel.The Loot Box is Live! Get your DevOps and tech-inspired t-shirts, mugs, and more.Bret is joined by Martin Wimpress and Pieter van Noordennen from Slim.ai to discuss some ways to slim down your Docker images and reduce the attack surface of your containers in the process.Many companies and projects have tried to do similar things before - Slim Images, Alpine Images, Distro List, Build Packs, and even Docker tried a few years back, to create intelligence and guidance around migrating legacy apps into slim production quality images. Those efforts were scrapped in 2019. The dual mandate of generating Docker images - easy to understand and as minimal as possible, with the lowest CVE vulnerability count - was not achieved by any of those projects. Automation and intelligence like Slim.ai is the future of building container images and also the future of complex monoliths and legacy apps with a lot of dependencies.Streamed live on

Going to KubeCon? Me too! We're planning a meetup on my Discord server #kubecon channel.The Loot Box is Live! Get your DevOps and tech-inspired t-shirts, mugs, and more.Bret is joined by Dmitriy Kalinin and John Ryan, software engineers at VMWare, to show off the many Carvel project tools.Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes. The Carvel project includes tools for templating, image building and tracking, secrets management, app deploying and more. The tool list includes ytt, kapp, kapp-controller, kbld, imgpkg, vendir, and kwt.Streamed live on YouTube on July 14, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #178)★Topics★Carvel websiteCarvel on Twitter★Dmitriy Kalinin★Dmitriy Kalinin on Twitter★John Ryan★John Ryan on Twitter★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com ★ Support this podca

Going to KubeCon? Me too! We're planning a meetup on my Discord server #kubecon channel.The Loot Box is Live! Get your DevOps and tech-inspired t-shirts, mugs, and more.Bret goes through his top recommendations for securing container images, Docker containers and Kubernetes pods.This is a tip-packed show where Bret lists much of what's documented in his courses, starting with the first steps you should take, and the bare security necessities that everyone should be doing. Then he covers more advanced security activities you should consider once the basics are covered.Streamed live on YouTube on July 7, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #177).★Topics★Bret's Container Security AMADocker Security DocsDocker Buys AtomistSlim.ai website: Auto-slimming imagesDocker Slim toolKubescape websiteKubernetes Security ContextSeccomp by defaultLint all files with super-linterDatree K8s file scanKubernetes BenchmarkMy GitHub Actions examples: Automate your builds, CVE scans, and moreVideo on building a

Going to KubeCon? Me too! We're planning a meetup on my Discord server #kubecon channel.The Loot Box is Live! Get your DevOps and tech-inspired t-shirts, mugs, and more.Bret is joined by Marc Campbell of Replicated to discuss the challenges of deploying your software on other people's Kubernetes.Following a discussion of the problems Replicated is solving, they go over all the great open source projects they are developing for deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes.Streamed live on YouTube on June 23, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #175).★Topics★Replicated Replicated OSS Projects Kubernetes TroubleshooterSchema Hero Kubelist podcast, CNCF project leader interviewsEnterprise Ready assessment and podcastkURL - Customize your Kubernetes Installer KOTS - Manage COTS on K8s Find Outdated ImagesUnfork your custom Helm charts ★Marc Campbell★Marc Campbell on Twitter★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOps

Bret is joined by Guillaume Tardif and Felipe Cruz of Docker Inc. for a deep dive into Docker extensions.Docker Extensions are a favorite new feature. Guillaume and Felipe are both engineers at Docker and they walk us through how extensions came about, how to install them, and how to submit them to the marketplace.By the time Docker released extensions at DockerCon in May 2022, there were already a dozen solid extensions, including a disk manager, log explorer, and other third-party tools like Portainer, Snyk, and Anchor. Docker extensions will be most helpful to people who use Docker Desktop.Streamed live on YouTube on June 16, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #174). Includes demos.★Topics★Docker Extensions homepageDocker Extensions announcement at DockerCon 2022Build your first Docker ExtensionSubmit your extension for the MarketplaceVackup, an example custom extensionExtension SDKOther Extension resources★Guillaume and Felipe★Guillaume Tardif on TwitterFelipe Cruz on Twitter★Join my

Bret is joined by Nirmal Mehta, a Principal Specialist Solution Architect at AWS, and a Docker Captain, to discuss Karpenter, an autoscaling solution launched by AWS in 2021. Karpenter simplifies Kubernetes infrastructure by automating node scaling up and down, giving you "the right nodes at the right time."Autoscaling, particularly for Kubernetes, can be quite a complex project when you first start. Bret and Nirmal discuss how Karpenter works, how it can help or complement your existing setup, and how autoscaling generally works.Streamed live on YouTube on June 9, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #173). Includes demos.★Topics★Starship Shell PromptBret's favorite shell setupKarpenterKarpenter release blogK8s Scheduling ConceptsOther types of autoscalers:Horizontal Pod AutoscalerVertical Pod AutoscalerCluster Autoscaler★Nirmal Mehta★Nirmal on TwitterNirmal on LinkedIn★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepa

Bret is joined by Laura Tacho, an engineering leadership coach, to discuss measuring your team's performance with DevOps metrics (DORA) and the new SPACE framework. Team Performance is one of Bret's favorite topics, and it should be everyone's concern.Laura and Bret discuss soft skills, how to implement DORA DevOps metrics, the new SPACE framework, as well as common pitfalls people make when attempting to implement those measurements. Streamed live on YouTube on June 2, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #172).★Topics★Laura's course on High-Performing Software TeamsDORA (DevOps Research and Assessment)DORA MetricsDORA DevOps Quick CheckSPACE frameworkGoodhart's lawDeveloper ExperienceDevOps HandbookAccelerate Book★Laura Tacho★Laura's homepage and NewsletterLaura on TwitterLaura on the GitHub blog★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 homepageAkuity homepageAkuity news on more fundingAr

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★Rosemary on Twitter ★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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 inf

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★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★