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We go into the details about Secrets Management. We explore how the process works, and how to do it right. We also cover the alternatives. This podcast is for you if you are trying to understand how secrets management works. We cover different scenarios where it can be applied, and where can go wrong. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/SvO6_I3RIiGmc2FLJM70y9xoQB4 Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels [ID 4587991]

"The peak of trustability" came up during our discussion of Trust in general. We really unwound what trust means starting from simple concepts like credentials and certificates and other security items. We got to a point where trust is also about software supply chain! Security includes how much you keep up with changes and what the latest things are. Then we realized that trust has an important time value: you don't trust, initially, you build trust, and then you lose trust. This creates a peak of trust ability concept that I hadn't heard articulated before. I think is really important in understanding trust in a broader sense, especially when we think about Zero Trust. That;s not the end. It's an end point and it's also a starting point for building interconnections and relationships with people and tech. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/TNRiua5DxzsdR3Yh0eEjRJ45FB0 Photo: Photo by cottonbro from Pexels

Continuous Infrastructure Automation is a critical concept about driving much more resilient and repeatable systems. As we build out applications on infrastructure, we should not treat them as a static deployment. Instead, we should think of infrastructure as constantly evolving, growing and changing. There's a lot of technology and challenges in building that! In discussion, we firmly believe that this is the right path, but the path to get there is challenging. There are a lot of components that have to be considered: everything from artificial intelligence or machine learning, to how to manage and control and standardize the automation that does all that work. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/KmdQpMPJDPL1BjzXjEIEeavQRco Photo by Aleksejs Bergmanis from Pexels [ID 681335]

Cloud versus Edge? This panel dove into what makes edge different than cloud. There are a lot of different technical and commercial drivers. And fundamentally, it matters who owns the sources of data and how data sources are different. This underscores how it is critical to understand data sources, infrastructure ownership, and how everything fits together. This discussion will change to you rethink what makes Edge different than Cloud. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/y2ubHGGIhY31hRyiV6mW_B8e-os Photo by Agafonova Photo from Pexels [ID 5284983]

DevOps Lunch and Learn was about security practices. Specifically, we built an outline of topics in security that we think are necessary for developers and operators to build secure applications. We basically built a week long course curriculum! As we go through what this course curriculum we walk through who needs to know this information and why. If you want to see all of the detail here, please see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x5QLP77mg2Dml_tWsK6IH66GPohF0B_Lvz4lUmZFXZQ/edit#heading=h.c2phqte5q4pl Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/UyMAmiHi-rRAreMa0FjxaVNomhQ Photo by PhotoMIX Company from Pexels [ID 226746]

We talk about Digital Twins and the Edge with Simon Crosby from Swim.AI. They are literally building digital twins in edge locations so he has a lot to share. We work to expand and understand how Simon's experience translates into general cases and what we're seeing in the edge. The systems that we're trying to build are at the intersection of models and "connectedness" of all the components for the edge. These designs don't fit traditional models and it is what makes edge unique. Edge is not a single application, but a connected system that going to have to emerge to make all this work together. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/-uFSclONwRhhc4QlFywiSJAIF10 Photo by Dmitriy Ganin from Pexels [ID 7538096]

With Distributed Infrastructure and the Edge, we cover the challenges of managing applications that are, by definition spread out throughout heterogeneous infrastructure. Distributed Control is designed to control systems that are are not in cloud data centers with localized compute and storage. But then how do we manage it? We discussed details about how these systems get built, and kept coming back to "do we need to have localized processing?" If we do, how do we manage it? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/BkxvOrQMmmQiYQpxa-OogrMyNNw Photo by KEHN HERMANO from Pexels [ID 3881034]

This episode is about Terraform orchestration, what some people might call a TACO, in which we actually tried to do cloud provisioning in a orchestrated way. But this is a really challenging thing to do! Orchestration is really hard so our discussion kept coming back to saying that this isn't orchestration at all: it's Infrastructure as Code and management. We need to find a consistent way to to run a workflow or a control plane. We're not even getting to the point where we're coordinating or orchestrating aspects of different systems and using remote or API driven infrastructure. Even if you use Terraform, you will get a lot out of this discussion! Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Ohbfr0Uprm95WYYI4357IdUodOU Photo by Gabriel Santos Fotografia from Pexels [ID 2102568]

Right to Repair is the idea that when you buy a product, you're able to fix it. We've been building products lately that don't have that inherent part of the contract. In this episode, we really took Right to Repair to another level talking about Intellectual Property (IP) and ownership of that IP in the software components. This topic impacts every single business and every single consumer! Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/7EVT0C9T0KDCcUIWBsGYKHdiT6Y Photo: Photo by Blue Bird from Pexels [ID 7218008]

We talked about 5G, factories and edge infrastructure. They are very interconnected because they live at the network edge and are sensitive to how we need to route traffic. This is important as the basis for using digital twinning as a new user experience (UI/UX) around interacting with systems. This new approach is starting to emerge and it will be very network intensive, visually oriented, and involve overlaying the physical world with the virtual world. How the heck are we going to connect all these things together? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/7lSSCwLdGiF9JqyunUHo19m6yPk Photo: https://www.pexels.com/photo/two-boys-sitting-on-crescent-moon-1651483/