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To understand CI/CD of infrastructure, you have to actually understand how the systems work together. In this podcast, we talked about low code, no code and how you would do integration testing for that. We also explore the idea of unit tests and code coverage for CI/CD presents challenges. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/oPGkPe8w-hG2LKXkQJhHAeJebe0 Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels [ID 4021773]

How do we secure service meshes for zero trust? Especially since we don't know how they're going to be used or integrated? We went very deep into what it takes to secure service mesh. That included what type of application frameworks are going to be required to provide multi-service infrastructures that are secure and trusted in a performing way. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/CUJdKeyT_hHLAZG9XKqzb-Y9N00 Photo by Alexas Fotos from Pexels [ID 2317932]

Can you composing infrastructure tasks: provisioning, configuration, security and monitoring, all together? Basically a Linux Pipe for automation? Maybe! We talked about how hard it is to build robust, resilient infrastructure. The theme was supposed to be what could go wrong and finding the weak links in our infrastructure automation. Fundamentally we think that it's all weak links! We had a good conversation about how we actually build and automate robust applications. But we didn't come to consensus. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/Qg_KgyXe7X4pl2E60gb6tunFshw Photo by Luis Quintero from Pexels [ID 2339722]

How can GitOps and Infrastructure as Code scale your team's ability to write automation? We answer how to take your DevOps to the next level. We really dig into what the automation challenges are and how you can do better as you build an integrated infrastructure system. And of course, we did talk about Env0 and how Env0 solves the problem. And you will learn a lot about Env0 during this podcast. Tim and I did discuss what it takes to build real infrastructure, automation pipelines, Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/6ccxxk0MDmB67_xhlS3gohqM7gM

We talk about the impacts of Terraform going 1.0, Ansible, and the Fastly outage. We mix all those things together with a little bit of vendor gossip. How might Terraform being "stable" change things? And is that going to help the industry hurt the industry? And what changes might be in stock? Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/mL1fLJUiXO7qOhfcdC1f6E2LGEs Photo by Ba Tik from Pexels [ID 3754294]

Learning DevOps is a challenge! We discuss using the DevOps Roadmap to coach people to get into the field of DevOps and infrastructure automation. DevOps is hard and challenging because the thing we kept coming back to there being so much to learn and understand. It can be really intimidating to get started! We spent some time actually trying to break that down and give some starting points on how that works. Roadmap: https://roadmap.sh/devops Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/jYcQ6eIoJWLGv1JKEBN_Iqh7w1M

Our Service Mesh discussion leaned heavily into the needs around edge infrastructure because there are so many missing parts for the edge deployment systems, When we started talking about service meshes, we really realize is that the actual control plane, communications grid and security for edge are not defined enough for us to layer on what has become sort of a standard in cloud deployments of service mesh into that discussion. How we got there, how we discussed it, and the components of why that's important, is much more interesting than the conclusion itself. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/RuXigltfMAuE4z-NZETAvNQNbRY Image: Photo by Zachary DeBottis from Pexels [ID 1888883]

Taking Configuration management for deployment pipelines and make it productive and effective. And we really got into a lot of the challenges about scaling, rolling deployments, split tests, schema, migrations, rollbacks, and multi-site infrastructure. We dug in on the challenges that are related to making this actually work in a scale production environment. Ultimately, we looked a system principles. How to deal with one component when you actually have to think through how you're building the software. Architecture makes a difference in how you manage the infrastructure and deployment pipelines. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/9A0U1YERv9ffOLGffzAd41E6VYc Image: Photo by Aleksejs Bergmanis from Pexels [ID 681335]

1x1 with Emil of Ntirety, which is an MSP that specializes in hybrid security. They're working with both huge and small customers by helping them build a coherent IT strategy. with a focus on holistic security and hybrid cloud. We had a fantastic discussion about those topics and more. And if you're into security, you will find this a fascinating discussion. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/PvTlUBQC0FOg0rQdTh6GMIhN9wU

We keep coming back to "how do we defend our data advantage" but we don't know how, or why we should share data with people. It's very clear that we should be sharing data and that there's economic benefit to us to do it. But we haven't figured out how to do it. And that's the question that we're sort of struggling with in this whole conversation. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/nGfmf-7f0EZinGNGbdmHn2b4TL8 Image: Photo by Egor Kunovsky from Pexels [ID 5598634]