
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling
Interviews from Bret Fisher's live show with co-host Nirmal Mehta. Topics cover container and cloud topics like Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm, Cloud Native development, DevOps, SRE, GitOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and the full software lifecycle. Full show notes and more info available at https://podcast.bretfisher.com
Latest episodes

Dec 2, 2019 • 1h 11min
Everything Docker and Windows
In this episode, I talk with Elton Stoneman, an Architect at Docker. We talk about Everything Docker and Windows, covering topics like WSL, Windows containers, Docker on Windows Server, and more.And as a reminder, this podcast is listener supported by those of you that buy my Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes courses. If you're already one of my 120,000 students, I thank you so much for your support.Just last week we launched Kubernetes Mastery, which lets you dive into hands-on with the leading container orchestrator. I built this new course with my friend Jérôme Petazzoni, who's been teaching Kubernetes and Docker longer than almost anyone. You can get coupons for those courses at bretfisher.com. We're launching more videos monthly, which you can get notified of on my newsletter, which is also at bretfisher.com★Show Links★Bret's Docker, Swarm, and Kubernetes Courses Pluralsight Modernizing .NET FrameworkElton's Blog Elton's Book, Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches Elton's WorkshopPluralsight Monitoring Containerized App Health Elton's Blog Post, Getting Started With K8s on Windows Compose On Kubernetes GitHub Repo Docker Beta Release Elton's Twitter
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Nov 18, 2019 • 53min
Kubernetes GitOps with Jenkins X
In this 50th episode, I sit down with two people from Cloudbees, Viktor Farcic, and Oscar Medina. We talk about CI/CD in Kubernetes and the GitOps-style of continuous deployment using Jenkins X.And as a reminder, this podcast is a listener supported by those of you that buy my docker, swarm, and kubernetes courses. If you're already one of my 120,000 students, I thank you so much for your support. You can get coupons for those courses at bretfisher.com. We're launching more video updates and a whole new Kubernetes Mastery course soon, which you can get notified of on my newsletter, which is also at bretfisher.comLastly, if you like this podcast, please take a moment to give it a 5-star rating in your favorite podcast player, so we can keep making more of 'em.Now on with the show.★Show Links★Bret's WebsiteJenkins X DevOps for SharePoint Book Viktor's Blog DevOps Paradox Book The DevOps 2.6 Toolkit Oscar's Twitter Viktor's Twitter Oscar's Blog
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Nov 15, 2019 • 54min
Docker Inc Splits: Live Panel on the Future of Docker
In this special episode, just a day after Docker announces they've split the company and sold their Enterprise products, I sit down with fellow Docker Captians Jeff Nickoloff, Michael Irwin, and Nirmal Mehta to discuss it, as well as the future of Docker's open source. And as a reminder, this podcast is listener supported by those of you that buy my courses. If you're already one of my 120,000 students, I thank you so much for your support. We're launching a whole new Kubernetes Mastery course soon, an you can get course coupons, join my 20,000 user Slack Community and signup for my newsletter at bretfisher.com★Show Links★Mirantis Press ReleaseDocker Press Release Mirantis CEO Blog Post Docker CEO Blog Post Acquisition FAQs
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Nov 11, 2019 • 1h 4min
Docker and Kubernetes Questions on Tools, Best Practices, and More
In this episode, I talk about proxying with NGINX vs. Traefik, and the proper protocol for image tagging in a CI environment. I give a quick "elevator pitch" on Kubernetes, and I talk about service meshes like Istio. I also cover adding a conditional healthcheck to delay a service startup until another service is healthy ★Show Links ★[Sponsor] Manning Publications, get 40% off your first book or video order at manning.com with coupon poddocdev19 (enter at checkout)Authors of Docker in Action on my YouTube LiveDocker PHP Good Defaults MySQL 8.0 DockerfileHypriot Alex Ellis Blog Maesh Service MeshDepends on in Compose FileDocker Mastery for Node.js
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Nov 4, 2019 • 21min
Swarm Networking and Logging Solutions
In this episode, I answer a few questions about Swarm networking, Traefik as your proxy using Consul to store its configuration, and then I go into deeper detail about logging in Docker. ★Show Links ★Dog vs. Cat Stack Proxy Global Nginx Dockerfile Solarwinds Papertrail
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Oct 28, 2019 • 1h 4min
Rancher, Kubernetes, and Beyond with Darren Shepherd
In this episode, I have a great chat with Darren Shepherd, who is the Co-founder and Chief Architect at Rancher Labs. You probably know them for making, well, Rancher. We also talk about k3s, k3OS, RancherOS, RIO and k3v. It was a lot of fun and we covered a lot of ground on how they've launched so many Kubernetes projects in the last few years. ★Show Links ★[Sponsor] Manning Publications, get 40% off your first book or video order at manning.com with coupon poddocdev19 (enter at checkout)Authors of Docker in Action on my YouTube LiveDarren's TwitterK3sRancher k3d GitHub Repo Alex Ellis' Blog Hypriot Blogk3OS Rio Rancher Website GitOps Blog Post Rancher Project Longhorn k3v Rancher's Slack Chat Rancher's YouTube Channel
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Oct 22, 2019 • 56min
Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes, from Berlin
The podcast discusses the pros and cons of Docker Swarm and Kubernetes for container orchestration. It emphasizes the importance of understanding both tools before making a decision. The speaker also talks about their Docker Mastery course and its popularity, as well as the development of more focused courses like Swarm Mastery and Kubernetes Mastery. Other topics include lock files in Node.js, scratch containers in Docker, troubleshooting DNS in Docker Swarm, and comparing AWS, Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean.

Oct 14, 2019 • 19min
K8s Setup, GitOps, and more!
In this episode, I answer some student questions about Kubernetes setup, DNS round robin, some new docker plugins, and what GitOps is. ★Show Links★DNS Round Robin WikiDocker CLI plugins listNewsletter
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Sep 30, 2019 • 6min
Kubernetes Architecture
In this episode, I give a brief rundown of Kubernetes architecture, and how the raft consensus algorithm plays a major role in server communication within your cluster.
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Sep 16, 2019 • 1h 6min
Sysadmins Assemble! Doing Sysadmin Tasks in Docker
In this episode, we're celebrating the annual Sysadmin Day by covering system administration topics with containers. We'll go over health checks, exit codes, containers on windows, and more. ★Show Links★Sysadmin Day 2019 goodiesPortainerDog vs Cat RepoAwesome DockerJfrog artifactory repository managerGitlab repository managerPython Docker hub imageDocker Mastery for Node.js courseNicolaka/netshoot- containers for network troubleshooting
You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com