Bret and Nirmal are joined by Lukas Fittl of pganalyze to dive into Postgres in containers, in production, and in CI.Lukas is an expert and founder of pganalyze, and I invited him on the show to explain a lot of this to us and catch us up with what's going on in the Postgres community, particularly when it comes to containers and production.We dive into everything around containers with Postgres, some of the new stuff going on in Postgres Land, including tuning and stuff I didn't even know about Postgres, including storing NoSQL data, vector databases for AI and more.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from February 15, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. #254).★Topics★pganalyze websitepganalyze YouTube channel pgvector cloudnative-pg Crunch Postgres for Kubernetes CockroachDBCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Lukas Fittl - Guest Nirmal Mehta - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer (00:00) - Intro (01:59) - Is Postgres Underrated? (04:18) - What is pgAnalyze? (05:02) - Database Performance Tuning (11:11) - Postgres in Containers (19:44) - Opinion on kubegres and other operators in managing HA (25:03) - The role of Database Administrators and Data Engineers (31:54) - Running Postgres HA across multi-cluster (39:23) - What does pgnalyze do? (44:45) - The hardest operational problem running Postgres in containers You can also support my free material 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

Three Docker captains share insights on favorite tools for DevOps in 2023, including Dive, SlimToolkit, OpenTelemetry, and eBPF. They discuss image optimization, CDEvents, MLOps, Ollama, Inspektor Gadget, and Arc Browser. Future trends like WebAssembly and Digestabot are also explored.

Bret is joined by Matan Mishan & Roy Razon of Livecycle to discuss developer platforms and how to improve developer collaboration and speeding up feedback and previews.We talk about the various delays encountered in pull requests due to feedback processes, and how Lifecycle's tools aim to shorten this feedback loop in Docker Desktop, local CLI with Preevy, and automated CI workflows. I like how Lifecycle provides multiple locations and ways to get access to people in the preview environments that really lets you just fit the different parts of the tool into your workflow, as opposed to one way to do everything. It's great for getting feedback quickly during the PR process, rather than making people set up their own environments to test their changes. I also liked their ideas around how the feedback loops can be improved.This episode contains great demos so be sure to also check out the live recording of the complete show from December 21, 2023 on YouTube (Ep. #246). ★Topics★Livecycle's WebsitePreevy RepositoryLivecycle Docker ExtensionCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Matan Mishan - Guest Roy Razon - Guest Beth Fisher - Producer Cristi Cotovan - Editor (00:00) - Intro (01:57) - Internal Developer Platform: a self-service solution (06:38) - Lifecycle and the Docker Extension (24:10) - Using GitHub Environments (27:46) - First Steps and What's Next You can also support my free material 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

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin, DevRel at Docker, to talk about all the products and features Docker shipped in 2023 and what's coming in early 2024. They discuss updates in Docker Engine, performance improvements, Docker Extensions, dashboard and GUI updates, Docker init, what's new in Compose, Docker Scout, Docker and AI/Machine Learning, and upcoming features like Docker Debug.

Bret interviews Alex Kretzschmar from Tailscale about their universal VPN tool. They talk about the benefits of Tailscale, including easy device-to-device connections and seamless network experience. They also discuss the use cases of Tailscale in Kubernetes and the challenges of managing VPN connections. Additionally, they touch on networking products, Magic DNS, key exchange process, and the 'swarm fans' community.

In this podcast, Beth Fisher, the producer, and Bret Fisher, the host, discuss the evolution of Dockerfiles and the importance of versioning. They explain the benefits of using the latest Dockerfile parser and Docker front ends, highlight the challenges of Docker engine versions, and explore new features in Docker file front ends. They also talk about the significance of the syntax line, Dockerfile versions, and efficient image updates with the 'ad' command.

Application delivery doesn’t have to suck. Bret and Nirmal are joined by Solomon Hykes, the founder or Docker, to talk about Dagger and their application delivery-as-code that runs anywhere.💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued sponsor and friends at CAST AI! 💥CAST AI is an all-in-one Kubernetes cost optimization and automation platform that achieves over 60% average compute cost savings without months of onboarding. You get lightning fast autoscaling, downscaling, spot VM support and more with no hit to performance.Use the link below and optimize your first cluster for FREE.cast.ai/bretfisherSolomon started Dagger after he left Docker in 2018 with a few other Docker VPs, including Sam Alba and Andrea Lusardi. Dagger is an innovative startup aimed at simplifying and revolutionizing DevOps automation and software delivery. Created to address Docker's unattended gaps, Dagger streamlines software building, testing, and deployment, exhibiting immense growth potential and wide applications in fostering software ecosystems. For a few years now, they've been publicly iterating on the idea of a programmable and portable automation system for software building, testing, and deploying. In this episode, they cover many topics around Docker and Dagger. I've been convinced that I need to start trying out Dagger in my projects.The live recording of the complete show from November 16, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #241)★Topics★Dagger websiteCreators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Solomon Hykes - Guest (00:00) - Intro (01:44) - Introducing Solomon Hykes and His Journey (02:25) - Solomon's Life Post-Docker (04:00) - The Genesis of Dagger (09:10) - The Vision Behind Dagger (25:44) - Modules and Declarative Model in Dagger (35:11) - Integration of Dagger with Other Tools (37:04) - Docker Slim and Dagger (38:28) - Question: Dagger, Framework or Library? (39:09) - Question: Dagger's with BuildKit (39:33) - Question: Predictions for Dagger's Adoption (40:59) - Demonstration of Dagger's Functionality (41:15) - Dagger's Compatibility with Other CI Platforms (51:14) - Getting Started with Dagger You can also support my free material 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

The OCI specifications for registry and image are getting a minor version number update to 1.1 soon, and this could be a big deal for anyone storing artifacts other than images somewhere in their infrastructure. This episode digs into the problem with artifacts today, and how the OCI and CNCF are planning to fix it with the "one registry to serve them all (artifacts)" in 2023/2024.💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued sponsor and friends at CAST AI! 💥CAST AI is an all-in-one Kubernetes cost optimization and automation platform that achieves over 60% average compute cost savings without months of onboarding. You get lightning fast autoscaling, downscaling, spot VM support and more with no hit to performance.Use the link below and optimize your first cluster for FREE.cast.ai/bretfisher★Topics★OCI image and runtime specificationsHelms's new OCI artifact supportBrandon Mitchell's recent OCI Distribution 1.1 RC talk on how registries relate data objects todayHere are the Helm docs on how to use your existing registries to store chartsORAS project Great talk on ORASOCI has a great, short post summarizing technical changes in OCI Image 1.1 and Distribution 1.1 specifications.My original newsletter with more links and screenshots, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host (00:00) - (00:43) - Introduction to Docker and OCI Registries (03:08) - The Challenges of Artifact Storage in Enterprises (03:52) - The Role of Artifactory and Other Commercial Solutions (04:15) - The Problem with Artifact-Specific Storage Systems (04:31) - The Need for a Single Artifact Storage Standard (05:56) - The Future of OCI or Docker Registry (06:07) - The OCI Registry and its Main Data Objects (06:36) - The Use of Registries to Store Non-Container Image Data (07:42) - The Evolution of Container Registries (13:20) - The Vision of the OCI and CNCF Teams (14:11) - How to Use OCI Artifacts Today (15:39) - The Two Types of Artifacts and How to Use Them (17:13) - The Use of OCI Artifacts in Various Tools (19:42) - Conclusion: The Future of Artifact Storage You can also support my free material 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

Bret is joined by Nirmal and a host of friends from the floor of KubeCon, to talk about the latest news and goings-on.We wanted to get some of our friends and people we haven't seen in a while that are making great stuff out there on the show for just a few minutes and it's sort of a rapid panel of rotating guests. If you actually watched the video version of this, there's literally people walking in and out of the camera throughout the show.The live recording of the complete show from November 9, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #240)Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (02:04) - Welcome from KubeCon North America (02:24) - Phil Estes on ContainerD (03:22) - Exploring the Sandbox Service (05:08) - What is Finch? (09:00) - James Buren on CNCF Projects (21:48) - Mike Coleman on Falco (24:43) - Chad Cole on Kubernetes Certification (30:57) - Nigel Poulton's Insights on KubeCon (42:17) - Mauricio Salatino (43:45) - Derek Morgan You can also support my free material 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

In this short episode, I tell the tale of my registrar DNS name hosting for the last 25 years and what I prefer for a cheap and reliable name registrar.★Topics★bret.lol: for anyone to use as a localhost wildcard solution for local dev with friendly names and TLS. Cloudflare, a service I was already using for many things, started offering registrar services at no markup.Pragmatic Engineer newsletter about the Google Domains shutdown and our favorite registrars.Porkbun.step into The Buniverse.Creators & Guests Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host You can also support my free material 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