DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

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

Chris Townsend, engineering manager for Canonical's Multipass team, joins Bret and Nirmal to discuss using Multipass as the easiest local VM for Docker and Kubernetes. They explore automating VM creation, virtualization backends, networking options, and Multipass blueprints. They also cover running Docker in a VM while using it from the host, spinning up Ubuntu with FitElement, using PowerShell with Hyper-V, assuming prior knowledge, exposing Multi-Pass to networks, running multi-architecture VMs, and upcoming features.

After returning from DockerCon earlier this month (Oct 2023), Bret recorded this podcast where he breaks down all the product announcements and details from the event. We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends and colleagues.You can read all about it and get updates and Links to all the tools, betas, and info in our newsletter post. Enjoy the YouTube version here.★Topics★Docker Scout goes GANext-gen Docker Cloud BuilderDocker Debug CLIWebGPU for macOSDocker AIOpenPubKeyCompose new featuresUdemy partnershipCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer (00:00) - DockerCon 2023 Announcements (01:02) - Back at DockerCon IRL (02:12) - Docker Scout goes GA (05:34) - Next-gen Docker Cloud Builder (07:08) - Docker Debug CLI (10:19) - WebGPU for macOS (11:39) - Docker AI (13:43) - OpenPubKey (15:11) - Compose new features (15:49) - Udemy partnership (16:11) - Wrap-up 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 Demetrius Malbrough and Joseph D'angelo from Veritas, the company that makes NetBackup amongst many other data protection tools.NetBackup has been around at least 25 years and I've been using it over 20 years, although not recently. So we had the two gentlemen from Veritas on the show to break down the evolution of NetBackup to a Kubernetes native backup solution. We also talked about additional products that make sense in a backup context, like their InfoScale storage management solution, and we tried to break down some of the technicals. What are we talking about when we mean deploying NetBackup on Kubernetes?  How does InfoScale fit into that? And generally, just helping me catch up with the last few years as NetBackup 10.0 has been released. I asked lots of questions and we got some interesting questions from the audience.The Live recording of the complete show from October 19, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #238).★Topics★Veritas Kubernetes solutionsInfoScale Free Developer Edition60 day–trial of Veritas InfoScale for KubernetesCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Demetrius Malbrough - Guest Joseph D'Angelo - Guest 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 (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - Introducing the guests (03:38) - The Evolution of NetBackup (07:45) - The NetBackup Pitch (10:52) - How is NetBackup Deployed? (13:28) - NetBackup From Before Containers (16:42) - High Level Features and InfoScale (21:33) - Backup Managed Services in Kubernetes (45:29) - Getting Started with InfoScale 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 Ken Collins, AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Engineer at Custom Ink to discuss all things Lambda and to dig into the details of running containers in serverless.Ken and I have known each other for probably 15 years in the local tech scene here in coastal Virginia. And I've always respected him for being a leader in that community, always wanting to talk at a meetup or help in some way. So when he reached out wanting to talk about his company using containers on AWS Lambda, it was an easy sell for me because I knew it would be a great show. And then I learned some of the updates Lambda has had over the years, particularly when it comes to container workflows. We had some great audience questions and no shortage of topics around using modern Lambda and serverless.Live recording of the complete show from September 7, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #233).★Topics★Custom Ink tech blogRails and LambdaLambda Web AdapterLambda sidecar pattern in KubernetesThe case for Rails on LambdaLambda RAG OpenAILearn ServerlessCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Ken Collins - Guest Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (01:27) - What Does Lambda Have to Do with Containers? (10:14) - Is There ARM Available in Lambda? (13:44) - What is Web Adapter? (19:54) - Cold Starts in Kubernetes vs Lambda (31:32) - Patterns for Lambda Communicating with Other Services (40:24) - Using Lambda Simultaneously for HTTP and Sockets (43:30) - What is Lamby? (45:05) - Hiding Function URLs Behind Custom Domain (45:53) - Are There Sample Lambda Project Re pos? 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 Grayson Adkins and Josh Thurman on the show. They are co-founders of Uffizzi, an environments-as-a-service company for Docker Compose and Kubernetes.We talk about ephemeral environments in all their forms. You might call them preview environments, developer environments, or pull release environments, which is my favorite way to use these environments-as-a-service. But regardless of the many ways to use ephemeral environments,  it's great to see a growing set of tools in the cloud native community for automating the spinning up of fresh environments with Kubernetes manifests, helm charts, or even Docker Compose YAML. Uffizzi is using the open core model, meaning that the core part of their product is open source. Live recording of the complete show from August 24, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #231). Includes demos.★Topics★Uffizzi websiteUffizzi Quick StartUffizzi on LinkedInUffizzi's YouTube Channel Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Nirmal Mehta - Host Grayson Adkins - Guest Josh Thurman - Guest (00:00) - Intro (01:58) - Uffizzi Elevator Pitch (08:00) - Uffizzi's Typical Customer Workflow (30:11) - Is the preview environment open to the world? (36:18) - When not everything is in Kubernetes (38:52) - Getting started with Uffizzi today (40:45) - Previewing projects that are co-dependent 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 Dan Garfield of CodeFresh to talk about growth of GitOps as a standard, growth of Argo, and more.Dan is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo. He helped launch the GitOps Working Group and helped lead the creation of the Open GitOps principles. As an Argo Maintainer, Kubernaut, Google Developer Expert, he helps companies and individuals adopt Argo with GitOps and streamline their CI/CD.We take some great questions about how GitOps is different than just triggering deployments and other automation platforms. And we also dig into the four principles of GitOps and how Codefresh uses Argo CD as a part of their CI/CD offering. Live recording of the complete show from July 27, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #227). Includes demos.★Topics★CodefreshGitOps CertificationOpenGitOpsArgo CDArgo CD AutopilotCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Dan Garfield - Guest (00:00) - Intro (08:39) - GitOps Guide and Principles (15:17) - What if you don't have Kubernetes? (22:31) - Reusability and Modern Automation (26:54) - ArgoCD Portability (32:27) - Why use GitOps? (41:07) - GitOps Certification with Focus on Argo (43:30) - GitHub Flow or Trunk-based Development (56:23) - Combining Dagger with Argo (58:19) - Deploying Argo CD (58:51) - Argo with local Git repo branch 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