DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

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.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course.https://courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist 🍾★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.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course.https://courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist 🍾★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

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.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course.https://courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist 🍾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.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course.https://courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist 🍾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.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course.https://courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist 🍾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

Brian Douglas of OpenSauced joins the show to discuss the impact of open source and finding mentors, the significance of stars on GitHub, establishing trust and making meaningful contributions, pitching ideas and naming projects, and the Open Source/Pizza CLI experience and 100 Days of Open Source program.

Idit Levine, Founder/CEO Solo.io, talks about Istio, Ambient Mesh, Envoy, Zero-Trust Security, Cilium, eBPF, and Multi-Cloud. They discuss how Solo's new product, Ambient Mesh, simplifies the install and infrastructure costs of running Istio, making it more accessible to implement. The podcast also covers the origins of solo.io, the benefits of using Mesh Backplane Network (MBN), the future of service mesh, TOC members and relationships, teaching challenges, and the adoption of uni kernels and WebAssembly.

Bret and Matt welcome special guest Brendan Burns, CVP Azure Cloud Native & Resource Management, and also a founding member of the Kubernetes project.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course.https://courses.bretfisher.com/waitlist 🍾Because Brendan is one of the three original co-founders of the Kubernetes project back in 2013 at Google, he's a little bit internet famous in open source and Cloud Native. So I was a little nervous going into this because I had so many questions. We took some live questions as we always do from YouTube live, and I thought it was a really great episode of a little mix of talking about Azure and some of the things you can do with containers, some of the things they're working on, some of the things that he's focused on that we haven't seen yet. We talk about AI and how that relates to some of these things. We even talk about WASM or WebAssembly, one of my favorite topics of the last year, because that's important so it was great to get his perspective. And I think my favorite part of the show is where we really talk about the next layers of abstraction, or maybe even the ways that we can deploy to Kubernetes or make it simpler to manage and deploy to. And that's been a real challenge for the community ever since Kubernetes was created in making it more accessible to more people, without it being so complex to manage and deal with underneath. And Brendan has some really great views on what it's going to take it to get us there.Live recording of the complete show from June 15, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #221).★Topics★Ways to run containers on AzureDaprWebAssembly on Azure KubernetesWasmtimeTwelve-Factor AppYou 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.comCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Matt Williams - Host Brendan Burns - Guest (00:00) - Intro (04:47) - Introducing Brendan (10:24) - Advice for starting to run containers (32:07) - Reducing complexity with AI (36:18) - Addressing DevOps fatigue (44:15) - Running WebAssembly on Kubernetes (56:00) - LTS Linux Distributions (01:01:05) - What's next after containers and orchestration?