

DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling
Bret Fisher
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
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Nov 11, 2022 • 52min
Service Mesh in Docker Desktop with Meshery
🙌 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 🍾Bret is joined by Lee Calcote and Nic Jackson, co-authors of the Service Mesh Patterns book, to discuss service mesh for Docker Desktop and Compose apps with the new Meshery extension for Docker desktop.They talk about what service mesh is and go into the new Measure extension for Docker Desktop, which is a CNCF sandbox project. One of its bigger features is to help you try out different service meshes and test them with only a few clicks. They also cover other features of their tools, such as the beta of MeshMap which helps you visualize your clusters and apply better practices to your service mesh.Streamed live on YouTube on September 22, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #185)★Topics★Learn Service MeshMeshery Docker Extension MeshMap Service Mesh Patterns Book★Nic Jackson, Principal Developer Advocate, HashiCorp★Nic on TwitterNic on LinkedinNic Jackson on YouTube Shipyard website★Lee Calcote, Founder and CEO, Layer5★Lee on TwitterLee on Linkedin★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Template intro
(00:52) - Bret intro
(03:30) - Main show
(03:35) - The guests
(04:16) - Lee and Layer5
(05:32) - Nick and Hashicorp
(07:28) - Lee and Nick
(08:31) - Challenges of writing a book
(09:14) - Layer5 and Meshery
(10:15) - Meshery elevator pitch
(12:23) - Service Mesh 101
(12:53) - Retry
(13:57) - Observability
(15:06) - Question Docker Swarm Supports Docker Extensions?
(17:16) - What does service mesh seem like?
(18:15) - Platform engineering
(25:31) - Distributed systems concerns
(27:16) - preparation
(27:53) - What would you use Meshery locally for?
(29:27) - Mesh map
(30:25) - Demo but mostly theoretical
(34:22) - Visual designer
(34:48) - Catalog of extensions
(35:26) - Performance management
(38:40) - Installing the extension
(39:29) - Close to the end
(39:49) - A lot going on online
(40:31) - Shipyard
(44:03) - Starship
(44:21) - Wrapping up
(44:32) - Status of the book
(51:22) - Closing
(51:38) - Outro
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

Oct 28, 2022 • 57min
Cilium and eBPF with Liz Rice
🙌 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 🍾Bret is joined by Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the makers of Cilium, to discuss Cilium and eBPF. Liz Rice is back to give us more insight into eBPF and the Cilium project. Isovalent is the company that created and manages the Cilium Project, which does an increasing number of things for Kubernetes, including networking, CNI support, security, advanced networking stuff, and observability, as well as other things like load balancing. Liz is one of my go-to experts on how low-level Linux internals work. She's been speaking about container internals since the early days of Docker.Streamed live on YouTube on September 8, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #183)★Topics★Cilium websiteIsovalent websiteeBPFNetwork Policy Editor★Liz Rice★Liz Rice on TwitterLiz Rice's websiteBooks on Containers, eBPF, Kubernetes and Go★Join my Community★ Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Intro
(02:30) - Bret intro
(03:18) - Main interview
(03:21) - The merch store
(04:16) - More merch talk
(05:56) - Introductions
(06:53) - What else Liz does
(07:03) - Liz's books
(07:59) - Brief history of EBPF
(09:18) - Kernel modules before EBPF
(10:23) - EBPF vs Kernel Modules
(11:34) - EBFP is dynamically loaded
(13:00) - Performance and Data Transfer
(14:12) - Isovalent and Cilium
(15:49) - How Cilium started
(17:55) - Specific versions of the kernel?
(19:09) - Where do we use EBPF in Kubernetes?
(19:49) - CNI
(21:39) - Question: Where can you start learning EBPF?
(24:41) - Question
(31:59) - All open source?
(32:45) - Question Cilium as a service mesh
(34:09) - Enabling certain features
(35:16) - Question
(35:48) - Question
(36:57) - Question
(38:58) - Wrapping up Cilium in cloud
(39:59) - Offloading programs XDP
(41:53) - Question about GUI
(44:18) - Question
(51:06) - Question
(53:47) - EBPF on Windows?
(54:50) - How is it implemented?
(55:39) - Wrapping 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

Oct 21, 2022 • 46min
Kubescape Kubernetes Security with ARMO
🙌 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 🍾Bret is joined by Shauli Rozen, CEO and Co-Founder of ARMO, creators of Kubescape. Kubescape is a K8s open-source tool providing a multi-cloud K8s single pane of glass, including risk analysis, security compliance, RBAC visualizer, and image vulnerability scanning.I'm a fan of tools like this and specifically of Kubescape, which I use and recommend to my clients. The scanner can scan your YAML manifests of your Kubernetes resources. It can scan your live Kubernetes clusters. And it can scan the YAML in your Git repos, as well as the images themselves that you're deploying to Kubernetes. As ARMO calls it, it's a single pane of glass into your Kubernetes security. Streamed live on YouTube on September 1, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #182)★Topics★Kubescape's GitHub K8s Security Dashboard ARMO website★Shauli Rozen★Shauli on Twitter★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Main intro
(00:53) - Custom intro
(04:22) - Main show
(04:26) - Introductions
(05:20) - The Kubescape project
(06:02) - Go to the developers
(07:03) - Security low-handing fruit
(07:56) - I just want to be a user
(11:09) - Kubescape elevator pitch
(13:37) - Good learning tool
(14:25) - Linting
(14:57) - Remediation
(16:22) - The SaaS Version
(17:56) - Does DevOps not care about security?
(20:01) - A gap in terminology
(22:08) - Security compliance and guidance
(27:35) - GitOps Approach
(29:15) - Asking about demo
(29:56) - Question
(30:58) - Become a contributor
(32:32) - Demo intro
(32:58) - Demo end part
(33:03) - Question
(33:33) - Visualizer
(35:00) - Question
(36:18) - Question
(40:32) - Mindset differences
(41:26) - Question
(43:43) - Question
(44:10) - Winding down
(45:03) - How to get started
(46:03) - Template outro
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

Oct 14, 2022 • 49min
Slim and Secure Container Images with Slim.ai
🙌 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 🍾Bret is joined by Martin Wimpress and Pieter van Noordennen from Slim.ai to discuss some ways to slim down your Docker images and reduce the attack surface of your containers in the process.Many companies and projects have tried to do similar things before - Slim Images, Alpine Images, Distro List, Build Packs, and even Docker tried a few years back, to create intelligence and guidance around migrating legacy apps into slim production quality images. Those efforts were scrapped in 2019. The dual mandate of generating Docker images - easy to understand and as minimal as possible, with the lowest CVE vulnerability count - was not achieved by any of those projects. Automation and intelligence like Slim.ai is the future of building container images and also the future of complex monoliths and legacy apps with a lot of dependencies.Streamed live on YouTube on July 28, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #180)★Topics★Docker SlimSlim.ai★Martin Wimpress★Martin Wimpress on Twitter★Pieter van Noordennen★Pieter van Noordennen on Twitter★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server DevOps FansHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Intro
(00:53) - Custom intro
(06:09) - Main show
(06:28) - How Slim.ai started
(08:44) - Complexities of shipping images
(10:30) - DockerSlim
(12:04) - Setting the stage for demo
(14:39) - Demo intro
(15:05) - Demo
(15:10) - Bret's Question
(23:57) - Different container composition options
(25:13) - Demo intro 2
(25:19) - Bret loves Docker Desktop and Extensions
(29:05) - Pausing Docker
(29:31) - The extension is the same as the SaaS
(30:07) - It's free
(30:40) - Demo?
(30:40) - Distroless and optimized starting points
(36:24) - Build engineering nightmare
(37:52) - Not just security considerations
(40:40) - Understanding dependency differences
(42:11) - Question
(43:40) - Slim cli
(47:45) - Getting started
(49:15) - Outro
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

Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 1min
Carvel Tools for 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 🍾Bret is joined by Dmitriy Kalinin and John Ryan, software engineers at VMWare, to show off the many Carvel project tools.Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes. The Carvel project includes tools for templating, image building and tracking, secrets management, app deploying and more. The tool list includes ytt, kapp, kapp-controller, kbld, imgpkg, vendir, and kwt.Streamed live on YouTube on July 14, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #178)★Topics★Carvel websiteCarvel on Twitter★Dmitriy Kalinin★Dmitriy Kalinin on Twitter★John Ryan★John Ryan on Twitter★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Intro
(00:51) - Custom intro
(03:27) - Main Show
(03:51) - A lot of tools
(04:56) - How did Carvel begin?
(07:39) - Use the tools differently across all stages
(08:36) - Building from the ground up
(10:20) - Are the tools independently used?
(11:05) - The first Carvel tool
(11:19) - ytt
(12:34) - kapp
(13:34) - What is YTT
(16:40) - Creating more consistency?
(19:20) - How to use with compose
(20:24) - Question about Q
(23:17) - Question
(26:10) - Question
(26:49) - Solve a real problem
(27:46) - Don't overcomplicate yourself
(29:41) - What problem does Kapp solve?
(32:14) - Kapp and Kapp controller
(38:16) - Question
(38:53) - Rapid fire
(38:59) - Kbuild
(45:05) - How does image package help?
(48:34) - The experimental tools
(49:22) - Secret generation
(54:24) - Vendor
(58:10) - Getting involved
(59:43) - Last thoughts
(01:00:57) - Outro
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

Sep 23, 2022 • 55min
Securing Containers, First Steps in Docker 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 🍾Bret goes through his top recommendations for securing container images, Docker containers and Kubernetes pods.This is a tip-packed show where Bret lists much of what's documented in his courses, starting with the first steps you should take, and the bare security necessities that everyone should be doing. Then he covers more advanced security activities you should consider once the basics are covered.Streamed live on YouTube on July 7, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #177).★Topics★Bret's Container Security AMADocker Security DocsDocker Buys AtomistSlim.ai website: Auto-slimming imagesDocker Slim toolKubescape websiteKubernetes Security ContextSeccomp by defaultLint all files with super-linterDatree K8s file scanKubernetes BenchmarkMy GitHub Actions examples: Automate your builds, CVE scans, and moreVideo on building a more secure base imageSnyk security tools websiteTrivy CVE and K8s scansFalco for watching servers for bad behavior★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - Intro
(00:52) - Mid-Roll Intro
(00:53) - Bret's Intro
(03:23) - Main show
(04:22) - What should I worry about first? The Basics!
(05:24) - Start with images
(06:05) - Bret.show/SecurityFirst
(06:41) - CVE scanning
(07:13) - Dependency scanning
(08:05) - Bret's Github with Dependabot
(09:02) - OS dependencies with Trivy and Snyk
(11:00) - Bret's Talks
(11:54) - Alpine is not always good
(13:04) - All hands on automation
(13:51) - Don't run as root inside the image
(15:41) - Question
(16:57) - Making slimmer images
(17:29) - Atomist
(18:56) - DockerSlim
(22:25) - Question
(23:58) - Question
(25:46) - Question
(26:13) - Question
(26:22) - Question
(26:52) - Securing Docker
(27:24) - Docker host scanner
(28:05) - Falco
(28:32) - Just use Docker
(30:05) - Question about Windows Containers
(31:56) - Maintain your servers
(32:49) - Docker in the cloud
(34:06) - Always stay on the latest Kubernetes release
(35:10) - Kube-bench
(35:59) - Tree.io
(36:41) - Pod specs
(37:45) - Sec comp
(39:10) - Security context
(40:34) - Privilege escalation
(41:27) - Superlinter
(42:31) - Question about Fargate
(44:12) - Network policies
(46:15) - Kubernetes docs article on security context
(46:53) - Question
(49:20) - Third-party security monitoring
(49:34) - Question about volumes
(50:22) - Question about Docker subnets
(51:07) - Question about secrets
(51:54) - Question about subnets 2
(52:25) - Question
(54:40) - Outro
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

Sep 9, 2022 • 60min
Managing Enterprise Kubernetes with Replicated
🙌 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 🍾Bret is joined by Marc Campbell of Replicated to discuss the challenges of deploying your software on other people's Kubernetes.Following a discussion of the problems Replicated is solving, they go over all the great open source projects they are developing for deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes.Streamed live on YouTube on June 23, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #175).★Topics★Replicated Replicated OSS Projects Kubernetes TroubleshooterSchema Hero Kubelist podcast, CNCF project leader interviewsEnterprise Ready assessment and podcastkURL - Customize your Kubernetes Installer KOTS - Manage COTS on K8s Find Outdated ImagesUnfork your custom Helm charts ★Marc Campbell★Marc Campbell on Twitter★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:03) - Template intro
(00:53) - Bret intro
(04:39) - Main show
(05:19) - How Mark Got to Replicated
(06:05) - How Replicated Started
(06:38) - All projects open source
(07:41) - COTS
(13:08) - Kubernetes: Limiter or Enabler?
(14:43) - Kurl
(18:34) - KOTS
(21:52) - Not all users are going to be helm experts
(22:50) - Unfork
(26:45) - Troubleshooting Kubernetes
(36:39) - Outdated
(42:12) - Their podcasts
(43:18) - Schemahero
(51:56) - Other tools like kurl?
(53:39) - Are teams adopting kots?
(56:04) - Question
(57:26) - What's next?
(59:16) - Winding down
(59:25) - Outro
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

Aug 26, 2022 • 37min
Docker Extensions: Using and Building Them
🙌 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 🍾Bret is joined by Guillaume Tardif and Felipe Cruz of Docker Inc. for a deep dive into Docker extensions.Docker Extensions are a favorite new feature. Guillaume and Felipe are both engineers at Docker and they walk us through how extensions came about, how to install them, and how to submit them to the marketplace.By the time Docker released extensions at DockerCon in May 2022, there were already a dozen solid extensions, including a disk manager, log explorer, and other third-party tools like Portainer, Snyk, and Anchor. Docker extensions will be most helpful to people who use Docker Desktop.Streamed live on YouTube on June 16, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #174). Includes demos.★Topics★Docker Extensions homepageDocker Extensions announcement at DockerCon 2022Build your first Docker ExtensionSubmit your extension for the MarketplaceVackup, an example custom extensionExtension SDKOther Extension resources★Guillaume and Felipe★Guillaume Tardif on TwitterFelipe Cruz on Twitter★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Template intro
(00:52) - Bret custom intro
(05:12) - Main show
(05:14) - Main show
(05:35) - Felipe intro
(06:07) - Guillaume intro
(07:09) - Today's topic
(07:58) - What are Docker extensions?
(10:24) - Question: Are extensions running in their own container?
(12:01) - Question: Extensions are in Docker Desktop only?
(12:37) - Where it is on the interface
(13:04) - Submitting your own extensions to the marketplace
(14:22) - Easy to install the extensions
(14:53) - A couple extension examples
(16:40) - Question: Extension versions and updates
(17:11) - Question: Extensions dependent on Docker Desktop version?
(18:15) - Sideloading extensions that are not in the marketplace
(18:48) - Question: RAM and CPU usage
(19:09) - Demos described
(19:49) - Demo intro
(20:15) - Demo
(20:19) - Quick note about Portainer
(20:53) - You don't have to remember commands
(21:56) - Don't install all extensions at once
(22:11) - Do extensions pause with Docker?
(23:10) - Very little to learn
(23:45) - Bret's backup tool extension isn't done
(24:56) - Synchronising extensions across installations
(25:32) - Docker roadmap and ideas
(26:25) - Question: Security, where is the UI code running?
(29:56) - Question: Multi-node Kubernetes clusters
(32:03) - Question: Are all extensions open source?
(33:38) - Expanding the SDK
(34:20) - Bret's drop-down Kubernetes request
(34:56) - Extension submission
(35:43) - Wrapping up
(36:52) - Outro
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

Aug 12, 2022 • 54min
Kubernetes Autoscaling with Karpenter
🙌 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 🍾Bret is joined by Nirmal Mehta, a Principal Specialist Solution Architect at AWS, and a Docker Captain, to discuss Karpenter, an autoscaling solution launched by AWS in 2021. Karpenter simplifies Kubernetes infrastructure by automating node scaling up and down, giving you "the right nodes at the right time."Autoscaling, particularly for Kubernetes, can be quite a complex project when you first start. Bret and Nirmal discuss how Karpenter works, how it can help or complement your existing setup, and how autoscaling generally works.Streamed live on YouTube on June 9, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #173). Includes demos.★Topics★Starship Shell PromptBret's favorite shell setupKarpenterKarpenter release blogK8s Scheduling ConceptsOther types of autoscalers:Horizontal Pod AutoscalerVertical Pod AutoscalerCluster Autoscaler★Nirmal Mehta★Nirmal on TwitterNirmal on LinkedIn★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Intro
(00:51) - Custom intro
(03:45) - Main Show
(03:49) - Introductions
(04:49) - Nirmal's Jobs
(05:35) - Talking about Kubernetes cluster scaling
(06:41) - Who are we addressing?
(08:06) - What is Karpenter not addressing?
(08:29) - Auto-scaling at pod level
(09:17) - Cluster auto-scaling
(10:44) - Karpenter is alternate to cluser autoscaler
(10:58) - Question
(11:48) - Issues Karpenter was created to address
(14:06) - What is Karpenter?
(15:28) - Selective instance type provisioning
(16:24) - Matching deployment definition to instance types
(17:45) - Question: Is Karpenter designed only for AWS?
(18:50) - Question: Can you auto-scale control plane nodes?
(20:58) - The Kubernetes Scheduler
(24:51) - Question: Does Karpenter auto-scale down?
(26:42) - Question: EKS with Karpenter spot instances
(27:35) - Question: Karpenter and AWS auto-scaling groups
(27:47) - Question: Installation and provisioning
(28:57) - Only affects unschedulable pods
(30:26) - Demo intro
(30:51) - Demo
(30:56) - Scaling Down
(32:04) - Keeping your nodes fresh
(34:31) - If you want to learn more
(35:00) - Goals for 2022
(35:52) - Questions
(35:58) - Question: Cost-effective instances
(37:12) - Question: Instances to IoC and automatically destroyed?
(40:02) - Question: Features being pushed upstream into Kubernetes
(42:05) - Question: Rebalancing
(46:05) - Scaling down is hard too
(47:55) - Question: Horizontal pod auto-scaler trigger Karpenter
(49:02) - Question: Specs and Documentation
(49:38) - Question: How does it pick instance sizes?
(50:32) - Question: Karpenter respects desire to spread workloads
(51:06) - Question: EKSAnywhere support
(51:27) - Question: How do you pick AMIs?
(52:14) - Winding down
(54:02) - Wrapping up
(54:07) - Outro
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

Jul 29, 2022 • 1h 12min
Beyond DevOps DORA Metrics
🙌 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 🍾Bret is joined by Laura Tacho, an engineering leadership coach, to discuss measuring your team's performance with DevOps metrics (DORA) and the new SPACE framework. Team Performance is one of Bret's favorite topics, and it should be everyone's concern.Laura and Bret discuss soft skills, how to implement DORA DevOps metrics, the new SPACE framework, as well as common pitfalls people make when attempting to implement those measurements. Streamed live on YouTube on June 2, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #172).★Topics★Laura's course on High-Performing Software TeamsDORA (DevOps Research and Assessment)DORA MetricsDORA DevOps Quick CheckSPACE frameworkGoodhart's lawDeveloper ExperienceDevOps HandbookAccelerate Book★Laura Tacho★Laura's homepage and NewsletterLaura on TwitterLaura on the GitHub blog★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com
(00:00) - DDT MAIN
(00:04) - Intro
(00:52) - Custom Intro
(04:14) - Main show
(04:32) - Introductions
(05:16) - How Bret and Laura Met
(05:44) - What's Changed for Laura in the Last Couple of Years
(07:26) - Today's Topic and Conundrum
(08:51) - Laura's Course
(11:54) - Laura's Newsletter
(14:48) - Latest Newsletter Topic - Firing People
(16:05) - Firing People is Not Talked About Enough
(17:05) - Choose Your Boss, Not Your Job
(18:16) - DevOps Metrics
(18:49) - What is DORA?
(20:53) - Google Acquired DORA
(21:24) - The Wide Chasm of Teams
(22:06) - Productivity vs Performance
(26:01) - The SPACE framework
(30:08) - Developer Experience (DX)
(33:22) - The Journey: Where Do You Start?
(38:06) - Question: Productivity for In-House vs Contractor Teams
(39:39) - Question: Building DORA Teams from Scratch
(41:22) - Making Life Easier for Your Team
(45:00) - Performance Also Includes Quality
(45:41) - Defficiencies will expose themselves
(47:26) - Work Backwards from CD
(49:19) - What is a High-Performing Development Team?
(51:00) - It's not only about the new people onboarding
(51:54) - Goodhart's Law
(55:40) - Demo/Example
(58:00) - Question: DORAvs DevSecOps, Agile, LEAN
(59:45) - No need for automated tracking to start
(01:02:13) - Question: Handling Retraining and Candidates Leaving
(01:06:19) - Question: Security as a Product
(01:10:20) - Wrapping Up
(01:11:21) - Outro
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