DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

The topic is the new Gateway API and Kubernetes Ingress. Bret met with Mark Church, Product Manager of GKE Networking at Google. They talked in detail and took questions from the YouTube chat. Streamed live on YouTube Apr 8, 2021, Ep 119.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep 119)An Introduction: What is the Gateway API?Join the communityMark Church on Twitter @ChurchOfMark 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

Automating container deployments with GitOps is the topic of this podcast with Bret's guest, Nirmal Mehta. At the time of the show (March 2021), Nirmal was a Distinguished Engineer and Director at Booz Allen Hamilton. He is also a Docker Captain. Streamed live on YouTube Mar 4, 2021, Ep 114.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep 114) ★Topics and Links★Guide to GitOps from weaveworks GitOps origins; a blog from weaveworks: What DevOps is to the Cloud, GitOps is to Cloud NativeFlux CDArgo CDSwarm Sync for Docker Swarm GitOpsYouTube Live Show (Ep 113) where Bret talks about, and gives a demo of, Crossplane YouTube Live Show (Ep 142) where Bret and Viktor Farcic cover DevOps Automation with CrossplaneControl GitHub GitOps through "branch protection rules"DevOpsDaysNirmal Mehta on Twitter @normalfaults 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

Docker Captain and Engineering Consultant Laura Tacho joins Bret and they go through all their favorite topics and tech things of 2021. Streamed live on YouTube Dec 16, 2021, Ep 150.Unedited live recording on YouTube (Ep #150)Log4Shell info from SANS Institute on YouTubeLog4Shell info from Docker blogHashiCorp IPO Bill Gates Year in Review "Reasons for Optimism After a Difficult Year"GitHub blog "GitHub Actions: Reusable Workflows are Generally Available"Dig into your Docker images contains.devWebAssembly in 100 seconds on YouTubeModern Finance podcast "Side Chain Scaling with Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon"My First Million podcastDocker blog: "Faster Multi-Platform Builds: Dockerfile Cross-Compilation Guide" 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 talks with Stack Overflow legend and Docker Captain, Brandon Mitchell. They talk about (and demo) “regclient” his new project for managing registries remotely via API, and all that’s happened over the last year with Docker registries and Docker Hub. It's worth watching the demos on YouTube. Streamed live on YouTube Jan 21, 2021, Ep 108.Unedited live recording on YouTube (Ep #108)An earlier YTL show about Docker Hub (Ep #89)Brandon on StackOverflowregclient on GitHubregistry spec on GitHubBrandon's videos and presentations on GitHub 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 Komodor CTO and co-founder Itiel Shwartz to talk about Kubernetes troubleshooting and using their new app to highlight changes and alerts in your clusters. Check out the unedited video version on YouTube to experience the demo. https://youtu.be/zGA6ZwdYM5AStreamed live on YouTube on March 11, 2021, Ep 115.Unedited live recording on YouTube Ep 115; check it out to see the demosKomodor K8s troubleshootingkubectl cheat sheetTroubleshooting deployments flowchart 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

Docker announced Compose v2 at DockerCon 2021. Bret goes through all the new stuff you didn't know about. If you're a fan of composing (his fav docker tool), this podcast reviews what docker's done over the last two years to make it so much better! This is another episode pulled from the archive that's still quite relevant. Streamed live on YouTube Jun 10, 2021, Ep 126.Unedited live recording on YouTube Ep 126 ★Topics ★Compose V2 is a Docker Plug-in (written in Go)Compose Spec (no more yaml versions)Service ProfilesCompose ls (list all running compose projects)BuildKit by defaultCompose cp (copy files in/out)Compose convertCompose up to ACI and ECSCompose up to KubernetesCompose command aliases ★Links ★GitOps Days 2021 - Day 1 (June 9, 2021) video on YouTube GitOps Days 2021 - Day 2 (June 10, 2021) video on YouTubeCompose CLI on GitHub Compose Spec on GitHubDocker Plugins installer (GitHub)My Shell SetupBuilding with Buildx  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 topic is automating your K8s YAML validation. Bret’s guest is Eyar Zilberman, co-founder of Datree and they go through various tools and their pros and cons and help you understand why automated validation is vital as you automate your Kubernetes deployment pipeline. Streamed live on YouTube Nov 11, 2021, Ep 146.Unedited live recording on YouTube (Ep 146)DatreeKubeconformpre-commithttps://github.com/yannh/kubeconformhttps://pre-commit.com/Eyar's article about K8s schema validationOpen an issue for questions on k8s schema kubectl --dry-run=client bug Datree's CLI tool to ensure K8s manifests and Helm charts follow best practices Check CRDs and schema with Datree  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

Apple's move to Arm processors will change software development for everyone... or will it?Apple has moved towards an Arm processor. They don't call it Arm, they call it Apple Silicon, or M1 but underneath that, the architecture of the CPU is Arm 64-bit compatible. Streamed live on YouTube Jan 7, 2021, Ep 106.Unedited live recording on YouTube Ep 106 ★Corrections ★"Windows RT" isn't a thing anymore, and the Windows 10 on Arm (WoA) is getting better, with x64 emulation (MS version of Rosetta 2) in pre-betaAArch64 or ARM64 is the 64-bit extension of the ARM architectureMicrosoft is indeed designing its own Arm chips for future Surface and serversWindows 10 Arm works in Parallels M1 beta on macOSAWS Arm instances are now on Gen 2, as of May 2020, with up to 40% better performance-per-dollar than old Gen 1 Arm, AMD, and Intel ★Topics ★MX1 and future of Apple Silicon (Arm) on YouTubeQEMU: emulate one CPU architecture on anotherMulti-arch support in Docker Desktop in docker docsBuild multi-arch images with buildx in docker docsManifest commands for multi-arch images in docker docsHardcode platform in Compose files in docker docsAlex Ellis blog, lots of Arm + Docker infoMy shell setupSetup QEMU on Linux serverson stereolabs.comon GitHub 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 talks about linting with Super-Linter and also GitHub Action's new Reusable Workflows beta! Streamed live on YouTube Sep 30, 2021, Ep 141.Unedited live recording on YouTube (Ep 141) ★Topics ★Linting Q&ASuper-Linter 101Example GitHub Action RepoDependabot for GHALinter config filesCustomize Super-LinterReusable Workflows ★Links ★Super-Linter GitHubExample Workflow in Bret's GitHubEditorconfigReusable Workflows Workflow TemplatesHacktoberfest from DigitalOcean 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

Alex Chalkias of the Canonical MicroK8s project joins Bret and they dive into this easy and powerful Kubernetes distribution that had some major updates in 2020, including high availability. Since the interview, the open-source community around Microk8s has been releasing versions regularly, including keeping the Kubernetes versions up to date and continuing to add new add-ons to their one-line install list. It's getting quite impressive at this point, including kata containers, open EBS, and the KEDA (Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling) event-driven auto-scaling. Streamed live on YouTube on November 12, 2020, Ep 101.Unedited live recording on YouTube Ep 101Microk8s websiteCanonical Ubuntu Kubernetes web pageMultipass install pageUbuntu YouTubeCharmhub website 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