Latest Itops Podcast Episodes
AWS Graviton: The Great Arm Migration
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - June 28, 2024 05:34 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Fischer of AWS to discuss why we should use Graviton, their arm64 compute with AWS-designed CPUs. Graviton is AWS' term for their custom ARM-based EC2 instances. We now have all major clouds offering an ARM-based option for their server instances, ...
Local GenAI LLMs with Ollama and Docker
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - June 14, 2024 05:19 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal are joined by friend of the show, Matt Williams, to learn how to run your own local ChatGPT clone and GitHub Copilot clone with Ollama and Docker's "GenAI Stack," to build apps on top of open source LLMs. We've designed this conversation for tech people like myself, who...
Kubernetes Observability with Site24x7
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - May 31, 2024 05:26 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret is joined by Jasper Paul and Vinoth Kanagaraj, observability experts and Site24x7 Product Managers, to discuss achieving end-to-end visibility for applications on Kubernetes infrastructure. We answer questions on all things monitoring, OpenTelemetry, and KPIs for DevOps and SREs. ...
K2D by Portainer
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - May 17, 2024 05:50 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal are joined by Neil Cresswell and Steven Kang from Portainer to look at K2D, a new project that enables us to leverage Kubernetes tooling to manage Docker containers on tiny devices at the far edge. K2D stands for Kubernetes to Docker, which is a bit of a crazy idea -- i...
Chainguard: Building Secure Container Images
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - May 03, 2024 05:47 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal are joined by Dan Lorenc from Chainguard to walk them through Chainguard's approach to building secure, minimal container images for popular open source software. They discuss why it is important to have secure and minimal container images. Dan explains how Chainguard h...
AWS Finch: The Minimal Local Container Solution
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - April 19, 2024 05:54 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal are joined by Phil Estes of AWS to show us the Finch project, which bundles the best open source tools for building and running containers locally. Now it runs on macOS and Windows WSL2. We've been talking with Phil about this show for months, and now that Finch has com...
Portainer for Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm, Edge, and IoT
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - April 05, 2024 05:43 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret is joined by Neil Cresswell, CEO and co-founder of Portainer, to show us new features in Portainer and how it can manage, deploy, and orchestrate all your container workloads from a single Docker Engine, all the way to multi-cluster and IoT Kubernetes deployments. Portainer is muc...
Open Source Codespaces with Daytona
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - March 22, 2024 05:23 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal are joined by Ivan Burazin and Chad Metcalf to debut Daytona, an open source "codespaces equivalent." Daytona is a development environment manager designed to automate all the tedious steps a developer needs to perform to set up their development environment. "Essential...
Postgres in Containers
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - March 08, 2024 06:08 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret 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...
Best of DevOps 2023
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - February 23, 2024 06:28 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal are joined by Melissa McKay, Developer Advocate at JFrog and Docker Captain, to discuss the best and worst of 2023. We recorded this episode in December of 2023 where we talked through our favorite tools. Whether a DevOps oriented tool or not, it just might be the thing...
Faster Dev Feedback and Previews with Livecycle
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - February 09, 2024 06:04 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret 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 ai...
Docker Recap of 2023
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - January 26, 2024 06:38 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret 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. Michael has been on this show many times as a Docker Captain and now as a Docker employee, and it's always great to dig i...
Tailscale Everything
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - January 05, 2024 08:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret is joined by Alex Kretzschmar to talk about Tailscale, a universal VPN that connects teams, devices, and development environments for easy access to remote resources. Alex and I talk about projects he's worked on in containers over the years and then we quickly get into Tailscale ...
Dockerfiles have versions?
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - December 29, 2023 06:47 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsI break down why Dockerfile frontends exist and how Docker's build engine "BuildKit" is giving us updated Dockerfile features. The TL;DR of this podcast is to add this to your Dockerfiles as the first line, always and forever. # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1 It'll ensure your Dockerfile ...
Dagger: CI of the Future?
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - December 15, 2023 06:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsApplication 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 ...
Registry is getting an upgrade: Inside OCI artifacts
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - December 08, 2023 04:27 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe 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 an...
KubeCon Live with Friends 2023
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - November 23, 2023 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret 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 ...
Moving Domain Registrars, Again
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - November 17, 2023 18:19 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn 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 ser...
Multipass Local Virtual Machines
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - November 10, 2023 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Townsend, the engineering manager for Canonical's Multipass team, to discuss how to use Multipass as the easiest local virtual machine for Docker, Kubernetes and more! Multipass is my go-to solution for quickly creating local virtual machines of Ubun...
DockerCon 2023 New Features and Tools!
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - November 03, 2023 04:29 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsAfter 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 Link...
NetBackup for Kubernetes
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - October 27, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret 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 V...
AWS Lambda Containers
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - October 20, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret 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 coasta...
Ephemeral & Preview Environments for Compose and Kubernetes
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - October 06, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret 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, develop...
Codefresh and Argo CD with Dan Garfield
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - September 22, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret 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 t...
OpenSauced with Brian Douglas
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - September 08, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn this episode, Bret and Nirmal talk with Brian Douglas of OpenSauced. Brian Douglas, of GitHub fame, has founded OpenSauced, a cool web app and community of open source developers finding their next contribution and maybe their next job. Brian has so many stories of working with ope...
Istio Ambient Mesh and Solo.io
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - August 25, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Nirmal welcome Idit Levine, Founder/CEO Solo.io. Idit focuses on Service Mesh, API-GW and Multi-Cloud networking, and security. Idit has been involved in the Containers/DevOps community for 10+ years, building products from Docker to Envoy to Kubernetes, and now Istio and Cili...
Future of Kubernetes with Brendan Burns
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - August 11, 2023 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Matt welcome special guest Brendan Burns, CVP Azure Cloud Native & Resource Management, and also a founding member of the Kubernetes project. 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 f...
Kasten K10 Kubernetes Backups
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - July 28, 2023 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Matt welcome Michael Cade, the field CTO at Kasten by Veeam. If you've been around servers for a while, you probably have heard of Veeam. It made its debut back in the late 2000's when virtual machines and implementations of VMs were big. I first found out about them back in ...
Cycle.io LowOps container platform
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - July 14, 2023 13:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Matt welcome Jake Warner back to the show to talk about LowOps. What does LowOps mean? What can Cycle offer us as an alternative to Swarm and Kubernetes? Jake Warner is the CEO and founder of Cycle.io. And I had him on the show a few years ago when I first heard about Cycle an...
AWS containers with Corey Quinn
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling - June 30, 2023 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBret and Matt are joined by Corey Quinn to talk about AWS and containers. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at the Duckbill Group. You may have seen or heard some of his in-depth AWS content, including his Last Week in AWS newsletter and blog, Corey's podcast Screaming in the Cl...