Bret and Nirmal recorded this special offline episode at KubeCon North America in Salt Lake City. We hung out at the AWS booth to break down the major trends and developments from the conference.  The event drew a record-breaking 10,000 attendees, with roughly half being first-timers to the Cloud Native ecosystem.  Starting with Cloud Native Rejekts and moving through the pre-conference events, we noticed Platform Engineering emerged as the dominant theme, with its dedicated conference track drawing standing-room-only crowds. The main conference showcased a notable surge in new vend ..read more

Bret 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 into the details of the products with someone who's been using them for so many years as an end-user and now staff at Docker. Docker did some big things in 2023, but they also shipped some smaller features that we will help you catch up on in this episode. The live recording of the complete show from December 28, 2 ..read more

Bret and Nirmal Mehta are joined by Ken Collins to dig into using AI for more than coding, and if we can build an AI assistant that knows us. They touch on a lot of tools and platforms. "We're bit all over the place on this one, from talking about AI features in our favorite note taking apps like Notion, to my journey of making an open AI assistant with all of my Q&A from my courses, thousands of questions and answers, to coding agents and more." Ken is a local friend in Virginia Beach and was on the show last year talking about AWS Lambda, and we've both been trying to find value in all o ..read more

Bret explores the spectrum of user interfaces and tools available for managing Kubernetes clusters as of Autumn 2024. This solo episode touches on both paid and open-source options, looking at their features, benefits, and drawbacks. Key tools covered include Lens, Aptakube, K8Studio, Visual Studio Code's Kubernetes extension, K9S, Portainer, and Meshery. Bret also discusses specialized tools like Headlamp and the Argo CD dashboard, and their specific use cases and advantages. ★Topics★ Lens Aptakube K8Studio K9s Kubernetes Dashboard Portainer Meshery Headlamp Creators & Guests Cristi Co ..read more

Bret is joined by Matt Williams of Infra to show off their open source project Infra, which provides easy, centralized RBAC and auth to Kubernetes and more. Infra is a new company taking on simplifying centralized infrastructure, user authentication and permissions. Their open source tool by the same name is quite easy to start with. In this episode, Matt does a great job of explaining the pain points of Kubernetes user management, certificate distribution and revocation, and more pain points that Infra is bringing simplicity to. Streamed live on YouTube on November 10, 2022. Includes demos ..read more

Bret is joined by Anaïs Urlichs of Aqua Security to talk container and Kubernetes security tools like trivy, kube-bench, tracee, and kube-hunter. I've been using trivy for over four years to scan for known vulnerabilities in my own container images and my clients. We also look at tracee, a new tool that is part of a new generation of tools that use the Linux kernel eBPF feature to investigate what's happening in real time on your servers. Anaïs is great as an explainer of Kubernetes and all cloud native things, and she's the creator of the 100 days of Kubernetes tutorials on her YouTube channe ..read more

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Kühl and Jose Blanquicet, the maintainers of Inspektor Gadget, the new eBPF-focused multitool, to see what it's all about. Inspektor Gadget, aims to solve some serious problems with managing Linux kernel-level tools via Kubernetes. Each security, troubleshooting, or observability utility is packaged in an OCI image and deployed to Kubernetes (and now Linux directly) via the Inspektor Gadget CLI and framework. Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from September 12, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 277). ★Topics★Inspektor Gadget website Inspekto ..read more

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Maria Vechtomova, a MLOps Tech Lead and co-founder of Marvelous MLOps, to discuss the obvious and not-so obvious differences between a MLOps Engineer and traditional DevOps jobs. Maria is here to discuss how DevOps engineers can adopt and operate machine learning workloads, also known as MLOps. With her expertise, we'll explore the challenges and best practices for implementing ML in a DevOps environment, including some hot takes on using Kubernetes. Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from June 20, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 271). ★Topics★Ma ..read more

Bret and Nirmal were joined by Emile Vauge, CTO of Traefik Labs to talk all about Traefik 3.0. We talk about what's new in Traefik 3, 2.x to 3.0 migrations, Kubernetes Gateway API, WebAssembly (Cloud Native Wasm), HTTP3, Tailscale, OpenTelemetry, and much more! Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from June 6, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 269). Includes demos. ★Topics★ Traefik Website Traefik Labs Community Forum Traefik's YouTube Channel Gateway API helper CLI ingress2gateway migration tool Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher ..read more

Bret is joined by DockerSlim (now mintoolkit) founder Kyle Quest, to show off how to slim down your existing images with various options. The slimming down includes distroless images like Chainguard Images and Nix. We also look at using the new "mint debug" feature to exec into existing images and containers on Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, and containerd. Kyle joined us for a two-hour livestream to discuss mint’s evolution. Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from May 30, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 268). Includes demos. ★Topics★ Mint repository in GitHub Creators & Gue ..read more