In this episode Steve speaks with the Control Plane Kubernetes security training gurus, Lewis Denham-Parry and Andy Martin about their brain-child, the KubeCon Capture the Flag! We get into how it began, the community the enables it and the inspiration for some of the concepts within its structure and scenes. Recorded back in June 2021 and long overdue thanks to some editing nightmares, this is one to listen to before we  meet up for KubeCon 2022 #optimistic   Lewis Denham-Parry Head of Training at Control Plane / Co-Founder at Cloud Native Wales https://control-plane.io/ https ..read more

Jim is the Founder and CEO at Nirmata who are in turn the founders of Kyverno Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. With Kyverno, policies are managed as Kubernetes resources and no new language is required to write policies. This allows using familiar tools such as kubectl, git, and kustomize to manage policies. Kyverno policies can validate, mutate, and generate Kubernetes resources.  Software is changing the world, and Jim's mission at Nirmata is to help the world deliver better software by fully by democratizing cloud native best practices. Nirmata is a Kubernetes mana ..read more

In this episode I speak to Glenn Wilson the author of the recently released (Jan 2021) book entitled... DevSecOps - A leader’s guide to producing secure software without compromising flow, feedback and continuous improvement He discusses not just the book but his influences, the struggles of writing a technical (but not too technical) book as well as the general state of DevSecOps in 2021. Buy his book here  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781335028/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_ZFG9FbG62WW08 About Glenn Wilson: Glenn is a DevOps and Agile security consultant and founder of Dynaminet. He is also the ..read more

In this show I get to talk with Jessica about the breaking down of tribal knowledge through chaos engineering,  her favourite tools, culture change and I discover that kubernetes and cloud native infused gardening might soon be a "thing".   About Jessica Cherry SRE II Evangelist of silo prevention in the IT space, the importance of information sharing with all teams. Believer in educating all and open source development. Lover of all things tech. Follow Jessica Cherry on Twitter @alynderthered1 Important links ---- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/seeking-sre/9781491978856 ..read more

Guest: Brian Haugli - Managing Partner, SideChannel | CEO, RealCISO.io | Host of #CISOlife Viewed as a "full stack CISO", Brian is an executive security leader and mentor focused on building high performance security teams, deploying effective operating models, and delivering risk management capabilities for global, domestic, and local enterprises. He has held senior advisory & practitioner roles within DoD, the Intelligence Community and Fortune 1000 companies. Brian is a NIST expert, specifically with the Cyber Security Framework (CSF) and 800-53, and for industrial control systems &am ..read more

Alvin Chang is a futurist and technology enthusiast.  This episode was prompted by a conversation I had with him on LinkedIn where he spontaneously told me DevOps was dead and briefly seemed to be suggesting he should tell Gene Kim. I requested he explain via podcast and here we are!  It goes in some very interesting directions. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor Blogchain: https://steemit.com/ People: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/people/mariana-mazzucato https ..read more

Jim is the Founder and CEO at Nirmata who are in turn the founders of Kyverno Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. With Kyverno, policies are managed as Kubernetes resources and no new language is required to write policies. This allows using familiar tools such as kubectl, git, and kustomize to manage policies. Kyverno policies can validate, mutate, and generate Kubernetes resources.  Software is changing the world, and Jim's mission at Nirmata is to help the world deliver better software by fully by democratizing cloud native best practices. Nirmata is a Kubernetes mana ..read more

Alvin Chang is a futurist and technology enthusiast.  This episode was prompted by a conversation I had with him on LinkedIn where he spontaneously told me DevOps was dead and briefly seemed to be suggesting he should tell Gene Kim. I requested he explain via podcast and here we are!  It goes in some very interesting directions. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor Blogchain: https://steemit.com/ People: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/people/mariana-mazzucato https ..read more

In this show I get to talk with Jessica about the breaking down of tribal knowledge through chaos engineering,  her favourite tools, culture change and I discover that kubernetes and cloud native infused gardening might soon be a "thing".   About Jessica Cherry SRE II Evangelist of silo prevention in the IT space, the importance of information sharing with all teams. Believer in educating all and open source development. Lover of all things tech. Follow Jessica Cherry on Twitter @alynderthered1 Important links ---- https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/seeking-sre/9781491978856 ..read more

Kenichi is a Cloud Expert with more than 3 years of Kubernetes in production and more than 8 years of Cloud Engineering Experience, With Exposure to Cloud Security and Big Data.  He worked across multiple sectors on a global scale including Retail with Uniqlo and Fast Retailing, Conde Nast (Vogue, GQ, Wired, Reddit).  Also worked and designed solutions for highly regulated environments like Finance with Simplex JP, Beacon Platform, ComparetheMarket. In this show we are taken through Kenichi's regulatory,  geographical and security driven learning experiences across data centres ..read more