Bret 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 rapid panel of rotating guests. If you actually watched the video version of this, there's literally people walking in and out of the camera throughout the show. The live recording of the complete show from November 9, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #240) Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (02:04) - Welcome from KubeCon North America (02:24) - Phil Estes on ContainerD (03:22) - Exploring the Sandbox Service (05:08) - What is Finch? (09:00) - James Buren on CNCF Projects (21:48) - Mike Coleman on Falco (24:43) - Chad Cole on Kubernetes Certification (30:57) - Nigel Poulton's Insights on KubeCon (42:17) - Mauricio Salatino (43:45) - Derek Morgan 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com

In 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 service I was already using for many things, started offering registrar services at no markup. Pragmatic Engineer newsletter about the Google Domains shutdown and our favorite registrars. Porkbun. step into The Buniverse. Creators & Guests Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com

Bret 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 Ubuntu. I teach it in my courses, I've used it for many years, and I was excited to have Chris on to talk about the ways to automate the creation of a VM in Multipass, and dig into the various virtualization, backends and networking options. We also talk about Multipass blueprints where in a demo, he shows off how to create a VM with Docker installed in a single command. It actually reminds me of Docker Machine, if you've been around a while. That also mounts your code directly into the VM and sets a host alias so that the Docker commands will pass through to Docker in the VM transparently. If you can imagine that it basically means that you can run Docker in the VM and use it from the host as if it isn't in a VM. And then we had some great audience questions about various features of Multipass and how to use it for multi-node clustering and exposing VMs to your local network. Live recording of the complete show from September 21, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #235). Includes demos. ★Topics★ Multipass website Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Christopher Townsend - Guest (00:00) - Intro (01:42) - Introducing Chris Townsend (02:43) - Multipass Elevator Pitch (07:10) - Getting Started with Multipass (16:11) - Interacting with an Instance (18:21) - Changing Image Storage Location (19:32) - Does Multipass work with Hyper-V Cluster? (22:29) - Expose the Internal Bridge Network via Multipass (29:14) - The Future of Multipass 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com

After 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 Links to all the tools, betas, and info in our newsletter post. Enjoy the YouTube version here. ★Topics★ Docker Scout goes GA Next-gen Docker Cloud Builder Docker Debug CLI WebGPU for macOS Docker AI OpenPubKey Compose new features Udemy partnership Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer (00:00) - DockerCon 2023 Announcements (01:02) - Back at DockerCon IRL (02:12) - Docker Scout goes GA (05:34) - Next-gen Docker Cloud Builder (07:08) - Docker Debug CLI (10:19) - WebGPU for macOS (11:39) - Docker AI (13:43) - OpenPubKey (15:11) - Compose new features (15:49) - Udemy partnership (16:11) - Wrap-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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com

Bret 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 Veritas on the show to break down the evolution of NetBackup to a Kubernetes native backup solution. We also talked about additional products that make sense in a backup context, like their InfoScale storage management solution, and we tried to break down some of the technicals. What are we talking about when we mean deploying NetBackup on Kubernetes? How does InfoScale fit into that? And generally, just helping me catch up with the last few years as NetBackup 10.0 has been released. I asked lots of questions and we got some interesting questions from the audience. The Live recording of the complete show from October 19, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #238). ★Topics★ Veritas Kubernetes solutions InfoScale Free Developer Edition 60 day–trial of Veritas InfoScale for Kubernetes Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Demetrius Malbrough - Guest Joseph D'Angelo - Guest 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - Introducing the guests (03:38) - The Evolution of NetBackup (07:45) - The NetBackup Pitch (10:52) - How is NetBackup Deployed? (13:28) - NetBackup From Before Containers (16:42) - High Level Features and InfoScale (21:33) - Backup Managed Services in Kubernetes (45:29) - Getting Started with InfoScale

Bret 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 coastal Virginia. And I've always respected him for being a leader in that community, always wanting to talk at a meetup or help in some way. So when he reached out wanting to talk about his company using containers on AWS Lambda, it was an easy sell for me because I knew it would be a great show. And then I learned some of the updates Lambda has had over the years, particularly when it comes to container workflows. We had some great audience questions and no shortage of topics around using modern Lambda and serverless. Live recording of the complete show from September 7, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #233). ★Topics★ Custom Ink tech blog Rails and Lambda Lambda Web Adapter Lambda sidecar pattern in Kubernetes The case for Rails on Lambda Lambda RAG OpenAI Learn Serverless Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Ken Collins - Guest Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (01:27) - What Does Lambda Have to Do with Containers? (10:14) - Is There ARM Available in Lambda? (13:44) - What is Web Adapter? (19:54) - Cold Starts in Kubernetes vs Lambda (31:32) - Patterns for Lambda Communicating with Other Services (40:24) - Using Lambda Simultaneously for HTTP and Sockets (43:30) - What is Lamby? (45:05) - Hiding Function URLs Behind Custom Domain (45:53) - Are There Sample Lambda Project Re pos? 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com

Bret 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, developer environments, or pull release environments, which is my favorite way to use these environments-as-a-service. But regardless of the many ways to use ephemeral environments, it's great to see a growing set of tools in the cloud native community for automating the spinning up of fresh environments with Kubernetes manifests, helm charts, or even Docker Compose YAML. Uffizzi is using the open core model, meaning that the core part of their product is open source. Live recording of the complete show from August 24, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #231). Includes demos. ★Topics★ Uffizzi website Uffizzi Quick Start Uffizzi on LinkedIn Uffizzi's YouTube Channel Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Nirmal Mehta - Host Grayson Adkins - Guest Josh Thurman - Guest (00:00) - Intro (01:58) - Uffizzi Elevator Pitch (08:00) - Uffizzi's Typical Customer Workflow (30:11) - Is the preview environment open to the world? (36:18) - When not everything is in Kubernetes (38:52) - Getting started with Uffizzi today (40:45) - Previewing projects that are co-dependent 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com

Bret 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 the creation of the Open GitOps principles. As an Argo Maintainer, Kubernaut, Google Developer Expert, he helps companies and individuals adopt Argo with GitOps and streamline their CI/CD. We take some great questions about how GitOps is different than just triggering deployments and other automation platforms. And we also dig into the four principles of GitOps and how Codefresh uses Argo CD as a part of their CI/CD offering. Live recording of the complete show from July 27, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #227). Includes demos. ★Topics★ Codefresh GitOps Certification OpenGitOps Argo CD Argo CD Autopilot Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Dan Garfield - Guest (00:00) - Intro (08:39) - GitOps Guide and Principles (15:17) - What if you don't have Kubernetes? (22:31) - Reusability and Modern Automation (26:54) - ArgoCD Portability (32:27) - Why use GitOps? (41:07) - GitOps Certification with Focus on Argo (43:30) - GitHub Flow or Trunk-based Development (56:23) - Combining Dagger with Argo (58:19) - Deploying Argo CD (58:51) - Argo with local Git repo branch 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com

In 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 open source projects and having conversations with leading open source contributors, while previously being a lead developer advocate at GitHub. So we definitely spend time talking through some of those stories and learning some of that we didn't know about GitHub and open source being run on it. We then dig into how to use the OpenSauced platform he's creating to find your next open source project and get noticed by employers. Live recording of the complete show from July 13, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #225). ★Topics★ OpenSauced website Blog article: Good first issues don’t exist 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Nirmal Mehta - Host Brian Douglas - Guest (00:00) - (00:52) - Introducing Brian Douglas (00:56) - What is OpenSauced? (02:41) - First steps in contributing to open source (22:24) - Starting a relationship with the maintainers and building trust (28:38) - Finding projects to be passionate about (37:37) - Why contribute to open source?

Bret 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 Cilium. We talk about Istio, Ambient Mesh, Envoy, Zero-Trust Security, Cilium, eBPF, Multi-Cloud and more. This is not the first time we've talked about Solo or Service Mesh. Ambient Mesh is Solo's new product that simplifies the install and infrastructure costs of essentially running Istio. I'm really hopeful that this is going to help a lot more people implement Istio because traditionally, it does have a lot of parts and a lot of costs with the sidecar approach, but this new approach reduces the number of essentially proxies and parts that you're running on each node of your Kubernetes cluster. Live recording of the complete show from June 29, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #223). ★Topics★ Solo.io Istio Ambient Mesh Solo Academy (free courses) Istio Ambient Mesh ebook Gloo Fabric 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Nirmal Mehta - Host Idit Levine - Guest (00:00) - Intro (03:59) - How did Solo.io start? (21:03) - The difference between service mesh and API gateway (30:55) - Where is service mesh going? (41:53) - Is Ambient Mesh as secure as the sidecar model? (48:11) - Opportunities after adopting Ambient Mesh (53:41) - Phipps compliance (55:46) - Unikernel vs WebAssembly

Bret 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 famous in open source and Cloud Native. So I was a little nervous going into this because I had so many questions. We took some live questions as we always do from YouTube live, and I thought it was a really great episode of a little mix of talking about Azure and some of the things you can do with containers, some of the things they're working on, some of the things that he's focused on that we haven't seen yet. We talk about AI and how that relates to some of these things. We even talk about WASM or WebAssembly, one of my favorite topics of the last year, because that's important so it was great to get his perspective. And I think my favorite part of the show is where we really talk about the next layers of abstraction, or maybe even the ways that we can deploy to Kubernetes or make it simpler to manage and deploy to. And that's been a real challenge for the community ever since Kubernetes was created in making it more accessible to more people, without it being so complex to manage and deal with underneath. And Brendan has some really great views on what it's going to take it to get us there. Live recording of the complete show from June 15, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #221). ★Topics★ Ways to run containers on Azure Dapr WebAssembly on Azure Kubernetes Wasmtime Twelve-Factor App 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Matt Williams - Host Brendan Burns - Guest (00:00) - Intro (03:10) - Introducing Brendan (08:47) - Advice for starting to run containers (30:30) - Reducing complexity with AI (34:41) - Addressing DevOps fatigue (42:38) - Running WebAssembly on Kubernetes (54:23) - LTS Linux Distributions (59:28) - What's next after containers and orchestration?

Bret 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 those days, because it was a great free product for small virtual machine environments and data centers. They've made tons of additional backup and recovery products over those years, and now they have Kasten K10, which is a Kubernetes backup and restore/recovery product. Michael discussed with us the origins of K10 and some of the major features. We get into some demos, which you can check out in the original YouTube live show. Live recording of the complete show from June 1, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #219). Includes demos. ★Topics★ Kasten K10 website K10 free for 5 nodes Kanister Kasten K10 Walkthough Project on GitHub Kasten K10 install config KastenByVeeam YouTube channel 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Matt Williams - Host Michael Cade - Guest (00:00) - Intro (02:23) - Introducing Michael Cade (03:30) - Veeam: then and now (07:38) - How Kasten came to be (14:11) - Complexity and Recovery (19:04) - Backup litmus test (23:02) - Demo (24:26) - Navig8: an open source visualizer for Helm Chart (28:44) - Kanister: an open source project for data management on Kubernetes (31:39) - Incremental backups (36:44) - Label-based backup policies (41:39) - Location profiles (43:56) - Infrastructure profiles (49:52) - Integrate your backup into you GitOps pipeline (51:43) - What about security? (54:57) - Getting started (01:02:13) - Miami conference

Bret 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 and I wanted to get an update on their platform offering. On this show we generally talk about Docker and Kubernetes but I'm also interested in any container tooling that can help us deploy and manage container based applications. Cycles' platform is an alternative container orchestrator as a service. In fact, they go beyond what you would provide normally with a container orchestrator and they provide OS updates, networking, the container runtime, and the orchestrator all in a single offering as a way to reduce the complexity that we're typically faced with when we're deploying Kubernetes. While I'm a fan of Docker swarm due to its simplicity, it still requires you to manage the OS underneath, to configure networking sometimes, and the feature releases have slowed down in recent years. But I still have a soft spot for those solutions that are removing the grunt work of OS and update management and helping smaller teams get more work done. I think Cycle has the potential to do that for a lot of teams that aren't all in on the Kubernetes way, but still value the container abstraction as the way to deploy software to servers. Live recording of the complete show from May 18, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #217). Includes demos. ★Topics★ Cycle.io website @cycleplatform on YouTube 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Matt Williams - Host Jake Warner @ Cycle.io - Guest (00:00) - Intro (02:25) - Introducing the guests (03:17) - What is Cycle? (12:33) - Deploying and staying up to date with Cycle (14:21) - Cycle's own OS and updates (17:12) - Core OS vs Cycle (22:10) - Use multiple providers with Cycle (22:52) - Run Cycle anywhere with infrastructure abstraction layer (24:33) - No latency requirement for the nodes (28:28) - DNS for container-to-container resolution (29:54) - Migration from one cloud provider to another? (31:17) - Roll back and telemetry (32:48) - Full-featured API (37:12) - Cycle data volumes (38:35) - Backups (40:24) - Autoscaling (43:00) - Getting started (44:40) - Control plane and self-hosting (44:58) - Question about moving to Reno (45:59) - Built from revenue and angels; no VC funding

Bret 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 Cloud and the AWS Morning Brief, or his highly produced YouTube videos on the Last Week in AWS channel. Corey runs the Duckbill Group, a company of people focused on helping clients understand and manage their cloud spend. If I had to describe Corey in a sentence, he's a quick thinking AWS expert who is one part cloud strategist, and one part sarcasm. The inspiration for this show came from his blog series, focused on all the ways to run containers on AWS, which is to say there's a lot. Dozens of ways, in fact, which I took as a testament to how containers have won the cloud as the primary way to package and deploy software to servers. Now, the hard part for us is to figure out which method we're going to choose for running those containers. We go on lots of tangents, but overall it was a fun conversation and I hope you enjoy this episode. Live recording of the complete show from May 4, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #214). ★Topics★ The Cloud Resume Challenge Last Week in AWS 17 ways to run containers on AWS 17 MORE ways to run containers on AWS 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Matt Williams - Host Corey Quinn - Guest (00:00) - Intro (07:19) - 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS (09:57) - If you're using the cloud, use the cloud! (13:32) - Data loss and it's only on the internet forever (17:58) - Recommended ways to run containers on AWS (22:49) - Biggest burn on people's AWS bills (29:33) - Docker Desktop on top of AWS EC2 in Windows and do you need bare metal? (30:13) - Bare metal required for Hyper-V (32:39) - AWS App Runner (40:26) - Services AWS has dropped (41:39) - Workloads inside the container; where the container should run (44:13) - Building experience...hands-on projects vs getting certifications (55:31) - Migrating. Leaving Kubernetes. (01:00:57) - Chat GPT Star Wars jokes

Bret and Matt are joined by Brent Baude and Dan Walsh from Red Hat to talk about the latest with Podman, Quadlet, Podman Desktop and Podman machine, and how it all works with Kubernetes. Dan Walsh, a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, has been working with containers since the beginning. He's a contributor to Docker, Project Atomic, SELinux, and a lot more. He literally wrote the book on Podman. Brent Baude, is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and an architect and a primary maintainer of Podman, and contributes to many of its associated technologies like CRI-O, Buildah, and Skopeo. We go through a lot of tooling in this episode because Red Hat has taken a different stance than Docker in how it delivers its container tooling. You might say they take the approach of the Unix philosophy of every program does one thing well. Most of us know Docker and how it bundles many things related to containers into a single command line and daemon, yet some would prefer to isolate pieces of container management functionality into discreet, smaller programs - one for building images, one for running containers, one for communicating with registries, one for adding a GUI to your container manager, and one for managing the container VM. It's just sort of how I would break down the Podman ecosystem. And while that may seem like a lot of things, it's basically what Docker does for you in a single tool, yet the isolation of these tools is what can make them purpose-fit when you only need a fraction of the functionality of Docker. For example, one of Podman's core tenants is that it tells systemd to run your pods, which is the initialization process on most Linux distributions. In this way, your containers become more like standard system processes, rather than the Docker way of running all containers under the Docker Daemon process itself. Now many of us have heard of the other two original Red Hat container projects, Skopeo and Buildah, but there's now an increasing number of things the Podman ecosystem can do. So I'm grateful to Dan and Brent for coming on to break down the new parts of this toolkit and how we might use them. Live recording of the complete show from April 20, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #212). ★Topics★ Podman Website Podman Desktop Website Dan Walsh's book, Podman in Action Podman Machine reference Quadlet Blog Post Podman and Quadlet Blog Post 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Matt Williams - Host Brent Baude - Guest Dan Walsh - Guest (00:00) - Intro (04:26) - Dan's history with containers (10:52) - The recommended way to get Podman (11:55) - Podman Machine (13:27) - How is Podman Machine installed (16:43) - How is Podman organised (19:22) - Podman Compose explained (25:21) - Podman Desktop (28:52) - Podman and Docker extensions (30:16) - Support for Kubernetes YAML (36:54) - Podman and systemd workloads (42:44) - How to get started with Podman (51:38) - Overlaying networks with Podman

Bret and his co-host, Matt, are joined by Jason Dellaluce and Luca Guerra from Sysdig to talk about Falco, a tool I recommend for production clusters and knowing about any bad behavior on your servers. Falco is a security tool I've mentioned multiple times on this show, because I mostly think that a low level security focused logging product is something that every production server needs. The ability to log unexpected events and behaviors on your Linux host is powerful and necessary to be able to audit what's really happening on your infrastructure outside of your app itself. Falco has been a CNCF incubating project for over four years, and I was immediately drawn to it in its early days, because it was container and Kubernetes aware and it could log and alert with default rules for everything, from someone starting a shell inside a container, to a bash history file being deleted, to a container trying to talk to the Kubernetes API. This episode will be useful for those of you new to tools like Falco and for those familiar with its basics, but also wanting to learn about newer features and use cases, which I did some learning on myself in this episode. Live recording of the complete show from April 6, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #210). ★Topics★ Falco website Falco on CNCF 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Matt Williams - Host Jason Dellaluce - Guest Luca Guerra - Guest (00:00) - Intro (02:24) - Introducing the guests (05:25) - What is Falco? Why do we need it? (08:00) - What can Falco monitor? (17:11) - How are events logged? (30:59) - Does Falco classify alerts by severity?

Bret is joined by Lukas Gentele and Rich Burroughs from Loft Labs to look at a new project called DevPod, that supports dev containers and VMs. It works with local Docker instances and AWS, GCP, Azure, and several other cloud providers. The project is compatible with Microsoft's DevContainer standard, which means it works with the VC Code standalone app and VS Code in the browser. Lukas and Rich were on this show last year, showing off vcluster, which allows you to run a full Kubernetes cluster inside an existing Kubernetes namespace. In this episode, we announce the release of DevPod and also go through some demos. I'm already thinking of how I might use it in my own developer workflow. Live recording of the complete show from May 16, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #216). Includes demos. ★Topics★ DevPod website DevPod on Twitter Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Lukas Gentele - Guest Ruch Burroughs - Guest Cristi Cotovan - Editor (00:00) - Intro (02:49) - Introducing the guests (03:39) - Loft Labs and VCluster (05:46) - Introducing DevPod (10:39) - Why CLI plus GUI? (13:16) - DevPod use case (15:30) - Options for IDEs and port forwarding (18:20) - Using the Microsoft VS Code dev containers features (21:14) - Create dev environments locally or remotely (27:47) - Turning it on and off without having to go to the infrastructure (49:13) - How to get DevPod (50:00) - What's next? Share feedback. (57:12) - This is not a production deployment tool (01:01:27) - Wrap-up

Bret and Matt are joined by two engineers in Docker's leadership - Chief Technology Officer Justin Cormack and Senior Manager of Developer Relations Michael Irwin, to talk about recent Docker Hub changes, as well as their latest product releases. We touch on Docker's latest updates and announcements, focusing on the early releases of Docker Scout, Docker plus WebAssembly, and the Telepresence extension for Docker Desktop. We also look at Docker's version 23 release, its first major update in three years, with key changes including BuildKit becoming the default builder, the ability to run alternate containerd shims, and a return to semantic versioning. Other updates include new Swarm features and deprecation of older features, specifically older storage drivers. In the show we also cover Docker's recent announcement and subsequent retraction of a plan to require free Docker Hub organizations to move to different plans. Live recording of the complete show from March 23, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #208). ★Topics★ Docker v23 release Docker Hub org changes Docker Scout Technical preview of Docker+Wasm Telepresence for Docker announcement 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Justin Cormack - Guest Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Michael Irwin 🇺🇦 🕊 - Guest Matt Williams - Host (00:00) - Intro (02:56) - Docker version 23 release (05:37) - Docker's Hub Announcement and Retraction (07:40) - What does telepresence mean with Docker (10:18) - Should I switch to Kubernetes for development? (12:35) - Telepresence elevator pitch (20:30) - Telepresence connection scenarios (23:30) - How to connect with Telepresence? (31:05) - Bret's Jekyll Story (33:12) - What is available free in Scout? (35:15) - Scout is not a point-in-time scan (39:45) - James Buren's Scout Video (40:03) - Anyone can make an extension (42:04) - Favorite extensions (43:19) - Wasm technical preview (45:33) - Bret's interview with Nigel Poulton (48:27) - Question (52:31) - Docker 23 defaults to BuildKit (53:27) - Happy Birthday Docker (55:06) - Wrapping up

Bret and Matt are joined by Chad Crowell of KubeSkills to walk through how you can contribute to Kubernetes open source. Chad started the kubeskills.com community and podcast to focus on learning Kubernetes by doing and in this episode, he's taking us through a detailed guide on how to get involved in the Kubernetes community. Although Kubernetes and other CNCF projects may seem big and complex with tons of activity, Chad helps us understand how the maturity of the projects and the community make it a much more pleasant onboarding experience for first-time contributors. We go through a wide range of resources and steps to help your first issue or pull request go smoothly. Live recording of this show from March 9, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #206). ★Topics★ Learning K8s by Open Source PDF slides First Timers Only website K8s Contributor Community Homepage List of K8s SIGs K8s Slack Open Sauced website K8s Contributors onboarding course Kube Cuddle podcast with Joe Beda Learning K8s Skills 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Matt Williams - Host Chad M. Crowell - Guest (00:00) - Intro (02:45) - Chad's Book (05:11) - Learning platforms (05:37) - Another way to learn (06:44) - SIGs (07:47) - Community or Contributor Experience SIG (10:06) - Volunteers (11:27) - For those who want to start contributing (13:50) - The different tags (14:48) - Good first issues (16:01) - Bret's first Docker fix (16:50) - Who determines the first issues? (18:37) - OpenSauced (19:16) - Finding the next steps after learning (19:59) - Dashboard to track contributions (20:42) - A very friendly community (22:30) - Who's paying for OpenSauced? (23:06) - How to build your rep on the internet (24:57) - Github Flow, Breaking it down (27:24) - Eddie Hub (28:10) - Assign yourself to the issue (28:50) - Compile Kubernetes (30:14) - Tracking the pull request lifecycle (31:44) - Changing the k8s reference issue (35:17) - Kubernetes Slack Channels (35:59) - SIG mailing lists (36:44) - Getting feedback before you do the work (38:18) - How do you give up and issue? (39:53) - Correlating issues with Slack (40:28) - Start with an issue first (41:24) - Random PRs don't go well (43:00) - Onboarding course (44:11) - Cheat sheet (44:26) - What Chad has learned from contributing (46:09) - Online resources (48:48) - Certifications and exams (50:46) - Matt's comment about a podcast (52:48) - Wrap up

Bret is joined by fellow Docker Captain Nuno do Carmo to talk about desktop container solutions and the best Docker setup for Windows 11. Nuno's a Docker Captain, Civo Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, and a big fan of Windows and Cloud Native. I've had him on the show before, because the more you use the Windows Subsystem for Linux and Docker Desktop, the more you'll want to use WSL. Nuno helps answer many questions such as where are the Linux files stored, managing the CPU and memory resources, backing up files in WSL, getting the host Windows Explorer into the Linux filesystem, getting back to the Windows file system from the Linux shell and more! Live recording of this show from February 23, 2023 on YouTube (Ep. #204). Includes demos. ★Topics★ Nuno's WSL blog Bret's Docker Desktop alternatives list Rancher Desktop website Podman Desktop 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 Box Homepage bretfisher.com Creators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Cristi Cotovan - Editor Nuno do Carmo - Guest (00:00) - Intro (00:52) - Episode intro (02:27) - Main show (02:39) - Reflecting on the Docker birthday (03:25) - Bret's Maven Course (03:27) - Introducing Nuno (04:34) - All starts with WSL (05:13) - Mac vs Windows (05:33) - WSL1 and WSL2 (08:28) - Question Linux in VM vs WSL (12:51) - Filesystems and performance (14:34) - Setting yourself up for success with WSL (15:37) - WSL not installed by default with Windows (17:16) - Demo start (18:20) - Line endings issue in the past (18:56) - The tooling is WSL-aware (20:00) - VHDx (21:01) - Demo (24:22) - Bret re-explains it (27:01) - Question SSH into WSL (29:12) - Question How do you make a fresh WSL VM? (31:25) - Question What does mount show in Linux (32:37) - Question (33:28) - Taking snapshots with Raft WSL (34:08) - Question distros and VHDx files (35:45) - Deleting or losing your distros (37:17) - Question (39:45) - Ecosystem and options - the spreadsheet (42:11) - Demos (42:18) - Podman desktop (45:00) - Comment on Red Hat on Windows (46:13) - Rancher Desktop (53:19) - Demo (53:50) - Process isolation on Windows