Get exam-ready with the BareMetalCyber Audio Course, your on-demand guide to conquering the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003). Each episode transforms complex topics like cloud design, deployment, security, and troubleshooting into clear, engaging lessons you can apply immediately. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll also find more prepcasts, books, and tools to fuel your certification success.
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The Tech+ Audio Course is your complete, on-demand study companion for mastering the CompTIA Tech+ (FC0-U71) certification exam. Designed for those beginning their journey into information technology, it guides you step by step through every domain and objective of the official exam blueprint. Each episode transforms complex IT concepts into clear, relatable lessons filled with practical examples, definitions, and real-world applications. Whether you’re learning about hardware components, so ...
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Our most popular pods in one fat feed! Too much technology would never be enough. Includes Heavy Networking, Network Break, Day Two DevOps, Packet Protector, and Network Automation Nerds. Plus new shows when they launch so you know about fresh awesomeness.
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The Project+ Audio Course is a complete, on-demand learning series built around the CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) certification exam objectives. Each episode transforms key project management concepts into clear, practical, and easy-to-follow lessons you can absorb anytime, anywhere. Covering topics such as project life cycles, scheduling, budgeting, communication, risk management, and IT governance, this Audio Course helps you develop the knowledge and confidence to lead and support projects e ...
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The A+ Audio Course is your full-spectrum audio study guide for the CompTIA A+ certification (Core 1 and Core 2). Whether you're brand new to IT or brushing up before exam day, this Audio Course breaks down every topic in the official exam objectives into clear, structured, and accessible episodes. Each lesson focuses on what matters most, helping you understand, retain, and apply essential IT concepts—from hardware and networking to operating systems, security, troubleshooting, and professi ...
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HN805: The Past, Present, and Future of NANOG
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NANOG, or the North American Network Operation Group, is an organization committed to the continuing advancement of an open, secure, and robust Internet. At the NANOG Conference 95 in late October 2025, Ethan Banks chatted with Steve Feldman, a member of NANOG’s Board of Directors. Steve has been involved with NANOG since the very first... Read mor…
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LIU004: From Fast Food to Leading Operations at an ISP
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Think you need a degree or a ton of certificates to succeed in tech? Think again. Matthew Oborne joins our hosts Alexis Bertholf and Kevin Nanns to discuss how he went from working fast food to leading operations at an ISP. Your starting point doesn’t define your ceiling; resilience, adaptability, and a willingness to learn... Read more »…
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NAN106: Unimus: Network Automation By and For Network Engineers (Sponsored)
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Tomas Kirnak, CEO of Unimus, joins Eric Chou in this sponsored episode to introduce Unimus, an on-premise network configuration management system built by network engineers to solve real-world problems. In this deep dive they discuss Unimus’ proprietary “Behavioral Tree” for automatic device discovery, the platform’s vendor support, the 70/30 rule,…
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PP086: Using Let’s Encrypt and the ACME Protocol for Domain Validation Certificates
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Certificates are the socks of IT—everyone needs them, and you always lose track of a few. On today’s show we dive into the ACME protocol, an IETF standard to help automate how a domain owner gets a domain validation certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA). Our guest, Ed Harmoush, a former network engineer with AWS... Read more »…
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NB551: Cisco Adds AI to Tech Support; Cryptography Hits a Post-Quantum Milestone
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Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Unified Contact Center Express. On the news front it’s a Cisco triple play: the company brings AI to professional services and tech support with Cisco IQ, debuts converged infrastructure for the AI edge, and launches a new cert geared for running AI data... Read more »…
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HN804: How Prisma SASE Builds on Public Clouds for Scale, Resiliency (Sponsored)
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How do you architect a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to provide critical security services to millions of endpoints distributed across the planet? How do you build such a service for scale, performance, and resiliency? One option is to build your own PoPs or use colocation facilities, run your own infrastructure stack, and connect everything...…
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TNO049: Automated Network Testing and Validation
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What does network testing and validation really mean? How do testing and validation fit within an automation workflow? Is it possible to run meaningful tests without coding skills? Dan Wade from BlueAlly answers these questions and offers practical insights into building trust in automation through test environments, using AI for ideation and probl…
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MACsec is a protocol for encrypting Ethernet frames on a local (though not always local) network. Ethan Banks and Holly Metlitzky have an ELI5 (explain like I’m 5) discussion as to what exactly is MACsec and how it differs from IPsec. They talk about when and whether you need to implement MACsec with all the... Read more »…
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D2DO286: Scaling Kubernetes Across Clouds – Identity, DNS, and Security
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If you think managing Kubernetes clusters is hard, what about managing Kubernetes clusters across three different public clouds? We dive into the challenges that arises from running multi-cloud Kubernetes workloads. These challenges include workload identity, DNS query resolutions, and security. Here to help us navigate this complexity and offer po…
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PP085: News Roundup – Naked Satellite Signals, Account Recovery Buddies, Busting Ghost Networks
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Did you know college students are snooping on satellite transmissions? On today’s news roundup we discuss new research in which university investigators use off-the-shelf equipment to intercept traffic from geostationary satellites and discover that a lot of it is unencrypted. We also dig into the credential hygiene lessons we can learn from a corp…
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NAN105: Campus Network Automation, Powered by Cisco Agentic Workflows (Sponsored)
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Cisco Workflows is a new platform that makes network automation easier, smarter, and safer. On today’s episode, sponsored by Cisco, we get introduced to Cisco Workflows by Stephen Orr, Distinguished Solutions Engineer; and Reid Butler, Director of Product Management. They break down how Workflows helps you ditch repetitive tasks, roll out changes f…
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NB550: A Cornucopia of AI Switches; DNS Strikes Again
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Take a Network Break! We start with some educational content on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, and sound the alarm about a sandbox escape affecting the Firefox browser. On the news front, a DNS issue triggers a major Azure outage that affected numerous services and caused problems around the globe, Palo Alto Networks announces enhancements to... R…
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TNO048: Ops to Orchestrated: An Architect’s Automation Journey
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On today’s show, sponsored by Itential, we talk about automation in the real world. Guest Jesse Ford is an automation architect at Itential. We talk about his career journey, how he got into network automation, how he decides which is the best tool for a job, and why tool diversity isn’t the same as chaos.... Read more »…
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