Best Devlife Podcasts (2025)

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Move K8s Stateful Pods Between Nodes 46:20

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Bret is joined by Philip Andrews and Dan Muret of Cast AI to discuss pod live migration between nodes in a Kubernetes cluster. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign…

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Swarm 2030. Let's Go! 25:25

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Bret discusses exciting news about Swarm being maintained until 2030. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I fi…

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Is Docker Building the Best AI Stack? 1:07:05

5M ago1:07:05

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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin to discuss Docker's comprehensive AI toolkit, covering everything from local model deployment to cloud-based container orchestration across multiple interconnected tools and services. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI…

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Could AI End Human QA? 54:19

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Bret is joined by Andrew Tunall, the President and Chief Product Officer at Embrace, to discuss his prediction that we’ll all start shipping non-QA'd code (buggier code in production) and QA will need to be replaced with better observability. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions fo…

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AI Agents Running Containers 56:52

6M ago56:52

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The Daytona founders - Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukic - discuss their pivot to an AI agent cloud. We dig into the new infrastructure requirements of developing agents that need their own sandboxes to operate in. A year ago, we had them on to talk about Daytona giving us remote development environments for humans, and they have now pivoted the compan…

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Heroku + MCP = The Fastest Way to Run AI Agents in the Cloud 43:01

7M ago43:01

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Julián Duque from Heroku joins me to explain and demo their new AI platform. Check out the video podcast version here https://youtu.be/BGqlLZHdRDs 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows…

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Is AI ready for DevOps? 28:48

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Launching our new Podcast: https://agenticdevops.fm Bret and Nirmal are at KubeCon London and record their ideas about how AI Agents will change DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, automation, troubleshooting, and more. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automati…

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What you missed at KubeCon 40:59

7M ago40:59

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At KubeCon EU 2025 in London, Nirmal and I discussed the important (and not-so-important) things you might have missed. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for…

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Docker Model Runner 14:44

8M ago14:44

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Docker launched "Docker Model Runner" to run LLMs through llama.cpp with a single "docker model" command. In this episode Bret details examples and some useful use cases for using this way to run LLMs. He breaks down the internals. How it works, when you should use it or not use it; and, how to get started using Open WebUI for a private ChatGPT-lik…

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What's Coming in 2025? 18:20

9M ago18:20

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This episode is about what I'm seeing and what I'm doing right now, and then for the rest of the year. There are three parts. First, I talk about what's about to happen for me for the next few weeks re going to London for KubeCon. Then what I'm planning to change in this podcast, as well as my other content on YouTube for the rest of the year. And …

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Docker Build the best way with Docker Bake 16:43

9M ago16:43

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The Docker Bake Build tool just went general availability, and I'm excited about what this means for creating reproducible builds and automation that can run anywhere. In this video I'm gonna break down some of the features, the benefits and walk through some examples. In this episode I explain why docker buildx bake exists, what it can do, and I w…

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Is Swarm at EOL? 18:41

11M ago18:41

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I've been a big fan of Swarm since it was launched over a decade ago and I've made multiple courses on it that still sell. But, we recently got some news out of Mirantis that might be bad news. So I talked about it last week on my live stream. 💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued sponsor and friends at Aikido!💥 Aikido is a no-nonse platfo…

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Best of Cloud Native 2024 1:11:42

12M ago1:11:42

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Bret and Nirmal reunite for their traditional annual Holiday Special episode of breaking down the most significant developments in cloud native from 2024 and sharing predictions for 2025. 💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued sponsor and friends at Aikido!💥 Aikido is a no-nonse platform that helps developers get security done. It consolida…

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Aikido: Is a Single DevSecOps Tool Possible? 1:03:34

1y ago1:03:34

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Or watch the video version on YouTube. Bret is joined by Willem Delbare and Roeland Delrue to discuss Aikido, a security tool consolidation platform designed specifically for smaller teams and solo DevOps practitioners. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automat…

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DevOps Cert Prep using AI, with the KodeKloud Team 1:14:01

1y ago1:14:01

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Bret is joined by Mumshad Mannambeth and Vijin Palazhi of KodeKloud for Q&A on what we should be studying and certifying for in 2025. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quick…

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KubeCon Engineering Takeaways 37:15

1y ago37:15

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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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thri…

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Personal AI with Ken Collins 57:58

1y ago57:58

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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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you …

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State of Kubernetes UIs 17:08

1y ago17:08

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Bret explores the spectrum of user interfaces and tools available for managing Kubernetes clusters as of Autumn 2024. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for s…

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Inspektor Gadget 40:19

1+ y ago40:19

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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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The wai…

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MLOps for DevOps People 48:29

1+ y ago48:29

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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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025…

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Traefik 3.0: What's New? 54:15

1+ y ago54:15

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Bret and Nirmal were joined by Emile Vauge, CTO of Traefik Labs to talk all about Traefik 3.0. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, di…

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Debug Containers with Mintoolkit 1:15:34

1+ y ago1:15:34

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Bret is joined by DockerSlim (now mintoolkit) founder Kyle Quest, to show off how to slim down your existing images with various options. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to q…

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Observability Cost-Savings and eBPF Goodness with Groundcover 55:42

1+ y ago55:42

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Bret is joined by Shahar Azulay, Groundcover CEO and Co-Founder, to discuss their new approach to fully observe K8s and its workloads with a "hybrid observability architecture." 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce t…

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Flow State with VS Code AI 37:37

1+ y ago37:37

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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Continue.dev co-founder, Nate Sesti, to walk through an open source replacement for GitHub Copilot. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly s…

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AWS Graviton: The Great Arm Migration 39:16

1+ y ago39:16

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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Fischer of AWS to discuss why we should use Graviton, their arm64 compute with AWS-designed CPUs. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to qui…

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Local GenAI LLMs with Ollama and Docker 50:08

1+ y ago50:08

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Bret 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 are no strangers to using LLMs in web products like chat GPT, b…

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Kubernetes Observability with Site24x7 40:22

1+ y ago40:22

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Bret 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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for th…

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K2D by Portainer 32:42

1+ y ago32:42

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Bret 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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in…

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Meet Rizel Scarlett: Staff Developer Advocate at TBD | @blackgirlbytes 18:37

1+ y ago18:37

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Rizel Scarlett is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD, Block's newest business unit. With a diverse background spanning GitHub, startups, and non-profit organizations, Rizel has cultivated a passion for utilizing emerging technologies to champion equity within the tech industry. She moonlights as an Advisor at G{Code} House, an organization aimed at …

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Chainguard: Building Secure Container Images 59:43

1+ y ago59:43

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Bret 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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce …

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AWS Finch: The Minimal Local Container Solution 49:19

1+ y ago49:19

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Bret 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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm …

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Portainer for Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm, Edge, and IoT 49:56

1+ y ago49:56

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Bret 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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to g…

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Bridging the Gap and Moving the Needle in Data-Driven Decision Making 23:08

1+ y ago23:08

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In this interview, we sit down with Data Engineer Aminat Lawal @aminatlawal21, as she shares her expertise in data analysis, data science, and engineering. Aminat discusses her passion for bridging the gap between data and business goals, and how she builds solutions that empower companies to leverage their data effectively. Join us as we delve int…

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Open Source Codespaces with Daytona 47:57

2y ago47:57

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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ivan Burazin and Chad Metcalf to debut Daytona, an open source "codespaces equivalent." 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for s…

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Postgres in Containers 46:15

2y ago46:15

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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Lukas Fittl of pganalyze to dive into Postgres in containers, in production, and in CI. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for s…

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Best of DevOps 2023 52:08

2y ago52:08

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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Melissa McKay, Developer Advocate at JFrog and Docker Captain, to discuss the best and worst of 2023. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly…

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Faster Dev Feedback and Previews with Livecycle 37:37

2y ago37:37

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Bret 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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this cours…

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Becoming Immortal with Scott Hanselman 33:06

2y ago33:06

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Scott Hanselman is the Vice President of Developer Communities at Microsoft. He is an author, speaker, podcaster, and an avid blogger. His podcast - Hanselminutes (https://hanselminutes.com/), runs weekly with various guests to discuss open source, technology, culture, diversity, code, the web, and more. He also hosts This Developer's Life podcast …

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Docker Recap of 2023 55:06

2y ago55:06

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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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. Th…

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Interview with Axiom Dev Advocate - Oretola 26:22

2y ago26:22

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Tola is passionate about communicating complex problems in understandable and sizeable bits. He is also a big advocate for building and contributing to Open-source projects. Tola's X Handle: @thecraftman_By This Dev Life

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Tailscale Everything 55:06

2y ago55:06

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Bret 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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this co…

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Dockerfiles have versions? 16:06

2y ago16:06

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I break down why Dockerfile frontends exist and how Docker's build engine "BuildKit" is giving us updated Dockerfile features. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign…

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Dagger: CI of the Future? 57:48

2y ago57:48

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Application 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 all-in-one Kubernetes cost optimization and automation platform …

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Registry is getting an upgrade: Inside OCI artifacts 21:13

2y ago21:13

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The 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 and CNCF are planning to fix it with the "one registry to serve t…

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KubeCon Live with Friends 2023 50:10

2y ago50:10

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Bret is joined by Nirmal and a host of friends from the floor of KubeCon, to talk about the latest news and goings-on. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for …

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Moving Domain Registrars, Again 8:11

2y ago8:11

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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. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist …

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Multipass Local Virtual Machines 31:44

2y ago31:44

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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! 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm…

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DockerCon 2023 New Features and Tools! 16:23

2y ago16:23

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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. Enjo…

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NetBackup for Kubernetes 49:50

2y ago49:50

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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…

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Coding with Visibility: Rising in the ranks with Ayomide Aregbede 44:53

2y ago44:53

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Ayomide is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with nearly a decade of experience in building cutting-edge technology products. His passion lies in empowering individuals to kickstart and flourish in their careers within the tech industry. In 2018, Ayomide initiated a transformative tech mentorship system that has, to date, guided nearly a hundred …