Podcast about DevSecOps

This is a mixed bag of an episode, we chat about all sorts of digital tools and security practices that we use in our day-to-day lives. We start by talking about password managers, and why Julien still using LastPass after the recent LastPass data breach. Julien gives us the lowdown on his personal approach to handling passwords and two-factor authentication (2FA) tokens, showing us why strong security measures matter.

Julien also shares his favorite email alias service and we discuss services for sharing sensitive information to keep mail inboxes cleaner and more private.

We also spoke about ChatGPT, an AI language model from OpenAI - will it replace jobs? should we be using it? And how?

Just a heads up, we aren’t sponsored by companies we mention in this episode. We’re just sharing our personal experiences and the stuff we like to use.

Julien has extensive experience building data platforms for data engineering, so we got him talking and sharing. If infra for data engineering is your cup of tea, then this episode is for you.

We discussed tracing before but never got around to explaining details such as fundamentals, terminology, etc. This time Julien goes into detail about what tracing is, what the benefits are, the basic terms you need to understand, and where to start. Great episode for those who are considering adding tracing capabilities to their systems.

We are happy to welcome back Jacob Lärfors, CEO and Senior Consultant from Verifa, to talk about software supply chain attacks. It feels important to raise this topic since those attacks start to be utilized more often by sophisticated adversaries. At the same time, software supply chain security is something that companies often overlook. We as practitioners have so many things to consider and do that, in most cases, we do not have enough cognitive capacity left when looking into our library sources. What are the things we need to be aware of, and what are the low-hanging fruits we could utilize to help developers do their job securely?

Have you heard any recent news from Docker? We haven’t. That is why we decided to check up on Docker to see how it is doing and go through the tool’s history and adoption. Clueless about the difference between Docker, Containerd, CRI-O? We got you covered. Also, we will highlight a couple of new handy capabilities added recently.

We are excited about the new breed of tools coming to the market. We often had to put together tools to find out what was in production and what broke it. Your monitoring tools go as far as only telling you that something isn’t working as expected but not why it is so, and then you have to scramble to figure out what versions of services are in production, were there any recent deploys, etc. So you can understand what has changed to narrow down possible causes. Our good friend Mike and his team are building the tool to answer exactly such questions, so we thought you might be interested in hearing him out.

We are discussing what has happened in Terraform world since the 1.0 release last year and if there are new features worth mentioning, trends in Terraform development, etc. As well as doing a recap of the road to 1.0 and how long it took us to get there.

If you follow CloudNative hype wave, you might feel that Prometheus is the must-use monitoring tool for everything CloudNative. Plus, almost everything nowadays has a Prometheus exporter. Just get that helm chart installed, and here you go - metrics question sorted out. Want to monitor endpoints - here is BlackBox exporter for you. Want to get notifications - AlertManager got you covered. And so on and so on. But is it all rainbows and unicorns? You probably guessed that it depends. This time, Semyon is joining us to air his grievances with Prometheus and share insights on how to cook it if you decide to go down this route.

Communication in co-located teams is quite often complicated. It is even more complex and, at the same time, important in distributed teams. Have you ever got an issue report that says this thing is failing? No logs, no explanation of context, no nothing. Pretty sure we’ve all been in such situations. How do you step up your communication game? This episode of DevSecOps Talks is about great communication tips for DevSecOps practitioners in distributed (and not only) teams.

web3 has gotten a lot of attention lately; thus, it is time for us to separate facts from the hype. In this episode, we are trying to understand its implications for us as DevSecOps practitioners.