Podcast about DevSecOps

Julien gives his impressions of Google Cloud Next 2021, and Andrey recaps HashiConf Global 2021 as well as gives his take with the twist on why do we might need HashiCorp Waypoint.

Everyone seems to be talking about service mesh. Mattias, Julien, and Andrey are trying to separate hype and real value. Most importantly, they dig into when is the good time for the organization is to embrace service mesh and what are the prerequisites.

As a follow-up to the last episode about hiring an infrastructure automation person we decided to reverse the view and talk about how do you get hired as an infrastructure automation person. This episode is full of career advice for people who are just only from university as well as people who already have experience in the industry.

Have you ever conducted an interview to hire an infrastructure automation person? What would you ask? How do you check their skills? And what skills are essential? Tune in for our tips on hiring and finding the right person for your team!

Logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability. Where should you start? What are the common mistakes to avoid? And if you are to pick one - which one should you do?

This time we are talking unikernles! Ian Eyberg from NanoVMs joins us to discuss how far this technology is from prime time. And it turns out that you don’t have to be a kernel developer to take advantage of unikernes. Today, there are tools available to package, distribute, and run them locally as well as in the public cloud. While talking to Ian, it felt that the state of the technology is very similar to Linux containers at the beginning of 2010x, just before Docker made Linux containers available for everyone.

The real cloud lock-in is security! Every service/cloud provider has its own levels of granularity regarding resources. Cloud engineering is mainly about compute, storage, and networking and how to make them scale. Scaling security is often left out as it is hard to measure on so many levels.

We think that it is a myth and that we can measure how many steps it takes to add, modify or remove access rights. It all starts with monitoring, knowing what is there in a cloud infrastructure is a very good first step. By making it easy to see and manage access rights, we make it easier for ourselves to keep resources secured.

AWS released AWS Bottlerocket OS in March of 2020, and version 1.0.0 got released in August 2020. What is it? Should you be using it? What are the benefits? Is it ready for prime time? We answer all of those questions during this episode of DevSecOps Talks. Tune in!

Johan Abildskov(see episode 6) is back, and we are talking branching strategies! In particular, why you shouldn’t be doing git-flow, and what are other options out there. This conversation takes us down memory lane to a more broad discussion about version control systems, mono-repositories, continuous integration, and delivery. We hope you will like it!

This time we are joined by Paul Stack (Pulumi developer, former Terraform developer) and podcast friend Jacob Lärfors to talk about

• What is Pulumi?
• What and who is it for?
• The difference between Pulumi and Terraform (and if we should compare them at all)
• What is hard about Pulumi?
• What people ask the most? What are the common confusions?
• Cross-language infra libraries? How is it even possible?!
• Is there a possibility of a supply chain attack via Pulumi library?