DevOps Chat

Brian Gracely has been helping to shape the Red Hat OpenShift product line for over 4 years. Brian is a key person in the product team there. In this podcast Brian gives us an update on the latest innovation at OpenShift. Much of what he is talking about will be visible or announced by KubeCon in Amsterdamn. So if you want to get an early look at the latest in Openshift, have a listen to what Bria...

WhiteHat Security is one of the pioneers in AppSec. As such they were an early advocate for DevSecOps. They have been doing annual surveys of the security and developer space for several years. In this years survey the good news is that we are seeing real progress in DevSecOps adoption by developers and security teams. But all is not roses. Some of the same old issues are still there, including ho...

Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi (KK) and respected DevOps veteran, Harpreet Singh have launched a new company called Launchable https://launchableinc.com Launchable aims to help you improve your delivery velocity by prioritizing and applying some ML and intelligence to testing. There is still much work to be done but with these two industry luminaries behind it, the expectations are high for som...

Walkme recently announced a funding round of 90 million dollars bringing their total raise to over $300 million. But according to Rephael Sweary, that is great but the real measure of Walkme's success is their annual reoccurring revenue being over a $100m (which it is) and whether or not that company is helping their customers. In the case of Walkme, that are business's undergoing digital transfor...

DevSecOps has become a real thing over the last few years. The big shift has been making security tools that developers can use. ShiftLeft has been one of the leaders in this movement, recognizing that security had to shift left (hence the name). I had a chance to sit down right before the holidays with ShiftLeft CEO Manish Gupta about how the shift to developers using security tools is helping to...

Ken Rutsky is on a mission. In addition to being a master cybersecurity marketing ninja, Ken is also the founder of the Cybersecurity Go To Market Dojo. It is the hub of a community of cybersecurity marketers who seek to up their game and bring even more professionalism to cybersec marketing. Frankly, cybersecurity marketers get a bad wrap. Many of them have great technical chops. Just because the...

The Eclipse Foundation recently launched a new working group for Edge Native (https://edgenative.eclipse.org/). The mission is to deliver open source edge platforms now. I had a chance to sit down with the guests highlighted below to discuss. Enjoy. Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation Mike serves as the executive editor for the Eclipse Foundation. An influential voice in the o...

Sometimes the best way to accomplish something is to choose a path requiring the least friction, or amount of change. Qualys customers now have that path available to them in bring vulnerability scanning into Google Cloud Platform. Qualys' recent announcement means a one-click configuration change enables vulnerability scans in GCP with the results appearing in both Qualys Cloud Center and GCP Sec...

The increasing breadth and complexity of the environments we manage are nothing short of breathtaking. Understanding the security risks and applying policies across the cloud, multi-cloud, private clouds, and a plethora of software technologies is a challenge faced by every enterprise. vArmour recently announced version 5 of the vArmour Application Controller, which opens more significant access t...

Application security is top of mind now more than ever. For more than a decade, Veracode examined increasing amounts of code as it passes through their source code vulnerability scanning service. During this period, automation is increasingly prevalent, making it easier to run scans more frequently and regularly. But has automation helped?. Is the software we create more secure? We gain key insigh...

Data Privacy is the new front in the compliance wars. For many organizations Data Privacy is a dreaded subject with a maze of governance and compliance issues. Osano wants to make it easy. Led by serial entrepreneur Arlo Gilbert, it is catching fire as enterprises learn that complying with Data Privacy laws is possible and even affordable. Have a listen as Arlo and Alan Shimel discuss this importa...

Ci/CD has changed the way we do software. From architecting it, to coding it, storing it, testing it, deploying it. GitLab has been a leader in this revolution. I spoke with Darby Frey of GitLab's CI/CD team about this and what the future has in store. Have a listen and hope you enjoy!

While at times it seemed the adoption of DevSecOps was like pushing rope uphill, the market has embraced the premise that DevSecOps is real and is much needed in bringing a higher level of quality to software. StackHawk is a new company out of Boulder, Co that is seeking to allow developers to better secure their code and increase quality. I spoke to two of the co-founders of the company, Ryan Sev...

In this episode of DevOps Chats we talk with Donald Lutz, Principal Software Architect, specializing in systems integration and creating large, scalable cloud applications. Occasionally DevOps Chats is fortunate to spotlight DevOps and cloud native developers doing trailblazing work in contemporary software architectures. Donald fits that bill to a "t.", as an entrepreneur and employee at startups...

Application performance company AppDynamics recently released its 2019 edition of the App Attention Index Report. The 2019 report is subtitled The Era of Digital Reflex. Whoa, that sounds heavy!! Joining me on this episode of DevOps Chats is Steve Long, AppDynamics Regional CTO, and Technology Strategy. Cisco acquired AppDynamics in 2017. Digital connections are a near-constant. Interacting with o...

Test automation and CI/CD are evolving very rapidly to achieve great speed and impactful results by DevOps teams and Agile organizations. Our DevOps Chat guest, Tricentis Chief Product Officer Wolfgang Platz, contributes his experiences to the state of the art with his newly released book Enterprise Continuous Testing. Automating software testing just for the sake of automation, is "doing the mess...

Pulumi is bringing a new open source tool and approach for modern infrastructure as code. We spoke to Pulumi CEO, co-founder Joe Duffy about it and the SaaS version that they are bringing to market. Pulumi is an up and coming player in this market and you should watch what they are doing going forward.

RSA Conference (#RSAC) besides being the worlds largest cybersecurity conference has also become the place to see the latest innovation in the world of cyber. The woman who drives the innovation programs at RSAC is Cecilia Marinier. We spoke with Cecilia last year for RSA 2019. The program was great last year. 2020 promises to be even better. Listen to Cecilia give us the scoop on on what is in st...

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: As you use an opensource tool like Spinnaker, the more you develop best practices and learnings. These are useful to share with others internal to the enterprise and other opensource users. Jing Vergara, Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce, joins DevOps Chats to share a preview of her upcoming talk "Demystifying Spinnaker VM Image Baking and Deployment". Jing s...

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has garnered a great deal of attention as organizations pursue automation routine tasks through automation software. RPA automates tasks integrated into digital business process automation. Wayne Ariola, Tricentis General Manager of RPA, joins DevOps Chats to discuss how Tricentis brings its strengths and heritage in software testing automation into the world of RP...

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Debugging production issues in any environment can be challenging, and Spinnaker has its production learning curve. Problems aren't always replicable in a smaller environment, and DEBUG messages can be verbose and confusing to triage what's happening. Our DevOps Chat guest Chuck Lane, Salesforce Lead Software Engineer, is giving a talk on "Debugging & Profiling Spinn...

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Canary deploys give us a window into how new code deploys perform in production on a limited basis. The technology holds great promise in helping us learn the positive or negative effects of deploys without putting the more extensive set of microservices, application functions, and beyond at risk. How do you route traffic? How do you apply a virtual service manifest?...

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Secrets Management is vital to any vibrant DevOps and GitOps toolchain. As part of its opensource maturation and thanks to the contribution of our DevOps Chat guest, Spinnaker now has a secure secrets management capability enabling GitOps, taking non-application secrets out of plaintext in Hal config files. (Always a good idea!) Cameron Motevasselani, Software Engine...

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Most open source software isn’t one size fits all, and Spinnaker is no different. While it captures the most general use cases of software delivery, most organizations find that it lacks some features they need to automate their entire delivery pipeline such as integrations with internal tooling or compliance systems. Out of the box (figuratively), Spinnaker provides...

Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Never underestimate an entrepreneur looking to solve a real-world problem. Aerobotics is bringing drones, imagery, mapping, containers, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, data pipeline processing, and machine learning to agriculture. Sounds interesting, right? Aerobotics uses aerial drones and sophisticated image processing to help growers manage yield, pest & disease in their f...