The DevSecOps Talks Podcast

We had the opportunity to talk with Neatsun Ziv, one of the founders of Ox Security, about the Open Source Software Supply Chain Attack Reference Framework ( https://pbom.dev ). We delved deeper into possible attack vectors and explored ways to mitigate some of them. During our discussions, we also had a couple of unusual takes on supply chain security. If you are looking to understand the Open So...

This time we got to talk about Lingon, an open-source project developed by Julian and Jacob who is a frequent podcast guest. Discover the motivations behind Lingon's creation and how it bridges the gap between Terraform and Kubernetes. Learn how Lingon simplifies infrastructure management, tackles frustrations with YAML and HCL, and offers greater control and automation. Connect with us on LinkedI...

Diving into the world of bare-metal servers, Mattias takes the helm solo for this episode. He's accompanied by special guests Michael Wagner and Ian Evans from Metify, the company that powers Mojo - a leading platform for bare-metal provisioning automation. While we often chat about the big cloud service providers, this time we're switching gears. If you've been curious about how real-world, physi...

In this episode, we discuss the evolution of AWS networking capabilities from EC2-classic to VPC and advanced networking features. Andrey highlights that while many companies only use VPC and VPC peerings, there are lesser-known features that can significantly change how we approach networking setups on AWS. Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter (see info at  https://devsecops.fm/about/ ). We are...

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 sec...

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. Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter (see info at  https://devsecops.fm/about/ ). We are happy to answer your questions, hear suggestions for new episodes or just hear from you, our listeners.

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.   Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter (see info at  http...

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...

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.   Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter (see info at  https://devse...

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 yo...

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. Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter (see info at  https://devsecops.fm/about/ ). We are happy to answer your questions, hear suggestions for n...

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 o...

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 commun...

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.   Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter  https://devsecops.fm/about/  and tell us about your questions, and we will answer them in the show.

Andrey feels frustrated that he has to develop a way to configure environments for every customer. Think for yourself - you arrive at a new project or company. It is day one, and you need to get the right tools as well as the correct environment configuration. During this episode, we are trying to figure out how companies solve it. And is there a standard solution? What are the options?   Connect...

Henrik Hoegh is back to talk about his experiences working in the platform team at his new job, but before that, we are getting through the following topics: - bash is the future of automation (not really, but some people think so) - building multi-cloud solutions using k8s and service mesh solutions - Shuttle - CLI for handling shared build and deploy tools between projects no matter what technol...

us-east-1 will never go down, and if it would, half of the internet would go down. It is what people used to say. So, us-east-1 went down big time. What does it mean for us as practitioners? What should we consider going forward? In this episode, we talk through the incident and disaster recovery strategies you can consider to keep your company up Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter  https://de...

We have had Git around for more than 15 years, and during that time, it has become a standard de-facto to share code and track code changes. While Git is a superior version control system to most of what we have seen before, it has been 15 years since the first release. Should we be looking for new ways to approach version control systems? Is the time right for the next generation of tools in this...

Our first episode was about Infrastructure as code, and we feel that it is time to revisit the topic after almost two years. Another reason is the release of the second edition of Infrastructure as Code book by Keif Morris. Thus, in this episode, we revisit the definition of Infrastructure as code and try to summarize what has changed over the years. We hope you like it!   Connect with us on Linke...

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   Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter  https://devsecops.fm/about/  and tell us about your questions, and we will answer them in the show.

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   Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter  https://devsecops.fm/about/  and tell us about your questions, and we will answer them in the show.

As a follow-up to the [last episode about hiring an infrastructure automation person](https://devsecops.fm/episodes/31-hiring/) 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.   Connect with us o...

  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!   Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter  https://devsecops.fm/about/  and tell us about your questions, and we will answer them in the show.

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? Connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter https://devsecops.fm/about/ and tell us about your questions, and we will answer them in the show.

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...