DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

KubeCon Live with Friends 2023

DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

Show Notes

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 new GitHub Security workshop has launched! A free 2-hour workshop with hands-on labs to harden your repos and your workflows from common supply chain attacks. I'll cover how attackers are getting in, and then we'll lock down a sample repo so you know what needs to be done to protect your code. You'll leave with a deep understanding of risks and mitigations as well as a list of helpful tools to keep your repos safe, including my new "gasa" tool for scanning your repos and orgs. We wanted to get some of our friends and people we haven't seen in a while that are making great stuff out there on the show for just a few minutes and it's sort of a rapid panel of rotating guests. If you actually watched the video version of this, there's literally people walking in and out of the camera throughout the show. The live recording of the complete show from November 9, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #240) Creators & Guests

Cristi Cotovan - Editor

Beth Fisher - Producer

Bret Fisher - Host

Nirmal Mehta - Host

(00:00) - Intro

(02:04) - Welcome from KubeCon North America

(02:24) - Phil Estes on ContainerD

(03:22) - Exploring the Sandbox Service

(05:08) - What is Finch?

(09:00) - James Buren on CNCF Projects

(21:48) - Mike Coleman on Falco

(24:43) - Chad Cole on Kubernetes Certification

(30:57) - Nigel Poulton's Insights on KubeCon

(42:17) - Mauricio Salatino

(43:45) - Derek Morgan

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