Where we discuss the year this was, what we thought it was going to be, and how wrong we really were. We also discuss the future a little bit, and try to find patterns in this chaos. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Links for Episode 106: Episode 81 - The End Of The Year CentOS Is Changing Rocky Linux KOPF - A Python K8S Operator Library Episode 104 - Bootstrapping a Car...
Jan 01, 2021•53 min
Where we talk with Darren Fallis about some of the reasons you should really upgrade to a modern TLS version, and what that means in practical terms. At the moment, this is TLS 1.3, but as with all advice - especially security related advice - please stay current! Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Links for Episode 105: Episode 57: Two Factor Authentication with Darren Fa...
Dec 18, 2020•43 min
Where we talk with Evan Bloom about getting started in this industry, coming from a very different world of music. This includes where to get started with linux, programming and generally how to look at the careers we talk about on this podcast. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 104: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, ...
Dec 04, 2020•37 min
Where we talk about our pet peeves - technical red flags that tell you something about an environment isn’t right. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 103: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring....
Nov 20, 2020•40 min
Where we talk about the many lies we tell ourselves, even when we know better. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 102: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring....
Nov 06, 2020•24 min
Where we talk about some mergers and aquisitions in the configuration management space and discuss somewhat about where the industry is headed. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 101: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 101: Progress...
Oct 23, 2020•27 min
Where we revisit our first episode, The Culture of DevOps, and talk about what’s changed in the last 5 years, including the growth of the Site Reliability Engineering movement to implement DevOps, and some thoughts about the next 5 years. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 100: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud M...
Oct 09, 2020•41 min
Where we discuss Elasticsearch’s X-Pack as compared to the OpenDistro For Elasticsearch, and talk a little bit about being a good citizen for open source projects. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 99: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Ep...
Sep 25, 2020•34 min
Where we talk about what Service Level Objectives actually are and why they are so important in the field of Site Reliability Engineering. We cover the definition of an SLO, how they relate to error budgets, and take a look at various implementations of time series databases' support for calculating accurate percentiles. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Epis...
Sep 11, 2020•56 min
Where we interview Greg Harris, Principal Security Engineer at Fitbit. We cover security issues around BeyondCorp, VPNs, Docker, and vulnerability scanning. With Greg we learn how to stop reacting to security incidents and instead focus on building threat models for your software and company to forecast and prevent them. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Epis...
Aug 28, 2020•59 min
Where we discuss the possible rise of ARM on the desktop as a replacement or challenge to the supremecy of Intel’s venerable x86_64 instruction set. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 96: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 96: Conve...
Aug 14, 2020•37 min
Where we talk about being multi-cloud, along with the reasons and challenges of doing so, and talk about if it is really worth it. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 95: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring....
Jul 31, 2020•35 min
Where we discuss findability and search with a special guest - JP Sherman, the Manager of Search and Findability at Red Hat. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 94: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 94: Solr LucidWorks Fusion Algoli...
Jul 17, 2020•46 min
Where we talk about building a modern linux desktop, for both personal and professional use. There’s some talk about Intel vs AMD, Apple and ARM, and video cards… all in good fun. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 93: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentori...
Jul 04, 2020•49 sec
Where we talk to CloudTruth’s Matt Conway and Greg Arnette about why they are configuration management geeks, and some of the realities of looking at problems with configuration management in mind. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 92: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices...
Jun 19, 2020•41 min
Where we talk at length with Brandon Peskin , a Sysadmin turned Network Engineer, who has pretty much seen and done it all - from microwave repeaters across parking lots to massively redundant datacenter to cloud migration projects. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 91: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migratio...
Jun 05, 2020•47 min
Where we discuss practice, and how it makes everything easier - for both personal and professional things. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 90: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 90: Theory vs Practice Quote...
May 22, 2020•23 min
Where we discuss Greg Kogan’s Article, “Simple Systems Have Less Downtime” and rant about simplicity and how to choose what things to spend time running. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 89: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 89: ...
May 08, 2020•34 min
Where we invite Ashi Sheth, the Senior Manager of Global End User Services at LinkedIn, to talk about the logistical and personal considerations of moving a 20,000 user organization to full-time remote work with very little advanced notice. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost...
Apr 24, 2020•49 min
Where we talk to Ken Mink about his trials and tribulations setting up a Raspberry Pi/Rock64 Kubernetes cluster. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Episode 88: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 88: Pico Cluster Atomic Pi...
Apr 10, 2020•32 min
Where we discuss the fact that for many environments, Kubernetes may be overkill. That said, it still has an important role to play. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm Sponsors for Episode 87: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 87: RancherOS OpenShift His...
Mar 27, 2020•31 min
Where we discuss the mass migration of the tech community to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even if only on a temporary basis. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm . Sponsors for Special Episode 1: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Special Episode 1: CD...
Mar 16, 2020•28 min
Where we discuss the future of microservices… is it the monolith? Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm Links for Episode 86: Monoliths Are The Way Forward The Majestic Monolith Steve’s Platform Rant Jepsen.io/consistency Jepsen II: Linearizable Boogaloo...
Mar 13, 2020•27 min
Where we discuss concurrency and parallelism in systems design, and touch on programming languages and challenges a little bit. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm Links for Episode 85: Concurrent Computing Embarrassingly Parallel Problems MongoDB is Webscale Stackless Python Rob Pike - Concurrency is not Parallelism Alan Perlis Quote...
Feb 28, 2020•29 min
Where we discuss best practices around selecting technologies and strategies for building an observability stack. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm Links for Episode 84: The USE Method The RED Method The Four Golden Signals DataDog Tagging Standards Logz.io Logging Best Practices DataDog Field Standards...
Feb 14, 2020•29 min
Where we discuss analog tools for an work-from-home digital world. Desk ergonomics, common utility items, and other considerations to make life easier. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm Links for Episode 83: Ergonomics Maha Battery Charger MXL 990 Microphone ATR 2100 USB Microphone Golden Bear Pencils Book Of Knowing Midlands Weather Radio...
Feb 01, 2020•30 min
Where we discuss analog tools for an on-the-go digital world. Everyday Carry Bags, the contents of said bags, and our preferences for notebooks and writing implements. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm Links for Episode 82: InCase Icon Backpack Crumpler Bags Neoprene Laptop Sleeve Apple Lightning Digital AV Adapter Zebra F301 Ball Point Pen M301 Mechanical Pencil Micron PIG...
Jan 23, 2020•28 min
Where we talk about evens in 2019 and expectations of 2020. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Jan 03, 2020•22 min
Where we talk (again) about immutable infrastructure, especially now that Kubernetes has a mature way to handle state, the statefulset. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm Links for Episode 80: Single Instance ASGs Practical Operations Podcast Episode 62 Elastic inside Kubernetes LeftPad RedHat/Quay...
Dec 20, 2019•30 min
Where we discuss professional certifications, exams and some of the pitfalls and caveats that go along with them. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm
Dec 06, 2019•32 min
