Bret is joined by Andrew Tunall, the President and Chief Product Officer at Embrace, to discuss his prediction that we’ll all start shipping non-QA'd code (buggier code in production) and QA will need to be replaced with better observability.
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Embrace is a mobile observability platform company that I first met at KubeCon London this year. Their pitch was that mobile apps were ready for the full observability stack and that we now have SDKs to let mobile dev teams integrate with the same tools that we platform engineers and DevOps people and operators have been building and enjoying for years now. I wanted to hear from observability experts on how they think this is all going to shake out.
★Show Links★
Embrace website
Embrace GitHub repository
Embrace docs
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The Daytona founders - Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukic - discuss their pivot to an AI agent cloud.
We dig into the new infrastructure requirements of developing agents that need their own sandboxes to operate in.
A year ago, we had them on to talk about Daytona giving us remote development environments for humans, and they have now pivoted the company to focusing on providing cloud hosting environments for AI agents to operate.
I suspect this is something we're all gonna eventually need to tackle as we work to automate more of our software engineering. So we spend time breaking down the concepts and the real world needs of humans developing agents, and then the needs of AI that require places to run their own tools in code.
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Julián Duque from Heroku joins me to explain and demo their new AI platform.
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Launching our new Podcast: https://agenticdevops.fm
Bret and Nirmal are at KubeCon London and record their ideas about how AI Agents will change DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, automation, troubleshooting, and more.
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At KubeCon EU 2025 in London, Nirmal and I discussed the important (and not-so-important) things you might have missed.
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Docker launched "Docker Model Runner" to run LLMs through llama.cpp with a single "docker model" command. In this episode Bret details examples and some useful use cases for using this way to run LLMs. He breaks down the internals. How it works, when you should use it or not use it; and, how to get started using Open WebUI for a private ChatGPT-like experience.
★Topics★
Model Runner Docs
Hub Models
OCI Artifacts
Open WebUI
My Open WebUI Compose file
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This episode is about what I'm seeing and what I'm doing right now, and then for the rest of the year. There are three parts. First, I talk about what's about to happen for me for the next few weeks re going to London for KubeCon. Then what I'm planning to change in this podcast, as well as my other content on YouTube for the rest of the year. And lastly, I talk about some industry trends that I'm seeing that will force me, I think, to change the format of this show. I recorded the episode on March 22, 2025.
★Topics★
My work at KubeCon EU in London
What's next for this Podcast and my YouTube
What's up with AI for DevOps?
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The Docker Bake Build tool just went general availability, and I'm excited about what this means for creating reproducible builds and automation that can run anywhere. In this video I'm gonna break down some of the features, the benefits and walk through some examples.
In this episode I explain why docker buildx bake exists, what it can do, and I walk through multiple examples of Bake files and how it's better than docker build image and docker compose build. I also touch on BuildKit and Docker's GitHub Actions.
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★Get started with Docker Bake★
Walkthough https://docs.docker.com/guides/bake/
Docs: https://docs.docker.com/build/bake/
GA Announcement: https://www.docker.com/blog/ga-launch-docker-bake/
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I've been a big fan of Swarm since it was launched over a decade ago and I've made multiple courses on it that still sell. But, we recently got some news out of Mirantis that might be bad news. So I talked about it last week on my live stream.
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★Topics★
Blog post that sparked this discussion:
https://www.portainer.io/blog/portainer-the-essential-tool-for-docker-swarm-users-facing-a-kubernetes-future
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Bret and Nirmal reunite for their traditional annual Holiday Special episode of breaking down the most significant developments in cloud native from 2024 and sharing predictions for 2025.
💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued sponsor and friends at Aikido!💥
Aikido is a no-nonse platform that helps developers get security done. It consolidates multiple scanning tools like code analysis, dependency analysis, and cloud security into a single platform. Aikido’s superpower is its ability to remove false positives, so you can focus on the real issues. Aikido not only helps you find true vulnerabilities but their new AI features auto triage and even fix issues for you.
Aikido is FREE for small teams or anyone wanting to simply explore so check it out today at aikido.dev
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★Topics★
Cloud Native End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
Adam Jacob's Talk: Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source
kubevirt
Keda
Cloud Native Reference Architectures
Karpenter
eBPF ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_vD3XZYOA ebpf documentary) (Ebpf summit)
GitHub Copilot, now Free
Kubernetes transitioning into enterprise maturity (https://www.fairwinds.com/blog/10-years-kubernetes-innovation)
FinOps matters
Read the tea leaves sandbox issues
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Or watch the video version on YouTube. Bret is joined by Willem Delbare and Roeland Delrue to discuss Aikido, a security tool consolidation platform designed specifically for smaller teams and solo DevOps practitioners.
The discussion explores how Aikido addresses the growing challenges of software supply chain security by bringing together various security tools - from CVE scanning to cloud API analysis - under a single, manageable portal. Unlike enterprise-focused solutions, Aikido targets the needs of smaller teams and individual DevOps engineers who often juggle multiple responsibilities. During the episode, they demonstrate Aikido's capabilities using Bret's sample GitHub organization, and show how teams can implement comprehensive security measures without managing multiple separate tools.
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★Topics★
Aikido website
Aikido on Bluesky
Aikido on LinkedIn
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Bret is joined by Mumshad Mannambeth and Vijin Palazhi of KodeKloud for Q&A on what we should be studying and certifying for in 2025.
💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued sponsor and friends at Aikido!💥
Aikido is a no-nonse platform that helps developers get security done. It consolidates multiple scanning tools like code analysis, dependency analysis, and cloud security into a single platform. Aikido’s superpower is its ability to remove false positives, so you can focus on the real issues. Aikido not only helps you find true vulnerabilities but their new AI features auto triage and even fix issues for you.
Aikido is FREE for small teams or anyone wanting to simply explore so check it out today at aikido.dev
You've probably seen Mumshad's courses. He has been another person like myself who, for almost a decade, has been making container courses on Docker, Kubernetes, all the tooling. Now he's running a giant platform of learning and they're introducing AI into your learning and certification prep, courses, and skills labs. And we go through all of it.
We talk about all of the Linux Foundation certifications they cover. They've launched over 100 courses now on their platform and they cover a lot, if not all of the Linux certifications, especially around Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem. I'm a huge fan of that. I think this is great stuff for everyone, especially if you're early in your career and you're using certifications as a way to prove your expertise or you're like me, you've been around forever and you want to show that you're up to date.
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★Topics★
KodeKloud website
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Bret and Nirmal recorded this special offline episode at KubeCon North America in Salt Lake City. We hung out at the AWS booth to break down the major trends and developments from the conference.
The event drew a record-breaking 10,000 attendees, with roughly half being first-timers to the Cloud Native ecosystem.
Starting with Cloud Native Rejekts and moving through the pre-conference events, we noticed Platform Engineering emerged as the dominant theme, with its dedicated conference track drawing standing-room-only crowds.
The main conference showcased a notable surge in new vendors, particularly in AI and security sectors, representing about a quarter of all exhibitors. We dissect the key engineering trends, ongoing challenges in Cloud Native adoption, and insights gathered from various conferences including ArgoCon, BackstageCon, and Wasm Day. In our 40-minute discussion, we tried to capture the essence of what made this year's KubeCon significant. It's a great listen whether you couldn't attend or if you're a veteran of the Cloud Native community.
★Show Links★
Port
"VM-like container runtime": Microsoft's Hyperlight
Hyperlight Rejekts talk
Akcess, easy K8s RBAC CLI
Cloud Native Operational Excellence
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Bret and Nirmal Mehta are joined by Ken Collins to dig into using AI for more than coding, and if we can build an AI assistant that knows us.
They touch on a lot of tools and platforms. "We're bit all over the place on this one, from talking about AI features in our favorite note taking apps like Notion, to my journey of making an open AI assistant with all of my Q&A from my courses, thousands of questions and answers, to coding agents and more."
Ken is a local friend in Virginia Beach and was on the show last year talking about AWS Lambda, and we've both been trying to find value in all of these AI tools for our day to day work.
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★Topics★
The Lifestyle Copilot Blog Post
Serverless AI Inference with Gemma 2 Blog Post
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Bret explores the spectrum of user interfaces and tools available for managing Kubernetes clusters as of Autumn 2024.
This solo episode touches on both paid and open-source options, looking at their features, benefits, and drawbacks. Key tools covered include Lens, Aptakube, K8Studio, Visual Studio Code's Kubernetes extension, K9S, Portainer, and Meshery.
Bret also discusses specialized tools like Headlamp and the Argo CD dashboard, and their specific use cases and advantages.
★Topics★
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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Kühl and Jose Blanquicet, the maintainers of Inspektor Gadget, the new eBPF-focused multitool, to see what it's all about.
Inspektor Gadget, aims to solve some serious problems with managing Linux kernel-level tools via Kubernetes. Each security, troubleshooting, or observability utility is packaged in an OCI image and deployed to Kubernetes (and now Linux directly) via the Inspektor Gadget CLI and framework.
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★Topics★
Inspektor Gadget website
Inspektor Gadget Docs
GitHub Repository
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Bret and Nirmal are joined by Maria Vechtomova, a MLOps Tech Lead and co-founder of Marvelous MLOps, to discuss the obvious and not-so obvious differences between a MLOps Engineer and traditional DevOps jobs.
Maria is here to discuss how DevOps engineers can adopt and operate machine learning workloads, also known as MLOps. With her expertise, we'll explore the challenges and best practices for implementing ML in a DevOps environment, including some hot takes on using Kubernetes.
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★Topics★
Marvelous MLOps on LinkedIn
Marvelous MLOps Substack
Marvelous MLOps YouTube Channel
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Bret and Nirmal were joined by Emile Vauge, CTO of Traefik Labs to talk all about Traefik 3.0.
We talk about what's new in Traefik 3, 2.x to 3.0 migrations, Kubernetes Gateway API, WebAssembly (Cloud Native Wasm), HTTP3, Tailscale, OpenTelemetry, and much more!
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★Topics★
Traefik Website
Traefik Labs Community Forum
Traefik's YouTube Channel
Gateway API helper CLI
ingress2gateway migration tool
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Bret is joined by DockerSlim (now mintoolkit) founder Kyle Quest, to show off how to slim down your existing images with various options.
The slimming down includes distroless images like Chainguard Images and Nix. We also look at using the new "mint debug" feature to exec into existing images and containers on Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, and containerd. Kyle joined us for a two-hour livestream to discuss mint’s evolution.
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★Topics★
Mint repository in GitHub
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Bret is joined by Shahar Azulay, Groundcover CEO and Co-Founder, to discuss their new approach to fully observe K8s and its workloads with a "hybrid observability architecture."
Groundcover is a new, cloud-native, eBPF-based platform that designed a new model for how observability solutions are architected and priced. It is a product that can drastically reduce your monitoring, logging, and tracing costs and complexity, it stores all its data in your clusters and only needs one agent per host for full observability and APM.
We dig into the deployment, architecture, and how it all works under the hood.
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★Topics★
Groundcover Discord Channel
Groundcover Repository in GitHub
Groundcover YouTube Channel
Join the Groundcover Slack
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