DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

Control Plane CEO Doron Grinstein joins me to discuss how they’ve created an AI-native cloud API that virtualizes multi-cloud and hybrid cloud to simplify management and ship faster. Watch the video of this episode. 🖥️ Watch demos from the live stream. 😇 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. ★Show Links★ https://controlplane.com https://docs.controlplane.com/introduction get a free month to experiment with. email [email protected] Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Doron Grinstein - Guest You can also support this podcast by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my monthly newsletter at bret.news! Grab the best coupons for my GitHub, Agents, Docker, and Kubernetes courses. Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord. Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box Homepage bretfisher.com (00:00) - A single API for multicloud with Control Plane (04:42) - Introduction: Meet Doron Greenstein (09:36) - What Is Control Plane? (13:31) - The Union of All Clouds (15:25) - Adoption and Onboarding (18:59) - Eliminating Infrastructure Toil (24:01) - AI Agents in DevOps (29:19) - Infrastructure as Code in the Agent Era (33:04) - Small Teams and Non-Developers (37:35) - Compliance and the Data Problem (40:50) - Scaling, Secrets, and Audit Trails (44:48) - Cost Efficiency and Getting Started ★ Support this podcast ★

What does an AI-native CI look like? The Semaphore team joins me to talk about their focus on making your agent harness the gateway to testing, fixing, and deploying your code. Video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/HzXAdtVrW70 ★Show Links★ Semaphore https://semaphore.io/ Semaphore open source https://github.com/semaphoreio/semaphore SLSA Security Checklist https://slsa.dev/ Creators & Guests Marcos Filipe - Guest Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Marko Gaćeša - Guest (00:00) - Introduction (00:29) - AI Native CI Vision (04:54) - Bret's Update (09:03) - Semaphore AI Journey (22:39) - Open Source Platform Shift (37:28) - Plugins CLI MCP Skills (43:11) - Work Until CI Is Green (45:42) - Test Boxes and Agentic CI Loop (57:39) - Sandboxing and Least Privilege (01:10:12) - Roadmap SLSA and Getting Started ★ Support this podcast ★

OpenChoreo is a “batteries included”, AI-native Kubernetes platform stack for Platform Engineers that combines GitOps, Observability, AI Agents, and Workflows into a custom K8s distribution “super pack” that is managed via Backstage, CLI, API, or MCP. Check out the video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/AqGWjxEfj2g 😇 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. ★Show Links★ OpenChoreo on CNCF OpenChoreo on GitHub OpenChoreo website SRE Day walkthrough Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Sameera Jayasoma - Guest Lakmal Warusawithana - Guest You can also support this podcast by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my monthly newsletter at bret.news! Grab the best coupons for my GitHub, Agents, Docker, and Kubernetes courses. Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord. Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box Homepage bretfisher.com (00:00) - MAIN - Video Podcast (00:00) - Introduction (08:29) - What Makes OpenChoreo Different (16:41) - Agents as First-Class Citizens (24:50) - The Future of Agentic DevOps (32:55) - Deploying with Agents: Live Demo (39:26) - Sandboxing & SRE Auto-Remediation (47:03) - Getting Started & Wrap-Up ★ Support this podcast ★

Michael Irwin of Docker joins me to run through Gordon AI improvements, Docker Hardened Images and what's now free, Docker Sandboxes for running agents in proper isolation, Model Runner updates including MLX support on Mac, MCP Toolkit dynamic discovery, and the newly renamed Docker Agent with its GitHub Action for automating PR reviews and docs checks. Check out the video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/dTF3b36Bq6w 😇 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. ★Show Links★ Docker Hardened Images for Every Developer Docker Hardened System Packages Hardened Images Catalog Gordon AI Just Got an Update Docker Sandboxes NanoClaw and Docker Sandboxes Docker Model Runner VLLM Metal on macOS OpenWebUI + Docker Model Runner MCP Catalog and Toolkit Dynamic MCP Cagent Action PR Review Workflow of Cagent Nightly Docs Scan Workflow Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Michael Irwin 🇺🇦 🕊 - Guest You can also support this podcast by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my monthly newsletter at bret.news! Grab the best coupons for my GitHub, Agents, Docker, and Kubernetes courses. Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord. Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box Homepage bretfisher.com (00:00) - Introduction (11:15) - Docker Hardened Images (23:02) - Gordon AI (33:23) - Docker Sandboxes (37:38) - Sandbox Demo & Network Security (55:10) - Model Runner, OpenWebUI & MCP Tools (01:06:31) - Cagent, Open Source & The Future of AI in DevOps ★ Support this podcast ★

Bret is joined by the founders of Plakar - Julien Mangeard and Gilles Chehade - to nerd out over backup engineering. The kind where you're building your own file formats and cryptographic layers, not just wiring up cron jobs. We get into how Plakar deduplicates and encrypts at the source so your cloud provider never sees your keys. Also, their snapshot model has no chain dependencies, which means you can delete any backup without breaking the others. We had a fun hour of backup horror stories, ransomware pragmatism, where I'm lobbying hard for a Docker volume integration. Check out the video podcast version here: https://youtu.be/OPRK5osKQHI 😇 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. ★Show Links★ Plakar website Plakar Github Repo Plakar demo Plakar on X Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Julien Mangeard - Guest Gilles Chehade - Guest You can also support this podcast by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my monthly newsletter at bret.news! Grab the best coupons for my GitHub, Agents, Docker, and Kubernetes courses. Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord. Grab some merch at Bret's Loot Box Homepage bretfisher.com (00:00) - Introduction (02:25) - Backup Engineering (04:50) - Restore First Mindset (06:56) - Plakar's Elevator Pitch (18:24) - Docker and Volume Backups (24:10) - Docker Image Deployment Challenges (26:53) - Backing Up the System (27:56) - Encryption and Architecture Modes (31:57) - Enterprise Scaling and Solo DevOps (33:48) - Ransomware And Encryption (34:27) - Source Side Dedup Demo (37:17) - Chainless Snapshots (39:07) - Sync And Multi Store Copies (41:39) - Crypto Audits And Repair (43:48) - Backup Stress Horror Stories (47:50) - Make Backups Usable (50:00) - Ransomware Detection Heuristics (56:06) - Cloud Native Positioning (59:56) - Kubernetes and Integrations ★ Support this podcast ★