DOP 103: Knative in Action

#103: What is there was a way that you could harness the power of Kubernetes without having to learn all the ins and outs of Kubernetes? Enter Knative. Today with speak with Jacques Chester, the author of Knative in Action, about that at much more.   Order your copy of Knative in Action at: https://www.manning.com/books/knative-in-action and be sure to use the code "podparadox20" to save 40% off of...

DOP 102: Getting Started With Open Policy Agent

#102: Are you a rule-maker or a rule-breaker? Hopefully we all agree that having guardrails up help us live a better life, whether personally or professionally. However, sometimes those rules get in our way of getting things done. Today, we take an introductory look at Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper and try to figure out how using Gatekeeper can make not only our lives but the lives of our end users much easier when managing our Kubernetes clusters.   Transcript: ...

DOP 101: What to Do When Technology Fails

#101: What happens when you're doing a demo and your technology fails? You can get angry and write a blog post that goes viral. Today, we speak with Nicolas Frankel about his move from minikube to Kind, how Gradle is no better than Ant, and how the conference circuit is not meant for people that only want to work from 9 to 5.   Nicolas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicolas_frankel   Transcript: ...

DOP 100: Course Correcting DevOps

#100: In our 100th episode, we bring back Patrick Debois, the GodFather of DevOps (at least we think so), as our "divide by 50" guest. In very Patrick fashion, he turns the tables on us and we go down a number of paths that we didn't see coming.   Patrick's info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickdebois Website: http://www.jedi.be/   Transcript: ...

DOP 99: Do DevOps Engineers Need to Know How to Code?

#99: In the nineties and early 2000s, it wasn't strange to see operations people copy and pasting "code" from Word documents, also known as runbooks, into their terminals to get their job done. It's now 2021 and we still have people questioning whether or not they should be writing code to do their work.   Transcript: ...

DOP 98: Kubernetes Troubleshooting Simplified With Komodor

#98: How many times have you been put into the situation to debug a production issue and you have no idea where to start? Probably more than you can count. Worse yet, your employer expects that you can troubleshoot the issue without having access to all the tools that you need. Today we speak with Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, a startup developing the next-gen troubleshooting platform for Kubernetes.   Itiel's contact information: ...

DOP 97: Processing Event Streams With Apache Kafka

#97: A chess player knows to write down their moves so they can replay their matches and learn from them. Having the ability to replay those matches also gives you the ability to start over and see where something goes wrong. In today's episode, we speak with Viktor (Vik) Gamov about Apache Kafka and how it can help you breathe new life into systems that may not have been written in a way to take advantage of events.   Vik on Twitter: ...

DOP 96: The Kubernetes API Is Becoming Omnipresent

#96: With the advent of software like Crossplane, we are beginning to see the Kubernetes API coming more to the forefront. In today's episode, we attempt to tackle why it appears that events are still not completely understood.   Crossplane: https://crossplane.io/   Transcript: ...

DOP 95: Should Everything Be Automated?

#95: You would think in 2021, we still wouldn't be having this conversation. However, it happens everyday. Should everything be automated? You might surprised at our answer.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/should-everything-be-automated-95/#transcript   YouTube channel: ...

DOP 94: Are Videos or Text Better for Learning?

#94: Some people like reading text. Some people like watching videos. Which one are you when it comes to learning and building your skillset? Today, we talk about what we like as both producers and consumers of content.   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/are-videos-or-text-better-for-learning-94/#transcript   YouTube channel:...