DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

Interviews from Bret Fisher's live show with co-host Nirmal Mehta. Topics cover container and cloud topics like Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm, Cloud Native development, DevOps, SRE, GitOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and the full software lifecycle. Full show notes and more info available at https://podcast.bretfisher.com

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June 6, 2025 41 mins

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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May 24, 2025 39 mins

At KubeCon EU 2025 in London, Nirmal and I discussed the important (and not-so-important) things you might have missed.

There's also a video version of this show on YouTube.

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  • (00:00) - DDT Audio Podcast Edited
  • (00:04) - Intro
  • (01:24) - KubeCon 2025 EU Overview
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April 21, 2025 13 mins

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.

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Model Runner Docs
Hub Models
OCI Artifacts

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March 26, 2025 16 mins

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...

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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 b...

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February 6, 2025 18 mins

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.
There's also a video version of this show on YouTube.

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Blog post that sparked this discussion:
https://www.portainer.io/blog/portainer-the-essential-tool-for-docker-s...

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January 10, 2025 71 mins

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, an...

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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 sing...

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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. ...

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    November 29, 2024 37 mins

    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 Engine...

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    November 15, 2024 57 mins

    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 answe...

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    October 18, 2024 17 mins

    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...

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    September 20, 2024 40 mins

    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 ...

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    September 6, 2024 48 mins

    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 DevO...

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    August 23, 2024 54 mins

    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!

    Watch the video version on YouTube.

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    Traefik Website
    Traefik Labs Community Forum
    Traefik's YouTube Channel
    Gateway API helper CLI
    ingress2g...

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    August 9, 2024 75 mins

    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 evolut...

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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,...

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    July 12, 2024 37 mins

    Bret and Nirmal are joined by Continue.dev co-founder, Nate Sesti, to walk through an open source replacement for GitHub Copilot.
    Continue lets you use a set of open source and closed source LLMs in JetBrains and VSCode IDEs for adding AI to your coding workflow without leaving the editor.

    You've probably heard about GitHub Copilot and other AI code assistants. The Continue team has created a completely open source solu...

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    June 28, 2024 39 mins

    Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Fischer of AWS to discuss why we should use Graviton, their arm64 compute with AWS-designed CPUs.
    Graviton is AWS' term for their custom ARM-based EC2 instances. We now have all major clouds offering an ARM-based option for their server instances, but AWS was first, way back in 2018. Fast forward 6 years and AWS is releasing their 4th generation Graviton instances, and they deliver ...

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