DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling
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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
Episodes
- Docker AI, what’s new with MCP, Agents, Sandboxes, and more
This episode features Michael Irwin of Docker discussing various updates including Gordon AI, Docker Hardened Images, Docker Sandboxes for isolation, Model Runner with MLX support, MCP Toolkit, and the Docker Agent for automating PR review…
- Backup S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Notion with Plakar
Bret Fisher hosts Julien Mangeard and Gilles Chehade, founders of Plakar, to discuss backup engineering. They cover Plakar's source-side deduplication and encryption, its chainless snapshot model allowing independent deletion, and address…
- Your Images are Out of Date (probably) - The Silent Rebuilds problem
This episode discusses the "Silent Rebuilds" problem where container base images are updated without new tag versions, which can introduce security vulnerabilities. It highlights the need for automation tools like Dependabot and Renovate t…
- AI Wins and Misses for 2025
In this 2025 year-in-review episode of DevOps and Docker Talk, host Bret Fisher is joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and Viktor Farcic. They discuss various AI tools, including CLI agents, terminal emulators, IDEs, and AI browsers, evaluating…
- Find Your K8s Happy Path with RawKode Academy
Bret Fisher interviews David Flanagan about his Tech Matrix, designed to help users navigate the CNCF landscape. They also discuss the Agentic DevOps Guild, a program focused on CI/CD automation and AI for infrastructure.
- Move K8s Stateful Pods Between Nodes
Bret is joined by Philip Andrews and Dan Muret of Cast AI to discuss pod live migration between nodes in a Kubernetes cluster. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting…
- Swarm 2030. Let's Go!
Bret discusses exciting news about Swarm being maintained until 2030. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to learn the latest CI/CD automation and dive into Agent…
- Is Docker Building the Best AI Stack?
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin to discuss Docker's comprehensive AI toolkit, covering everything from local model deployment to cloud-based container orchestration across multiple interconnected tools and services. 🙌 The Agen…
- Could AI End Human QA?
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 observabili…
- AI Agents Running Containers
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 t…
- Heroku + MCP = The Fastest Way to Run AI Agents in the Cloud
Julián Duque from Heroku joins me to explain and demo their new AI platform. Check out the video podcast version here https://youtu.be/BGqlLZHdRDs 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program f…
- Is AI ready for DevOps?
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. 🙌 The Agentic DevOp…
- What you missed at KubeCon
At KubeCon EU 2025 in London, Nirmal and I discussed the important (and not-so-important) things you might have missed. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to lea…
- Docker Model Runner
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…
- What's Coming in 2025?
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 wha…
- Docker Build the best way with Docker Bake
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 a…
- Is Swarm at EOL?
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 str…
- Best of Cloud Native 2024
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 spo…
- Aikido: Is a Single DevSecOps Tool Possible?
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 Agentic Dev…
- DevOps Cert Prep using AI, with the KodeKloud Team
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. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers…
- KubeCon Engineering Takeaways
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 Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! I…
- Personal AI with Ken Collins
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. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for en…
- State of Kubernetes UIs
Bret explores the spectrum of user interfaces and tools available for managing Kubernetes clusters as of Autumn 2024. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to learn…
- Inspektor Gadget
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. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorsh…
- MLOps for DevOps People
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. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild ha…
- Traefik 3.0: What's New?
Bret and Nirmal were joined by Emile Vauge, CTO of Traefik Labs to talk all about Traefik 3.0. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to learn the latest CI/CD autom…
- Debug Containers with Mintoolkit
Bret is joined by DockerSlim (now mintoolkit) founder Kyle Quest, to show off how to slim down your existing images with various options. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engine…
- Observability Cost-Savings and eBPF Goodness with Groundcover
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." 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + c…
- Flow State with VS Code AI
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Continue.dev co-founder, Nate Sesti, to walk through an open source replacement for GitHub Copilot. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers want…
- AWS Graviton: The Great Arm Migration
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Fischer of AWS to discuss why we should use Graviton, their arm64 compute with AWS-designed CPUs. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineer…
- Local GenAI LLMs with Ollama and Docker
Bret and Nirmal are joined by friend of the show, Matt Williams, to learn how to run your own local ChatGPT clone and GitHub Copilot clone with Ollama and Docker's "GenAI Stack," to build apps on top of open source LLMs. We've designed thi…
- Kubernetes Observability with Site24x7
Bret is joined by Jasper Paul and Vinoth Kanagaraj, observability experts and Site24x7 Product Managers, to discuss achieving end-to-end visibility for applications on Kubernetes infrastructure. We answer questions on all things monitoring…
- K2D by Portainer
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Neil Cresswell and Steven Kang from Portainer to look at K2D, a new project that enables us to leverage Kubernetes tooling to manage Docker containers on tiny devices at the far edge. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Gui…
- Chainguard: Building Secure Container Images
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Dan Lorenc from Chainguard to walk them through Chainguard's approach to building secure, minimal container images for popular open source software. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training +…
- AWS Finch: The Minimal Local Container Solution
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Phil Estes of AWS to show us the Finch project, which bundles the best open source tools for building and running containers locally. Now it runs on macOS and Windows WSL2. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has laun…
- Portainer for Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm, Edge, and IoT
Bret is joined by Neil Cresswell, CEO and co-founder of Portainer, to show us new features in Portainer and how it can manage, deploy, and orchestrate all your container workloads from a single Docker Engine, all the way to multi-cluster a…
- Open Source Codespaces with Daytona
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ivan Burazin and Chad Metcalf to debut Daytona, an open source "codespaces equivalent." 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to learn…
- Postgres in Containers
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Lukas Fittl of pganalyze to dive into Postgres in containers, in production, and in CI. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to learn…
- Best of DevOps 2023
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Melissa McKay, Developer Advocate at JFrog and Docker Captain, to discuss the best and worst of 2023. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wa…
- Faster Dev Feedback and Previews with Livecycle
Bret is joined by Matan Mishan & Roy Razon of Livecycle to discuss developer platforms and how to improve developer collaboration and speeding up feedback and previews. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community…
- Docker Recap of 2023
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin, DevRel at Docker, to talk about all the products and features Docker shipped in 2023, and what's coming in early 2024. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + men…
- Tailscale Everything
Bret is joined by Alex Kretzschmar to talk about Tailscale, a universal VPN that connects teams, devices, and development environments for easy access to remote resources. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + communi…
- Dockerfiles have versions?
I break down why Dockerfile frontends exist and how Docker's build engine "BuildKit" is giving us updated Dockerfile features. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting…
- Dagger: CI of the Future?
Application delivery doesn’t have to suck. Bret and Nirmal are joined by Solomon Hykes, the founder or Docker, to talk about Dagger and their application delivery-as-code that runs anywhere. 💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued…
- Registry is getting an upgrade: Inside OCI artifacts
The OCI specifications for registry and image are getting a minor version number update to 1.1 soon, and this could be a big deal for anyone storing artifacts other than images somewhere in their infrastructure. This episode digs into the…
- KubeCon Live with Friends 2023
Bret is joined by Nirmal and a host of friends from the floor of KubeCon, to talk about the latest news and goings-on. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship program for engineers wanting to lear…
- Moving Domain Registrars, Again
In this short episode, I tell the tale of my registrar DNS name hosting for the last 25 years and what I prefer for a cheap and reliable name registrar. 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has launched! It's a training + community + mentorship pro…
- Multipass Local Virtual Machines
Bret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Townsend, the engineering manager for Canonical's Multipass team, to discuss how to use Multipass as the easiest local virtual machine for Docker, Kubernetes and more! 🙌 The Agentic DevOps Guild has lau…
- DockerCon 2023 New Features and Tools!
After returning from DockerCon earlier this month (Oct 2023), Bret recorded this podcast where he breaks down all the product announcements and details from the event. We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends and colleagues. You…
- NetBackup for Kubernetes
Bret is joined by Demetrius Malbrough and Joseph D'angelo from Veritas, the company that makes NetBackup amongst many other data protection tools. NetBackup has been around at least 25 years and I've been using it over 20 years, although n…