Podcast appearances and mentions of nirmal mehta

Launching our new Podcast: https://agenticdevops.fmBret and Nirmal are at KubeCon London and record their ideas about how AI Agents will change DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, automation, troubleshooting, and more.Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Bret Fisher - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Nirmal Mehta - Host You can also support my content by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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.Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - DDT Audio Podcast Edited (00:04) - Intro (01:24) - KubeCon 2025 EU Overview (03:24) - Platform Engineering and AI Trends (07:03) - AI and Machine Learning in Kubernetes (15:38) - Project Pavilions at KubeCon (17:05) - FinOps and Cost Optimization (20:39) - HAProxy and AI Gateways (24:00) - Proxy Intelligence and Network Layer Optimization (26:52) - Developer Experience and Organizational Challenges (29:23) - Platform Engineering and Cognitive Load (35:54) - End of Life for CNCF Projects You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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.

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 CloudNative community.Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (03:38) - KubeCon Rejekts (04:50) - Better Than Namespaces (07:17) - Day 0 (08:32) - BackstageCon and Platform Interfaces (12:35) - Argo CD and Deployment Dashboards (13:57) - GitOps Bridge: Bridging Infrastructure and GitOps (14:49) - Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) (16:23) - Fleet Management in Kubernetes (18:12) - Ford's Approach to Kubernetes Tooling (19:36) - CNOE: Community-Driven Kubernetes Reference Architectures (26:21) - AI Integration in Kubernetes Tools (34:03) - Managing Infrastructure at Scale with Karpenter (35:13) - KubeCon Highlights and Future Trends You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from October 24, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 279).★Topics★The Lifestyle Copilot Blog PostServerless AI Inference with Gemma 2 Blog Post Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Ken Collins - Guest Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (01:26) - AI in Recruitment at Torc (03:25) - AI for Day to Day Workflows (04:44) - Notion AI and RAG (07:20) - Creating Your Own AI Search Solution (13:59) - Choosing the Right LLM for the Job (20:55) - Personal AI and Long Context Windows (25:10) - Future of Personal Fine-Tuned Models (25:52) - AI Assistants in Meetings (27:34) - Temperature and AI Hallucinations (32:07) - Agents and Tool Integration (39:31) - Apple Intelligence and Personal AI (44:56) - AI Apps on Mobile (50:00) - LoRA You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from September 12, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 277).★Topics★Inspektor Gadget websiteInspektor Gadget DocsGitHub RepositoryCreators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Chris Kühl - Guest Jose Blanquicet - Guest (00:00) - Intro (01:33) - Why Inspektor Gadget? (05:49) - Who is Inspektor Gadget For? (21:07) - Windows Nodes Support (22:15) - Stress Testing and OOM (26:50) - Ensuring Safe Use of eBPF Tools (32:42) - Future Roadmap and Platform Support (36:17) - Getting Started with Inspektor Gadget You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

#281: In today's rapidly evolving tech industry, many startups believe they can challenge the well-established giants by offering similar products with minor tweaks. However, this approach is fundamentally flawed. Companies like Amazon and Microsoft will absorb a few of these new competitors, while many others will simply disappear. The driving force behind this harsh reality isn't just competition; it's the absence of truly innovative products. The tech landscape is unforgiving to those who don't innovate. While it might seem tempting to follow the footsteps of successful giants like Adobe, Amazon, and Microsoft, the key to success lies in innovation and offering something new. Companies that fail to grasp this reality will find themselves disappearing into obscurity. In this episode, Bret Fisher and Nirmal Mehta join Darin and Viktor to discuss how artificial intelligence is affecting the tech industry.   Bret's contact information: X (Formerly Twitter): https://x.com/bretfisher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretefisher   Nirmal's contact information: X (Formerly Twitter): https://x.com/normalfaults LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirmalkmehta/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

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.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from June 20, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 271).★Topics★Marvelous MLOps on LinkedInMarvelous MLOps SubstackMarvelous MLOps YouTube ChannelCreators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Maria Vechtomova - Guest Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (02:04) - Maria's Content (03:22) - Tools and Technologies in MLOps (09:21) - DevOps vs MLOps: Key Differences (19:22) - Transitioning from DevOps to MLOps (22:52) - Model Accuracy vs Computational Efficiency (24:46) - MLOps with Sensitive Data (29:10) - MLOps Roadmap and Getting Started (32:36) - Tools and Platforms for MLOps (37:14) - Adapting MLOps Practices to Future Trends (44:08) - Is Golang an Option for CI/CD Automation? You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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!Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from June 6, 2024 on YouTube (Stream 269). Includes demos.★Topics★Traefik WebsiteTraefik Labs Community ForumTraefik's YouTube ChannelGateway API helper CLIingress2gateway migration toolCreators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Emile Vauge - Guest   (00:00) - Intro (02:20) - Origins of Traefik (05:01) - The Road to 3.0 (06:20) - Balancing Stability and Innovation (08:25) - Migration to Traefik 3.0 (14:58) - WebAssembly and Plugins in Traefik (21:43) - Gateway API and gRPC Support (30:32) - Gateway API Components and Configuration (33:35) - Tools for Gateway API Management (40:08) - OpenTelemetry Integration (47:21) - Future Plans and Community Contributions You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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 solution as an alternative, or maybe a superset of these existing tools, because along with it being open source, it's also very configurable and allows you to choose multiple models to help you with code completion and chatbots in VSCode, JetBrains, and more are coming soon. So this show builds on our recent Ollama show. Continue uses Ollama in the background to run a local LLM for you, if that's what you want to Continue to do for you, rather than internet LLM models. Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from May 16, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. 266). Includes demos.★Topics★Continue.dev WebsiteCreators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Nate Sesti - Guest (00:00) - Introduction (01:52) - Meet Nate Sesti, CTO of Continue (02:40) - Birth and Evolution of Continue (03:56) - Continue's Features and Benefits (22:24) - Running Multiple Models in Parallel (26:38) - Best Hardware for Continue (32:45) - Other Advantages of Continue (36:08) - Getting Started with Continue You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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 all the CPU, networking, memory and storage performance that you'd expect from their x86 instances and beyond.I'm a big fan of ARM-based servers and the price points that AWS gives us. They have been my default EC2 instance type for years now, and I recommend it for all projects I'm working on with companies.We get into the history of Graviton, how easy it is to build and deploy containers and Kubernetes clusters that have Graviton and even two different platform types in the same cluster. We also cover how to build multi-platform images using Docker BuildKit.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from May 9, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. 265). Includes demos. ★Topics★Graviton + GitLab + EKSPorting Advisor for GravitonGraviton Getting StartedCreators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Michael Fischer - Guest (00:00) - Intro (06:19) - AWS and ARM64: Evolution to Graviton 4 (07:55) - AWS EC2 Nitro: Why and How? (11:53) - Nitro and Graviton's Evolution (18:35) - What Can't Run on Graviton? (23:15) - Moving Your Workloads to Graviton (27:19) - K8s Tooling and Multi-Platform Images (37:07) - Tips for Getting Started with Graviton You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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 this conversation for tech people like myself, who are no strangers to using LLMs in web products like chat GPT, but are curious about running open source generative AI models locally and how they might set up their Docker environment to develop things on top of these open source LLMs.Matt Williams is walking us through all the parts of this solution, and with detailed explanations, shows us how Ollama can make it easier on Mac, Windows, and Linux to set up LLM stacks.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from April 18, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. 262).  ★Topics★Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Matt Williams - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (01:32) - Understanding LLMs and Ollama (03:16) - Ollama's Elevator Pitch (08:40) - Installing and Extending Ollama (17:17) - HuggingFace and Other Libraries (19:24) - Which Model Should You Use? (26:28) - Ollama and Its Applications (28:57) - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) (36:44) - Deploying Models and API Endpoints (40:38) - DockerCon Keynote and LLM Demo (47:44) - Getting Started with Ollama You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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.K2D stands for Kubernetes to Docker, which is a bit of a crazy idea -- it's a partial Kubernetes API running on top of Docker Engine without needing a full Kubernetes control plane. If you work with very small devices, including older Raspberry PIs, 32-bit machines, maybe industry sensors and the infrastructure we now call 'edge', the container hardware is often hard for you to make simple, reliable, and automated all at the same time. So this project uses less resources than a single node K3S and still allows you to use Kubernetes tools to deploy and manage your containers, which are in fact just running on a Docker Engine with no full-fledged Kubernetes distribution going on there.We get into far more detail on the architecture, the Portainer team's motivations for this new open source project and what its limitations are, because it's not real Kubernetes, so it can't do everything.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from March 28, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. 260). Includes demos.★Topics★K2D websiteK2D DocsCreators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Neil Cresswell - Guest Nirmal Mehta - Host Steven Kang - Guest (00:00) - Intro (02:40) - Introducing the guests (03:56) - Why K2D? Architecture and Motivations (05:55) - How Efficient is K2D? (10:25) - K2D Architecture Explained: Components and Operations (20:42) - What Happens When Resources are Exhausted? (23:18) - K2D for Edge Deployment with Portainer or Argo CD (28:22) - K2D Future Roadmap (30:36) - Getting Started with K2D You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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.They discuss why it is important to have secure and minimal container images. Dan explains how Chainguard helps remove the pain of CVEs, laggy software updates and patches and much more. Chainguard is now available also on Docker Hub.They spend the first part of the show talking about the week's big news: the XZ supply chain attack, and Dan was the best man to explain it. They also touch on CVEs, things you can do to reduce the attack surface, SLSA, and more during this jam-packed show.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from April 4, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. 261).★Topics★Chainguard Website Vulnerability Management Certification course True Cost of Vulnerability Management Chainguard Images Chainguard on Docker Hub AnnouncementCreators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Dan Lorenc - Guest (00:00) - Intro (05:14) - Dan's Take on the XZ Hack (14:59) - Chainguard Distro Creation (21:21) - Chainguard in Docker Hub Announcement (24:26) - Free Images vs Private Images (26:27) - Zero CVE Approach (28:33) - Ways to Reduce Attack Surfaces (39:56) - Chainguard Academy (41:08) - Real Time Antivirus Malware Scanner (43:52) - Google Distro Lists Worth Using (45:56) - Chainguard for Buildpacks (46:20) - SLSA (56:08) - What's Next for Chainguard? (56:52) - Getting Started with Chainguard You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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.We've been talking with Phil about this show for months, and now that Finch has come to Windows, we thought it was the best time to clue you in as to why AWS created the Finch project and what it does. You're probably heard of containerd, the most popular container runtime on the planet and BuildKit, the best way, in my opinion, to build container images. Those two work hand in hand in Docker and many other container tools. But you might not have heard of nerdctl or Lima, which are also open source tools that work with containerd and BuildKit to help you run containers locally in a virtual machine. Well, AWS had the idea of making an easy installer for these four tools. That's how Finch was born. Finch is not meant to be a replacement of your existing way to run containers. The tools it installs are a bit of a minimum feature set, if you will, and more focused on providing people the exact tools AWS uses in its container platforms, mainly containerd and BuildKit, which are everywhere in AWS. Rather than building something that's feature equivalent to other local container solutions like Docker Desktop and Rancher Desktop, Finch keeps it simple and does the bare minimum.  If you just want an easily installable and minimal way to build and run local containers at the command line with no goofy, high-end fancy features, pure open source and just on Mac and Windows, at least at this point, you should give Finch a try.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from February 22, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. 255).★Topics★Finch WebsiteBret's local container runtime spreadsheetCreators & Guests Phil Estes - Guest Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host (00:00) - Intro (00:35) - What is Finch? (03:53) - Phil's History with Docker and Finch (07:59) - Deep Dive into AWS Finch Project (11:41) - How do the Components Tie Together (25:31) - Finch's Position in the Container Ecosystem (26:47) - Finch's Capabilities and Comparisons (27:45) - VM Management and Lima Integration (37:51) - Finch's Roadmap and Community Engagement (41:49) - How Does Finch Connect to Lima? (42:45) - Potential Lima Conflicts with Finch (46:38) - Getting Started wtih Finch You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ivan Burazin and Chad Metcalf to debut Daytona, an open source "codespaces equivalent."Daytona is a development environment manager designed to automate all the tedious steps a developer needs to perform to set up their development environment. "Essentially, it transforms any machine into a codespaces equivalent."Where Daytona is actually starting in the enterprise is focusing on large dev environment solutions and management of those, and then trickling down to individual developers. So there are two very similar solutions to a problem of many developers and their varying ways that they set up their environments for development, but they're coming at it from two ends of the spectrum. Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show with demos from March 7, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. 257).★Topics★Daytona websiteDaytona on GitHubWhy Daytona OSS'dDIY GuideCreators & Guests Ivan Burazin - Guest Chad Metcalf - Guest Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Beth Fisher - Producer Cristi Cotovan - Editor (00:00) - Intro (06:33) - CodeAnywhere (07:50) - Introducing Daytona: Revolutionizing Dev Environments (13:54) - Demo (21:07) - Daytona's Automation Magic (22:49) - Comparing Daytona with DevPod (25:15) - Daytona's Roadmap and Beyond (27:01) - Dev Environments and IDEs (39:52) - AI with Daytona (44:05) - Getting Started with Daytona (44:35) - Getting Involved in Daytona (47:00) - Features About to Ship in Daytona You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Lukas Fittl of pganalyze to dive into Postgres in containers, in production, and in CI.Lukas is an expert and founder of pganalyze, and I invited him on the show to explain a lot of this to us and catch us up with what's going on in the Postgres community, particularly when it comes to containers and production.We dive into everything around containers with Postgres, some of the new stuff going on in Postgres Land, including tuning and stuff I didn't even know about Postgres, including storing NoSQL data, vector databases for AI and more.Be sure to check out the live recording of the complete show from February 15, 2024 on YouTube (Ep. #254).★Topics★pganalyze websitepganalyze YouTube channel pgvector cloudnative-pg Crunch Postgres for Kubernetes CockroachDBCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Lukas Fittl - Guest Nirmal Mehta - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer (00:00) - Intro (01:59) - Is Postgres Underrated? (04:18) - What is pgAnalyze? (05:02) - Database Performance Tuning (11:11) - Postgres in Containers (19:44) - Opinion on kubegres and other operators in managing HA (25:03) - The role of Database Administrators and Data Engineers (31:54) - Running Postgres HA across multi-cluster (39:23) - What does pgnalyze do? (44:45) - The hardest operational problem running Postgres in containers You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news!Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.com

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. Michael has been on this show many times as a Docker Captain and now as a Docker employee, and it's always great to dig into the details of the products with someone who's been using them for so many years as an end-user and now staff at Docker. Docker did some big things in 2023, but they also shipped some smaller features that we will help you catch up on in this episode.The live recording of the complete show from December 28, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #247)Creators & Guests Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Bret Fisher - Host Nirmal Mehta - Host Michael Irwin

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.

Bret is joined by Nirmal and a host of friends from the floor of KubeCon, to talk about the latest news and goings-on.

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!

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ken Collins, AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Engineer at Custom Ink to discuss all things Lambda and to dig into the details of running containers in serverless.

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Grayson Adkins and Josh Thurman on the show. They are co-founders of Uffizzi, an environments-as-a-service company for Docker Compose and Kubernetes.

In this episode, Bret and Nirmal talk with Brian Douglas of OpenSauced.

Bret and Nirmal welcome Idit Levine, Founder/CEO Solo.io. Idit focuses on Service Mesh, API-GW and Multi-Cloud networking, and security.Idit has been involved in the Containers/DevOps community for 10+ years, building products from Docker to Envoy to Kubernetes, and now Istio and Cilium. We talk about Istio, Ambient Mesh, Envoy, Zero-Trust Security, Cilium, eBPF, Multi-Cloud and more.This is not the first time we've talked about Solo or Service Mesh. Ambient Mesh is Solo's new product that simplifies the install and infrastructure costs of essentially running Istio. I'm really hopeful that this is going to help a lot more people implement Istio because traditionally, it does have a lot of parts and a lot of costs with the sidecar approach, but this new approach reduces the number of essentially proxies and parts that you're running on each node of your Kubernetes cluster. Live recording of the complete show from June 29, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #223).★Topics★Solo.ioIstio Ambient MeshSolo Academy (free courses)Istio Ambient Mesh ebookGloo FabricSupport this show and get exclusive benefits on Patreon, YouTube, or bretfisher.com!★Join my Community★Get on the waitlist for my next live course on CI automation and gitops deploymentsBest coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansGrab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.comCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Nirmal Mehta - Host Idit Levine - Guest (00:00) - Intro (03:59) - How did Solo.io start? (21:03) - The difference between service mesh and API gateway (30:55) - Where is service mesh going? (41:53) - Is Ambient Mesh as secure as the sidecar model? (48:11) - Opportunities after adopting Ambient Mesh (53:41) - Phipps compliance (55:46) - Unikernel vs WebAssembly

Bret is joined by Nirmal Mehta of AWS and engineering consultant Laura Tacho, for the annual Best of DevOps. We've started this trend of going through the year's best (and worst) of DevOps every December, everyone brings their topics, we mix them all up and try to get through all of it. This year, we came pretty close. We cover many topics in this year's episode, things like desktop GUIs for containers, the return of real-life conferences, Docker reaching a significant milestone, AI, ML, data platforms and much, much more.Streamed live on YouTube on December 8, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #194)★Topics★Full doc of topics (more than we could cover)Year of Desktop GUI's for Container Dev and Cloud Native MgmtDocker Extensions List Rancher DesktopPodman DesktopLens commercialOpenLensk9s websiteKui websiteDevOps Survey TrendsOpenTelemetry Articles- Transforming IT Departments - Properly Explained and Demoed - Getting StartedKarpenter websiteeBPF and Profiling- Pixie- Parca★Laura Tacho★Laura's websiteLaura's CourseLaura on Twitter★Nirmal Mehta★Nirmal on LinkedinNirmal on MastodonNirmal on Twitter★Join my Community★New live course on CI automation and gitops deployments Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansHomepage bretfisher.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Bret is joined by Nirmal Mehta, a Principal Specialist Solution Architect at AWS, and a Docker Captain, to discuss Karpenter, an autoscaling solution launched by AWS in 2021. Karpenter simplifies Kubernetes infrastructure by automating node scaling up and down, giving you "the right nodes at the right time."Autoscaling, particularly for Kubernetes, can be quite a complex project when you first start. Bret and Nirmal discuss how Karpenter works, how it can help or complement your existing setup, and how autoscaling generally works.Streamed live on YouTube on June 9, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #173). Includes demos.★Topics★Starship Shell PromptBret's favorite shell setupKarpenterKarpenter release blogK8s Scheduling ConceptsOther types of autoscalers:Horizontal Pod AutoscalerVertical Pod AutoscalerCluster Autoscaler★Nirmal Mehta★Nirmal on TwitterNirmal on LinkedIn★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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I chat with Docker Captain Nirmal Mehta of Booz Allen Hamilton about Kubernetes Ingress controllers and resources. There seems to be a lot of confusion around them, the different choices, and what to do for incoming HTTP connections in Kubernetes.

#58: We get the tables turned on us today by one of the Docker Captains, Nirmal Mehta. We discuss numerous items ranging from biases, fallacies and Jurassic Park.   Nirmal on Twitter: https://twitter.com/normalfaults   Nirmal on the Friday livestream from 15May2020: https://youtu.be/7GgyM6RZdvI   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/58#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Books and Courses: Kubernetes Chaos Engineering With Chaos Toolkit And Istio https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/chaos/   Canary Deployments To Kubernetes Using Istio and Friends https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/canary/   The DevOps 2.6 Toolkit: Jenkins X https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/devops-26/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast   Leave us a message on Voxer: https://web.voxer.com/u/devopsparadox   Find our contact information at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact

In this special episode, just a day after Docker announces they've split the company and sold their Enterprise products, I sit down with fellow Docker Captians Jeff Nickoloff, Michael Irwin, and Nirmal Mehta to discuss it, as well as the future of Docker's open source. And as a reminder, this podcast is listener supported by those of you that buy my courses. If you're already one of my 120,000 students, I thank you so much for your support. We're launching a whole new Kubernetes Mastery course soon, an you can get course coupons, join my 20,000 user Slack Community and signup for my newsletter at bretfisher.com

In this episode I'm live from the show floor at DockerCon with Nirmal Mehta and Nils De Moor as we cover the announcments, our favorite sessions, and take your questions on everything from Kubernetes, K3s, Proxy's, Traefik, Docker Enterprise 3.0, Linkerd, storage replication, and more.

In this episode, I have guests Nirmal Mehta, a Chief Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Michael Irwin, an Application Architect at Virginia Tech University. We talk about running tech meetups, how to be a community leader, the Docker and ARM announcement (the processor in Raspberry Pi), Docker for Node.js, AWS ARM A1 instances, QEMU, Traefik Proxies, Docker Swarm, Network Time (NTP, SNTP), Let's Encrypt, and more.

This week, Travis and Stewart discuss the latest in VR experiences including a VR vacation simulator -- or VRacation simulator, if you like Travis' made-up words. They also discuss VR's marketing problem, and European standards for watching ads in VR. Yep, it's a VR-fest this week. And speaking of emerging technologies, the duo then interview Nirmal Mehta, who schools them in everything new and exciting just in time for us to take a short holiday break and head into the exciting technologies that lay ahead in 2018.

Are you having trouble convincing upper management that your organization should be doing DevOps? Technology consultant, Nirmal Mehta, joins us on the podcast to discuss how we can better explain the business benefits of DevOps.

In this episode, DevOps Radio host Andre Pino sits down with Nirmal Mehta, chief technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton, to learn how Docker and DevOps are being used in government projects, specifically the GSA. Nirmal doesn’t share all the secrets about how he’s helped organizations implement Docker...but he does let a few slip out!

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Nirmal Mehta about Arduino, explosions, and prohibited airspace avoidance tips. Ignore the beeping. Arduino NOVA HAB: Arduino + hydrogen + explosives in the outer atmosphere! eGIS We Give Thanks Nirmal Mehta for joining us on the show!  

This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Nirmal Mehta about Jellyfish, Project Jellyfish, and how to get a company to open source a project. NIST Cloud Broker Definition Project Jellyfish Booz Allen Open Sources Jellyfish Cloud Broker for ManageIQ Community Video: Design Summit – Extending ManageIQ with Jellyfish – Nirmal Mehta Grab the code here ManageIQ Licensing is a mess. Stephen Walli has some opinions. Choosing an open source license on GitHub

Dave and Gunnar talk with one of their favorite partners: Nirmal Mehta of Booz Allen Hamilton, Red Hat Innovation Award winner in 2013. It’s a nerdfest. And a Dockerfest. Highlights Hey Nirmal: His name is Solomon Hykes. Atomic Project the container certification program Vagrant Nirmal wants a workflow. the Devnation Netflix session: it’s what Docker enables. the systemd session Open Source: yes, we actually buy that stuff. Chris works on BPMS, and it’s nice to know that it’s Chris. BAH’s Open Broker Platform = CloudForms + JBoss Fuse Dan Walsh’s Dockah Dockah Dockah

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Evolution of evolution, skeumorphism (again), Onion Pi, Brick Pi, Red Hat Summit 2013, an interview with Nirmal Mehta and some lessons learned from Google and NSA. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes. Nirmal big and small. So this is an enormous episode, the longest we’ve done yet. If you just want to hear from Nirmal, jump to 1:00:00. Yes, an hour in. This episode is epic. Deepest apologies to Rackspace: it was another user hogging all the swap. Related Red Hat Summit keynote and session videos Death of skeumorphism: iOS7 OMB asks for 10% discretionary cut citing redundancy — previous plan was 5% This Week in Pi BrickPi Onion Pi Gunnar helps out the good people at the Open Technology Fund This Week in Panopticon Google is different from NSA because one of them has to get a court order. Discuss. NSA leak via USB drive. Time for a security check. Disable USB in RHEL Confine users in RHEL (featuring Dave) Google to keep its calendar CalDAV API public after developer backlash, debuts contacts CardDAV API to boot Foreign hackers seek a soft target at VA Takeaways: Dave gets to say cyber to wind up Gunnar Hackers (and proctologists?) type wearing latex gloves (picture of the week runner up) A chain is only as strong as the weakest link Whatever happened to Google? Services from multiple vendors with loose integration better than monolithic tight integration? Google buys Waze NSA Leaks Present a Business and Ethics Crisis for Silicon Valley Google Reader deathwatch: CommaFeed is getting better and better! Must see demo video, but seems to only work for Pasadena Please vote up Dave’s feature request! AFCEA DC Emerging Technologies Symposium 2013 on June 20 in Washington, DC Defense in Depth Workshop on June 26 in Tysons Corner, VA An award-winning customer we like: Nirmal Mehta of Booz Allen Hamilton Cutting Room Floor What happens when you give a guinea pig a cherry? Guinea pig armor Atari 2600 Superman 49th parallel — border skirmishes waiting to happen: “Canada & The United States: Bizarre Borders Part 2” We Give Thanks Glyn Moody making our day by letting us know about CalDAV’s and CardDAV’s return to Google Gunnar’s sister Wendy, for her Guinea Pig enthusiasm.