Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Deploying new applications can be tough. Deploying configuration management safely at scale with stores around the world is different. Martin Jackson joins us to discuss.

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Featuring:

• Martin Jackson – LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

How stuff breaks

• Pragmatic Engineer summary
• CrowdStrike’s Executive Summary (PDF)
• Brendan Gregg on eBPF

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Michael Gat joins us for a look back on mainframes & why sometimes deploying on a Friday IS the right thing to do.

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• Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database.
• Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog

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• Michael Gat – LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• Mainframe blog post
• SCaLE 21x talk
• Changelog #1 with Cameron Seay
• Changelog #2 with Cameron Seay

Outro

• Facebook research
• Google research
• Amazon research
• Netflix research
• Microsoft research
• Disney Animation research
• Pixar research
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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GitLab has changed a lot over the past 8 years and so has Abubakar. Starting in the help desk he’s seen a lot and takes us through GitLab’s and his progression.

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• Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com
• Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database.
• Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong.

Featuring:

• Abubakar Siddiq Ango – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• Gitlab’s helm chart

Outro

• Happy Eyeballs
• Justin’s resume

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Git was designed to be distributed but there is a lot of gravity around GitHub. What does the model look like for a business that encourages you to run your own git server and what does the backend for gitea.com look like?

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Featuring:

• Matti Ranta – GitHub, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Intro links

• Sony BMG rootkit
• The longest fast

Interview

• gitea
• xgo
• act

Outro

• git extras

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Gareth Greenaway from the Salt project joins us for a trip down memory lane with configuration management and why open source projects have changed over the past decade.

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Featuring:

• Gareth Greenaway – GitHub, Mastodon
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• Gareth Greenaway
• SCaLE
• Salt project

Outro

• The serverless illusion

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Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces.

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• Bailey Hayes – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Taylor Thomas – GitHub, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

WebAssembly

• Bytecode Alliance
• WebAssembly System Interface (WASI)
• wasmCloud

Request For Comments (RFC)

• About RFCs
• Common network RFCs

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Devyn Cairns & Jakub Žádník join Justin & Autumn to talk about building a new kind of cross-platform shell that provides easy extensions with traditional command compatibility. That’s no easy feat!

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• Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database.

Featuring:

• Devyn Cairns – GitHub, X
• Jakub Žádník – GitHub, Mastodon
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Intro

• Nu Shell
• iBook iPad cases

What the distro

• Rhino Linux
• Diamond Linux-TT
• Pardus
• 4M Linux
• q4os
• Accessible Coconut
• Dragonfly BSD

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Render founder/CEO Anurag Goel joins us for a look behind their platform. An application native hosting option that hides the lower levels still requires a LOT of infrastructure.

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• Neo4j – Is your code getting dragged down by JOINs and long query times? The problem might be your database…Try simplifying the complex with graphs. Stop asking relational databases to do more than they were made for. Graphs work well for use cases with lots of data connections like supply chain, fraud detection, real-time analytics, and genAI. With Neo4j, you can code in your favorite programming language and against any driver. Plus, it’s easy to integrate into your tech stack.

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• Anurag Goel – LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

How things break

• Google’s post mortem
• Ars technica’s writeup

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Gina Häußge is here to tell us about the infra behind the OctoPrint project, which tests and releases new versions that work on multiple different printers and gets deployed hundreds of thousands of times.

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• Gina Häußge – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• OctoPrint.org

3D or K8

• Fusion
• Argo
• Skooner
• Eraser

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Danielle Lancashire is here to tell us how Fermyon cloud is built on top of nomad and EC2 and how they put it in a box with Kubernetes and WebAssembly.

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• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

WTA: What The Acronym

• ASM - Assembly
• WASM - WebAssembly. Came from asm.js from Mozilla
• AOT - ahead of time compilation
• JIT - just in time compilation
• WASI - WebAssembly system interface. Types: io, clocks, random, filesystem, sockets, cli, http
• WIT - WebAssembly Interface Type
• Wasmer - by wasmer company
• WAPM - WebAssembly Package Manager
• Wasmtime - Bytecode alliance (amazon, cisco, arm, docker, intel microsoft)

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Jon “gzip enthusiast” Johnson joins us for a history lesson on compression & how it impacts everything from containers to Alpine.

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• Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
• Neo4j – Is your code getting dragged down by JOINs and long query times? The problem might be your database…Try simplifying the complex with graphs. Stop asking relational databases to do more than they were made for. Graphs work well for use cases with lots of data connections like supply chain, fraud detection, real-time analytics, and genAI. With Neo4j, you can code in your favorite programming language and against any driver. Plus, it’s easy to integrate into your tech stack. Visit Neo4j.com/developer to get started.
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• Jon Johnson – GitHub, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Links of the week

• Microsoft’s AI carbon footprint
• Copilot Plus

Interview

• Ship It #91, featuring Jason Hall from Chainguard
• RFC 1951
• Registry explorer
• ima.ge.cx
• How ima.ge.cx works
• aidansteele/ima.ge.cx-backend
• circulosmeos/gztool
• stargz snapshotter
• SOCI

Claude Shannon

• Wikipedia
• A Mind at Play
• The Bit Player

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Andrew Atkinson joins Autumn & Justin to tell them why folks should (and are) picking PostgreSQL as their database in 2024 and how to scale it.

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• Neo4j – Is your code getting dragged down by JOINs and long query times? The problem might be your database…Try simplifying the complex with graphs. Stop asking relational databases to do more than they were made for. Graphs work well for use cases with lots of data connections like supply chain, fraud detection, real-time analytics, and genAI. With Neo4j, you can code in your favorite programming language and against any driver. Plus, it’s easy to integrate into your tech stack.
• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.

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• Andrew Atkinson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• sysctl explorer
• The gender pay gap will ‘never’ close unless this happens

Interview

• Andrew’s website

Fresh OSS

• rHttp
• tu
• poetry-camera website
• Women in Open Source
• Awesome TUIs
• Awesome tmux

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All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMD’s self diagnosis. Some sysadmin’s on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site.

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• Rich Burroughs – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• The Cloud Under the Sea
• UK introduces first IoT security laws

Interview

• Rich Burroughs on Bluesky and LinkedIn

Continuous Conversation

• Hey moved CI to dev machines with a bash script

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Anita Zhang is here to tell us how Meta manages millions of bare metal Linux hosts and containers. We also discuss the Twine white paper and how AI is changing their requirements.

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• Anita Zhang – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Links of the week

• Decoder podcast with Drew Houston
• Twine: A Unified Cluster Management System for Shared Infrastructure

Faux or fo sho

• Attention is all you need
• Probabilistic Inference in Language Models via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
• Causally Abstracted Multi-armed Bandits

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In this episode Justin and Autumn are joined by Mandi Walls to take you back to a time before the cloud. Before Kubernetes. When a/s/l was common and servers were made of metal. Back to the days of AOL to discuss how chat rooms worked.

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• Mandi Walls – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• Executing cron scripts reliably at scale
• Influential women’s tech network shuts down unexpectedly

JDCO

Java, Data, Cloud, Other

• Casandra
• CouchDB
• VCL
• YuniKorn
• Cloudstack
• Flink
• Flume
• Ant
• Log4j
• Guacamole
• Pig
• Roller
• Brooklyn
• NuttX

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Paul Frazee joins the show to tell us all about how Bluesky builds, tests, and deploys mobile and web applications from the same code base.

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• Notion – Notion is a place where any team can write, plan, organize, and rediscover the joy of play. It’s a workspace designed not just for making progress, but getting inspired. Notion is for everyone — whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or freelance designer, starting a new startup or a student juggling classes and clubs.
• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.

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• Paul Frazee✌️ – GitHub, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• How does bluesky work
• Twitter’s clumsy pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
• Justin on Bluesky
• Autumn on Bluesky

Interview

• Paul on Bluesky

Fresh OSS

• Ozone
• Bluesky social app
• Personal Data Server
• PRs

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Why would you want to switch your developer environments from containers to nix? Ádám from LastPass has a few reasons.

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• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Links of the week

• Software needs to be more expensive
• NASA moon rover lunar terrain vehicle proposals

Interview

• Devenv

Remote dev environments

• Amazon Workspaces
• VScode code-server
• Gitpod
• Codespaces

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Verónica López, Kubernetes SIG Release tech lead & distributed systems engineer, joins Justin & Autumn to share her experiences deploying services at scale.

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• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Links

CVE-2024-3094
Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cyber Resilience Act

All the releases of the rainbow 🌈

Options discussed:

• Blue/Green
• Red/Black
• Canary
• Feature flagging/Dark launch
• A/B testing
• Database migrations

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Justin & Autumn take you with them to the 2024 SoCal Linux Expo where they asked six fellow attendees about their favorite open source projects and their least favorite commands.

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• Jeremy Price – LinkedIn
• Elizabeth K. Joseph – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Gareth Greenaway – GitHub, Mastodon
• Noel Miller – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Rit Li – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Paul Yu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Favorite projects mentioned

• Linux
• SQLite
• Lua
• KEDA
• SaltStack
• Universal Blue

Least favorite commands

• sl
• nano
• sed
• tar

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What’s the difference between productivity engineering and platform engineering? How can you continue to re-platform with a moving target? On this episode, we’re joined by Andy Glover, who spent ten years productivity engineering at Netflix, to discuss.

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• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Links of the week

• Maybe you don’t need SRE
• Ex-Google Engineer Charged With Stealing A.I. Secrets for Chinese Firm

Interview

• ReadySet

WTA: What the Acronym?

• K8s - Kubernetes numeronym
• O11y - Observability
• I18n - internationalization
• A11y - accessibility
• Y2k - millennial tech problem

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Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Let’s find out!

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• How the Tech Industry Broke the Promises It Made to Women
• Where is all of the fediverse?

Interview

• SlimToolkit

How things break

• AT&T and Verizon outage
• Meta outage
• LinkedIn outage
• Kagi postmortem (cached)

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Autumn and Justin are joined by Chris Swan to discuss tech industry trends like AI and sustainability, gamifying the software development process and motivating devs to write more secure code, OpenSSF Scorecards and how they offer a way to measure and improve the security and compliance of GitHub repos, the scoring system, and the security posture of a repository.

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• List of 2024 leap day bugs
• Prescription orders delayed as US pharmacies grapple with “nation-state” cyber attack

Person, place, thing, || null

• Linux - person (Linus Torvalds)
• git - person (Linus Torvalds)
• Kubernetes - thing (helmsman)
• Algorithms - person (Al-Khwarizmi, Persian mathmetition)
• Trojan Horse - place (Troy)
• Bluetooth - person (Harold Bluetooth, Denmark king)
• Hadoop - thing (kids elephant toy)
• Venn diagram - person (John Venn)
• MySQL - person (My Widenius)
• Debian - person (Deb and Ian)
• Neon - Greek neon meaning new

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Wanny Morellato & Deepak Mohandas from Kong join Justin & Autumn to discuss building, testing & running a load balancer that can run anywhere.

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• This Week I Learned (TWIL):
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What do you do when your infrastructure runs 1000 miles away and you only have access every 90 minutes? Find out from Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick.

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We’re back! Jason Hall joins the show to tell Justin & Autumn all about how Chainguard builds hundreds of containers without a single Dockerfile.

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• Microservices vs Monoliths
• Using AI imagery to fight spacial apartheid

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This is our 9th Kaizen with Adam & Jerod. We start today’s conversation with the most important thing: embracing change. For Gerhard, this means putting Ship It on hold after this episode. It also means making more time to experiment, maybe try a few of those small bets that we recently talked about with Daniel. Kaizen will continue, we are thinking on the Changelog. Stick around to hear the rest.

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Tim McNamara is known as New Zealand’s Rust guy. He is the author of Rust in Action, and also a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, where he helps other builders with all things Rust.

The main reason why Gerhard is intrigued by Rust is the incredible resource frugality. Fewer CPUs means less energy used, which is good for the planet, and good for the monthly bill. This becomes most noticeable at Amazon’s scale, when S3, Lambda, CloudFront and other services start adding Rust components.

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• 📝 Why Discord is Switching from Go to Rust
• 🎬 Rust is interesting, but does it really make sense for me? - AWS re:Invent 2022 - Tim McNamara
• 📝 Optimizing 700 CPUs Away With Rust - Alan Ning, SRE at Tenable.io
• 📊 Lambda Cold Starts analysis by maxday
• 📝 Sustainability with Rust - AWS Open Source Blog
• 📝 How automated reasoning helps Amazon S3 innovate at scale - S3 ShardStore Rust
• Rust on AWS
• Rust Nation 2023

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In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them.

For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life & work. Daniel talks about the role of randomness, about learning from small wins & about optimising for a lifestyle that matches your true preferences. Apparently, ideas too should be treated like cattle, not pets.

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• Creator Spotlight: Daniel Vassallo’s Success on Gumroad
• Small Bets
• The Good Parts of AWS
• Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
• 🎧 Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach
• 🎬 Building a Portfolio of Small Bets with Daniel Vassallo - The Bootstrapped Founder #166

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Last September, at the 🇨🇭 Swiss Cloud Native Day, Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of ZITADEL, talked about why they switched to serverless containers. ZITADEL has a really interesting workload that is both CPU intensive and latency sensitive. On top of this, their users are global, and traffic is bursty. Florian talks about how they evaluated AWS, GCP & Azure before they settled on the platform that met their requirements.

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• 🎬 What is the fuzz around serverless (containers)? - Open Source @ Siemens, May 2022
• 🔬 Self-host ZITADEL on Knative
• 🐙 github.com/zitadel/zitadel

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Lars is big on Elixir. Think apps that scale really well, tend to be monolithic, and have one of the most mature deployment models: self-contained releases & built-in hot code reloading. In episode 7, Gerhard talked to Lars about “Why Kubernetes”. There is a follow-up YouTube stream that showed how to automate deploys for an Elixir app using K3s & ArgoCD.

More than a year later, how does Lars think about running applications in production? What does simple & straightforward mean to him? Gerhard’s favourite: what is “human scale deployments”?

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• 🎧 shipit.show/7 - Why Kubernetes?
• 🎬 k3s & ArgoCD with Elixir
• 📝 Deploying with K3s & ArgoCD
• 📝 Fundamentals & deployment

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Marcos Nils has been into platform engineering for the best part of the last decade. He helped architect & build developer platforms using VMs & OpenStack, containers with Docker, and even Kubernetes. He did this at startups with 10 people, as well as large, publicly traded companies with 1000+ software engineers.

Today we talk with Marcos about the hard parts of platform engineering.

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Welcome to 2023! A new year is the perfect time to start with a fresh perspective. Given a few bare metal hosts with fast, local storage, how would you run your workloads on them? Would you cluster them for redundancy? What operating system would you choose?

Steve Francis, CEO at Sidero Labs and Andrew Rynhard, CTO at Sidero Labs join us today to talk about running Talos Linux on bare metal.

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• Talos Linux
• 🎬 Hack Sesh: K8s@Home Edition - April, 2022
• 🎬 DevOps Toolkit - Talos: Linux Designed For Kubernetes - March, 2022
• 🎬 Sidero Metal Webinar - January, 2022
• 🎬 I am Installing Talos OS (Sidero) at Home - October, 2021

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Eight months ago, in 🎧 episode 49, Alex Sims (Solutions Architect & Senior Software Engineer at James & James) shared with us his ambition to help migrate a monolithic PHP app running on AWS EC2 to a more modern architecture. The idea was some serverless, some EKS, and many incremental improvements.

So how did all of this work out in practice? How did the improved system cope with the Black Friday peak, as well as all the following Christmas orders? Thank you Alex for sharing with us your Ship It! inspired Kaizen story. It’s a wonderful Christmas present! 🎄🎁

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Narayanan Raghavan leads the global SRE organization that runs Red Hat managed cloud services including OpenShift Dedicated, Azure Red Hat Openshift, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science among others across the three major cloud providers: AWS, GCP & Azure. We start with a high-level discussion about DevOps, SRE & platform engineering, and then we dig into SRE specifics, including what it takes to safely roll out updates across many tens of thousands of OpenShift clusters.

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• 🎬 Kubernetes vs. OpenShift
• 🎬 Hands-on demo of Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated

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In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of two guests: Whitney Lee, Staff Technical Advocate at VMware, the one behind the ⚡️ Enlightning episodes, and Mauricio Salatino, which you already know from 🎧 shipit.show/41 on Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes.

The two of them gave the most amazing KubeCon NA Keynote last month: What a RUSH! Let’s Deploy Straight to Production!

So how do we create an Internal Development Platform that enables anyone on the team to deploy straight to production with the confidence that everything will just work?

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• 🎬 What a RUSH! Let’s Deploy Straight to Production! + 🗺 SLIDES + 🐙 CODE - KubeCon NA 2022 Keynote
• ⚡️ Enlightning - learn cloud concepts with Whitney & her lightboard - every Tuesday at 11am ET
• 📃 Building platforms on top of Kubernetes: vcluster and Crossplane - Mauricio Salatino - August 2022
• 📖 Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes

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For our last 2022 Kaizen episode, we went all out:

• 💪 @jerod outdid himself in the number of improvements shipped between Kaizens
• 🕺 A few of our listeners contributed → prompted us to create a new contributing guide
• 🗺 We now have a new infrastructure diagram

All of this, and a whole lot more, is captured as GitHub discussion 🐙 changelog.com#433. If you want to see everything that we improved, that is a great companion to this episode.

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In your company, who designs the end-to-end developer experience? From design to implementation, what is the developer experience that you actually ship? Even though the average developer wastes almost half of their working hours because of bad DX, many of us don’t even know what that means, or how to improve it.

Kenneth Auchenberg is working at Stripe, building economic infrastructure for the internet. Gerhard found his perspective on Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI) refreshingly simple, as well as very useful.

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• The tweet that started this episode
• 📝 Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI)
• The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture - How to design an end to end developer journey - Shawn “swyx” Wang

Developer Experience is the new hot thing, and we now see many existing teams re-labeled as Dev Experience. What does DX really mean, and what is the relationship between developer relations, advocacy, DX, and product teams?
@auchenberg Twitter 🧵

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In today’s episode we have the pleasure of Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer at NAV.no, Norway’s Labour & Welfare Administration. We will be talking about NAIS.io, the application platform that runs on-prem, as well as on the public cloud.

Imagine hundreds of developers shipping on an average day 300 changes into a system which processes $100,000,000 worth of transactions on a quiet week. If you think this is hard, consider the context: a government institution which must comply with all laws & regulations.

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• NAIS.io - Application platform and DevEx toolbox for teams digitalizing NAV.no
• 🗂 docs.nais.io - references, step-by-step guides & some good YAML
• 📊 NAV.no deployment stats, 2009 - 2022
• 🗺 NAV Teknisk retning (technical direction)
• Being NAIS at a distance - How we work in a hybrid world
• Do we need an internal technology platform? - The case for platforms at NAV
• Changing Service Mesh - How we swapped Istio with Linkerd with hardly any downtime
• NAIS @ GitHub
• 📃 How to Optimize for Fast Flow Using Alignment and Autonomy
• 🐦 Do you know what’s cool? Keeping your #kubernetes clusters secure.

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15 years ago, Gerhard discovered magic in the form of Ruby on Rails. It was intuitive and it just worked. That is the context in which Gerhard fell in love with infrastructure and operations.

Today, for special episode 77, we start at Seven Shipping Principles, and, in the true spirit of Ship It, we’ll see what happens next.

Our guest is David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder of Basecamp & HEY, and a lot more - check out dhh.dk.

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• David Heinemeier Hansson – GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 📝 Seven Shipping Principles
• 📝 Why we’re leaving the cloud
• DHH @ Le Mans 2022
• Basecamp Next’s caching hardware - Jan. 2012 - 864GB of RAM - $12k in 2012
• Gerhard’s favourite signals from the new 37signals.com
  • Hours aren’t equal
  • Small tech
  • JOMO
• Email’s new heyday

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In today’s episode, we talk about distroless, ko, apko, melange, musl and glibc. The context is Wolfi OS, a community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era. If you are looking for the lightest possible container base image with 0 CVEs and both glibc and musl support, Wolfi OS & the related chainguard-images are worth checking out.

Ariadne Conill is an Alpine Linux TSC member & Software Engineer at Chainguard.

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• Ariadne Conill – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Ariadne’s Twitter thread that kick-started this episode
• Wolfi OS - a stripped-down distro designed for the cloud-native era
• Minimal Container images from Chainguard
• ko - build and deploy Go applications on Kubernetes
• apko Overview - build OCI images using APK directly
• melange - build APKs from source code
• musl libc
• glibc - GNU C library
• “We discovered a bug in our repository management service”

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Few genuinely need a multi-cloud setup. There is plenty of advice out there which mostly boils down to don’t do it, you will be worse off. Vex.dev is a startup that provides APIs for video and audio streaming. The hard part is real-time combined with massive scale - think hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. They achieve this by using a combination of Fly.io, AWS and GCP. Jason Carter, founder of Vex Communications, is joining us today to talk about the multi-cloud setup that vex.dev runs.

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• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• vex.dev - Stream your meeting, or your moon landing 💥 Demo
• WebRTC
• HLS - HTTP Live Streaming
• Typescript SDK for working with the Vex API
• 🎬 When to Choose Rust for Your Cloud Native App - Tim McNamara - #swisscnd 2022
• Postgres WASM

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I don’t think that you can imagine just how excited Gerhard was to find out that Audi, his favourite car company, has a Kubernetes competence centre. We have Sebastian Kister joining us today to tell us why people, followed by tech make the process.

The right thing to focus on is the genuine smiles that people give in response to something we do or say. That is an important SLI & SLO for reducing friction between silos.

How does this impact the flow of artefacts into production systems that design & build cars?

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• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 🎬 Container Days - September 2022: A culture beyond SLA and T&C - Sebastian Kister, Audi
• 📄 How Audi provides developer self-service - April 2022
• 🎬 NGINX Sprint 2.0 - Nov. 2021: Audi Harnesses the Full Potential of Kubernetes with NGINX App Protect
• Celebrating 50 years of “Vorsprung durch Technik”
• Audi Digitalization
• 🚙 Audi Films: An Avant Story

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Matias Pan is a Staff Software Engineer at Lemon Cash, a crypto startup based in Argentina. Lemon infrastructure runs digital wallets & physical cards, which technically makes them a bank. How does Matias & his team think about enabling developers get code from their workstations into production? Remember, we are talking about a bank - a bad deploy is a big deal. And when a bad database migration goes out, what happens then?

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• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 📄 Deploying services at Lemon - May 2022
• Matias’ follow-up post: How services are provisioned, deployed and operated at Lemon Cash - October 2022
• Early inspiration: Let a 1000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots. - September 2015

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One of our listeners, Andrew Welker, suggested that we talk about Klustered, so a few hours before David Flanagan was about to do his workshop at Container Days, we recorded this episode. We talked about all the weird and wonderful Kubernetes debugging sessions on Klustered, a YouTube playlist with 43 videos and counting.

We then talked about Rawkode Academy, and we finished with conferences. Good thing we did, because David almost forgot about KubeHuddle, the conference that he is co-organising next week. Gerhard is looking forward to talking at it! No, seriously, check it out at kubehuddle.com.

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• David Flanagan – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 🎬 Klustered
• 🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to acorn.io
• 🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to DockerSlim
• 🎬 Rawkode Live: Hands-on introduction to apko & melange
• 🎬 Rawkode Academy: Introduction to BGP - Limitless: Global Reach with BGP
• github.com/RawkodeAcademy/courses
• KubeHuddle - Oct. 3-4, 2022 - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s first Kubernetes conference

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Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting that you don’t know, and running many experiments, safely, without blowing everything up. And then there is scope creep…

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Show Notes:

• Gerhard’s review for Modern Software Engineering - it even has a picture!
• 🎧 Ship It #5 - The foundations of Continuous Delivery
• 🎬 Tips for Building Successful Platform Teams
• 🎬 The REAL Reason Cyberpunk 2077 software failed
• 🎬 How a Quantum Computer Works
• 🎬 The Difference Between DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• 🎬 Is DevOps Good Or Bad?
• 👕 Qwertee.com - Dave buys his quirky t-shirts here

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In today’s Kaizen episode, we talk about shipping Adam’s Christmas present: chapter support for all Changelog episodes that we now publish. This feature was hard because there are many subtle differences in how the ID3 spec is implemented. Of course, once the PR shipped, there were other issues to solve, including an upgrade the world kind of scenario. Since Lars Wikman did all the heavy ID3 lifting, he joins us in this episode.

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• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• What is ID3 in the context of MP3?
• PR #417 - ID3vx-based episode tagging
• id3vx - Elixir library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags
• PR #423 - Upgrade Elixir from 1.12 to 1.13 (and all the other things)
• The failing CircleCI build that resulted in removing the integration
• erlang/otp issue #6241
• PR #421 - What to do if the Wireguard tunnel stops working in GHA
• PR #418 - Notify Slack when a deploy succeeds
• GitHub SSH commit verification now supported - thanks Marcos Nils!
• Signing Git Commits with SSH Keys

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Maybe it’s the Californian sun. Or perhaps it’s the time spent at Disney Studios, the home of the best stories. One thing is for sure: Taylor Dolezal is one of the happiest cloud native people that Gerhard knows.

As a former Lead SRE for Disney Studios, Taylor has significant hands-on experience running cloud native technologies in a large company. After a few years as a HashiCorp Developer Advocate, Taylor is now Head of End User Ecosystem at CNCF. In his current role, he is helping enable cloud native success for end-users like Boeing, Mercedes Benz & many others.

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• Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.

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• Taylor Dolezal – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 🎬 KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 Keynote
• This episode started with a tweet
• Phippy as far as the eye can see! 👀 🦒
• KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 - Transparency Report
• Take the 2022 Cloud Native Survey
• A recap from OSS Summit North America 2022
• 🎬 Navigating an Infinite Landscape - Taylor Dolezal - PlatformCon 2022
• ArgoCon 2022 - September 19 - 21, 2022

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Most of you already know what it’s like to work in a startup or a small company. A few of you have been asking us for conversations with engineers that work for big companies, the kind that run everything from big title games to banking, and even critical national infrastructure.

In today’s episode, we talk to Ganeshkumar, a Software Engineer in the Azure Kubernetes Service team, who works on Node Lifecycle and Kubernetes Versioning, and Brendan, Kubernetes project co-founder and engineering Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Azure OSS and Cloud-native Compute. We talk about what it’s like to work for Microsoft, how mentoring works in practice, and what Kubernetes, Omega, & Borg have to do with it all.

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• Brendan Burns – GitHub, X
• Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 📄 Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes - March, 2016
• 🎬 How to use GitOps with Microsoft Azure - Brendan Burns - July, 2021
• 🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 1 - January, 2022
• Event Grid on Kubernetes with Azure Arc

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A few weeks ago, Jerod spoke with Liz Rice about the power of eBPF on The Changelog. Today, we have the pleasure of both Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Office at Isovalent & Thomas Graf, CTO & co-founder at Isovalent, the creators of Cilium.

Around 2014, Facebook achieved a 10x performance improvement by replacing their traditional load balancers with eBPF. In 2017, every single packet that went to Facebook was processed by eBPF. Nowadays, every Android phone is using it. Truth be told, if it’s network-related and it matters, eBPF is most likely a part of it.

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• Thomas Graf – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• eBPF.io
• 📘 What is eBPF? - written by Liz Rice, free to download
• 📕 Security Observability with eBPF - written by Natália Réka Ivánkó and Jed Salazar, free to download
• 🎬 A Guided Tour of Cilium Service Mesh - Liz Rice, Isovalent - KubeCon 2022 EU
• 🎬 eCHO Episode 51: Life of a Packet with Cilium - Duffie Cooley
• Learn more about Cilium and eBPF from the technology experts
• ✨ Twinkly - Liz’s wall neon

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Why are the right values important for a company that changed the way the world builds software? How does pair programming help scale & maintain the company culture? What is it like to grow a company to 3000 employees over 30 years?

Today we have the privilege of Rob Mee, former CEO of Pivotal, the real home of Cloud Foundry and Concourse CI. Rob is now the CEO of Geometer.io, an incubator where Elixir is behind many great ideas executed well, including the US COVID response programme.

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• Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.
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• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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• BBC News: The firm that starts work at 9.06am
• Cloud Foundry
• Concourse CI
• Pivotal IPO - 2018
• 🎧 Ship It! #9 - the one where we talk about the RabbitMQ Concourse CI pipeline
• 🎬 Panel discussion around startups, venture capital in the Erlang Ecosystem - Code BEAM America 2021

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Tammer Saleh, founder of Super Orbital, a tiny team of exceptional Kubernetes engineers and teachers, is joining us today to talk about what is cool in the Cloud Native world. Yes, it’s the same Tammer that we had the pleasure of on shipit.show/31 - Is Kubernetes a platform?

In today’s episode, we also cover two great blog posts:

1. Zero to GitOps: Terraform and the AWS EKS Blueprints project by Sean Kane
2. Hunting Down an Intermittent Failure in Cilium by James McShane

We wrap up with ✨ The Cool Wall of Cloud Native ✨

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• FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
• Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
• Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.

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• Tammer Saleh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• shipit.show/31 - Is Kubernetes a platform?
• Zero to GitOps: Terraform and the AWS EKS Blueprints project by Sean Kane
• Hunting Down an Intermittent Failure in Cilium by James McShane
• Top Gear Fan Wiki: The Cool Wall

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Our today’s guest spent 4 days building a feature for his side project so that we could ship it together on Ship It!, while recording. The feature is called rave mode, and the context is Bass, an interpreted functional scripting language written in Go, riffing on the ideas of Kernel & Clojure. When the local build runs, you can now press r to synchronise the beats of your currently playing Spotify track with the build output. For a demo, see bass v0.9.0 release.

Please welcome Alex Suraci, a.k.a. vito, the creator of Concourse CI and Bass.

This episode is dedicated to the late John Shutt, the creator of Kernel.

Your ideas continue in Bass.

Thank you for getting them out into the world.

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• Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code SHIPIT and get the team plan free for three months.
• Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
• Akuity – Akuity is a new platform (founded by Argo co-creators) that brings fully-managed Argo CD and enterprise services to the cloud or on premise. They’re inviting our listeners to join the closed beta at akuity.io/changelog. The platform is a versatile Kubernetes operator for handling cluster deployments the GitOps way. Deploy your apps instantly and monitor their state — get minimum overhead, maximum impact, and enterprise readiness from day one.

Featuring:

• Alex Suraci – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Concourse CI
• See shipit.show/9 notes for the RabbitMQ v3.8 CI/CD pipeline from 2020
• Concourse core roadmap: towards v10 - written by Alex 3 years ago
• 🎬 Getting Started with Concourse CI - Dr. Nic Williams, Stark & Wayne - October 2016
• Faux-O talk - Gary Bernhardt
• The Kernel Programming Language
• Bass bassics
• The bass shipit file that ships Bass
• bass v0.9.0 release - the one that we shipped while recording this episode
• booklit.page - a tool for building static websites from semantic documents
• Package repository size/freshness map

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We know that many of you listen to this podcast while running 🏃‍♀️ or cycling 🚴‍♂️ Hey Dan!

How many of you cycled to a conference? Gerhard knows a single person that cycled 764 miles for 8 days straight from Switzerland to Spain for this year’s KubeCon EU. His name is Johann Gyger, a CNCF ambassador & a cloud consultant at Peak Scale. Johann is a cloud engineer at heart that is all in on sustainability. He is the main reason why Gerhard is super excited to talk about electric cars & Dagger at the Swiss Cloud Native Day this September.

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• Johann Gyger – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Swiss Cloud Native Day 2022 speakers
• 🎬 Swiss Cloud Native Day 2021
• 🎬 Gurten, Bern - Swiss Cloud Native Day location
• The best bits from KubeCon EU 2022

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Gerhard’s transition to a senior engineer started 10 years ago, when he embraced the vim mindset, functional core & imperative shell, and was inspired to seek simplicity in his code & infrastructure. Most of it can be traced back to one person: Gary Bernhardt, the creator of Execute Program, Destroy all Software and the now famous Wat idea.

Few stick around long enough to understand the long-term impact of their decisions on production systems. Even fewer are able to talk about them as well as Gary does.

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• Gary Bernhardt – GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 🎧 Why we 💚 Vim - changelog.fm/450
• Execute Program - Learn it. Code it. Remember it.
• Destroy all Software - Everyday programming tools built from scratch
• 🎬 Wat talk - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012

Gary tweets June 1, 2022
I just needed a small new feature to finish the task I was doing. It took 3 minutes to write the code, then 9 minutes for CI and deploy, so it was live in production 12 minutes after I realized I needed it. Can’t imagine working any other way.

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Today we talk with two lovely folks from Transistor.fm: Jason Pearl, Senior Software Developer & Jon Buda, co-founder. Gerhard was curious to find out about their setup & how did it change with the launch of the new podcast website builder. After all, you have been hearing us talk about our setup for years, so it was high-time to challenge some assumptions and learn how another team is solving similar problems.

TL;DL: keeping it simple is at the root of smooth operations & stable systems.

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• Flatfile – Data import is broken. We fixed it. Flatfile’s powerful out-of-the-box solution takes the data import burden off your shoulders, freeing you to solve bigger business problems and build products that people love.

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• Jason Pearl – GitHub, X
• Jon Buda – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Transistor.fm launches Free Podcast Website Builder on Product Hunt
• Jason joins Transistor.fm
• CloudFlare R2
• Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
• 🎧 Build your SaaS E135: What’s it really like to work at Transistor?

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In our 6th Kaizen, we talk with Jerod about all the things that we cleaned up after migrating changelog.com from a managed Kubernetes to Fly.io. We deleted the K8s cluster and moved wildcard cert management to Fastly & all our vanity domain certs to Fly.io. We migrated the Docker Engine that our GitHub Actions is using - PR #416 has all the details. We did a few other things in preparation for our secrets plan. Thank you Maikel Vlasman, James Harr, Adrian Mester, Omri Gabay & Owen Valentine for kicking it off in our Slack #shipit channel.

Gerhard’s favourite improvement: the new shipit.show domain.

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• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• PR #416 - Deploy & use Docker Engine running on Fly.io
• Jerod does some more Kaizen-driven development: 404 & 500 fix 💪 try shipit.show/1234
• shipit.show/60 👈 works for any published episode
• shipit.show/request 💬 request an episode
• Argo CD Vault Plugin 👍 thanks Adrian Mester
• 1Password/vault-plugin-secrets-onepassword 👍 thanks Owen Valentine

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Ben Johnson, the creator of Litestream, joined Fly.io a few weeks after we migrated changelog.com - episode 50 has all the details. That was pure coincidence. What was not a coincidence, is Gerhard jumping at the opportunity to talk to Ben about Postgres vs SQLite with Litestream.

The prospect of running a cluster of our app instances spread across all regions, with local SQLite & Litestream replication, is mind boggling. Let’s find out from Ben what will it take to get there. Thanks Kürt for kicking off this dream.

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• Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🆕 FOLLOW-UP: Live read replicas update in GitHub issue comment

• How this episode started
• I’m All-In on Server-Side SQLite
• Getting Started with Litestream
• github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
• litestream.io repository
• The Secret Lives of Data - Raft
• 🎧 Replicating SQLite using Litestream with Ben Johnson - ThinkingElixir #101 - May, 2022
• 🎧 Open source, not open contribution - Changelog #433 - March, 2021
• Datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
• How Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/month - April, 2021
• Picoshare - A minimalist, easy-to-host service for sharing images and other files
• Picoshare deploy to Fly.io
• Fly Machines: An API for Fast-booting VMs

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Rob Barnes (a.k.a. Devops Rob) and Rosemary Wang (author of Infrastructure as Code - Patterns & Practices) are joining us today to talk about infrastructure secrets.

What do Rosemary and Rob think about committing encrypted secrets into a repository? How do they suggest that we improve on storing secrets in LastPass? And if we were to choose HashiCorp Vault, what do we need to know?

Thank you Thomas Eckert for the intro. Thank you Nabeel Sulieman (ep. 46) & Kelsey Hightower (ep. 44) for your gentle nudges towards improving our infra secrets management.

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• Rosemary Wang – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Rob Barnes – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Bitnami Sealed Secrets
• age CLI
• Mozilla SOPS
• Experimental LastPass provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store
• HashiCorp Vault
• 📖 Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices - Rosemary Wang, July 2022
• 🎬 Cloud Identity with HashiCorp Vault - Rob Barnes, DevOps Exchange London, March 2022
• 🎬 Developing a Secrets Engine for HashiCorp Vault - Rosemary Wang, August 2021

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Today we are talking with Frederic Branczyk, founder of Polar Signals & Prometheus maintainer. You may remember Frederic from episode 33 when we introduced Parca.dev.

This time, we talk about a database built for observability: FrostDB, formerly known as ArcticDB. eBPF generates a lot of high cardinality data, which requires a new approach to writing, persisting & then reading back this state.

TL;DR FrostDB is sub zero cool & well worthy of its name.

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• Frederic Branczyk – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• ⚠️ Naming is hard: ArcticDB is now FrostDB (+updates!)
• Introducing ArcticDB: A database for Observability
• Profiling Next.js apps with Parca
• Michal Kuratczyk helped us figure out what we were doing wrong with Erlang perf maps
• David Ansari: Improving RabbitMQ Performance with Flame Graphs
• Kemal Akkoyun: Fantastic Symbols and Where to Find Them Part 1 & Part 2
• Matthias Loibl: pyrra - Making SLOs with Prometheus manageable, accessible, and easy to use for everyone!
• Tyler Neely: 🎬 Modern database engineering with io_uring - FOSDEM 2020
• Achille Roussel: Go library to read/write Parquet files - segmentio/parquet-go
• Julia Evans: How to spy on a Ruby program

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Today we are talking with Maikel Vlasman, technical lead for a large Dutch machine construction company, and a cloud engineer by heart. We cover self-updating GitLab & ArgoCD, Maikel’s thinking behind dev environment setup and a Kubernetes workshop that he is preparing for his team. The goal is to function as a true DevOps team with shared responsibilities.

This conversation started as a thread in our community Slack - link in the show notes. Thank you Maikel for being a long-time Changelog listener and for reaching out to us - we enjoyed telling this story.

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• Maikel – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 2 months ago, Maikel reached out via our Slack
• 🎬 Introduction to Docker - the video that introduced Maikel to cloud engineering
• Terraform Argo CD - set up Argo CD in K8s & then maintain everything (including Argo CD) using Argo CD GitOps pull functionality

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Today we are talking how to optimise sociotechnical systems with Ben Ford, founder & CEO of Mission Control. The correct order is: people, process & technology. The tools are important, and we talk about specific ones in the second half of this episode, but there are rules and principles that govern how people interact, and we need to start there.

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• Ben Ford – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 🎧 Ship It! #4 OODA for operational excellence
• 🎬 The Paradox of Control - NATO C2COE C2 Webinar 2021 - Ben Ford
• Mission ctrl - Organisation engineering as a service
• Strapi - Next.js Corporate Starter
• Appsmith - Open source framework to build internal tools
• Metabase - Business Intelligence
• Cube.dev - Open Source Headless Business Intelligence
• Causal.app - Business Planning Platform
• The Orbit Model
• Orbit - Community Growth Platform
• n8n.io - Workflow Automation Platform
• Hasura - Instant GraphQL on all your data
• Railway.app - Bring your code, we’ll handle the rest.
• Notion - One workspace. Every team.

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This is the post-KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022 week. Gerhard is talking to Matt Moore, founder & CTO of Chainguard about all things Knative and Sigstore.

The most important topic is swag, because none has better stickers than Chainguard.

The other topic is the equivalent of Let’s Encrypt for securing software.

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• Raygun – Never miss another mission-critical issue again — Raygun Alerting is now available for Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring, to make sure you are quickly notified of the errors, crashes, and front-end performance issues that matter most to you and your business. Set thresholds for your alert based on an increase in error count, a spike in load time, or new issues introduced in the latest deployment. Start your free 14-day trial at Raygun.com
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• Matt Moore – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

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Today we are at KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2022, talking to Adolfo García Veytia about securing Kubernetes releases. Adolfo is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, and one of the technical leads for SIG release, meaning that he helps ship Kubernetes. You most likely know him as Puerco, and have seen first-hand his passion for securing software via SBOMs, cosign and SLSA. Puerco’s love for bikes and Chainguard are a great match 🚴‍♂️

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• Chronosphere – Chronosphere is the observability platform for cloud-native teams operating at scale. When it comes to observability, teams need a reliable, scalable, and efficient solution so they can know about issues well before their customers do. Teams choose Chronosphere to help them move faster than the competition. Learn more and get a demo at chronosphere.io.

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• Adolfo García Veytia – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• KCCNCEU 2022: Make the Secure Kubernetes Supply Chain Work for You - Adolfo García Veytia, Chainguard
• KCCNCEU 2022: Releasing Kubernetes Less Often and More Secure - The SIG Release Update - Adolfo García Veytia & Carlos Panato, Chainguard; Sascha Grunert, Red Hat; Stephen Augustus, Cisco
• Kubernetes signals massive adoption of Sigstore for protecting open source ecosystem
• kubectl plugin for signing Kubernetes manifest YAML files with sigstore
• CLI utility to generate SPDX-compliant Bill of Materials manifests

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Today we talk to Priyanka Sharma (E.D. at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation) about all things KubeCon Europe 2022. We start with Gerhard’s favourite subject - Priyanka’s Happy Hour - and then we switch focus to the conference.

For many, this will be the first in-person KubeCon since 2019. As for Gerhard, he is not sure that he remember how airports work. If he succeeds, he looks forward to meeting some of you in Valencia. If not, send help.

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• FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
• MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog
• Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.

Featuring:

• Priyanka Sharma – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022:

• Schedule
• Register - in-person or virtually
• Health + Safety
• Vaccines + Masks for Safe In-Person Events

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Today we talk to Mark Ericksen about all the things that we could be doing on the new platform - this is a follow-up to episode 50.

Mark specialises in Elixir, he hosts the Thinking Elixir podcast, and he also helps make Fly.io the best place to run Phoenix apps, such as changelog.com. In the interest of holding our new platform right, we thought that it would be a great idea to talk to someone that does this all day, every day, for many years now.

We touch up on how to run database migrations safely, and how to upgrade our application config to the latest Phoenix version. We also talked about some of the more advanced platform features that we may want to start leveraging, like the multi-region PostgreSQL.

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• Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
• Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog

Featuring:

• Mark Ericksen – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Safe Ecto Migrations
• Generate project template file diffs - including Phoenix configs
• Kürt’s recommended way of exporting PostgreSQL db backups
• Multi-region PostgreSQL
• LiveBeats: Building a Social Music App With Phoenix LiveView
• 🎬 Deploy Elixir and Phoenix globally on Fly.io in five minutes
• 🎧 Thinking Elixir #93 - Preventing Service Abuse with Michael Lubas

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This is our 5th Kaizen where we talk about the next improvement to changelog.com: we are now running on Fly.io and our PostgreSQL is managed. This is a migration that many were curious about, including Simmy de Klerk, the person that requested this episode.

After migrating all our media files to AWS S3 (check episode 40), we thought that this part was going to be easy. Plan met reality. Pull request 407 has all the details.

We want to emphasise the type of partner relationships that we seek at Changelog & why they are important to us, as well as to our listeners. Honeycomb & Fly embody the principles that we care about, and Gerhard thinks that we are currently missing a Kubernetes partner.

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• PR #407 - ✈️ Migrate changelog.com to Fly.io ✈️

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Alex Sims, a Senior Software Engineer at James & James, an eCommerce fulfilment company, reached out to us about the Kaizen story of the third-party logistics (3PL) platform that he has been involved with for several years now.

The system delivered 16 millions of orders in 10 years, and 4.5 million in the last year alone. All the numbers are going up, and there is only so much that a single PHP monolith deployed as VM images can handle. So how do you even start thinking about the architectural improvements, and inspire everyone involved to move towards better?

We encourage you to look at the architectural diagrams in the show notes, especially the 10 year roadmap, and ask Alex for a blog post follow-up. While today’s episode was a good conversation starter, there is a lot that we did not have time to cover.

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• James & James - eCommerce Fulfilment Services

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In this episode we talk about launching Dagger with all four founders: Andrea, Eric, Sam & Solomon.

While you may remember Sam & Solomon from episode 23, this time we assembled all four superheroes in this story and went deeper, covering nearly three years of refinements, the launch, as well as the world-class team & community that is coming together to solve the next problem of shipping software. Container images and Kubernetes are great steps in the right direction, but now it’s time for the next leap into the future.

You can use Dagger to run your CI/CD pipelines locally, without needing to commit and push. You can also use Dagger as a Makefile alternative, which resonates with Gerhard, but go further and your perspective on documentation & automation may start shifting.

Gerhard believes that this is the Docker moment of CI/CD.

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• 🎧 Ship It #23: A universal deployment engine
• 📰 Public launch announcement
• 💬 Dagger launch discussion on Hacker News
• ✨ dagger.io: A portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines
• 🐙 dagger/dagger on GitHub

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This episode was requested by Tyler Smith who feels that he may not need Kubernetes just yet. Tyler has a few questions about Docker & Docker Swarm, so Andrea Luzzardi, former Docker Swarm Lead, joins us today to answer them.

We talk about Docker Swarm beginnings, some of the challenges that it faced, and what Andrea’s recommendation is for Tyler’s journey with Docker Swarm.

After dedicating four years of his professional career to Docker Swarm, Andrea is the best person that Gerhard knows to talk about this subject. And guess what, the same thing happened now as it did at KubeCon 2015: Sam pointed to Andrea. It will all make sense in the first five minutes. This one is going to be fun!

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Show Notes:

• Scale Testing Docker Swarm to 30,000 Containers (and 1,000 nodes) - November 2015
• 🎬 Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, KubeCon NA 2015
• 🎬 Docker Orchestration, Cloud Field Day 2016
• Speakerdeck: Heart of the SwarmKit: Topology Management, July 2016
• From Docker to Docker Swarm: The new changelog.com setup for 2019

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Nabeel Sulieman, Senior Software Engineer at Vercel, talks about KCert, a simpler alternative to cert-manager that he built. Gerhard tried it out, and he thinks that Nabeel is onto something. If you want to see the video that they recorded, ping us on Twitter or Slack.

We love this story, especially the long-term approach of working on something that one truly believes in, and the only reason is because it’s fun. The world needs more people like Nabeel, and we hope that this episode inspires you to go all out, and do just that.

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• Sep 2020: cert-manager issue #3238 that kicked the KCert idea off
• Oct 2020: Kubernetes SSL certs the “Hard Way”
• Feb 2021: KCert in practice after a few months
• Mar 2021: KCert is ready for broader usage
• Feb 2022: KCert v1.0
• KCert today

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Pia Wiedermayer, Lead QA at Zühlke, is talking with Gerhard today about software quality. If the name sounds familiar, check out episode 28. Thank you Romano for the introduction 👋🏻

Do you remember the last time that you used an app, whether it was in the browser or on your mobile, and everything just worked? What about that intuitive feel, snappiness and you achieving the task that you intended to without feeling that you are fighting tech? Experiences like those take a lot of effort across multiple disciplines. They are designed, built and maintained over long periods of time. It all starts with people like Pia that really care about quality. It’s so much more than just automated testing…

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• 🎬 Hey DevOps, you’re killing my job!
• Waterfall Testing to Agile QA - Successfully Transforming a Bank’s Setup - EuroStar 2022, 7-10 June
• Alice in Agile Land – a tester’s story
• How to get rid of the new QA
• Boundary Value Analysis & Equivalence Partitioning Testing
• 🎬 Pia Wiedermayer, Quality Passionista, YouTube channel

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Today’s conversation with Kelsey Hightower showed Gerhard what he was missing in his quest for automation and Kubernetes. The fundamentals that Kelsey shares will most certainly help you level up your game.

This is a follow-up to the last 45 seconds of the Kubernetes documentary.

Oh, and we finally cleared where we should run our changelog.com PostgreSQL database 🙂

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The 45 seconds that started this conversation

• 🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 1
• 🎬 Kubernetes: The Documentary - Part 2
• 🎬 Kubernetes The Easy Way! - KubeCon NA 2017
• 🎬 Kelsey, Kubernetes, and GitOps - GitHub Universe 2020
• 🎬 Kelsey Hightower’s Best Live Demo Yet - Cloud Next ’18
• 🎬 The future of Kubernetes - The DEVOPS Conference 2022
• Google Cloud Run
• kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way

@lawik follow-up: Fundamentals & Deployment

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In this week’s episode Cameron Dutro, a software engineer at GitHub, Ship It listener and someone with an extraordinary attention to detail, joins us to talk about Kuby, a convention-over-configuration approach to deploying Rails apps.

The question that we will be trying to answer is what happened to Rails Active Deployment. The path to that promise land is paved with good intentions, but it’s complicated.

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• Deploy Your Rails App the Easy Way
• getkuby/kuby-core
• getkuby/kube-dsl
• 🎧 The Ruby on Rails Podcast #339 kuby & Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro
• github.com/gerhard/deliver
• deliver - LRUG, March 2013
• github.com/edeliver/edeliver

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This week we have the pleasure of Rich Burroughs, Senior Developer Advocate at Loft Labs and host of the Kube Cuddle podcast.

We talk about multitenancy in Kubernetes and how to run Kubernetes in Kubernetes with vcluster. If you are using KiND, you will find this episode interesting, and maybe even helpful.

We also talk about the role that Kelsey Hightower played in Rich joining the CNCF ecosystem. The key take-away is that people make all the difference.

ADHD is something that Rich thinks about often. Gerhard was curious about the difference between ADHD and burnout, as well as this Twitter thread on re-reading sent emails.

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• 🎙 Kelsey Hightower on Kube Cuddle
• 🎙 Dave Fogle and Kris Nova on Kube Cuddle
• What is vcluster?
• github.com/loft-sh/vcluster
• 🎬 Beyond Namespaces: Virtual Clusters - Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs - KubeCon NA 2021
• 🎬 Hands-on introduction to vcluster - Rakwode Live
• Twitter thread on re-reading sent emails

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In today’s episode, Gerhard is talking to Mauricio Salatino (@salaboy) about the Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes book that he is currently writing.

Mauricio is a Staff Engineer at VMware where he spends most of his time contributing to Knative, an open source platform for running serverless workloads on Kubernetes. Gerhard & Mauricio spent a few months in 2021 working on Knative Eventing, and they both appreciate shipping great software continuously. Mauricio helped ship Knative 1.0.

The from-monolith-to-k8s application used throughout this book has been a few years in the making. It doubles-up as a workshop-style guide for rearchitecting a Java monolith to a Cloud Native architecture running in Kubernetes.

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• 📚 Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes
• 🎁 Join #shipit in our community Slack for a chance to win a free ebook copy!
• github.com/salaboy/from-monolith-to-k8s/salaboy/
• Knative OSS Diaries - week #29

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We finally did it! All our static files are served from AWS S3. This is the most significant improvement to our app’s architecture in years, and now we have unlocked the next level: multi-cloud. We talk about that at length, and how it fits in our 2022 setup. The TL;DR is that changelog.com will fly, both literally and figuratively.

We also address Steve’s comment that he left on our previous Kaizen episode - thanks Steve!

Towards the end, we talk about Gerhard’s new beginnings at Dagger, where he gets to work with a world-class team and build the next-gen CI/CD. That’s right, Gerhard is now walking the Ship It talk all day, every day. If you want to watch him code live, you can do so every Thursday, in our weekly community session.

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• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• 🎧 Jerod tells our Elixir story on Beam Radio
• PR #400 - Move assets to S3
• PR #399 - 🎁 Auto-restoring K8s clusters for our 2022 setup
• PR #395 - 🎁 CI/CD Lego set -Dagger for our 2022 CI/CD
• Wireguard connects our GitHub Actions & Gerhard’s local dev to a remote Docker Engine running on Linux
• 🔈 Ship It #33 - Merry Shipmas!
• 🎧 Ship It #22 - It’s crazy and impossible - my guiding principles for finding a new team
• 🎙 Founders Talk #86 - Bringing observability superpowers to all - we have a lot in common with Honeycomb

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This week we are talking to Robin Morero, the person behind fabled.se, a DevOps consultancy from Gothenburg, Sweden. Their motto is “move faster and prosper”, which Gerhard prefers to the initial “move fast and break things”.

Fabled works with startups primarily, and after 26 years, Robin has a few interesting insights to share. What do you think, are haunted codebases real? At what point do pull requests become harmful? What about k3s running on KVM as a simple starting point for production? If this reminds you of #7, and the follow-up YouTube stream with Lars, it’s no coincidence.

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• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
• k0s - a single binary k8s with zero host dependencies
• Open Application Model
• Ship / Show / Ask - A modern branching strategy

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Gunnar Holwerda (Engineering Manager) and Tom Pansino (DevOps Team Lead) share with us a few stories about how the teams at opensesame.com manage AWS operational complexity. The first link in the episode show notes are the slides that Tom & Gunnar prepared for this conversation. Check them out as you hear us speak about the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre, and why you should always go for the bananas.

If you like this episode, and have a similar story to share, please reach out to us. We all love real-world stories that we can learn from, and perhaps contribute to.

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• 🗂Account Bootstrap Intro and Setup
• 🗞AWS Account structure patterns
• 📄AWS Docs about multi account structure
• 📚Key Concepts from Team Topologies
• Terraform VPC module that we were able to augment and leverage to deliver VPCs to all of our teams
• 📄Communication barriers in organizations and creating effective communication APIs

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Vincent Ambo –the person behind nixery.dev, tvl.fyi, and a former Google engineer– shares his take on monorepos, Nix, and fully declarative systems without any Flux, Argo or Kubernetes.

While the tooling is impressive, it’s the principles behind it that captivated Gerhard’s imagination. Vincent has a rather interesting take on the monorepository idea, including one change - one version - one deploy. There are a lot of interesting links in the show notes, including all the code that Vincent uses to manage infrastructure.

As a result of this conversation, Gerhard is running Nix on one of his Macs, and also started experimenting with his first NixOS production instance.

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Featuring:

• Vincent Ambo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Nixery - just-in-time container images via the Nix package manager
• Nixery: Improved Layering Design
• Nix, The One Pager - (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language
• NixOS - Reproducible builds and deployments
• Tvix: We are rewriting Nix
• Feature Request: Bring nix builds to buildkit
• buildGo - an alternative Nix build system for Go
• The Virus Lounge - TVL - build systems and monorepo socialising in the year of the pandemic
• TVL Code Reviews
• TVL Monorepo - Gerrit
• Just One Single History - JOSH - combines the advantages of monorepos with those of multirepos
• 🗂One Minute Presubmits - Eric Burnett, Google - London Build Meetup 2019
• Trustix: Solving trust in binary distribution and software builds
• Trustix: Distributed trust and reproducibility tracking for binary caches

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Gerhard loves simple ideas executed well, which is why he is excited to be speaking today with Ildar Iskhakov & Matvey Kukuy about their startup Amixr, a.k.a. Grafana OnCall.

Ildar & Matvey started with a simple idea and a simple stack - Django, Celery, RabbitMQ & MySQL - all running on Kubernetes. Because they kept their main thing their main thing, and kept improving it every day for a couple of years, now your on-call can be simple too.

This is another Big Tent philosophy story with a Black Swan moment towards the end.

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Featuring:

• Ildar Iskhakov – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Matvey Kukuy – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Announcing Grafana OnCall
• Amixr, Matvey’s & Ildar’s startup that joined the Grafana family
• Wikipedia - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Today Gerhard shares the entire story behind his lost packets. He is talking with Drew Marshall, director at Trunk Networks and No One Internet, a Cloud Services Provider & ISP based in Sussex, UK.

Gerhard’s Vodafone ISP gateway was losing packets, and recording some of the previous episodes used to be challenging as his internet connection would cut out up to 10 seconds at a time, multiple times per recording session. He was convinced that his Unifi Dream Machine Pro was not the issue. Drew helped Gerhard realise that it actually was. Not only has Gerhard’s DNS latency improved by 3x, but he can now fail-over between two WAN connections. And because nothing beats a real-world experiment, you can guess what is coming in this episode 😉

You will find latency & packet loss graphs, speed test runs, and a few other interestings in the show notes. We hope that they inspire you to setup a better home network. Most importantly, may you find your humble & brilliant Drew.

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Featuring:

• Drew Marshall – LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Gerhard’s issue with ISP gateway timeouts
• Vodafone UK Community: Periodic 100% packet loss
• Fair Internet Report: Trunk Networks
• nefilim/pinger - simple network latency and packet loss monitor using Grafana and Prometheus
• Grafana dashboard: Internet-QoS.json
• MikroTik 5009UG text config export

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In our first 2022 episode, Alexis Richardson, co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks, is talking to Gerhard about going fully remote, what a great team looks like, and GitOps. While you may have heard of GitOps, now is a good time to check out opengitops.dev.

The most interesting part of today’s conversation is the missing cloud native App Store. While Apple revolutionised the world with the App Store and the iPhone, we don’t yet have something similar for cloud native apps. You may be thinking “But what about OperatorHub?”, or all the Helm registries out there? The registry fragmentation, operator deprecations and lack of curation are not what people have in mind when they think App Store. But there is more to it, so let’s hear how Alexis thinks about this.

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• Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog

Featuring:

• Alexis Richardson – GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• What is GitOps?
• What is OpenGitOps?
• 🎬 Creating the Enterprise App Store - GitOpsCon NA 2021 Keynote
• 🎬 GitOps Maturity Model - GitOps Days 2021
• How to get robust GitOps? The U.S. Department of Defense uses Flux and Helm
• Notes on GitOps potential role in compliance
• 🎬 A Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud Infrastructure with GitOps at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, CERN

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Merry Shipmas! This is our special Christmas episode which sums up two months of very early mornings and a few late nights. After many twists and turns, stuff which didn’t work out, as well as pleasant surprises, this is what we ended up with:

• 🎁 PR #395 - CI/CD Lego set with Guillaume de Rouville & Joel Longtine
• 🎁 PR #396 - Continuous CPU profiling with Frederic Branczyk
• 🎁 PR #399 - Auto-restoring Kubernetes clusters with Dan Mangum & Muvaffak Onuş

While we initially intended to have five Christmas presents in total, only three got delivered in time. We planned, worked hard and eventually shipped the best we could just in time for this special Christmas episode. Our hope is that the latest additions to our changelog.com GitHub repository will help you just as much as they will help our 2022 setup.

🎄Merry Shipmas everyone! 🎄

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