Practical Operations is about the difference between running your IT organization the "Right Way" and the Practical Way. Your hosts talk about the theory of small to web scale operations and DevOps and then discuss how to get the most out of these tools in practice.
Episode 106 - The Ending Of The Year
Where we discuss the year this was, what we thought it was going to be, and how wrong we really were. We also discuss the future a little bit, and try to find patterns in this chaos. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Links for Episode 106: Episode 81 - The End Of The Year CentOS Is Changing Rocky Linux KOPF - A Python K8S Operator Library Episode 104 - Bootstrapping a Career with Evan Bloom occupancyd
Episode 105 - Modern TLS
Where we talk with Darren Fallis about some of the reasons you should really upgrade to a modern TLS version, and what that means in practical terms. At the moment, this is TLS 1.3, but as with all advice - especially security related advice - please stay current! Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Links for Episode 105: Episode 57: Two Factor Authentication with Darren Fallis Transport Layer Security Mozilla SSL Configurator Boring SSL OCSP Stapling Mutual TLS Authentication CAA records
Episode 104 - Bootstrapping a Career with Evan Bloom
Where we talk with Evan Bloom about getting started in this industry, coming from a very different world of music. This includes where to get started with linux, programming and generally how to look at the careers we talk about on this podcast. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 104: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 104: Linux 101 edX Reddit Linux Upskill Challenge PiHole Deviant Olliam I’ll Let Myself In Python The Hard Way EVE Online Python Gentoo Wiki Arch Linux Wiki Pages
Episode 103 - Pet Peeves
Where we talk about our pet peeves - technical red flags that tell you something about an environment isn’t right. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 103: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Episode 102 - The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Where we talk about the many lies we tell ourselves, even when we know better. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 102: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Episode 101 - Long Term Configuration Management
Where we talk about some mergers and aquisitions in the configuration management space and discuss somewhat about where the industry is headed. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 101: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 101: Progress Software Holdings WSFTP SaltStack Ansible VMWare CloudTruth Episode Datadog and Azure Partnership Long Term Capitol Management
Episode 100 - DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, Revisited
Where we revisit our first episode, The Culture of DevOps, and talk about what’s changed in the last 5 years, including the growth of the Site Reliability Engineering movement to implement DevOps, and some thoughts about the next 5 years. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 100: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 100: Episode 1 - Introduction and The Culture of DevOps Finding the Golden Signals with Prometheus Jack Neely’s ATO Speaker Bio
Episode 99 - Elasticsearch Distributions
Where we discuss Elasticsearch’s X-Pack as compared to the OpenDistro For Elasticsearch, and talk a little bit about being a good citizen for open source projects. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 99: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 99: Elasticsearch Github Repo OpenDistro For Elasticsearch The Elastic License X-Pack Download SearchGuard PerfTop Plugin for OpenDistro
Episode 98 - Histograms and Service Level Objectives
Where we talk about what Service Level Objectives actually are and why they are so important in the field of Site Reliability Engineering. We cover the definition of an SLO, how they relate to error budgets, and take a look at various implementations of time series databases' support for calculating accurate percentiles. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 98: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 98: Atlassian Incident Management High Availibility Percentage Calculation Google SRE Book: Embracing Risk Quantile Definition Four Golden Signals Histograms at Scale VictoriaMetrics Histograms Circonus Log-Linear Histograms T-Digests
Episode 97 - Threat Modeling with Greg Harris
Where we interview Greg Harris, Principal Security Engineer at Fitbit. We cover security issues around BeyondCorp, VPNs, Docker, and vulnerability scanning. With Greg we learn how to stop reacting to security incidents and instead focus on building threat models for your software and company to forecast and prevent them. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 97: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 97: Mozilla Id trust proxy Ghost Tunnel Hashicorp Vault SSH PKI/Key authority Netflix Bless Crypt.co / crypton - gen u2f token on phone STRIDE Thread modeling Threat Dragon Censys Shodan Wireguard Isto Minimal linux Sysdig OWASP Dependency Check Anchore Engine
Episode 96 - ARM and the Future of Computing
Where we discuss the possible rise of ARM on the desktop as a replacement or challenge to the supremecy of Intel’s venerable x86_64 instruction set. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 96: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 96: Converged Infrastructure Intel CEO Mistake about iPhone Linus Complains about AVX-512 Intel Misses Next Process Shrink Clang and LLVM ARM Architecture Support Anand Shimpi AWS Graviton2 Instances Open Compute Raspberry Pi 4
Episode 95 - Being Cloud Agnostic
Where we talk about being multi-cloud, along with the reasons and challenges of doing so, and talk about if it is really worth it. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 95: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring.
Episode 94 - Findability With JP Sherman
Where we discuss findability and search with a special guest - JP Sherman, the Manager of Search and Findability at Red Hat. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 94: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 94: Solr LucidWorks Fusion Algolia SwiftType Schema App Haystack Conferences Learn To Rank
Episode 93 - Linux On The Desktop
Where we talk about building a modern linux desktop, for both personal and professional use. There’s some talk about Intel vs AMD, Apple and ARM, and video cards… all in good fun. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 93: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 93: Keyboards CMR vs SMR and ZFS darktable ardour Microsoft’s 14% Market Share
Episode 92 - CloudTruth and Configuration Management
Where we talk to CloudTruth’s Matt Conway and Greg Arnette about why they are configuration management geeks, and some of the realities of looking at problems with configuration management in mind. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at feedback@operations.fm. Sponsors for Episode 92: 42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team Mentoring. Links for Episode 92: CloudTruth Homepage @cloudtruth