Day Two DevOps
Episodes
D2DO290: AI’s Impact on Developer Productivity Vs. Development Productivity
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton are joined by Rachel Stephens, Research Director at RedMonk, to discuss the state of DevOps and the impact of AI. T...
D2DO289: Instana: Leading the Future of Observability (Sponsored)
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As AI tools and agentic AI become part of how applications are developed, delivered, and managed, application performance monitoring and observability...
D2DO288: Technology, Career, and Finding a Purpose with Deana Solis
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ned and Kyler sit down with Deana Solis, a freelance FinOps engineer and mentor. They discuss the undervalued skills of communication, look at the inh...
D2DO287: Leveling Up in Data Science
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder what it takes to level up your career in data science? Senior Data Scientist Darya Petrashka joins Ned and Kyler to share her personal jou...
D2DO286: Scaling Kubernetes Across Clouds – Identity, DNS, and Security
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you think managing Kubernetes clusters is hard, what about managing Kubernetes clusters across three different public clouds? We dive into the chal...
D2DO285: The Death of IaC Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While declaring the death of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Terraform may get you clicks on LinkedIn, IaC is alive and kicking. On today’s Day ...
D2DO284: AI, MCP, and the Identities that Tie Them All Together
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is developing at an incredible pace. With that development comes questions. For instance, how do you connect your resources to agents? How do agent...
D2DO283: Lessons Learned When a Startup Doesn’t Take Wing
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk to Elad Ben-Israel about his former startup Wing Cloud, and the language that was built along with it, Winglang. We discuss why Eland st...
D2DO282: Simplifying Complex Kubernetes Deployments With kro
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kubernetes is flexible and customizable, but it can also be notoriously complex and difficult to deploy to. On today’s Day Two DevOps we learn a...
D2DO281: Faddom: Providing a Unified Source of Truth for Security and IT Operations (Sponsored)
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Faddom is re-envisioning what application dependency mapping and infrastructure inventory can be in the era of cloud and hybrid IT. Join us today on t...
D2DO280: Architect for Your AI Success With F5 and MinIO (Sponsored)
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the changing landscape of AI data infrastructure, F5 and MinIO are partnering on a solution that brings together the best of each company. This sol...
D2DO279: Herding the Agentic Geese
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Developers Rizel Scarlett and Ian Douglas join Ned and Kyler to talk about building an AI agent. Rizel and Ian work at Block, where they’re par...
D2DO278: The Future of HashiCorp Inside IBM
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s show, we talk to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp regarding HashiCorp’s future within IBM. We start with a quick r...
D2DO277: AI Security Submissions at Curl Dev
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Curl is a widely used open source tool and library for transferring data. On today’s Day Two DevOps we talk with curl creator Daniel Stenberg. D...
D2DO276: MCP: Capable, Insecure, and On Your Network Today
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is an open-source project originally created by Anthropic. MCP is designed to let AI agents to connect to data reposit...
D2DO275: WebAssembly – The Next Big Thing?
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is WebAssembly the next big thing? Here to help us understand what WebAssembly (WASM) is and what it can and can’t do is Michael Levan, a consul...
D2DO274: Firefly’s State of IaC Report for 2025, aka ClickOps Is a Disgrace (Sponsored)
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Firefly is a cloud infrastructure automation platform that helps cloud teams, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, DevSecOps, and other groups manage th...
D2DO273: Azure VNets Don’t Exist
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud networks aren’t like traditional data center networks, so applying a traditional network design to the cloud probably isn’t the best...
D2DO272: The Physics of DevOps
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you measure developer performance and productivity? On today’s Day Two DevOps, we look at different methods with guest Laura Tacho, the C...
D2DO271: Public Vs. Private Cloud In 2025
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The shine has been coming off public cloud for awhile. Cloud costs remain high, complexity is growing, and public cloud interoperability is difficult....
D2DO270: Spacelift Is Your Infrastructure Glue (Sponsored)
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Working with multiple Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools can be painful. Spacelift provides a platform that operates on top of disparate IaC tools, in...
D2DO269: Intergalactic Dataspeak and Making Data Actionable
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Data and what you do with it is the topic of today’s show with guest Dominic Chapman, the Head of Product at Axiom. Dominic’s career focus is on d...
D2DO268: Solving Big Problems By Solving Small Problems
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“You build a shop that solves big problems by solving small problems” is advice given by today’s guest, Merritt Baer. Merritt is currently a CIS...
D2DO267: Get Excited About Riding the AI Infrastructure Wave
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI buildout is driving an infrastructure boom. On today’s show, we talk with Kendall Miller, an independent consultant in the DevOps and cloud-n...
D2DO266: How AI Affects the Developer Experience
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s talk about how AI affects the developer experience, particularly for open source tools such as Terraform. We’re joined by guests Wel...
D2DO265: How Do We Measure Developer Experience?
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Developer experience is a hard metric to measure qualitatively. On today’s show, we talk with Kristen Foster-Marks about Developer Experience, or De...
D2DO264: Serverless Goes Mainstream
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Serverless is mature enough now to be a mainstream choice for application development. But that doesn’t mean interesting things aren’t hap...
D2DO263: An Anthropologist’s Advice for Improving IT Cultures
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s tempting to run IT organizations the same way we run infrastructure: as resource units to be applied to various jobs. But people aren’...
D2DO262: The Science and Magic of Network Mapping and Measurement
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Measuring network speed seems straightforward: send some traffic between two endpoints and see how long it took. But what path did the traffic take? W...
D2DO261: Year in Review: Peak Serverless, K8s Complexity, DevOps Sprawl (and What’s Next)
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us today for a look back at this year’s developments in cloud security and DevOps. We ask if serverless computing has peaked, why Kubernetes co...
D2DO260: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Humor and Threat Detection
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Humor is the best medicine, so they say. In critical IT security jobs, a little humor could help you prevent burnout and maintain your mental equilibr...
D2DO259: See Deep Inside Public Cloud for Greater Visibility and Troubleshooting with ThousandEyes Cloud Insights (Sponsored)
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Public cloud networks can be a bit of a black box when it comes to monitoring and troubleshooting. Today on Day Two DevOps we talk with sponsor Cisco ...
D2DO258: How System Initiative Rethinks Infrastructure as Code
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
System Initiative is a new product that aims to improve on Infrastructure as Code (IaC). On today’s episode we talk with System Initiative creat...
D2DO257: Love is in the Firmware
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the current cultural emphasis on AI and how that is changing our world, we often forget the human element of individuals and teams when building ...
D2DO256: Alkira’s Universal Transit: Simplifying Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Networks (Sponsored)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are firmly entrenched in a hybrid cloud world, from on-prem data centers to multiple cloud platforms to branch and remote offices, not to mention w...
D2DO255: Is AI the Magic Solution for Refactoring Legacy Code?
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI is being integrated and adopted across much of the IT world, but can it work magic in transforming old legacy code into shiny modern code? When it ...
D2DO254: Intelligent Data Infrastructure: How NetApp Builds for Performance, Security, and Visibility across Clouds (Sponsored)
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise data is everywhere: on prem, at the edge, and across the public cloud. Storing and managing that data involves more than just SSDs and spin...
D2DO253: Breaking Into Tech: Job Hunting Realities for Recent Graduates
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Job hunting is never easy and on today’s Day Two Cloud, Katrina Janeczko shares her journey from college to her current role at Comcast. Katrina d...
D2DO252: (Re)Building Cloudflare’s Millions-of-Logs-Per-Second Logging Pipeline
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cloudflare’s transition from SysLog-NG to OpenTelemetry is the topic of discussion on this episode of Day Two DevOps. Guests Colin Douch and Jay...
D2DO251: AI For the Rest of Us – New Conference Alert!
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI is everywhere. So are questions about AI’s value, how it really works, and how it will affect technology. Hannah Foxwell aims to demystify AI...
D2DO250: The Realities of Responsible Disclosure in the Cloud
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud security and responsible disclosure are the focus of today’s conversation with guest Kat Traxler. Kat shares her insights on identifying vulne...
D2DO249: The Anatomy of TLS 1.3 and Why You Should Risk It
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is today’s topic with guest Ed Harmoush. TLS plays a critical role in Internet security, and we dive into the dif...
D2DO248: Using Creativity and Empathy to Ease the Pain of Compliance Audits
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Day Two DevOps we talk with Jen Stone, a technical security assessor and aerial arts competition organizer. Jen shares her journey fr...
D2DO247: Chocolate or Carrots? How Humor Can Foster Good DevOps Relationships
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests Ashish and Shilpi from the Cloud Security Podcast converse with Ned and Kyler on how humor and relatability can foster an engaging and collabor...
D2C246: Can Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Help Keep Users Happy?
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are a set of reliability measurements for customer or user expectations of services; in other words, are people having...
D2C245: Don’t Fear Database DevOps
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most platform engineers are scared of databases, and most database administrators prefer it that way. But our guest today says it’s time to move for...
D2C244: When the Cloud was Born
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Chou was there for the birth of the public cloud. Before DevOps or SREs were a thing, before Azure was Azure, Eric was a network engineer for Ama...
Heavy Strategy: Failure and Resilience
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a crossover episode with the Heavy Strategy podcast! Firing the wrong person, mistakenly rebooting core switches in a massive network, not ...
D2C243: Your Kubernetes Clusters are Showing
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are about 1.4 million Kubernetes clusters just sitting out there on the public internet as we speak. That is 1.4 million lateral-movement rich, ...
D2C242: Data Engineering and its Streams, Rivers, and Lakes
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Gregory teaches us about data engineering in a way DevOps folks (and hydrologists) can understand. He explains that the role of a data engineer ...
D2C241: Choose Your Own Adventure: Manager, Director, or IC
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What makes for a good manager, director, and independent contributor (IC), and how do you figure out which is the best fit for you? Hazel Weakly has h...
D2C240: The Duality of Enterprise AI
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI has been around forever; AI is emergent. AI is just data analytics; AI hallucinates. AI doesn’t have many business use cases; AI is already being...
D2C239: “(Almost) Every Infrastructure Decision I Endorse or Regret”
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You can’t just drop a knife on fish and expect there to be sushi. Jack Lindamood joins us today to share his metaphors and thoughts on picking the r...
D2C238: Tech Hiring is Borked
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Life isn’t easy for someone looking for a job in tech. There are lots of content mills pushing the idea that if you just pass this one six-month cou...
D2C237: Managing Medical IoT Devices on AWS
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode, Randy Horton from Orthogonal and Ian Sutcliffe from AWS discuss the complexities of supporting regulated medical devices in t...
D2C236: Introducing New Co-Host Kyler Middleton
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we welcome a new co-host, Kyler Middleton, to the Day Two Cloud podcast. Kyler grew up in rural Western Nebraska, fixing neighboring farmers’ ...
D2C235: Building Modern Apps In GovCloud
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chances are, you’ve probably only heard of GovCloud because at the bottom of new feature releases from the Big 3 there’s usually an asterisk that ...
D2C234: What to Do About VMware
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has generated a lot of anxiety among VMware customers. In this episode, we closely analyze the situation. First, we...
D2C233: Pinning Down Private Clouds
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are we talking about when we are all talking about private clouds? On-prem? Hybrid? Virtualization? Where does hardware fit into it all– and wo...
D2C232: Chaos Engineering: Breaking Things on Purpose
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chaos engineering is all about resilience and reliability… it just takes the harder path to get there. By injecting random and unpredictable behavio...
D2C231: Cloud Repatriation: Can Workloads Ever Come Home Again?
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud repatriation: Is it a good idea? Guest Marino Wijay, an OSI and networking open source advocate, joins hosts Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance to d...
D2C230: Adding Python To Your Operations Toolkit
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re talking about Python. If you’re new to Python and want to add it to your toolkit, this is the show for you. This episode offer...
D2C229: Standing Out From The Crowd With Tim Banks
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with Tim Banks about a wide range of topics including career development, how to stand out as an interview candidate, building a resume, findi...
D2C228: Building Local Tech Communities
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While it’s easy to find technical content and make professional connections online, in-person interactions are still valuable for learning, forg...
D2C227: Platforms Reduce Cognitive Overhead
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s show explores platform engineering. Guest Chad McElligott has thought a lot about the practice of platform engineering, and a blog post ...
D2C226: Creating An Effective Cloud Migration Strategy
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s Day Two Cloud podcast we talk about a cloud project where things didn’t go as planned. There were people problems, technical pr...
D2C225: Security KubeConversations Part 2 – Cloud-Native Security Challenges
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of a special edition of Day Two Cloud we’re calling Security KubeConversations. I spent two days in the Windy City, attending KubeC...
D2C224: Security KubeConversations Part 1 – Protecting Your Kubernetes Infrastructure
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our KubeConversations series continues with a two-part episode on securing Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. I attended KubeCon 2023 in Chic...
D2C223: Accelerating VM Performance With Azure Boost
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Day Two Cloud! In this episode with Microsoft, it’s November 2023, and I’m in Seattle for the Microsoft Ignite conference. If you think...
D2C222: What’s New In Azure Networking (Sponsored)
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From using hollow core fiber to building networks designed to support AI workloads and modern applications, there’s a lot happening in Azure n...
D2C221: KubeConversations Part 2 – Building Cloud Platforms
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to part 2 of my KubeConversations. I spent two days in the Windy City attending KubeCon Cloud Native Con Chicago. I had the opportunity to spe...
D2C220: KubeConversations Part 1 – Platform Engineering
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special edition of Day Two Cloud. Host Ned Bellavance traveled to KubeCon Chicago 2023 and spoke to vendors and open source maintainers a...
D2C219: Building A Multi-Cloud Network With A Cloud-Native Approach (Sponsored)
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could have a multi-cloud network that was cloud-native, but you didn’t have to know the nitty-gritty details for each of the clouds? Tha...
D2C218: What’s Inside The AI Magic Box?
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI and machine learning are being more widely used in IT and elsewhere. Today's episode opens the AI magic box to better understand what's inside, inc...
D2C217: Building Successful Security Operations – Blue Teaming And Beyond
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud we talk about how to build a successful security practice within your organization. Our guest is Swathi Joshi, VP, SaaS Cloud...
D2C216: Implementing Private AI Architecture With VMware (Sponsored)
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The goal of private AI is to bring AI models and compute to where your data is stored to ensure privacy and control. On today's Day Two Cloud, sponsor...
Day Two Cloud 215: Highlights From The Edge
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud covers highlights from a recent Edge Field Day event. Ned Bellavance was a delegate at the event and will share perceptions and ...
Day Two Cloud 214: Preparing People, Teams, And Infrastructure For Automation
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Day Two Cloud. If you want your journey to infrastructure automation to be successful, you have to prepare for that journey. On today's sho...
Day Two Cloud 213: Get Application Visibility And Governance For Your K8s Clusters With Lens AppIQ (Sponsored)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Day Two Cloud! Today we talk with sponsor Mirantis about Lens AppIQ. If you've started using Kuberentes and you've got multiple clusters su...
Day Two Cloud 212: Cloud Essentials – Object, File, And Block Storage
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Day Two Cloud continues the Cloud Essentials series with cloud storage. We focus specifically on AWS's offering, which include object, file, and block...
Day Two Cloud 211: Cloud Security Acronym Soup With Jo Peterson
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Day Two Cloud we go deep on new areas of cloud security that you may not be familiar with. There are forces out there that are driving the ri...
Day Two Cloud 210: Can Network Automation Catch Up To The Cloud?
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud we discuss the state of network automation and whether and how it can catch up to automation in the public cloud. We look a...
Day Two Cloud 209: Cloud Essentials – Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud kicks off an occasional series on cloud essentials. For the first episode we discuss the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A VPC is a...
Day Two Cloud 208: HashiCorp Licensing Changes And The Day Two Cloud-Chaos Lever Crossover
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Day Two Cloud we dive into the implications of licensing changes that HashiCorp has made to its popular Terraform software. In short, the com...
Day Two Cloud 207: Making Sense Of SSE, SASE, And SD-WAN
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud we examine the similarities and differences among SSE and SASE, which provide cloud-delivered security; and SD-WAN, which can...
Day Two Cloud 206: Making The Most Of Red Teaming With Gemma Moore
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Red teams attack a customer's security systems. The idea of a red team, whether consultants or in-house, is to approach the target like an attacker wo...
Day Two Cloud 205: States Of Quantum Computing With Abby Mitchell
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud peers inside the box of quantum computing. We explore how it works, what qbits are and why they matter, the current state of qua...
Day Two Cloud 204: Deploying Cloud-Delivered Security With Cisco Secure Access (Sponsored)
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud we get inside Cisco Secure Access, a new set of cloud-delivered security services from Cisco. We discuss the security capabil...
Day Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you need strong software skills. You also have to be versed in observability, incident response, c...
Day Two Cloud 202: How Azure Embraces Terraform For Infrastructure As Code
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud, we talk with Microsoft about how it's embracing Terraform to make it Azure-friendly, including the Terraform Export Tool, th...
Day Two Cloud 201: Building A Product That Uses LLMs
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk about Large Language Models (LLMs) and writing products and applications that use LLMs. Our guest is Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Hon...
Day Two Cloud 200: Coaching For Accidental (And On-Purpose) Managers
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Going from a tech role to manager is more than just a new gig---it's a full-blown career change. On today's Day Two Cloud we talk with management coac...
Day Two Cloud 199: Platform Engineering With Suzanne Daniels
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this episode of Day Two Cloud! Today, we'll be diving into the world of platform engineering and internal developer portals. Our special gu...
Day Two Cloud 198: Modern Cloud Design Themes From CFD 17
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud explores some design themes that emerged from the Cloud Field Day event. These themes include platform engineering, data protect...
Day Two Cloud 197: Understanding Decentralized Identity With Dr. Joanne Friedman
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud we dive into Decentralized Identity, or DID. This W3C standard is a unique identifier, authenticated by cryptographic proofs,...
Day Two Cloud 196: Peering Behind The Curtain Of Podsqueeze’s AI Podcasting Service
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's show gets behind the curtain of a cloud service called Podsqueeze. Podsqueeze is an application that ingests audio and video files and then pr...
Day Two Cloud 195: Planning For Post-Quantum Cryptography
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Day Two Cloud explores post-quantum cryptography and how to make your cryptographic secrets safe from quantum computers. We're looking at a ti...
Day Two Cloud 194: Unpacking Flexera’s State Of The Cloud Report With Keith Townsend
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you're deep in the trenches of operating your cloud, sometimes it's helpful to step back and get a broader view of what's happening in the indust...
Day Two Cloud 193: Should You Get A Cloud Networking Cert?
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On today's Day Two Cloud we explore cloud networking certifications. Who do these certs make sense for? Which clouds should you focus on? What do cert...
Day Two Cloud 192: OpenTelemetry – Getting From Visibility To Observability With Ben Hall
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that brings together tools, SDKs, and APIs for collecting telemetry--that is, logs, metrics, and traces---in a...