DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling

Move K8s Stateful Pods Between Nodes

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Philip Andrews and Dan Muret of Cast AI to discuss pod live migration between nodes in a Kubernetes cluster. 🙌 My next course is ...

Swarm 2030. Let's Go!

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bret discusses exciting news about Swarm being maintained until 2030.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to...

Is Docker Building the Best AI Stack?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin to discuss Docker's comprehensive AI toolkit, covering everything from local model deployment to cloud-bas...

Could AI End Human QA?

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Andrew Tunall, the President and Chief Product Officer at Embrace, to discuss his prediction that we’ll all start shipping non-QA'...

AI Agents Running Containers

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Daytona founders - Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukic - discuss their pivot to an AI agent cloud. We dig into the new infrastructure requirements of de...

Heroku + MCP = The Fastest Way to Run AI Agents in the Cloud

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Julián Duque from Heroku joins me to explain and demo their new AI platform.Check out the video podcast version here https://youtu.be/BGqlLZHdRDs🙌...

Is AI ready for DevOps?

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Launching our new Podcast: https://agenticdevops.fmBret and Nirmal are at KubeCon London and record their ideas about how AI Agents will change DevOps...

What you missed at KubeCon

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At KubeCon EU 2025 in London, Nirmal and I discussed the important (and not-so-important) things you might have missed. 🙌 My next course is coming ...

Docker Model Runner

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Docker launched "Docker Model Runner" to run LLMs through llama.cpp with a single "docker model" command. In this episode Bret details examples and so...

What's Coming in 2025?

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is about what I'm seeing and what I'm doing right now, and then for the rest of the year. There are three parts. First, I talk about what...

Docker Build the best way with Docker Bake

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Docker Bake Build tool just went general availability, and I'm excited about what this means for creating reproducible builds and automation that ...

Is Swarm at EOL?

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I've been a big fan of Swarm since it was launched over a decade ago and I've made multiple courses on it that still sell. But, we recently got some n...

Best of Cloud Native 2024

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal reunite for their traditional annual Holiday Special episode of breaking down the most significant developments in cloud native from 2...

Aikido: Is a Single DevSecOps Tool Possible?

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Or watch the video version on YouTube. Bret is joined by Willem Delbare and Roeland Delrue to discuss Aikido, a security tool consolidation platform d...

DevOps Cert Prep using AI, with the KodeKloud Team

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Mumshad Mannambeth and Vijin Palazhi of KodeKloud for Q&A on what we should be studying and certifying for in 2025. 🙌 My nex...

KubeCon Engineering Takeaways

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal recorded this special offline episode at KubeCon North America in Salt Lake City. We hung out at the AWS booth to break down the major...

Personal AI with Ken Collins

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal Mehta are joined by Ken Collins to dig into using AI for more than coding, and if we can build an AI assistant that knows us.🙌 My n...

State of Kubernetes UIs

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret explores the spectrum of user interfaces and tools available for managing Kubernetes clusters as of Autumn 2024. 🙌 My next course is coming so...

Inspektor Gadget

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Kühl and Jose Blanquicet, the maintainers of Inspektor Gadget, the new eBPF-focused multitool, to see what it's a...

MLOps for DevOps People

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Maria Vechtomova, a MLOps Tech Lead and co-founder of Marvelous MLOps, to discuss the obvious and not-so obvious differe...

Traefik 3.0: What's New?

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal were joined by Emile Vauge, CTO of Traefik Labs to talk all about Traefik 3.0.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the wait...

Debug Containers with Mintoolkit

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by DockerSlim (now mintoolkit) founder Kyle Quest, to show off how to slim down your existing images with various options. 🙌 My next...

Observability Cost-Savings and eBPF Goodness with Groundcover

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Shahar Azulay, Groundcover CEO and Co-Founder, to discuss their new approach to fully observe K8s and its workloads with a "hybrid o...

Flow State with VS Code AI

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Continue.dev co-founder, Nate Sesti, to walk through an open source replacement for GitHub Copilot.🙌 My next course i...

AWS Graviton: The Great Arm Migration

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Fischer of AWS to discuss why we should use Graviton, their arm64 compute with AWS-designed CPUs.🙌 My next co...

Local GenAI LLMs with Ollama and Docker

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by friend of the show, Matt Williams, to learn how to run your own local ChatGPT clone and GitHub Copilot clone with Ollama...

Kubernetes Observability with Site24x7

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Jasper Paul and Vinoth Kanagaraj, observability experts and Site24x7 Product Managers, to discuss achieving end-to-end visibility fo...

K2D by Portainer

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Neil Cresswell and Steven Kang from Portainer to look at K2D, a new project that enables us to leverage Kubernetes tooli...

Chainguard: Building Secure Container Images

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Dan Lorenc from Chainguard to walk them through Chainguard's approach to building secure, minimal container images for p...

AWS Finch: The Minimal Local Container Solution

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Phil Estes of AWS to show us the Finch project, which bundles the best open source tools for building and running contai...

Portainer for Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm, Edge, and IoT

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Neil Cresswell, CEO and co-founder of Portainer, to show us new features in Portainer and how it can manage, deploy, and orchestrate...

Open Source Codespaces with Daytona

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ivan Burazin and Chad Metcalf to debut Daytona, an open source "codespaces equivalent."🙌 My next course is coming soo...

Postgres in Containers

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Lukas Fittl of pganalyze to dive into Postgres in containers, in production, and in CI.🙌 My next course is coming soo...

Best of DevOps 2023

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Melissa McKay, Developer Advocate at JFrog and Docker Captain, to discuss the best and worst of 2023.🙌 My next course...

Faster Dev Feedback and Previews with Livecycle

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Matan Mishan & Roy Razon of Livecycle to discuss developer platforms and how to improve developer collaboration and speeding up ...

Docker Recap of 2023

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Michael Irwin, DevRel at Docker, to talk about all the products and features Docker shipped in 2023, and what's coming i...

Tailscale Everything

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Alex Kretzschmar to talk about Tailscale, a universal VPN that connects teams, devices, and development environments for easy access...

Dockerfiles have versions?

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I break down why Dockerfile frontends exist and how Docker's build engine "BuildKit" is giving us updated Dockerfile features.🙌 My next course is c...

Dagger: CI of the Future?

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Application delivery doesn’t have to suck. Bret and Nirmal are joined by Solomon Hykes, the founder or Docker, to talk about Dagger and their applic...

Registry is getting an upgrade: Inside OCI artifacts

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The OCI specifications for registry and image are getting a minor version number update to 1.1 soon, and this could be a big deal for anyone storing a...

KubeCon Live with Friends 2023

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Moving Domain Registrars, Again

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this short episode, I tell the tale of my registrar DNS name hosting for the last 25 years and what I prefer for a cheap and reliable name registra...

Multipass Local Virtual Machines

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Chris Townsend, the engineering manager for Canonical's Multipass team, to discuss how to use Multipass as the easiest l...

DockerCon 2023 New Features and Tools!

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After returning from DockerCon earlier this month (Oct 2023), Bret recorded this podcast where he breaks down all the product announcements and detail...

NetBackup for Kubernetes

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Demetrius Malbrough and Joseph D'angelo from Veritas, the company that makes NetBackup amongst many other data protection tools.NetB...

AWS Lambda Containers

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal are joined by Ken Collins, AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Engineer at Custom Ink to discuss all things Lambda and to dig into the d...

Ephemeral & Preview Environments for Compose and Kubernetes

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Codefresh and Argo CD with Dan Garfield

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Dan Garfield of CodeFresh to talk about growth of GitOps as a standard, growth of Argo, and more.🙌 My next course is coming soon!...

OpenSauced with Brian Douglas

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Bret and Nirmal talk with Brian Douglas of OpenSauced. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting...

Istio Ambient Mesh and Solo.io

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Nirmal welcome Idit Levine, Founder/CEO Solo.io. Idit focuses on Service Mesh, API-GW and Multi-Cloud networking, and security.🙌 My next c...

Future of Kubernetes with Brendan Burns

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Matt welcome special guest Brendan Burns, CVP Azure Cloud Native & Resource Management, and also a founding member of the Kubernetes proj...

Kasten K10 Kubernetes Backups

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Matt welcome Michael Cade, the field CTO at Kasten by Veeam. 🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting t...

Cycle.io LowOps container platform

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Matt welcome Jake Warner back to the show to talk about LowOps. What does LowOps mean? What can Cycle offer us as an alternative to Swarm and...

AWS containers with Corey Quinn

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Matt are joined by Corey Quinn to talk about AWS and containers.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wantin...

Podman In Action: Desktop, Machine, and more

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Matt are joined by Brent Baude and Dan Walsh from Red Hat to talk about the latest with Podman, Quadlet, Podman Desktop and Podman machine, a...

Falco Logs Suspicious Events on Your K8s and Servers

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and his co-host, Matt, are joined by Jason Dellaluce and Luca Guerra from Sysdig to talk about Falco, a tool I recommend for production clusters ...

DevPod for Dev Containers

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Lukas Gentele and Rich Burroughs from Loft Labs to look at a new project called DevPod, that supports dev containers and VMs. It wor...

Docker 2023 New Stuff

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Matt are joined by two engineers in Docker's leadership - Chief Technology Officer Justin Cormack and Senior Manager of Developer Relations M...

Contribute to Kubernetes

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret and Matt are joined by Chad Crowell of KubeSkills to walk through how you can contribute to Kubernetes open source.🙌 My next course is coming ...

Windows WSL and Containers in 2023

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by fellow Docker Captain Nuno do Carmo to talk about desktop container solutions and the best Docker setup for Windows 11. 🙌 My next...

Calico Networking for Kubernetes and More

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Project Calico's Tomas Hruby from Tigera to dig into Calico CNI features for Kubernetes and beyond. 🙌 My next course is coming so...

Faster Docker Builds with Depot

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bret is joined by Kyle Galbraith and Jacob Gillespie, co-founders of Depot, to discuss their new solution to slow Docker builds. 🙌 My next course ...