12: Static Sites & Dynamic Nights

Is it possible to have a modern website without a backend or database? Gabe and Mitchell discuss how to build and host static sites, and weigh in on the latest Terraform drama!

Updates

• KeyDB
• Valkey

Current Events

• HashiCorp Cease and Desist
• OpenTofu Response

Main Topic

• Disqus
• Hugo
• MkDocs
• Material for MkDocs
• Astro
• VitePress
• Jekyll
• AWS Cloudfront
• GitHub Pages
• Cloudflare Pages
• Vercel
• Netlify

11: Baby Got RBAC

Can you secure a Kubernetes cluster while empowering your developers at the same time? Gabe and Mitchell take a deeper dive into Kubernetes Role Based Access Control to find out!

Current Events

• Redis Licensing Change
• KeyDB
• Valkey
• Sentry Licensing Change
• XZ Write Up
• XZ & Open Source
• XZ History Graph

Main Topic

• Episode 8: Batten Down the Hatches
• GKE Google Groups RBAC
• xkcd - Dependency

10: There’s No Technology in Artillery

Can you just wander into an ISP’s office to kick off your career in tech? Gabe and Mitchell interview the CEO of a small tech company to find out.

Current Events

• WeaveWorks Shutdown
• Mitchell Hashimoto Leaves Hashicorp
• Authentik
• App Template Chart by bjw-s

Main Topic

• Matt Williamson
• Clevyr

9: Who Needs Servers Anyway?

Is serverless the next big breakthrough or just a buzzword? Gabe and Mitchell discuss various serverless technologies and weigh in on if the “K” in Knative should be silent.

Main Topic

• Pizza as a Service 2.0
• AWS Lambda
• Google Cloud Functions
• Google Cloud Run
• Azure Functions
• Knative

8: Batten Down the Hatches

If you’ve ever felt nervous about hosting a website, this episode is for you. Join Gabe and Mitchell as they discuss securing Kubernetes and other security automation.

Current Events

• Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage

Main Topic

• Network Policy Editor
• Cilium Hubble
• CodeQL
• Dependabot
• Renovate Bot
• Kubernetes Security Context

7: Back that SaaS Up!

Do you have a plan for when your cloud provider sets your region’s batteries on fire? Join Gabe and Mitchell as they discuss Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Current Events

• Raspberry Pi 5 Announced

Main Topic

• Chaos Monkey
• Borgmatic
• Borgbase
• rsync.net
• Velero
• Gitea

6: The Website is Down

Don’t panic! The website may be down, but bringing it back up is only half the battle. Gabe and Mitchell discuss how they troubleshoot outages and more importantly, how they conduct post-mortems to prevent issues from happening again.

Current Events

• Unity Runtime Fees
• Unity Walk-Back

Main Topic

• The Website is Down video from 2009
• How to Run a Blameless Post-Mortem
• Atlassian Post-Mortem Template

5: Who Will Build the Builders?

How do you build the finest handcrafted artisanal software? With robots of course! Gabe and Mitchell discuss build automation from Docker to GoLang to other wild things they’ve done with CI pipelines.

Current Events

• OpenTF Repository

Main Topic

• GitHub Actions Runner Controller
• GitHub Action for Docker Builds
• Kaniko
• GoReleaser
• Renovate
• GitHub Action to Deploy to Pages
• YAMPL
• Authenticating into cloud providers from GitHub without keys
• Upptime (Monitoring via GitHub Actions)
• Mitchell’s Crazy DNS Actions
  • named-checkzone
  • bind-deploy

4: That Time We Did a Thing for a Bank

If you thought one Kubernetes cluster was good, how about two? In sync, running in different cities, for a bank! Gabe and Mitchell also give their takes on some recent licensing changes in the DevOps world.

Current Events

• HashiCorp Licensing Change Blog Post
• HashiCorp Licensing FAQ
• OpenTF Foundation
• Kubernetes 1.28 Released

Main Topic

• MariaDB Galera Cluster
• NATS
• Crossplane
• Kubebuilder
• Prometheus Stack

Music from Fesliyan Studios

3: Kubernetes

Gabe and Mitchell discuss Kubernetes and containers.

Updates

• Podcast as Code Discord

Main Topic

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Ephemeral Containers Guide
• K3s

Tools

• K9s
• Stern
• MetalLB
• Netshoot
• Cert-manager
• Ingress-nginx
• External-dns
• Crossplane
• Helm
• Kubebuilder

Music from Fesliyan Studios

2: Monitoring

Gabe and Mitchell discuss monitoring, observability, and alerting.

Current Events

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Graduation of CRI-O
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Projects List

Updates

• GitOps Terraform Controller
• Crossplane

Four Golden Signals

• Monitoring Distributed Systems
• The RED Method: key metrics for microservices architecture
• The USE Method

Tools

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Chaos Monkey

Music from Fesliyan Studios

1: GitOps

Gabe and Mitchell introduce themselves, talk about current events, and discuss GitOps methodologies and tools.

Current Events

• Rocky Linux blog post about RHEL licensing
• GitLab outage post-mortem
• (Old) GitLab database loss

GitOps

• FluxCD
• ArgoCD
• Weave GitOps
• Rancher Fleet

Music from Fesliyan Studios

0: Trailer

Welcome to Podcast as Code!

This is a show about the operations side of the Software Development Lifecycle. The hosts discuss things like DevOps, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, and GitOps.