We've launched the Agentic DevOps podcast!
Join me and Nirmal Mehta for this new podcast series where we get *very specific* into using AI for DevOps, Platform Engineering, Operations, SRE, etc.
We recorded the first episode at KubeCon London, and have already had guests Solomon Hykes from Dagger and Eitan Yarmush from solo.io on to talk about tooling and patterns for how we ops and automation engineers are using AI without the hype.
This podcast series has one question to answer:
"How can we humans use non-deterministic, often hallucinating LLMs to automate our infrastructure and help us with the job of software lifecycle management? Oh, and do it in a secure, tested, and auditable way 😉."
Yes, we're still making DevOps and Docker Talk episodes, which are often about AI as well these days, but I wanted to create a new show that was hyper-focused on making automation and platform builders' jobs easier by using AI agents and MCP tools. What works, and what doesn't.
Thanks to Nirmal and my teammates, Beth Fisher and Cristian Cotovan, for helping this launch happen. Also, thanks to Justin Jackson from Transistor.fm for building such a great podcast hosting platform.
If you are finding success in doing the work of DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, SecOps while using AI agents and MCP successfully to speed up your work (beyond the AI just writing YAML/HCL in an IDE), let's chat! (reply to this email)
My next course is...
I'm creating my next course: "GitHub Actions for DevOps" (in the age of AI).
Rescue your team's confidence in automation with real-world workflows.
🎧 Podcast Releases for Agentic DevOps
Is AI ready for DevOps? Podcast Audio or YouTube Video
This is the first episode of ADOP! Nirmal and I were at KubeCon London in April '25 and, while together, we recorded our takeaways and ideas about how AI Agents are about to change DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, automation, troubleshooting, and more. This world of AI is changing fast so listen soon. 😵💫
Run AI MCP Tools on Kubernetes. Podcast Audio or YouTube Video
Deep dive into kagent and Agent Gateway projects for deploying and controlling agentic MCP tools. Eitan Yarmush from solo.io helps us understand creating MCP tools, what ARA is, and what an "agent gateway" is. We also discuss security concerns (MCP lacks built-in security standards), cost considerations, and technical limitations like context window constraints.
Agentic CI/CD with Solomon Hykes of Dagger. Podcast Audio or YouTube Video
In this episode, Nirmal and I discuss the intersection of AI agents and DevOps with Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Dagger and Docker. Solomon introduces Container Use, an open-source MCP server that gives coding agents isolated, containerized environments to work in, solving the critical problem of agents interfering with each other when running on the same system.
See more episodes at https://agenticdevops.fm