I'm sorry you haven't heard from me on new videos and podcasts lately. A bunch has happened, so here's a catch-up post. I've been heads down for the last month building course videos and an upcoming workshop for the Agentic DevOps Guild, which just passed 4 weekly meetups and 30 members sharing their AI experience with each other. It's been amazing.
Today on my Thursday Stream: Anyshift AI SRE
Chat with your infrastructure and give AI access to a read-only map of your servers and services.
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Podcasts and live streams from the last month
Four Months Felt Like Four Years
Released March 26th on the Agentic DevOps podcast audio and video
It’s been 6 months since the last episode, and it feels like everything has changed. Bret and Nirmal catch you up on the increasing pace of AI change, how it will likely affect DevOps engineers and platform builders, and what’s coming on the podcast.
Your Images are Out of Date (probably) - The Silent Rebuilds problem
Released March 4th on the DevOps and Docker Talk podcast audio and video
Container base images (like Official Docker Hub images) are often updated without new tag versions. I call this Silent Rebuilds. There's no way to know this happens without image digest-checking automation like Dependabot and Renovate with specific settings. Failure to keep up-to-date is a prime source of vulnerabilities that can lead to serious security breaches. Automate the updates!
Backup S3, Google Drive, iCloud, Notion with Plakar
Released March 20th on the DevOps and Docker Talk podcast audio and video
I'm joined by the founders of Plakar - Julien Mangeard and Gilles Chehade - to nerd out over backup engineering. The kind where you're building your own file formats and cryptographic layers, not just wiring up cron jobs. We get into how Plakar deduplicates and encrypts at the source so your cloud provider never sees your keys. Also, their snapshot model has no chain dependencies, which means you can delete any backup without breaking the others. We had a fun hour of backup horror stories, ransomware pragmatism, where I'm lobbying hard for a Docker volume integration.
Docker AI, what’s new with MCP, Agents, Sandboxes, and more
Released April 7th on the DevOps and Docker Talk podcast audio and video
Michael Irwin of Docker joins me to run through Gordon AI improvements, Docker Hardened Images and what's now free, Docker Sandboxes for running agents in proper isolation, Model Runner updates including MLX support on Mac, MCP Toolkit dynamic discovery, and the newly renamed Docker Agent with its GitHub Action for automating PR reviews and docs checks.
Streams
I'm still streaming most Thursday's at 1pm US Eastern (1700 UTC)
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Whew, OK, that's all for now!
Bret
