CoderDave’s Takes on DevOps, DevSecOps, Culture, Processes, and Mindset

Where to store the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts? Together with the App Code? Or in a separate GitHub repository? In this episode we discuss what are the best practices for storing IaC (Terraform, ARM, and more), how I do it and why I think you should do it too.

I got recently interviewed by some IT Industry Leaders here in Hong Kong, and part of the interview was about DevOps, DevSecOps, DevOps Culture, Processes and the overall DevOps mindset. We also talked about how to be a better DevOps engineer.

It's time for the 2021 Top DevOps News recap! In this episode we are going to take a look at the top 10 DevOps news of 2021, and analyze them in just 15 minutes. All DevOps 2021 in a single episode!

In this episode, we talk with Mike McQuaid (Staff Software Engineer at GitHub) about how GitHub uses Codespaces to Build GitHub, the challenges, the gains, and the future of how GitHub builds GitHub. The GitHub.com codebase is almost 14 years old. And over those 14 years, the core repository powering GitHub has seen over a million commits. And over the past months, GitHub's Engineering has evolved and moved to GitHub Codespaces for the majority of GitHub development.

What is GitHub Packages? What is GitHub Container Registry (GHCR)? If you have these questions, this is for you. In this introduction to GitHub Packages and GitHub Container Registry you'll discover in just few minutes all there is to know about these two services in GitHub.

Abel Wang (1972-2021) was Principal Program Manager, Technical Assistant to the CTO of Azure at Microsoft. For many years he was a DevOps enthusiast, and in fact he worked as DevOps Lead and Advocate in the Donovan Brown's team until recently. He passed away in July 2021, cancer took him away. This is my small tribute to him, to one of the best of us all.  In memory of Abel Wang. Rest in Peace. You are and will always be sorely missed.

In this episode we discuss with Mickey Gousset (DevOps Architect at GitHub) about what is a DevOps architect role and what are the DevOps Architect roles and responsibilities. We will also compare DevOps Architect vs DevOps Engineer. Check Mickey Gousset out: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MickeyGousset Twitter: https://twitter.com/mickey_gousset

There are many ways to learn DevOps, but the best one is learning by doing! In this episode, we talk with Sid Palas (DevOps Directive) about using the Zone of Proximal Development and other tools and practices to improve your DevOps skills. This is probably the best way to learn DevOps, and actually the best way to learn anything. Learn by practice (or learn by doing) and you will learn more! Learn DevOps better with these tips.

Is GitHub safe? Are GitHub projects safe to use? Can GitHub delete code? Anthony Borton (DevOps Architect at GitHub) and I will try and answer all the questions! We will talk about how to keep GitHub safe, GitHub malware, GitHub safe authentication and much more.