What is GitOps anyway?

In this episode of The Continuous & Cloud Podcast, Jacob and Lauri chat with Ville Törhönen, Product Owner at UpCloud, about UpCloud’s upcoming managed Kubernetes Service (UKS). During this episode we discuss What is a managed Kubernetes service? What is UpCloud Kubernetes Service (UKS)? Motivation behind UKS’ development What’s under the hood? How to create a Kubernetes cluster in UKS What do you get from UpCloud that supports the Kubernetes service? What do you get ‘out of the box’? What can you customise? How has it been developing UKS? Timescale and team Kubernetes community and open source projects Observability and monitoring in UKS What are the main benefits of using UpCloud and UKS? When will UKS be available? Example use case: using UKS with Terraform for IaC Mentioned in the podcast UpCloud Kubernetes Engineer vacancy UpCloud CSI driver on Github About Ville Törhönen Ville (MSc, Tech) is working as a Product Owner at UpCloud. He is responsible for the upcoming UpCloud Kubernetes Service (UKS) product offering but also Developer Experience on the platform. Previously he’s been building various businesses and products on top of container technologies in companies like Unity, Noice and Redhill Games. About UpCloud UpCloud is a European Cloud Service Provider offering fast, easy-to-use, and reliable cloud products and services. UpCloud has 12 data centers around the globe. The company is a a strong believer in open source. That’s why all their services are available from public repositories. UpCloud’s mission is to make Infrastructure as Code easier for businesses of all sizes. Connect with today’s podcast crew on Linkedin Ville Törhönen Jacob Lärfors Lauri Suomalainen

In this episode of The Verifa Podcast, Andreas chats with Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser, Senior Expert Open Source Program Office at Bosch. Lars shares his insights on why open source compliance is vital for managing license risk and security risk, how you can effectively manage these risks and the tools required to do so. During this episode we discuss: Why is open source compliance important? [02:55] Managing OSS License risk [03:23] Managing OSS Security risk [09:30] How do you manage risk when using open source software? [14:31] Scan, Evaluate, Monitor Challenges for IoT and embedded systems [24:58] What open source compliance tools are available? [27:44] Evolution of open source compliance tooling OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) [34:21] How to manage OSS compliance technical debt [41:29] How to build a database of OSS License data [46:16] Standards for OSS Component Metadata  [48:11] Lars’ ideal OSS management tool chain [50:40] Mentioned in the podcast: Lars’ talk at EclipseCon2020 - Automated Open Source Compliance in Action Lars’ talk at EclipseCon2019 - Automating Open Source Compliance with OSS Tooling OSS-Review-Toolkit SW360 Open Source Reference Tooling Work Group SPDX CycloneDX About Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser: Lars is working in the central department for IoT and Digitalization at Bosch. He is responsible for strategic Open Source projects in the Open Source Program Office within Bosch, supporting Open Source projects throughout the company. In his previous role he was project lead for Eclipse SW360 and an active participant in the definition of an Open Source based methodology to automate Open Source Compliance activities within the Open Chain Reference Tooling Group. He got his PhD from the university of Kaiserslautern. Connect with today’s podcast team on Linkedin: Andreas Lärfors Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser Anoop Vijayan

In this episode of The Verifa Podcast, Jacob and Andreas get into a deep discussion about GitOps, its applications and benefits, and best practices. During this episode we discuss - What exactly is GitOps [00:00:52] - What are the tools and processes involved  [00:03:29] - Sealed Secrets  [00:09:13] - What are the benefits and problems solved by GitOps  [00:12:44] - Where and when to start your GitOps journey  [00:19:00] Mentioned in the podcast FluxCD - https://fluxcd.io/ WeaveWorks - https://www.weave.works/ ArgoCD - https://argoproj.github.io/argo-cd/ Sealed Secrets - https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets HashiCorp Vault - https://www.vaultproject.io/ Connect with today’s podcast team on Linkedin: Jacob on Linkedin Andreas on Linkedin verifa.io

Welcome to The Verifa Podcast, where we break down the complex world of Cloud and DevOps. In the very first episode of The Verifa Podcast, we take a first look at Google’s new Autopilot for Kubernetes - GKE Autopilot. GKE Autopilot is a new mode of operations for managing Kubernetes, enabling the user to focus on software, while GKE Autopilot manages the infrastructure. During this episode we discuss What do we mean by a ‘managed’ Kubernetes service? [03:15] What are the differences between GKE, AKS, EKS and Fargate? [05:16] A fully managed Kubernetes vs Serverless approach [13:07 & 26:52]  - What does ‘severless’ really mean?  - Is Autopilot serverless? Billing: GKE Standard vs GKE Autopilot [14:03] When to use Autopilot and when not to? [36:34] Are we going to use GKE Autopilot? [41:12] verifa.io