Joining us this week is Chris Short, Senior DevOps Advocate, SJ Technologies. Chris is also a CNCF Ambassador managing an excellent newsletter, DevOps’ish.

Highlights

• Site Reliability Engineering & DevOps relationship & philosophy
• SRE details in budgets, toil, and security
• Pipeline infrastructure, configuration management, and immutability
• Cultural aspects of DevOps
• Why Kubernetes? Ecosystems? Build for Kubernetes apps
• SaaS vs Licensing models (answer to all things software)

Topic                                                                                   Time (Minutes.Seconds)

Introduction                                                                        0.0 – 1.50
Site Reliability Engineering & DevOps                           1.50 – 4.36
SRE Budgets   (Error)                                                         4.36 – 6.56 (Toil)
Helping customers reduce toil                                        6.56 – 10.50
2018 is Year of DevSecOps                                              10.50 – 12.32
IT is Pipeline Infrastructure (Immutability)                    12.32 – 18.32
Immutability – what Chris means                                   18.32 – 23.05 (Move Back in Time)
Toil and Culture                                                                 23.05 – 30.49 (SRE Half-Life)
Kubernetes                                                                         30.49 – 34.44
Ecosystem Forming                                                          34.44 – 40.55 (Kube Required)
SaaS Product vs Licensing                                              40.55 – 46.06
Wrap Up                                                                             46.06 – END

Podcast Guest: Chris Short, Senior DevOps Advocate, SJ Technologies

CHRIS SHORT has spent more than two decades in various IT disciplines, from textile manufacturing to dial-up ISPs to DevOps engineer to manager of DevOps to senior DevOps advocate. He has been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his time in the private and public sectors. Chris is a partially disabled US Air Force veteran living with his wife and son in Greater Metro Detroit. Chris writes about DevOps and other topics at chrisshort.net. He also runs the DevOps, Cloud Native, and open source focused newsletter DevOps’ish.